HLS Christmas Berries

Hello and welcome to the February Christmas challenge at Happy Little Stampers.

 As usual if there is an optional twist I have gone with it I must apologise though for the rubbish photo, dull grey weather and my choice of colours hasn't helped.

I stamped and embossed a holly wreath in gold and some Always Artichoke card. I then coloured the leaves with a dark green promarker and added red stickles on the berries. There's a heap of fabulous cards on the challenge blog and hopefully their photography skills are better than mine.

Holly for Rudolph

I made these cards a little while ago ready for Rudolph Day. I was using up some bits of decoupage out of my bits box.

 

So they are all easy peasy and very quick but it's another three for my Christmas stash!

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge

Welcome to the April Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers.

 

As always it is Anything Goes with an optional twist.  I have made a one layer card. I always used to find these daunting but I seem to make quite a few these days.

I used a 5 x 7 card blank which is textured and quite thick, in fact so thick that there was no bleed through from the copic pen. The holly garland is from Penny Black, but not sure whether this can be classed as nature or not. The sentiment is from Uniko, stamped and clear embossed. The holly is coloured with a green copic and the berries are Nuvo Crystal drops.

Don't forget to check out all the inspiration from the DT and look forward to seeing your creations. It's never too early to start on those Christmas cards.

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge

 It's time for another new challenge at Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

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

I used the HLS stamp set I received back at the retreat last year - Christmas Joy. I can see this becoming one of my go to stamp sets. I randomly stamped the holly all over a piece of white card and coloured it with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens. I do struggle to get them very sparkly though. I mounted it onto a red card blank,as I think I need to get away from always using white ones, and I have a lot of coloured cardstock! The sentiment is from the same set. A couple of little jewels to break up the white and I was done. 

2nd NBUS and Merry Monday

If you read my previous post you will know that I made a card for Less is More then decided that it wasn't suitable. However it did use a stamp that I hadn't used so I'm using it as my second entry to Darnell's NBUS challenge and also to Merry Monday where the theme is still holly.

The green card was out of the snippets box so I'm also heading over to the Playground where Sarn is on prefect duty this week!
 

Christmas Wreath

TIt's a long time since I entered the Merry Monday challenge. This week they are asking for"holly" and it just so happened that I had made this card last week for another challenge, but had missed the deadline.

 I used the new SU stamp Peaceful Wreath and coloured it with copics. The corner of the green mat was embossed with a Tattered Lace embossing folder. As snippets were used I'm going to visit the Playground for the second time this week! Just seen that Happy Little Stampers challenge is also asking for holly.