Christmas Card Challenge 42

Christmas Card Challenge #42 - Music. Stamp is from Chocolate Baroque. It's stamped in Versa Mark and heat embossed with Ranger Seafoam White embossing powder. I added a yellow rhinestone for the Eastern Star. The doily came from a local restaurant. I just cut it in half to make it fit my card. DSP is from Glitz Love You Madly paper pack.

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CCC1

Merry Christmas!
I designed this card myself and I love the simplicity of it and it all works really well with the Christmas Card Challenges Blog's sketch #1.

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CCC#38 FAITH

Christmas Card Challenges #38 - Faith. I love this Stampin' Up! set The Sounding Joy. That flourish of JOY really is beautiful! The words to Joy to the World are stamped in Whisper White on Real Red dsp. The word Joy was stamped in Cherry Cobbler and heat embossed. The Real Red cs was embossed in the Vintage Wallpaper ef that I slathered with Cherry Cobbler ink. I always like to highlight with Stampin' Up! rhinestones. The dies are Spellbinders.

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CCC36

Christmas Card Challenges #36 - NEW! That's right, this challenge is to use something NEW. So I used my new Chevron EF to make my trees. I die cut them and then ran them through the Big Shot with the Chvron ef. Then I used my Stickles to decorate my tree. Added some stickers and some Stickles snow. I love the CAS - ness of it. How bout you???

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CCC29

Christmas Card Challenge #29 dots and stripes. This is one of the new Simply Scrappin' Kits stickers. It's called Pinwheels on Parade. So much fun to work with the dsps and stickers. Stamps are from Merry & Type #122552. The red button is from Regals Designer Buttons #119744. The little flowers are new too item #127556 In Color Dahlias.

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Merry Christmas

Here's my card for the Christmas Card Sketch Challenge week #11. My completely opened card measures 8.5" x 8.5". I was trying out a new fold and I wanted to use this sketch. So Voila!


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CCC9NSCHCBB

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Here's my entry for the Christmas Card Challenge Week #9 to used your FAVORITE TECHNIQUE and for Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge of Cream, Blue and Brown. For my technique I chose embossing: heat as I hope you can see on the fir tree. I also embossed the die cut but it is a little difficult to see in the photos. As the Christmas Card Challenge says "WINTER or CHRISTMAS" themed I chose to give my card the snowy look by adding Stampin' Up! Frost White Shimmer Paint which I think shows up a little better in the photo below.

 Sugar Creek Hollow asked us to use Cream, Blue and Brown on our creations so... I used Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Pool Party and Island Indigo card stock. I stamped my Lovely As A Tree stamps in Marina Mist (bakground trees), Pear Pizzaz and Island Indigo on the large fir tree in the foreground. Added some double sided satin ribbon. A trio of the Twitterpated Designer Buttons with Early Espresso twine at the bottom left hand corner.

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Christmas Blessings - CCC45

May the blessings of the season fill your heart and home with joy. This CAS card has been entered into the 45th Christmas Card Challenge.

Stampin' Up!-- Poppy Parade cs, Lovely as a Tree and Cardinal Christmas stamps, Certainly Celery ribbon, Soho Designer Hardware (brad), dsp (retired), and Always Artichoke ink.

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Poinsettia Christmas -- CCC42

I know you are probably wondering why I used a torquoise cs. But what is very hard to see is that in the Stampin' Up! dsp is a few tiny stripes of what looks to me like torquoise. The poinsetties were all created using the Blossom Petals Builder Punch. They were spritzed with the Champagne Shimmer Mist. The large flower in the middle has some SU Pearls. The smaller one in the upper left hand corner has a SU Filligree Brad at it's center and the one on the bottom right has simply a silver brad. The SU ribbon is dotted grosgrain in Real Red. The little reindeer charm is from an old bracelet. He works perfectly for a Chirstmas card.

This card was created for the Christmas Card Challenge #42. Peggy Toole presented us with a sketch challenge this week. Hope you'll go and join the fun.

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not even a mouse - CCC31

...not even a mouse - Christmas Card Challenge #31 - Twas the Night Before Christmas. I chose a Sweet N Sassy digi Ornament Cocoa. Cocoa is just a cute little mouse and I love using him for holiday cards. This ornament was colored with Stampin' Up! new color marker Lucky Lime! As you can see it matched my cs perfectly! I also used some silver gel pen. I added Crystal Effects to give the ornament a life like feel and look. I used CE on the red ribbon on the ornamnet as well. The epoxy snowflakes are from my stash. The red and off white striped ribbon is Stampin' Up! 1` 1/4" Cherry Cobbler grosgrain. My sentiment is computer generated. I added a couple beads and some of the Stampin' Up! twine.

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Christmas Card Challenge #28

Christmas Card Challenge #28 -- Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas - CCC27

Stampin' Up! Lovely as a Tree stamp set, All Year Cheer III stamp set, Gold Embossing Powder, Vintage Wallpaper ef and Doily Triple Layer Punch.
This card was created for the Christmas Card Challenge #27 - color combo cream, gold and white.

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CCC#23 - Non Traditional Image

OOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooo Stampin' Up! I am loving you so much for the NEW Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch! The fab-o thing about it is that there are 3 settings and I punch 9 pieces to create my flowers. The leaves are punched with the 2 Step Bird Punch. The left border was punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch. Cardstock is Cherry Cobbler, Real Red and Confetti White. Sentiment is stamped with Cherry Cobbler ink using All Year Cheer III.

This card was created for the Christmas Card Challenge #23. The theme is to use a non-traditional image. I think my flowers are very non-traditional for Christmas. Wht doen't you try the Christmas Cards Challenges. Get a jumpstart on your cards for Christmas 2011!

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Old Fashioned Christmas - ICS113 & CCC22

Old Fashioned Christmas - I posted this card to 2 challenges - Inspirational Card Sketches #113 and Christmas Card Challenge #22. I must say, the troop at ICS sure did give me a challenge this week! This sketch, although it creates a beautiful pattern it is a challenge to cut all the pieces to fit. Still it was F U N! The Christmas Card Challenge was to use metal. I think I took a little artistic license with this one in that my "ribbon" accents are gold and I used a gold ink on the bells in my main image. I just wanted to say, that beautiful ribbon rose at the bottom right hand corner was HANDMADE by ME!!! I am so proud of that little accent. My SU pal, Deb Segler and I went to a SU retreat this past weekend and Amy (her last name excapes me ATM) showed us how to make these. She only showed us one time and today I made my first one!
Hope you enjoy my card and I hope the CCC folks can appreciate my take on the "metal" challenge. :O)

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Merry Christmas - CCC21

Merry Christmas - Christmas Card Challenges #21 - use the sketch. I used the SU dsp Play Date collection, Easter Blossoms stamp set, Delightful Decorations set (sentiment) and some of the Always Artichoke on Pear Pizzaz seam tape with a little bit of hemp twin to attach my sentiment. Inks used were Stampin' Up! Early Espresso Classic Stamp Pad and Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Write marker. I stamped the sentiment with Versa Mark then I heat embossed with white embossing powder. Added some bling for a little sparkle.

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Top Note Die Purse - CCC20

This is my entry in this week's Christmas Card Challenges #20 - Anything Goes. So I made a little purse utilizing 3 pieces of cardstock cut with the Top Note Die.
I added some ribbon and some Flair.The dsp is from my Christmas stash.
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Joy - CCC#17 - No Stamps!

Joy - Christmas Card Challenge #17 - no stamps.
Keeping true to the challenge there were no stamps inked in the making of this card. I used Stampin' Up! Petals a Plenty embossing folder, Elegant Eggplant and Always Artichoke cardstock, some paper scrap for the corners, Designer Label Large punch, lace and pearls and a dementional sticker.

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Warm Holiday Wishes - CCC#14

Warm Holiday Wishes - Christmas Card Challenge #14. Lovely sketch provided to us to play with. New dp from CupCardsToGo. The flourish is Elizabeth from Stampin' Up! I saw this used at a class in Nov. and I just got it free with my Sale-A-Brations order!!! It really is stunning on Pretty in Pink cardstock that has been embossed with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder too. For my card I stamped it in Real Red on Whisper White. Then I stamped the sentiment in Old Olive.
Hope you enjoyed this Christmas Greeting card... I always say, "Keep Christmas in your heart all year through". With Christmas Card Challenges, you can do just that!

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Winter Friendship Stocking - CCC5

Winter - Your friendship means the world to me. - Christmas Card Challenge #5  Guess what!? I totally forgot to do some embossing. So I guess I'll have to try this again tomorrow and do one with some embossing on it. Anywhooo - This card was created using Bashful Blue, Kraft, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy and Pacific Point cardstock from Stampin' Up!
I drew and cut out the stocking on a piece of scrap cardstock. Then I temporarily adhered it to a 12 x 6 inch piece of Bashful Blue and cut around it. The finished stocking will fit in a 4.25 x 5.5 inch envelope. I cut little heal and toe stitch lines of the Kraft and adhered them. I used a couple of border punches on the blue and kraft cardstock. I punched the owls with the Two Step Owl Extra Large punch (#118074 $16.95) using the Pacific Point and Kraft cs as well as 2 hearts punched in Cherry Cobbler. The sentiment and flourishes were stamped with Crumb Cake using the (#114308 this was a Level 2 hostess set in the 2009-2010 catalog). I just love the little owls and made their googley eyes so they were looking at each other. :O)

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Merry Christmas - 2011 CCC#4 -CASE

For this week's Christmas Card Challenge #4 - CASE a dt member I CASE-d Steph on this card. I used dps, inks, and cs  from Stampin Up! Ribbons were from my stash. Hope you like it! It was fun to create!

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