Driving home for Christmas card and Gingerbread house Christmas card

 

Hello everyone and welcome to the final challenge of the year over at ABC Christmas Challenges. I can't believe we have reached December already and I hope that, if you have joined with us throughout the year, your pile of Christmas cards brings you lots of pleasure as you sit to write your greetings in them. But just in case you need a couple more, we have reached Y and Z for our challenge so you can have a little fun producing them. You kept us very busy last month with 256 amazing entries and you can check if you are a winner over on the blog!

I'm really sad to say that this is the last challenge for a couple of our DT members. The brilliant Samantha who started the challenge 12 years ago has decided to step back, and I would like to thank her for getting me started on this team and for her encouragement. Our lovely Lindsey is also stepping down. I have really enjoyed working with her and seeing her fabulous inspiration each month, but I wish her lots of luck and send hugs and best wishes for the future.

Helen is our lovely host this time and she has a great prize for the winner

Our themes this time are 

Y for Yummy

and

Z for Zigzag

I came up with these cards

Y for Yummy

Who doesn't love a gingerbread man at Christmas! I made some with my just turned 4-year-old Granddaughter when she came to stay last week, and she loved decorating them almost as much as she liked eating them before they were finished lol! I pulled out a stamp set called The Best Gift from Inky Doodles and used the gingerbread house, gingerbread men and sentiment from the set all embossed with white E/P and coloured with Copics. Sorry the sentiment looks a bit blurred in the photo - it was very poor light on this dismal, grey day and my photo editing skills need brushing up.

Z for Zigzag

I found this stamped image in my bits box and can't remember where it came from, but I inked the background, coloured the image with Copics, and then used a white gel pen to add the snow, and some glitter for the hat. I added some glaze pen to the windows and lights to finish it off. I created the zigzag background with an embossing folder from Embossalicious.

You will find a ton of inspiration over on the ABC blog, and I know my talented Teamies would appreciate a visit from you. Thanks so much for joining us throughout the year.

Take care

Hugs

Carol x

PS  We have a DT call happening at the moment and if you'd like to join us, you will find all the information on the blog.

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge 'Gingerbread card'

Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge over at the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge. Our Hostess is Meighan  and the challenge is 'Gingerbread' We are sponsored this time by 

http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

I came up with this card which I cut on my Silhouette Cameo using kraft card.

I added detail to the little gingerbread men with white gel pen, black enamel accents and snippets of red card which I punched tiny circles from. I used a die from Papertrey Ink to cut the bow ties. The sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder, and a couple of hearts finished it off. I love making gingerbread items and here is a look back at a couple of things I made previously and if you want to know more, just click on the links.

gingerbread gift bag

gingerbread man gift which is a gingerbread man biscuit in a little embossed bag.

                    

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges

Winter Wonderland - get krafty.

Crimbo Crackers - anything goes.

Completely Christmas - anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x