Jo's Christmas Kickstart Challenge Reminder

As the guest elf, here's a little reminder if you want to play in Jo's Christmas Kickstart Challenge. This month the theme is Poinsettias and Posies.

You can see my first card HERE.

I made a whole group of cards with the SSS Holiday Sprigs Stamp, Stencil and die set.

The card on bottom left of the photo, is made from the leftover "inside" of the frame I made for the card on the bottom right hand side of photo.

You can see how the berries pop with the glossy accents. 

Here are the other cards ... simple frame and layering the leaves and flowers.

More crisp and CAS with this one.

Added a light touch of green distress behind the frame for this one.

I will also enter this to ...

... Addicted to Stamps & More : Die Cuts and Stencils

... Addicted to CAS : Layered

Bountiful Birthday Blooms

I've just received my first stamp set from The Greetery .... Birthday Blooms! It's one of those sets that don't look like much in the packet, but oh do they make wonderful cards!

And I can't stop playing with it! So here's a bunch of cards using this set ... these are just the purple ones! 

The first one was CASed from Dana's card, just to get the creative juices warmed up.

This one was inspired by the sketch challenge at Global Design Project.

I'm so disappointed to miss the deadline with posting this one. Loved the sketch.

This is a small card ... only 3¼" x 4". I had pieces left over from cutting cardstock to make slimline cards.  I have 6, so this will be the first of a set as a gift for a friend.

Here's the whole gang!

More colours are stamped and die cut but still on my desk. So expect more.

My entry to ...

... Global Design Project #282 : Sketch 

... Freshly Made Sketches #476

... Twofer Card Challenge : My choice. I choose blooms.

... The Paper Players #531. All my purple blossoms.

... The Flower Challenge #54 : Shades of Purple

... CAS on Friday : Spring

... Addicted to Stamp & More #400 : Die cuts & Stencils

... NBUS #24

Rainbow Card Set

I have wanted to make up this set of cards from this stamp set for ages. To keep it simple I picked one colour for each Bible verse and coloured with Prismacolour pencils. 

To make the frames pop, I mounted them on white card embossed with the very subtle 3D embossing folder from Stampin' Up.

 

My entry to ...

... The Card Concept : Hello Spring

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Flower Power

... Addicted to Stamps : Anything Goes

... Just Us Girls : Photo Week

Floral Squares Card Set

Here's a quick way to make a set of cards AND use up some of the stash of inked paper I have.

Go through your stash of inked cards. I have a lot of these because when I have finished a project and there is still some distress ink on my craft mat, I spritz it and smooch a piece of card to use up the ink.

I die cut the set of Floral Squares from Pinkfresh studio, and played around with the papers to see which ones I wanted to use.

Here's the full set done.

Unfortunately, this white linen card stock had warped.  I must flatten it out with the weight of some heavy books.

On this one, I kept a strip of the inked card to add to the edge.

I love the flow of this one.

Grounded in the earth ... floating towards the sky. 

My entry to ...

... The Flower Challenge : Use a die