Sparkling Ornament

 A touch of sparkle to a CAS card stencilling with Glitz Glitter Gel.

My entry to ...

... Just Us Girls : Anything Goes Stencilling Week

... Merry Little Christmas Challenge : Anything Christmas

... Die Cut Divas : Add Glitter

... Inkspirational : Use Stencil

Wintery Wishes

 Love this combination of the hedgehog (NBUS) and big letters. Just so happy.

Added some glossy accent to the berries.

My entry to ...

... Time Out Challenge : Inspired by Words

... CAS on Friday : Winter

... The Paper Players : Winter Fun CAS Challenge

... NBUS Challenge #58 

... Word Power

Peace & Joy

 A challenge a little out of my comfort zone - Black, White & Gold - especially for a Christmas card. Using my NBUS Paper Rose Little Angel Builder die & Delicata Gold refill ink. I painted it on the wings & halo, and splattered on the black background.

The Delicata Gold gives the perfect shine.

My entry to ...

... AAA Cards Challenge : Black, White & Gold

... The Paper Players : Christmas

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Use Craft Dies

... Inspired By : Holiday Decor

... NBUS #57

Monochrome Ornaments

 My friend lent me her set of Pinkfresh Studio Ornaments - simply wonderful that it has the accompanying stencil and die. I decided to go with a monochrome gold/creme set. I used Platinum embossing on cream card, and stencilled in shades of cream/gold adding a little Delicata Gold here and there.

As wonderful as it would be to put them all on one card, I decided to see how many cards I could get out with one set of ornaments.  Turns out I got 5! Yippee!

For the first design, I used 3 ornaments on the card varying the shapes and sizes to get a good balance. I can't remember who gave the great tip of scoring the edges of your top card but thank you. A extra touch for a CAS card.

I also painted in parts with Delicata gold refill ink.

For the second design I used the positive and negative dies of an arch.

For the negative cut, I embossed the card with a linen embossing folder to give a little texture.

For the last lonely ornament, I was wondering how I could use it. Such a particular shape and not that big.  But then I remembered this wonderul star embossing folder! Gives it that extra impact.  And I just love these dies of tag/labels that also have a matching embossing folder to give them extra detail.

I just may have to borrow this set again.

My entry to ...

... Time Out Challenge #252 : Winter/Holiday

... Divas tha Die Cut : All About the Holidays

... TGIF #448 - Theme

... Less is More #497 - D is for Deck the Halls

... CAS on Friday - Christmas

... Can You Handle the Pressure : Anything Goes with a Twist of Christmas

Noel Robin

When I spotted the Penny Black Immense Noel, I knew it would be perfect to put a focal image in the "O". This is my first card with it. I used the little robin from the Jolly Critters.

I made a second one and added some sparkle "snow" to the top of the Noel.

Which do you prefer?

My entry to ...

... NBUS #56

... Just Us Girls #706 : Photo Mood Board

... Die Cut Divas : All about the Holidays

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Make it Sparkle

... Inkspirational #303 : Seasonal

... Less is More : Anything Goes

Christmas Tree Wishes

 Beautiful Christmas tree of words from Papertrey Ink!

This is the final card ... after trying 9 different backgrounds! Just love this embossing folder ... All Star Burst from Simon Says Stamp.

Here are the 9 different backgrounds I was trying ... started with vellum - but thought it got a bit lost on it, the red die cut stars - too dark!, gold die cut stars - too similar to the tree ... and on it went.

I added Nuvo Glitter Gloss to the stars on the embossing folder, and glossy accents to the star at the top of the tree.

Merry Christmas wishes to you ...

    A silent night,

        a start above,

            a blessed gift of hope and love.

A blessed Christmas to you.

My entry to ...

... Can you Handle the Pressure : Anything Goes with a Twist of Christmas

... The Card Concept : Christmas Greetings

... Let's Squash It : Snowflakes and Stars

... Divas That Die Cut : Anything Winter or Christmas Themed

... Christmas Kickstart Challenge : If it's Christmas, link it up.

... NBUS #45