Another Christmas Threefer

I really have to get on with making Christmas cards.  I've been stuck at home this week with a mild case of Covid - so annoying after getting through the four years since Covid erupted with never getting it.  So am getting a few done and posted this week.

For Christmas Craft Creations "Non Traditional Colours" and 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Slimline":

I smooshed a background with various blue and purple oxide inks and then stencilled snowflakes over it.  The sentiment is die cut three times and glued together for dimension.

Next up, three snowmen in very wacky hats for ABC Christmas Challenge "H is for Hats":

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, trimmed with a hemstitch die, and added to a pale blue card base.

And a quick simple card for My Time to Craft "Everything Die Cuts":

I die cut the reindeer / tree and the sentiment out of a shimmery white cs and added it to a dark silver metallic cs that I'd cut with a hemstitch die.  In real life it's very shimmery but it's so hard to photograph metallic cs!

  

  

 

Supplies for card 1:
Ink - blue and purple oxide inks
Paper - white cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - Heidi Swapp silver texture paste, Tim Holtz snowflake stencil, Penny Black sentiment die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Rubber Cottage "Snowflakes"
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - white and pale blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Spellbinders hemstitch rectangle die

Supplies for card 3:
Paper - dark silver cs, white shimmer cs, white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Penny Black Be Merry die, unknown reindeer/tree die, Spellbinders square hemstitch die

Under the Wire Again

There are so many great challenges out there but sadly I miss some of the deadlines and then there are these where I just get a card posted in time.

For Christmas Cards All Year Round "Holiday Song or Carol", I chose O Little Town of Bethlehem:

Stamped, coloured with coloured pencils, and a strip of gold tape added down one side for a bit of embellishment.

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge wants "Christmas not as we know it" so I went with some very different looking snowmen:

My friend Bonnie kindly stamped off a few of this image and sent them to me.  This is a variation on one I posted a couple of months ago.  Stamped, watercoloured, bordered in black.

And a threefer today.  Inkspirational wants a card for any of the seasonal holidays so I am posting a Hanukkah one for this one.

I created the focal image by stamping and heat embossing the menorah in silver and die cutting with a circle die.  The background has a flourish and sentiment stamped and heat embossed in blue.   I embellished with little silver jewel stickers on the flourish.

   

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Woodware Peaceful Night
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs
Size - 7.25x3.75"
Accessories - coloured pencils, gold tape

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Rubber Cottage "Snowflakes"
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, off white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints

Supplies for card 3:
Stamps - Hero Arts Happy Hanukkah, SU flourish, Rubbernecker Hanukkah sentiment frame
Ink - ColorBox True Blue and Silver
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear and silver embossing powders, Dazzles silver jewel stickers, Spellbinders circle and rectangle dies

Another Santa Card and Some "Snowflakes"

Santa is always a great theme for Christmas cards so here's another one, this time for Christmas Cards All Year Round "For a Male" and Jingle Belles "A Christmas Story" (this card has as its sentiment the last line from Twas the Night Before Christmas and of course it has Santa flying away as he does at the end of the story).

I used a technique I learned from Karen Dunbrook of tearing many strips of scrap paper to use as masks, starting at the bottom with the first sponging of ink, and then moving up the card. It creates a beautiful cloudy sky. Once my background was dry, I stamped my images. Then once they were dry, I splattered with a bit of white acrylic paint. I mounted it on the card base and stamped the sentiment.

My second card today has some humour to it - a special request from one of my friends who comes to my Christmas card fundraiser sale (what he actually asked for were some "snarky" cards - not my style but this might please him).  It's for ABC Christmas Challenge "S for Snowman and T for Three of a Kind" - I've covered off both of them with my three snowmen all dressed in blue:

I saw this image on some cards my friend Bonnie made and she kindly stamped off a few for me and mailed them to me.   I watercoloured them, keeping them all dressed in blue so that they are more "Three of a Kind" for the challenge.  Then bordered with black cs before adding to the card base.

    

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Frantic Stamper Santa, Tim Holtz trees, Technique Junkies sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, various mauve and blue Distress inks
Paper - white cs
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - white acrylic paint

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Rubber Cottage "Snowflakes"
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, off white and black cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints