A Swag with Pine Cones and Christmas Cups

For Sparkles Christmas Challenge "Christmas Flowers or Foliage" and for My Time to Craft Christmas "Pine Cones":

The image is coloured with coloured pencils, it's trimmed with quite a bit of white border around it, then thinly matted with green, and added to a red card base.  I put the sentiment strip on a diagonal so that it stayed within the green mat.

My second card is for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Christmas Cup" and Sweet Stampin' "Tartan or Plaid".

When I was tidying my craft room recently, I came across some stamped, heat embossed, and die cut Christmas cups from an old SU set.  So when I saw the 52CCT challenge, I had the perfect opportunity to use them.  To fulfill the tartan or plaid challenge for Sweet Stampin', I pulled out some tartan ribbon and ran it across my focal panel to represent a Christmas table cloth for my cups to sit on.

  

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Serendipity Pine Swag, Mama Elephant sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white, red, and green cs
Size - 6x4.25"
Accessories - coloured pencils

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Paper Smooches sentiment, SU cups and steam
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, red and green pigment inks
Paper - white cs
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - tartan ribbon, clear embossing powder, Lil Inkers stitched square die, foam dots

Plaid Reminder

It's mid month so time to remind you that you only have until September 24th to enter CAS Christmas's "Plaid" challenge.

I made two cards using some plaid dp scraps from a small pad of Christmas dp.  The pad also had a blue snowflake dp that looked good with the plaid.

The first one has a snowflake embossed background, die cut squares of the dp with two corners rounded (using a corner rounder punch), a Tim Holtz die cut sentiment mounted on a scrap of purple cs, and a scattering of die cut snowflakes.

The second one has three banners cut from the dp, with the sentiment stamped and heat embossed in white on the middle banner, and a stamped and die cut mug and its accompanying steam.

Please come and join us at CAS Christmas with your clean and simple card featuring some plaid.  There's more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.

Since I used up lots of snippets (scraps of dp and of purple and white cs), I'm also linking up with the Pixie's Snippets Playground challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps - SU mug and steam, PB sentiment
Ink - ColorBox white and blue
Paper - white cs, scraps of dp, scrap of purple cs
Size - 4.75" square and A2
Accessories - snowflake embossing folder, Spellbinders small square die, corner rounder punch, TH snow circle sentiment die, various small snowflake dies, SU mug and steam dies, white embossing powder,

Christmas Cracker Plaid

Can you believe it's already September?!!  Where has the summer gone?  

I'm here to inspire you to get going on those Christmas cards.  The CAS Christmas challenge is hosted by Colleen this month and she is asking for "Plaid".

I had saved a few pieces of plaid foil that were the wrappers around Christmas crackers and I used that for my background.  Forgive the dreadful photo - I had a terrible time photographing it as the foil either went totally black or bounced off way too much light.

 

It's definitely a CAS card!  Stamped and heat embossed tree and sentiment (using the new Distress Oxide Rustic Wilderness - a great Christmas green), popped up on fun foam on the plaid, and embellished with three little stick-on stars.  It took far longer to photograph it than to make it!  I might use up the rest of the foil plaid and make a few more as it was so quick, and in real life, looks better than in the photo.

 

So please come and join us at CAS Christmas.  You have until September 24th to link up.  There's lots of inspiration from the Design Team and this month's wonderful Guest Designer, Melanie.

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - SU tree, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment
Ink - Distress Oxide Rustic Wilderness
Paper - cream cs, plaid foil from a Christmas cracker
Size - 6.25x4.25"
Accessories - clear embossing powder, fun foam, stick-on gold stars