Christmas the most magical time of the year

Slowly adding to my Christmas card stash.... with a card today for the Happy Little Stampers October Christmas challenge - Optional Twist: Ribbon, Watercooler Wednesday challenge #191 - Charlotte's All About Occasions and also for Addicted to Stamps and More challenge #313 - Holiday.  I cut a long triangle in white card and scrounged through my ribbon stash to wrap layers around my 'tree'.  Then to finish simply stamped my sentiment onto my card base and attached my tree.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day


 
 

 
  HLS Sentiment stamp

Peace on Earth

A white dove with an olive branch - the symbol of Peace... I'm using this as my birds theme for the October CAS Christmas challenge.  I stamped and gold embossed the dove and fussy cut it out, then die cut a branch from a green DI scrap.  For my front panel I used a round acrylic block smooched in a puddle of blue DO ink and twisted it as I applied it to the card.  To finish I die cut 'Peace' from gold card and stamped on the rest of the sentiment and used foam tape to attach my dove.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend

Go after your Dreams

I cut my metal element from a drink can and ran it through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder.  Then I swiped black permanent ink over the raised areas and heat dried it. Then I swiped Versamark over the surface and sprinkle on  gold, silver and copper EP - my copper is very old and didn't work too well, but I like the result.  To finish I just added a stamped sentiment to a die cut circle and attached them with foam tape to a white card.  I am playing along with the CAS Mix Up October challenge - my elements are metal, stamping, dry embossing, heat embossing and die cuts.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

Thank You

When I checked out the Muse challenge #285 today, Anita's card really caught my eye with the fresh white and lovely mix of green and yellow colours.... so I had to join in - especially because this cool stencil arrived in the mail today.  I thought Anita had sponged colour through a stencil but on reading her post she had coloured texture paste... so I tried this out too... using Distress Inks with my paste. I decided to frame my panel with white on a white card and to finish added a die cut sentiment.  My elements are landscape orientation, thank you sentiment, greens and yellow colours, stencil and coloured texture paste. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.


 

Happy Birthday

This month they are enjoying 2nd Birthday celebrations over at CAS Watercolour - congrats to Bonnie, Loll and the team...
...... and this month there is a colour challenge - use Orange, Green and Brown on your car.
For my card I have chosen to use a butterfly - I used markers to colour the stamp and then after stamping on cream card, I cut out the image and added a touch more colour with Distress Inks and markers.  My watercolour element is the foliage - used the smooching technique in different greens of Distress Inks and then die cut two different sprigs.  For my front panel I cut my cream card down and ran it through the Cuttlebug with a stitched die and a tan mat to give an embossed effect, then rounded off the corners of the panel and card.  To finish I stamped my sentiment in brown ink and clear embossed it and then arranged my pieces.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.


 

Merry Christmas

A Christmas card today for Heidi's "All About Holidays" challenge WWC189 at Watercooler Wednesday.  I stamped the ornament and embossed with silver EP and then watercoloured the image with Brushos.  Then when it was dry I stamped and silver embossed my sentiment and also I added a wash of water around the outside and used a wet paintbrush to add a few purple Brusho crystals... and more water.  To finish the card I added a purple frame and a bow.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day