Angels On High - for CHNC Extra

Hi there

I am back with the second card for my guest design spot at Hazel's Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra. Once again, Hazel was kind enough to provide me with another Bugaboo image of my choice. With a little coaxing from Little Miss C, I chose Christmas Words, Angel. You can find it here at Bugaboo stamps.

Hazel sent me a Christmas card using this image and Little Miss C fell in love with it. Whenever she was over during the Christmas season she would gravitate to this card and study it carefully with a big smile on her face!

I coloured this image with my copic markers and went over the halo and stars with a silver Sakura Gelly Roll pen. It just gives a little added shimmer. I also popped a teensy, clear diamond on each of those stars. I went a little brighter with the colours for this card...just a bit out of my usual comfort zone. I am trying to stretch myself a bit this year to try new things. This card will be for Little Miss C next Christmas. I tried to chose bright colours as she is only 7 years old!

The design papers are from the 12x12 BoBunny Mistletoe collection. My LSS had an open house back in the Christmas season and had a special offer on this collection. Surprisingly, the side and scale of the design papers worked for card making too.

I layered some fairly bright red and green poinsettias for the Michael's dollar bins over some dollar store chipboard snowflakes. These are more of my 25 cent clearance poinsettias...as I bought every package they had. I pulled off the huge clear diamond that was on them (crookedly), and replaced it with a cluster of teensy, red diamonds.

Here is a bit of an arty view...

I have kept to my goal of finishing up the inside of my cards before taking the pictures for my blog. I matted a left over snippet of the Pucker Up print onto a snippet of blue card stock. I then stamped the sentiment onto a snippet of white card and inked up the edges of that with a bit of black chalk ink. I mounted that trio onto the inside of my now finished card. I am starting to enjoy doing up this last step!

Recipe:
Card Base - 5 1/2 inch square card from my stash
Design Paper - Bo Bunny Mistletoe from my stash
Card Stock - snippets of red, white and blue from my stash
Flowers - Michael's Nouveau Noel Poinsettia
Chipboard - Dollar store snowflake from my stash
Bling - red and clear diamonds from my stash
Sentiment - Stampin' Up
Image - Bugaboo Stamps

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - must cover card with paper

February Guest Designer at CHNC Extra

Hello Bloggers. I have been keeping a secret and boy, oh boy, was it ever hard to keep!
Hazel invited me to be the February Guest Designer at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra. This is a monthly challenge sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps. The theme is always Anything Goes, as long as it is Christmas.
Pop on over to Hazel's CHNC Challenge Extra and check it out. If you link up one of your cards, you will have a chance to at the random drawing for $21.00 of Bugaboo images.

For my first card, I chose Poinsettia Heel. You can get it here from Bugaboo Stamps. I made this card for my eldest daughter (Glamour Girl). She owns many a pair of high heels just like this one, so should enjoy this card when she opens it in December. Luckily, she does not read my blog!

I coloured the shoe with three tones of silvery grey copic pens. I went over the striped toe detail with a silver Sakura Jelly Roll pen, to give a bit of shimmer. I printed the image twice, and then fussy cut out the poinsettia and layered it back onto the heel. I used the Jelly Roll pen on the Poinsettia berries as well.

You can see the Jelly Roll shimmer on the toe detail and the paper piecing on the poinsettia a bit better here...

I matted the image with a snippet of red mirri card and then again with a snippet of silver glitter card. I then diecut it and popped it upwards on my card. I wanted that shoe to be front and center when she opens her card! It is the first time I have tried this on a card, and I like the effect that it gives.

I added two Penny Black Holly dies and topped them with a Michael's red poinsettia. Yes, once again it is from the 25 cent clearance packages. A bit of stickles on the holly berries, and a snippet of fine silver cord were the final touches on this card.

Recipe:
Card Base - hand made, from my stash
Design Papers - Echo Park, Tis the Season stack and Heidi Swapp Peppermint Stix
Cards Stock - snippets of red and white card from my stash
Red Mirri Card - American Crafts, from my stash
Silver Glitter Paper - Multi Craft Imposts Dollar store purchase, from my stash
Dies - Spellbinders, Labels 26 mat;  Penny Black, Holly Berries
Bling - red diamonds, from my stash
Cord - ultra fine silver cord, from my stash
Flower - Michael's, Nouveau Noel Poinsettia
Image - Poinsettia Heels, from Bugaboo Stamps

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - Must cover card base with paper
3. Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - must be Christmas, theme is spots or stripes

Rudolf Day - January 2014

On the 25th of each month, Sarn at Stamping for Pleasure, hosts a wonderful challenge called Rudolph Day. You link up one post only each month...a post that must contain two Christmas cards. Yep, you heard me right...two!!!

Just think two cards every month for eleven months and you will have 22 cards finished before it is December! Links ups start on the 25th and close on the last day of that month. Easy Peasy.

Her are my two cards for January. The first is a fairly easy card that is made from stash. My goal for this new two card rule is to make one of the cards from bits and bobs in my room. Little or no stamping...just a card created from scraps and embellishments. It is so easy to have snippets of this and that cluttering up your craftroom. Hopefully, I will reduce the paper clutter by sticking to this goal.

To this end my simple card is made with some papers I had pulled out for another project. Since everything was sitting out, waiting to be filed away, I decided to put it to use on this card. A couple of banners, a couple of diamonds and an embellishment and that was that!  I'm happy with the way it turned out...I think it looks a bit masculine...it will go to a friend of Mr Scrappymo.

Here is the inside view.

Recipe Card 1
Card base and envelope - from my stash
DP -   background DP; unknown, from my stash...maybe Simple Stories or ?
DP - script banner is Paper Reflections Collage Backgrounds DMD Inc and one unknown burgundy snippet from my stash
Border - K and Co glittered poinsettia border strip, from my stash
Embellishment -  unknown,  from my stash...came with the unknown background paper
Bling - diamonds from my stash

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Marks Finest Papers Speedy TV Christmas Card Club - must be Christmas
3. CHNCC Extra - Anything goes but must be Christmas
4. Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - must have patterned paper or card cover the whole card

5. CHNCC - #161 must be a tree

6. Stamping For Pleasure Rudolph Day - must be Christmas

My second card is a Penny Black image. It always makes me smile to see these happy looking little chaps. I coloured up a few of these images last year and had them stashed away in my Christmas Card coloured images photo album.

I made this card up on Tuesday when my next door neighbour came over to craft for the day. It was my turn to design a card and put together 2 card kits. I decided to make it a Christmas one, so that i would have this on hand for Sarn's challenge

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday week 296. That challenge is now closed.  I liked the sketch so much that I did not mind to use it and forgo the challenge. Just as well too, as I had to deviate a small amount from the sketch. I had to add the red snowflake on the top right corner as the paper started to pull back in layers from that corner. Nothing that a generous amount of carefully applied glue and  a big honking snowflake couldn't hide. lol

 I managed to finish the inside of this one too, so I have two more done and dusted for a grand total of four so far this year. Hopefully I can manage to keep up this pace all year!

Recipe Card 2
Card base and envelope - from my stash
DP - EP Tis the Season and MME Christmas Noel
Card stock - snippets of red card from my stash
Punch - Martha Stewart Red Glittered Snowflake
Border - K& Co Black Scalloped Glitter Border Strip
Stamp - Penny Black Caroling Penguins
Bling - red diamond from my stash
Sentiment - unknown, from my stash

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Marks Finest Papers Speedy TV Christmas Card Club - must be Christmas
3. CHNCC Extra - Anything goes but must be Christmas
4. Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - must haveatterned paper or card cover the whole card
5. CHNCC - #161 Must be a tree
6. Stamping For Pleasure Rudolph Day - must be Christmas