Shaping Up at Beyond the Blue

Merry Christmas Eve! 

Today's card is for this weeks challenge at Beyond the Blue challenges. In case you haven't heard of Beyond the Blue, it's a group of friends who follow Lydia (Understandblue) and use her techniques for challenges.

This week is to make a shaped card. I hop you will play along. 

My card uses products by Concord & 9th that were in the exclusive Holly Jolly Workshop kit.  

Have your ELF a Merry Little Christmas

 I am up on the Dare 2B Artzy company blog today with this card using the Naughty or Nice set.

 Can you believe that Christmas is Saturday, only 4 days away? December seems like a blur to me.  I love making holiday cards and I am sad that soon I will not make as many. I will still continue to make them as I am on some challenge blogs that I have to make them for but I won't be making like at least one a day. 

To create this card I started with a white side folding card base and a white panel in which I ink blended a background using Kitsch Flamingo, Wilted Violet, Salvaged Patina and Prize ribbon.

I stamped the images from the Naughty or Nice set along with one of the presents from the Penguin Plunge set, colored them using alcohol markers and then cut them out with the coordinating dies. I stamped the north pole sign directly on the panel and masked it off before I created the background.

I added all of the cut out images to the panel, I also added a string for her to pull the sled and to finish the card I added some falling snow to the entire card and added some snow to the north pole sign.

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Thank you! 

More Christmas Tags

Todays tag is another snowflake tag using a snowflake set by Brutus Monroe. I put up several trees each year and these tags are for the gifts underneath my snow themed tree so they are perfect.This tag is super easy to make, simply cut out your tag using kraft cardstock and then using a snowflake set emboss the snowflakes in white. To  help me center the sentiment, I used the New Mis-T ruler. 

SNSS Insta Hop and Giveaway

Hello and thanks for stopping by! The design team of Sweet 'n Sassy stamps is hosting an Instagram hop and giveaway over on instagram of course, but I wanted to let my blog readers know. For a chance to win hop over to Instagram and leave comments on all thos participating.

Most of us have finished our cards and have moved on to tags so I thought that I would share some tags over the next 10 days.

It's day one with these snowflake tags using a few Sweet 'n Sassy sers linked below. 

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Thank you! 

25 days of Christmas Inspiration

Happy Wednesday! 

This post is a twofer meaning that it cover two things, one being this weeks challenge at Make The Cards Challenge of Use a background stamp and ...

Today is day 1 of my holiday series, 25 days of Christmas Inspiration. I started this back in 2017 so that makes this my 5th year.

Christmas is one of my favorite times of year as we celebrate the birth of Jesus. 

So over the next 25 days I will bring you some sort of Christmas inspiration 

whether is be a card, tags, ornaments or whatever. I hope you will stop by each day my post should go live around 9am EST.

Now for the deets on this card. 

This past weekend I attended the Holly Jolly Workshop with Concord & 9th so some of my projects will use those products. 

To create this card, I started with a side folding white card base, a Sea Glass panel and some white cardstock. 

 I stamped the Woven Plaid background using Sea glass ink on the Sea Glass panel for a tone on tone background.

Next I die cut the "joy" out of white cardstock and the backer out of white glitter paper. I also cut out the flowers, leaves and other details out of Sea Glass, Stardust and Sorbet cardstock and then added them back in the negative spaces.

To finish the card I popped up the "Joy" and stamped the sentiment on a black strip of cardstock and embossed in white. 

**The supplies in the holly jolly workshop are exclusive to the event but you could always use another large word die.   I have linked everything else below. 

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Blended Baubles

I am up on the Dare 2B Artzy blog today sharing this card. 
To create this card I started with a top folding white card base and a white panel. I stamped the ornament across the panel with embossing ink and embossed it in white. Next I ink blended the background using Salvaged Patina, Prize Ribbon, Wilted Violet and  Villainous Potion. To finish the card I added the sentiment embossed in white on a black strip.All products are linked below  

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Hero Arts Christmas

I am teaching a couple card classes down at The Enchanted Cottage in Lewisville, NC next Friday and Saturday November 19th & 20th one of them a Hero Arts Christmas where you will make these three cards.  If you are in the area I would love for you to join me or at least stop in to say hello. 

Here's the info 

The Enchanted Cottage 

6275 Shallowford Rd

Lewisville, NC 27023

336-945-5889

Peace

It's time for our monthly stencil challenge at Happy Little Stampers. Our challenge is always Anything Goes so no excuses.  

To create my card I started with a white top folding card base and a white panel. I used the Elegant Snowflake stencil by A Colorful Life Designs and the new Tim Holtz color Villainous Potion, this is the prettiest color of purple! 

I added a die cut for the sentiment, I cut them both out of white and then ink blended the word Peace with the Villainous Potion.

all products are linked below 

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Season of Wonder

It's time for a new challenge ar Addicted to CAS. Sue is our host and she chose the codeword Circle. This is a wide open challenge and I can't wait to see what you come up with, there are so many ways to use a circle.  Be sure to check out more inspiration from the design team. 

To create this card, I started with a white top folding card base and a white panel. I used the Thrill of Hope stencil set and several colors of distress ink for the wreath. Next I stamped the greeting on black cardstock, embossed it in white and cut it out with the coordinating die. 

All products are linked below 

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Peace & Joy

It's time for our November Christmas challenge at Happy Little Stampers. As always it's anything goes with an option and the option for November is to create a scene.

For my card I started with a top folding white card base and a white panel that I cut down with a die by Memory Box. 

I ink blended some Picked Raspberry, Prize Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire for the sky background. 

The greeting is by Hero Arts.

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Warm Winter Wishes

I am up on the Dare 2B Artzy blog today sharing this card. To create this card I started with a white precut mini slim card base and a white panel. I stamped snowflakes from multiple sets in watermark ink, embossed them in white and then ink blended over them using Salvaged Patina and Prize Ribbon. I added a blue shadow to the greeting by using the Misti.
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Merry Christmas Gnomie

It's time for a new CAS game at AAA Cards and we have a sketch for you.

There is also an optional twist of gnomes. Are you a lover of gnomes? They are so popular right now and I do like them as long as they aren't the creepy ones. Which ones are creepy? to mee if you can see their face like the garden gnomes they are creepy to me. I do love the ones where all you can see is their little noses, I think they are cute. 

Now for my card. It was super simple to make. I started with a white top folding card base and used the Mistis to stamp Merry Christmas across the base. My gnome is a die cut by Simon Says Stamp cut out with patterned paper and different colors of cardstock, easy way to use up some scraps. 

All products are linked below. 

Below you will find links to the products used. Click the picture to start shopping. Compensated Affiliate links are used at no additional cost to you. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and I appreciate that so much!  Thank you!