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Here is my Christmas card of the week, and woohoo, check out the gorgeous creations with Christmas trees by the DT at Bah! Humbug! I fell back on this gorgeous Rubbernecker set for my tree. I made the card square, so it will work for Crafty Hazelnut's challenge. I thought the colors at CR84FN of garnet, chartreuse and cream would be really pretty for this. When I took the picture, no matter where I was in the house, the garnet looked really RED, but it's not that red IRL. Oh well, it looks good. The tree images were stamped with Antique Linen, Shabby Shutters aned Fired Brick Distress Inks. I spritzed the felt poinsettias with Glimmer Mist.
Challenges:
Bah! Humbug! - Christmas tree.
Crafty Hazelnut - Square card.
CR84FN - Garnet, chartreuse, and cream.
Sketch Saturday - Sketch.
Stamps: Rubbernecker "Snowflakes and Stardust".
Paper: Bearly Mine Designs digi papers.
Ink: Colorbox Queues, Distress inks.
Accessories: Sizzix EF, corner rounder, foam tape, felt poinsettias, Glimmer Mist, pearls.
Back to a normal work week. Bleh! Back to school today for Tyler. He has a bad case of senioritis"...can't wait to graduate in June. Shelbie made it back to Norwich Saturday without any problems. So here we go with some more cards! This week at Bah! Humbug! they want us to use metallics. I combined this with Crafty Hazelnut's challenge to use silver, and my card ended up going in non-traditional Christmas colors direction. I had cut the snowflakes from some foil paper and they looked pretty but were missing some pizzazz. So I covered them with German glass glitter. Oh my, the bling from that is gorgeous! The cutesie image is Rubbernecker's "Crystal", colored with Prismacolors. The "fur" is Liquid Pearls. Sentiment printed from my computer. Now to separate this from my stash so Chuck doesn't see it, because this will be his Christmas card this year. :)
Challenges
Bah! Humbug! - Metallics.
Crafty Hazelnut - Silver.
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch.
ABC Challenge - Q for quote/sentiment.
A little update on the making of the dress for Shelbie (same pic as before, darn it). I have been sewing since before I was 10, consider myself an advanced seamstress. Thankfully I can look at something, sketch it, make the mock-up, and end up with a relative close copy, so Shelbie has always had one-of-a-kind formals. I bought this Vogue Designer, advanced level pattern about 7 or 8 years ago and had never opened the envelope. Apparently for Vogue advanced means HA! We left out some pieces! LOL! Four out of 19 pieces are missing. Nice. So I had to take extra time to figure those pieces out and thus was not able to get the dress finished before Shelbie had to go back to college. I'll be finishing it up this week and will ship it to her. I'll post a picture of the dress all by its lonesome, then Shelbie can have someone take a picture of her the night of the Junior Ring Presentation in April and I'll post it then. What I was able to get finished so I could do a final fitting on her looked beautiful, if I may say so myself. :)
Stamps: Rubbernecker "Crystal".
Paper: Anna Griffin, The Paper Studio.
Ink: Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Spellbinder scalloped rectangles dies, Stickles, Dew Drops, Cuttlebug snowflake die and embossing folder, German glass glitter.
I've gotten hooked on the Bah!Humbug! Christmas card challenges...helps get the mojo going for my weekly card for my Christmas stash. This week they want us to use an aperture. I used the Stardust and Snowflakes set from Rubbernecker to stamp the tree, using Distress Inks for the first two layers, then gold EP for the star layer. I love, love, love how it turned out. Think this is going to be my go to set for a mass card production (later in the year). I put all the layers together following the sketch at Create4Fun, then cut the rectangle aperture and mounted the image behind it. I went around the aperture opening with a gold Decopaint marker, and around the sentiment as well. The felt poinsettias are from my stash.
Okay, paper playing is over. Back to playing with fabric! :)
Bah! Humbug! - Aperture.
Crafty Hazelnut - Gold
Create4Fun - Sketch
Crazy 4 Challenges - Use a tree.
Stamps: Rubbernecker Stardust and Snowflakes, JustRite A Merry Little Christmas.
Paper: Cosmo Cricket.
Ink: Distress Inks, Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Spellbinders dies, gold EP, Decopaint pen, felt poinsettias, brads.
Adding to my Christmas card stash. This week's Bah! Humbug! challenge called for embossing. I inked up this pretty Inkadinkado angel and embossed her with gold embossing powder. I inked the outside edge of Spellbinders Mega Rectangles then cut and embossed the image to get that sharp border. I also cut the card base with the largest die from that set, embossed the front panel with a Cuttlebug snowflake folder, and tapped the stamp pad on the snowflakes to bring them out a bit. The ABC Christmas challenge this time around is also embossing, plus three different embellishments. The gold vellum snowflakes are from a Cuttlebug die. The word is a metal word from Colorbok. It was silver, but I colored it with a gold DecoColor marker.
Challenges
Bah! Humbug! - Embossing.
ABC Christmas Challenge - Embossing and 3 embellishments.
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Metal.
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Embossing.
Stamps: Inkadinkado Christmas Silhouettes.
Paper: The Paper Studio.
Ink: Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Versamark, gold EP, Spellbinders dies, Cuttlebug dies, metal word, rhinestones.
I've been keeping up with my personal quota of a Christmas card a week, just didn't post the last ones because they were a "multiple" batch I put together. I did five of them; may include a pic at a later time. But this week I saw that Bah-Humbug's challenge was things that fly. I have a few images that would work for that, and I chose this one from Sweet Pea Stamps called Snow Fae, by Rachel Anderson. I colored her in muted shades with my Prismacolors and used this week's Midnight Madness sketch. The ABC Christmas challenge called for embossing and 3 embellishments. Think I got that covered. Not traditional colors, but I think it's purdy! :)
Challenges:
Midnight Madness - Sketch
Bah!Humbug! - Things that fly
ABC Christmas Challenge - E for embossing and embellishments.
Paper Romance - Anything goes.
Stamps: Sweet Pea Stamps "Snow Fae"
Paper: The Paper Studio, Neenah Solar White, Anna Griffin DP
Ink: Memento, Colorbox Queues.
Accessories: Stickles, Dew Drops, Spellbinders Doodleparts die, CB embossing folder, ribbon, MS lilypond punch, felt leaves
