jolly holiday

The weather is on the turn and Autumn is in the air so it's not that long until Christmas so definitely time to up the Christmas card making activity!

I got a new set of Hero Arts sentiments and as soon as I saw this weeks colours at 52CCT I had an immediate idea how to use one of them  http://52cct.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/september-2012-color-challenge.html

Very simple card using the Hero Arts Miracle of the Holidays stamp set some matting and layering and a die cut pair of holly leaves cut on my silhouette cameo finished with 3 red gem berries - simples :-D

I can see these being turned into mass production for our cards this year.

Red, Green and Gold

The challenge this week at 52 Christmas card throwdown is to create a card using only red green and gold. http://52cct.blogspot.com/2012/02/color-challenge-2.html

I've not been feeling great this week so haven't  been up to much craft wise.  I was determined to finish this one tonight though so it's just very quick and simple.  Green wreath (woodware) stamped again in red and berries paper-pieced.

 

52cct colour challenge

It's week 3 of the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge which I have comitted to do every week so I have actual handmade cards this Christmas (it's only 48 weeks to go you know!)  This is the first colour challenge and I've been struggling with it all week because black and white, even with the requirement of a splash of red, just wasn't saying Christmas to me.

However I've been taking Jennifer Maguires CAS Online class and I hit upon an idea to use an image I bought last year but didn't get around to inking - so here is my little elf, hiding from the reindeer in his lovely red hat.

The image is by Little Claire just stamped and left uncoloured apart from the hat which is coloured with red copics.  I added some puff paint to the fur trim and bobble and glaze to his glasses.  I used Jennifer's great technique to make a dimensional ribbon for the sentiment and mounted it all on black card embossed with reindeer.  The sentiment is from Frame it by Waltzingmouse.  Clean, simple and it makes me very happy :-D

http://52cct.blogspot.com/2012/01/color-challenge-1.html

It's also anything goes week at ABCChristmas so I'm entering my card there too.

http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/01/for-anything-goes.html