Contempo Christmas

This is my card for this week's Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge Week 71. The theme is Bring on the Bling!!!

The stamp set I used for the card is 'Contempo Christmas' by Stampin' Up. I begun by stamping the two baubles using Stampin' Up Real Red ink pad onto smooth white card. I also stamped the greeting in Old Olive. I attached two strip of gold ribbon to the card. I cut a small slit above each bauble which I threaded the ribbon through. I also attached a bow tied with the same ribbon. I rounded the corners with a corner punch.



I mounted the stamped panel onto a panel of gold card. I also rounded the corner of the gold card. I attached this all onto a card blank. I added red gems to the baubles. To finish the card I added gold dots around the edge.

Creativity Club craft challenge 2

This is my card for the DoCrafts Creativity Club craft challenge 2 that was launched last night on Facebook. The theme of the challenge was to create a window card.

I begun by stamping the snowflake design onto the front of a Papermania Kraft card blank with a blue ink pad. The snowflake stamp is part of a free gift on the current Creativity! magazine. I cut out a panel on the front of the card large enough for the mounted snowman image.



The snowman rectangle image panel is from the new Noel Christmas range from DoCrafts. I mounted the image onto panels of silver and black card. I attached the panel inside the card blank. From the front panel I cut out from the card, I cut out the whole stamped snowflake images and added them to the corner of the window. I added a strip of seam binding ribbon and a bow down the edhe of the card. To finish I added faux stitching around the window, blue Stickles to the centre of the snowflake corners and a gem.

Embossed Christmas

This is my card for this week's Fab 'n' Funky blog challenge. The theme of the called is 'go mad with embossing'.

I used the Cuttlebug All-in-one embossing folders for this card. The elements all came from the Twinkle set.

The background panel was embossed with the large holly. For the centre panel I started by embossing the greeting and one of the corners. I then moved the position of the corner design around the greeting to form the border. I cut out the design and added it to a panel of dark brown card. I layered all the elements up onto a square card blank. I coloured in the greeting with a ProMarker. To finish I added gold dots and brown Dimension Pearls.

Festive trio

This is a set of card I've made using Stampin' Up stamps and ink pads. I am entering these cards into this week's challenge Simply Stampin' blog challenge.

This week's challenge is a colour challenge of Melon Mambo, Perfect Plum, Bashful Blue, Whisper White. Unfortunately I don't have these colours so I have used my closest colours of Baja Breeze, Rich Razzleberry and Pixie Pink. The stamp sets I used for the cards are Seasons of Joy and Tree Trimmings. I stamped each element directly onto square card blanks.







These are quick and easy cards to make which is ideal if you have a lot to make. These designs would work in a variety of colour combinations.

Christmas Humphrey

This is my card for this month's Crafters Companion blog challenge. The theme of the challenge is 'Christmas Wishes'.

The Humphrey stamp I used for the card is a free gift on this month's Papercraft Essential magazine. I stamped the image with a black Memento ink pad. I coloured in the image with ProMarkers. I added diamond Stickles and Polar White Flower Soft for the snow.



I cut panels of red and green card for the background. I embossed the red card with a Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder. I also punched a corner using my Stampin' Up Photo Corner punch. I die cut two snowflakes from pearlescent card using Nestabilites snowflake dies. I added diamond Stickles to the snowflakes. I attached these panels together and added silver brads.



On a scalloped edge card blank I stamped the snowflakes image using an Old Olive ink pad. The stamp is from the Seasons of Joy stamp set from Stampin' Up. I added the coloured and image panel to the card. To finish I added faux stitching.

Delivering Christmas Wishes

This is my card for this week's Passion for ProMarkers blog challenge. The theme is anything goes.

The stamp set I used for the card is Delivering Christmas Wishes by Little Claire. This is their September Stamp Club set.

I begun by stamping the letterbox image using a black Memento ink pad onto smooth white card. I colour the letterbox image with ProMarkers and I used AquaMarkers for the sky. I add Polar White FlowerSoft and diamond Stickles for snow. I cut out the image and frames with Nestabilities.



For the background I cut a square of red corrugated paper. Onto this I stamped white snowflake images with a Stampin' Up white craft ink pad. I added the centre image to the red square. Across the top left corner I added a strip of red ribbon. I also tied a bow with the same ribbon and attached a little gold bell. This was them added to a square card blank.



I used the robin stamp from the Club set to stamp the robin strip. I coloured this in with ProMarkers. I added this to the card. I also added a cirlce sentiment from Red Gingham Design to the card. These are available exclusively from Little Claire. I also added a single robin to the top corner. To finish I added red Candi and red dots around the edge.

Driving home for Christmas

This is my card for this week's I Love ProMarkers blog challenge. The theme is 'anything goes'.

The stamp set I used for the card is Delivering Christmas Wishes by Little Claire. This is their September Stamp Club set.

I begun by stamping the car image three times using a black Memento ink pad onto smooth white card. I colour the image in with ProMarkers. I add diamond Stickles to the sky area and Polar White FlowerSoft to the road.



I mounted this onto a panel of brown card. I punched the bottom edge with my Stampin’ Up eyelet punch. Across the bottom edge of the white card I add a strip of gold ribbon.

On a 5x7 Kraft Card blank I stamped a snowflake image with Stampin’ Up Crumb Cake ink pad. Onto this I add the brown and image panel. I stamped the greeting onto a piece of white card. This was mount this onto a piece of kraft card and attached this to the card with foam pads.



I die cut snowflakes using Nestabilities snowflake dies. To finish add faux stitching with a gold pen and brown gems to the centre of the snowflakes.