A Snow Globe and Gold and Silver Stars

52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants to see snow globes.  And The Sisterhood of Crafters want to see a Christmas card.  So I made this:

I used a snow globe die with a stamp that fits perfectly inside it.  I stamped the image on the focal panel in dark blue and stamped random bits of the splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge in silver around it.  The snow globe is die cut once from silver matte cs and three times from scrap cs.  The three scrap ones are glued together and then a circle of acetate is glued on top of them, and the silver snow globe on top of the acetate.  I sprinkled a bit of rock candy glitter on top of the image, then glued the snow globe over it.  I added a die cut sentiment cut from the same silver cs as the snow globe.  

You can see the glitter in a pile at the bottom - but it will shake over the image as those three extra layers of the die cut give enough height for glitter.  If I'd wanted to add sequins or microbeads, I'd have had to use foam tape instead.

I've also got a card for Colorful Options - they want gold and silver and, rather than another Christmas card, I've got a New Year card:

I stamped the splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge in gold on the main panel. Then die cut various sizes of stars out of scraps of gold and silver cs (some glitter cs, some shimmer cs). I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and die cut it with a label die. 

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Art-Kure church, Gorgeous Grunge splatter stamp
Ink - Versafine Clair Twilight, Martha Stewart silver
Paper - chalk cs, silver matte cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Taylored Expressions snow globe die, acetate, Ranger Rock Candy glitter, Memory Box sentiment die

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU sentiment, SU Gorgeous Grunge splatter
Ink - ColorBox Gold
Paper - cream cs, gold and silver shimmer and glitter cs, black shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - gold embossing powder, label die, various star dies

A Reindeer in a Shaker and a Snowman

Some snowy stuff today.  First of all a reindeer in a snowy shaker for Shopping Our Stash "Shake It Up":

I die cut the snowglobe out of white cs and out of two layers of fun foam. I glued a circle of acetate between the white cs and the top layer of fun foam. I die cut a tree out of a scrap of green smooshed background and the deer out of a scrap of textured gold cs, and tore a scrap of white cs for snowy ground. I glued them all to the navy card base, sprinkled a little bit of Stampendous "Spoonful of Snow" on top and then added the snowglobe to the top of that. The sentiment is die cut from the same scrap of gold as the reindeer.

Since a shaker card looks different every time it's shaken, here's another view with less of the glittery snow in the sky:

My second card is a snowman for ABC Christmas Challenge "S for Snowman" and Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Build Me a Snowman".

I love this snowman because it rains more than it snows here in Vancouver so I love the fact that he has an umbrella!

Watercoloured, trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, popped up on fun foam on an off-white card base.

  

Supplies for card 1:
Ink - green Distress inks
Paper - navy and white cs, gold textured cs
Size - A2
Accessories - small deer die, snowglobe die, Christmas tree die, Stampendous Spoonful of Snow, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Serendipity snowman
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, MFT Wonky Stitched rectangle die, fun foam

A Snowglobe, Flowers, and a Bird

It's been cold and snowy (unusual for Vancouver at this time of year) so I've spent more time in my craft room than usual, so today I've got three cards.

A snowglobe for Jingle Belles ("a holiday card with a see-through element") and 52 Christmas Card Throwdown ("acetate).

I die cut the snowglobe out of white cs and out of two layers of fun foam.  I glued a circle of acetate between the white cs and the top layer of fun foam.  I die cut a tree out of a scrap of green smooshed background and the deer out of a scrap of textured gold cs, and tore a scrap of white cs for snowy ground.  I glued them all to the navy card base, sprinkled a little bit of Stampendous "Spoonful of Snow" on top and then added the snowglobe to the top of that.  The sentiment is die cut from the same scrap of gold as the reindeer.

Here's another photo, taken flat (rather than standing up) so that you can see the snow sprinkles better.

 

Next up, for Penny Black Saturday Challenge ("hearts and / or flowers") and Beautiful Blossoms ("focus on flowers / florals").

A very CAS card - flowers coloured with coloured pencils and the colouring blended with Gamsol, a heat embossed blue sentiment, trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, bordered in blue, and popped up on fun foam for some dimension.

 

And finally, for AAA Card Challenge ("a CAS card with a circle").

The background is coated cs sprinkled with bister and then spritzed with water. I stamped the little bird collage image on it in brown archival ink and then thought it would stand out more if it was heat embossed - luckily it was in my MISTI so I was able to stamp with Versamark on top of the brown archival ink, and then heat emboss with clear embossing powder. I added it behind a die cut circle opening in a cream shimmer card base.  I put an insert inside the card to cover the mess of taping the image piece on the inside - and also to write on as it's hard to write on the shimmery cardstock.)

Challenges:

Jingle Belles

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Beautiful Blossoms

AAA Cards Challenge

 

 

Supplies for Card 1:
Ink - green Distress inks
Paper - navy and white cs, gold textured cs
Size - A2
Accessories - small deer die, snowglobe die, Christmas tree die, Stampendous Spoonful of Snow, fun foam

Supplies for Card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white and blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Gamsol, clear embossing powder, Lil Inker stitched rectangle die, fun foam

Supplies for Card 3:
Stamps - Carabelle Studio bird collage
Ink - Archival Acorn, Versamark
Paper - coated cardstock, cream shimmer c
Size - A2
Accessories - green and brown bister, clear embossing powder, Spellbinders circle die

Gold and Silver Star Shaker

Reminder time for CAS Christmas's Silver and Gold challenge!  I did a shaker card filled with silver and gold.

I created the top panel by trimming it with a stitched die and then die cutting a star in the centre of it.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in gold and the small stars in silver.

I added a layer of acetate behind the star and then a layer of thick fun foam (also with the star die cut out of it).  I filled the shaker with tiny gold hexagons and tiny silver stars (hard to photograph them and get their accurate colour!).  Then added a backing layer and taped the whole thing to the card base.

There's lots more inspiration for you over at CAS Christmas.  You have until January 24 to link up a card.  Please be sure it is clean and simple, and follows the challenge of silver and gold.

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown sentiment, Stampendous tiny star
Ink - ColorBox gold and silver
Paper - white cs
Size - 5.75" square
Accessories - Sizzix star die, Lil Inker stitched square die, silver and gold embossing powder, acetate, Nuvo tiny gold hexagons and tiny silver stars

A Snow Globe

Sneaking in under the wire for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge "Snow Globes".

The snowman is stamped and coloured with coloured pencils.  The snow globe and sentiment are stamped and heat embossed and die cut with the co-ordinating die.  I also die cut the snow globe out of thick sticky-backed foam, added a piece of acetate between the foam and the top snow globe, filled it with a variety of glitter and microbeads, and then stuck the snowman to the back of it.  The whole piece is on a snowflake embossed background.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Supplies:
Stamps - Taylored Expressions snow globe, Old Island Stamp Co. snowman, Penny Black sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Encore Metallic Blue
Paper - white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - clear embossing powder, thick sticky-backed foam, clear acrylic sheet, Embossalicious snowflake embossing folder, coloured pencils, Martha Stewart tinsel glitter, Recollections micro beads, Art Glitter Blue Rain glitter

Framed Fairy Shaker

A birthday card for a young teenage girl:

I did a bit of stencilling of stars and dots on my background and then stamped the fairy and sentiment. I created a frame with a piece of acrylic on the back of it and added foam tape to the back of the acrylic. I sprinkled sequins, microbeads, and tiny star sprinkles of top of the image and then taped the shaker frame to the top.

Linking up with:

Seize the Birthday "Framed"

Supplies:
Stamps - Lavinia fairy, Memory Box sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Distress Scattered Straw and Speckled Egg
Paper - white cs
Size - 5"square
Accessories - Lil Inker stitched square die, Spellbinder square die, Heidi Swapp Confetti stencil, acrylic sheet; foam tape; sequins, tiny stars, and microbeads

Love in a Shaker

A card for the Paper Players challenge "Love is in the Air".

I decided to make a shaker card as I haven't done one for ages.

I die cut the heart shape from white shimmer cs and using acetate, fun foam, and double sided tape, created a shaker with it. I filled it with red, silver, and white sequins and some tiny red cs hearts that came out of a die cut I'll be using on another project.

The sentiment is die cut from red cs.

Here's a close-up of the shaker part to show all the lovely things inside it:

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope to be back with at least one or two other Valentines soon as a friend asked me to make 4 or 5 Valentine cards for her.

Supplies:
Paper - white shimmer cs, red cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Love word die, heart die, acetate, fun foam, tiny red cs hearts from a previous die cut, red, silver, and white sequins

For a Wedding

Addicted to CAS's challenge is "Wedding".  Perfect as I need a card for a friend's daughter's wedding in August!

I went with gold and white and hearts:

I made a very CAS shaker card using gold glitter in the shaker and a gold embossed sentiment.

I die cut the entwined hearts out of my top layer, placed acetate on the backside and then glued the hearts back in place on the acetate. I added foam tape all around the opening, put in lots of chunky gold glitter pieces, and then added it to the card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps - Memory Box sentiment

Ink - ColorBox gold

Paper - white cs

Size - 4.75" square

Accessories - gold embossing powder, entwined heart die, gold glitter shaker filler, acetate, fun foam

Same Snowman but a Shaker

While I had out the snowman stamp I used in this card as my reminder card for CAS Christmas, I thought I'd make a shaker card with it as well.

I used an Impression Obsession shaker pouch and matching top layer.  My snowman is stamped and coloured, then I placed some sequins and snow sparkle glitter on top of it, then attached the shaker pouch.  The top layer goes over top of that.  I added some extra sequins to the top layer as it looked a bit bare.  My sentiment came out crooked so I restamped it on a scrap and die cut it to cover it up.

Thanks for dropping by and please come and join us at CAS Christmas - you have until May 24th to link up.

Supplies:

Stamps - Old Island Stamping Co. snowman, unknown sentiment

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - sentiment tag die, Impression Obsession shaker pouch, mixture of silver, clear white, and opaque white sequins, snowflake glitter, markers

Star Shaker

I love stars so I definitely had to enter a card in this week's Merry Monday challenge:

Here's my card:

The background is a piece from my leftovers box - watercolour paper that has red and green brushos on it. I stamped and heat embossed the stars and then watercoloured them in with gold w/c paint.

I used it as the background for my shaker and used Lucy's Cards Starry Nights shaker filler inside it.  My Spellbinders matting basics dies made it so easy to make the frame to go around the acetate.

Thanks for dropping by today! 

Supplies:

Stamps - Anita's hanging stars, Wordsworth noel

Ink - ColorBox gold

Paper - PTI Vintage Cream cs, watercolour paper

Size - A2

Accessories - red and green brushos, gold embossing powder, gold watercolour paint, Lucy's Cards Starry Nights shaker filler, acetate from packaging, thick adhesive foam, Spellbinders matting basics

Back to Blue

So yesterday I said I'd be back to blue today.  And here I am.  Another card for the CAS Mix Up challenge that I'm hosting.

It's the same technique I used on my previous card here, but with the addition of a background.  I have acetate, stamping, die cutting, and smooshing with Oxide inks.

The butterfly was stamped and heat embossed on the front of the acetate.  Then working from the back, I used a clear-drying glue and glitter to colour the butterfly.  I used blue and purple, one at a time, aiming it where I wanted it with a straw with a point cut at the end to act as a little scoop.

When you first turn it over, it just looks like white blobs of glue from the front - it needs a few hours for the glue to completely dry and turn clear, and then you can see your lovely colours of glitter.

I created a background using blue and mauve Oxide inks and the smooshing technique on mixed media cs, and glued it to the card base.  Then die cut the front panel with a stitched square die, and used an old Spellbinders label die to create the opening and the frame around the opening.  I stuck the acetate to the back of the opening and then popped that whole panel up over the background with foam tape so that the butterfly is raised off of the background.


Since CAS Mix Up closes tomorrow and since shaker cards are one of the best ways to use acetate, I thought I'd add another card that I made for a shaker card challenge at SCS.  I posted it months ago on SCS but never got around to posting it on my blog.  It fills the requirements of CAS Mix Up with its stamping, acetate, and acrylic paints.  So here it is:

This one uses an Impression Obsession circle shaker window and the matching cs overlay so was really easy to put together.  The fairy was stamped on a background created with blue and silver acrylic paints.  Here's a close-up of her lovely glittery shaker stuff:

You've got one more day to enter CAS Mix Up and show us how you like to use acrylic on a card!

Supplies for the first card:

Stamps - Carabelle butterfly

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; various blue and purple Oxide inks

Paper - white cs, mixed media cs

Size - 4.75" square

Accessories - acetate, clear embossing powder, glitter, Nesties label dies, Lil Inker stitched square die, foam tape

Supplies for the second card:

Stamps - Lavinia fairy, SU sentiment

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - white cs, mixed media cs, Impression Obsession shaker cs overlay

Size - A2

Accessories - Impression Obsession "shake it window", clear embossing powder, sequins and starry sprinkles, fun foam, blue and silver acrylic paints