Clean and Simple Christmas Cards

These were fun to make and I like that they're clean and simple.  I'm thinking they might be a good design to mass produce this year.
I used a sketch from:  CAS Colours and Sketches #231

I'm also entering them into The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #10 - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking!

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas; Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together; Avery Elle North Pole Pals (sentiment)
Die:  Kaisercraft ornate oval; Paper Roses stitched rectangles 

Jar of Love stamps

This card was inspired by a few different card challenge blogs:

Fusion Card Challenge - 4th July Jars.  I used both the picture and sketch (rotated 90 degrees).



Less is More Challenge #335 - Colours of your country's flag



CAS on Sunday Challenge #111 - Flowers


Stamps:  Stampin Up - Jar of Love; Altenew- Beautiful Day (sentiment)
Paper:  Bo Bunny

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CAS birthday card

Entering this card in:
Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #271
CAS on Sunday Challenge #99 - Black and white + a colour of your choice

  Loved the black and white + 1 colour prompt and think I'll be making a few of this card in lots of different shades to have in my stash.

Stamps:  Mama Elephant Brush Strokes; Mama Elephant Pandamonium; Stampin Up Endless Birthday Wishes 
Dies:  Mama Elephant 'birthday'

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A couple of clean and simple cards

Entering this card in the following challenges:
Casology - Cue word:  Cut
Seize the Birthday - Theme:  Anything Goes

I fussy cut the cow and die cut the white rectanglar piece. 
I used Mama Elephant stamps (lunar animals and brush strokes) and Stampin Up stamps (endless birthday wishes) to make this card.

   

 I created this card for a  colleague who celebrates a birthday in early Jan but unfortunately I forgot it.  The inside of the card reads:  "But I do!"

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We herd it's your birthday!

Entering this birthday card in: Seize the Birthday Challenge Blog.  The theme this week is 'anything goes'.


I used Mama Elephant Stamps (Brush strokes; Lunar Animals); Lawn Fawn stamps (Party Animals); Stampin up stamps (Endless Birthday Wishes) and MFT die (Fence).

I love a good pun and thought this was appropriate for the farm animals!

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Birthday Card

Another card using the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch #204. 

Lots of white space again which I'm loving!

Using Mama Elephant Stamps (Pandamonium) and distress inks.

Here's another look at the sketch:

Thanks for looking!

Have a purr-fect day!

Entering this card in CAS(E) this Sketch! Challenge #204
I loved the sketch  and tried to keep it clean and simple - it's hard not to keep adding layers and embellishments!
Here's the sketch and a link to the blog:



Using Mama Elephant stamps (Lunar animals), My Favourite Things Stamps (Party Balloons) and Amy R Stamps (Critter Sentiments).

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Sending Birthday Thoughts

I'm entering this card in Freshly Made Sketches this week.
I'm also entering it in Colour Throwdown #425 - black, mustard and blue.  This is not a colour combo that I would normally use but it is really lovely!

I used Mama Elephant Pandamonium Stamps and Happy Everything sentiment stamps.

Thanks for looking!
 

Wishing you a tree-mendous day!

Entering this card in:
Freshly Made Sketches Challenge and CASology Week 23.

I loved the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches - it takes a lot of the hard work out of card making for me and makes it so much more fun to create.  The 'Forest' theme from CASology made me use colours that I normally don't use (which was fun!) and also made me realise that I don't own any tree stamps (GASP!).  Definitely need to add some of those to the wishlist!

I used Mama elephant stamps for the rabbit (lunar animals) and the sentiment (calli letters & happy everything).
Here's a link to both challenges if you're interested in having a look.  It's great fun to play along!

Thanks for looking!
        

You're Tea-rific!

 

I'm entering this card in the Fusion Card Challenge.  It's my first time with this challenge blog and I love that there's two elements to the challenge.  You can choose to use just the sketch or just the inspiration photo to create a card, or you can fuse the two together!

Here's the inspiration photo:

 

I chose to use both elements for my card.  Any excuse to stamp a pun!

Stamps:  Lawn Fawn-Best Pun Ever
Ink:  Stampin up
Dies:  Paper Rose circles and Paper Rose rectangles

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CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge

Entering this card in the CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge #203.  Had a lot of fun creating a watercolour background for this card - sometimes the messier the watercolouring, the better it looks!  Really loving using sketches at the moment!

Stamps: Mama Elephant Happy Everything; Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas

Dies:  Lawn Fawn ; Mama Elephant birthday

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Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

 

Entering this card in the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #269.  

I forgot how much I love card sketches and I really enjoyed having a clean and simple card sketch to follow.

Couldn't decide whether to use a blue strip or a pink strip...so I joined them together and used both!

Stamps:  Altenew Vintage Roses; Stampin up Watercolour Wings (sentiment)

Inks:  Stampin up and Distress Inks

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Snow Cool - Christmas Cards

I've been having a play with my new Lawn Fawn stamps and they are rather cute! So many possibilities and combinations of very cute creatures.
I was inspired to create a card using the masking technique demonstrated by Michelle at The Card Grotto - she has a great video on her blog showing how to mask part of your card.  All her cards are beautiful - well worth a look.  I used masking to create the white snowy hill and used similar colours to create the sky.

I'm entering this card in the Christmas Card Challenge Blog - anything goes challenge.


I also got busy making some fun tags today.

Inspiration for my tags came from Rachel at RBergfeld Card Designs.
Really love these stamp sets!

Thanks for looking!

Stamps:  Lawn Fawn Snow Cool; Lawn Fawn Winter Penguin
Distress inks:  Peacock Feathers; Salty Ocean; Seedless Preserves

A couple of Christmas cards

I stumbled across this blog: Christmas Card Challenges and thought it would be a great idea to get a head start on my Christmas cards.  Every year I tell myself that I will make Christmas cards all throughout the year....and it never happens!

Well, I've made two cards now so it's a good start!

 This first card followed a sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch #184.  I loved the simple design.  My card accidentally turned out looking wintery and snowy - an unintentional happy result!

The second card was disastrous from the beginning and I made mistake after mistake.  I was ready to throw it in the bin and give up...it turned out nothing like I had planned or hoped, but in the end was not as bad as I thought it would be. 

Stamps:  Lawn Fawn -Winter Sparrows

Stamps:  Hero Arts - Collage music background

Inks:  Stampin up

Entering these in the Christmas Card Challenge Blog.

Thanks for looking!

Butterfly Challenge Card

Long time no blog!  Decided it's about time I started up again.  I've been making plenty of cards, just struggling to find time to upload them.  Here's hoping I can remember how to do this blogging thing!

The card was made using:
Stamps:  Stampin up Watercolor Wings and Stampin up Endless Birthday Wishes (sentiment)
Embossing folder: Flutterby - Stampin up
Inks:  stampin up Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Memento Black

This card was made to enter two challenges:
Colour Q Challenge # 357


and Retro Sketches #230

Loved the colour combo in the challenge and I always love to use a sketch to get me started with a card.

Thanks for looking (if there's still anyone out there after two years!)

Christmas card no.2

Here is my second card for the Friday Mashup challenge.  I used the same image but this time I had a go at the 'delft tile' technique and really like the effect.  I wasn't happy with the way my sponging turned out on my scrap pieces so I didn't sponge around the edges of each tile.  I like the way it turned out and the tile technique adds an extra bit of interest to the image.

I'm entering this in the Friday Mashup! challenge.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Supplies: 

Stamps:  Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz (Santa); Amy R Stamps (sentiment)

Tis the season to be jolly...

Well, it's not really Christmas time but I love this stamp so much and really wanted to use it.  Why not?!  I'm envious of those people who are clever enough to make Christmas cards all throughout the year so that they are totally organised with many handmade cards by December...well, now I have one card ready at least!  It's a good start.

I loved this sketch from Friday Mashup! and thought that the Santa stamp would work really well.  The stamp is a lot larger than the circle, but I just wanted Santa's face to fit. 

The Challenge this week at Friday Mashup! is:



The 'mashup' is to use the 'delft tile technique' on your card.  I haven't used the technique on this card but I am about to head off and have a go.  I've never done it before and I love the way it looks.  Hopefully I'll have another card to share soon using the technique.

I followed the sketch pretty closely, just changed the placement of the circle and sentiment.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz (Santa); Kaisercraft (sentiment) stamp; Cre8tiv Border Icons (hearts)
Brad: Kaisercraft

Feeling Icky? Get well card

Hi there!

I wanted to make a card using the prompt from AAA cards.  I liked the window block pattern and immediately thought of using my new little bird stamps.  I could picture them peeking out from each of the windows.  Very cute.  I thought I was so clever thinking up that idea all by myself.   Anyway, I was just about to make my card this morning when I saw that someone else has beaten me to the idea!  And it looks fantastic!!  (Love your card, Deepti!)

So I had to have a little rethink and decided to use my monster stamps.  I paper pieced each monster and coloured in their eyes with a white marker.  I thought the red, dotted background looked a bit like chicken pox, so would fit in nicely with a get well card.

This was the prompt from AAA Cards:

and here is my interpretation...

 

I'm also entering this in The Friday Mashup!  The challenge this week is to use background stamps. 

 

 

Thanks for looking!