Winter Village Snow Globe

Another Christmas card - simple to put together if you're trying to make multiples!

I die cut a flat bottom circle out of a white panel (to look like a snow globe!).  I die cut the Country Landscape from Memory box and adhered it behind the circle.  I put foam dots on the back of the white panel and layered the patterned paper behind the cut out then adhered it all to a white card base.  I added 3 tiny clear gems to 3 snowflakes.  The base of the snow globe (with the sentiment on it) is a die from Snowglobe #2 set from Sizzix and up on foam dots.  The sentiment is from PTI.

I'm linking my card to:

Time Out Challenge

Fusion Card Challenge

Sketch on side!    

So Sorry to hear this challenge is closing

Stamps: Inside and Out Holiday - Papertrey Ink.
Paper: White - PTI, DP Northern Lights Paperpad - Recollections (Michaels)
Ink: Ultramarine - Altenew
Accessories: Flat Bottom Circle Die - Amazon, Country Landscape Die - Memory Box, Snowglobe #2 (base) - Tim Holtz/Sizzix, foam dots, Tiny Twinkles - Taylored Expressions.

Bake it Merry!

 My card today is celebrating all of the wonderful baking that will be going on in November and December for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Gingerbread men (and women!) are my very favorite to bake during the season and remind me of my childhood the most, as my mother always made them for Christmas!

The cookie pan, spatula and pot holder are stamps and dies from Bake It Merry from The Greetery.  The gingerbread boy, girl, and sentiment stamps and dies are from Gingerbread Joy - retired from Waltzingmouse.

I'm linking my card to:

Fusion Challenge

I was inspired by the gingerbread cookies on the tray inside the mug as well as those standing outside the mug

We Love Stamping

Christmas

NBUS

First time using the Bake it Merry Stamps and dies

Stamps:  Bake It Merry - The Greetery, Gingerbread Joy - Waltzingmouse (retired)

Paper:  White - PTI, Brushed Silver - SU, Water color paper - Canson Cold Press, DP - Wood Textures - Craft Consortium.

Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne, Caramel Toffee, Ruby Red - Altenew

Accessories:  Bake it Merry Dies - The Greetery, Gingerbread Family Dies - Waltzingmouse (retired), Copics E37, R29, foam strips and dots.

Five Cards for Five Different Challenges

 I have a few cards to share today that I've made for various challenges.  

The challenge entered is linked below each card.

Supplies are listed at the end under each card title.

Linking this card to:

Fusion

Inspired by the green and tulips

Linking this card to:

Global Design Challenge

Linking this card to:

Seize the Birthday

Linking this card to:

AAA Cards Challenge

Entering this card to:

Addicted to Stamps and More Christmas

Tulip Sympathy

Stamps: Sympathy Sentiment - PTI
Paper: White, Aqua Mist - PTI
Ink: Obsidian - Altenew, Ranger DOX Spcekled Egg, Peeled Paint
Accessories: Botanical Tulips and Fit to be Tied dies - The Greetery, Elegant Edges: Lace - PTI, foam dots, white gel pen, clear sequins

Coneflower Birthday

Paper: Aqua Mist, Tropical teal, Enchanted Evening, Summer Sunrise, white - Papertrey Ink
Accessories: Coneflower Dies - Amazon, Daisy Stems - Memory Box, Skinny Strips dies - Neat and Tangled, Essential Sentiment Strips Dies - Altenew, Wood Planks Embossing Folder - Tim Holtz/Sizzix, foam strips, Ochre water color pencil, White POSCA Pen.

CAS Landscape Birthday

Stamps: Flowers - Paper Angel, Think Big Favorites#12 - PTI
Paper: Robins Egg Bazzill - Ellen Hutson, white card base - PTI
Ink: Ranger Distress Mowed Lawn, Obsidian - Altenew
Accessories: torn paper mask, blender brush, Milky Way Stencil - A colorful life designs, white POSCA pen 

Odd Ball Bunny card

Stamps: Odd Ball Easter Bunny - Stamping Bella, Mini Strips Easter - Taylored Expressions
Paper: Pale Rose - Bazzill, White - PTI, Water Color - Canson Cold Press
Ink: Obsidian - Altenew
Accessories: Odd Ball Easter Bunny Die - Stamping Bella, Mini Strips Die- Taylored Expressions, Quilted Backdrop - Lawn Fawn, Winsor Newton Water color paints, brush, water, foam dots

White on Kraft Christmas

Stamps: Three Tree Group - Stamp Oasis (old stamp from Rubbernecker), Mini Holidays - Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous

Paper: Kraft - Papertrey Ink

Ink: Archival Coffee -Ranger, White Pigment Ink - Hampton Art

Accessories: torn paper for landscape mask, finger sponge, white POSCA pen 

Sunflowers In Solidarity

 In support of the Ukraine and it's people - I made this card in the colors of their flag and with sunflowers, one of their major exports.

I used the lovely Botanicuts Sunflower die from The Greetery for my blooms.  I took a large panel of watercolor paper and smooshed it onto my craft mat that was inked with Ranger Distress Dried Marigold, Wild Honey and Squeezed Lemonade inks and spritzed with water.   When the panel was dry, I die cut enough layers of petals to create 3 sunflowers.   

The color wasn't as bright as I wanted it so I tapped some Lemon Brushos on the petal pieces and Rustic Brown Brushos on the center pieces and spritzed them with water.  After this was dry, I layered the petals on top of each other and adhered the center pieces.

 The sentiments are from an old retired set called Army from The Greeting Farm.

 

I'm linking my card to the following challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations.  

Addicted to Stamps and More

Creatalicious Challenges

Anything Goes

Fusion 

Inspired by the 3 blooms photo but made them yellow with a blue background.

Color Hues

 

 My thoughts and prayers are with the Ukrainian people during this terrible time.

Stamps: Army - The Greeting Farm (retired)
Ink: Ranger Distress Dried Marigold, Wild Honey, Squeezed Lemonade, Obsidian - Altenew
Paper: Watercolor paper - Canson Cold Press, Harvest Gold - PTI, DP Rainbow Bright 6x6 Paperpad - Sunny Studio.
Accessories: Botanicuts Sunflower Die - The Greetery, Lemon and Rustic Brown Brushos, water mister

Sometimes You Gotta Roll With It

Today I created a card to play along with 3 challenges out there in Blogland and I was excited to get out and use some new-to-me stamps and dies! 

The stamps and dies I used are from two sets by Avery Elle - Peek A Boo: Coaster and Peek a Boo Pals Camp Wanna Stamp.I colored the pieces with Copics.  The roller coaster cars are popped up on foam dots.

I'm linking my card to:

Just Us Girls

The inspiration for my carnival theme

Fab Friday

for colors

Fusion Challenge

I used the sketch

Stamps:  Peek a Boo Coaster, Peek a Boo Pals: Camp Wanna Stamp - Avery Elle
Paper:  White - PTI, Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface, DP Spring Fling 6"x6" paper pad - Lawn Fawn
Ink:  Obsidian - Altenew
Accessories:  Peek a Boo Coaster die set, Peek a Boo Pals Camp Wanna Stamp die set - Avery Elle, Copics, Sentiment Strip die - Neat and Tangled, foam dots.

Feb Mid-month Reminder - CAS Watercolour and CAS Stencil Challenges

I'm here today with my reminder cards for both CAS Watercolour and CAS Stencil  challenges.  You have until Feb 24th to link up your cards!

For my Red and Black watercolour card - I stamped one of the flowers from Wallpaper Art set by Altenew onto a panel of water color paper using Obsidian Ink also from Altenew.  

I brushed over a few petals at a time with just water and then dipped my brush in watery Rose Madder Deep water color paint and touched it onto the wet areas.  I added more color or took away color with my brush until I was happy with the look achieved.  I brushed Cadmium Scarlet water color paint on the center of the flower.  I sometimes dried an area with my heat tool to see how it looked.  Then I could add more color with water if I wanted.  

I brushed water around the outside of the flower and used the same process of adding black watercolor paint, letting it really spread into the water as I wanted it to be like a grounding shadow rather than stark black.   I let the water define the edges.

When I was happy with the colors, I dried it again with my heat tool and then stamped my sentiment from Rubbernecker.  I layered the watercolor panel to a white card base.

For my foil stencil card - I once again used foil with Transfer Gel and my laminator.

A few process photos.

First the supplies - the smallest Pierced Feature Frame die from PTI, two pieces cut from my foiled panel, Soft Lilac Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray from Altenew, Decofoil Transfer Gel, Deco Foil Rainbow Shattered Glass, #78 Stencil designed by Olga Heldwein  from Aall and Create.

I spread Decofoil Transfer Gel over my stencil with a plastic spatula onto a white card panel and let it dry over night.  I got out this sheet of beautiful Rainbow Shattered Glass Deco Foil.

 

I placed the foil shiny side up over the stenciled panel, put it inside a folded piece of computer paper and ran it through my 13" Royal Sovereign Laminator putting the fold side into the machine.

And it came out like this, its really hard to show the gorgeous shiny colors in a photo!  Notice how white the stenciling looks (where there was no gel and so no shiny foil adhered to it).  I decided to spray the panel with Soft Lilac Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray from Altenew to tone down the white. 

(I wiped the spray off the metallic areas after spraying as it doesn't stick there anyway.)

For my card, I cut a piece from the panel using the smallest Pierced Feature Frame die. This area had blues and greens.  I stenciled over a white panel with Distress Tumbled Glass ink using a Blender Brush and the same stencil as used with the foil.  The sentiment is from  Keep It Simple: Friendship Mini Set by PTI.

I adhered the outside of the frame with foam dots and the inside just with tape runner inside the frame.  You can see more shimmer at this angle and you can also see the Lilac Ink Spray on the pattern. The spray has a shimmer as well!

I was able to cut a another frame from my original foiled panel and made a second card.  This section of the panel had blue and purple foil.  I used the same process of stenciling behind using Wilted Violet Distress Ink with my blender brush on this one.

 Once again a shot of both cards
CAS Watercolour and CAS Stencil

 

So if you were thinking of joining us in either challenge - now's the time to get it done!  Can't wait to see how you watercolor with black and red - and/or use foil with your stencils.  You don't have to use a laminator - there are other ways to use foil.  There are technique videos linked at the challenge.  Check out CAS Watercolour here -   check out CAS Stencil here!

Thanks for sticking with me for such a long post!

I'm linking my Sympathy Card to:

Fusion Card Challenge -  just the sketch
(although I did use red on the flower!)

 

 Creative with Stamps

 Water Cooler Wednesday

I'm linking my Wonderful Friend card to:
TIME OUT Challenges

 Try it On Tuesday
Share the Love

Watercolor Sympathy
Stamps: Wallpaper Art - Altenew, You are in our thoughts - Rubbernecker
Paper:  water color paper - Canson, White - PTI
Ink: Obsidian - Altenew
Accessories: Kuretake water color paints - Rose Madder Deep, Black, Cadmium Scarlet, water brush, water, heat tool.

Wonderful Friend Foil
Stamps:  Keep it Simple Mini Set: Friendship - PTI
Paper: White - PTI.
Ink:Obsidian - Altenew, Ranger Distress Tumbled Glass and Wiled Violet.
Accessories:  #78 Stencil - Aall and Create, Deco Transfer Gel and Deco Foil Rainbow Shattered Glass - Thermoweb, Pierced Feature Frame Dies - PTI, Royal Sovereign Laminator, foam dots.