A sweet Christmas

 Here's a Christmas card using one of the Tim Holtz blueprint stamps. I'm really impressed that the labels remained readable after the white embossing. (I did use detail EP, which I'm sure made all the difference.) The lighting is a bit off here, the central panel is kraft, not gold. That panel is on pretty thick foam tape to make room for the rather thick velvet rickrack. The candy cane is a thin metal, probably aluminum (part of a bunch of metal Christmas embellies I picked up on clearance years ago. I need to use them up, for sure).

This card is entered in these challenges:

ABC Christmas -- V is for Velvet

Rudolph Days -- anything Christmas

CRAFT #655 -- nontraditional Christmas colors

Word Art Wednesday #565 -- anything goes

Pink poinsettias

 

 

 

The Jingle Belles are holding a Pink challenge to mark Breast Cancer Awareness month, so I tried my hand at a pink and pale green card. The poinsettia image is from Studio Katia. It's silver-embossed on watercolor paper, the colored with watercolors. The sentiment is silver-embossed on a strip of pale pink vellum.  I used a border punch on the green mat. It's a mini slimline size. 

The Jingle Belles are promising to donate $2 to breast cancer research for each card entered in this challenge, so if you're at all inclined to make a Christmas card and link it up, this would be a good time to do so.

My card is for these challenges:

Jingle Belles -- Pink Christmas

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2240 -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations #199 -- anything with an image

Word Art Wednesday #563 -- anything goes

Happy colors, happy thoughts

 I don't normally do bright colors, so this is a bit of a departure for me, but change is good, right?

The sketch for this came from the current Moving Along with the Times Challenge, and the colors come from the current Butterfly Challenge. 

The card started with the fun snippet of butterfly patterned paper. I found a couple of snippets of green and yellow, and trimmed them a bit to fit. Solid-colored squares are kind of boring, so I ran each through a different EF to add some texture. The sentiment was sent by a friend. It's edged in some Distress Oxide ink and is mounted on an angle with a similar-sized snippet of blue. That's a big (and old) chipboard button with baker's twine wrapped around the central stem.

This card is for these challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #174. (level one; the colors include canary yellow and Cyan, although I think Chartreuse and Chili Red are also present in this card.)

Can you Handle the Pressure -- use embossing

Moving Along with the Times #147 -- sketch

Pammie's Inky Pinkies 2240 -- anything goes

Snippet Playground #438 -- use snippets

Word Art Wednesday #563 -- anything goes