CAS pine card

 

It is ages since I took part in a card challenge but love making CAS cards so decided to try this CAS Christmas challenge. This was a very easy card to make so I might make some more.

Materials used:-

• Sheena Douglass Yuletide Greetings set for the pine branch; the pine cone came from a magazine
• sentiment stamp from Lou Collins Seasonal Sentiments
• Distress inks - Pine Needles and Gathered Twigs
• Versafine ink in black 

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Joy to the world

That's my first Christmas card made! I was delighted that the Less is More challenge for this week is to make a one layer card Christmas card as I like to start making my Christmas cards early. I am also going to enter this card into the CAS Christmas challenge where the theme is nativity.

I often use the masking technique to make one layer cards. For this design I made a circle mask from thin card and inked through the mask with distress inks to make the background. The stamps were inked and then clear embossed.

Materials used:-
Nativity stamp - Clarity stamps
Sentiment - Simply Cards and Papercraft Issue 142
Distress inks - Broken China and Shaded Lilac
Black ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments. Margaret

Xmas scene

I am delighted to get back to my blog as I've been busy doing other things over the past year and haven't had time for much crafting. I've now made a start on my Xmas cards and was delighted to find this CAS Christmas challenge.

I used brushos to create the background for my card - I love the vibrant colours you get with these. I then created a winter scene using the die cuts. I mounted this onto panel onto linen card to create some dimension.

I am also linking this card to the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge where the optional twist is "twinkle".

Thank you visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments. Now pop over the see what the other participants have created for their Xmas cards. Margaret.


Materials used:-
Penny Black "Around Town" die set
Brushos and watercolour card for the background
Sentiment - Tim Holtz "Holiday Words" die
Lawn Fawn stitched hillside borders
Linen card 

Joyful deer

The current inspiration card for Muse Christmas Visions has been designed by Chriss (shown above). I really liked how the pink background set off the gold embossing. I also liked the deer and the sentiment Chriss used.  I tried to use these elements in my card.  I made the panel first before mounting it on foam tape on a linen card.

I am also going to enter this card into the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge which is embossing.

Materials used:-

Stamps - "Woodland Christmas" which was a freebie from Creative Stamping issue 27
Embossing powder - Gold Pearl by My Colour Studio
Distress inks - picked raspberry and abandoned coral
Dies (all from Lawn Fawn) - "Scripty Joy", "Stitched hillside border" and "large stitched rectangle stackables"
Gold card for the sentiment

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments.  Margaret

Holly card

I was delighted to find a new Christmas card challenge blog as I like to make Christmas cards during the year so avoiding any last minute stress.  The added bonus of the CAS Christmas card challenge is that cards must be clean and simple - a favourite design of mine.  The current theme is holly.

 

I found a simple holly wreath stamp among my stash and decided to keep my card very simple, mounting the stamp on a couple of scalloped circles and adding some foam tape for dimension. 

 

 

 

Materials used:-

Stamps - Jolly Holly Days free set from Simply Homemade magazine issue 48

Inks - colorbox

Dies - 2 sizes

 

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments.  Now pop over to the CAS Christmas Card blog and see what the other participants have created. Margaret



Muse Christmas Tag

This week's Muse on Christmas Visions is Cornelia Wenokor who has produced this lovely tag.  I really liked the effect created by using vellum for the top tag and I tried to replicate this in my card. I embossed the sentiment onto the vellum and then clear embossed the snowflakes onto the card, inked it with distress ink and then ironed the embossing off.  I then attached the tags to a linen card.

 

 

Materials used:-

 

Tag die - Lawn Fawn Stitched Party Banners

Sentiment - an old stamp I got from Lakeland

Snowflakes - Uniko Studio "Stunning Snowflakes"

Distress ink - Salty Ocean

Vellum and baker's twine

 

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments.  Margaret



Muse deer

I've been away on holiday for a few weeks so it's lovely to get back to crafting.  When I saw Cornelia Wenokor's card on Muse Christmas Visions this week I was inspired to try something similar.  I liked the layout of Cornelia's card with the trees and the deer and I liked her choice of colours.  I have to admit that I had various attempts using different inks before I was happy with my card.  I used a Ranger ink for the trees which is waterproof so I could then colour the sky with distress inks. 

Taking part in this challenge is a great way to build up your stock of Christmas cards and saves any stress later in the year!

Materials used:-
Deer die - Cottage Cutz Deer set
Inks - Ranger cool graphite and DI dusty concord
Tree stamp - Tim Holtz tree line set
Sentiment - Creative Stamping magazine
Tim Holtz Coredinations card for mounting

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments.  Margaret

Christmas bauble

This week's muse at Muse Christmas Visions is Marianne who has created this lovely card to inspire us.  I took my inspiration from the shape of the bauble, the colour and the little stamps used to decorate it.  I used a mask to create the bauble shape and then decorated it with little stamps and a few gems.  This is a very quick and easy card to make!

 

I am also going to enter my card into this week's Less is More Challenge which is to make a card based on the colours of your kitchen.  The blues I used in the bauble are the same colours as the wallpaper in my kitchen.

 

 

 

Materials used:-

 

Mask - Stamps Away

Snowflakes - Stamps Away Winter Set (Montage)

Sentiment - Creative Stamping Magazine issue 27 Woodland Christmas

Distress inks - broken china and salty ocean applied with an Inkylicious blending tool

Archival ink - cobalt

Sequins and bow from stash

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments.  Margaret

More deer!

I have been using this lovely die quite a lot recently as I'm trying to get ahead with my Christmas cards. As Happy Little Stampers now have a die challenge I thought I'd enter this card.  I watercoloured the background which I think sets off the glittery deer quite well.

Materials used :-

Reindeer die - deer set from Cottage Cutz
Sentiment die - Sizzix Tim Holtz Holiday Words Script
White glitter card
Watercolour paints - Kuretake Gansai Tambi

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Believe

This week's challenge on Merry Monday is to use woodgrain, kraft and white. I love the combination of kraft and white card for Christmas cards so I was keen to play along this week.  The Merry Monday design team have come up with some lovely cards to inspire us so do visit their blog.

Materials used:-

Penny Black die "into the woods"
Snowflakes - Lawn Fawn stitched snowflakes
Deer - Cottage Cutz die
Hillside - Lawn Fawn stitched hillside borders
Sentiment - Penny Black holiday snippets
Embossing folder - Craft Concept wood grain
DI vintage photo

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments. Margaret

Reindeer noel

Kimberly Wiener is this week's muse on Muse Christmas Visions and she has created a lovely CAS card.  I have a reindeer die but unfortunately no silver glitter card so I had to create a coloured background as my reindeer didn't show up against white card.  I tried to recreate the simplicity of Kimberly's design with one reindeer and a sentiment.  I also mounted the panel on darker card.

 Materials used:-

Reindeer die - deer set from Cottage Cutz
Sentiment die - Sizzix Tim Holtz Holiday Words Script
White glitter card
Watercolour paints - Kuretake Gansai Tambi

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Polka dots

The Less is More challenge this week is polka dots. As I've started making my Christmas cards I thought I would use this lovely stamp and punch set from Stampin Up. I embossed the dots in gold but kept the card clean and simple. 

I am also entering this card into challenge #311 on The Cat's Pajamas' blog where you have to use one or more dies.

Materials used:-
Stampin Up Festival of Trees stamps and punch
Sentiment - Scenic stamps from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine issue 143
Archival ink - Wendy Vecci fern green
Gold embossing powder
Lawn Fawn stitched hillside borders; large stitched rectangle stackables

Thanks for visiting my blog - now pop over to LIM to see what the other participants have created. Margaret

Merry Monday Moose!

Challenge #175 on Merry Monday is to create a Christmas card with a moose on it.  Although I have seen a moose when on holiday in Canada, I don't have a moose stamp so had to make a reindeer card instead.  I am also going to enter this card into the theme challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown which is The Wild Woods.

 

 

 

 

Materials used:-

Distress inks - broken china and seedless preserves
Archival cobalt ink and black onyx Versafine ink
Stamps - tree stamp by Clarity and other stamps from Creative Stamping magazine issue 27 Woodland Christmas

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Holly Merry Xmas

I'm still busy making Christmas cards! Here is a card I'm going to enter into 2 challenges featuring holly

• Merry Monday #170 Use Holly 
• Happy Little Stampers -September Christmas Challenge is holly 

                                 

I wanted to keep my card clean and simple as the embossing folder is quite detailed. I added some clear Wink of Stella to the leaves for a subtle shine.

Materials used:-
Sizzix holly embossing folder
Stamps from Simply Homemade Magazine issue 48
Die - Lawn Fawn stitched circle
Inks - Memento bamboo leaves and Colorbox chalk rouge; clear Wink of Stella
Pearls and ribbon from stash

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Blue Christmas

Challenge #71 on Addicted to CAS is BLUE so I immediately thought of a blue and white Christmas scene.

Materials used:-
Clarity tree stamp
Sentiment from Papercraft Inspirations Magazine issue143
Inks - Archival cobalt; DI broken China and tumbled gala

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Muse Christmas card

The guest Muse, Kristie Goulet, has created a beautiful black and white Christmas card to inspire us on Muse Christmas Visions this week.  I liked the clean design and the use of a quotation on the Muse card and tried to recreate this.  However, I'm not entirely happy with the placement of the holly on my card - it might have been better to put it in the middle. 

Materials used:-
Sentiment stamps - Stamps Away Christmas Defined
Holly - free stamp from Simply Homemade Magazine issue 48
Inks - Versafine onyx black, Versacolor green tea and colorbox chalk ink, rouge
Lawn Fawn die - large stitched rectangle stackables
Linen card

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Gifts

Here is another clean and simple Christmas card I made today - after masking off a panel, I inked this and then spritzed it with perfect pearls to provide some sheen.  I stamped the image 3 times and finally scored lines on each side of the stamped panel to provide some definition - I don't think these show up very well on my photo.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

One Layer Christmas Card Challenge #13 where the added twist is "gift"
CASology where the cue card is REPEAT - I stamped the gift 3 times and "Merry Christmas" is repeated frequently on the stamp

Materials used:-
Distress ink - evergreen bough; Archival ink - aquamarine
Gift stamp - Penny Black Giving and Receiving set
Sentiment - free stamp from Simply Homemade magazine issue 48
Stampin Up scoring board

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments! Margaret

Nordic mitts

I'm getting ahead with making my Christmas cards so here is one inspired by Chriss Blagrave's lovely card on Muse Christmas Visions - I liked the mittens but didn't have a die so made my own template. I used the texture in my background instead of on the mittens.  The twine evoked a childhood memory of my mittens being tied together with ribbon to prevent them from getting lost!

I'm also going to enter this card into CAS on Sunday challenge #62 embossing.

Materials used:-
Tim Holtz stamp - holiday knits
Tim Holtz Sizzix holiday words script die
Embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Ink - Stampin Up cherry cobbler
Red pearlescent card and cord from stash

Thanks for visiting my blog - I hope you will pop over to MCV10 to get more inspiration your Christmas cards. Margaret

Muse deer

I'm at the last minute with my entry for Muse Christmas Visions this week as I've been away at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney - enjoyed a great weekend of poetry, drama and music. This week's muse is Betty Wright who has created this striking card.  I was inspired by the white deer against the dark blue background and the stitching around the card. I used Brushos to create the background of my card and added a hill for my deer to stand on as I felt it needed to be grounded. I was pleased with the background as it looked a bit like the aurora borealis.

Materials used:-
Brushos and watercolour card
Archival ink - cobalt
Lawn Fawn stitched hillside borders and large stitched rectangle dies
Collage cutz deer set
Dienamics pierced rectangle die
Sentiment - Lakeland (very old!)

Thanks for visiting - now pop over to MCV7 and you may be inspired to start making your Christmas cards! Margaret

Christmas card challenge

I'm on a roll with Christmas cards this week!  I'm going to enter this card into Merry Monday and 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown challenges as they both feature tags this week. At 52cct we have to use the sketch (see below).  I liked this design and it was easy to make - always useful when making Christmas cards!

Materials used:-
Stampin Up tag punch
Music stamp - Stamps Away
Sentiment - Banana Frog Xmas Elegance
Deer stamp - freebie from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine
Gingham ribbon from stash

Thanks for visiting my blog - I really appreciate your comments.  Margaret