Crafter's Companion Create a Card Snowdrift Christmas card

Hello there and welcome to the September Challenge over at ABC Christmas Challenges

Our themes this time are 

S for Snow
and
T for Teal

and our sponsors are 

Wild Rose Studio

For the September Challenge, one lucky entrant will win 

a Winter Cottages A5 Clear Stamp Set 

 and 

Visit our blog http://blog.craftyribbons.com
Inspiration Blog http://craftyribbonsinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/

the winner will receive

There will also be a little prize from Chrissy, our host this month.

I went with S for Snow and came up with this card

1) Take a 6 by 6 card blank and die cut the Crafter's Companion Create a Card Snowdrift die from the front.

2) Cut a 6 by 6 piece of card from the Sara Signature Winter Wonderland card pad and ink over it with blue ink, before sticking it behind the snowflakes.

3) Stamp and die cut the Papertrey Ink Fillable Frames #10 and then add the sentiment from the PTI Splits: 'Tis the Season. I had to do some stamp surgery on the sentiment but it is recovering well.

4) Cut a strip of blue mirri card and a smaller strip of pale blue card, mat them and adhere to the card before placing the sentiment frame in the middle.

5) Finish off by adding some gems to the centres of the snowflakes and a couple of stars on the side strip.

The ABC Challenges blog has lots of inspiration for you and I hope you will visit my lovely DT mates and leave some love.

Blogger was not playing nice for me today and I apologise for some of the strange colours and sizes of font in my post today. Despite wrestling for some time, I couldn't get it to behave!

I'd like to play along with

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' August challenge - anything Christmas goes

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #35 - anything Christmas goes

My Time to Craft Challenge #378 - Christmas in August

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

My Favorite Things and Crafter's Companion Dashing By Christmas card

Hello everyone and welcome to the July Challenge over at ABC Christmas Challenges. The aim of our challenge is to help us avoid the Christmas rush and stress of getting all our cards ready at the last minute, and I hope you will join us so you'll have a growing pile of lovely cards to send out.

Our themes this time are

N for Name

or

O for On... Skates etc

Sponsor

A little prize from Samantha who is our host this month 

&

Neat & Tangled

"We are a small company located in Northern Delaware, and have been in business for 5 exciting years! Our focus is on producing products that inspire creativity, and help to spread happiness! We carry a versatile mix of photopolymer clear stamps, steel craft dies, and stencils. Not only are they the best quality, but they are also produced right here in the USA! We are also known for our large variety of one of a kind sequin mixes! All of our products can be used together to create endless possibilities! We love interacting with our card making friends, so be sure to keep up with our blog, and follow us on our social media channels!" 

Prize: 

I went for O for On and have my little friend here having fun on her toboggan.

1) First, create the background by taking a square piece of white card and ink up the clouds using a stencil.

2) Add double-sided adhesive film to some white card and die cut the hillside from it. Remove the film and sprinkle glitter all over it to create the snow. If you have glitter card, you can use that instead. Raise the hill on foam and add it to the cloudy square.

3) Die cut the tree frame using Crafter's Companion/ Sheena Douglas Christmas Deer die and ink the bark through the die before removing it. Snip off the deer from the bottom of the frame and keep it for another project. Go over the trees with some glue and sprinkle on some more glitter.

4) Layer up the card with a blue pierced mat on the base card, then put on the hillside and finally raise the tree frame with some foam tape.

5) Stamp and die cut the little girl using the MFT Dashing By set and colour with Copic markers. Raise her on foam tape and place her on the hill.

6) Stamp, colour and fussy cut a little bird and place it in the tree.

7) Finish off by fussy cutting a blue banner and stamp and emboss the sentiment in white. Add this to the card and glue a couple of tiny snowballs to either side.

The ABC Challenges DT have lots of inspiration over on the blog and you have until 31st July to add your entry over there. It could be you winning one of the prizes!

I'd like to play at

12 Months of Christmas challenge #43 - anything goes

Christmas Cards All Year Round July challenge - use a tree

The Merry Christmas Challenge # 26 - anything Christmas

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' June challenge - anything Christmas

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Altenew Adore You and Papertrey Ink birthday card

Welcome to Challenge #285 over at Addicted to Stamps and More. This time we have a gorgeous inspiration photo for you

and you can interpret it in any way you like. I went with the ombre cake and flower in the bottom centre photo as my inspiration and came up with this card:-

1) Die cut a rectangle from some white card and paint it with Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens in Ice Drop and Arctic, to give a shimmery ombre effect.

2) Stamp one of the flowers and a couple of leaves from the AlteNew Adore You stamp set in Versamark Ink and emboss with white powder before colouring with Ziggies. Fussy cut around them when they are dry.

3) Die cut a white oval using a Spellbinder Oval Die and stamp the sentiment from Papertrey Ink Signature Greeting 2 using blue ink.

4) Die cut a PTI Photofinisher die from white card and place down the centre of the blue panel, then adhere it to the base card.

5) Add the oval, raising it on foam, and then arrange the flower and leaves at the bottom

6) Finish off by scattering a few pink enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by, but why not drop by the ATSM blog before you leave, to see how my talented teamies have interpreted the photo.

I'd like to play along with

Cards in Envy Challenge #19 - no patterned paper

Incy Wincy Design Challenge - no more than 3 colours excluding white - I used pink green and blue

The Paper Girls Challenge #148 - embossing

Hugs

Carol x

Baby wall art using Sara's Signature Little Angel Collection

 Hello and welcome back to our popular Anything Goes week over at  Addicted to Stamps and More challenge.

As you know, we had a new addition to our family late last year when our first Grandchild, Alice, was born.  I wanted to make something for her but I am an atrocious knitter so I raided my stash and made this wall plaque to welcome her.

1) Take a papier-mache plaque and remove the paper cord before coating it with white gesso.

2) Paint the plaque front with grey paint. I used a tester pot of emulsion paint that I had in from when we decorated my craft room. When it is dry, repeat on the back and then give everything a second coat.

3) Take the Memory Box stencil 'Stars Starry Nights' and place it on the plaque so you can spread glitter texture paste through it. This was a little time consuming because the stencil is smaller than the plaque, so you have to do it in stages, letting the paste dry each time before moving onto the next bit.

4) Die cut the Friendly Elephant ( from Crafter's Companion) using some paper from the CC Little Angel paper pad and ink through the die to enhance the features. Curl the elephant's ear and then cut it again from some white card and stick it to the back to give the image some structure.

5) Die cut the heart balloon from the Balloon Trio set from the same CC range using some stripey paper from the same pad. Cut the strings from some coordinating paper.

6) Cut three banners from grey card using one of the PTI Countdown details die and stamp and white emboss the words from PTI Wonderful Words: Baby Stamp Set.

7) Stamp the greeting on the back in Smoky Shadow ink using a mixture of Avery Elle Lovely Letters alphabet stamps and PTI Love Lives Here.

8) Finish off by adhering the elephant and balloons to the front and replacing the paper cord.

I'd like to play along at

Shopping our Stash #343 - Stashed Stencils

International Art and Soul Challenge #27 - Use stuff you already own

Alphabet Challenge - X for Xtra Special Occasion

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Crafter's Companion and Paper Smooches Christmas Penguin tag

Hello and welcome to the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge. Anything Christmas goes for this challenge but each month we have a fun twist to make it more fun, and this time the twist is 'tag'.

Our winner for the challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

As I sit writing this, I can hear fireworks going off for bonfire celebrations and I can't believe that we only have one more Christmas Challenge left before the big day. Where has this year gone?

I came up with this tag

1) I used a paper trimmer to cut a tag shape from kraft card and used a star stencil and some glitter paste to add stars along 2 of the edges.

2) While the paste was drying, I die cut the Crafter's Companion Cute Christmas Penguin and coloured the parts before assembling him.

3) I die cut the Paper Smooches Merry Christmas die twice and stacked it to give it a little more 

structure.

4) I cut another slightly larger tag from red card, placed the kraft tag on top of it and cut a hole through both of them before adding some ribbon to tie them together.

5) To finish off, I added the penguin and greeting to the tag and tied a little white bow around the ribbon.

I love this cute penguin and can see that I'll be pulling him out again soon. You'll find lots of inspiration over on the HLS Christmas Challenge blog, and I hope you'll join in with us this time. If you are anything like me, you'll be needing lots of tags at this time of year but remember anything Christmas goes!

I'd like to play at

Crafty Friends Challenge #70 - Christmas

Jingle Belles Challenge - Animals

Craft Rocket Challenge #43 - Christmas is Coming

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Clearly Besotted and Sue Wilson Christmas Rose Christmas card

Hello everyone and welcome to the November Challenge over at ABC Christmas Challenge

 our themes this time are

W- White

and/or

X marks the spot

I decided to go with the white theme and came up with this card

1) Die cut an oval from white card and stamp the sentiment from the Clearly Besotted Most Wonderful stamp set in Veramark ink and then emboss with silver embossing powder.

2) Pass the oval through a machine with the Papertrey Ink Canvas Impression Plate to give some texture.

3) Christmas Roses are my favourite winter flowers because they seem so brave when you see them peeking out from some snow in the icy depths of winter. Die cut the Christmas Rose flowers and holly sprigs from the Sue Wilson Festive Collection- Christmas Rose die set and then emboss them.

4)  Shape the flowers and arrange them around the oval, tucking the holly sprigs under them to echo the oval shape.

5) Raise the oval on the base card with some fun foam and add some glitter to the centres of the flowers. Finish off by adding some colour to the berries with a red pen.

  

Our kind Sponsors this time are

Wild Rose Studio

One lucky entrant will win this lovely Winter Cottages A5 Clear Stamp Set

and our lovely Carissa is also offering a prize

There is lots of inspiration from the Design Team over on our blog and you have until 30th November to join in with us. How will you interpret the theme? 

I'd like to play along with

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' October Challenge - anything goes

Hiding in my Craft Room Challenge # 324 - any holiday

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge # 59 - favourite flower and why - see above

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Crafter's Companion, Stampendous and Silhouette Cameo Christmas card

Hello everyone and welcome to the new challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More, and this time it is our Holiday theme.

I came up with this card

1) Take a square of white card and emboss it with the Sue Wilson Snowfall embossing folder.

2) Take another piece of card and emboss the Crafter's Companion Icy Igloo embossing folder, cut around the igloo and use a blue alcohol pen to add shade to it.

3) Bend the igloo over a rolling pin to give some shape to it and then raise it on the snowy background with some glue gel in the centre and flat glue at the edges.

4) Stamp the penguins from Stampendous, fussy cut them and colour with a red alcohol pen.

5) I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the North Pole sign and some icicles from red, white and yellow card. Add glitter to the snow,  icicles, sign, and igloo.

6) Assemble all the elements on the snowy background and mat everything onto the base card. I didn't have the right colour card for the mat, so I used the blue alcohol pen to colour around the edge of some white card.

I'd like to play along with

Christmas Card Challenges #23 - anything Christmas goes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #81 Christmas is for Kids

Christmas with the Cuties - Christmas Animals

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #16 - anything Christmas goes

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Crafter's Companion and Woodware Christmas Gatefold card

Hello everyone, and welcome to the October Challenge Challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge

Themes

U –  Unlimited = not limited or restricted
So, in other words, Anything Christmas Goes

V- Vibrant

Our sponsor this time is

Freckled Fawn

and there will be a prize from me

Craftwork Cards Build a Bloom stamp set and a pack of Handmade paper Tags and Ribbons.

Well I decided to combine the two themes this time with a vibrant colour scheme and  3 separate panels in a double gatefold card

1) Cut 3 black mats, one for each panel and adhere them to the card. Cut some red patterned paper and mat that onto the right-hand front panel.

2) Stamp and emboss the enormous stack of presents from the Personal Impressions Huge Stack of Presents stamp set and colour with alcohol pens. Once it is dry, go over the ribbons and holly berries with a clear glaze pen. Fussy cut the image and then stick the presents onto some black paper and fussy cut around it to make a mat. Stick the image to the panel with some foam tape.

3) Take a piece of white card and repeat stamp the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Woodware Christmas Ribbon stamp set, with red ink. Cut this down and adhere it to the left-hand panel. I've had both of these stamp sets for years and it was good to give them some attention for a change!

4) Die cut a stitched square from the patterned paper and layer it on the black mat.

5) Die cut the Christmas Time die from the Crafter's Companion Scandinavian Christmas line in white card and put a piece of red card behind it. Rase this on fun foam and adhere it to the centre.

You'll see how the rest of the DT followed the themes over on the ABC Christmas Challenge blog, and you have until 30th October to share your card. I hope your stack of Christmas cards is growing - not much time to go now!!!!

I'd like to play along with

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #12 - My word frame and present stack are NBUS



Always Fun Challenge #26- dies or punches



Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #197 - Fancy Folds

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink and Crafter's Companion 40th Anniversary card

Hello everyone, and welcome to another challenge over at ATSM

and this time we have the very popular Anything Goes theme. One of my best friends celebrated her Ruby Wedding Anniversary recently and I made this card for her and her Hubby.

1) Cut a square panel of Papertrey Ink Scarlet Jewel card (perfect for a Ruby Anniversary), with a pierced square die,

2) Stamp and white emboss the sentiment from PTI Big Birthday Wishes stamp set.

3) Die cut the numbers from Crafter's Companion Fun with Numbers dies, and before removing the card, ink through using the die as a stencil. Add the numbers between the stamped sentiment and raise them on foam tape.

4) Die cut a scalloped heart and stamp, the heart from PTI With All My Heart in Scarlet Jewel Ink. This is a three-step stamp set, so go back and stamp the roses and then the leaves before adding a little sentiment on the banner.

5) Die cut and stamp two Champagne glasses from the PTI Propose a Toast set and emboss the drink with clear embossing powder.

6) Layer everything up on a CC side stepper card and finish off by stamping the Happy Anniversary from the Clearly Besotted Paired Up stamp set.

Why not hop over to the ATSM blog to see some fabulous inspiration from the Design Team, and if you decide to join us this time. you can link up your card there.

I'd like to play along with

Darnell's NBUS Challenge- my number dies are NBUS as is the side stepper card base

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity challenge - use numbers It is Challenge #40 and by coincidence that is the number I used lol!



Through the Purple Haze challenge #134 - Romantic

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x