CAS Christmas take two

Good morning fellow bloggers. I hope I find you well. 

Have you finished all your card making for the Christmas period? If not why not join us at Fantasy Stampers for our CAS Christmas challenge, just the chance to make a quick card before the deadline for posting!

Here is a card that I rustled up from odds and sods from the bits box with a nod to a couple of challenges.

I think that using a challenge or two to focus the brain is a good idea. 

The tag was stamped with Stampendous Christmas Background in DI then inked to give a bit of a vintage feel. The poinsettia was cut using a Lea'bilities die and edged in more DI.

I splashed a bit of water on the tag to give it a further aged look and splattered a bit of DI as well onto the base card. I also added some stars and sequins from the stash. The greeting was stamped then embossed in gold.

I shall enter the following challenges:-

CAS on Sunday - 

Virginia's View -  All things distressed

Thanks for popping around.

Don't forget Fantasy Stampers is just a regular stamping challenge, no digis allowed!

STAMPlorations GD

Good afternoon, and it really is a sunny autumnal one.

Today I am so pleased to join the fabulous team over at STAMPlorations for a GD spot. I won one of their sketch challenges for my Daisy card and this was part of the prize!

So without further preamble here is my card.

and this is the sketch for the challenge which I used -

I only have one set of STAMPlorations stamps at the moment but hopefully my next club set will be winging it's way over the Atlantic shortly, so for this card I used a free Penny Black stamp I got with a magazine and a Stampendous cling 'Christmas background'

I stamped the poinsettias in a grey Memento, London Fog, as I wanted the outline to disappear into the image to give it a more authentic w/c effect and used various red DIs to colour the bracts then masked them when dry to over stamp the word background in Versamark and heat embossed with detailed white. The foliage was washed in using various green DIs and feathered out to give the soft effect. I left off a separate sentiment as there was one from the background which was more or less in the right place, any more would have been too much I think. After it had dried I added a cluster of bugle beads to represent the flowers, poinsettias are strange in that the bright red bracts aren't the actual flowers, although they look like it! The panel was then mounted on a red base card.

OK, that's it, I hope you like the card and it inspires you to take part. Pop over to the STAMPlorations blog and check out the fab inspiration from their very talented DT.

I shall enter the following challenges:-

Time Out - Embossing with the added twist of sparkle

Allsorts - No design papers

Thanks for taking the time to visit and please come back again.