Bah Humbug Challenge 17

The challenge at Bah Humbug this week is 'pleats and ruffles' - it is wonderful how the residents of Humbug Hall manage to come up with such diverse topics to challenge us.  I chose to pleat some gold ribbon as an embellishment across the bottom of my card.  Background paper is from a Papermania pad; the Santa image is a stamp from a set by Habico although I think it was at one time available as a wooden sttamp; the Christmas light border was cut using a Spellbinders die and coloured using the die as a stencil; a computer sentiment was punched out with Stampin Up ovals.

Vintage

The Bah Humbug challenge this week is Vintage and I've used background paper by K and Co, stamped a Santa image from a clear set of stamps by Habico with some Fiskars lace borders and stamped and decoupaged holly (also a Habico stamp). My pile of christmas cards is growing steadily by taking part in this challenge.

Joyeux Noel

Another Christmas card using the Habico santa stamp, this time stamped onto acetate using Brilliance ink, foiled using gilding flakes. The greeting is from a Papermania clear christmas set of stamps, background paper is from papermania Home for christmas papers, snowflake is an Xcut punch.

Snowman Again

Are you bored with this cute snowman yet? I've found yet another solution to the problem of the solid black hat and scarf on this clear stamp. I stamped once with black Versafine, then the hat and scarf with Cranberry Adirondack dye ink and the robin with sepia Versafine. The small elements were cut out and layered on top of the original image which is on a nestabilities shape mounted onto some wide Christmas ribbon which came from a shop where everything is the same economical price!! The greeting was printed on the computer and punched with Stampin Up oval punches. I had to add a bit of gold glitter too.

Santa with Toys

Another of my Habico Christmas stamp set and another card, image coloured with pencils and Copic markers is mounted on nestabilities. Snowflake is cut from glitter hand made paper using Cuttlebug dies although it is more of a flower than a snowflake as the paper wouldn't punch using an ordinary punch and I don't have a snowflake die.

Vintage Santa

Another card to add to my Christmas collection using Habico clear stamp sets, some music background paper a scrap of cuttlebug embossing and a computer generated greeting punched with Stampin Up ovals.

Blue Snowman

I've had another try with my clear snowman stamp with the 'solid' areas using Versafine blue ink and highlighting with blue Stickles and I think has worked OK. Craftymamma kindly suggested that I might try inking the stamp with markers but unfortunately that didn't work because being a clear polymer stamp the markers just 'beaded' on those solid areas and it didn't stamp well but thanks anyway! Another Christmas card ready in good time.

Cute Snowman

Yesterday I treated myself to a set of clear Christmas stamps by Habico but was a bit disappointed when I came to stamp this cute snowman that the hat, scarf and robin are heavily textured with 'dots' which mean that they come out quite dark when stamped. I'm going to try with different colours of ink but this is my first card using him. The sprig of holly is from the same set and I have added some cuttlebug embossed snowflakes. and a bit of glamour dust.