I made two cards that combine the themes for Simon Says Stamp’s Wednesday Challenge – Christmas Critters with Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge – Ice Cold. The first one came together quickly since I was using die cuts and patterned papers to create the card. The glittered hillside die cuts add lots of icy sparkle. The second card used the same type of icy hillsides but with a Yeti for the Christmas Critter. Hope you get some time to craft during the holiday season! Supplies for the cards are listed in the captions.
The background is sheet from Papertrey’s Holiday Folk Paper Pack and the tree and bear were fussy cut from sheets of the same paper pack. The sparkly hillside die cuts were created using Papertrey’s In the Meadow Collection dies on adhesive sheets that are coated with a layer of coarse glitter. The Merry Christmas sentiment was created with Papertrey’s Christmas Cheer stamp and die set.I love this happy Yeti image! Those teeth and that face just make me smile and we all need more reasons to smile! The Yeti image and sentiment are from My Favorite Things Beast Friends stamp set. The Yeti is colored using Copic markers. The trees are from a Craft Smart rubber stamp from Michaels. The glittered hillside adhesive sheets were created using Papertrey’s In the Meadow Collection dies.
I started by pulling out my stash of glitter paste and went to town making card fronts. Not all of them made it into a card for these challenges, but I like to get all the messy and time-consuming part of it done at one time. Glitter paste is a fun way to create a pretty sparkly background, especially for Christmas cards!
My first card is very simple, using a striped stencil to create lines across the card. I wanted a very clean looking ornament to match the simple style of the card. I also heat embossed the ornament strings in silver so it would match the heat embossed sentiment.My second card uses a single line of pretty, glittery trees that is anchored with a sentiment border. Love the light green glitter paste against the green cardstock and the pop of red!My third card is my favorite! Love the subtle greens in the card, the repeating tree background, the fun, and glittery deer die cut.
For my next two sparkly cards, I decided to use glitter die cuts. I have that cute deer die cut shown in my third card also in red so that was the inspiration for the last two cards. Love how the red glitter really pops when placed a pretty monochromatic background. I made the fourth card a bit more intricate so I could submit it for Ink to Paper’s Joy of Card Making Intricate Cards challenge.
My fourth card uses several layers and textures to create visual interest. Love how it turned out! The deer die cut is the same as the above card, only in red.My fifth card uses the same tree die but keeps it simple with only adding the sentiment and birds.
How about one card for two Wednesday challenges? Papertrey’s Win It Wednesday is to use your favorite embellishment on a card and Simon Says Wednesday challenge is anything goes. Lately, my favorite embellishment is twine… I think it adds a little bit of something without being too heavy of an embellishment (such as a bulky ribbon). Now I know it’s the last day of February and a snow-themed card seems weird to be creating this late in the season, but we’ve had snow on the ground since last weekend, kids out of school, and frigid temperatures. I’ve enjoyed this last blast of winter weather and hope you find this wintery card soothing.
Supplies:
Cardstock: White (Recollections); Aqua Mist (Papertrey)
Ink: Fresh Snow (Papertrey)
Dies: Christmas Cheer Die (Papertrey)
Accessories: White fun foam (Darice); White twine (American Crafts); Embossing Paste (Nuvo); Snow embossing folder; Story of Christmas Stencil (Echo Park)
How about squeezing 2 more cards into 2018? I am almost out of time before we hit midnight here on the west coast. So I selected Papertrey’s Make It Monday #316 – Stenciled Edges for Papertrey’s A La Carte challenge. I wanted to replenish my Christmas stash of cards so decided to make some Christmas themed cards. I stenciled the corners with stencil paste rather than ink. Hope 2018 was good to you and that your 2019 starts off well. Card supplies are listed below.
Card Supplies:
Cardstock: Kraft (Papertrey); Pure Poppy (Papertrey); White (Recollections)
Ink: Real Red (Stampin Up); Tea Dye Duo (Papertrey)
I made several more cards for this week’s Simon Says Wednesday Challenge – Baby It’s Cold Outside. I am showing them in the order I made them, working from simplest to most complicated. Happy crafting! Crafting supplies are listed below each card.
Supplies:
Cardstock: White (Papertrey), Soft Sky (Stampin Up); Silver Foil (Recollections)
Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine)
Stamps: Communique Curves (Papertrey)
Dies: Hanover Snowflake (Memory Box);
Supplies:
Cardstock: White (Papertrey), Soft Sky (Stampin Up); Silver Foil (Recollections)
Today’s 11th Anniversary Papertrey Challenge is to use no stamps to make a card. I’ve noticed lately how much I’m using dies in my cards. It seems like I make a lot of images from my dies and the only thing I’ll end up stamping is the sentiment. Some of that is due to me coloring more but it’s also due to such great dies being produced lately. This card came together pretty quickly. I started out using dylusions sprays to make a few front panels, trying to decide what look I wanted. On this one, my favorite of the bunch, I used a stencil to lighten up some of the ink. I decided it needed to be a mitten card after seeing how the nordic pattern showed up. You never know how the watercolor look is going to turn out but I have to say that I love how it turned out!!! Those are some of my favorite colors. Hope you’re having a great weekend! Supplies are listed below.
Supplies:
Cardstock: Solar Crest White #110 (Neenah); Watercolor (Ranger); Glitter Fun Foam (Darice)
Papertrey’s last challenge is to use guilding. Ugh! I find that stuff so hard to use since it floats EVERYWHERE, and not where I want it. I kept this card pretty simple and used an embossing folder along with the guilded die cut. I added drops of Nuvo for more sparkle. Happy crafting!
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