Christmas Card Challenges #25

It's another Anything Goes Challenge at Christmas Card Challenges this week.  What a great time to get at least one more Christmas Card completed for your stash.  Please pop on over, see what the Design Team Members created (leave us a little comment love), then grab your supplies and join along.  We love to see what you create !

I freehand cut the trees and bases and just had fun paper piecing and adding a little doodling.  A few brads and punched stars finish the trees.

I can't wait to see what you create this week.

Is it Sunday already?

  This week has sure flown by. It might have had something to do with hubby having surgery (and I'm doing just about everything around the house since he can't see very well right now), trying to get ready for a card class next week (18 gals) and working all day Saturday (his shift and part of mine). Throw my schedule off kilter . . . and I don't know which end is up.

   So, I'm a bit late with my post for today's challenge at Christmas Card Challenges. The theme this week is:

create a holiday or Christmas card using a non-traditional Christmas image 

I gotta say, I don't think I could get any more non-traditional than this . . .

 

The sentiment is computer printed and my own, but I'm sure someone in blog or digi land has created something like it before.  At first glance I thought the digital paper looked like party hats, but they are actually mini trees with a star at the top. You can see it better in the photo below.

 

 

I colored the fishes red and added some sparkle . . . after all, they are "Christmas" fishes.  I paper pieced the bandana bibs using the same digi paper that I used on the inside. That's the nice advantage of using digital paper; I could decrease the size of the plaid so it fit better on the bandana.  I also added some thread "hair" to the tallest bird, since the printed hair was chopped off when I die-cut the image (yup, great planning on my part, right? LOL).

 

 

I finished the inside and added two more Christmas fishies to tie it all together.

 

 

   Now, hopefully I can remember where everything came from that I used (I made this card a couple weeks ago anticipating a hectic week this week).

   > Bird/Fish image:  Hambo Stamps

   > Inside sentiment: Doodle Pantry Holiday Greetings set

   > Digi papers (front and inside):  Bugaboo

   > Grosgrain and organza ribbon from stash

   > Purple, blue, white cardstock from stash

   > Spellbinders Labels Two die

   > Copics and Studio G glitter glue

 

 

Be sure to stop by the Christmas Card Challenges blog and see what my fellow Design Teammates have whipped up for your inspiration this week.

 

Keep Crafting,

 

  

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

  > ABC Christmas Challenge: P is for . . . (purple and plaid)

  > Card Crafter's Circle: #88-Winged Things (the birds have wings, albeit they are strange characters)

  > Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra

  > Delicious Doodles Challenge: #49Christmas in August

  > The Hobby House Challenge: #3-Christmas

  > Sketch Saturday: #272 (I flipped the sketch upside down)

  > Stamping with the Dragon: Christmas in August

 

Christmas Card Challenges #32

   I'm into my third week as a member of Christmas Card Challenges Design Team, which means I now have three Christmas Cards finished. . . only another 40 or so to make. Since I started a bit late this year, I think I'd better make 2 or 3 every week instead of just one

   This week should encourage everyone to join us at CCC because it's a PRIZE week . . . and who doesn't like to win FREE goodies?  The theme is: Stockings

   The past couple weeks I've been trying oh so hard to reorganize my Craft Room. It's not going as well as I'd hoped, but in the process I've found a few items I don't remember buying . . . which means I'm either buying too much or my memory is going - is one better than the other?

   I found a box of metal sentiments which included "Believe" that I used on the front of the card.

  

 

   Another item I found is Crystal Snow by Stampendous! -- it was mixed in with my embossing powders; I'm not sure how that happened.  I used the Crystal Snow on the stocking cuff, toe and heel.

 

 

   I added a strip of stockings from the DP to the inside, matted in green and red. When I decide who I'm going to send the card to, I'll either stamp another sentiment or handwrite a long message. I like having options. 

 

 

   Be sure to check out what the other CCC Design Teamies have created for your inspiration. And get busy on making your Christmas Cards -- you only have 171 days left.

Alanna

Anne C

Anne J

Heather-ME

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Monica

Sabrina
 

Keep Crafting,

Christmas Once Again

   It's Sunday and that means Christmas Card Challenges is having another card challenge. The challenge this week is to create a Christmas Card using Paper Piecing. I've not done much of this, but I really had fun. However, next time I'll make sure that I don't use an image that has so many little pieces to it ~ LOL.

 

   The image I used is an old digital image from Dearie Dolls. It's so cute. This is what I "pieced" on the image...I cut out the shoes and socks as one piece and colored them using Copics; then I puffed it up with dimensionals.  I also cut out the hat and added glitter to the white band portion and used red paper for the cap (and puffed it up also). I used a piece of smushed (is that a word?) cotton for the pom at the end. I cut out her hair -- although I don't think it looks like it's been pieced in the picture. I pieced her dress and popped up her one shoulder piece. I cut the ruffle out of burgundy paper. A bit of skin shading and some gold glitter to the ornament finished off the image.

  

Here's a close-up of the shoes and socks.

 

 

I added scalloped edging in green and white along one side, organza and satin ribbon and a fancy button to complete this week's Christmas Card.  Even if you don't enter the challenge at CCC, I hope you give Paper Piecing (not piercing) a try. It sure changes the look of a stamped image.

 

  

 

Check out the other Design Team Member's Paper Piecing cards.

Alanna

Anne C

Anne J

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Monica

Sabrina