Happy Halloween - Another Christmas Card

Happy Halloween everyone.  Off to my daughter's today for the week end.  I am taking many things to a rummage sale at a scrapbook store.  Hope to make a couple dollars but best of all get rid of lots of stuff.

Today I am sharing a quick Christmas card I made.  I had this tree gift tag hanging out in my room so decided to use it for a card.  The dots were already on the tag.

I embossed card stock for the base - dots to go with the dots on the tree.  I put the tree at an angle.  I saved the ribbon from the tag and tied a little bow and glued it to the hole in the top of the tag.  The sentiment was stamped on vellum and clear embossed.  Some silver bling was added to the circles.  I may still add some glitter spray on top to add some sparkle.  I did put some gold spray on it so it does have a little sparkle.

I had good news yesterday.  One of my projects won so I have some nice prizes coming.  I will share it all in the future.

I'M A Winner

And no - it is not because I am playing games on my phone or computer and it says I am a WINNER - it is because I actually won a contest.  I entered three creative projects in the Fabric Editions contest; I had so much fun creating.  My first love was fabric and sewing; I don't sew anymore but I love to incorporate fabric into my cards or canvases.

This is the project that won.  It is an 8 x 10 canvas.

Here is what I wrote for the blog post on the Fabric Editions Blog.

The canvas was covered with tissue paper and then painted with cream acrylic paint.  I used Rebekah’s stencils and added dimension with brown inks and paint.  The sunflower was created out of the Waffle Muslin.  I cut a pattern with my Silhouette.  The muslin was adhered to grocery bag paper with iron on adhesive.  The flowers were cut out by hand and painted with an assortment of paints to get the color I wanted.  After they were painted I wet them and crumpled them up and let them dry so I got extra texture.  I took another piece of the muslin and cut the center for the sunflower.  I then did messy French knots to mimic the look of sunflower seeds.  To create depth while assembling the sunflower, thick glue dots were used in between the layers.

The stem and leaves were made from the Wool Felt.  I cut strips of the felt and colored them with acrylic paint.  I then rolled the felt and did some hand stitching to make it round.  For the leaves I used the same method but to create the leaves I  tied a knot in the center and then formed the leaf shape.

The outside of the canvas was trimmed out with two layers of patterned paper.  Over the top of the paper strips, I centered strips of fabric.  I also tied a bow out of a torn strip of the fabric.
Before adding the elements to the canvas, bronze acrylic paint was splattered over the canvas.  The flower, stem, leaves, buttons, and bow were added using hot glue.

At this point, I misted gold spray in the air and let it fall onto the flower and canvas.  Everything has a beautiful sparkle to it.

The sentiment was embossed on paper which was painted with blue acrylic paper and cut out.  It was adhered to the canvas with gel medium.

I am so excited to win product and a new Sizzix die cut machine.  My Cuddlebug is popping its sides off it has been used so much.

Thanks for stopping by.

Friday's Christmas Card

I think the hardest part of writing a post for your blog is coming up with a title.  Most days I am not a creative wordsmith in my titles - thus the boring "Friday's Christmas Card."

I was out looking at Pinterest yesterday and found a wonderful card that I am casing.  It is on this board.  There are some wonderful card here.  Here is the link to the card I cased.  The original card used watercolor.  I used inks.  I do like the original version better than mine but mine is OK.  I did make four of them.

I dabbed ink through different stencils for the background on cream paper.  The green snowflakes are stamped.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  The deer I have had for years and it is unmounted red rubber so I have no idea what company it is from.

Two days in a row I have made flat cards.  I think I should go to the doctor.  I never make flat cards.

Have a wonderful Friday and now I need to go figure out Saturday's card and get more things ready for a scrapbook rummage sale.

Thursday - Another Christmas Card

My challenge to myself this week is a Christmas card each day.  I am doing pretty good so far.  I am combining three challenges for this card.

The first challenge is the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch.  I believe you can see the sketch in my design.

The second challenge is at Time Out Challenges where the challenge is to make a Christmas card with the added twist of purple or pink.  I love to make non traditional color Christmas cards and I just happened to have this purple background already made.

The third challenge is Shopping your Stash.  Their challenge is to go paperless which means no patterned paper.  Just about everything I make has patterned paper - many layers of patterned paper on it.

The background paper is watercolor using a purple distress ink.  It may be the new color but since the paper had already been made for awhile, I don't know for sure.  The stamp set I used is from Hero Arts.  Everything is embossed in silver with white splatters on top.  I had never used the set before but I really like it.  The brush trees are beautiful embossed in white and silver.

I really like how the card turned out.  Love the tree.  Enjoy the remainder of your day.

Christmas Card Every Day

This week I have been making a Christmas card each day.  This is good and I am using some things I have had around for awhile.

This card follows the monthly Christmas theme on Happy Little Stamper which is poinsettia.

This poinsettia was on a gift box I made many years ago and I believe it was published.  It has been floating around my craft room so I decided to use the poinsettia for a card.  The little box is not in the garbage.  I feel better, I cleaned up something (don't tell anyone it was one small thing).  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  The paper is from several different companies.  I wanted it to look somewhat old fashioned.

I am also entering this card in the Wednesday Simon Says Challenge which is Anything Goes.

The weekly challenge at Addicted to Stamps is Holiday.

Everyone enjoy your day.  I am having dinner with my car pool buddies.  Two of us have retired so we do have to catch up with the poor soul who still is working.

Another Christmas Card

One must get busy on their Christmas cards.  The holiday season is fast approaching and I don't have too many done.  I am afraid to count.  Maybe I should count how many I need for sure and then see how many I have.  Either I will be happy by how much I have accomplished or I will be spiraling into a deep depression.  Let's hope for the first one.

I had this sweet snowman already colored so when I saw the challenge on Merry Monday Christmas Challenge for lights and glitter, I was half way to completing the challenge.  I believe this is an Art Impressions Stamp.

I had gessoed a dictionary or book page.  I stamped in black ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I colored the image with different types of coloring tools:  Copics, Inkintense Pencils, Distress Ink.  I also used Stickles (glitter) and my Wink of Stella pen on the card.  The sentiment is placed at the cocky angle - not because I felt cocky - but because - I had red stuff that needed to be hid.  Shhhh - don't tell anyone.

I am also entering it in the Weekly Christmas Card Challenge where the challenge is Anything Goes.  This fits in quite well with that challenge.

I thought the sentiment worked so well for a challenge for lights and glitter.  Enjoy your day.  I have a dental appointment early and then going to the movie in the afternoon.  Hope to find more time to create another Christmas card - wait - Thanksgiving is coming also - I should make a couple thankful cards.

Oldie Moldie Monday

It is Monday, time to show some love for your old supplies.  This image has been floating around my design table for awhile so I decided to make it into a card when I saw the current challenge on Jingle Bells which is a sketch.

The recycled white cardstock has been embossed for a base layer.  I must confess I did use my new Lawn Fawn die cuts for the curved area and a new sentiment stamp.

The stripe is not even Christmas paper but it did have the colors in it that coordinated with the scarf on my snowman.  At least this little image won't be haunting me on the design table.  I am being smart as I work on my holiday cards to complete the insides also while all the paper is available.

Remember to show some love for that older paper.  It can make fun cards.