Layered Holly

I decided I had to make a card with a stamp set designed by my talented friend Shirley Bampton.

Shirley designed this set last Christmas for Stamplorations, called Layered Holly.

It's a great set for making fast and fun Christmas cards.  I used Distress and Memento Inks and spritzed for a watercolour look.

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Magical Christmas

I'm still trying to make a few more cards for the Festive Season, before I lose enthusiasm. 

I used distress inks to make a smooshed/splash background and then stamped some snowflakes with the lightest colour. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and was heat embossed with Recollections Snow embossing powder. The die is from MFT, the snowflake stamps from Avery Elle and the wooden snowflake is from Kaisercraft.

This card was inspired by the following challenges:-

A few more Christmas Florals

Here are a few more cards I made, but didn't use for the a design team card. 

Hero Arts, Avery Elle stamps and some freehand used to make this card.

Avery Elle And Kaisercraft stamps used on this card

Avery Elle and some random deconstructed stamps used here.

Holly Jolly Christmas

Hello there! Not long to go! Ho! ho! ho!

I stamped the holly with distress ink and then applied a wet brush to move the colour. I die cut the flower from a watercolour splash background and added the gold bling. The stamps are from Kaisercraft and the flower die is from Concord & 9th.

I'm joining in the fun at the following challenges:-

Traditional Christmas Colours

Challenge Me a Christmas Card with Michelle

I'm so happy to be joining Michelle Lupton of 'Handmade by Michelle', in her 'Challenge me a Christmas Card' event.  Michelle asked her friends on Facebook to set her a challenge to make Christmas Cards with a specific theme or using a particular technique or product.  She has asked us to join her in sharing a card.

I chose 'MOSAICS' as a theme, because I travelled to Italy in Oct/Nov and was inspired by all the beautiful mosaics in the churches we visited.

Here is my card...

I used a stencil and Distress Inks for the background. The nativity stamp is from Stampendous and the sentiment is a magazine freebie.

Now, you must pop over to Michelle's blog and see the ingenious card she created!  Thanks for asking me to play Michelle!

A Masculine Christmas

Happy Sunday!

I was experimenting with a new technique, which was shared by Loll from Stamping with Loll.  It involves covering your shadow stamp with versamark and then brushing over it with Brushos, then spritzing and stamping. Well, I went off on a tangent and instead of just using Versamark, I used Distress Ink as well. Then I used some Delicata Gold. The result was very organic! 

I touched up some of the shadows with Zig Markers.  I decided to keep this card CAS and thought it would make a good Masculine card, so I mounted it on a black card base and stamped the sentiment with Versafine Black.

I'm sharing my card at the following challenges:-

Christmas

Warm Wishes . (colours)

Butterfly Love

Hi there! I'm just popping in with a reminder for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

As always the theme is 'Anything Goes' or the optional choice is Christmas/Winter.

I've chosen 'Anything Goes' for my card...

 I stamped the largest butterfly from Penny Black's 'Butterfly Trio' with Delicata Gold on watercolour paper and then coloured with Distress Inks and Zig Markers and a aqua brush. I allowed the gold to mix with pinks to make a Pink Gold look.  It's hard to see in the pic, but there's lots of shimmer.

So now it's your turn! Check out the projects from the rest of the team at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge blog and enter the challenge here. As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome 1-2-3 Stitch, who will give the randomly chosen winner a $20 voucher.

I hope you have the most Wonderful Christmas and a Brilliant New Year!!!

I'm sharing my card at the following challenges:-