OK, I promise... this is my last card for the Build Your Stash Holiday Linky Party. I had so much fun playing with my Christmas stash this past week! Although, I just purchased this embossing folder and I couldn't wait to use it!
Another Christmas card for you today... playing along with the BYSHCardmakers Spring Into Christmas Linky Party. I saw an idea for using an embossing folder on kraft coloured cardstock and decided to do it for this card. I highlighted the raised areas with a white pigment ink. In person it almost looks like chalk. I love the look of deep red, black and kraft together, so the rest of the card came together pretty easily. I used a rectangle die to cut out the centre piece and framed it in black before putting on my card front with foam adhesive.
It's time for another Pick 2 Challenge with the team at Time Out Challenges, this time with our sponsor Stamplorations!
I was gifted some gorgeous ATC printed pieces from Stamplorations that I've used in my card today. They are SO gorgeous! I chose the words Bloom and Pastel from the Pick 2.
We are about half way through the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Spring Into Christmas Linky Party and I'm not done sharing Christmas cards with you! I hope you've been inspired to make a few and that you've linked them up to our party for your chance to win one of the wonderful prizes from our sponsors.
For today, I reached in to my bin of extras. I had an idea of embossed panels on my card front and then I didn't know what I wanted to do next. Enter, the bin of extras. All of these extra pieces were in there from the fall when I was going full-tilt on making Christmas cards.
This week, the challenge for the Card Clubhouse Instagram Hop was to play with the posted sketch... I decided to combine the sketch with the BYSHCardmakers Spring Into Christmas Linky Party and am SO happy with how this card turned out!
I was inspired by a card I found on Pinterest for my creation today. I loved the look of the plaid with the wood grain embossed layer. I couldn't help but add some gold accents in to finish it off and give it a little more of a pop!
There's a fabulous new sketch at CAS Colours and Sketches that we hope will help get your creative juices flowing!
It's not too often that I design directly on my card front (I really like that extra layer), but I did that for this card. I cut circles out of two different soft colours of cardstock and added a white embossed circle on top of each of them. I then added a small flower on each circle in another spring inspired soft colour.
Wow! That title is a mouthful!
It's time for the Spring Into Christmas Holiday Linky Party, your chance to win one of MANY prizes for simply creating and sharing holiday cards over the next week! We are so excited to watch you grow your stash of holiday cards!
I was happy to dig in to the favourite part of my creative stash to make some Christmas cards! I was inspired by a similar card that I saw in Pinterest...
This has been a wonderfully creative weekend for me. My office doesn't close for long weekends as our usual office hours are Tuesday through Saturday. Easter is the only guaranteed long weekend that we take off. I'm lucky enough to have 5 days off in a row as I go back to work on Wednesday.
It's been so fun spending some time in my creative space, working on some design team obligations as well as playing with some other challenges!
Today I played along with the latest sketch at Try A Sketch on Tuesday.
With a few extra days off this week, I was able to play along with the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. When I saw the sketch, this black and white card popped in to my head...
The challenge at CAS on Friday is Botanical.... I paired these pretty Washi Tape leaves with a wood grain embossed black strip to create this simple card
I just LOVE this sketch over at Atlantic Hearts!! There are so many thing you could do with the panel at the top.
My first thought was to use some paper scraps to create my card, but then I had the idea of the brick work pattern put on a diagonal. All of the flowers were from my bin of extras... some Stampin' Up!, some Spellbinders... all bright and happy!
Each month, a group of us hop on Instagram, each sharing three cards we've made following a common theme. The catch is, we each choose something to highlight in all three of our cards... a colour combination, a stamp set, a layout, a technique... something that will maybe help spark your creativity with the items already in your stash.
For March, our theme is sympathy cards... never something we like to make, but sadly something we need to have on hand.
In my mind, sympathy cards should be subtle and subdued. I also like the imagery of a butterfly for sympathy cards. All three of my cards use the same Pinkfresh Washi tape suite as well as the same sentiment stamp and die... and two of them feature the same embossing folder as well.
There's a wonderful and simple new sketch at Atlantic Hearts today...
I had some fun with some circles for my card... even with that big square element! I used a fun pattern paper behind a stained glass style die and added an embossed panel to the bottom of the card.
Happy Sunday, creative friends... it's time for a new colourboard challenge over at AAA Colourful! I can't wait to see what colours YOU pull out of this fabulous graphic!
I see sunshine glinting off of what looks like ice bubbles... I used a kraft coloured cardstock as well as a pretty but muted yellow and a deep dark blue.
This week for the This or That Instagram Hop, we are choosing between Leprechauns and Gnomes. I LOVE gnomes but I don't use them very often in my creating. I bought this gnome die a few years ago... I just had to have it... and then I used it once or twice and never again. For today, I played with some fun pattern papers to create this cutie.
Time Out Challenges is celebrating it's 12th birthday with a CASE Challenge that starts today and runs until the 18th of March. We encourage you to CASE this gorgeous card created by Stef and enter it in our linky party for your chance to win a wonderful price from Waffle Flower!
I had a lot of fun with this one... I chose some elements to use on my card and a few to switch up and a few to delete. I started with those gorgeous flowers and chose two *very* old flowers from my stash. Stef had two flowers in her design so I used two as well. I created texture in my background by first cutting the Waffle Flower Postage Collage die and then embossing it with a brick pattern. I added some black spatter instead of the gold highlights that Stef used.
Happy Monday, creative friends! Time for a new sketch challenge at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenges!
The colours of the sketch made me think of spring while we were facing a winter storm warning (we got about 8" in a 24 hours period)... I ended up with a spring-like card as well, using some pretty pattern paper.
I saw this sketch at Try a Sketch on Tuesday and wanted to play along... but then had absolutely no ideas of what I wanted to do! I kept going back to it over the last week, but still nothing came to me. And then, in the 40 minutes I had before heading to start my work week on Wednesday afternoon, I had an idea... and instead of eating lunch like I should have, I made this card instead!
I chose to do three different patterns of embossing on my three strips and kept the card super simple. I really like it!
