CASEing for Christmas

The card this week we are CASEing for Christmas is one of Mynns! Come on over to join in and see the other ladies fabulous cards!

I loved Mynns rich red, black and kraft colour scheme so I decided to use the same colour combination for my simple card. A kraft base card, a simple square panel with a stamped poinsettia (Clearly Besotted stamps). A few sequins and gold stickles to add some sparkle. I was going to add a teeny weeny tag but decided not to. Keep it simple!

I hope you join in with our challenge....be ahead this Christmas!

SFC

For the SFC Design Teamies this week our challenge is Clean & Simple. I'm making a few more Christmas cards each week to get ahead so decided to make this card using a Technique Tuesday stamp set called Be Jolly. Stamped in Mossy Meadow ink my Stampin Up. Some spray, sequins and stickles to jazz it up. Silly me smudged it when taking a photo. Doh!

52CCT March Theme - Stars

 Its a beautiful sunny day in London and I've spent the morning on my allotment cutting grass, clearing up winter debris and socialising. Christmas was the last thing on my mind! Have got back home and decided to check in earlier this week to see what this weeks challenge on 52CCT is....create a Christmas card with "Stars". I even got my sewing machine out for this one!

I've die cut the stars out of patterned paper, inked edges and layered together. The background cardstock has been stamped with Stampin Up's Hardwood stamp. Then used my sewing machine on the book paper and patterned paper. Colours are Old Olive & Cherry Cobbler. Thanks for looking!

52 Christmas Card Throwdown Winners and latest challenge

Had a fantastic scrapbooking weekend away but now need to catch up with a few things!

So pleased to have been chosen as the winner for the 52CCT Metallic Papers challenge for this card:-

Only to find that I've also I've been awarded the top honorable mention for their sketch challenge as well! For this card:-

But now onto this weeks challenge. Choose a minimum of three colours from this graphic:

So after a rummage in my cardstock I chose three retired colours from Stampin Up, Bravo Burgundy, Baja Breeze and River Rock. The stamp set is SU No Peeking. I've matted a layered the cutesy penguin (Is it a penguin?!) onto a die cut snowflake and topped off with a bow. Thanks for Looking x

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

We are now into March and I'm so pleased that I've made a handful of Christmas cards already this year! Im also happy that I've had another Honarable mention for my landscape card.!

So, onto this weeks challenge. A sketch.

I fancies twisting the sketch and not make the obvious so here's what I made this morning. The poinsiettea flower I cut on my cameo. The background stamp is "Dictionary" by Stampin Up. Some glimmer spray adds a bit of sparkle!

52 CCT Challenge

This weeks challenge is to make a Christmas card using Metallic Paper. I don't actually like "Mirror card" so a real challenge for me to use it! After rummaging around in a box of stuff waiting to be given away I found a piece! I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out so now going to keep the remaining sheets!

First of all I die cut the flower using Tim Holtz Tatterd Floral die, alcohol inked ...to reduce the glare LOL then mounted on die cut pennants. The top one was embossed with  polka dots and Treasure Gold rubbed into it in Royal Amethyst and Silver colours to carry on the metallic theme. I love the smell of Treasure Gold! Die cut the flourishes in mirror card and left those as they were!

I'm also going to enter this in the Daring Cardmakers "Old but not Forgotten" challenge as my use of Mirror card is just perfect!

Thanks for looking x

52 CCT Challenge - Landscapes

I was given an Honary mention at for my card last week, so very pleased I am!

This weeks theme is to make a "Landscape" Christmas card so I made this card using a Memory Box die "Country Landscape". I spritz the background with  a white glimmer mist and masked off an area to create a moon with white craft ink. Added the die cut landscape, bit of silver stickles and a pretty bow. I love the sentiment....at Christmas all roads lead to home..... which is from a Penny Black set Christmas Cheer. Thanks for looking! X

52 CCT Challenge Winner and This weeks Challenge

Popped over to the 52 Christmas Card Challenge blog to check out the new challenge only to find I won last weeks double embossing challenge! Look here! Feeling proud......x

So onto this weeks: February's Colour Challenge

I chose Real Red, Black and Old Olive green from Stampin Up and bought the Gold in with some glitter card and punched out the birdie and branch. I stamped the background using Stampin Up's Dictionary stamp then the mat using Just Rite Damask Wallpaper stamp. I wanted the bird to stand out from the green backgound so I punched a circle and used that as a mat. Thanks for looking x

I love the bird punch, its so versatile

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

This week is a stash challenge to create a card with double embossing so here's my card using a Stamps to Die For Ornate Bauble which I stamped and embossed in gold, die cut then mounted onto dry embossed cardstock. A pretty bow to finish off. Card and Inks Stampin Up River Rock, Real Red and Old Olive

Thank you to 52CC for my honarable mention for last weeks monochrome card! x

Christmas Card Challenge

Apologies for my blog...its new so not pretty yet! Anyway, I'm hoping to make a christmas card a week to reduce the panic by the time the festive season begins! Its going to be tough as I've hardly any Christmas stamps left...I've passed them onto to others to enjoy!

Heres goes with the challenge on 52(Christmas) Card Throwdown Challenge blog. A colour challenge this week:-