Hello everyone, and welcome to another challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges.
We have some new designers joining the team this month and it is lovely to have them with us, so it would be great if you could visit them and leave a welcome.
Our challenge this time runs until 5th March, and our host is the lovely Wilma
Our themes this time are:
C - Clean & Simpleand/orD - Distressing
I came up with C for CAS
I used the Lawn Fawn Hap-pea stamp and die set for this card to stamp, colour and die cut the peas, then added some Christmas hats from a Clearly Besotted set to make them Christmassy. I love how you can personalise the peas with the cute faces in the stamp set. The tree is from a Happy Little Stampers set, and the die-cut sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn set.
D for Distressing
For this card, I cut the Penny Black Paper Scroll die and inked it with three distress inks to age it, and then stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Christmas Rose stamp set before splattering a little ink.
The flowers and leaves are from the Creative Expressions Christmas Rose die set. I simply cut the flowers in white card, inked the centres, and then snipped through each petal so I could shape the flowers and add the flower centres. After die cutting the flower centres (can't think of the right name!), I sent them through the die cutting machine again with an embossing mat so it made them look like there is a little pollen ball on each end. I die cut the leaves from watercolour card and then sprayed them with a few colours of spray ink (blue, green and brown) until they had an authentic leafy colour. I added some Nuvo Drop berries to finish them off.
I'd like to play along at
You'll find lota of inspiration over on the ABC blog and you can link up your entries there too.
Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Carol x
21 comments:
Lovely set of cards. WakeyL
What a fun CAS first card, which looks so fresh and love those cute little peas and the fun sentiment x. The distressed card looks beautiful and love the vintage look to it Carol x. The flowers and the pollen look so pretty x.
Gosh, both your cards are absolutely stunning!
Super cards Carol..both so different but I am stunned by your second one...love those roses...absolutely beautiful and very classic. xx
WOW! both so different, but both fabulous in their own way Carol, such beautiful and clever cards.
Faith x
Oh Carol, c’est trop joli, biz
Fabulous cards - love those little peas!
Helen x
Carol S: Fabulous Christmas cards and so different from each other! I've not seen the 'hap-pea'/happy pun stamps/dies before so I found that card to be very charming! Thanks for linking to MTTCC's CAS style theme challenge! Appreciate! --Becca/DT
Wow, beautiful card, the other one is cute as well! Thank you for joining our challenge at Peace On Earth!
Diane POE DT {Nellies Nest}
{Peace On Earth}
Oh Carol I absolutely LOVE your design on this one! Just beautiful! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Peace On Earth Christmas challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often. We appreciate your support on our new challenge adventure!!
Darlene
PEACE ON EARTH CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Be still my heart, Carol, your second card is exquisitely beautiful. What an elegant, deeply lovely work of paper crafting art.
Likewise, your veggie-themed holiday season greeting is fantastic, too! So fun, creative and ripe (pun intended, sentiment fully meant) with festive cuteness.
Autumn Zenith 🧡 Witchcrafted Life
Absolutely stunning cards Carol they really are ...hugs Sue x
Two beautiful Christmas cards! What a happy sweet one with the peas on the first card, too cute! And, your second card is so gorgeous! Love those pretty flowers and the scroll die, so pretty!
Beautiful cards ... the Lawn Fawn one makes me smile!!
I'm loving those little peas! Then I saw your second card and it blew me away... What a stunner Carol... Brilliant!
Carol your card is adorable!!! Thanks for playing along with us at Winter Wonderland Challenge!!
Patty DT
Beautiful Holiday card; love the vintage look. Thank you for sharing with us at Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge.
Lovely work.
Thank you for joining the challenge at 12 months of Christmas cards link up and My Time to Craft Christmas
What gorgeous cards Carol, super cute peas and those Christmas roses are stunning xx
Gorgeous cards, Carol. I love the CAS one, so fun!
Two beautiful cards - that first one really made me smile!
Thanks for joining us at the 12 Months of Christmas Challenge.
Helen x
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