Another Christmas Card Challenge entry

 This is a card I made for the http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com.au/ Winter Wonderland - Favourite Color combination.  I decided during this process that I do not have a favourite colour right now - I think it changes seasonally for me- but every time I tried to create a card it was all about gold and white so for now thats what it is.  To make this I die cute the snowflake background, adhered it to a sheet of sookwang adhesive, and then covered with Gilding Flakes and added a sentiment .   I ended up layering it with some mirror paper to add to the shine.   Very fun and quite easy.
I couldn't seem to get  a good picture of the shine so added a couple of detail photos.

 

This is a close up

Recycled Wrapping Paper Christmas Card

Made this card for the Jingle Belles Challenge - No Time Like the Presents- which requires the use of some wrapping paper.  My plan is to participate in more of their challenges this year so that I have a collection of Christmas cards long before the holiday crunch- a good New Years resolution!
Most of my wrapping paper was already stashed but luckily I receive a gift late and took the paper off for this.  I adhered it to some heavy paper and purposefully wrinkled it up for texture.  Then I added white paint around the edges but thought that it needed more "snowy" feeling so added some chunky embossing powder around the edges.  I stacked several snowflake die cuts to make a "chipboard" snowflake which I covered with glitter but the glue made it look yellowish so I also coloured that with white paint and got a great texture.






Ingredients:
Die:   SSS Funky Snowflake
Paint: Adirondack Acrylic Dabber- Snow Cap
Embossing Powder:  Chunky White Embossing Enamel - Stampendous
Glitter: Ranger Distress Stickles- Clear Rock Candy

Masculine Christmas Card

This is a Christmas card I made using metal die cut.  The metal was silver and coloured with alcohol inks and shaped.  I used a glue gun to adhere to the background. The background is patterned paper which was distressed and the corners were embossed with gold embossing powder.














Ingredients:
Die: Tim Holtz Holly Branch
Paper:   MME Vintage Christmas 6*6
Inks:  Ranger alcohol inks
Embossing powder:  Ranger Super Fine Detail Gold

Pink Party Birthday Card

Birthday Card for a friend - is an older MFT stamp that I got recently.  One of my New Years resolutions is to try to use up some of my patterned paper stash so hopefully this is the beginning of accomplishing that!!

Mixed Media 2015

Tried something new for 2015
Created this by covering a canvas board with Tim Holtz printed tissue, gluing found objects on to it with hot glue, covering all with gesso and then melting crayons on to it with the heat gun.
Fun project!

First Card of 2015

My first card for 2015.  Hoping to have a creative year!  This is for Virginia's View Challenge- Clean Slate Challenge.  I created a one layer card - haven't done that for a long time.  Used a new to me MFT stencil for the flowers and gold embossed the Hero Arts sentiment.

Mixed Media card

Used embossing paste coloured with gelatos and a memory box stencil.  Then coloured some more on top with gelatos.  The leaves are Tim Holtz out of kraft paper sprayed with multiple colours and the top one is out of sheet metal.