One card, two challenges .....

It's back to Christmas cards with this post - I've nearly made enough to send this year but just in case I keep making!

This card uses the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch! 

I've also used embossing so will enter it in the challenge on CAS-UAL Fridays

Have a look and see what you think.

The photograph doesn't show the sparkle of the stamped snowflakes.  They are stamped with Versamark and then heat embossed with some holographic embossing powder.  The sentiment is from Little Claire Designs.

Thank you!!......

This card is a BIG thank you to all my blog visitors - Thank you!  Thank you for dropping by and especially for leaving such kind comments I really do appreciate the time you take to comment.

I'm finding that the challenges are great fun and provide that bit of inspiration I need to get making.  Sometimes I find it difficult to know where to start when faced with lots of paper, stamps, inks and embellishments - I just need someone to give me a clue and that's what the challenges do!

So here is my contribution to this week's "Less is More" challenge to produce a one layer Thank you card.

Simple and one layer

As always I like to provide a close up to show some of the detail.  I'm not sure where the stamp came from as all identifying features have been removed from the packaging but I used Stampin Up Ink Riding Hood Red.  

Enjoy!

One day, three cards, five challenges .....

This will be my last post for the day.  I couldn't resist using my favourite angel stamp one more time - this time I've coloured it with Pro Markers.

I've used the sketch from this week's challenge on 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown and as it's anything goes on Penny Black and More Challenge I am going to enter this card into both these challenges.

I'm not sure about the sentiment, wrong style, wrong place and wrong colour!

As you can see from the close up I used a very simple approach to the colouring - single colours so no dimension, I think it suits the image.

A change of direction ....

I am not a very cute kind of person (as anyone who knows me will agree!) but I would like to master the art of colouring stamps with alcohol markers. This Forever Friends stamp was free with a magazine -  that's the only reason that I own it as it is not something that I would go out and buy - so I thought I would give it a go.  I understand the principles behind using markers and in my imagination I am very good at it but in reality I believe there is clearly room for improvement!

So here it is 

I even thought I'd put in a close up of the image so that you can see the colouring in detail - warts and all!!  For the observant among you I made a mess of the bear's crown (possibly the easiest bit to colour) but managed to save the situation by paper piecing an alternative!!

I have used the sketch from this weeks challenge at Sketch Saturday so I'm going to enter it there.  They are having an Anything Goes challenge at Penny Black and More Challenge so I thought I'd give that a go as well.

If you've popped over to have a look at my blog and have any useful tips on colouring with markers I surely would appreciate hearing them.

A bit of zentangle .....

I created this owl using the zentangle approach (the outline owl was from a free colouring picture online - I guess it could be called a digital stamp!!).  I have used this image previously but then I paper pieced it which gave a totally different look which you can see in an earlier post here.

Today I thought I would create a card for the challenge over at clean&simple using their sketch:-


I used a couple of peel off's from Little Claire Designs of the sentiment and small owl - I've had these in my stash for quite sometime!  I finished with some faux stitching around the circles.

A close up of the zentangle element

The card looks very flat in this photograph put I have used dimensional foam pads to raise the white card but I cannot seem to get that to show in the photograph.  Although not a brilliant card it does look better in real life!

I thought I would also enter this into the challenge over at Make it Monday the challenge for the week is 'Anything Goes' so I guess this fits the bill there too.  I've already spied some lovely cards entered so I'm going to pop back and have another look.

Snowflakes variations on a theme .....

I've had quite a productive afternoon and increased my stash of Christmas cards - I think I have enough made to see me through this year.

Once again I have used my new snowflake die but with a different design - I'm still not sure that they really work but I find the process very therapeutic!

The first card I am also going to submit to the challenge on Winter Wonderland where this week's theme is Blue and White.  So here is the first:

I've used a navy card in the spaces of the snowflake

I flipped the colours for the second card and introduced red into the third and slightly changed the layout.

     

A splash of colour .....

Good afternoon, I'm coming to the end of a week off work - unfortunately the week is almost over before all the work is done!  Depressingly I've had an ear infection for the whole of the week and it still doesn't seem to want to clear up! The worst thing about it is that I can hardly hear anything.  

The challenge at "Less is More" this week is to use a dark background with a splash of colour.  I bought a new set of dies this  week which included a snowflake so I thought I would give it a go.  I die cut the snowflake out of the dark background and out of the red card stock then I pieced them back together - a very fiddly activity because some of the pieces are so small! The sentiment has also been set into the dark background.  

I added a third snowflake but this time set it on top using a foam pad to add some dimension to the card.










I had another go this time with turquoise and a very dark green.  This time I pieced just one snowflake and added another on top to add some dimension.