Color Hues #124

Good afternoon and Happy New Year!! Hope you all had a fabulous holiday period.

The first of the month sees a brand new colour duo from Color Hues. This time Bonnie has chosen

colours that she sees at this time of year, the red berries and the grey, leafless trees. Here's my take.

I've been catching up over Christmas with a programme in the UK about knitting, Game of Wool. It's introduced by Olympic gold medal diver, Tom Daley, who is famous for his love of knitting. So with all things knitted on my mind, I decided to play with one of my favourite die sets that I haven't used in a while, MFT's Zipper and combine it with a cable EF, no idea of make, to create a faux knitted zipped cardie. Who doesn't love a cosy winter jumper?!

I created a panel of grey and red stripes from some scraps and embossed it using my EF. Doh!! I should have cut the panels first before embossing but I think I just about got away with it, the embossing isn't as sharp as when I embossed it originally, the plates squashing the embossing a little,  but I think it still works.

Once my zipped jumper was created, I added a faux T-shirt with a scrap of linen effect white card and a sentiment from another MFT set Road Trip, which I cut from the same silver card as the zip, replacing the silver lettering with red ones. 

Once complete all I had to do was add it to a white A6 top fold note card.

So where will this colour combo take you? Over on the Color Hues blog the rest of the DT and our wonderful guests, Lisa E. and Barb F., have come up with fabulous inspiration for you.

See you in the gallery!

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Another Christmas Make

 Evening all.

I've managed to get a little me time after my son and family have returned home to spend the rest of the holidays with the other side of their family. It was lovely to have a house full and to be fair it does seem very quiet after all the activity of the last couple of days! We even got to pull out the extension to the table that we bought many yeasrs ago and has sat as a side table in the hall since then!

Anyway I said I would share another card and here it is, another LOTV digi coloured with Copics.

This consists of two scalloped circles attached at the top with a smaller black and even smaller stamped and inked panel in the center of the top panel. A partial cut whiter panel creates the base for the sentiment, Uniko, as well as the coloured and fussy cut couple to stand on. 

The blue panel was made by inking a white one with Tumbled Glass DI and then an ancient red rubber stamp featuring snowflakes added in the same ink. Some sparkly Stickles were added along the black border before it was added to the scalloped card base. 

Happy Christmas!

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Festive Creations

AG Option

Mega Christmas Challenge - add a sentiment

A Snowy Scene

Afternoon all.

Just sitting down after hoovering the kitchen and snug prior to the OH mopping down ready for tomorrow's visitors! Only the utility loo and lounge to do now!

Anyway I've got a few minutes to share this card I made for my Son and wife, which also fits with a few challenges out there!

Over at Inkspirational they want COLD and those two skaters are all wrapped up from it as they skate through the snowy landscape that's just right for the latest Allsorts challenge! As I've used Copics to colour them that fits with the Promarker Challenge too!

The DP is some NitWits paper which I printed off and glued to an A5 white base card, leaving a little border of white card. Next, I made my landscape by die cutting an aperture into a smaller white card panel, embossed with a falling snow design and some white card die cuts of trees and hills to create a scene for my skaters to slide through! These were a LOTV digi which I printed off, coloured with Copics and then fussy cut and added to the scene, together with some freehand lines to replace those cut off from the original. A stamped sentiment, Uniko, completes.

So that's all from me for the moment, I may grab a little me time to share some more Christmas makes next week, fingers crossed!

Happy Christmas!

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#838 Create a Scene

Mega Christmas Challenge - add a sentiment

 

Christmas Critters

Morning all.

It's the final challenge of the year at Cardz4Guyz where this month our theme is:-

CHRISTMAS CRITTERS

I love a cute critter at Christmas and have lots of images in my stash but eventually I went with this cute Margaret Sherry image that came free with a magazine some time ago.

The background was created awhile ago from strips of red and green card made from scraps which were glued onto a piece of white card to create a pattern. It's a great way to use up all those oddments we all have that we keep because you just never know when you might need it!!

So, after glueing the strips onto a square green note card, I stamped my image and coloured using Copics, then fussy cut out. A very old Woodware sentiment was stamped onto my background and the mice added with foam pads.

We are open for entries all across the festive period so it's the perfect opportunity to share some of your Christmas makes or dare I say it get ahead with your Christmas 26 stash!!

For more inspiration, please check out the rest of the team on the Cardz4Guyz blog.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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Reds and Greens

 Red and Green

Uniko BA Inspiration

Evening all. Have you got all your Christmas cards made and posted? I hope I have but I do have a few spare just in case.

So today I'm up on the Uniko blog with an idea for a New Year card that was inspired by a couple of challenges. What do you think? 

On an A6 top fold, white note card, I stamped the Background Blocks- Party Confetti in Versamark and embossed with jewelled gold EP. On a separate panel of white, I used the numerals from the Alphabet Solid set to create the 2026 in more of the jewelled gold EP. This was mounted on a slightly larger black one then added over my confetti with foam pads. A simple sentiment from Simply Said Blocks Christmas in black completes.

The layout of this card is also a nod to the CAS Colours and Sketches as it users the square layout of this former 2025 sketch made seasonal.

This layout is a square one and mine is rectangular but the 4 squares are represented on mine by the numerals of the year! The gold EP always says celebration but it also reflects the saris in the photo inspiration over at Time Out!

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I chose the sketch #560