Santa's Sleigh

 Santa's sleigh appears to have been hijacked by everyone's favourite bunny 🤣.  I was hunting around for items to pop into this lovely sleigh and I die cut a parcel and a candy cane, then had a rummage in the oddments pot on my desk and came up with a left over Christmas tree and a bit of greenery.  Who should also be in there but bunny so I thought 'why not' and here he is playing at being a Santa's little helper.  I've used some of my favourite design paper and a die cut skyline scene; finally adding a fun greeting.  This one was cut once in red and again in gold so that I could carefully trim the baubles to layer on top.  So that's another Christmas card to add to my collection - don't seem to be able to stop making them as ideas pop into my head each time I trawl through my box of seasonal crafty items.

Background - printed from Season's Greetings CD Artylicious
Skyline - die from Memory Box
Sleigh - Gilded Sleigh die from Memory Box
Parcel, tree and candy cane - Sizzix dies
Bunny and Ho Ho Ho - unbranded 

CAS Christmas

 As I seem to be on a roll making seasonal cards I thought I'd take this one along for the November challenge at Stamping Sensations where the theme is ** Get Ready for Christmas**.  The little winter village scene is a triple layered image using three matching stamps in different colours.  It was stamped onto a snippet of white card and popped behind an aperture which was then surrounded by the die cut sentiment.  Lovely prize this time so good luck to all who enter.

Village scene - stamps from retired Stampin' Up set Classic Cloche
Sentiment - die cuts received from a generous friend last Christmas

Ho Ho Ho

 I've been lucky enough to have some happy post to open two days running - firstly I won a prize in a recent Allsorts Challenge and yesterday an envelope arrived from a generous friend who'd decided to share some mirri card die cuts with me.  As we seem to be hurtling towards December I thought I'd use one of them to make a Christmas card - well what else would you do with 'Ho Ho HO' die cuts 🤣🤣.  I went through my box of Christmas-themed items and right at the bottom came across the Santa die which I've had for some time and I know for a fact he certainly didn't get used last year which should tell me that maybe I have too much 'schtuff'.  Found a left over tree in the little oddments pot on my desk and set about assembling the card using a piece of patterned paper as a background.  Snippets were used to cut the white circle which I embossed with falling snow, then cut a narrow border circle because it appeared a little flat.  I decided the words could maybe have a backing layer so I cut one freehand from some matching red card.

Background - printed using a download from Buddly Crafts
Santa - from a set of three by Tonic, probably discontinued
Tree - from a Tim oltz Sizzix die set
Snow Effect - discontinued embossing folder from Creative Expressions

Seasonal Candles

 I've just realised nothing  has been posted on here since Monday and have to admit that it has taken me almost that length of time to complete this card (obviously a few domestic jobs done as well).  I loved the look of these candle dies but had no idea just how challenging it would be to use them.  There are dies for three candles in the set and two of them have pieces which look very similar.  I decided to start out cutting the layers using scraps of card just to get an idea of how they went together and eventually I think I've fathomed it out - took a while 🙄.  I have lots of snippets of pearl card in various shades of white and cream and thought that I could use a selection of these shades to give the candles a little more interest - hopefully my plan has worked.  Another thing I decided to do was to use different greens and reds in my Distress Oxide inks to colour a couple of pieces of card to give a mottled effect before cutting out the foliage and berries although the mistletoe berries were cut from tiny scraps of cream pearl card.  Finally I had all the components so I found some background paper from a long retired Christmas collection; printed a sentiment and that's it.  I certainly wouldn't earn much of a living from this lark, given the length of time some of my cards take to make 🤣 but the important thing is that making them gives me pleasure - and keeps me out of mischief.

Background - DSP from a retired Stampin' Up Christmas collection
Sentiment - computer generated, printed then die cut using a SU die (also retired I think)
Candles - Candle Shop Colorize die set designed by Tim Holtz
Foliage - dies designed by Tim Holtz

Snippets Challenge # 466

 A Christmas scene today for the Snippets Challenge and apart from the card blank everything else has come from my snippets mountain.  Having said that, I realise that the trees were die cut by a friend but I'm pretty certain she will have used some of her snippets for them 😉.  I used a snippet of patterned paper trimmed to fit for the sky area and another fairly large white snippet for the snowy landscape.  Smaller white snippets were used for the sledge, bunny and teddy, also the trim for the Santa hat - the tiniest red snippet came in handy for cutting the hat but of course the other items have been coloured using alcohol pens or Distress Oxide inks.  The sledge runners have a touch of Wink of Stella which doesn't show in the picture.

Time for you to sort through your own snippets to make something for the challenge - as usual a good prize on offer to one lucky winner

Sky - paper printed using Artylicious Season's Greetings CD - an old favourite of mine
Snowscape - cut using a Memory Box die
Trees - Fluffy Trees from Gummiapan - die cut by a generous friend
Sledge, Bunny and Santa Hat - dies from Gummiapan
Bunny - unbranded die 

Embossing

 The theme for the latest Allsorts Challenge is **Embossing - Heat and/or Dry** and for my card I've gone with dry embossing.  I started with a square of white card to fit my card blank and used a stitched square cutting die to emboss a square into the centre.  Next I cut another smaller square of white card which was embossed with a snowfall embossing folder and glued into the centre.  Finally a two layer poinsettia was die cut and adhered and that's it a CAS Christmas card which I don't think needs a sentiment on the outside but will have words on the insert.  Lots of lovely inspiration from the Design Team which might encourage you to sort through your embossing folders and join in this week.

Stitched Square - die from Creative Expressions Noble Stitched Squares
Embossing - snowfall embossing folder from Sheena Douglass - no longer available
Poinsettia - from Sizzix Seasonal Sketch set

Tall Card

 A bit of a change today with a DL card made in a grungy style - I do like to mix it up a bit with what I make - variety is the spice of life 😉😉.  I've used one of the floral stamped images sent to me by a generous friend and have added my own touch to it with some Distress oxide ink smooshed around and with a few extra stamped splodges.  While I had the inks out I also smooshed some onto another piece of card so that I could cut the smaller extra pieces which I've used to add a bit of interest to the layout.  There was a bit of stencilling added to the base card and the same inks were used for this and also for colouring the petals of the flower using a water brush.  

Flower - stamp by Carabelle
Splodges - stamp from French Foliage set by Stampin' Up (retired)
Distress Oxide - Broken China, Dusty Concord and Wilted Violet