colour challenge

Hey I did a Christmas card!

Yep, that's my shout out for today, that and I took the dog for a walk to fetch my prescription and ended up doing 5.28 mile.......some detour!

but, hey I did a Christmas card!

I have had some Christmas papers in my stash for years, which were free with a magazine. I had a quick look through the snippet sleeve (one sleeve for loose untouched papers and one for the offcuts)  and came up with the challenge colours, just so happened they all had a snowflake pattern, which in turn got me to use my snowflake punch and the snowflake stamp.

You'd have thought this was all planned.....

It wasn't!!

Cut the paper into little strips and glued on to the card, punched snowflakes out of  the same paper then stuck on the end of the strips, finally popped a gem, matching the strip of paper, in the middle of the flake.

paper off cuts

The Hobby House gems - Lilac, Sea Blue & Aqua

Nitwit sentiment stamp & Vibrant Violet stazon ink

snowflake punch

With hindsight I should have made the middle strip slightly smaller so the strips went up as a proper diagonal but *shrugs* gonna go with it.

entering in: merry monday christmas = colour challenge
                   -snippets playground = challenge 281/282

May partner card

On the ball this month, made this earlier on  using another stamp I got gifted.

Penny Black wooden stamp

watercolour pencil

Dovecraft fibres

large white pearl

patterened grey card from stash

Little bit different from what I normally do, I do like stamping but don't get to do it much plus I don't buy a lot of stamps, mostly get them free with magazines so taking full advantage of the Carrier Bag.

Wanted to keep it clean and simple with no colour so opted for black flowers. Used a black watercolour pencil... but couldn't find a small brush, ended up using an ear bud to swirl the colour round!

Noel (with a Scandinavian style)

This is my take on a CAS in a Scandinavian style. Dearie me, this card took ages to do and when it was first finished I badly itched. no, ached to bling it up. So I compromised with the small beaded star over the 'e'.
(Still feeling the urge, so its now cellophaned up and put away in my Christmas card box - out of sight is out of mind *lol*)

Noel is a wooden stamp, bought in a sale but hardly used.

Strip of paper came from a free paper pack in a magazine.

Red & White bakers twine DoCrafts

Ruby promarker used to edge the topper and around the card edges.

Star from stash

 

entering in: Merry Monday = Noel