Favorite Five Christmas Cards

12/19/15

At A Scrapjourney blog, Debby is challenging us to pick our favorite five Christmas cards of this year and then enter them at her blog. I did find it a challenge, but have chosen these cards. Below the picture is the date I blogged the card originally which you can click on to see the details on how I made the card or the supplies used.

12/12/15

11/29/15

11/28/15 

11/17/15

I am entering these cards in the Favourite Five challenge at A Scrapjourney, the 4th card in Sharing the Season challenge at Craft Stamper Magazine and the 2nd card in the Winter Wonderland challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

Anything Goes at Repeat Impressions

Happy Wednesday everyone! It's time for another fun challenge at Repeat Impressions. If there is a 5^th Wednesday in the month, the challenge is my favorite: Anything Goes! Make any card and link it up for a chance at some great Repeat Impressions rubber! For all the details on what you can win and to see the other Rock Stars cards, please visit our blog.

I made this Christmas card special for Wendy and Bill, the generous owners of Repeat Impressions. I will share more of the Deep Impressions technique I used to make the ornament in the first Project of the Week on January 4th. But briefly, it involves melting layers of embossing powders on a chipboard piece and then stamping it while it is still molten. I stamped RI’s beautiful Snowflake Orb into the molten circle of embossing powders. I die cut the top of the ornament with a Tim Holtz Sizzix die, and “hung” the ornament with thin washi tape. I embossed the navy card base with an embossing folder from Darice. I embossed the Peace wish with white embossing powder.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at 613 Avenue Create and Craft Your Passion, and the Sharing the Season challenge at Craft Stamper Magazine.

**Don’t Forget: for a 10% discount on any size order at Repeat Impressions, make a note of my discount code (rr10kh), click on the blog badge on the side of my blog and go to the website here to shop and save!**

Celebrate the New Year Southwestern Style and a Huge Sale!

Happy New Year! It's my turn to post a card on Die-Version's blog and mine, and I am sharing this card featuring several dies from the November 2015 Southwestern inspired release available here on the website. I die cut the Southwestern Bison, Southwestern Cactus and Western Vases out of various patterned pieces and also out of the front of a business sized card. I slipped the die cut pieces back into their respective holes and attached the piece to a dark brown business sized card base. I added the sentiment “Thinking of You” also cut with a Die-Versions die to complete the card.

Celebrate the holidays with this awesome sale! 60% off everything at the Die-Versions website between now and December 30th! What a great deal! I love these dies and I know you will too-especially at these bargain prices!

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Crafting from the Heart and Craft Your Passion.

Three Cards, Sames Dies and Sketch

I borrowed the Sending a Big Hug Semi Circle Tonic Studio die set from a friend and had so much fun playing with it this week, I made three cards! I found this card from the Tonic Studios blog in England and CASED it - it was just too pretty not to just go with the same format. I searched my room for two sided cardstock and came up with a couple pieces to start. I cut this card 6 x 9 inches and scored at the 3 inch line. Then I simply cut the die pieces in dark brown and attached. This is what the inside of this card looks like:

The left side flap opens to reveal a place where a message could be written inside the beautiful semi-circle frame. I cut a half circle with a Spellbinders die which does not exactly fit (so I changed it up below.) I also made a card with some Stampin' Up two sided cardstock I had in my stash:

Same concept- the left flap opens to reveal a semi-circle to write a message on. I cut the last two cards I made just an 1/8 inch smaller on both sides, so they slide easily into a 6 x 6 square envelope.
Here is my favorite of the three cards I made:

I decided the card was just so pretty I had to share it with my January classes and I found this Graphic 45 paper with enough sheets to cut for them too. I created this one the same way as above and this time I added some beautiful Sugared Almond Crystal Drops from Tonic to all the ends of the swirls. This "pearl-like" product is so easy to work with and does not dry the curly tops many similar products do. Here is what the inside looks like:

I decided to cut just the outside of one of the semi-circle dies in this set for a personal message to be written on. I like how this one turned out better and I think my classes are going to love this card!

The Sending a Big Hug Semi Die Set is available here on the Tonic Gold US website and the Crystal Drops are available here.  And for more great Tonic Studio ideas, visit my Tonic Pinterest board here for inspiration.

I am entering the third card in the Anything Goes challenges at Simply Papercraft and Polkadoodles.

The Last of My Christmas Cards

I did it- each of  my new Christmas dies has all been played with at least once. I cheated a bit and moved those that could be considered Winter and still used in the winter months of the new year into a different pile:) My bed is still a huge mess, but little by little I will tackle each pile and then put away. I used sparkly glitter and gilding flakes on this card. The tree on the left is a new die from Penny Black and under the holes in the die is gilding flakes. I stamped Tim Holtz's "Joy to the World" on the top of the green panel. I die cut Dee's Distinctively swirly tree and a star punch from two sided Sookang paper and applied red and gold fine glitter. Here is a close up of the two kinds of sparkle:

And here is one last card I have not blogged yet. I used Penny Black's background stamp over a Brusho background and messed it up a bit. Mostly because I used the wrong kind of watercolor paper- it was too textured, so the trees would not stamp well even with the MISTI. So I filled in the trees with a black marker, and added a dove (Die-Versions) and my wish for this holiday season and next year- Peace on Earth- from Tim Holtz for Sizzix.

I am entering the first card in the "Make it Sparkle" challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge and the second card in the Winter Wonderland challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

Happy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and New Year to all!

Noel Christmas Tree with Gilding Flakes

My pile of unused Christmas dies is dwindling and I might actually keep my resolution to play with them all before Christmas. My family Christmas is not until the weekend after Christmas so I have a little time this week to play. I made this card yesterday with new dies from Dee's Distinctively (the swirls on  the tree) and Penny Black (the Noel.) I started with an old tree die from Tim Holtz for Sizzix and die cut two in different greens, then layered together. I die cut the swirls out of two sided tape from Sookang and applied a couple different colors of Cosmic Shimmer gilding flakes from Creative Expressions.I really like this brand of gilding flakes because the flakes are smaller and there is a delightful mixture of color in each jar. I also punched a star (old punch from Tonic Studios) out of a gold gilding flake piece. I decorated the trees with the swirls of color and added a Noel die from Penny Black to finish the card.

I am entering this card in the Holidays challenge at Scrapy Land and the Winter Wonderland challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

Twas the Night Before Christmas...

...and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except that crazy Karen who swore she would use every one of her new holiday dies on a card before Christmas! In addition to getting her CHA assignments done, not to mention family visits, shopping and wrapping, etc. I am almost all done, and if I get a few more cards made this week, I will share before it is too late. Santa is on his way on a stormy snowy Christmas Eve in this scene I created with black Bister powder and water on a watercolor piece. Before applying the black Bister, I spattered on some masking fluid and let it dry for the snowflakes. I also created a mask for the snow bank on the bottom. After the black Bister dried, I  masked around the moon and pulled the Bister color out with bleach. I stamped the trees in black ink with stamps from Repeat Impressions. The Santa and Sleigh die is from Impression Obsession and the "Noel" die is from Die-Versions.

I am entering this card in the Holidays challenge at Scrapy Land and the Winter Wonderland challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.  I am also entering it into the Sharing the Season challenge at Craft Stamper Magazine Take It Make It Challenge.