Hello again. Here is a card I created using dies from the Concord & 9th ‘Winter Retreat’:
The cabins, mountains and clouds were die cut and assembled, then put to one side whilst I thought about the layout and what kind of scene I wanted to create.
I decided to go with a winter scene, with clear blue skies, so I cut the blue card and attached the clouds flat, then took some white glitter card for the ground.
I added some champagne glitter card for the tops of the mountains so they would look a little different to the snow on the ground.
The layers were all added, attaching the cabins and mountains as you see, before stamping and adding the sentiment.
Hello and welcome to the first challenge of the year at ABC Christmas Challenge. Helen is hosting, and for the letters ‘A’ & ‘B’, we have the Christmas themes of A is for Anything goes, and B is for Bright. Here is my card following the theme of ‘Bright’:
I created this card using this inlay die of Christmas trees, die cutting the whole panel in white, then used strips of coloured card stock to die cut the trees.
The white layer was then added to a piece of card with a piece of double-sided sticky sheet – leaving the opening for the trees sticky – then each tree inlaid.
The sentiment was stamped then die cut with the matching die and attached as you see.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one or both of our themes.
I have a card to share inspired by the current challenge at Festive Friday. When I saw their them was National Tulip Day, and aw the list to choose three items from the list, I remembered I had this die and stencil set from Waffle Flower that I have never used – time to play:
The first step was to die cut the panel, and then ink blend using the matching stencil set. I chose to use orange and yellow for the flowers, two colours from the provided list, but then I also added a backing piece of red paper which you can see behind the die cut panel.
Once all attached to a card base, I stamped and die cut the birthday sentiment – another item from the list – and adhered as you see.
I wanted the sentiment to be quite bold, which is why I chose black, so I also added some black enamel dots.
Quite a bright and cheery card to help get over this snow hump we are having in the UK at the moment. xx
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Festive Friday – at least three items from inspiration list – orange, yellow, red, birthday, tulips,
Hello. I’ve been having some issues with internet access, but have finally managed to get this sorted.
The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘S’, and Dawn has chosen the theme of ‘Square’. Here are my cards:
These cards are quite easy to create, and felt the square dies from Pinkfresh Studio would be perfect.
I first created the background coloured panel’s These are using Yupo and alcohol inks, having a little play with just one colour – but using the blowy tool thingy to get a wispy look.
I then die cut the floral squares out of white, adding frames around with some nesting square dies, then die cut the alcohol ink panels and glued them to the back.
These were then added to a card base, and foiled sentiments from my stash adhered. Some variety of sentiment, for no particular reason, other then now I have three cards ready to go.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme xx
Hello everyone, and a Happy New Year to you all. I am afraid I am a little late with this post, as I have been without internet for the past 5 days – my Starlink system decided to pack in, and we had to wait four days for a new system to get from the USA to us here in the UK….a great time frame to receive it, but what a pain – you certainly realise how dependant you are on the internet these days….
Cardz 4 Galz started a new challenge, Johanna has chosen the theme of ‘Country Scape’. Here is my card:
I used a Hero Arts die to create the scene, snipping and cutting where needed to add the different tree colours. I also used an embossing folder on those circle for the trees, to give a little more dimension to them.
The blue skyline behind the scene is some patterned paper, and the sentiment is gold foiled.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme.
I was able to create with products received over a year ago when attending the ‘Let’s Stamp Together’ from Scrap book & Cards today and Concord & 9th products:
The product includes the stencils to create this jolly Santa, layering stencils which are fun to use, and the matching dies.
First job was to use the stencils to create him, then die cutting the image.
I chose this snowflake foiled background created using a toner sheet, so silver heat embossed the sentiment onto his beard.
One of my cats decided she wanted to ‘help’ me take the photo, so here she is – for a little light relief:
Hello again. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘R’, and Billie A has chosen the theme of:
R is for Ribbon
Here is my card:
I used The Greetery ‘Big Beautiful Bow’ as the focus for the theme and the focus for the card. I love the layers you can create using the die – I have had it for a while and absolutely do not know why I haven’t used it…..
The layers were die cut from two tones of red, then glued together.
The base panel is white, embossed using a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder, then splattered with gold acrylic paint.
The foliage was die cut using a couple of Spellbinder dies in green tones, with some grey added because I do like grey foliage….
Once the background panel was dry, I adhered the bow with 3D foam, then added the four red strips. The foliage was placed as you see, with just the part hidden under the bow glued down, the rest of them I like to leave loose for added interest.
I didn’t add a sentiment, which is unusual for me, but I like the way it looks without one.
I hope you can coma and join us with your creations following our theme. xx
Hello everyone. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge, Dawn is hosting, and she has chosen the theme of ‘Christmas Sparkle’. Here is my card:
I used some patterned paper from Simple Stories, I believe I received it as part of a class, and used a panel of the tartan for the background.
The snowflake panel is heat foiled using a toner sheet, silver foil, and the Gina K Designs Fuse foiling system. I haven’t played with this very much, so I had to check out one of her YouTube videos – but it foils like a dream…
This foiled panel was then die cut with Hero Arts besting bauble dies – a couple of times for dimension – then all elements added.
The deer is also part of the ephemera I received for this kit, and glued directly onto the foiled bauble.
I hope you can come and join us with your ‘Christmas’ Sparkle’ creations. xx
Hello again. The ABC Christmas Challenge has reached the end of the alphabet, and therefore this challenge is for the letters ‘Y’ and ‘Z’. The Christmas themes for these letters are:
Y is for Yummy (food) and Z is for Zebra (black & white or stripes)
Here is my card:
I obviously followed the black and white Christmas theme, creating what I think is quite a dramatic card.
I took an A2 panel and stamped some Gina K Designs snowflakes on a random pattern all over it, then cut it down slightly and matting with a piece of black card to create the edge.
The black banner/label for the centre is from The Greetery, and the die cuts out this filigree frame – but I decided I wanted all the details of the frame to stay in place, so I placed them all back in and applied some double sided tape to the back – keeping them secure.
The sentiment was stamped, then die cut with the matching die.
The final touch was to add some black gems to the snowflake centres, and a couple of smaller gems in some of the white spaces.
I hope you can come and join us for our final challenge of the year with your Christmas creations following one or both of our themes. xx
The stamp and die set is from Time For tea Designs, and I thought the igloo would be a good shape to create my shaker window.
Taking a light blue card panel, I die cut the igloo from where I wanted it to be, then ran that piece through an embossing folder from Spellbinders. I then attached a piece of acetate to create the window.
I took a piece of white glitter card from Pink Frog Designs – a shop local to me – and die cut the bottom of the igloo, so the snow would come up and around, trimming off to match the blue piece underneath.
Before assembling the shaker, I stamped and coloured all the images with Copics, die cut them out, then tried to figure out how I could place the igloo behind the window, in just the right spot, so it showed through……I managed by putting a small piece of low tack tape on the front of the igloo die cut, placing it against the acetate on the back of the window, applying glue tape to the back of the igloo, placing it down on my card base. When I removed the acetate panel, the igloo was left behind in the correct spot….
3D foam tape was adhered all over the back of the window piece, sequins added to the igloo area, another piece of acetate placed on the back of the sequins, trapping all the sequins. I learnt this trick a few years ago when going to Time For tea Designs craft day, that way no fiddling or faffing trying the line up the front shaker panel.
I then applied some Pritt Stick to all the 3D foam pieces – allows a little time to ensure the panel is on the right place – then attach.
I die cut another of each of the images out of white card for more stability, glued them together, glued them down to create the scene, added the sentiment, also added a little bit of Lawn Fawn Prisma glitter to the hat of the penguin holding the presents.
I shall be entering the following challenges:
CYHTP – embossing folder – option of thanks not taken
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