Today's Christmas card had a very humble beginning. This whole card was designed around my desire to use up a piece of this pretty DP! It just might be a Wild Rose Studio DP...I need to somehow label my snippets to know exactly! lol
I love the pattern and colours in this DP but they are unusual colours for me to use. Green, red, and purple! Since I have a few friends who LOVE purple, I decided to try to make that the predominant shade, so matted the image and the card base with purple cardstock.
The image is a bit of a change from my usual Momento black images. I must confess that even though do own lots of embossing powders, I rarely remember to use them!
I heat embossed this pretty Dove of Peace with a silver embossing powder. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but once matted with the purple paper, it seemed a bit lost on the card. I peeled off the mat and added an inner mat of distressed silver metallic card, and then added the purple mat back on. Did the same for the sentiment although had to use a snippet of a different type of silver mirri card. There just was not enough of the distressed silver mirri card leftover from the larger image mat!
No lumpy embellishments here...instead a nice and easy card to mail as it is very slim in depth.
With all that is going on in the world at the moment, it felt good to use this Dove Of Peace.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
The November Rudolph Days Challenge ended with a record number of entries. 69 to be precise!
I am very pleased that so many took the time to enter the challenge and participate in the fun here.
Hope you all enjoyed the wee bit different format that I used this month. It is the last challenge of the year and deserved to be celebrated. We will of course, return to our regular challenge format, starting January, 2016.
The November Rudolph Days winner is # 30 Megan. As always, I used Random Org to choose the winner. Here is a photo of the winning number.
Megan, could you please email your address to me at Scrappymo1@gmail.com You have won this Memory box Flurry Frame die.
This month we had an extra prize for anyone who left a comment on my November 2oth and 25th posts. I printed off the comments from both posts and cut out each comment to use as the entry.
I tossed them in a container and drew one out.
The winner is Marianne Who left her comment on the Nov 20th post.
Marianne, could you email your address to me at Scrappymo1@gmail.com. You have won this Memory Box Twinkling Snowflake Duet die.
Congratulations to both our winners and see you all in January, 2016 when Rudolph days starts up again.
Welcome to Day 6 (our final day) of the November Rudolph days Challenge. You have until midnight tonight PST to submit your entry. You can find Mr Linky on this post here.
Today, I realized I have some old favourites that I have been neglecting as of late. At one of the Langley Stampers Club get togethers. our hostess provided a card kit made up of Stampin' Up punched shapes.
I have all the punches we used and yet it seems like such a long time since I last used them. Funny how you can have well made tools that work well, cut like a dream, have lovely designs, and still set them aside. Silly me!
Although it does not look like it, this card is the epitome of Upcycling. The red mats and birds wing and branch are cut from the back of old store bought Christmas cards. The holographic gold mat, bird, and second branch are cut from a huge gift bag from the dollar store. The bag was a nice heavy weight which comes in handy when you want to pop dot forward small details like the bird, and the leaves.
In the spirit of keeping fairly frugal with this card, we punched the bird, wings, branches and scalloped oval from the center of the two large mats. We were careful not to punch to close to the edges, thereby leaving enough of the outer edges to form the mat!
Recipe
Card Base - hand cut from heavy weight cream card
Mats - read mat is cut from the back of store bought cards
DP - holographic paper was cut from a dollar store gift bag
EF - Swiss dots
Punches - Stampin' Up scalloped oval and oval punch, as well as their Bird and branch punch
Sentiment - gold foil peel off
Bling - clear diamond coloured red with copic marker
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets (the holographic bag and the also the cream oval for the sentiment)
Welcome to Day 5 of the November Rudolph Days Challenge. As promised, I have another Christmas card to share.
Remember this tag I upcycled into a Christmas card?
Today's card is the same image, but upcycled from a card this time. Michaels had 6 packs of the tags and cards in their $1.50 bins. The image has a mat texture...no sheen at all other than the bit of stickles sparkle.
I matted it on a snippet of green card and once again used another snippet of that VOS 12x12 scrapbooking DP. This DP is quite pretty IRL as the red stripes are glittered. The bit of self adhesive silver ribbon is from the dollar store and the red metallic ribbon with the shot of green stitching through it is another VOS item...eons old, in fact. I found it when I organized my room! Proud of myself for remembering to use it as I usually forget to allow a spot for the ribbon, and then I'm stymied! lol
If you have not already entered this months Rudolph Days Challenge, you will find Mr Linky on this post here. I have two Memory Box dies for prizes this month. Details can be found on that same post.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
It is day 4 of the November Rudolph Days Challenge. Here is another Christmas card to inspire you to join in the festivities. You have until Nov 30th to enter a card. You can enter your card at the Mr Linky widget found on this post.
My card today is also for the Robin theme that I missed at my local Christmas Card Club.
I am posting my robin card very, very late! It seems everything in my life is a tad late, lately. Hope the ladies will forgive me.
Our Robin theme was set by Sylvie at Gibmiss blog. Sylvie makes gorgeous cards. It is well worth popping over for a wee visit. The other girls blogs are featured on my sideboard. They always have beautiful cards to view.
I chose a Penny Black Stickeroo as I could not find any robin themed stamps in my stash. I even scrolled through my saved digital images and could not find a true robin image. U|sing a stickeroo also saved my hands a bit of grief.
I used snippets from my bits box to mat the stickeroo and then created a couple more layers of mat so I could place the sentiment on the middle mat. The sentiment is a silver foil transfer rub on from a British Company...the name escapes at the moment. I think it is Craftwork Cards or perhaps Docraft. They were a new item at my local shop that I just couldn't resist!
The DP is actually a snippet of a 12x12 scrapbook paper. I bought up a wack of this paper on a clearance a few years ago. I cut them up into 6x6 squares and filed them into my cardmaking DP's. I used a snippet of white card for a Memory Box snowflake corner die and placed a few red diamonds onto the centers of the snowflakes.
Here is a better shot of that silver foil sentiment...I like the script and plan to use more of these...good thing the sheet of them is huge and contains all different fonts!
I am entering this card in the following challenges
1. Christmas Card Club - robins
2. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
Welcome to day three of the November Rudolph Days Challenge. Since this is the last challenge of 2015, I am celebrating by posting a Christmas card or Christmas project every day until the end of the month. Hopefully these 6 days of Christmassy posts, will inspire you to enter the November Rudolph Days Challenge. You can enter on this post here.
Today's guest designer is only 9 years old! She is someone very dear to my heart...my very own Grandaughter...Little Miss C.
Little Miss C learned how to make a Christmas Wreath and it is proudly displayed on the railing of their front porch. She was beaming with pride to show it to me so I took a photo so I could share it with all of you.
My eldest daughter (Glamour Girl) has a wreath making party every year. Each person brings collects their own greenery, usually a mixture of cedar, fir and pine boughs. Both of my daughters know where to get holly boughs as well, although it is treated like gold and used sparingly!
During the year, whenever they are out hiking or on picnics, they always keep their eyes peeled for interesting foliage they can come back and retrieve as Christmas time. Sometimes they use red branches, branches with bright red berries or even curly willow boughs to embellish the greenery.
Here is Little Miss C's Christmas wreath this year. She used a metal frame from Michaels and wired her greenery to the frame. It looks to me like she used cedar boughs and four large sprigs of holly. Once done, she sprayed it heavily with glitter spray and added a tartan bow.
It is day 2 of the last Rudolph Days Challenge of 2015. I have decided to post a Christmas card or Christmas project each day of this months challenge. You can enter the November Rudolph Days Challenge here.
Yesterday, I shared a card I made at Langley Stampers Club. It was designed by Joyce and she brought kits of supplies for us to make two cards each. Today is the second card I made from Joyce's kit. As you can see, you cut the same die from two different glitzy colours. You then cut mats and cards from these same two colours and make two cards that end up the opposite of each other.
Once we centured the die on a rectangle of red mirri and white Centura pearl card, we cleaned up the debris and attached each diecut to a snippet of double sided adhesive paper. We then poured glitter over the cut away filligree detailing, burnishing it with a spoon to make it stay in place.
Once finished, we then peeled the backing away from the back side of that filled and burnished diecut, and affixed it to the opposite coloured mat. We punched a half circle out of each corner and added three snowflakes. We tied a see through ribbon around a mat of opposite colour and then mounted those onto a white card black.
Here is another view of yesterday's card so you can compare the two. The same papers were used for each...I just took today's photo at night and the overhead ceiling lights affected the colour tones!
Can't wait to make more of these.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
Welcome to the November Rudolph Days Challenge! This is our final challenge of 2015. If you have played along with us this year, hopefully you now have many Christmas cards made up and ready to mail.
Here is a recap of the rules for your perusal. You have until Nov 30th to enter your Christmas card or Christmas themed project.
1. The Rudolph Days Challenge will start each month on the 25th, and will close on the last day of that month.
2. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
3. One entry per person and you just need to enter one Christmas card or Christmas project.
4. You may combine your entry with other challenges (maximum of 10 in total).
5. Your card (or Christmas project) should not have been previously posted to your blog. It should be posted to your blog during the current months Rudolph Days Challenge, (between the 25th and last day of the current month)
6. Please link back to or at least mention, the Rudolph Days Challenge.
7. Prizes will be shipped anywhere in the world.
8. The winner will be selected by random draw and announced on the first day of the following month.
9. Candy only blog entries will be deleted.
In celebration of our final challenge this year, we have Sarn of Stamping for Pleasure as our guest designer. Sarn previously hosted this challenge. When she wanted to retire from challenge duties, she asked for a volunteer to take it over and keep it going. I volunteered and the rest is history! Sarn has made us this gorgeous card. I think the background is stunning! There is some gorgeous texture here too. If you pop over to Sarns blog, you will get a more detailed description!.
You may have noticed that I have hardly been blogging or visiting for the last couple of months as I am still struggling with my health.
Luckily, I have still managed to attend Langley Stampers Club. This month, Joyce brought a kit for us to make two beautiful Tattered Lace Christmas Boot cards. I am only showing one of the two cards she designed for us, as I will show the second one on tomorrows post. In celebration of our end of year challenge, I am going to post a Christmas card or project each day, till the end of the month!
Joyce reversed the colours on the second card and that allowed us to inlay the contrasting diecut into each card. We then backed the inlaid die with a double sided adhesive snippet (Sook Wang brand) and then poured glitter over the cut away details. The white card used here is a heavy weight Centura Pearl Shimmer cardstock. Between that and the red mirri card, this card shimmers so much in real life!!! It was really hard to get a photo without glare or reflection though...you can see the walls and door of my room in the reflection. Luckily, I managed to hide myself!
Here is a close up of the glittered insert behind the die cut image. The glitter shows up nicely in the filigree cut away design.
This card was great fun to make and I now want to try this idea with some of my other dies!
Our Rudolph Days random prize this month is this Flurry Frame, Memory Box die.
I have an extra prize this month. Anyone who leaves a comment on this post (or my Nov 20th post), will have their name entered in a draw for this Twinkling Snowflake Duet Memory Box Die. Prize winner to be announced on Dec 1st.
Also, I am seeking Guest Designers for the Rudolph Days Challenge.
This would be a 6 month term and would entail making a Christmas card every second month and sharing in the commenting that same month. You would receive a Christmas themed stamp set or Christmas themed die in the middle of your 6 month term.
If you would like to be considered for a guest designer spot, please add DT to your name on your entry this month. I will announce the teams in the New Year.
Another month has sped by and it will soon be time for the November Rudolph Days Challenge.
This is our final challenge of 2015. I want to take this chance to thank all of you for supporting the Rudolph Days Challenge and making it the most friendly challenge ever! So many lasting friendships have been made from the blog visits here. Friendships that span the miles and the oceans!
It is fitting indeed that we have Sarn of Stamping for Pleasure to join us as a guest designer this month. Sarn previously hosted this challenge. When she wanted to retire from challenge duties, she asked for a volunteer to take it over and keep it going. I volunteered and the rest is history!
Our Rudolph Days random prize this month is this Flurry Frame, Memory Box die.
I have an extra prize this month. Anyone who leaves a comment on this post will have their name entered in a draw for this Twinkling Snowflake Duet Memory Box Die.
Wow! We had 58 entries this month. I was so delighted to see all those wonderful entries.
Once again I used Random Org to select the October Rodolph Days winner.
Here is a photo of the winning number, #56 belonging to Joan at Night Time Stamping
Joan, Could you please email me at Scrappymo1@gmail.com and let me know your mailing address so I can get your Memory Box Small Poinsettia die mailed off to you.
Thanks to everyone who participated. I enjoyed viewing all your cards!
Welcome to the October Rudolph Days Challenge!
Here is a recap of the rules for your perusal. You have until October 31 to enter your Christmas card or Christmas themed project.
1. The Rudolph Days Challenge will start each month on the 25th, and will close on the last day of that month.
2. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
3. One entry per person and you just need to enter one Christmas card or Christmas project.
4. You may combine your entry with other challenges (maximum of 10 in total).
5. Your card (or Christmas project) should not have been previously posted to your blog. It should be posted to your blog during the current months Rudolph Days Challenge, (between the 25th and last day of the current month)
6. Please link back to or at least mention, the Rudolph Days Challenge.
7. Prizes will be shipped anywhere in the world.
8. The winner will be selected by random draw and announced on the first day of the following month.
My Rudolph Days card uses some very, very old stash as well as some new items. Many of you know that I am struggling with some health issues at the moment. My hands and feet are quite swollen due to a new arthritis medication I am on, so colouring is a bit out of the question right now.
To save my hands, the topper and sentiment were cut from a set of Michael's tags that I picked up a few weeks ago. As soon as I spied them at the store, I remembered the square aperture cards that have languished in my dresser drawers for several years. I picked them up at a scrapbook store garage sale and promptly stashed them away and forgot about them. Took a little searching but I managed to find them and was pleased to see that the image on the Michaels tag fit perfectly in the square opening.
I added some snowflakes I had on hand..a mixture of Spellbinders and Impression Obsession diecuts, as well as Martha Stewart Snowflake punched snowflakes. I layered up some various red and white ones and mixing up the sizes as well as the colours. I gave them all a generous coat of stardust stickles for a little extra sparkle.
I am entering this card in Pixies Crafty Workshop challenge. Di is celebrating her 200th post this week and there are three great prizes in total.
Our guest designer this month is Lynn from Crafty Linby. She has made a gorgeous inky background and has created a lovely effect by adding salt. Pop on over to her blog for more details!
I love the shimmery effect of the tree frame around the stamped sentiment. How perfect that it is shaped like a tree as well! The way Lynn used this die has given me all sorts of ideas for how to use my frame dies on differing sized cards...
I think this just might be the die that Lynn purchased here in Langley, when she and her friend Sue came to visit me. The West Coast of Canada is a long journey from England so I treasure that visit!
That inky, salted background is a perfect backdrop for this pretty winter forest scene. Hope you get a minute to pop over to Lynn's blog for additional details...
Our prize this month is this Memory Box Small Blooming Poinsettia die. I look forward to viewing all your entries and good luck in the prize draw.
The September Rudolph Days winner is Ike of Ike's World #11. I used random org to draw the winner. Here is a photo of the Random Org draw.
Ike , could you please email me at scrappymo1@gmail.com to advise your address and I will get your Memory Box Merry Ornament die mailed off to you.
Now for the September Rudolph Days Extra Draw...
We had several people enter the extra prize this month. If you left me a comment that you visited and commented on 10 blogs including mine, then your name went on a scrap of paper and the winner was drawn at random by my husband.
The winner of the extra prize is April W. of Stampwilly Designs.
April, could you please email me at scrappymo1@gmail.com to advise your address and I will get your Memory Box Dazzling Snowflake die mailed off to you.
The extra prize this month was a lot of fun to do as I love the friendship we share here at this particular challenge. Thanks for sharing in this fun.
Just a quick reminder that if you want in the draw for the extra prize this month you just need to leave 10 comments on other blogs (including mine), anytime after you have entered your card for this month..
Once you leave me a comment indicating that you are participating for this extra prize, then I will enter your name in that prize draw.
So far I have entered:
FT Kitty
Sandy
Jane Willis
Iona Bunny
MamaPez
Valerija
Sam/Whisper
Mary H
Kath
KandA
Jean
Linby
Dr Sonia
Bonnie
BozenA
Sally H
April
Emmeli
Jenny H
Barb
Jenny L
CraftyChris
Sue
This past month has flown by. It is hard to believe it is once again time for my Rudolph Days Challenge. You have until September 30th to submit your Christmas card or Christmas themed project.
Here is a recap of the rules in case you are new to this challenge.
1. The Rudolph Days Challenge will start each month on the 25th, and will close on the last day of that month.
2. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
3. One entry per person and you just need to enter one Christmas card or Christmas project.
4. You may combine your entry with other challenges (maximum of 10 in total).
5. Your card (or Christmas project) should not have been previously posted to your blog. It should be posted to your blog during the current months Rudolph Days Challenge, (between the 25th and last day of the current month)
6. Please link back to or at least mention, the Rudolph Days Challenge.
7. Prizes will be shipped anywhere in the world.
8. The winner will be selected by random draw and announced on the first day of the following month.
I had fun making this layered Christmas card. This is another card that really raided my on hand stash.
The grey snowflake DP is the only newish item. The rest are leftover bits and bobs from past creations. I rounded one corner of the 4 squares of red and white poinsettia Wild Rose Studio, Festive Wishes DP and arranged them to highlight the Stampendous Christmas Owl image. Coloured the image with copics and stamped a second owl to fussy cut and pop forward for an extra layer. I added a bit of Star Dust stickles to the front of the toque...just a bit of shimmer! I also outlined the image details with a Sakura Jelly Roll pen. It gave everything a nice shimmery detailing.
I chose the lime green colour for the toque stripes as I knew I had some limey green embellishments I wanted to use up. Added the last three lime green felt snowflakes from my stash...felt good to use the last of these. The chipboard sentiment is from my random sentiment bits drawer and was chosen strictly for the green colour! lol
The flowers are K & Co Mod Holiday Felts and I was pleased that they balanced and tied the lime green in as well. All in all, there are 6 layers of paper on my card and 8 layers of felt in total. A truly fun card to make!
Here is the photo of the September prize . A Memory Box Merry Ornament Die.
In honour of the spirit of the Rudolph Days Challenge I am having a second prize this month. I have mentioned in the past about how I love the unique way this challenge inspires the entrants to participate. This has never been a drop a card and run challenge. Instead, this has always been a place where entrants visit each other, leave comments and friendships are born. I met many of my followers here!
To encourage the continued leaving of comments, I am offering a Memory Box Dazzling Snowflake Die. After you enter your Xmas card or project, just leave at least comments on at least 10 other entries (including mine) to be entered in this second prize draw. Mention in a comment that you have done so and would like entered for both prize draws.
I am entering this card in the following chllenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
Here is the linky to the September Rudolph Days Challenge. I am looking forward to seeing your entries and wish you all good luck in the draw.
Sometimes it is fun to just upcycle some cards. Today's card has an upcycled topper made from some Christmas cards I bought on clearance last January. I saw the box of Xmas cards (and envelopes of course) on clearance for less than a dollar. I just could not resist. The center snowflake is diecut from glitter card and is quite pretty. They have pop dotted it forward for a bit of extra impact.
I thought these cards would be perfect for my new neighbours...they often stop by to chat as we work in the garden, or when we walk to pick up the mail. The community mailbox is about ten houses away...so have managed to meet most of those neighbours now.
So here is the first of a dozen similar cards...I will just use different snippets of DP for the backgrounds. Once I have them all finished I will post a photo of the group of them.
This card has the topper matted with a snippet of red card and placed on a piece of DP...not sure of the manufacturer anymore as the paper became separated from the 6x6 pad.
I diecut the merry script from a snippet of black card. I did not think to record the name of the die...sorry! Will try to remember to update this post once I search for the names of both.
I am entering this post in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
Don't forget that the September Rudolph Days Challenge begins on Sept 25th. Look forward to seeing all your entries. This month will have a Memory Box die for the first prize and will have a twist of a second prize as well.
Watch this blog for my Rudolph Days Challenge post on September 25th...the prize details will remain a surprise till then...
Yes, I know this is very similar to my other seashell card...but there are a few differences. Instead of pencil crayons and gamsol, this time I water coloured the sea and sand on some 140 lb watercolour paper. It dried nice and flat...I count myself lucky! Added some of those stamped, coloured and fussy cut sea shells, popping forward the conch and the starfish for some depth.
My card base was white and looked too stark with the cream watercolour paper so I covered it with Creative Impressions Sonnet Sea Side DP. Somehow I managed to rumple one edge so I distressed the edges with the blade of my scissors, and inked them with Ingvild Bolme Prima Chalk Ink, Black Coal. That looked a little too dark so I inked over it with her white chalk ink...that toned it down!
Mounted my watercolour topper and thought I was done, until I opened the card and managed to get some ink on the inside. Drat! Cut a bit more of the Sea Side DP and used it to hide my inky mistake.
I will stamp a sentiment here, once I decide what this card will be used for!
I don't like this one as much as the previous seashell card I did with pencil crayons and gamsol...but hopefully whoever I send it to will enjoy it!
I am entering this card in the following challenges
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets (the shells were cut from Bazzil card snippets
Thought I should give a wee update on the storms. The hydro and internet have remained on since we were restored and the windy weather has died down a lot. The tree devastation is sad to view though. Some were uprooted by the winds and others snapped in half, midway up the trunk. The news have had experts saying that the lack of water from this summers drought weakened the trees root systems. That weakened root system then allowed the winds to uproot them so easily.
I am rolling along with my pledge to use up some more of my vast stock of flowers. I rummaged through my stamps looking for images that could be used to hold flowers. This Stampin' Up wagon called out to me and I have laden it with blooms just for fun!
I stamped the image in black Memento ink and coloured it with copics. I tried to chose a green for the wagon bed that would match the green Memory Box Debutante frame that I had on hand. I stamped and fussy cut the wagon, and perched it onto an embossed stars mats (from that recent scrapbook garage sale). Layered that onto the MB frame and then placed those layers onto a white weathered wood DP.
Filled the wagon with 6 kraft printed flowers and tucked in a few Martha Stewart branches. Thought it still looked a little bare so added a bow and a butterfly from some other coordinating embellishments.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets (the stamped image and the green Memory Box diecut were made from snippets)
The August Rudolph days winner is Carol Dunham #13. I used random org to draw the winner. Here is a photo of the winning number. Sorry about the grainy photo!
Carol, could you please email me at scrappymo1@gmail.com to advise your address and I will get your Memory Box Holly Leaf dies mailed off to you.
Just a quick message to my followers and to the Rudolph Days Challenge entries. I know I have been mostly silent with comments for the last couple of days. We have had a terrible storm here. It uprooted trees all over...at least 30 within a two block radius of me! Trees were down onto the telephone lines and broken lines everywhere. We had no power, phone, or internet for over two days, and intermittent power before that.
We lost everything in our freezer and in our fridge so had a bit of a job to clean all that out and dispose of it all...Ugggh! Luckily, it was garbage day today. We are early am pick up and good thing for that as there was talk that they may not make it round to all address today. So many people had bucked up their fallen trees and many good samaritans were seen lifting downed trees off highways and roads and dragging them off to the curbs. We are talking 15 - 20 foot trees and in some cases maybe 6 or 8 down at a time.
Just posting this now as there is another storm brewing and there is an advisory that the power may go out again. The power outage update lines at BC Hydro were so inundated with callers that the system crashed so it was very difficult to obtain info as to when our address would be reconnected.
Hopefully I will have power to post the Rudolph Days Winner on Sept 1st. Bear with me and I will post it as soon as I can! I promise to get round to visit everyone as soon as possible. Thank goodness for my guest designer this month!
This past month has flown by. It is hard to believe it is once again time for my Rudolph Days Challenge. You have until August 31st to submit your Christmas card or Christmas themed project.
Here is a recap of the rules in case you are new to this challenge.
1. The Rudolph Days Challenge will start each month on the 25th, and will close on the last day of that month.
2. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
3. One entry per person and you just need to enter one Christmas card or Christmas project.
4. You may combine your entry with other challenges (maximum of 10 in total).
5. Your card (or Christmas project) should not have been previously posted to your blog. It should be posted to your blog during the current months Rudolph Days Challenge, (between the 25th and last day of the current month)
6. Please link back to or at least mention, the Rudolph Days Challenge.
7. Prizes will be shipped anywhere in the world.
8. The winner will be selected by random draw and announced on the first day of the following month.
I feel honoured that Helen chose to use the Merry Christmas Memory Box die that she won here. It looks so pretty cut from the white card...looks just like a snowbank. Her winter scene is made to look even more realistic with that pretty tree die. Hope you will pop over and visit Helen, as she has so many lovely cards on her blog!
My card this month is quite simple. I also used the Memory Box Grand Merry Christmas Script die. I used some snippets of Bazzil Ballet hot pink card. There is a faint pattern of teensy hearts on this card...it is very hard to see but you will have to trust me!
I tried a variety of DP and card behind this die and the only one I liked was this black card. Hope it does not look too stark. I added a large white poinsettia and a few Martha Stewart leafy punch shapes in green and metallic silver. It still seemed too stark so I placed some pink rhinestones here and there to look like twinkling stars, or maybe pink snowflakes! Took a couple of extra pink rhinestones and tucked them around the existing pearls in the flower center.
I am looking forward to seeing your entries and wish you all good luck in the draw. This months prize is this Memory Box Holly Leaves Die.
Just a quick reminder that the August Rudolph Days Challenge is fast approaching.
Here is recap of the rules if you are new to this challenge.
1. The Rudolph Days Challenge will start each month on the 25th, and will close on the last day of that month.
2. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
3. One entry per person and you just need to enter one Christmas card or Christmas project.
4. You may combine your entry with other challenges (maximum of 10 in total).
5. Your card (or Christmas project) should not have been previously posted to your blog. It should be posted to your blog during the current months Rudolph Days Challenge, (between the 25th and last day of the current month)
6. Please link back to or at least mention, the Rudolph Days Challenge.
7. Prizes will be shipped anywhere in the world.
8. The winner will be selected by random draw and announced on the first day of the following month.
The August prize is this Memory Box, Stitched Holly Leaves Die. Good luck in the prize draw. I am looking forward to seeing all your lovely entries!
My girlfriend and I love to garage sale. We try to go a few times each summer and always have a blast.
A couple of years ago, I bought this embroidered fabric floral spray. I believe it is from the 1990's or so when older ladies affixed these types of embroideries to sweatshirts! This embroidery was new in package and was only a quarter! The outlined stitches are a lovely silver metallic thread and the flowers are given some depth with what looks like stickles!
Here is a closeup of the metallic sparkle...
I finally made this up into a card, but wish I had thought to use some silver mirri card. I chose not to at the time, as I was trying to keep this card from looking to dated and gaudy. A mistake, methinks. I even debated pulling up the first aqua layer of the card and rematting it with a thin mirri border, but I could not get it to budge...Sook Wang tape holds really tight!
DP are from my snippets files and sentiment is a rubon.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1 .Pixies Crafty Workshop- must use snippets
This card is a joint effort between ittle Miss C and myself. She coloured a bunch of these PB images about a year ago and has not had time to make them up into cards. Her love of horses and riding has taken over our old card making hours!
I decided to make up one or two of them for her, using mostly pieces from my VOS stash.
I chose another of the garage sale embossed mats and combined it a vivid hot pink scalloped diecut. I have had several of these diecuts stashed away and never managed to use them...the colour has always clashed as it is a bit overly vivid.The image was cut with a Lawn Fawn stitched die and set on the hot pink scalloped die...It looked awful! I rummaged about and found some doilies, so used a smaller lighter pink one to tone down the vivid tones and layered those both onto a larger white doily. Whew...problem solved. Those doilies are very VOS. They were bought for a scrapbook wedding layout I made over 10 years ago!
I layered up some flowers from my stash and made sure the center one was a brighter pink. I used a turquoise brad to hold it together and added another one to the flower on the cupcake. I am a sucker for teensy brads. I know they are not as popular as they once were, but I have tons in my stash so I'm trying to find ways to use them again.
I had a bit of trouble finding a background DP from my bits box so gave up and chose this paper from one of my 6 x 6 paper pads. A wee butterfly from the dollar store finished off my card. I did not add a sentiment as the EF says Happy Birthday over and over!
I am adding this card to the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets.
I have been combing through my coloured images and found this Thinking Of You image. I matted it with a snippet of gold and placed that on a scalloped square diecut I had on hand. I matted again with a fairly wide brown mat as I needed to make this image look large enough for a 5 1/2 inch square card! The tone on tone brown strip is an unknown DP from my bits box. While rummaging in there, I found this piece of hessian (burlap). It is actually a piece that has the little hole from the top of the hessian pack, but I hid that wee hole in my card design.
The background DP is from a kit I have had for 5 or maybe even 10 years! Now that is a VOS item!
I fussy cut some clocks and compasses from another snippet of DP... a snippet of 12x12 DP left over from a scrapbook layout. I added them around the image and pop dotted the larger compass.
I am going to use this card as a notecard so have left the inside black. I will use it to write a letter to a friend.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets.
