WOW (or white on white).

This is the card I would have entered in the Just Rite challenge, if only I had finished it a few minutes before the challenge closed last night!

Baubles are stamped with Just Rite Deck the Halls stamps and die cut with Spellbinders Heirloom ornaments. I used three different types of white card, did it work?

I die cut the frame with Resplendent rectangles, and I used an edge die and infill for the panel. The poinsettia die is Spellbinders, my newest die. The snowflakes are Spellbinders too. The branches are from Deck the Halls and I hand cut them. All stamped images are stamped in clear ink and embossed with White Pearls Stampendous embossing powder. I used a couple of different white ribbons from Crafty Ribbons, and finally added some flat back pearls and gems. There is at least one challenge I can enter, when I find it again.

I have entered the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge blog - white Christmas (Saturdays)

Coffee Chocolate and cards - monochromatic (does white count?)

Crafty Ribbons challenge - anything goes with ribbon (Thursdays)

Creative Card Crew - Pearls (Tuesdays)

Stamping Sensations - Christmas (Nov challenge)

It's a Quirky Cheesey Christmas in August!

Nearly every challenge blog has done Christmas in July, but we are Quirky so it is Christmas in August. As well as that you need to use three cheesey triangles from Lyn's Quirky tub of cheese!

I used a Bugaboo image, non traditional colours, made my own background and layers, so I have 4 things, you only need 3 though!

I love these cute little penguins, and I didn't check which image Lyn was using - or colour! Great minds think alike, well sort of as you will see if you hop over to Quirky!

I decided to use a Hero Arts Sizzix embossing folder combo for the first time. I dabbed pale and dark ink on the stamp, which sort of worked, and after stamping embossed it. I quite like the effect. I was thinking about another paper maybe made on the Gelli Plate but had absentmindedly stuck the panel down already. 

The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, the bauble and branch are part of a Just Rite stamp set which has two corresponding die sets, but only for the baubles. I coloured the images with Promarkers and added stickles, and ink was Memento and Versacolor. The greeting in the bauble doesn't show up well, you need to make the photo bigger to see.

My second card is made using Bugaboo image (x2), non traditional colours and two of everything, two images, two fancy die cuts, two purple rectangles, two freebie papers from a magazine, two ribbons from the Crafty Ribbons lime dots collection, and 2 x 3 green flat back pearls. Howzat!

Hop on over to Quirky Crafts to see more great examples, and to join in. You could win Crafty Ribbons or Bugaboo images from our generous sponsors, and who doesn't want to win those!

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Catch the Bug - Bingo (something beginning with D - decorate the tree, Bugaboo image, bold colours).

(The first card could also qualify, D for die cuts, Bugaboo image and no DPP)

ABC Christmas challenge P - penguin, pearls and pretty colours.

Joanna Sheen - Embossing - first card, heat and dry embossing.

A few more cards

Yes I am still making cards, haven't finished yet. I cased the bauble card from Wickedly Wonderful Creations Blog. When I saw the card there I had already cut and embossed my baubles, and had a couple of card blanks I cut last year, but it was the greenery that caught my eye and I have that punch, so borrowed the idea.

 

 All card blanks cut with Sizzix Bigz XL dies, the tree apeture with Movers and Shapers. The bauble is a Cuttlebug die and folder combo, the shape behind is a Spellbinders Nestabilities large label die, greenery is punched with a Martha Stewart punch, shapes are embossed with holly using a Cuttlebug folder. Finally the tree card has a greeting stamped with Just Rite stamps from the Merry Little Christmas set. Gems were added to all cards and ribbons to the bauble cards and I used Papermania 3d glue dots.

Hope you like.

Still making cards

I was up until gone 1a.m. in the morning and I don't have a lot to show for it. But then I slept until 11 a.m. so lost a morning. I do feel awful, have a bad sinus headache. I ventured out to post the last of the cards to post, which probably won't get there now, and I saw a bus slip on the ice and end up on the pavement, just missing the car in front of me.
We have a covering of snow, and it is snowing again now, but the snow from yesterday froze overnight so it was very slippery. I did get all the Christmas bits out and found a few card blanks I had cut before, and some Lily of the Valley die cuts which I used to make these quick cards. The first one is cut using Sizzix Movers and Shapers and the tree is an apeture with a contrasting tree inserted that is inside the card, and I have another card in the reverse colours!

Quirky Crafts Weekly Challenge 15

I still haven't got my photo programs sorted out but I grabbed this from Quirky Crafts Forum thanks to Fe who put it on there for me. The challenge this week is set by Anne and is a recipe: two shades of pink, one ribbon and three eyelets. I used dark and light pearlescent card cut using the Sizzix XL mover and shaper die with a tree shape, and I used the darker colour tree which is stuck to the inside so it shows through the aperture. The tree is decorated with gems, and a star which is on the outside. I stamped a greeting with my new Just Rite stamps (won in the Christmas blog hop) and the circle Nestabilities, and some ribbon I recieved as a RAK from Deanne, thanks Deanne for that and the rest especially the little choccy bar, yum! Finally I added three pink star eyelets. A pretty quick card to make really.

 I was trying to clear a space to make this, and find a box for the Just Rite stamps to live in and I knocked over a tub full of bits, you know the kind, you just pop odd eyelets, stamped images, spare die cut shapes etc in it, well there was a lot and it went everywhere!  I did find things I had forgotten were there though.

I won blog candy from Just Rite Stamping

Wow, I just found out I won the blog hop Christmas candy from Just Rite Stamping blog! Jumps up and down squeeking loudly! The link to the post where you can find out what I won is here on the Just Rite Stamping blog, I am so looking forward to trying this stamping system for the first time!

The stamping system is designed to be used with Spellbinders Nestabilities dies I believe, and they do look good. I will probably have to add to my new collection, there is a darling Christmas set called Something Sweet, I would need the bigger size wood handle too.