Scenic Bauble

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog. My header for December is one of my backyard bird boxes which during the Spring and Summer is home to families of bluebirds. A squirrel was enjoying breakfast on the bird house patio this morning! My card today is for the challenge over at Christmas Craft Creations. 

The Challenge for December is to make a scene!

I began with stamping the scene on glossy white cardstock with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and heat embossing with Clear Detail.

The Sweet Poppy bauble stencil was placed over the scene and I applied Broken China ink to the bauble area. 

The inked scene was die cut and then spritzed with water. It gives a lovely mottled effect.

The stencil was placed on white glossy cardstock again and I colored the leaves with Peeled Paint and the ribbon with Iced Spruce. A red Copic marker was used for the berries.

The die cut bauble was then taped on top.

The panel was layered to a light blue mat and then layered onto a white card base to finish off my card for today.

Below you will find the products that I used for my card today:

Hero Arts Stamp K5524

Sweet Poppy Christmas Bauble Stencil and Die set

Distress Oxide inks: Broken China, Peeled Paint, Iced Spruce

Versafine Clair Nocturne

Clear Detail Embossing Powder

Mister

Red Copic

Silver Thread

I hope that I have inspired you to join in the Challenge over at Christmas Craft Creations. 

I'd like to join in the following challenges with my card:

Peace on Earth Challenge #5

Crafty Calendar Challenges - December - Christmas

Sweet Stampin' December - Anything Christmas

Winter Wonderland - Anything Christmas

Happy Holidays!

Shona

A Winter Wonderland

 Thanks for stopping by my blog today. My card is for the Holly and Ivy Challenge, where it is always an anything goes challenge. I found this old wood-mounted Hero Arts scene stamp the other day, which I've been playing around with. Here is one of the cards I made using it.

Using the Kaleidacolor Spectrum Blue Breeze ink pad with a brayer, I inked up a piece of glossy cardstock.

I then sprayed a light mist of water at the top edge of the darker blue and let the water drip down a little. This was then dried with the heat tool. Once it was dry, I rubbed the entire piece with the anti-static bag, before inking and stamping with Versafine Clair Nocturne. 

The inked image was then heat embossed with Clear Detail. After more anti-static powder was applied, I stamped the sentiment using my stamp platform also in the Nocturne ink and heat embossed with Clear Detail.

I cut the panel down a little on the top and the bottom edges and adhered it to an 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" glossy card base. A blue organdy ribbon was tied around the left edge to finish it off!

Below you can find the products I used today:

Hero Arts stamp K5524

Sparkle N Sprinkle Winter Swirl stamp set 414

Kaleidacolor Blue Breeze ink

Versafine Clair Nocturne ink

Clear Detail embossing powder

Nuvo Light mist sprayer

Blue Organdy ribbon

I hope this inspires you to join in the challenge over at the Holly and Ivy?

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American blog friends!

Hugs,

Shona

 

Snowgirl Gate Fold Card

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog. Today I have another Christmas card, this time for the Challenge over at Christmas Craft Creations, where this month, the theme is fun folds. I went with a Gate Fold card for this one and I think I am going to make a few more of these and use up some of my many Christmas papers.

I began with making my gatefold by taking a piece of red cardstock 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and scoring at 2 1/4" off each long end.

The ends were folded in and then I cut two pieces of designer paper from Michaels at 5 1/4" x 2" and attached them with tape.

The little snowgirl (from Sparkle N Sprinkle Snow One Like You set) was stamped on white cardstock in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.

She was then colored with Copics and attached to a red matte.

I placed snowflakes (from the same set) around the stamped image in the stamp positioner and those were inked with Versafine Clair Verdant ink and were heat embossed with Sparkle powder.

 I added some Best Glue ever and Twinkling Clouds flocking to her hat.

The focal panel was attached to the card base with mounting foam. That finished off my card for today.

I hope you've enjoyed visiting today? And that you will take a look over on the Christmas Craft Creations challenge page and check out what the other designers came up with. Lots of creative inspiration there!

Below please find the products that I used in the card today.

SNS Stamp Set 515 Snow One Like You

Versafine Clair Inks: Nocturne, Verdant

Sparkle embossing Powder

Copic Markers

Best Glue Ever

Twinkling Clouds flocking

Mounting Foam

Till next time,

Shona

Merry Christmas Bauble

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog. My November header was taken at the New York Botanical Garden last week, when a few of my Master Gardener buddies and I took a trip there. I believe it is a Catbird enjoying the berries of the Callacarpa. We had a beautiful, though brisk, day taking in the Fall foliage!

My card today is for the Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge, which is always an anything goes challenge. I hope you will join in the fun, while adding to your Christmas card stash! You know it will be here before we know it! 

I had recently been "enabled" into acquiring the Sweet Poppy Christmas Snowflake Bauble stencil and die set. This was the first time I had played with it. I will be definitely be getting this back out to play around with.

Using the stencil on white cardstock and a piece of scrap paper to try to mask off areas not to be inked (not terribly successful on that, I may add), I used Memento inks Olive Grove and Love letter with a finger dauber to color in the ribbon and the greenery sprigs.

A red Copic marker was used for the berries.

After die cutting, not terribly straight, I inked up the entire ribbons.

I die cut the bauble from red cardstock and the Die-versions Merry Christmas Present die from green cardstock. 

The sentiment was attached to the bauble with a gold eyelet. The Mistletoe Moments embossing folder was run through the machine using the same cardstock as sentiment. 

This was layered on to red carstock, then layered to a white card base. The bauble was attached with tape and mounting foam.

A piece of red and beige bakers twine was tied around the spine to finish off the card for today.

Below, you will find the products used on my card today:

Sweet Poppy Christmas Snowflake Bauble

  Stencil and Die

Memento Inks: Olive Grove and Love Letter

Finger Daubers

Red Copic

Die’sire Embossalicious Mistletoe Moments embossing folder

Die-Versions Merry Christmas Present die

Gold Eyelet

Red and brown bakers twine

Please take a look over on the Holly and the Ivy Challenge blog and see the other design team members' inspirations. We look forward to seeing your entries!

Till next time,

Shona

Let it Snow

 Hi everyone and welcome back! Today I have another Christmas card for the Holly and Ivy Challenge. This is always an anything goes theme, so a good way to build up your Christmas card stash! I hope you will consider joining along with the challenge this month. Only two more months till the big day!!

I ran the Snowflakes embossing folder through my embossing machine with blue cardstock. I then direct inked the embossed areas with Brilliance Moonlight White pigment ink. 

This was covered with Sparkle embossing powder and once heat embossed the corners were punched with the snowflake punch.

Placing a piece of double stick tape to a scrap of white cardstock, I die cut the Memory Box Lindeman Snowflake die.

The protective backing was removed carefully:

... then Bridal glitter was applied to the sticky side! A foam mounting pad was added behind the center of the snowflake, covered also in the Bridal glitter, which would then be attached to the front of the card.

I then cut a window from the snowflake background, with the Stampin' Up window punch, I made it a little deeper to accommodate the sentiment. This was then attached to the white base card and then using the Stamp Platform, the Hero Arts sentiment was placed in the "window".

The snowflake was then added to the front of the card.

A piece of matching blue organdy ribbon was tied around the card. That finished the card for today. Below is a list of the products that I used in my card today.

Hero Arts Stamp Set CM179

Sizzix Snowflakes embossing folder

Memory Box Lindeman Snowflake die

Brilliance Moonlight White Pigment ink

Sparkle embossing powder

Versafine Clair Blue Belle ink

Clear detail embossing powder

Stampin’ Up window punch

Fiskars Snowflake corner punch

Corner rounder

Double Sided Tape

Bridal glitter

Foam mounting tape

Blue organdy ribbon

Hope I've inspired you to play along in the Holly and Ivy Challenge!

Till next time!

Shona

Oh Christmas Tree!

Hi there, I'm back today with a card for the challenge over at Christmas Craft Creations. 

This month our theme is Black and White with one other color.  

My other color is green. My camera was getting repaired last week, so again, there are no step by step photos. I was looking through my Christmas die stash and I came upon the Your Next Die - Christmas Tree die, which I don't think I have ever used. So I decided to make my card with snowy hills, dotted with Christmas trees.

I took scraps of white cardstock and applied 2 1/2 inch double stick tape, before running it through the machine with the die. The Christmas trees had the protective backing removed and then Misty Isles glitter was applied to the sticky adhesive. The rest of the protective backing was then removed and Bridal glitter was applied for the snowy hill. I did this three times. One was taped down to the black (sky) panel, that I found on my desk. Then I cut up the other two and staggered the hills and trees so that the layers were different from each other. 

The sentiment from Hero Arts CL343 was stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with White Detail embossing powder. It was die cut with a Lawn Fawn labels die. I stuck this on to the sticky surface of the last hill before applying the Bridal glitter.

The scene was layered on to a matching piece of green cardstock and was then layered to a white card base. A green ribbon completed the card for today.

You can find the products used in my card below:

Hero Arts CL343

Your Next Die Christmas Tree die

Lawn Fawn Labels die

Double Stick tape

Misty Isles Glitter

Bridal Glitter

Versamark ink

White detail powder

Green organdy ribbon

I hope this will inspire you to join in the fun over at the Christmas Craft Creations challenge, using Black and White plus one!

I'd like to join in the following challenges with my make:

My Time to Craft Christmas - Glitter and Sparkle

Peace on Earth Challenge #1

Till next time, happy stamping!

Shona

Holiday Joy

Hi there - I'm so glad you stopped by! Can you believe it is October already? My header today is one of my last tagged Monarchs. This year I have tagged 35 of these beauties and I hope that one of them may make it to Mexico and be found. Today I am sharing my first Christmas card for October for the Holly and Ivy Anything Goes Challenge.

My two cameras were in getting worked on again! So I only had my camera phone and I so there won't be any steps here, though I think it is self-explanatory. Decided to go with an untraditional Christmas palette. Maybe this would work for a couple expecting a baby - the flamingo is posing as a stork??

I stamped the flamingo (old Sparkle N Sprinkle set) - Christmas Flamingo) in Versafine Clair Nocturne using the stamping platform. I colored with Copics, then returned it to the platform and stamped again with the same ink and heat embossed with Clear Detail. This was die cut with the Sizzix Dotted Ovals set. A pink and blue oval were also cut and were taped down to a white panel.

Holiday Joy was also from the same set and was also stamped with Nocturne and heat embossed with Clear Detail. This was die cut with the Tonic Layering Basics Traditional Hearts die.

The blue ribbon bow was tucked under the focal panel and then the flamingo was attached with mounting tape for dimension and more dimension was used for the sentiment. This was layered to a pink layer and then on to the white card base.

Brushable glue and white flocking were added to the hat trim and pompom and then Nuvo Glitter Accents - Fresh Snowfall were added to the light bulbs. 

Hope you liked my share today! Please take a look over at the Holly and Ivy Challenge, to see what my Teamies have prepared for you and maybe you'll be inspired to play along! It's always an anything goes theme.

Below please find the products used in my card today:

SNS Christmas Flamingo set

Versafine Clair Nocturne

Clear Detail embossing powder

Copics 

Nuvo Glitter Accents Fresh Snowfall

Dimensional Glue

Snow White Flocking

Sizzix Dotted Ovals dies

Tonic Layering basics Traditional Hearts dies

Blue organdy ribbon

Mounting Tape

I'd like to join along with the new Peace on Earth Challenge #1 with my card today.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Take care,

Shona

Peace Love and Joy Stockings

 Hi there and thanks for stopping by today! I have a card to share with you today for the Holly and Ivy Challenge.

This was a fun little make for me! I had kept all the MacKenzie tartan ribbon from the flower arrangements of my eldest son, Struan's wedding in October, 2018. Maybe I'll have to keep this one for them!

I cut out the stockings using the Memory Box Stockings die, after backing it with double sided tape.

Aren't these the cutest?

I then die cut the cuffs with double sided adhesive also. 

I removed the backing off the tape and then applied flockings, Imperial Blue, Grass Green and Snow White flocking.

Next step was to die cut the ribbons from Gold metallic cardstock. Since I was going to have a gold layer to the finished card, I die cut the ribbons from the center of the card piece, so as to not waste any cardstock!

Now to create my mantel! I found some wood grain cardstock in my stash and so attached that to the brick embossed panel. Then I placed all the stockings and their ribbons before attaching them to the card.

The fuzzy cuffs were mounted on top of the ribbon and stockings with mounting tape. I poked a hole through each of the ribbons bows and put a tiny eyelet for a nail on the mantel.

The sentiment is from the Hero Arts Sentiment Stamp Set CL343, I decided on Peace Love and Joy! I stamped in Versamark ink and then applied White Detail embossing powder. 

This was cut out and layered to the panel, which was then layered to the white card base to finish off my card for today!

Please find the products below that I used in my card today. I hope I have inspired you to join in the Challenge over at Holly and the Ivy?

Hero Arts CL343 Stamp Set

Memory Box Special Stockings die

Plaid Ribbon

Gold Metallic Cardstock

Bronze Eyelets

Imperial Blue Flocking

Snow White Flocking

Grass Green Flocking

Darice Brick Pattern embossing folder

Red Brick Distress Oxide ink

Wood Grain patterned paper

Versamark Ink

White Detail embossing powder

Mounting Tape

Double Sided Adhesive Tape

I would like to join in the following Challenges:

Dies R Us Challenge #177: Use a die that DRU carries

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #09: ATG

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #561: Joy

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog: Christmas in September

September Rudolph Days

Till next time!

Shona

Deer Ornament Greetings

 Hi there and thank you for stopping by my blog today! Today I am sharing a card that I made for the Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. I had made a couple of Christmas tags for another challenge a while back, and used one of them to make into a card for the anything goes challenge.

The background for the tag was watercolor cardstock with Brushos, water and then I had added some Wink of Stella to give a little glimmer. This was die cut with the outline bauble die. The deer and snowflake part of the die was cut from black cardstock and this was glued down over the background. I cut the top of the bauble out of a scrap of silver cardstock.

I found a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder for my background.

 After embossing, I edged the piece with a green Copic and then swiped ink over the raised areas.

This was then layered to a piece of green cardstock, before being attached to the white card base. The sentiment was stamped with the same Olive Grove Memento ink, used for the background. 

I tucked the tag in between the sentiment and the little layer of green cardstock before attaching both to the card front with mounting tape.

That finished my card for today. I hope you will stop over to the Holly and Ivy Challenge and  join in the challenge!

Till next time,

Shona