Merry Late

Well I actually made this card for the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches this week.  It was their 100th sketch,  which is quite an achievement!

Unfortunately I didn’t get it done in time to enter but I thought I’d put it on my blog anyway.
I was lucky enough to be a guest design team member for FMS and I loved being on their team.  They always have fantastic sketches and the whole team is talented and lovely too. 





I am holding a Christmas card making day and stamp sale at my place this Saturday and this is one of the cards we’ll be making.  If you’re interested in coming along please email me :)

Ingredients :
Stamps : Watercolour winter, Winter Post, Contempo Christmas, Jolly Jingles wheel
Card : white, slate, pink pirouette, raspberry, primrose
Ink : versamark, pink pirouette, raspberry
Other : white ep, pearls, primrose ribbon, big shot, polka dot ef, delicate designs ef, scallop edgelit, silver ep


Kathy

First Christmas

 

I’ve just made my first Christmas card for the year.  Yay!!!

I am entering it into this weeks challenge at the Paper Players.  It’s a Clean and Simple challenge called Bring On the Bling and I’ve certainly done that.

I don’t generally use that much bling but Christmas is a good excuse to get sparkly isn’t it?

I used silver glimmer paper and rhinestones for my bling and I embossed the sentiment with silver too.

I used one of the leaves from French Foliage to create the Poinsettia.  I just stamped it 3 times with real red, moving the leaf around slightly each time before re-inking. Then I cut it out.  I had seen this done before all in green to make a wreath but I decided to make it a poinsettia instead.  I also stamped a few leaves in gumball green and added them to the back.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : French Foliage, Contempo Christmas

Card : real red, white, gumball green, silver glimmer paper, brights dsp stack

Ink : real red, gumball green, versamark

Other : big shot, petals a plenty ef, silver ep, rhinestones

 

Hopefully I’ll be good this year and not leave all my Christmas stamping till November!

 

Kathy

Dashing

 

This is the last of my stamp-a-stack cards.

I kind of cased myself with this one because I made a Christmas card last year that is very similar.

 

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Dasher, contempo christmas

Card : olive, cherry, white

Ink : cherry, river rock

Other : 5 petal punch, pearls, olive taffeta ribbon (ret.), big shot, petals a plenty ef.

 

Everyone enjoyed making this card.  The 5 petal punch makes a beautiful poinsettia and who doesn’t love Dasher?  He’s gorgeous!

 

Kathy

Rock and roll ornament

 

This is another card we made at the stamp-a-stack last weekend.

 

I used the rock and roll technique on the ornament from Tags til Christmas with wisteria wonder and elegant eggplant.  I also coloured rhinestones with a green permanent marker and it was a pretty good match for the wild wasabi branches the ornament hangs from.

I used the edging from the organza ribbon to hang the ornament from the tree and tie a little bow.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Tags til Christmas, tiny tags, contempo christmas, lovely as a tree

Card : wisteria, eggplant, white

Ink : wisteria, eggplant, wasabi

Other : rhinestone, organza ribbon, tag punch, ornament punch

 

Kathy

Blushing Cherry Ornament

This week at Just Add Ink we have a colour challenge for you.

I have never used this colour combo before and it is just so pretty.

I decided to make another Christmas card to add to my slowly growing collection.
You can’t see it very well in the photo but the cherry cobbler panel that the ribbon is on is embossed with the polka dot embossing folder.  It gives the card more dimension and ties in with the dots on the ornament and the pearls on the elegant bouquet embossed panel.
I used the organza ribbon in a new way on this card.  I had decided that I wanted the ribbon as a band behind the ornament but I wanted to also tie some ribbon to the ornament to kind of “hang it” to the branch.  I tried so many different ribbons, thread and cord, but nothing looked right.  Then I had the idea to cut off the edging of the organza ribbon and try that.  Well it tied beautifully and worked perfectly with the rest of the card.  So I was very pleased with that discovery and I will definitely be using organza that way again  :)

Ingredients :
Stamps : Contempo christmas
Card : white, cherry, in colour dsp hostess stack (ret.)
Ink : cherry
Other : big shot, polka dot ef, elegant bouquet ef, pearls, organza

Please take a look at what the rest of the JAI design team have come up with this week and give these colours a try yourself.

Kathy

Ornament Stack

These are some more of the cards the ladies made at my Christmas stamp-a-stack a few weeks ago.
They are basically the same except one uses the ornament from Contempo Christmas and the other ornament is from Tags til Christmas.



The outer ornaments are all stamped with pretty in pink.  The blue card uses marina mist dsp from the subtles pack and the centre ornament is stamped in this colour too.
The other card uses razzleberry dsp from the brights stack and the ornament is also stamped in that colour.




The ladies really liked these cards a lot.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Contempo Christmas, Tags til Christmas
Card : espresso, white, subtles and brights dsp stack
Ink : espresso, pip, razzleberry, marina mist
Other : ornament punch, rhinestone, organza ribbon


I am holding another Stamp-a-stack at my place on Saturday Nov. 5.
A stamp-a-stack is making a number of cards which are quick and easy, but still beautiful.
In this stamp-a-stack we will be making 8 great cards (2 of 4 designs) and they will all be Christmas cards so you will have made a start on your list :)
You will need to bring your own adhesives and scissors with you.
At the stamp-a-stack I will also have both new and used retired stamp sets for sale at great prices and any purchase of $50 or more from my stamp collection or from the Stampin up catalogue will receive one ticket into the draw to win a stamp set. Any booking for a party made on the day will also receive a ticket in the draw.
Details
Date : Saturday Nov.5  Time : 2 – 4:30
Place : My place. When you rsvp by email I will send you the address :)
Cost :$20
You MUST rsvp by Sunday Oct. 30.
Places are limited, because so is the size of my house :)
stampingstill@gmail.com
Kathy