Card Concept- Christmas in July

Hello friends! We have another fun challenge for you over at The Card Concept! This time we are celebrating Christmas in July and Julie has chosen an amazing inspirational photo! I hope you enjoy the challenge and play along with us!

I made four Christmas cards! It was fun!

VLV & CTD {Christmas Greetings}

Hooray! Back into my craft room and I was so happy to play along with a couple of challenges today! First I saw the fun sketch at Viva la Verve and then I saw the colours at the Colour Throwdown! It was a match made in heaven! I decided to make a Christmas card for my stash!

I used the elegant Bright Spirits stamp set from Verve and some fun design paper I had in my stash! I kept my design fairly simple...

SugarPea Designs Sketch Challenge {Christmas Blessings}

Hello stamping friends! It is time for another fun sketch at SugarPea Designs! Don't forget, you have all month to play along with our sketches and one random winner will win a gift certificate to the SugarPea Designs Online Store!!! So come and play along!

Isn't it a great sketch!!!?

 

I used the "Lost Without You" stamp set and the Zig Zag Stitched Rectangles! I coloured the image on actual Copic paper. I bought a test pack at my local store and wow, I love the way it worked with the Copic markers! SO smooth! I added some glitter tape to the top and a small snowflake embellishment from my stash. This card is nice and flat to mail as well!

The rules are very simple…

• Create a new card or project using the sketch provided.  
• SugarPea Designs stamps are NOT required to play along or to win but would be appreciated 
• You may rotate/flip the sketch & replace shapes – so long as the original sketch layout is recognizable.
• Upload to your blog or other Online Gallery using Keyword: SPDSS34 so that we may check out your beautiful work.
• Each month, one randomly selected winner will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to the SugarPea Designs Online Shoppe. However, if the winning entry features a SugarPea Designs stamp we will increase the prize to $75!
• We will announce our Sweet Picks and our Main Winner at the end of each month.
• The more times you play along during the month, the better chance you have of winning!

The Challenge #52 {Create a Christmas Card}

Hello and welcome to The Challenge! Each week we have a fun challenge for you to try! This week we have Theme Challenge! We are looking for Christmas cards!!! It's that time of year and we want to see what you are creating!

You are welcome to use the Inspiration photo for direction or create a Christmas card with an entirely different colour palette! You decide! For my card, I decided to CHEAT! I created two cards the same but with different colours! 


My blue inspired card is from the Merry Monday Challenge and I used Red & Green on my 2nd card to match this challenge! Both cards work for our Christmas theme! So share away! I am not sure what one I like better but the design makes me happy because it is thin for mailing abroad!

We are thrilled to have Geri Greening as our Featured Designer for the month and Kim Lackenbach as our Guest this week! Welcome, ladies! I just love your gorgeous cards!


Geri Greening
Featured Designer

Guest Designer - Kim Lackenbach of Kim Creates!

The design team have created some inspiration to get you in the crafting mood! Come and join us! Our weekly winner will be our next Guest Designer! So come and join the fun!

Kim Heggins	Anita Madden	Kimberly Wiener
Lee Ann Barrett	Claire Broadwater	Nance Salkeld
Lori Tecler	Diane Jaquay	Michele Ferguson

An InLinkz Link-up

Season's Greetings {CAS Christmas}

I love the sketches at CAS(E) that Sketch! This week's sketch is very cool and I decided to go a little "off the sketch" but I hope you can see how I was inspired. I made a CAS Christmas card and so I am linking up to Simon Says Stamp too. Yay!

 

I just purchased this new Hero Arts stamp set from Butterfly Reflections Ink called "Holiday Petals & Leaf Stamp".  Anytime I can find a new poinsettia set, I buy it! I have a thing for poinsettias!

CASE this Sketch & Simon Says Stamp Very, Merry Christmas}

Hooray! World Card Making Day today! I have been stamping up a storm! I wanted to play along with the CASE this Sketch Challenge! Wow! LOVE the sketch! I also wanted to play along with Simon Says Stamp "Anything Goes Challenge".

 

I just purchased this beautiful new poinsettia stamp set from Stampin' Up called "Reason for the Season". I also ordered their new poinsettia punch and I will admit, I am not in love with it. I find it difficult to make the poinsettia with it. I will keep trying.

I stamped the poinsettias in Memento Tuxedo black ink and coloured with my Copic markers.