Category: Holidays Cards

CAS Colours & Sketches, Holidays Cards

Season’s Greetings

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Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!

I’m honored and excited to be a Guest Designer for the Cas Colours and Sketches Challenge Blog for December. I also get to join their amazing Design Team for 2019!

This week’s challenge is to choose a 2018 CAS Colours & Sketches Sketch Challenge and make it seasonal.

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I used challenge #276 today and made it into a Holiday’s Card. I stamped the penguins from C.C. Designs’ Sweet Penguins Rubber Stamp with a friendly Copic Markers ink, Hero Arts’ Intense Black. Continue reading “Season’s Greetings” →

Fun Cards, Holidays Cards

Hope you’re having a BALL this winter!

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Happy Tuesday!

Can’t believe it’s already Thanksgiving this Thursday! Are you guys all ready for winter and Christmas? I think I am….so here you go. I’m sharing a holidays card with you today!

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First, I started with my card panel by ink-blending it with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink onto a piece of Bristol Smooth card-stock. Then, I placed the Simon Says Stamp’s Falling Snow Stencil onto my card panel and applied some Studio 490 embossing paste from Wendy Vecchi.  Continue reading “Hope you’re having a BALL this winter!” →

Holidays Cards

Happy Holidays

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Happy Monday! I hope you all will have a great start to the week!

I am making this holiday card for my entry for CAS Colours & Sketches Double Challenge #296.

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First, I stamped the Majestic Mistletoes by Altenew onto a piece of 2.5″ by 4″ Neenah White Card Stock with Altenew Inks. The mistletoes are layering stamps. I stamped the first layer with Parrot, the second layer with Olive, and the last layer with Moss. For the berries, I stamped it with Ruby Red and used a black gel pen to put a little dot on the edge of the berries. Continue reading “Happy Holidays” →