Christmas In The Making

Hello Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a great day. Following on from yesterday's post, I have another four cards to share quickly with you today.

Stamp Set: Christmas in the Making

Card: Whisper White, Old Olive, White Glimmer

Ink:  Momento Black

Other: Merry Little Patterns DSP, Blends Alcohol Markers

 

Stamp Set: Christmas in the Making

Card: Powder Pink, Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Shimmery White

Ink: Pool Party, Powder Pink, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight

Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Colourful Seasons Thinlits

 

Stamp Set: Christmas in the Making

Card: Real Red, Whisper White

Ink: Pool Party, Real Red, Old Olive

Other: Pool Party Ribbon, Stitched Shapes Framelits

 

Stamp Set: Christmas in the Making

Card: Whisper White, Powder Pink, Black

Ink: Momento Black

Other: Blends Alcohol Markers

Thanks for visiting today, until next time

Just Add Ink #387 - Colour Combination

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a great day and managed to squeeze in some crafting time. Its challenge time over at Just Add Ink, and this week Nikki has provided us with a delicious colour combination for you to play along with.

 

Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White. Instantly conjures thoughts of traditional Christmas for me - which I don't do well. But its a challenge, right? So I gave it my best shot and I actually liked some of my creations! Lol

We would love for you to join us. Just create a card using the colours in the swatch above and submit your entry here.  While you are there be sure to check out the inspiring cards the Design Team have created.

I ended up making three cards.....again. One was an absolute boo boo as I used the wrong shade of green. The second I wasn't overly happy with so submitted the third, which is the card below.

Just Add Ink is a fabulous challenge blog as it doesn't restrict you to certain brands/products. Although, I am a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I enjoy stamping and love other companies products - some of my favourites being, My Favourite Things, Lawn Fawn and Altenew. I hardly buy these brands anymore but cant resit using sets I already own.

The next card uses all SU products. This was my 'bugga, wrong colour' card. I was being a tad lazy and picked up the base which I had already adhered the Old Olive DSP left over from a previous round of projects. It wasn't until I had used the new Stampin' Up! blends did I click that I wasn't supposed to be using Old Olive at all - gah moment. No loss though, I like the card and will send it to someone.

The third card uses small Christmas themed stamps to create the background. These were then coloured using Stampin' write markers. I die cut the card front using my new Paper Roses Rectangle Stitched dies (thanks Chloe and Kelly - I love them!). This was adhered to a black layer and then attached to the card base. The sentiment from the Brightly Lit Bundle was heat embossed in white on black card stock. To finish off the card I added few little pretty extra's (love those gold clips)

 

Hope you are inspired to play along with us.  Cant wait to see all this weeks amazing entries.

 

Until next time, stay crafty

 

 

Santa Sleigh Accident - Santa Suit Bundle

Hello Crafty Friends,

Hope your day is going great. Today's card uses two new bundles from the 2017 Holiday Catalogue - Brightly Lit and Santa's Suit.

I saw a fun card last year with the Sleigh bundle and Foxy Friends bundle crashing into a tree. So thought I'd do my version of "Santa should have gone to Specsavers" card. Specsavers is a chain of Optometrists here in Australia, NZ and I think possibly the UK too.

To fit all the die cuts on without squashing everything up I decided to make a square 6"x6" card. The card base is Sahara Sand, to which a layer of Real Red card was added. 

The Whisper White card front was stamped with the sentiment from Christmas in the Making, inked in Black Momento. The card front was then embossed using the Softly Falling Embossing Folder.

The Brightly Lit Bundle Dies were used for the lamppost, the Santa's Suit Bundle for Santa and his clothing and the Santa's Sleigh Bundle for the Sleigh. 

You could crash Santa's Sleigh into many objects and change out the sentiment to some fun, crazy things like my hubby suggested - Go Home Santa, you're drunk! or ....uh oh someone spiked Santa's eggnog! Lol boozy Santa, lucky he is crashing into soft snow and no other innocent bystanders were harmed in the production of this card.

Until next time, stay awesome 

Brightly Lit Bundle - Stampin Up - Christmas Card

Hello Crafty Friends,

A quick post to share a card I made using the Brightly Lit Bundle. As mentioned in an earlier post, I managed to make 8 cards in one session with this cute bundle. The dies are simple to work with and the stamps and sentiments are ever so adorable.

 

This card is very similar to the card I shared in an earlier post, (see here), this one has different DSP and shows a different lamppost and style of lantern. I have also added a sign using one of the sentiments.

On a black card base I added a layer of very vanilla card. Then a layer of the Bundle of Love DSP. The Lamppost, lanterns and banner were cut from black card, with the lanterns backed in gold foil. The sentiment was stamped on very vanilla card and cut down by hand so it had a black border when adhered to the die cut.

The sentiment on the bottom of the card front is from the stamp set, Christmas in the Making, and was stamped in Black Momento Ink onto Very Vanilla card. Very Vanilla card was also used to make the curved stitched snow layers.

Using a circle from the Stitched Shapes Framelits, I cut a piece of vellum and placed it behind the lamppost for a light glow effect.

The reindeer from the Santa Sleigh bundle was cut from gold foil and adhered with dimensionals, amongst the snow covered ground. So many variations are possible with these dies, I have a fun one to share with you tomorrow.

Until next time, stay awesome

 

Stampin' Up! Brightly Lit Christmas Lamp Post Card

Hello Crafty Friends,

The 2017 holiday catalogue is packed full of wonderful Christmas goodies! I told myself I wouldn't need too many new Christmas themed items, then I saw the Catalogue, and well, lets just say I blew my budget on mainly Christmas items lol. One of the bundles I was instantly drawn to was the Brightly Lit Bundle.

I don't know what it is, but I had to have the lampposts! I also thought that it could be used for other types of cards, not just Christmas.  The Thinlits enable you to create two different styles of lampposts, each with a single lantern, a twin or you can make it a triple.

For this card I have only used the die cut lamppost pole, a single lantern, and the detailed flag trim (cut down). To a Sahara Sand card base, I added a layer of the Bundle of Love DSP, with gold foil added to the edges. I then placed a layer of vellum to tone down the DSP which is vanilla based, as I was using whisper white on the card front.

Two layers of whisper white card were die cut in waves to represent snow. The lamppost and lantern were die cut in Black card with the lantern backed with gold foil. The wreath was heat embossed in white powder onto gold foil card and two gold die cut stems were added under the Old Olive ribbon bow.

I wanted a long sentiment to run along the bottom, so chose to use one from the Christmas in the Making stamp set. I stamped it with Black Memento before adhering all the layers. The reindeer from the Santa's Sleigh Bundle was cut from gold foil card and added with dimensionals.

I had so much fun with the Brightly Lit bundle today, I managed to make 8 different cards. I will share those over the coming days.

Until next time, stay awesome