Sharing a card today that I have made for my sister, who owns a farm with lots of apple trees. And I have used the sketch from this week’s Freshly Made Sketches.
I have used a combination of the Perfectly Preserved and Polar Party Stamp Sets, along with the Be Of Good Cheer patterned papers in some traditional Christmas colours.
Here is the sketch:
Hope you are finding time to do some Christmas stamping too.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
So my second challenge card for today, and I have made a card inspired by my lovely and very talented friend Deb Fearns. Deb recently showed me a gorgeous little box that she had made using the Natural Composition Specialty papers, and it inspired me to find the papers and use them in this card.
This week’s Dynamic Duos challenge is to use the colours Black and Gold and also a music theme.
So I have used the music notes from the Natural Composition Specialty papers, which I have applied black ink directly to, and then just rubbed it over with a tissue to get rid of the excess ink. With the gold coloured foil (non-Stampin’ Up!) behind, it makes the music look gold as well.
Once again I have used the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set and have hand cut around the ornament once it was embossed with gold powder. I then die cut the Very Vanilla ornament so that I could layer one over the other. And the greeting is from the Joyous Celebrations stamp set.
Make sure you check out the rest of the gorgeous projects from the very talented Design Team here.
Well, that’s all from me for now. If I don’t have a chance to post more before Christmas, I hope you all have a wonderful, safe and happy Christmas.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
This week at Our Creative Corner it is my turn to set the challenge, and I have chosen a colour theme, using my favourite colour Purple, along with Silver, you can use other colours as well, just as long as purple and silver are the feature colours for your project. Our Creative Corner will taking a break over Christmas and it is our last challenge before our break, so lets make it a Christmas project as well.
I have had fun with the Big Shot and embossing this week on my card. I have used a stamp from the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set which I have heat embossed with silver powder onto Elegant Eggplant card stock and then cut out with the Holiday Ornaments Dies. The silver layer is some of the gorgeous Glimmer paper cut using the Apothecary Accents Framelits, and for the white layer I have used the Adorning Accents Edgelits and the Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder. The greeting comes from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments Stamp Set and I have used a little bit of Pink Pirouette card stock for some interest and some non-Stampin’ Up! ribbon that I found in my stash!
Happy Stamping!
Chris
Our challenge this week at Our Creative Corner is to create a project which uses some stitching and fabric. Stitching can be done on the sewing machine or faux stitching, and the fabric could be used in any part of the project, either as an embellishment, or as I have done, an entire panel.
Again, I am sewing machine-less… that is, without sewing machine…. so I had to use “faux stitching” on my card. Faux stitching is one of my favourite’s, so it wasn’t a chore, actually I think I may have got a little carried away with it, what do you think? That’s all faux stitching around the outside of the greeting and the lines along the top and bottom of “Season’s Greetings”, plus there is some around the red star, it’s just a bit hard to see in the photo.
I stuck with some traditional Christmas colours for this one, and have used a non Stampin’ Up! embossing folder which has been sitting unused for some time now. The Christmas tree looks a bit lumpy in the photo, but I have just used some cotton wool behind it to make it puff out a little.
The Christmas Tree was cut out of the white panel of card stock using the Holiday Collection Framelits die, and the fabric is from the Orchard Harvest Designer Fabrics. And the greeting is from the Welcome Christmas stamp set.
If you have any questions about how I made my card, please feel free to send me an email. And you can see what the rest of the Design Team have made for this challenge here. We do hope you will give this one a go and join in the fun, we love to see what you have created using our challenges.
Next week is my challenge, so make sure you come back to see what I have for you, and it is also our final challenge for the year, as we are taking a well earned break over Christmas.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
I love this combination, it’s very classy and elegant.
I hope you will forgive the short post again, unpacking and organising calls, and if I don’t unpack I can’t stamp! 🙂
Make sure you check out the what the rest of the design time have done with these gorgeous colours.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
Another fabulous challenge for Our Creative Corner this week from Sue at Scrumplescrunch:
Well, here it is, my first challenge with the wonderful Design Team at Dynamic Duos.
Each week we will have two colours to use to create a card, scrapbook page, craft or digital project. Only the two colours, otherwise known as “The Dynamic Duo”, may be used for the project. Neutrals such as black, white, vanilla, skin colours and kraft are ok to add to those two colours.
So here is the card I have made using this week’s colour combo. For most people, the colours probably say “make a Christmas Card!” but I thought it would be good to see those colours used in a different way.
I have used the Delicate Doilies Sizzlit, and Papillon Potpourri stamp set, and for the greeting an individual stamp called Beautiful Birthday.
Make sure you check out the rest of the fabulous creations from the Dynamic Duos Design Team:
I love Papillon Potpourri stamp set, such beautiful butterflies!
And I have seen this idea around on the net in a few places so thought I would make a couple of different ones. What I really wanted to do was to show you just how easy it is to change a couple of elements and come up with a completely different card.
So, as you can see, I have change the colours, the first card uses Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze and Summer Starfruit.
I used a different piece of patterned paper, although both are from the Comfort Cafe Designer Series Paper. The greetings on both cards are from the Curly Cute set.
The colours in the second card are Whisteria Wonder, Pool Party and So Saffron.
I have also used a different butterfly to achieve a different look, but both are from the Papillon Potpourri stamp set.
I like this design, I think I will make a Christmas card using it 🙂
I also want to let all of my lovely followers know that there are going to be some pretty major changes going on over the next couple of months. My son and I have decided that it is time to move back home to Canberra. We have started packing, but we don’t have an exact date to move yet, but imagine it will take place before Christmas. So I will attempt to continue to craft and blog over that time, but I hope you will understand if it’s not as frequent as it has been.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
I promised yesterday that I would share the decorated Candy Canes that I have been making, so here they are…
I have used the same things as I did on the card from yesterday. I am looking forward to hanging these on the Christmas tree this year.
Well, just a short post today, but I do have lots of things to share with you, so promise to be back real soon.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
I have made a Christmas card for this week’s sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. I am really enjoying getting into the spirit of Christmas this year, I have done a lot of Christmas shopping already, so thought it would be good to get started on some Christmas cards too.
I have made quite a few of these ornaments, to go on some Candy Canes to hang on the Christmas tree, and as I was making them, I thought how nice they would look on a card, and here is the result. I will show you the Candy Canes in another post.
The card uses the Candlelight Christmas Specialty Papers, and the Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder. And for the ornament I have used the Snow Flurry die, Real Red Glimmer Paper punched out with the scallop circle punch, and the greeting comes from the Mixed Medley hostess set.
Here is the sketch: 
Happy Stamping!
Chris
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