CCC Pastel Joy

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog. My header today is Virginia bluebells. A wonderful native! I love this time of the year in the yard when all the Spring ephemerals are blooming!

This is the last card for Christmas Craft Creations, as they are going on a break for now. This month we are looking for non-traditional colors. 

In-keeping with the Spring ephemeral/pastel mode, I decided to make my ornaments from a cheerful designer paper pad.

I cut out three of the papers from the pack, and used another as the background, with the Memory Box bauble and a purple cardstock as a back-up to the ornate bauble.

I glued the ornate bauble on top of the purple base.

Both baubles were glued down.

The "bird bauble" was added with foam adhesive pads for more dimension. A line of Copic marker was added as the string.

"Joy" was die cut and then glued on to the bottom right corner.

An organdy ribbon was tied in a bow to finish off the card!

I hope that has given you some inspiration for this month's challenge? Please play along with our last challenge. Remember there are prizes to be won!

Till next time,

Shona

HAI Christmas Decorations box

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog! Today I'm sharing a card that I made for the Holly and Ivy Challenge, which as always is an Anything Goes theme.

I went back to the card kit that I had got with a magazine some time ago, which along with several coordinated papers had some extra cut out images with it too. 

I started with fussy cutting the 2nd image, and then built up on top of it with the subsequent images, using glue and foam pads to attach the pieces on top of one another.

 It does look pretty good in person, however the photos don't do it justice! I continued building it up.

Once the image was done, I added a self-adhesive sentiment and a few random stars to the front panel, which was then layered to a white card base.

A gold ribbon was added to the spine of the card to finish off.

Hope I've inspired you to play along in the challenge.

Till next time,

Shona

CCC Baubled Season Greetings

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog!

Today I have a card for the Christmas Craft Creations Challenge, where this month they would like to see creations using designer paper.

I had an old pack of coordinated papers that I had received with a magazine some years ago, and decided to pair that up with a set of bauble die cuts from Spellbinders.

I cut out several of the baubles from different papers. 

I die cut the biggest bauble from the center of the second sheet of dp, which let the base sheet show through. 

I built up the baubles using the die cuts and foam tape and added a piece of copper thread as the hangers to the back of the base layer of desgner paper, before layering that to a white card base.

The gold Season's Greetings adhesive sticker was added to the center of the bauble, with the smallest bauble being added below.

Some more copper thread was tied to the spine of the card to finish it off. Please join in the challenge with us!

Till next time,

Shona

HAI Let it Snow

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog! I'm back from Scotland after a quick week's visit and am now rather sick with some kind of virus, not anything they tested me for, but am on antibiotics and am left with a rather raspy chest cough. Getting better each day though, so that's good! Took a walk around the yard and so much has happened in a week and a half! The crocuses and daffodils are a welcoming sight!

My card today is for the Holly and Ivy Challenge, where as always it is Anything Goes!

 

I had a negative die cut of a snowflake that I had used in a previous card lying on the desk and I started with that. I applied double stick tape to the back of it and layered it on to a piece of white cardstock.

I applied Cloud Nine microfine glitter to the front of it.

This panel was then layered on to a square piece of designer paper and this was layered to a white card base.

The Let it Snow sentiment was die cut after layering a piece of double sided tape over the top of a piece of white cardstock.

The sentiment was glue across the base of the card.

When the glue was dry, I peeled off the protective cover of the tape and added three microfine glitters, white, teal and navy to the sentiment. 

The three colors showed up nicely against the different backgrounds.

A navy ribbon and a thread bow was tied around the spine of the card to finish it up. 

I hope I've inspired you to join in on the Challenge this week! 

Till next time,

Shona 

HAI Poinsettia Christmas

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog. Today I have a card for the Holly and Ivy Challenge, which is always "Anything Goes".

I chose to work with the Penny Black Poinsettia die.

I die cut the poinsettias three times from red cardstock and the flower center from yellow cardstock.

I found a piece of mottled metallic cardstock and used this as the front panel.

 I die cut the Spellbinders grommet tag also from a scrap of the same red cardstock and attached it to the piece of metallic cardstock with gold thread. The Season's Greetings was a gold sticker!

The poinsettias were assembled using glue.

The card front was layered to a white card base and then some self-adhesive gold sequins were added to the card front to finish.

That's all for today!

Thanks again for visiting!

Shona

HAI Holiday Greetings

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog. Dark-eyed Junko waiting his turn for the window feeder is my header this month! We got yet another dumping of snow at the weekend! Looking forward to Spring!

My card today is for the Holly and Ivy Challenge, where as always, it is anything Christmas goes!

I chose this stencil (Holiday Greetings and Holly) from Dreamweaver and used the watercolor paints with a paintbrush to color it in.

I scored around the edges of the focal panel and then layered it to an olive green card base.

I added five gold self-adhesive gems to the card to finish off.

Hope I've inspired you to join in the challenge! 

Till next time,

Shona

CCC Icicle Christmas

 Hi there and welcome back to my blog! We got another dumping of snow today, so my header is a little Dark-eyed Junko, waiting his turn to get to the window feeder at the kitchen!

Today my card is for the Christmas Craft Creations challenge, where they would like to see your cards featuring either an embossing folder or a stencil!

I chose to play with the Cuttlebug Christmas Words embossing Folder.

I inked up the inside of the embossing folder with Paradise Versafine Clair ink and then ran it through my embossing machine.

I then sprinkled some Sparkle embossing powder over the wet ink and heat embossed it.

Next I cut the Joy Craft Winter Wishes icicle die out of navy cardstock.

I inked the icicle up with Versamark and then applied Sparkle and heat embossed that too.

It was attached to the front panel with a silver brad.

This was then attached to a glossy white card base.

That finished up my card for today!

I hope I've inspired you to get out an embossing folder or a stencil to join in on the challenge this month?

Till next time,

Shona