Merry Monday Guest Designer!

I was pretty excited to be asked to be the guest designer this week for Lesley's Merry Monday Challenge after winning last week with this card!  This was a great sketch to work with, so I paired it with CTMH's Pear & Partridge papers and the Merry & Bright stamp set.  It's a large card: 6 1/2" x 5".  *If you're needing to get a few more Christmas cards made up - play along!  It's a great way to add to your Christmas card stash all year:

 

 

Patterned papers are Pear & Partridge; Cardstock is Cranberry, Cashmere & Champagne; Stamp set is Merry & Bright; Inks are Olive, Cranberry & Chocolate.  Red Sparkles - all CTMH

 

 

 

 

 

Deconstructed Sketch #78

My oldest turned 17 today :o)  so I made him a square birthday card using the Deconstructed Sketch for this week.

Patterned papers are All Boy, My Mind's Eye; Cardstock is Brown Bag, Indian Corn Blue & Colonial White; Inks are Cashmere & Indian Corn Blue; Stamp set is CTMH.

 

City Snowflake & Country Snowflake

I taught a Christmas card class today to a lovely group of ladies, and wanted to share two of the cards that we made.  I wrote out instructions for each of them, and named these two City & Country Snowflake cards since that seemed to fit the bill?  I wanted to show them the negative die cut concept, and used the remaining circle to make a second card with a bit of bling.

This one would fit this week's Dynamic Duos challenge of Marina Mist & Basic Black!  Check out the challenge here  :o)

And here are the two together:

Cardstock is Kraft, Crystal Blue & White Daisy; Stamp sets are Merry & Bright and Pear & Partridge card Workshop on the Go; Inks are Black & Desert Sand; Organdy ribbon; Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge - all CTMH; Martha Stewart Twine.

 

Dynamic Duos #29

It's time for another Dynamic Duos challenge!  Get ready for a frosty one - this week's colours are Marina Mist & Basic Black... with a "Dessert Option" of a snowman theme.  If you don't have the exact colours, just use something similar (I've used Close To My Heart's Crystal Blue & Black), and you can include neutral tones like grey, brown, flesh tones, kraft etc. - but otherwise just stick to our two colours.
     I love this little snowman stamp set - even though it's been retired for a couple of years, I knew that it would make a great snowglobe card, so that's what I came up with for this week's challenge.  He's little, just 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" as that's the scale that fit the image, but it'll work great as a little gift enclosure card, or I may even use it as a tag?  He was a bit awkward to photograph, as he doesn't stand up on his own, you just lift up the globe to see the message underneath.  I added lots of chunky glitter to make him all sparkly, and shaded the edges with Copic markers.

The inside:

Cardstock is Crystal Blue, Black & White; Stamp set is Snow Friends; both CTMH; Martha Stewart coarse glitter; Copic Markers; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento.

Be sure to visit the Dynamic Duos blog to see what all designers have come up with this week (lots of snow and bling!), and we hope you'll join us and play along.

 

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

This sentiment just doesn't get old... so when I saw this stamp in the Pear & Partridge Workshop on the Go, I knew I needed it!  This is a 5 1/2" square card that we're doing at a card workshop this weekend... fairly simple, with a little rose ribbon trim:

Patterned papers and stamp are Pear & Partridge Workshop on the Go card kit; Inks are New England Ivy & Cranberry; Rose ribbon; Cardstock is Colonial White & Cranberry - all CTMH.

Sketchbook Saturday #83

Chupa has a very different sketch this week for Sketchbook Saturday!  I wasn't going to do a Christmas card, but these cute Cosmo Cricket papers caught my eye, and I thought they'd work nicely.  I have a real thing for retro papers, especially Christmas ones - and CC does it so well!  Here's what I put together:

Patterned papers are Jolly Days, Cosmo Cricket; Cardstock is Vanilla Cream, CTMH; Sentiment is A Very Merry Christmas, CTMH; Ink is Black, CTMH; Buttons CTMH.

A couple of Challenges

It's not often that I have several cards to post in one day!  But I'm in major Christmas card mode, as well as finishing up prototypes for a card class... so I'm being quite productive.  My first card is using the Deconstructed Sketch along with the Pear & Partridge papers from Close To My Heart:

Patterned papers are Pear & Partridge; Cardstock is Olive, Cashmere & Colonial White; Stamp set is Holiday Melodies; Inks are Olive & Cranberry - all Close To My Heart;

Second up is my November Sketch For You To Try card using the Merry & Bright papers from Carta Bella.  I used the Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut the pinwheel, since it cuts 1/2 at a time - which worked perfectly for the sketch:

 

 

Patterned papers and sticker are Merry & Bright, Carta Bella; Cardstock is Topiary, Heavenly Blue & White Daisy, CTMH; Stamp set is Perfect Fit - Holiday, CTMH; Ink is Heavenly Blue; Martha Stewart punch; Cricut Artiste cartridge, CTMH.