Sparkly Pine Cones

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I love these botanicuts from The Greetery!

The pine boughs were cut from Neenah and sponged with Distress Oxide ink.

The pinecones were colored with Copics.

I added some Snow-Tex I found on clearance at Michaels to the pine cones

and added some fine glitter.  The pine boughs have glitter too.

Challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown -  Color Challenge - Brown, Green & White

Peace on Earth Christmas #25 - Inspired by bottom left of mood board

Winter Wonderland - Let it Snow

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Season's Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Soft Suede, Rustic Wilderness DOX, Vintage Photo DI

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Botanicuts Pine Bough (Greetery), Copics (E23, E25), Snow-Tex (Deco Art) Crystalina Rainbow Super Fine Glitter (Sweet Poppy), Gold Sparkle Crystals (Studio Katia)

Enjoy!

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Starry Christmas

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While I had those star dies out.....

I die cut several for the previous card and wanted to use the leftovers as well as

some leftover white stars in with the dies.

Actually, other than the sentiment, all the elements of this card were leftovers.

This one is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  I think it's close enough to the sketch.

If not, I apologize for taking it over there.

This one is QACAS!  I love it when those UFOs come together!

I'll take this one to Jingle Belles Stars or Stripes

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Red Glimmer, Silver Glimmer (SU)

Other:  Stitched Star Basic dies (Dress my Craft), Tis the Season die (Creative Expressions), Mini Slimline Double Stitched (Kat Scrappiness), Star EF, Subtle EF, Confetti Stars Punch (all ret SU) 

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Red Glimmer, Silver Glimmer (SU)

Other:  Stitched Star Basic Dies (DMC), Holiday Words EF (Quickutz), Star of Wonder die (MB)

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Sparkle and Shine Purple and Gold

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I've done a shameless CASE of this card by Sheri Gilson.

She is hosting the Christmas in July challenge at Gina K Designs this month.

I used a different background color since the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown

is asking for Purple, Gold & White this week.

I started with a piece of Gorgeous Grape cardstock and heat embossed this 

elegant ornament.  I've heat embossed the sentiment on a snippet of white cardstock.

To draw the eye to the ornament, I sponged the edges with Wilted Violet and 

Elegant Eggplant ink.

The outer layer is white cardstock with gold heat embossed edges.

Thank you Sheri for the awesome inspiration!

Challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Deep Purple, Gold & White

Gina K Designs Monthly Mix Challenge - Christmas in July

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff (Ornament Stamp)

 

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sparkle & Shine (GKD)

Ink:   Encore Gold, Wilted Violet (DI), Elegant Eggplant (SU)

Paper:   Gorgeous Grape (SU), Neenah

Other:  Gold EP

Purple, Gold & White for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown

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I'm excited to be Guest Designing for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

This week's challenge is

To get my deep purple, I die cut the ornament from Gorgeous Grape cardstock,

smooshed it on my VersaMark pad, sprinkled clear powder and heat embossed.

I also used it around the edge of another piece of cardstock and embossed to use

as a piece of matting.

The sentiment is embossed with gold.

How would you use these colors?

I hope you'll join in at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

Other Challenges:

Christmas Craft Creations - Heat Embossing

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

Merry Little Christmas -  Anything Goes

 

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sparkle & Shine (GKD)

Ink:   Encore Gold, VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah, Gold Foil, Gorgeous Grape

Other:  Clear EP, Ornaments 2 Dies (Elizabeth Craft Designs), Gracious Leaves EF (MB)

Gnome for Christmas

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I used a previously embossed background and stamped the Fragile Branches

with DOX ink.  I used a wet waterbrush to move the ink to blur the images some.

The gnome background was cut from Neenah and the pieces from Neenah and

decorative paper.  I swiped his beard a few times with a gray Copic and used

a pink Copic to color his nose.

I've so far refrained from adding some red berries with Nuvo drops.

Challenges:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Gnomes

Jingle Belles - Neutral Noel

 

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fragile Beauty (PB), Happy Holly Days (HA)

Ink:   Iced Spruce (DOX), Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Mixed Media, Basic Gray, In Good Taste DSP (SU)

Other:  Gnome Die (SSS), Copic Markers (R20 blush, W2 warm gray no. 2, Dilicate Designs EF (ret. SU)

Lavinia Christmas

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I am so excited to be Guest Designing for 52 Christmas Card Thowdown!

The challenge this time is

I'll admit that this color challenge stumped me at first.

But in the end, I'm happy with it and used two

NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) stamps too.

After temporarily putting a circle mask for the moon, 

I used a straight edge and gently sponged gray ink on a piece of 

Neenah cardstock.

Then I used a snowflake stencil and applied some more gray ink

over that.

I removed the circle mask and used the circle stencil for a guide

and added yellow ink for the moon.

After stamping the main images, I used the circle mask and outlined

the moon with a Quickie Glue pen and added a bit of gold glitter.

I'm not sure I like the glitter, but it's not going anywhere.

You can see the shine better in this view.

Finally I added some Chunky White Frantage and heated from beneath the 

card for the feel of snow falling.

I hope you'll join us at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

Other Challenges:

Krafty Chicks: Christmas

Merry Little Christmas Challenge: Anything Goes

 

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Reindeer (small), Fairy Fir Tree 2 (Lavinia)

Ink:   Smokey Slate, Delightful Dijon (SU), Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah, Black

Other:  Winter Snowflake Lace Stencil (MB), Circle Mask & Stencil (Homemade), Quickie Glue Pen, Gold Glitter, Frantage Chunky White EP (Stampendous)

More Fun with Santa

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I'm playing with the Christmas Kickstart Challenge where I'm Jo's Guest Elf this month.

Our challenge is

I used another image from this fun Christmas sELFies stamp set from MFT.

It's been stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copics.

It fit perfectly inside a square cut with a double pierced square die.

The background has been stamped embossed more than once with a Pine Bough 

embossing folder.

I hope you'll join Jo & I at Christmas Kickstart.

Challenges:

Christmas Kickstart - Santa & Friends

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Santa

Merry Little Christmas #34 - Anything Goes

Let's Squash It - Make some space and bring the bling

  

 

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas sELFies (MFT), Bitty Holiday Wishes (MFT)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMark

Paper:   Neenah, Real Red (SU)

Other:  Copics (E000, E11, R22, C00, C0, E21, E23, R24, R29, R37, G14, G46), Double Pierced Square Die (AE), White EP, Pine Bough EF (ret. SU)