The Greetery and Spellbinders Christmas money envelope

Hello everyone and welcome to the new gathering at Addicted to Stamps and More.

This time we are looking for diecuts and/or stencils on your design.

One of my sons requested cash for his Christmas present because he was saving for a computer. I don't know why, but I don't really like giving cash for presents and I wanted to pretty it up when I gave it to him, so I made a gift envelope to put it in.

 

I began by stencilling some blue snowflakes onto white card using the Snowfall stencil from Honey Bee.

To make the envelope, I used The Greetery Stationery Box Die. I trimmed the sides of the box into an envelope shape and cut out a half-circle with one of the dies.

   

To enable the envelope to open without having to tear it, I made a large sentiment from the Spellbinders Stylish Merry Christmas die and tucked the flap behind it.

 

I'm sorry that the photos aren't good - it was a really dark day and I had to use flash which changed the colours. The snowflakes are brighter and the sentiment is a Christmas red irl!

I'd like to play along at

Girls Creative Christmas Challenge #109 - snowflakes

Inkspirational Challenge #333 - snow 

Rudolph Days Challenge January - anything Christmas

My Time to Craft Christmas #104 - rectangle base

Creative Moments Challenge #266 - winter blues

Craft Challenge #747 - Christmas

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x

Lisa Horton Layered Anemone and Curvy Rectangles get well card

 

Hello everyone, and welcome to the year's first challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

This time we are happy to see cards for any occasion and I came up with this one using some new dies from Lisa Horton:-

I die-cut the Lisa Horton Curvy Rectangle dies and made a base card with the largest one. For the centre panel, I took the diamond die in the set but embossed it rather than cut it to add some background texture.

I die-cut the pretty anemone flower and a PTI butterfly and arranged them on the card.

A sentiment from Papertrey Ink, finished it off.

My talented Design Teamies are back and raring to go after the Christmas break, so you will find lots of inspiration on the ATSM blog. We are sorry to say goodbye to Izzy who will not be joining us this year. I'll miss seeing your gorgeous inspiration for the challenges, Izzy and wish you good luck with your future endeavours.

I'd like to play along at

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #245 - anything goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge January 25 - add a die-cut

Crafty Cats Challenge #685 - anything goes

Cut it Up Challenge #321 - something new with dies

Craft Rocket Challenge # 121 - use something new

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x

The Greetery Nordic Tree Christmas card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to a new year of fun at ABC Christmas Challenges

I hope you had a healthy and peaceful holiday season. We took our tree and decorations down yesterday and, as usual everywhere looks a bit bare after all the colour and shimmer has gone. I'm off to get some flowers later to cheer the place up. Have you made any crafty resolutions for this year? I'm resolved to keep my craft space organised and to try some other platforms now that so few people are visiting blogs any more. If you have any tips in this regard, I'd love to hear them! 

Our first challenge of the year is 

A for Anything Christmas Goes 

and/or

Buildings

The lovely Helen is our host this time and she has this prize for the randomly chosen winner

I came up with this card for my Anything Goes card.

I had some watercolour paper in my stash that I had used to mop up some green ink and this came in handy for my new Nordic Tree die from The Greetery. The background was embossed with a star embossing folder from Creative, and the sentiment is an old die from Paper Smooches. I really like this tree die and hope to play with it again soon

Before you clear away all your Christmas supplies, why not join us this time and start on your stash for next year? The Design Team has some great inspiration on the ABC blog, and they would love for you to visit them and leave some nice comments.

I'd like to play along at

A Cut Above Challenge: January - use a new die option

Girlz Creative Christmas Challenge #106 - anything Christmas goes

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #70 - anything Christmas goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge January 2025 - add a die-cut

Craft Rocket Challenge #121 - something new (tree die)

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x

Mama Elephant Reindeer and Decorate the Tree Christmas card

 Hello everyone and I hope you are well and happy.

Well, the year has whooshed by and we have come to the final challenge of the year at ABC Christmas Challenges.

This time the themes are 

Y for Your favourite colours

and/or 

Z for Zoo animals

I love traditional colours at Christmas so I went for mostly red and green.

I used a couple of Mama Elephant stamp and die sets - Reindeer and Decorate the Tree. After stamping and die-cutting the elements, I coloured them very simply with Copic markers and arranged them on the card. I found the mat in my leftovers box and can't remember which die was used to cut it. I must finally get around to organising my dies next year!!!

To finish off I added a silver star to the top of the tree and added some gloss pen to the light strings.

We have a ton of inspiration for you over on the ABC Christmas Challenge blog and it would be lovely to see your festive cards in the gallery.

I'd like to play along at

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #93 - if it Christmassy, link it up.

The Cutie Pie Challenge #201 - cute Christmas

Christmas with the Cuties #88 - cute and Christmas

Peace on Earth Challenge #77 - - anything Christmas goes

Dragonfly Dreams December Challenge - Christmas

Colourful Options December - use the colours red green and gold

I'd like to thank you all for visiting my blog over the past year and send only good wishes for a very Happy Christmas and a healthy 2025. Of course, a bit of world peace wouldn't go amiss as well!

Love and hugs,

Carol x

Kristina Werner and Lisa Horton monochrome balloon birthday card

Hello everyone and welcome to the year's final challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

 

We all need lots of birthday cards throughout the year so this is a good time to add to your stash for 2025. I came up with this monochrome card with a larger format of 5.75 by 8.25 inches.

I started off with a mat made with a Lisa Horton Bubble Rectangle die which I cut from teal card. I added 3 balloons stamped and die-cut from an old Crafter's Companion stamp and die set called Balloon Sentiments.

The birthday sentiment was made with my new Kristina Werner Happy Birthday Word stamps and dies and I added this along the bottom of the mat and put the sub sentiment on the balloon ties.

My talented DT mates have lots of inspiration for you over on the ATSM blog and it would be great if you could join us this time.

I'd like to play along at

Crafter's Cafe challenge #314 - monochrome card

Papercraft Challenge #112 - monochrome

 Dream Valley Challenge #327 - anything goes

A Cut Above challenge December - anything goes with a die cut

NBUS Challenge #69 - use NBUS - stamp and dies

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x

John Next Door Christmas Card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

This time we have our Christmas theme

I came up with this card 

I found it so hard to get a good photo this time, but the small picture at the top shows the real colour of the blue mirror card - it is lighter than the subsequent photo shows.

I used my new John Next Door Circle Snowflake Frame dies, so this came together quickly. The banner die is from another JND set, and I made a layer for it by cutting the die in the mirror card, then cutting it in half along the length and adhering it to the back of the white one.

As always, the fabulous DT has lots of inspiration for you over on the ATSM blog and you can join us over there with your Christmas makes.

I'd like to play along at

CRAFT Challenge #742 - Christmas

Creative Knockouts Challenge #535 - Tis the Season

I Spy with My Little Eye #21 - something for Christmas

Try it on Tuesdays Challenge - Traditional Christmas

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x

Penny Black and bear Christmas Card

 Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges.

For our penultimate challenge of the year, we have 2 themes to use from

W for Watercolour 

and 

X for Xylophone with this great inspiration photo to spark your creativity

I went for Watercolour and came up with this card

This cute image has been in my collection for many years. It was originally on a wooden block and, in a fit of trying to be better organised, I removed all such stamps from their blocks thinking I would remember what they were called. Hahaha.... - I should have known better! I now have a bunch of orphaned stamps that I can't part with but rarely use, so I decided to give this one an outing.

I used my Zig Watercolour pens to colour the image and placed it behind my NBUS Penny Black All-in-One Hexagon die which dry embosses a lovely border. The sentiment is from Spellbinders.

I'd like to play along at

NBUS Challenge for November

Can You Handle the Pressure - - warm drinks

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - anything goes

Daisychain Challenge #91 Christmas/winter

Craft Rocket Challenge #120 - Christmas/winter

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x