Celebrate

 

This is another of my Dirty Dozen cards.

I made the sky by brayering saffron, mustard and cherry and I used a little pool party at the bottom. I also generation stamped a tree and cut out diamond- patterned hot air balloons to create the scene.

 

Stamps : up up and away, perfectly penned, lovely as a tree

Card : Black, white

Ink : stazon, pool party, cherry, mustard, saffron

Other : copics

 

 

 

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Kathy

Storybook Christmas

I had an idea to use my Storybook Friends set to make a cute Christmas card.  So when I saw Jen’s wonderful sketch at Freshly Made Sketches  I thought I would give it a try.




I am also entering my card into the challenge at Addicted to CAS.  It is their first ever challenge and the challenge word is SNOW.





It does look a bit cuter in real life because I have put dazzling details silver on the ground and through the tree branches for some sparkly snow, but you can’t see it sparkling much in the photo :(
I used pool party to make a cloudy sky background (I’m thinking I might write to SU everyday til the new catty begging them not to retire this colour!) And used copics to colour the cute animals.

This would actually be a very funny card to send to the Tasmanian Fox Task Force!  Only Tasmanian’s are going to appreciate that though :)

(For anyone interested, we don’t have foxes in Tasmania.  But after apparent sightings, a Taskforce was set up to find and eradicate them.  (Which is a good thing because they would kill all our native marsupial animals). But it was started in 2002, costs millions of dollars a year and they have not captured even one fox in all that time!) Maybe they’re just too clever :)


Ingredients :
Stamps : Storybook friends, lovely as a tree, teeny tiny sentiments
Card : pool party, white, dsp (ret.)
Ink : memento black, stazon, crumb cake, pool party
Other : copics, big shot, polka dot ef, ribbon (ret.), dazzling details


Kathy

Lovely Challenge

I have made two Merry Monday challenge cards this week. 
It was hard to decide which one I liked better to use as my guest designer card because I liked this one a lot too.



The tree looks very pretty in real life because I stamped it using a combination of artichoke and champagne shimmer paint, it’s sparkly and pretty. I also like this colour combo, the background paper is baja and then I have brayered baja and NQN at the bottom and wisteria and eggplant at the top.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Lovely as a tree
Card : baja, shimmery white, plum, white, subtles dsp stack
Ink : artichoke, NQN, baja, wisteria, eggplant
Other : brayer, champagne shimmer paint, big shot, polka dot ef

Kathy

Merry Dasher

Last week my Merry Monday card was chosen as a winner. Thanks Lesley :)
Which means I get to be a guest designer for this week’s Merry Monday challenge.  YAY!
Here is the wonderful sketch we got to work with.


I decided to use my Dasher stamp for the first time this year.



I brayered the background using mustard and cherry at the top and wisteria and baja at the bottom.  Then I stamped various christmas images over the top of the brayering using crumb cake.
Dasher was then stamped using a mixture of espresso and champagne mist shimmer paint.  He is actually a nice sparkly, rich espresso colour but that was a bit hard to capture in the photo.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Dasher, winter post, lovely as a tree, tiny tags
Card : espresso, crumb cake, white, dsp (ret.)
Ink : espresso, baja, wisteria, mustard, cherry
Other : linen thread, rhinestones, tag punch, mat pack, white pen, big shot, square lattice ef, brayer

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created for Merry Monday this week and play along too.

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

Lovely wisteria trees

 

This is another one of the cards we made at the Christmas stamp-a-stack I held.

 

It is using my new Lovely as a Tree set again and this tree is gorgeous too.

This is not an original idea.  I always have a look at the stampin up galleries on splitcoaststampers when I buy a new set to get some inspiration and to see different ways people have used it. Well this general idea has been done by a lot of people so I’m not sure who originally thought of it to give them credit but I’m pretty sure I’m the only person to have made this card in wisteria wonder at least!

Ingredients :

Stamps : lovely as a tree, occasional greetings

Card : black, white, wisteria wonder

Ink : wisteria, stazon

Other : wisteria ribbon, wide oval punch, big shot, lots of tags

 

This card is very easy to make but still looks beautiful.  The ladies at the stamp-a-stack really liked this one and they liked the colour a lot too.

 

Kathy

Reindeer Tag

This week at Just Add Ink we have a wonderful photo to inspire us.


I took inspiration from the gorgeous colours and the trees to create this Christmas card.



For the tag, I brayered on more mustard and then cherry cobbler at the top and baja at the bottom. 
I then used Not Quite Navy to sponge around the edges.
The deer is stamped in stazon and I white embossed the snowflakes from the Confetti set.
The ribbon for the tag is Cherry cobbler seam binding which has been frayed a bit at the top.  It looks gorgeous, I think that is my favourite of all my ribbons at the moment (Oh and I have a lot to choose from! :)  The bow for the button is linen thread which I have coloured with NQN ink.
Can you believe this is my first card using Lovely as a Tree?  I got it for my birthday and now that I’ve used it I don’t know why I didn’t buy it years ago. It is a really beautiful set!

Ingredients :
Stamps : Lovely as a Tree, Winter Post, Occasional Greetings, Confetti
Card : white, NQN, black
Ink : stazon, versamark, baja, NQN, mustard, cherry
Other : big shot, wallpaper ef, subtles button, linen thread, white embossing powder, cherry seam binding

The design team have created some really gorgeous cards this week.  Please take a look and let this photo inspire you to make a beautiful card too.

Kathy