Wednesday 13 March 2024

Crafter's Companion Snowman Christmas card and Inky Doodles Gingerbread Christmas card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges.

I hope you are all well and getting some time to craft. I'm feeling the spring vibe right now with all the beautiful blooms that have burst open to brighten my day.

We have three choices for you this time - 


E for Embossing,

F for Faux,

G for Gingerbread


The lovely Lynda from Loopyloo Cards is our host this time and she has a prize for the randomly chosen winner.


I came up with

E for Embossing



I used a snowflake embossing folder for the background and some coated card for this technique. I embossed the blue card, got a sanding block and gently sanded away the surface from the raised details of the embossing. I really like this technique which gives the look of embossing paste without needing drying time.

The snowman is also from Crafter's Companion and he was coloured simply with the scarf and hat being raised with some glue for dimension.



G is for Gingerbread



For this card, I cut a panel with a die for The Greetery, masked off a rectangle and inked with blue ink to create the background. I stamped and white embossed the gingerbread figures (The Best Gift stamp set from Inky Doodles) onto kraft card, along with their clothing and Christmas stockings. I coloured the clothing and fussy cut everything before dressing the figures and adhering them to the panel. The sentiment was stamped between them to finish everything off.



The design team has lots to show you over on the ABC Christmas Challenges website and you can post your entry there until 6th April.

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Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs
Carol x


Tuesday 5 March 2024

Alex Siberia Fantasy Flower birthday card


Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

We just had a beautifully sunny spring day here and the sunshine has really bucked me up after the dull, wet weather we've been having. Long may it continue!



This time we are looking for birthday cards, and as my stock is severely depleted, I was pleased to rustle this one up.



I cut the frames from textured pink card that has a slight sheen to it, and stamped and embossed the sentiment from Papertrey Ink. The NBUS flowers are from the Fantasy Flower set from Alex Siberia, and I cut them from 2 shades of teal card stock and shaped the top petals to give some dimension.


 This was very quick to pull together and I quite like the teal against the pink.

I'd like to play along at
 

 

 

As always, my talented Teamies have some great inspiration over on the ATSM blog and I hope you will join us this time.

Thanks for stopping by
Hugs
Carol x

Tuesday 20 February 2024

Penny Black Immense Noel and Nestled Christmas card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.


We have our Christmas theme this time and I came up with this card


I first cut a card panel with one of The Greetery's Nordic frames, masked off the edges, and inked with distress ink.

I cut the Penny Black Immense Noel die three times and stacked them to give some dimension. The robin is NBUS from the PB Nestled dies, and I cut this from watercolour card and then coloured it with watered-down ink. I popped him inside the O along with some sprigs from a Papertrey Ink mistletoe die.

After I placed the panel on the card, it looked too spare, so I found a little star stamp in a Clearly Besotted set and dotted it around the background to finish it off.

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There's a lot of creative inspiration over on the ATSM blog and I hope you will join us this time.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs
Carol x



Wednesday 14 February 2024

Penny Black Feline Christmas card and MFT Happy Pawlidays Christmas card



Hello everyone, I hope you are well and getting some crafty time to yourself. I am studiously ignoring the chores, staying tucked up warm, and enjoying my craft time while I can.

We're back for another month at ABC Christmas Challenges



Our lovely host this time is Helene (Mummylade), and she has a prize for the lucky winner.

Our Themes this time are

 C for Cat 
and 
D for Dog

and this is what I came up with

C for Cats


I didn't have a Christmas cat image so I decided to stretch my stash by using the Penny Black Feline die. I settled on a CAS design and cut the die from black glossy card. I made a simple background for it by spattering a couple of blue inks onto white card and layered it up. To make it festive, I made a Christmas hat for each cat out of some scraps of card and then white embossed the sentiments above and below the panel.



D for Dog


 

For this card I stamped, coloured and die-cut the cute dog image from the MFT Happy Pawlidays stamp set, and die-cut the Christmas lights from a die set from Spellbinders. I die-cut the background panel from the Nordic Frames set by The Greetery and used a stencil to lightly ink a rectangle on it.
The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted and I finished off by adding some gloss to the baubles with Nuvo Crystal Glaze.




There's a lot of inspiration from my Teamies over on the ABC Christmas Challenges blog and you can join in with us by entering your card into the gallery there.

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Thanks for stopping by
Hugs
Carol x

Tuesday 6 February 2024

Spellbinders stylish ovals birthday card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and more.




This time we have our Make Your Mark challenge so we want to see colouring on your creation.

For my card, I used some NBUS Spellbinders materials from the Stylish Ovals range. 


I began by stamping my image from the Stylish Oval Birthday Wishes set and coloured it with Zig Clear Colour markers. I actually coloured this on holiday last October, and really enjoyed the challenge of having a limited number of markers to use on a few images that I stamped before I went away. It made putting this card together a breeze because I only had to die-cut the image with the Modern Oval die and mat it onto the Infinity Punch and Pierce Plate which I cut from a textured card.





I finally added the sentiment from the stamp set and placed the panel on a white top folding notecard.

I'm not a fan of January so I'm pleased to have welcomed February even though it hasn't stopped raining here yet! The snowdrops are blooming though and other spring bulbs are on the way - roll on spring!

It's great to see the ATSM gallery back up and running and you can find lots of inspiration over on the blog.

I'd like to play along at





Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs
Carol x



Tuesday 23 January 2024

John Next Door and Spellbinders Christmas card



Hello everyone and welcome.

You probably heard that the fabulous Kylie Purtell has decided to have a break from running all her challenges, and I will definitely miss her. I don't know how Kylie managed to juggle everything and work full time as well, but it wouldn't surprise me if she is the secret Wonderwoman in disguise.

Luckily, my lovely teammate, Sue has taken over ATSM so we can continue to have some fun each fortnight, but do bear with us in case there are any teething problems.

 For our first challenge, we have 



and I came up with this card:-



The card consists entirely of die cuts and would be easy to mass-produce. I used my new John Next Door  Leaping Stag Circle that I cut in white and kraft card and layered up.

The sentiment uses the Spellbinders Stylish Merry Christmas die which I cut from a textured red mirror card and layered onto white.
I added a few dots of red crystal drops and called it done - I told you it was quick!



You'll find some fabulous inspiration from the Design Team over on the ATSM blog and you can enter your creations over there too.

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Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs
Carol x

Wednesday 10 January 2024

Penny Black Christmas Berry card

Hello everyone and Happy New Year. I hope it will be a happy, healthy and peaceful one for you and the world. 


As it's the start of a new year, it must be time for another ride through the year with ABC Christmas Challenges


and for our first challenge of the year we have


'A is for Anything Christmas'
&
'B is for Berries'


Our lovely host, Helen has a great prize for the randomly chosen winner



I went with B for berries and came up with this card




I used a Penny Black berry die and inked it up in red and green before adding Nuvo Crystal Glaze to each berry. This glaze dries really nicely to give lots of dimension to the berries. I ink-blended the panel and sprinkled white ink on it before placing it on a snowflake-embossed base card.

I'd like to play along at

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - January anything goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge - January 2024

Craft Rocket Challenge #110 - use embossing

I do hope you will join us. It's never too early to start your next stash!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Carol x





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