Winter Bouquet

Christmas in May, yeah! Christmas is my favorite time of year! Its time to start thinking about my July Christmas card workshop so this is one possibility. I'm not really good at bows and I don't really like this one but it'll do. This card is for two challenges the first one being Flourishes Christmas/sketch challenge for the month of May. The stamp I used was quite large, a smaller stamp does come in the set but the image is also smaller and I wanted the larger flower. The second is a colour challenge for StampTV using black/white/gray. Awesome combination!

Stamp: Flourishes winter bouquet
Paper:basic black, whisper white, basic gray
Ink: basic black
Other: prisma markers gray (they have a set that has 9 shades of gray in it, I used 10%, 20% and 30% gray), diamond stickles, cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, stmapin up perfect dots embossing folder, MS snowflake punch, spellbinders standard and petite scallop circle, pearls, stampin up photo corner punch, ribbon

Snowflakes everywhere

I did this card for two challenges. The first one is Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential here which was to go wild with snowflakes. I think I did that, lol! The other challenge is on Stamp TV found here and they gave a sketch challenge with nestabilites. I don't have any plain ovals but the end product was close enough. IRL its so sparkly, it looks great. This was actually a very fast card, which made it even better.

Stamp: Stampin Up Jolliest time of the Year
Paper: Whisper white, brilliant blue
Ink: Brilliant blue, bashful blue, basic black
Other: clear sakura gel pen, cuttlebug folder snowflakes, MS snowflake punch, oval scallop nestabilies

Christmoose

This card is for the Whimsy Stamp Challenge on the SNR website found here. You have to be a member but to sign up its free. (The link works for me because I'm a member, if it doesn't work for anyone please email me I haven't done a link like this before) The challenge was to create a card with snow on it and to use a Whimsy stamp. There is a free digital stamp available to use if you don't own a Whimsy stamp. I love this moose he is just so darn cute. I gave the snow dimension by using flocking and liquid applique. This is the first time I used this ribbon and I'm not impressed it frays so easy.

Stamps: Whimsy Reindeer
Paper: Chocolate chip, whisper white
Ink: Copic brown(I bought my birthday gift Glenda!) ballet blue, brilliant blue, basic black, versamark
Other: white flock, liquid applique, embossing pen, ribbon, snowflake brad, snowflake embossing folder, 99% alcohol(to hightlight copic ink. ( I only have one brown marker so I coloured the moose, went around the edges again and then used the alcohol with a paintbrush to do the centre to create highlights.

Christmas Frog

This was done for two challenges. The first one is stamp tv found here and is a challenge for a square card AND envelope (red square in the background, lol) The second challenge is from Creative card crew challenge found here and the challenge is for anything goes. I cased this cute little frog from Vicki (stamped smiles) found here
Isn't he just the cutest!
Stamp: Whimsy frog
Paper: Whisper white, real red, dp
Ink: basic black, real red, bravo burgandy, mellow moss, taken with teal
Other: stickles, versamark, clear embossing powder, snowflake punch, ribbon, cuttlebug snowflakes

Christmas Carol

This is a card I did for the Flourishes Favorite Things Challenge found here. All you need to do is be inspired in some way by the words of the song Favorite Things from the Sound of Music! Be sure to state which line of the song inspired your card! I was inspired by the line "Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes. Anyone who knows me knows I adore snow, snowflakes, snowmen, snow anything and I love Christmas! This could be a scene from the new movie Christmas Carol with Jim Carey! lol!!
Stamps: Stampin Up Keep Christmas
Paper: Soft Suede, whisper white, cream
Ink: Soft Suede, versamark, watercolours for clothes
Other: snowflake embossing folder, MS snowflake punch, brad, shimmer paint/alcohol mix, crystal effects

White Christmas

I've done monochromatic cards before but never one colour AND only one colour, no sponging, nothing. Who would have thought there were so many shades of white, lol! The main cardstock is 100lb cardstock. The snowflake lace area and the top area are shimmery cardstock and the middle cuttlebug snowflake area is whisper white paper. All white but all different colours, lol! This card was made for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge found here to use a border punch or borderablilites. I don't have any borderabilities, YET, you know Christmas is coming, lol, so I used a snowflake border punch. The card was one of the fastest I've ever done and looks very elegant!
Stamps: Stampin Up Serene Snowflake
Paper: shimmery white, whisper card
Ink: versamark
Other: cuttlebug snowflake folder, winterwonderland embossing powder, ribbon, snowflake punch
Have a happy Halloween!