Christmas Card Club - Festive Foliage

This fortnight, Rachel of Fishers Cards and Crafts  chose the theme of Festive Foliage for our Christmas Card Club. What a fun theme!

I had a stamped card started and needed to sit down and colour the image but our furnace broke and I spent all of Saturday morning on the phone trying to get a repairman to come out. We are in the midst of heavy snow, with the roads in very poor shape. I then spend the rest of the afternoon huddled under a blanket near the fireplace! Of course furnaces and major appliances only break down on weekends...when labour rates are in overtime setting. Two hours work to fix it and $440 dollars for the labour alone. Oh my!

After all that, I decided to make a much easier card. I broke into my Never Before Used Stash (NBUS), and chose this Hunky Dory, Adorable Scorable Christmas Church card kit.
I decoupaged the layers for the scene but decided not to use the card provided with the kit. It seemed the wrong size for the image and I did not like the sheen on the paper finish.

I used one of  my scalloped square cards instead and used a First Edition, Christmas Wishes DP for the background. I always love the First Edition 6x6 stacks. I wish I owned every one!

You can check out the Festive Foliage cards from the other Christmas Card Club members too. Hyperlinks to their blogs can be found on my right sideboard. If you think you might be interested in joining, drop me an email or tell me in your comment.

Loll Inspird Me

I recently posted a card made by Jane that I had CASED.  Today I want to share a card I CASED from another blog friend Loll, of Stamping with Loll

I have been following Loll's journey with alcohol inks and she originally inspired me to break open my bottles. Loll's blog is Stamping with Loll. and it is well worth popping over to take a look. Her work is beautiful! Here is Loll's card...

I  took some of the left over snippets from my Yupo background creations and created a wee scene with my "Never Before Used Schtuff", my Horse Sleigh Landscape, Memory Box die. NBUS for short. I cut the sleigh from a snippet of white glitter paper.

To ensure a non lumpy focal point, I ran the die through the bottom of the Alcohol ink portion and then lined up the two die cut edges for a smooth edged scene. I saved the Yupo waste from behind the horse and sleigh and inlaid it back into the finished scene.

 I then used a Lawn Fawn stitched circle die to cut the scene and pop dotted it to my card. I finished the card off with a Cursive Script Merry, Memory Box die cut from a slim snippet of the inked Yupo paper
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This was so much fun that I made a second card with the horse and sleigh cut from a gunmetal grey glitter paper and a cut another Cursive  Merry Die from the same grey glittered cardstock.

I am entering this card over at Darnells 10th NBUS challenge where the theme is for you to use a NBUS item of course. There is also an optional challenge for you to use bubble wrap. I decided to forgo this option as I do not have any at the moment.

You can check out the NBUS challenge at Darnell's blog djkardkreations

January Rudolph Days Challenge Winners

We have two prizes this month so let's get on with drawing the lucky winners!

I have used Random Org to draw our first winner and the winning card is entry number 7, Sandra H.
Sandra, you have a choice between the Memory Box Reindeer Scalloped Circle Frame,
or the Wild Rose Studio stamp Penguin with Present.

Could you drop me an email at maureenkane@telus.net to let me know your mailing address and which prize you would like.

Our second prize draw this month was also drawn by Random Org.
Sadly, I had to draw twice for the second prize. as the first winner did not show anywhere within their post that their card was entered at Rudolph Days Challenge, nor did they have any link back to Rudolph Day. I do not think it was an oversight as they had entered several challenges that were not mentioned and  did they have any hyperlinks back to those challenges either. They did have three of their challenge totals listed and linked, but Rudolph Days was not one of them.

Our next second prize draw used Random Org. The winning card is entry number 11, Sandy J,
Sandy, you have a choice between the Hampton Art 6 piece stamp and tag die or the Stampendous stamp,  Snowman with Tree.

Sandy, could you drop me an email at maureenkane@telus.net to let me know your mailing address and which prize you would like.

Congratulations to you both and I hope you each enjoy your prize!