In the Meadow

 

 Hello! Here is a card made with the lovely In the Meadow stamp set. I did some masking with a Post-it note and a bit of brayering. The colours are Soft Sky, Sahara Sand, Mint Macaron, Smoky Slate and Early Expresso, with some gold sequins and washi tape thrown in too! There was also some additional stamping on the background using Timeless Textures.

 

I was inspired to make this card by the theme over at The Male Room which is 'Many Legs', so I thought I would enter these eight legs! Happy Friday! April x

So Succulent

Hello! It's raining and miserable here so perfect for making a cheery birthday card! I have used SU's So Succulent bundle which is a lot of fun to use.

I've used Flirty Flamingo cardstock and dsp combined with Mint Macaron, Perfect Plum and Emerald Envy. The sentiment is from Rose Wonder and I have also added some linen thread and silver sequins. The sketch for the card is from this week's challenge over at the Global Design Project - a pretty cool sketch that would lend itself to lots of cards I think!



 

I'd also like to send my card along to Cards in Envy where the challenge is to 'Keep it Simple'.

 

Happy crafting! April x



52 CCT Technique/Stash Challenge

We have a technique challenge for you at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown with some stash thrown in!

 

I used Winter Wishes for my triple stamping and a colour combo of Mint Macaron, Always Artichoke, Pear Pizzazz and Tip Top Taupe. I made the card quite glittery using Dazzling Details, but you can't see that very well on the photo. I've also added an antique brad to the banner.

 

We're looking forward to seeing your Christmas cards! April x



52 CCT Stash Challenge

Here is my DT card for this week's challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown where we are using up some of our stash!

 



 I have used an antique brad, combined with a Mint Macaron, Real Red and Smoky Slate colour combo. The stamped background uses a holly sprig from Tim Holtz's Christmas Memories and the sentiment is from SU's Oh What Fun.

We are looking forward to seeing your use of metal embellishments! Hope you will join us, April x

Flutterbies

Hello! This was inspired by a lovely card in Stampin' Success, but has turned out very differently! You start off by cutting a stencil from a butterfly framelit and sponging ink on a piece of speciality dsp. I decided to then use the inlaid die technique to return the butterflies to their spaces and add some glimmer paper bits to make a much shinier effect. I also added some white sequins for extra blinginess. I hope you like it! April x

My flutterbies are flying off to Cards in Envy - Beautiful Butterflies and Di and Parsnip at Pixie's Snippets Playground - the snippet of dotty speciality dsp was searched for high and low at Snippet Mountain! (mind you, I found lots of things I'd forgotten I had in the process!) :-)

52 CCT Colour Challenge

 
Hello! It's a colour challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and our hostess Julie has chosen a combo of green and white (with a nod to St Patrick's Day).

I really enjoyed stamping this misty forest of Christmas trees in Cucumber Crush and Mint Macaron. The tree and moon stamp is from Moon Gazer by Lindsay Mason (for Personal Impressions). Although it is meant to be a moon (complete with a moon-gazing hare!) I think it looks more like a pale winter sun here. I have also added some Glimmer Paper stars and a piece of washi tape as the finishing touches.

Such an intriguing colour combination to work with! I do hope you will join us. April x

A last gasp of an entry for Pixie's Snippets Playground (sorry Di and Parsnip!) The glimmer paper is a snippet. The Cucumber Crush card wasn't exactly a snippet, but it was an unloved piece of cardstock, if you see what I mean. I do like green, but Cucumber Crush is a bit too green sometimes!

Balloon Celebration

Hello! I made this card at a crafty get together with one of my team members. I used SU's Balloon Celebration stamps with the co-ordinating punch and the sentiment was cut using the washi psunch (which I love!) The colours are Mint Macaron, Blushing Bride, Sahara Sand and a bit of silver glimmer paper for added balloon bling! Hope you have a good week, April x

I'm sending my bunch of balloons over to Di and Sarn at Pixie's Snippets Playground. Just hope that a certain bear doesn't get carried away by them! (that actually did happen to my friend's daughter's cuddly duck once!)

52 CCT Pick a Previous Sketch

As there are five Saturdays in the month, we are having a 'Pick a Previous' for this week's challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

 

 

I have returned to a sketch from earlier this year, in February.

 

 

 

My card is a sneak peek of a new stamp set arriving at the beginning of September in the new SU Christmas catalogue. It is called Winter Wishes and I love the vintage style ice skates. You get just the one skate stamp, so I masked with a post-it note to make the pair. The background is stamped in Mint Macaron on the same colour of cardstock. I've also added a dusting of snow to the pine branches with a chalk marker. I love stamp sets that have pine needles or cones involved in some way!

 

We hope that you will find lots of inspiration browsing through our archive of sketches. The DT can't wait to see your festive creations! April x



52 CCT Technique Challenge

At 52 Christmas Card Throwdown we have a technique challenge for you!

 

Such a wonderful way to combine lots of different papercraft techniques with interesting materials and textures. My panel on the left has been sponged with Tumbled Glass Distress Stain and stamped. I then applied gesso and made a stencil using Poppy Stamps Ornamental Boughs die. I used a sponge dauber to rub Mint Macaron and Pistachio Pudding inks through the stencil. I like how the gesso gives the pine needles a ghostly appearance (ghost pine needles...scary thought!).

I used two SU stencils from the new annual catalogue to make the background with its falling snow. Finally, I added a couple of die-cut pine branches with a button tied with linen thread and a sentiment. 

I really enjoyed making this card and I do hope you will join us with your fabulous festive creations! April x

52 CCT Colour Challenge

It's a colour challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week and a very interesting one at that!

 

I was toying around with a few combos. First of all, I thought I was going to choose glittery red, then gold. In the end I decided to go with mint green! I have used SU's Mint Macaron envelope paper (not just for envelopes!). I added some of the lovely co-ordinating lace trim to make a bow and cut the sentiment from a piece of patterned paper by Pink Paislee (I layered this on a piece of Mint Macaron cardstock). I used a piece of Basic Black as my card base and used a trio of black enamel dots.

We are all looking forward to seeing your colour combos! Hope you can join us, April x

52 CCT Sketch Challenge

Over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown we have a great sketch challenge for you! You can flip it (like I have!) We just need to be able to recognise the elements of the sketch. I do hope that you will join us.

I opted for Lawn Fawn's cute Winter Fox with her steaming mug of hot chocolate. The tiny snowflakes and sentiment are also Lawn Fawn, but from Arctic Critters. I've coloured Foxy with Promarkers and used two of Stampin' Up's new, fabulous In-colours - Delightful Dijon and Mint Macaron for the second tag (embossed with SU's Argyle embossing folder) and the card base. These new colours complement a piece of patterned paper from Fancy Pants (Timbergrove) and the whole thing reminds me of a woolly jumper.

Please have a look at the rest of the Design Team's great cards and we look forward to seeing your Christmas creations, April x