Christmas

Holiday Cheer

Hello. The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge has begun a new challenge. The theme is always ‘anything goes Christmas‘. Here is my card:

I started off with a lilac panel, and Pinkfresh Studio cover plate ‘Stitched Pinwheels‘ to the stitched background.

The frame image was hot foiled, then coloured using the matching layering stencils. I went a little darker with the blending for the centre of the larger poinsettias.

Once coloured, I used the matching die to cut it out, and also cut out the sentiment from the same suite – also hot foiled.

The lilac panel was attached to a white card base, the frame image added, then the sentiment, and some gems to add some more interest.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

My Time To Craft Christmas – Christmas and use foil/foiling

Time Out – choose 2 or more – I chose stencil and florals

Die Cut Divas – die cuts and flowers

Sparkles Forum Christmas – Christmas Foliage

12 Months Of Christmas link up – Christmas anything goes – option of vintage not taken

Snowflake Swirl

Hello once again. It is time for the new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge. We have reached the letters ‘H’ and ‘I’, and we want to see your Christmas creations following these two themes:

H is for Ho Ho Ho (Santa) and/or I is for Ice

Here is my card for the theme of Ice:

This is quite a clean and simple card for me, with only a few elements, but I do think it makes an impact.

I first die cut the Snowflake swirl die out of silver glitter card stock. This die is from Simon Says Stamp and is quite delicate.

I chose to highlight the die cut with a blue textured piece of card stock from my stash – goodness knows how old this card is – and used two strips of the same silver glitter card to run down each of the side edges.

I added the silver foiled sentiment and some silver gems to the centre if the snowflakes, with some extra for the edge of the sentiment.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one of both of our themes. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Crafters Café – anything goes – option of CAS

Christmas (or not) Bingo – column I – free, Christmas, no stamping

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

12 Months of Christmas Link Up – Christmas – option of vintage not taken

Warm Snowflake Wishes

Hello everyone. The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge has started a new challenge. The theme is always ‘anything goes Christmas’ Here is my card:

The background panel is a previously created panel using alcohol inks and water – you have a shallow dish of water big enough to take your card panel, add alcohol inks, stir a little – then place the card on top for a few seconds, lift it up – et voila…..a fabulous card panel. You can use any card – normal 80lbs – so I hope you give it a go.

This was cut down to just smaller than an A2 card base, then adhered flat.

The snowflake is from a Simon Says Stamps die, cut out of white glitter card – and layered with another plain white piece for more stability.

I added the silver foiled sentiment – from Pinkfresh Studio – then added some silver pearls to parts of the snowflake.

I hope you can com and join us and prepare your stash for the end of the year. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Avenue 613 Create – anything goes – option any occasion

Crafts Galore – anything goes

12 Months Of Christmas Link Up – Christmas – option of owls not taken

Aud Sentiments – sentiment – with glitter and bling or St Patrick’s/green

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Merry & Bright

Hello there. A new challenge has started at ABC Christmas Challenge, and having reached the letters ‘E‘, ‘F‘, and ‘G‘, we want to see your Christmas creations following these themes:

E is for Embossing and/or F is for Focal Sentiment and/or G is for Girls.

Here is my card following the ‘F is for Focal Sentiment‘:

The background panel was kept simple – a piece of gold glittery card stock – and the sentiment die from Spellbinders layered and added onto the top.

I chose festive colours for the individual letters which would match with the gold glitter. No extra bling was needed here as this Pinkfresh Studio gold glitter card stock really is very, very sparkly.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Creative Fingers – anything goes

Make My Monday – use a die or punch

Aud Sentiments – sentiment with glitter and bling (or St Patrick’s/green)

Christmas (or not ) Bingo – column I – Christmas – no stamping – free

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Oh Christmas Tree

Hello everyone. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge has started a new challenge – anything goes Christmas. Here is my card:

I started by creating the background. Using a Spellbinders embossing folder, I inked up smoother side of the folder, and an it through the machine with a white card panel. This created the embossed leaves, but the blue background to them. I then used gold acrylic ink and created some splatter.

The card base is 5×7 inches, a slightly smaller blue panel adhered, then the white and blue embossed panel was cut slightly smaller than that and glued down.

The tree is a die set from The Greetery, – an interesting die set and an interesting way to put all the levels together. All layers were die cut with the same green card stock, then a little ink blending along the bottom for a slightly darker look – some added dimension.

Once I had set the tree on the background, I though it needed a frame, so I also used the Ribbon Frame die set. As this ribbon frame was created for an A2 panel – I die cut two, did a little snipping, and elongated it to fir the 5×7 card.

The ribbon and tree were attached, and some very sparkly gems added to areas on the tree.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Crafts Galore – anything goes

A Cut Above – anything goes with a die cut

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

12 Months Of Christmas Link Up – anything goes Christmas – option of couples not taken

CYHTP – embossing folder – option of masculine not taken

Delivering Warm Hugs

Hello once again. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge is starting a new ‘anything goes Christmas’ challenge. Here is my card:

I first created thew background panel using a stencil from Funky Fossil. I used a light blue card stock, then white pigment ink for the snowflakes. This was cut down to slightly less than an A2 card panel.

The central die cuts are from The Greetery and the die is called ‘Frost Buds’. The branch part was die cut from some white glitter card stock, and the buds themselves cut from silver glitter card stock. These were layered and added as you see.

I die cut some extra small pieces and added them to the background, then added some glitter gems to the centre of each of the die cut snowflakes.

The sentiment is from a previous foiling session.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations – anything goes is the theme. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Christmas (or not) Bingo – column G – free – pearls/gems – die cuts

Love To Craft – anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Crafty Catz – anything goes – option to use a die taken

12 Months Of Christmas Link Up – Christmas anything goes – option of couples taken – a couple of branches

Stencil Fun – use a stencil – option of pinks and reds not taken

Warm Snowflake Wishes

Hello everyone. It’s been a busy week so I am sorry I am late with this post for the new challenge at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. I’m also still getting to grips with the changes that WordPress has made – small changes – but it has made it more difficult and less intuitive for me.

The challenge is always ‘anything goes Christmas‘. Here is my card:

For this card, I used some older products. The background panel is a foiled plate from Lawn Fawn – I love this foil plate and have it foiled in a variety of colours of foil, and a variety of colours of card stock. I did enjoy playing that day…

The gold foil is on some blue card stock and cut to an A2 panel.

I used the Spellbinders ‘Delicate Snowflakes’ die set and white glitter card stock for the base layer of the snowflakes, and some purple tones for the layers.

The sentiment is also a Pinkfresh Studio foiled sentiment and I added some Pinkfresh Studio ombre glitter gems for the centre of the die cut snowflakes, and also the centre of the snowflakes on the foiled panel.

I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas themed creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Give A Crafter A Cookie – anything goes

12 Months Of Christmas Link up – anything goes Christmas – option of Polar Bears not taken

Inkspirational – prompt word – snow

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Girls Creative Christmas – Christmas and snowflakes

Addicted to Stamps and More – die cuts and/or stencils

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Season’s Greetings

Hello everyone. The Holly and Ivy Challenge is back with their first challenge of the year. There was quite a lot of blogger issues with our leader at the end of last year, and a few of us weren’t able to comment or even find where to add things. We apologise if your entry over the past couple of months wasn’t commented on – it was a nightmare for us all.

Here is my card for the first challenge of the year, with the theme being ‘anything goes Christmas‘:

I decided to try a different colour scheme, using more purple tones, with a little bit of pink.

The background is hot foiled using a Lawn Fawn plate – silver onto a dark blue panel, and adhered flat to the card base.

The ice skates are from Spellbinders, and die cut using different tones of purple, with matt silver for the blades, and black for the sole of the shoes.

The flowers and foliage were die cut and assembled, then all arranged onto the card base. Some silver sequins added for a little more shine – to the centre of the flower and some around the background.

I hope you can come and join us and start building your stash.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

Dragonfly Dreams – use pinks and purples

Crafty Calendar – add a die cut

12 Months Of Christmas Link Up – anything goes Christmas – option polar bears not taken

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you had a fabulous past few weeks. We are back at ABC Christmas Challenge at the beginning of the alphabet. We are having a little change in the amount of entries you can make to our challenge – it is now 5 entries maximum to make it fairer for the random prize winner.

Helen is hosting and we have the Christmas themes of:

A is for Anything Goes

B is for Buildings

Here are my cards:

My first card was created using some layering stencils from Spellbinders with Pinkfresh Studio Inks. This involved quite a bit of masking so I could add different colours to the same stencil layer, but I must have been in a fiddly and faffy mood because I enjoyed the process.

Once the image was ink blended, I then used the matching die to cut it out.

The background was created using white embossing paste from Altenew with a stencil from Brutus Monroe to create the white on white background. Once dry, the ink blended image was adhered with 3D foam.

I then used some gold shimmery acrylic paint to splatter across the whole card, and added some gems. The sentiment is also from Spellbinders and using their gold card stock.

For the second card with the houses, I went slimline. I die cut the house strip using glittery silver card stock and Time 4 Tea Designs slimline die. Some of the same glittery card stock was adhered to the card base, the blue layer added after die cutting with a Elizabeth Craft Designs ‘Dotted Background‘ slimline die so the glittery card stock would show through.

The blue card stock from my stash must be years old, and has some very. very fine texture of lines to it.

I hope you can come and join us and start your stash of cards ready for the end of the year.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Girls Creative Christmas – anything goes Christmas

Jingle Belle’s Rock – Christmas with something old and something new – old card stock and dies, new glittery card stock and Spellbinders stencils

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Be Merry

The last challenge for the year has started at Cardz 4 Galz. The challenge finishes on 22nd December, and we will be having a break until the new challenge on 9th January.

Billie A is hosting this time round, and she has chosen the theme of ‘Christmas‘. Here is my card:

I cut a square of the Pinkfresh Studio gold glitter card stock the same size as the square card base. Before adhering, I die cut the square scalloped frame using a Pinkfresh Studio die set out of the centre – it would be hidden behind the white panel.

The white square was cut, then dry embossed using a Spellbinders embossing folder. This white was layered onto the gold, then the gold frame adhered on top.

The baubles and foliage are washi tape from Pinkfresh Studio and arranged as you see, then the gold foiled sentiment from Lawn Fawn added.