One Layer Christmas Card

Popping in with a quick one layer Christmas card.  Cornelia is the muse at Muse Christmas Visions with this fabulous card:

I masked the edges of my card, stamped the snow globe and masked that, then sponged the background.  If you look hard you'll see some Stickles on the snowflakes and the tops of the Christmas trees around the base of the globe.  Because the sentiment had stars at the end, I wasn't going to add a star at the top, but the card didn't look balanced, so I blotted a star through the ARTplorations Oh My Stars stencil.  All of the stamps are from a freebie set that came with a magazine last winter.

As it's a one layer Christmas card, I can also play along at One Layer Christmas Card Challenge, where it's Anything Goes.

Guest Designing at One Layer Christmas Card Challenge!

This is my fourth post today!  Click on the links for my earlier posts:

CASEplorations
The Mixed Media Card Challenge - Trees
STAMPlorations Inspiration #64

I'm thrilled to be guest designing at One Layer Christmas Card Challenge today!  Not least because it means I'm one more Christmas card towards this year's total :)

It's an Anything Goes challenge, so I used this gorgeous stamp from Stampington, masked the edges of my card, then sponged Distress Inks over.  I flicked some water over, then when that dried, I splattered some diluted white paint over, and highlighted some of the leaves and berries with a white gel pen.

Pop on over to the OLCC blog for some fabulous inspiration from the Design Team - thanks for having me, girls!

STAMPlorations Inspiration #51 - It's Beginning To Feel A Bit Like Christmas!

A bit of STAMPlorations inspiration for you.

I've been doodling again, giving The Bee's Knees SmallBirds some festive headgear.  I stamped the puffin and the little bird onto my card and, after practising on spare paper, drew some festive antlers on them, and a festive jumper on the little guy.  Cute, eh??  The sentiment is from Joyful.

I'm entering this into the One Layer Christmas Card Challenge, without the snowman twist

and Christmas Cards All Year Round where the theme is Keep It Simple.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for more inspiration from the team, and for details of all the lovely challenges you can enter ;)  I'll be back in an hour with my final card for the ARTplorations Stencil Blog Hop.

Is It Too Early For Snow?

Where I live we rarely get snow, so I'm quite happy for big snowflakes to appear on my cards.  This snowflake is the Tim Holtz Blueprint snowflake, without the blueprint markings.  I coloured just the snowflake with Neocoour II crayons and spritzed before stamping.  This is version 4.

Version 1: Not enough crayon, not enough spritz.
Version 2: Changed to Gelatos.  Again, not enough crayon.
Version 3: Back to Neocolour II.  Note to self: ensure stamp is properly clean, then the bits that you don't want to show won't show.
Version 4: Neocolour II again.  The cleaned stamp was still damp so more of the colour stuck to the rubber, giving a much better result!

The sentiment is stamped in Brushed Pewter Distress Stain.

I'm entering this into the One Layer Christmas Card challenge, Anything Goes with a twist of Silver.  Well, pewter.

I'm also entering into One Layer Simplicity Challenge - Whatever the Weather.

Christmas In May

I'm busy trying to get ahead of myself, scheduling posts for when I'm away soon.  Add into that mix some decorating, some splashing of the cash at the stamp show last week, and it's no surprise to learn that I've been buying Christmas stuff in May.

Well, actually, it was a surprise to me.  When the postman knocked on the door with this parcel, I'd completely forgotten that I'd placed this order, and couldn't remember what it contained until I opened it.  How bad is that??  How good is that!!!  Like Christmas :)

It contained (amongst other things!) the Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake die and this Texture Fade embossing folder, so I just had to use it before I put it away for Christmas.  I inked the inside of the folder with Weathered Wood and Tumbled Glass, added my card and ran it through the Cuttlebug and got this gorgeous icy snowflake.

I'm entering this into the One Layer Christmas Card Challenge Anything Goes:

I could be back with another card for this challenge yet - there's a new Christmas stamp waiting to be added to my stash....