Snowflakes

I am happy to be able to play along with some Saturday challenges today. My oldest daughter woke me up early. She had thoughtfully made me breakfast this morning (cold toast with a lump of butter on it!), so I decided that instead of going back to bed, I would make a card. The challenges are:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - sketch
Crazy 4 Challenges - Clean and Simple
Just Us Girls - Winter
Less is More - Black, Metallic, + one

For my plus one at Less is More, I used Dutch Blue. It is a retired color, but I have a lot of it. I really like it with this combination. I used a snowflake embossing folder and some shimmer trim for the diagonal line. The two snowflakes are from 2 different Cricut cartridges.



Materials used:
Cardstock: Dutch Blue, White Daisy
Stamps: Say It In Style
Ink: Black
Other: Silver Shimmer Trim, Art Philosophy & Artbooking Cricut Cartridges, embossing folder (Cuttlebug - not CTMH), silver sequins (not CTMH)

Winter, Snow, and Blue

Here's a card I made for the Friday challenges. I like having lazy days where I don't have to do much, and I get to create!

Frosted Designs - White as a Snowflake
Friday Mashup - Winter theme and/or Snowflakes
CAS-ual Fridays - Felt and Sequins
CAS(E) This Sketch

The only felt I had was some blue letters and some pink letters, and I thought blue was more wintry. So I used them to spell out the word "snow" then I used the Card Word Puzzle stamp set to make a silly pun -"thank you snow much." I used the Frosted cardmaking stamp set for the snowflakes and some silver sequins I got at Walmart. The color I used is Pacifica - the letters, ink, and Paper Fundamentals.

  

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy
Paper Fundamentals: Adventure
Stamps: Card Word Puzzle, Frosted Card WOTG
Ink: Pacifica
Other: Urban Felt Alphabet, silver sequins (not CTMH)

Color Dare 124

Hi! Happy New Year! We have an exciting change at Color My Heart this year. We will now be including neutrals with the color combos. I really like this week's colors: Glacier, Kraft, and White Daisy. Since the neutrals are already provided, we won't need to add extras. Black and white are exceptions, unless otherwise stated.

I made a card CASED from one that I saw on Pinterest. It was a Christmas card, but I thought it would make a cute new baby card.

I used Art Philosophy to cut out some stockings, then I cut the top off of them and layered them so they look like baby booties instead of stockings. I scored the paper to look like argyle, and I used a background stamp for the gingham.

Come play along with us this week!

Materials used:
Cardstock: Glacier, White Daisy
Stamps: Little Reminder, Summer Days
Ink: Glacier, Black
Other: Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, white pearls (not CTMH), natural Hemp, Kraft Borders

Some Monday Cards

I made these cards on Monday for some challenges, but then I couldn't find my camera battery charger, and the battery was dead so I couldn't take the picture. I finally found it, so here they are. I'm getting started on my Christmas cards early this year!

The first one was made for Atlantic Hearts, Heart 2 Heart, and the Pink Elephant.

 

Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White
Special Paper: Silver Glitter Paper, Adventure Fundamentals
Stamps: Home for the Holidays, Very Merry Christmas
Ink: Lagoon, Black

This second card is for Shabby Tea Room, Mojo Monday, and the Pink Elephant:

 

Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White
Special Papers: Silver Glitter Paper, Adventure Fundamentals
Stamps: Home for the Holidays, Very Merry Christmas
Ink: Lagoon, Black
Other: Foundry Pin Clips,

Color Dare 123 with Yuletide Carol

We have a two-week challenge at Color My Heart. We are using colors from the Yuletide Carol paper pack - Ruby & New England Ivy. I made this card as a custom order. Our pastor's wife wanted something "vintagy" for her mom's Christmas card and she loved this little girl. So I put the sticker on the card. It was quick and easy.

This card is 7"x4 3/4" because she wanted it to fit her envelope. Come play along with us this week at Color My Heart.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Ruby, Black, Champagne
B&Ts: Yuletide Carol
Stickease: Yuletide Carol
Stamps: Santa Claus (for the inside)
Ink: Ruby

Color Dare 121 with Mistletoe

Hi! This week at Color My Heart, we are challenging you to use Cranberry and New England Ivy on your project. I made a layout using the Mistletoe paper pack. This is an old one. The layout is Simple Contrast from Cherish, one that I've admired, but not done yet. I think this layout would be nice with pictures of my kids when they go visit Santa this year!

Come play this week!

Materials used:

Cardstock: Cranberry, New England Ivy, Colonial White, Garden Green

B&Ts: Mistletoe

Stamps: Field Trip Alpha, Say it in Style

Ink: Cocoa

Other: sheer ribbon not CTMH, eyelets (not CTMH), White Daisy Spiral clips, 

StudioJ cards

Here is an example of Christmas cards you can make in Studio J. These are 4"x6" and you can get 12 cards from one layout. That comes to about $.56 per card.

I used the Sparkle and Shine kit and the "no limits" layout to make these cards.