Candy Canes

It's time for the Christmas challenge at Happy Little Stampers - the last one before the big day so I hope you're well on the way to getting all your cards made.

As always it is Anything Goes but you can use the optional twist of Candy Canes.

I always try to use the twist but thought I might have to miss it this month as I didn't think I had a candy cane stamp or die. However one of the recent magazine freebies had a small candy cane stamp which I used.

As it was quite a small stamp I did multiple stamping after masking of the sentiment, which was also a magazine freebie.The images are coloured in with Promarkers.

There are some super makes from the rest of the DT over on the challenge blog.

Christmas Critters

Dawn has chosen Christmas Critters as the theme for the next two weeks at Cardz for Guyz. 

This House Mouse stamp has been used before but only once so it was time for another airing. Once stamped, coloured, cut out and mounted on the plaid paper I thought it looked a bit stark so added some sequins, think I might have overdone them though!

I hope you can join us this week and make a masculine card. We also have a DT call - check the blog for details.

Watercolour "Selfie"

It's the first of the month (in Australia) so time for the last challenge of the year for Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge, and of course the optional twist is Christmas!

 

I used a new set of stamps from MFT that really appealed to me called Christmas sELFies.

I thought the upside down elf quite cute.

I coloured him with Zig watercolour pens with some added glitter. I rounded the corners to hide a snudge but I could have said for added interest!

I hope to see you joining in after checking out all the inspiration on the challenge blog.

November Rudolph Day

Well here we are at the last Rudolph Day for 2019. I can't believe how quickly this year has gone, mind you I think I say that every year!

For this card I stamped and heat embossed all the images on some blue background paper. It actually has a very faint snowflake pattern on it. The stamps are from a recent issue of Creative Stamping.

Christmas Vellum

The new challenge at Make My Monday is to use vellum. I knew I had some printed Christmas vellum but it took me a little while to find it, then I had to decide how to use it. All this took longer than making the card!

I finally decide on using just a wrap of the vellum and added some gold diecuts. There's lots more inspiration on the challenge blog so do go and check it out.

Get Ready for Christmas!

It's time for a new challenge at Cardz for Galz and I chose the theme "Get ready for Christmas". Hopefully you're all already doing this!

I have used a Woodware stamp that has been languishing unloved in my Christmas stash. I decided to just stamp it in gold and leave it uncoloured, but mounted on top of a strip of gold glitter card.

Then I made a second more colourful version.

I'm looking forward to seeing all your makes too.
I’m also joining in at Addicted to Stamps and More.

Icy Cold

Welcome to another challenge at Cardz for Guyz where we want to see your Icy Cold creations suitable for the males in your life.

I have used an old favourite from Stampin Up called Polar Partybut I forgot that the sentiment doesn't stamp very well. I'll have to put a sentiment on top before I use it! I used some icy blue glitter paper to cut the snowflake border and some paper with snowflakes on to back the images.

I hopeto see you joining in to help with your Christmas card stash.

A Perfectly CAS Christmas

Hello there and welcome to the third Perfectly CAS challenge, and what a surprise - our theme is Christmas!

And here is my card.

I used a Stamplorations stamp, heat embossed in gold and watercoloured in, Then I got a bit carried away and did one heat embossed in red sparkle.

And another in white sparkly embossing powder on dark blue card.

That one didn't work as well! But it is three more cards made!

There's some gorgeous makes from my teamies on the challenge blog, so why not give it a go and make a lovely cas card using only one third.

Red Green White

Silvi has chosen red, green and white for the new challenge at Make My Monday. I have used just diecuts for my card

The white mat is a Julia Hickey die and the rest of the diecuts are from a set of dies that came recently with Diecutting Essentials. I may well make a few more of these as they were fairly quick and easy to make and I still need a lot more Christmas cards.

Don't forget there's lots more ideas over on the challenge blog.

Let it Snow

It's time for another challenge at Cardz for Galz and the cue is "Let it Snow". I found this pretty snowflake paper in my stash and cut out his gorgeous snowflake. I think it is a Memory Box die but I'm not sure.

My idea originally was to inlay it  with some icy blue glitter paper but it was too pale and didn't show up, and also incredibly fiddly!. Then I rememberd I had some Bedazzle bead/glitter from many moons ago and had a lovely bluey green one. I carefully tipped some ontop and pressed down onto the adhesive. I will add a sentiment later but wanted to make sure the beads really stuck first.