Jingle All the Way for PP796

Hello friends!  It's the 4th Sunday in July (can you believe it?) and time for the monthly sketch challenge at the Paper Players.  This week, the amazing Christy is hosting and has created a fun sketch.

I think this is sketch is a neat way to showcase three of something, like little flowers or numbers or quilt block designs.  For my card, I went with Christmas and three icon images.

This card uses images from the 2024 Simon Says Stamp/Tim Holtz Stamptember stamp and die set, including 2 sizes of postage stamp dies.  I first used the set for this card with the larger postage stamp dies, but the smaller ones worked better for this layout.

I was fortunate that the images were already stamped, colored and die cut, so it was a matter of choosing a trio.  But as it turned out, I had plenty of images ready to go, so I ended up making six cards using this layout and one where I changed it up a bit.

I'm not fond of mass production but I couldn't resist since these images were all ready to go!  I used another Tim Holtz Christmas stamp and die set for the sentiments, except for the one on the card at the top with the different layout.  That was a from a TH sentiment sticker book. The snowflakes were die cut from white glitter cardstock and I added a small red gem in the middle.  Some of the icon pieces have Glossy accents for shine.  After assembling, I decided no other embellishments were needed for all these cute cards!  Thanks for the fun sketch, Christy!

Thanks for stopping by and I encourage you to head over to the challenge blog to see all the fabulous inspiration by the the rest of the design team.  The challenge will remain open until Friday July 31st at 3pm EDT.  I hope you'll find time to join us!

Stef

• SSS/Tim Holtz Stamptember 2024 stamp and die set, including 2 postage stamp dies
• Tim Holtz Tiny Text Christmas stamps and SSS Tiny Text dies
• TH/Idea-ology Christmas Noel sticker book
• SSS Sensational Snowflake die
• SSS A2 Postage Rectangles 
• Patterned paper from stash (Honey Bee and MFT)
• Copic markers

Snowflake Stripes for Color Hues

Hello friends!  How are your plans for Thanksgiving shaping up?  It is certainly getting close as we hit mid-month, which brings a new challenge over at Color Hues!  This time the lovely Marcia is hosting and has chosen two beautiful colors for her combo.

Color Hues

The Color Hues DT is also excited to announce an addition to our team!  The very talented Bonnie Klass has agreed to join us and I know she will inspire you with her beautiful creations.

I'm also sharing my card over at the Tic Tac Toe challenge, which works for both the left column (ink blending, CAS, Die Cut) and bottom row (Die Cut, Metallic Element, Festive Sentiment).

TTTC260

I used three hues of pink along with aqua to create two modern style Christmas cards with these non-traditional colors.

The Snowflake Stripes stencil set has 3 stencils, two that create the stripes and the snowflake image and a third that could be used to color in the snowflake.  I opted to just use the first two and after completing my ink blending, I sprayed both panels with a shimmer spray for some subtle sparkle.

Next I used two different sentiments from the Simon Says Stamp Elegantly Modern Christmas sentiment set that were gold heat embossed then cut out with the matching dies.  When the panels dried, I trimmed one down for the landscape version, matting on some gold cardstock, then adhered to the white card base.  I kept the other panel A2 sized, adhered to a card base, then added a gold strip down the side.  After adding the sentiments to the cards, I used some gold glitter gems from my stash to finish things off.  These were really fast and fun to make - I know I will be making more with a variety of colors.

  

I hope these colors inspire you, whether for the holidays or beyond.  Whatever you're inspired to make I sure hope you'll join us!  The challenge remains open until 9 a.m. EST, Friday November 29th. In the meantime, be sure to visit the challenge blog (linked above) to check out all the beautiful cards my super talented teammates and our guest designer Teresa created!

Thanks for visiting!  Take care and if you're celebrating Thanksgiving later this month, I hope you have a lovely time with family and/or friends.

Take care!

Stef

• SSS Snowflake Stripes Stencils
• SSS Elegantly Modern Christmas Stamps & Dies
• Altenew Baby Pink, Fuchsia, Magenta and Aqualicious inks
• Hero Arts White Iridescent Shimmer Spray

Wishing You Joy for Christmas Craft Creations

Hello friends!  Today's card is for the reminder post at Christmas Craft Creations, where this month we're asking participants to use an embossing folder or stencil.  Easy-peasy, right?

Christmas Craft Creations

I tried a new technique that I saw Jennifer McGuire do, and while the technique results weren't very satisfactory, I did mange to salvage the card and I like how it turned out.

I started with a panel of Tim Holtz White Heavystock, which can take a lot of water and covered the front of my panel with Villainous Potion Distress Oxide ink.  The technique entails adhering a stencil over the card stock, misting with water, then absorbing the activated ink through the stencil.  This can be done as many times as you'd like until you're happy with the amount of ink removed.  You then dry the panel thoroughly, put the stencil back in place and use a lighter color of ink through the stencil were the ink was removed.  

Well, as I applied Picked Raspberry DOX through the stencil, it just didn't seem vibrant enough, so then I tried the same color in regular Distress ink and it was too dark!  Awwkkk! So my only alternative at that point was to apply some white glitter glitz gel through it and it did turn out beautifully.

After the glitz gel dried, I trimmed the panel down and added directly to a white card base.  The Joy sentiment and sub-sentiments were silver heat embossed then adhered to the card front with thin foam tape.  For additional the final touch, a few holographic stars were added, including one in the middle of the O in Joy.  I was very happy that I managed to save my card and add it to my holiday card stash!

We would love to have you join us, the challenge stays open until Tuesday, March 12th at 6pm GMT.  

Thanks for stopping by and take care!

Stef

• Gina K Stellar Snowflake Stencil and White Glitter Glitz Gel
• Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Greetings stamps and die and Sentiment Labels die
• Trinity Stamps Oh My Stars Holographic Confetti Mix
• Villainous Potion DOX, Picked Raspberry DOX and Distress ink, Versamark