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EAD Designs Color Challenge

EAD Designs has a fabulous Color Challenge this month ... love those jewel-toned hues.

 

 

The colors coordinate perfectly with the Christmas Stamps Stickerz.

 

 

I combined one of the sweet little snowman with a Christmas Words Sentiment Stickerz (love how they fit inside a 1" circle punch).

 

The layout is this week's Unscripted Sketch, where I was thrilled to see my card from last week chosen for the Top Three.

 

 

So come join the Color Challenge fun at EAD Design for a chance to win $20 in EAD goodies ... and a January Guest Design gig (and everyone who plays gets a 25% off coupon).

Winter Snow Grid

This month at Rogue Redhead Designs we're Getting Griddy ... creating cards using grids of images.  I love how Shar repeated one of the images from Snow Hugs in her card, so I did something similar with the cute little couple from Candy Kisses.

I pulled my colors from this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge using Echo Park's Season's Greetings papers & a sentiment Stickerz from EAD Designs.

 

And my inspiration from this cute little cake at the new Get Inspired Challenge.

The Sketch is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch.

Link-up your Get Griddy Card by January 8, 2012 (you don't have to use Rogue Redhead stamps, but we love it when you do) for a chance to win a $15.00 US Voucher to the RRD Store.

Snowman Thanks

Since there are five Wednesdays in November, it's time for a Blue Moon Challenge at Gingersnap creations ... Thank You Cards. 

Lauren suggested I check out the amazing digital creations of Anna Aspnes.  I thought these wonderful snowman gift tags would make fun card elements.  I deleted the *to* and *from* from the tags and sized them to about 1 1/4" for my card.  Memory Box paper was stamped with three different Hero Arts snowflakes (Get Merry & Holiday Cheer) in Azurite ink.

The sketch is this week's Twisted Sketches with a *twist* of glitter.  I punched a white snowflake and added lots of stickles glitter for sparkle.  I finished with a EAD Rub-on sentiment.

Believe in the Magic

The talented Kryssi Ng is the featured artist at the CASE Study Challenge this month ... and this is the card to inspire us this week ... absolutely stunning

I loved the vertical and horizontal lines of the card, as well as the contrast of the sentiment with the stamped background, so those are elements I incorporated into my design.  I also used colors from this week's Color Throwdown Challenge ... which were perfect for another Christmas Tag Card.

I stamped Hero Arts Magical background in red along the bottom of a card base.

I added some chocolate chip cardstock strips (in part to disguise that after multiple attempts, I still could not stamp the background straight) and my 3-D gift tag.  The sentiment is an EAD Rub-on.  If I did this card again, I would use a lighter blue along the bottom for less *noise* with the sentiment.

I'm also joining the fun at the Tag You're It Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

My husband took a new blog picture for me this afternoon ... although for the life of me, I can't figure out how to display any larger photo on the sidebar of my blog.  Here's the full shot.

My necklace is called Tuscan Sun & is from one of my all-time-favorite Etsy Stores ... TzaddiShop ... I get compliments every time I wear it ... and it's two-sided for two different looks.  If you're looking for a unique and very classy holiday gift ... check it out.

Merry & Bright

This week's at Twisted Sketches the *twist* is shine ... I love the shiny sparkle of these dimensional gift tags I picked-up in the wrapping paper section, so I decided to make this dazzling reindeer the focal point of my *shiny* design.

And I Shopped My Stash for scraps of paper (including shiny silver metallic) and some neglected paper punches for their Christmas-themed challenge.

I finished my design with an EAD Stickerz sentiment.

Peaceful Snowflakes

This week at Jingle Belles the prompt is to make a card for friends and family who don't necessarily celebrate Christmas ... could be Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, or just a winter "thinking of you" card.

My go-to theme is usually peace ... something I think everyone can embrace ... often paired with snow, which I find peaceful.  For this card, I used a pre-made dimensional glitter tag I found in the gift wrapping section at Michael's.  There were 12 tags for $2.99, which is significantly cheaper than buyout a dimensional embellishment like this in the crafting section.

And the good news is that there are four different tags in the package, so I could make multiple cards using the same theme.  These are also perfect for the Let it Snow Challenge at Moving Along with the Times.

I combined K&Company's Que Sera Sera papers with some Fiskars shimmer paper (white on one side and the small purple hearts on the other).

The sketch is November's Sketch for You to Try ... and the sentiment is a favorite John Lennon quote from Peddler's Pack.  I stamped it on the white shimmer paper and embossed.  I finished with some opalescent gems that went with all of the color combinations.

Can't wait to see what you create.

Ghosted Snowflakes

At Just Us Girls, they're trying the Ghosting Technique, which was new to me.  I've done a lot of emboss resist, but have never tried it without embossing.  

I thought this month's Hero Arts Color Challenge might be fun to try with the technique, but unofortunately, the hues weren't quite dark enough to get the full effect (and I'm sure it didn't help that my pool inkpad was almost dry).

I stamped the Hero Arts Stunning Snowflakes in White Pigment ink on White cardstock and heat set. Next I applied the Pink, Pool, and Green ink over the snowflakes ... it sort of reminds me of a wintery tie dye.

The resist was almost indistinguishable, so I inked the stamp a second time with white ink, rotated it, and stamped again to get a little more snowflake effect.

I finished with coordinating pearls for the Hero Arts Bling it up! Challenge and added a Creamy Brown Get Merry! sentiment on a scrap of inked paper.

Merry & Bright

This clean & simple holiday card uses stickerz & rub-ons from EAD Designs together with papers from the Saint Nick Collection by Fancy Pants Designs.

I combined the Snowflakes Vinyl Rub-ons (if you haven't tried vinyl rub-ons, you really should give them a try ... soooooo much better than traditional rub-ons) together with a sentiment from the Merry & Bright Stickerz.

The sketch is this week's Fall to Layout at the Clean & Simple Stamping Blog.

Snow Softly Falling

We have a lovely guest star Noelle McAdams at Jingle Belles this week ... and here's what she had to say about her fabulous prompt idea ... Snow Softly Falling.

"When I think of winter, I think of: softly falling snow, snuggly sweaters and socks, mittens, down parkas, warm, soft cookies & coziness in general. So, that was my jumping off point for this idea of making a SOFT Christmas card/project. I recently learned how to do wool felting & I knew that was something I wanted to incorporate, as well as flocking, ribbon, & stitching. But, some other ideas of SOFT items you could use on your projects this week are: batting, velvet, fibers, denim, thick layers of embossing powder, soft silk flowers and snowflakes, pillow stickers & upholstered brads! Really, anything your brain can come up with that is SOFT, it doesn’t have to be only papercrafting products that you use, either! I encourage you to pull out those quilting, knitting, sewing, & flocking skills!"

I had a 20% off coupon at Michael's that was even good on sale merchandise (I can't resist a great deal ... especially on creative supplies), so I picked-up a few fun embellishments stickers, including these from Jolee's Boutique made of dimensional glittery felt ... love the fun little scarf element behind the layered words (click through for a closer view).

My large snowflake embellishment was die cut from stiffened white glitter felt that was then layered with a blue punched snowflake (to coordinate with the background) and a silver glitter sticker & gem.

The layout is this week's CPS Sketch.  I'm also joining the fun at the Christmas Card Challenge where this week they're celebrating stickers.

Peace on Earth

One of my favorite themes for holiday cards is Peace ... in the middle of the hustle & bustle of the holidays, I am always trying to focus and find Peace.  So, our prompt theme at Jingle Belles this week is Peace ... incorporate a Peace Symbol or the word Peace into your design ... or create a card that evokes Peace for you (snow, forest, etc.).

When I saw this "Christmas Peace Sign" t-shirt, I saved it for future inspiration.  I wanted to see if I could create a similar design with stamps & ink.

I started with good white cardstock and four colors of Distress Inks (two blue - two purple).  Next I rounded-up small snowflakes from Hero Arts Holiday Cheer & Snowflakes.

I used a pencil & roll of tape (as my pattern for the shape) and drew a very light circle.  Next, I started with the larger snowflakes positioning them around the circle & then added the smaller snowflakes to fill in space.  I primarily used the small snowflakes to create the peace sign in the middle.

I finished with a {peace on earth} sentiment from CatsLife Press.

It's also an Anything Goes theme at the Simon Says Stamp blog this week trying to reach 1,000 entries.

I hope you find peace this week ... and have fun creating a peaceful holiday card.

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