Blue Christmas

 

First Christmas card for the year ... it's hard to believe it's only been a month since Christmas day.

I've been in a sort of CAS mood with my card-making lately, and this is no exception.  The card features white bauble, cut from a dry-embossed piece of white cardstock with a Prickley Pear die. It's hanging from a white-embossed tree branch on a gold cord. The sentient is also white embossed.

This card is for these challenges:

Rudolph Days --anything Christmas

Double D -- blue and white

ABC Christmas -- B is for Bauble

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday # 527 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2204 -- anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #578 -- anything Christmas

Feeling like flowers

Greetings. I hope your having a good week.  It's been very cold here -- today it was sunny (which was a nice change from dreary) but below freezing all day long. So I needed some flowers!

I sort of randomly signed up for a Facebook group of CAS stampers, so I see a lot of CAS cards in my feed, and that influenced this card.

I started with snippets of watercolor paper, and die-cut the flowers (Sizzix/Tim Holtz wildflowers) and butterfly (Sizzix/not Tim). I then used a bunch of water colors and reinkers that were sitting on my desk to color the flowers, stems, and butterfly. After determining the general layout I wanted, I cut the aperture (Whimsy Stamps die) on a large white snippet, and then black-embossed the sentiment. Mounted the white on a large black snippet then adhered the dies in place. Adhered it all to a white card, and added a few gems for a little bling.

This card is for these Challenges:

 Butterfly Challenge #165 (used two of the required colors -- Thistle and Tickle Me Pink) and a butterfly.

Dies R Us #185-- anything goes with dies (Sizzix and Whimsy)

Die-Cut Divas Jan. 2022-- florals

Snippet Playground # 420 -- use snippets (everything but the base)

Word Art Wednesday #527 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2204 -- anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

New to me

 

It seemed many challenges are concentrating on "something new" where you show off new stuff. I combined new stuff with a new-to-me technique, a play on triple stamping called "offset triple stamping." (I was made aware of this by a link to a pinterest page posted in a group I'm in, so I don't know if if there are rules or directions for doing techniques. I just figured it out based on the photos.)

The stamp I used is an NBUS image from Stamplorations, a lovely and detailed stamp. I used snippets of white cardstock for the layers and snippets for the lavender matting around the various pieces. To highlight different sections of the image, I used colored pencils in key spot.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- Something new

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2202 -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations # 190 -- anything goes

NBUS #34 -- Stamplorations image

Stamplorations Never-ending Challenge -- Stamplorations image

Pixie's Snippet Playground #419 -- use snippets (white and lavender snippets)

Word Art Wednesday #525-- anything goes