Oriental Christmas

 Hi there, I'm so glad you stopped in to take a peek at my blog today! My backyard August header is the beautiful Clearwing Hummingbird Moth enjoying nectaring on Butterfly bush.

August already? My, how the months are zipping by! My card today is for the Christmas Craft Creations Design Team. This month we are asking for you to use non-traditional colors. I was going for Halloween tones for my card, using oranges and purples, but when I removed the stencil, it suddenly gave me an oriental feel? What do you think?

I recently acquired a couple of new stencils from Del Bello's Designs, after I was "enabled" by a couple of blogger friends, Diane and Darlene. I ordered the stencils from Del Bello on Thursday and I had them on Saturday! Quickest service ever!

The Sweet Poppy Holly Baubles Stencil was taped down to a piece of glossy white cardstock.

As I said, I set out using some Distress inks in Halloween colors, quickly learning that the Oxide inks worked better with the detail of the baubles!

I used a black Copic for the stems and strings for the baubles and then a purple Copic for the berries.

After lifting off the stencil, I just stamped the sentiment, from a Sparkle N Sprinkle set "Christmas Baubles".

The panel was then mounted on to a mustard card base and a piece of gold bakers twine was tied around the spine to finish off my card for today.

I do hope I have inspired you to join in the Christmas Craft Creations Challenge this month? Below please find the products used in my card today:

Christmas Baubles Stamp Set (Sparkle N Sprinkle)

Sweet Poppy Holly Baubles Stencil

Distress Inks 

Distress Oxide Inks

Copics

Mounting Tape

White and Gold Baker’s twine

Till next time,

Shona

Freezin' Flamingoes!

 Hi there, and here we are already in August! My backyard August header is a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth nectaring on Butterfly bush. 

Just like this gorgeous moth, the time is flying by, isn't it? Christmas will be on us before we know it! Good job, I have my Christmas Challenge Design teams to keep me adding to my stash!! This card is for the Holly and Ivy Challenge, which is always an anything goes challenge. I hope you will join us this month?

I began by stamping the image from the Sparkle N Sprinkle Winter Flamingoes set in Versafine Clair Morning Mist. This was then heat embossed with Clear Detail.

The image was colored with pastel colored Copics.

The sentiment included in the set was then stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne. These little flamingoes are freezin'!!

The panel was die cut with Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame Borders die, and a slightly larger one was used for the Kraft panel, which was layered to a mustard card base. The focal panel was then mounted on top with foam. Nuvo Glitter Accents Fresh Snowfall was added to the ground to give them some snow to walk on!

Brrr!

That finished off my little card for today. Below please find the products I used. I do hope to see you join in with us over on the anything Christmas goes challenge!

Winter Flamingoes (Sparkle N Sprinkle)

Versafine Clair inks, Nocturne and Morning Mist

Clear Detail Embossing Powder

Copics: pinks, browns, blues

Memory Box Cross stitched Frames Borders dies

Nuvo Glitter Accents Fresh Snowfall

Mounting Foam

Till next time,

Shona

 

Dear Santa

 Hi there and welcome to my first July post. My header for this month is one of my honey bees nectaring on Bee balm.

My card is for the Christmas Craft Creations Design Team with a theme of anything goes. So please do try to join us this month for Christmas in July and get a jump on your Christmas stash! If you join in with a project you will be in the running for some fun prizes!

I went simple with an old Sparkle N Sprinkle/Bugaboo Stella image which was stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne and heat embossed with Clear Detail. 

I colored the image with some Copics.

 I ran the image through the die cutting machine with Memory Box  Cross Stitched Frame Borders and did a little sponging of ink inside the die before I removed it. 

 This was then layered to a grey card base and I wrapped the red and white twine around to finish off my card.

Here is the list of products used on my card:

Stella - Dear Santa Sparkle N’ Sprinkle

Versafine Clair Nocturne

Clear Detail embossing powder

Copics

Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame Borders

Stampin’ Up Sahara Sand ink pad 

Red and White Twine

I hope I've inspired you to join in the fun over at Christmas Craft Creations? There are some beautiful dies and more for prizes this month - but you have to be in it to win it!! It's an easy one this month - Anything Goes!

Till next time!

Shona