Pink Christmas

 

The hosts at the Jingle Belles Challenge host a "pink" challenge every year, and they make a donation to breast cancer research for each entry of a pink  holiday card, so I always try to make at least one. For this card, I turned to an old pack of Christmas papers with a pink/red/silver color scheme. I think this foiled ornament paper is so pretty -- you know, the old "too pretty to cut and use" syndrome. Today was the day to finally cut it. I stamped, silver-embossed and fussy cut an ornament and hung it from a pink ribbon (wow, the symbolism just hit me). The sentiment came with the papers.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Jungle Belles -- Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- Think Pink

ABC Christmas-- U is for Unused stash (all the patterned papers)

Pammies Inky Pinkies #2641 -- anything goes 

Word Art Wednesday #774 -- anything goes 

Digi Chooseday -- anything goes 

CRAFT #791 -- anything goes  

Polkadoodles Challenge -- anything goes 

 

 

Rocking Christmas trailer

 I think rocker cards are so easy to make, and I'm sure this rocker will stand out among the crop of rectangular cards the recipient will receive this Christmas. As long as you have a circle die or can trace around a plate and cut it out, you can make one easily.

For this card, I die-cut the base in white, scored and folded it.I then die-cut the tree-patterned paper, cut in in half and adhered to the base. Cut a smaller circle, and sponged on brown and blue inks for the ground and sky. Stamped a few pine trees. The focal image is a darling camper-shaped piece of ephemera from Stamplorations. So quick and easy, you could turn out a batch of these in no time at all.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Die-cut Divas -- shaped cards

Stamplorations Never-ending challenge -- Stamplorations ephemera

Word Art Wednesday #772   -- anything goes 

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2641 -- anything goes 

Paper Funday #92 -- anything goes 

Creative Inspiration -- anything goes 

Crafts Galore Encore -- anything goes 

Polkadoodles challenge -- anything goes 

Digi Choosday Challenge -- anything goes 

Just Us Girls #844 -- move
 

Halloween tag

 Now that there are no kids in my house, I don't really "do" Halloween. However, I  have a random assortment of Halloween-themed crafting supplies, mostly leftovers and a few things people sent me as a little insert in a swap card. So I decided to make a Halloween tag.

I began with a white tag, sponging it with Hickory Smoke Distress ink. Next, I chose a patterned paper I got as one of those swap gifties. It shows skulls, bats, gravestones, bones and other "Spooky" stuff, so it set the mood. Added a die-cut spider web in an upper corner, then rub-on spider and bat. Used a sticker across the bottom -- these stickers are pretty realistic-looking in real life, they truly look like a ribbon stamped with letters and held by brads. The same set of rub-ons that included the spider and bat had the word "scary" in orange.  These are really old rub-ons, and the word didn't come across as bold as it should have, so we have a ghostly "scary." And while rubbing that on, some stray orange dots ended up on the tag. So I decided to embrace the happenstance by adding a few more orange rub-ons from the set. Finished the tag with black-and-white bakers twine and a fuzzy orange fiber.

This tag is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- tag it

Creative Inspiration -- anything goes

DigiChooseday  -- anything goes

Polkadoodles Challenge: -- anything goes

Gem of a Challenge -- anything goes 

We Love to Create Challenge  -- anything goes

 

Pumpkin spice pie

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 On Thanksgiving, I usually declare that "I'm here for the sides," namely dressing and pumpkin pie. So why not make pumpkin pie the star of a card?

The pie is from Stamplorations. It's black embossed and colored with water colors, with superfine clear glitter making that whipped cream look magical. I used the Try a Sketch on Tuesday sketch and added a black-embossed seasonal greeting.

This card is for these challenges 

 

 

Double Trouble #226 -- 3 colors, 2-word sentiment, fall image; plus TSOT sketch (and pumpkins were involved with that pie -- so I think it should count as a "gourd" image)

TSOT #705 -- sketch

Stamplorations never-ending challenge -- Featuring Stamploration pie stamp and die

Word Art Wednesday #772 -- anything goes 

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2640 -- anything goes

A Cut Above -- die cuts

Polkadoodles challenge -- anything goes

 

 

Sparkly dancer

 I paired some very old patterned paper with this sweet dancer image from All Dressed up, along with a sparkly sentiment and sequins, of course. The image is colored with pencils.

This card is entered in these challenges: 

All Dressed UP Challenge #177 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #770 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2638  -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations  #246  -- anything goes

Digi Chooseday -- anything goes

Polkadoodles challenges-- anything goes 

A big hello

 It finally feels like fall here, so I made a fall-ish card, inspired by the inspiration photo at Inspiration Station. The die-cut leaves are sponged with colors from the photo -- they haven't shown up where I live yet, but they will in another three weeks or so.  The die-cut sentiment is placed on a vellum "shadow" and then on a strip of cardstock stamped with a gingham pattern. I found a piece of what we used to call "fun fiber" and tied a little bow under the sentiment.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Inspiration Station #89 -- inspiration photo

The Pick 3 Challenge #9 -- brown, checks, leaves

Time Out Challenge #322-- seasonal colors where you live

Word Art Wednesday #770  -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2638 -- anything goes 

Trucking towards Christmas

It's that a cute image?  It's actually a piece of repurposed, and very shiny, Christmas wrapping paper. I glued it to a piece of card stock and let the glue dry. Then I did a little out-of-the box die-cutting (to get the front end of the truck in), and mounted it on a second die-cut from green card stock.  The sentiment is a sticker, which I placed on a piece of beige card-stock (I thought white would be too stark against the gold background on the truck) and trimmed to size.

This card is entered in these challenges

CRAFT #789 -- Christmas

ABC Christmas -- T is for transport

Die-cut Divas -- recycle/repurpose (used a snippet of wrapping paper for main image)

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- transport it

Word Art Wednesday #770 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2637  -- anything goes