Eat, Drink and Be Merry

I can't believe we are over half way into May already so we are going to need those Christmas cards before you know it. So to help with that I used the new Tuesday Morning Sketch 555.  For this I used my Minc to foil the sentiment from Creative Visions Stamps.  I added bling and a die cut from Paper Smooches and I put some Glossy Accents in it and colored it with a Copic marker. It's a fun non-traditional monochromatic Christmas card.

Patterned Paper:  Cosmo Cricket

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dinations

Vellum:  Paper Studio

Bling:  Jolee and Recollection

Glossy Accents

Border Punch:  Fiskars

Corner Rounder:  Creative Memories

Foil:  Creative Vision Stamps

Challenges

CHNC - Ch. 490 Anything Christmas with optional Candy Canes

As You Like It - Favorite Color Combo with purple (gold - it's so elegant)

Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 22

Krafty Chicks - Ch. 507 Christmas

Polkadoodles - Wk 20 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 251 Anything Goes with a sentiment

Let Love Grow

It's February 1st already! I just can't believe how fast the days are going. Maybe it's because I have to work a full time regular job and don't have as much time to craft as I would like. This month I am a guest designer for Joy of Sets and they have fun tic tac toe challenges. For my card, I used an image from Mo Manning, Let Love Grow with a computer generated sentiment. I couldn't decide which elements to use in the challenge so I went for a full black out of all 9!  I pulled out my Derwent Watercolor pencils which I haven't used in some time so I used Copics on the face ad hair and pencils on the rest. I embossed the vellum and put it on a gold metallic paper. The background purple paper also has streaks of gold.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio; Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Paper Studio; Recollections

Vellum:  Recollections

Stamp:  Mo Manning - Let Love Grow (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  Computer generated

Spellbinders:  Small and Large Petite Ovals

Embossing Folder:  Darice

Hearts:  Prima

Watercolor Pencils:  Derwent

Challenges

Crafty Friends - Ch. 128 Love/ Romance

Crafty Sentiments - Hearts / Valentine
Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes with optional twist Love
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 619 Valentines
Creatalicious - Ch. 180 Anything Goes with optional hearts
Aud Sentiments - Ch. 243 Anything Goes with a sentiment

Peace & Snow

I wanted to make a card that wasn't for a DT. I recently bought some new die cuts and I got this beautiful snowflake panel and thought it would be a great background, but today used it as a focus. I also found a piece of blue vellum that I had that included in this too. I added some bling and pearls to the snowflakes. I also dry embossed the color papers with snowflakes.

Cardstock:  Recollections; Paper Studio

Vellum:  Paper Studio

Die:  Momento; QuicKutz

Embossing Folders:  Cuttlebug; Darice

Pearls: Recollections

Bling;  Mark Richards

Challenges

Sketch Saturday - Ch. 593

Color Throwdown - Ch. 572 (see above)

Make My Monday - Ch. 110 Use Vellum

CHNC - Ch. 467 Anything Christmas optional Quick & easy

Allsorts - Wk 549 Snowmen and/or snowflakes

Let's Craft & Create - Ch. 154 Anything Goes with optional Let it Snow

Alphabet Challenge - S for Snow

Incy Wincy - Christmas without Red or Green

I'm not going!

Today at Catch the Bug is New Release day and we have Ruby No Chocolate.  I outlined the cloud in Sakura jelly glitter pen. Then did layers of white cardstock and blue vellum for her clouds. I have been diabetic since the age of 11 so I don't crave chocolate unless it's peanut butter cups. Now they have Skippy Bites which I am totally addicted to and have every day on my morning break which are just balls of peanut butter.  And I think many of us feel we wouldn't go if they didn't have ink pads, lol. I do have friends that wouldn't go if there  wasn't chocolate so at least I have people to give the card to, hehe.

Cardstock:  Recollection

Vellum:  Paper Studio

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Ruby No Chocolate

Ink:  Distress Broken China

Sakura jelly glitter pen

Flowers:  Recollection

Bling:  Recollection

Spellbinders:  Grand Scalloped Ovals; Small Scalloped Oval

Challenges

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 402 - 403 Anything goes

Make My Monday - Ch. 104 Use Shapes on Your card

Creatalicious - Ch. 170 Anything Goes with optional humor

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 104 Vellum

Do A1- (1) Creative - Ch. 33 Shaped Card

Crazy for Challenges - C4C500 Shaped Card

little red wagon - Ch. 512 Foodie

Cupcake Inspirations - Ch. 477 Food and Drink