Allsorts Challenge # 862

 For the next Allsorts Challenge Brenda has provided a mood board to inspire you or as usual there is the anything goes option if you wish.  Prizes from Simon Says and All & Create (full details on the Allsorts blog post.

Definitely a Winter vibe going on here and  I've opted for the top left image and produced a winter scene with robins sitting on the fence in the snow.  I die cut the frame and shaped piece then stamped the trees and cabin.  The robins were die cut and coloured before popping them into place,  finally adding a stamped sentiment

Frame. fence and panel - Roadway Vista dies All & Create
Trees and Cabin - Peaceful Cabin stamps Stampin' Up (long retired)
Robins  and sentiment - dies from Craft Addiction UK

NOEL

I can't seem to stop making Christmas cards but what I really should do is check my box of ones left from last year so that I don't go too far into overload 😉.  This one today was inspired by a card made by Chris Stokes (on You Tube video).  It is quite similar although I used some different dies for mine as I didn't wish to make a direct copy and anyway I didn't have the same ones.  The deckle layer was embossed with snowflakes and the tags background-stamped using a sparkly blue ink pad.  The die cuts were cut from scraps of white card and coloured using Sizzix Distress ink pens.

Tags and Sentiment - unbranded dies
Embossing - unbranded embossing folder from Temu
Deer, Trees and Elf - dies from Gummiapan
Holly - die from a magazine gift several years ago
Sentiment - unbranded die from Temu

 

Snippets Challenge # 544

 I was asked by a friend if I would like to  adopt some pre-loved and fun grumpy penguin stamps and couldn't wait to use them to make this 'ho-ho-huddle' card for the current challenge in the Snippets Playground. I stamped them onto a snippet of white card, fussy cutting  the smallest one to layer up, adding a die cut Santa hat (also cut from snippets)  The background paper was another snippet left from a previous project.  A torn edge circle die was used to cut out the image and I finally cut the wording from a further snippet of the blue pearl card.  Everything here came from my snippets collection, apart from the card blank.

Penguin Stamps - pre-loved set (Katzelkraft)
Circle, Hat and Words - all unbranded dies

Pink Christmas

 I've made a pink Christmas card but would you believe I'm too late for the party at Jingle Belles where they were asking for pink cards in support of Breast Cancer Awareness which I thought continued until the end of the month.  However, it's Rudolph Days challenge also from today until the end of this month so I will be taking it there.  

I found this little Santa hiding in my pot of useful bits (he's been there since last year) so I decided it was time he was popped onto a card.  I printed a piece of snowflake paper in pink and trimmed it to fit the card, backing it with some silver mirri.  The slatted circle was also backed with pink and surrounded by a torn edge circular frame.  Final addition was a sentiment and a scattering of snowflakes.

Snowman - stamp from Funky Fossil
Background - printed from Artylicious Season's Greetings CD (very old CD)
Slatted circle - die from Craft Addiction UK
Torn Edge Circle - unbranded die
Snowflakes - dies from various sets in my stash

Allsorts Challenge # 861

 Lynn has chosen the theme this time for the Allsorts Challenge and she would like to see some *Feminine Style* projects or you could choose Anything Goes.  Prizes are from Aall & Create - full details on the Allsorts blog post.

For my card this time I've chosen to use a stamp featuring a perfume bottle and flowers which were stamped onto white card and cut out with a circle die, backing it with a pink doily die.  The perfume bottle has been highlighted with Wink of Stella although this doesn't really show in the picture.  Background paper was a delicate floral one from my stash and a die cut sentiment was added.

Stamp - Parfum by Aall & Create
Sentiment - from Crafter's Companion
Doily die - an old one from Docrafts

Floral Tag

 I'm sharing another tag today and this time it features flowers which I've stamped and coloured, layering the largest one for a bit of dimension.  The top layer was cut using watercolour paper and after stamping I smooshed some inks around and also used some random stamps using the same colour ink.  The words were stamped onto the remains of the watercolour paper and then fussy cut before adhering them to the tag.

Tag - Aall & Create Taggletastic
Flowers - stamp from Crafty Roo (no longer trading)
Random stamps - from various magazine giveaways
Words - from an Indigo Blue magazine giveaway

Christmas

Another Christmas card made for this year's box and this time I decided to build up a little inky scene within a frame for a relatively clean and simple look.  I used the square which came from cutting the stitched frame and after  masking, the sky area was inked using Distress inks - the moon was a little mask punched from some masking paper.  With the masks still in place I stamped the distant line of trees, followed by removing the mask to add the deer and trees in the foreground.  A touch of glitter here and there and the square was popped back into the aperture.  It was interesting looking through some of my seasonal craft items, collected over many years - such a wide selection from which to choose.

Stitched Detail Frame - Craft Addiction UK
Deer and distant trees - stamps from Card-IO
Trees - stamp from Lavinia