Slimline Christmas

 I'm just getting into slimline cards, and I used the current sketch at SCS to create a Christmas card. The snow-covered ground is torn card stock, the trees are cut from a sparkly white paper, and the silver circle is the moon. I found a good use for almost the very last bit of one of my favorite patterned papers for the edges.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Crafty Sentiments -- anything goes

The Holly & the Ivy #82 -- anything Christmas

Pammie's Inky Pinkies # 2043 -- anything goes

Word ARt Wednesday #462 --anything goes

Rudolph Days Challenge -- anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #513 -- anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Happy Halloween

 

It's mid-October, so Halloween is almost here. Deanne has a super-cute inspiration for us in the new PINspirational Challenge. (I go for cute Halloween over scary Halloween, so this pin was perfect for me.)  Hope you'll have a chance to create a project and link up to the challenge blog.

My project began with a stamped image that's been sitting in my stash for a while (I'm pretty sure Princess Judy sent it to me.)  I colored it in pencils. To frame it, I chose a some patterned paper from an old Halloween stack, and the papers in that stack are specifically designed to hold photos because an image is partially cut out and you can tuck an image into the slit. The pattern on the piece I chose echoed the tilework int he background of the inspiration photo and made it look like a big bat is flying over the witch. How fun is that?

For the sentiment, I turned to the computer to make a super-vertical sentiment, which I printed out on a snippet of white cardstock and matted on a snippet from the same Halloween stack. The witch is matted on another snippet from the stack. 

For the final embellishment, I found a couple of old eyelets shaped like ghosts.  (I guess the phrase "old eyelets" is redundant. When was the last time you bought eyelets??)

The witch card is entered in these challenges:

Pixie's Snippet Playground #389 -- use snippets

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Crafty Sentiments -- Anything goes

Up, up and away

 

I am very slowly starting to make Christmas cars, and I tried my hand at one in the slimline format. It's really very CAS.  The stamps are all from the same set from Whimsy Stamps. First I stamped the cityscape in black ink on a gray panel, then added the Santa and sleigh image flying off after leaving all the gifties.  The sentiment is in red, and there are a few gemstones to a) make it a little more festive and b) fill some space. 

This card is for these challenges:

ABC Christmas --Up in the Air

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge -#512 - anything Christmas

Word Art Wednesday #460--anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2042 -- anything goes

Stockings were hung

 

Because I couldn't craft for so long, I'm way behind on Christmas cards.  I used the SCS sketch to come up with a quick one.  The central image features a  BoBunny stamp, which is red embossed and matted on a red-and-white printed snippet. It's popped up on foam tape to make room for the striped baker's twine behind it. 

I edged both the sentiment and the central panel with a little red ink, just because I think it makes the element stand out more.

(Just a note, the background paper is looking blue on my computer screen, but it is definitely green. After multiple attempts to take a photo that better reflects the color, you've got to take my word for it.)

This card is entered into these challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #511 --use a stocking

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge  --use patterened paper

Word Art Wednesday #460 -- anything goes

Crafty Sentiments -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2041 -- anything goes

The Holly and the Ivy #81 -- anything Christmas

Autumn Wreath

 

Here's a simple autumn card featuring some lovely die-cut leaves and a twig wreath. (I have made some actual twig wreaths that I use on my front door, and I do make them pretty spare like this one.)

The sentiment is one of my favorite one for fall cards. (I have it on a stamp, but it's surrounded by leaves on the stamp, so I computer-generated this one.)

This card is entered in these challenges:

Double D -- wreaths

Creative Inspiration -- Anything goes

Die-cut Divas -- fall

CRAFT #572 --autumn

Word Art Wednesday #460 -- anything goes

It's fall about you...

 

Hello, and happy fall. 

And fall is more or less the theme of the new PINspirational Challenge. (At least that's how the inspiration photo inspired me.)  The plaid and apples gave me the basis for my card.  

The apple image is from The Alley Way Stamps--the name of the set is Fall About You, hence the name of this post. I stamped the apple on a green snippet and a plaid snippet, then die-cut the green in a circle and fussy cut the inside of the apple from the plaid. The sentiment is computer generated on another snippet, and I used the very last bit of the pliad snippet under the sentiment.

To join in the fun at PINspirational Challenge, just create a project inspired by the pin. (It doesn't have to be a card.). Be sure to link up at the Challenge blog. 

I am entering my card in these challenges:

Crafty Sentiments -- anything goes

Catch the Bug -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2040  Anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #458  -- anything goes

Pixie's Snippet's Playground # 388 -- use snippets

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper