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Showing posts with label Christmas card a week challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas card a week challenge. Show all posts

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Christmas Card a Week #13

 Hi All, trying to catch up on my late start to the Christmas card challenge and also meet my personal challenge to enter more challenges.  So this is my second Christmas card this week.  
  For this 5 x 7 card I used digital paper from Sassy Designs along with a simple star cut from my KNK Zing.  I also used another one of the stamps from My Craft Spot  Merry Christmas set.  I framed it with some rhinestones from the Dollar Treasure.  The bow was a pale lavender gingham that I colored with my Letraset marker then covered in rhinestones.  I made this card to fit the bill in a few challenges so here goes.
*My Craft Spot - Black and White plus 1 color
Festive Friday - Inspiration photo
*Fusion Colorful Chevron Challenge
So that's it, thanks for stopping by.  ~Diane

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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Christmas card a week #11

 
 Hi All, week 11 is here and I have a mini "Shaker" card to show you this time for the challenge at My Craft Spot using another one of the stamps from My Craft Spot  Merry Christmas set.   I made the shaker on this card with a layer of gold Stickles first then 2 more layers of Stampin Up Crystal Effects, I dried between layers and when the top layer was dry yet still tacky I added some 2mm crystal gems from PizzazAPlenty to shake around and then put a piece of clear plastic on top.    I love the way the new  Perfect Layers Mini Tools and Perfect Cutting Mat made making this card so easy too, especially when making the frame for the Believe, the smaller size really helps!   The Santa image is from Free Vintage Digital Stamps  and the paper is also free from  The Coffee Shop blog.  Feels so good to have 11 cards in my Christmas card stash already, feel free to join the fun and get a head start on yours too.  That's it, thanks for stopping by.  ~Diane

 I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life
Entering these challenges:
*My Craft Spot - Shake it On

*Crafty Hazelnuts extra challenge  
*Completely Christmas Challenge -  9 Anything goes  
*Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes 
Jingle Belles - All Bundled up 3 or more layers

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Friday, April 4, 2014

Christmas Card a Week #8

Hi All, week 8!  Whoo hoo, it sure feels good to have 8 Christmas cards done and ready to go!   This card was a bit hard to photograph, the card stock is a deep gray the red border is some leftover industrial plastic, it is see through and the snowflake was die cut from a gift box and it picks up every color of light in the room.  The image is from Gecko Galz Vintage Christmas digital stamps
I added some white lace Stickles to the Mistletoe Berries and red Stickles to the holly berries.  I trimmed the image in some pale blue embossing powder also.  The die cut is from Birds Cards.  I used my new Perfect Layers Mini Tools and Perfect Cutting Mat. to cut the clean red border, don't forget today is the last day of the Perfect Paper Crafting Brand Ambassador Blog hop, see details in the 2 posts below.   That's it, thanks for stopping by, and thanks for all the great comments.   ~Diane 
 I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life
*Completely Christmas Challenge -  5 Anything goes
*Crafty Hazelnuts extra challenge  
*Merry Monday Challenge Mistletoe 

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Christmas Card a Week #7

 
Hi All, I am catching up on my Christmas card challenges, posting them a day earlier each week, pretty soon I may be able to get 2 done in the same week lol.  So I made this card for the *Merry Monday challenge using grey, red and white.  It took a bit of doing but I found the perfect image in Gecko Galz A Rockwell Christmas collection
I was so happy to have the perfect shade of red in Stampin Ups Poppy and the dark grey is a Bazill paper.  I used Stampin Ups Dazzling Diamonds glitter with Art Glitter Glue dries white.  I finished it off with Spellbinders dies to cut the circles and a snowflake embossing folder.
I am also entering these link partys and challenges, hope to see some of you there.
I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life

  12 months of Christmas link up at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles
*Completely Christmas Challenge -  4 Anything goes 
*Crafty Hazelnuts extra challenge 
*Festive Friday photo challenge embossed snowflakes and Dazzling Diamonds glitter.
Thats it for today, thanks for stopping by.  ~Diane
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Christmas Card a Week #6


Hi All, here is my card for this weeks Christmas card a week stash.   I cut this white card stock with my KNK Zing, using one of the fonts in my computer along with a cute little ribbon die cut from Alaa Studio.  I embossed the card using a Spellbinders folder,  I then added the red paper behind the cut and added some Stamping up Dazzling Diamonds glitter and gold stickers.  Thanks for stopping by, ~Diane

I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life

  12 months of Christmas link up at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles
*Completely Christmas Challenge -  3 Anything goes 
 
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Christmas Card a Week #5

Hi All, I found another fun Christmas Card challenge called Merry Monday Christmas challenge  through my friend Leanne, so I made this card to fit the theme of  Chocolate Brown, Green, Gold and White or Cream!   It took me a bit to find the right image but I finally found this one from  Magic Moonlight, it was a free image I saved a long time ago.  I tried gold flock on the little birdies, but I like the Stickles Gold Glitter better.  I used Stampin Up Chocolate Brown for the 1/8th and 1/16th frames I cut with my Perfect Layers Rulers.  The green envelope and background paper are from Gecko Galz Grandmothers House papers.  This is my 5th card for my Christmas card stash, I am really happy I am accomplishing 2 of my goals for this year, to enter more challenges and to get my Christmas cards done before November.  Well, that's it for today, thanks for stopping by.   ~Diane
I would love for you to join me at these Christmas card Challenge/ Link Ups.
I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life
  12 months of Christmas link up at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles

*Merry Monday Christmas challenge Chocolate Brown, Green, Gold and White or Cream 
*Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge 167 - Spread your Wings
*Completely Christmas Challenge -  2 Anything goes 
*Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - Patterned paper
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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Christmas Card a week #4

 Hi All, here is my 4th Christmas card for the year, I will be so happy when November rolls around and I have these all done!  I used an image from Gecko Galz Christmas Chic collage set along with a sheet from the Gecko Galz Chocolate Box Paper collection.  I cut the fancy frame on my KNK Zing and used some Color Box Pewter ink to highlight it since I did not have the right shade of gray.  The Starburst jewels are from Pizzazz Aplenty,  and the ribbon is from my stash.  To save ink I did not print the liner in the red paper this time instead I embossed the gray paper liner to pick up on the snow flakes on the gray background.  Well that's it, thanks for stopping by.  ~Diane

I would love for you to join me at these Christmas card Challenge/ Link Ups.
I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life
 12 months of Christmas link up at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles
*Completely Christmas Challenge - Anything goes 
*Cute Card Thursday -  What a Gem 
CHNC Challenge Extra for March - Anything goes 

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Christmas Card a Week #3

 Hi All, I made this card for the Christmas card challenges, it feels really good to have a bit of a jump on my Christmas cards I must say.  I had a busy week and I was afraid I would not get one made, but I did, so here it is!  I used Gecko Gals Grandmothers House digital papers for the envelope and the card. The sweet image is from the Christmas Children collage collection. I also used Tim Holtz distress ink, die cut snowflakes covered in Dazzling Diamonds Glitter by Stampin Up, some iridescent rhinestones from Pizzaz A Plenty along with the bakers twine.
If anyone knows of any good tutorials (that really help) with photographing I would love to know.  I have really been struggling with trying to get a good picture to post, seems like I end up taking 10 photos, trying to adjust them all in Pic Monkey with cropping, re-sizing and "auto adjust".  I have to be honest Pic Monkey improves them greatly, but I would love to learn where to put the lights and such so I could maybe just take 1 or 2.  I seem to get a lot of yellow backgrounds too and I am photographing on white, when I switched to a black background I got a lot of what looked like dust in the photo.  There was no dust on the black, I used the lint roller on it before I photographed it but I can't get that to go away either.  That's it, thanks for coming by.  ~Diane

I would love for you to join me at these Christmas card Challenge/ Link Ups.
I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life

 12 months of Christmas link up at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles
*Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge 166 - twine 
*City Crafters challenge "Do You Speak English"
*Completely Christmas Challenge - Anything goes 
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Christmas Card A Week #2

 Hi All, here is my second card for the Christmas card challenges.  I started a bit late but I hope to catch up later in the year, if not I will still be ahead of last year!  I used a Gecko Galz image from the Darling Girls collage set,  along with Gecko Galz paper set called Wild Roses.
The doubled up die cut is from Carina GardnerIts hard to see but I flocked the little bird and added some Stickles to both the roses in her hair and to the die cut.  I like using the softer pink and green for my Christmas cards.
Please come join us, and see all the other great Christmas ideas at both of these link ups.  That's it, thanks for stopping by and thank you for your encouraging comments.   ~Diane
I am joining Marina's link party at My Perfect Life
 12 months of Christmas link up at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles

I'm joining the challenge at Emergency Crafters Red or Pink

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

1 Christmas card a week

I found Marina's My Perfect Life blog through City Crafters, she is the guest artist there this week (stop by, its all so beautiful.)  Marina's blog has a challenge to make 1 Christmas card per week and link up to her blog to keep us motivated.  Heavens knows I need motivation to get my Christmas cards done before the last minute.  Of course I have the greatest of intentions, I will try my best to do this and stay with it, but please don't be too hard on me if I don't OK?
I used a Gecko Galz image from the Darling Girls collage set,  along with Gecko Galz paper set called Wild Roses.   I wanted the ribbon to look like a shiny satin so I tried adding some Diamond Glaze, a brand new bottle and it was full of bubbles, not sure why, I did not shake it, but I did store it upside down.  I added some pretty pink pearl nail polish on top of it to hide the bubbles a bit.  I must say I normally use Stampin Up Crystal Effects and I never had this problem, I store it upside down too.  I also added some white flocking to her muff and the trim of her hat.  I used Ranger Distress ink on the edges, a combination of tea dye and frayed burlap.  I lined my envelope with the matching paper.  Well that's it, thanks for looking and for all your sweet comments.  ~Diane
I am joining Marina's link party at  My Perfect Life
 12 months of Christmas link up at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles
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