A gift for Christmas

Good morning and welcome.

It's Thursday again so it's time for another challenge at Cardz4Galz.

This week we would love to see your projects on the theme of -

GIRLIE BEARS

We want to see girlie creations featuring a bear as simple as that.

Here is my DT card.

It's a CAS Christmas card using one of the Bear Parcel trio from LOTV.

The image was coloured with Copics fuzzy cut and mounted on a die cut Marianne tag. The DP is from NitWits with a few sequins and snowflakes were added and the tag attached with silver ribbon to the panel before glueing flat on a white base card.

OK, now it's your turn, what can you come up with? Please check out the rest of the DT here for more inspiration.

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Cutie Pie Challenge -CHALLENGE #93
SIMPLY CUTE AND CHRISTMASSY - Clean & Simple

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Balloons

Good morning folks and welcome to my second post of the day.

This time I would like to share my card for the latest challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week we would like to see projects that use -

MORE THAN ONE FOLD

Now first off I thought of various fancy folded card bases then I remembered a card where one balloon was made from multiple folded die cuts. So I went with that, here is my interpretation.

To make this I die cut a large and small balloon shape in card and three in a medium size in pearlescent paper. To make the 3D balloon I folded the 3 turquoise die cuts down the middle, then joined them together along the fold. After placing them on my base card I trimmed the large one to the size of the base. Linen thread was glued to the side of each balloon then the ends trapped by the die cut HAPPY and BIRTHDAY banner. Bows from a MB Precious Snowflake die were added, cutting them down to just leave the bow part. I added a few stamped stars as detail to the yellow balloon, as I felt it was too plain. All done!

OK, what will you do, we'd love to see what you come up with. For more ideas please check out the rest of the DT and our GDs here.

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                                                        Anything Goes

Anything Goes

Sledge

Good morning folks and welcome to another double post Tuesday.
First off the rank is the new challenge over at Cards und More.
This time out the theme for your projects is a RECIPE. We would like you to use the following -

2 colours
       3 papers

                           4 embellishments

Here is my card using 2 colours - red and blue (neutrals don't count)
3 papers - Blue snow, white embossed and whit/snowflakes
4 embellishments - snowflakes

I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday for my layout and a LOTV image coloured with Copics, fussy cutting the sledging boy before mounting at the base of the aperture. 

We'd love to see where the recipe takes you, why not join us over the next two weeks.

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                                               Anything Christmas

  
V is for Very Cute                                                


                                   

Gold Butterfly

Welcome peeps to a quick post to share a card I made with a mind to a few challenges out there.

I bought this stamp a month ago and I absolutely love it, it's by Visible Image -butterfly: INKognito and it was perfect for this card.

Over at Less is More, the colour challenge is FIRE, CAS-ual Friday's want precious metal and Virginia's View want texture. Well I hope I've met the criteria with this.

To create the effect I first stamped the butterfly and embossed with detail gold EP then added crystals of Brusho in lemon and vermilion before spritzing with water. I absolutely love the effect of using Brusho like this, it's like fireworks as it explodes on the paper. The gold butterfly looks as though it is exploding from the background colour, almost phoenix like. The Brusho also leaves a wonderful feeling of texture as it dries.

OK, the evening is moving on, so I better get a wriggle on and think about some tea!

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                                                    Colour Challenge - Fire

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Snowmen

Good morning peeps.

I hope you are well on this Remembrance Sunday.

The weather today is a bit grim, rain and blustery winds. I managed to get a quick walk with Max the pooch before the heavens opened again. He wasn't very keen as he could hear the church bells in the far distance, they must hurt his sensitive ears as the doorbell and mobile phone send him into paroxysms of barking.

Anyway, just having a quiet sit down with a cuppa and thought I would post this quick card I made yesterday.

I made it after seeing this card of Ardyth's over at MUSE.

Repeat Stamping, black and white, grey panel with a sentiment, with the central pop of colour was my inspiration.

I don't have any panda stamps but I did find this little snowman in the Christmas stamp box that would work. It was free with a mag many years ago and never used. I stamped him on a panel of DI weathered wood 5 times, then coloured the center one only with my w/c markers. The sentiment is from a very old set from ages ago as well. The central panel was trimmed down then mounted flat on a white base card.

Job done!

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