Gina K’s January Monthly Mix Challenge

Gina K’s January Monthly Mix Challenge is to “Put your red dress on” and use red as the dominant color and make a celebratory card. I made three birthday cards/tags each with a different style. Cards supplies are listed in the photo caption. Happy crafting!

The red card front was stamped with Gina K’s Background Diagonal Stripe stamp. The edges of the red panel were sponged with distress ink to fade out the diagonal pattern. I die cut the square panel from white cardstock using Spellbinders’ Large Square die set. This is my first attempt at wreath building and I used leaf images from Gina K’s Sketched Wreath Builder and Holiday Tapestry stamp sets. I heat embossed the birthday sentiment from Gina K’s Sketched Wreath Builder stamp set. The last bit after assembling the card was to add some gems to the wreath.

I used snowflake stamps from Gina K’s Joy of the Season and Snowflake Cascade stamp sets to heat emboss the images around the border of the card front. I wet washed the prepared card front and watercolored the front with distress ink. It’s a bit hard to see in the photo but there is some abandoned coral and picked raspberry along the edges of the card. I cut a tag out of vellum using the medium tag die from Gina K’s Tag Trio die set. I stamped the birthday sentiment from Gina K’s Winter Hugs stamp set and heat embossed it. I assembled the card and added a twine bow to the tag.

The last one is a wine bottle tag using the largest die from Gina K’s Tag Trio die set. I lined up and glued down strips of various reddish colored cardstock on a scrap piece of cardstock and then die cut the tag. I also die cut 2 snowflakes using Gina K’s Snowflake Trio die set. I heat embossed the snowflakes with sparkle embossing powder. I heat embossed the gift for you sentiment from Gina K’s Holiday Tapestry stamp set on the prepared tag. Then I glued the snowflakes down on the prepared tag and trimmed off the excess. I stamped the back with the birthday sentiment from Winter Hugs. The last thing was to add the twine to make a loop to put over a wine bottle and add a bow at the top of the tag.

Simon Says Stamps’ Monday and Wednesday Challenge to use something new

I bought myself some craft goodies for Christmas this year and am happy to be using them for the current Simon Say Stamps’ Monday and Wednesday Challenges to use something new! I wanted to make some New Year’s cards since I completely missed sending out any Christmas cards. My new supplies included Gina K’s Stellar Snowflake Stencil, Simon Says Stamp’s Holiday Sparkle Greetings stamp set, Pinkfresh’s Phrase Builder Happy Holidays die set, and Renke’s Cocktails Stencil. Card supplies are listed in each photo caption.

I used Gina K’s beautiful Stellar Snowflake Stencil to create the deep purplish-blue snowflake. I heat embossed the Peace sentiment from Simon Says Stamps’ gorgeous Holiday Sparkle Greetings stamp set and fussy cut the sentiment out. I splattered the card front with a pearlescent watercolor and added some sparkly gems. Then I let the card sit there for a few days before I decided it really needed a Wishing You sentiment to go with the peace sentiment since I was wanting to send it for best wishes in 2021. So I heat embossed the Wishing You sentiment from Gina K’s Winter Hugs stamp set.

See caption above for card supplies.

I used Gina K’s Stellar Snowflake Stencil to ink two purple snowflakes in opposite corners of the card front. I heat embossed the Joy sentiment from Simon Says Stamps’ Holiday Sparkle Greetings stamp set and fussy cut the sentiment out. I splattered the card front with a pearlescent and purple watercolor and added some sparkly gems for more sparkle. I added the Wishing You sentiment from Gina K’s Winter Hugs stamp set to go with the joy sentiment.

For this card, I used Gina K’s Stellar Snowflake Stencil to ink purple snowflakes along all sides of the card front. I die cut Happy New Year from Pinkfresh’s Phrase Builder Happy Holidays set from white and silver cardstock and attached it to the card with foam tape. Lastly, added some gems for some sparkle.

For my final card, I used Renke’s Cocktails Stencil to create a background of cocktails on some Simple Stories patterned paper. After the paste had dried and I had attached it to a card front, I die cut Happy New Year using Pinkfresh’s Phrase Builder Happy Holidays from black cardstock. I coated the die cut with a layer of clear Wink of Stella before attaching it to the prepared card.