Sleigh Bells

It's Merry Monday and that means it's time for another Christmas card challenge.  This week Bonnie is our hostess and she is challenging us to use wet or dry embossing on our cards.

I went with some heat embossing and came up with this card, that also uses the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch.

I white embossed the Santa's sleigh image onto a white card base then carefully sponged Tumbled Glass ink over the top.  I sponged some Broken China ink inside the circle and at the top of the houses and tree to define them a bit more.

The sentiment comes from Winter Wonderland by Mama Elephant and worked well with the image.  I finished off with some Moonshine sequins from SSS.

Thanks for visiting.  Be sure to check out the amazing creations by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Holiday Silhouette (Inkadinkado), Winter Wonderland (Mama Elephant)

Ink:  Versamark, Archival Black, Tumbled Glass, Broken China

Cardstock:  White

Accessories:  Sequins, White EP

Cheers

Karren

Road Trip

Welcome to my post for this week's challenge at The Paper Players, where Sandy has given us a Transportation theme.

I pulled out my Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz set called Travel Ways but really wasn't in the mood to create a vintage card, so I took the vintage-looking images and created a CAS card.

First I stamped the car in black onto the card base and clear-embossed it.  I then used the ink-smooshing technique again (love how easy that technique is!) and used the colors from ColourMe, but in Distress inks - Rusty Hinge, Scattered Straw and Wild Honey.

Once I was happy with the ink placement, I stamped the sentiment in Archival Black ink and my card was finished!

Thanks for visiting.  The rest of the design team have some wonderful cards using this theme, so I hope you'll have time to join us.

Products used:

Stamps:  Travel Ways (Stampers Anonymous)

Ink:  Archival Black, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge

Cardstock:  White

Accessories, Clear EP, Acetate

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout-out at Colour Me.

Embossed Fern

Hi!  I was so inspired by Jen's tag at Tag You're It that I had to have a go myself!  I combined the tag with the sketch at Friday Mashup and the colors at ColourQ to come up with this card.

My tag was created first by white-embossing the fern from Penny Black's Enjoy Life set.  I then sponged Scattered Straw and Bundled Sage ink onto the tag in a diagonal pattern.  Once I was happy with that, I very lightly stamped the Water Droplets stamp in Fog ink over the tag before flicking water on it to create more interest.  The sentiment was stamped in Primrose Petals ink using one of the sentiments from Painted Butterflies.  I sponged around the outside of the tag using Vintage Photo.  For the card base, I clear-embossed the Water Droplets stamp and adhered a die-cut piece of vellum before attaching the tag at an angle.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Enjoy Life (Penny Black), Water Droplets (Designs by Ryn), Painted Butterflies (Altenew)
Ink:  Versamark, Scattered Straw, Vintage Photo, Bundled Sage, Primrose Petals, Fog
Cardstock:  Dark Chocolate (SSS), Vellum, Watercolor Paper
Accessories:  Tags a Lot (Mama Elephant), Blueprints 24 (MFT), Clear EP, White EP, Twine

Cheers
Karren

Off the Edge

Hi and welcome to Freshly Made Sketches Challenge Day!  Today, Kim, who makes the most beautiful CAS cards, has a very fun and interesting sketch for us.  This sketch calls for an element to be off the edge of the card.  How cool is that?

For my card, I decided to play along with the challenge at Friday Mashup, to use either umbrellas or polka dots.  I went with both.  I'm also linking to The Challenge where polka dots are the theme.

On my white cardbase, I stamped the polka dot strip in Audrey Blue down the left side of the card.  I then stamped the sentiment in black.  Then I used my Misti to stamp my umbrella and its components onto the die-cut before popping it up with foam tape on the card base.

The umbrella was painted with clear Wink of Stella, which you can't see in the photo.  Some blue sequins and I was all done.  In hindsight, I possibly should have made the polka dot strip wider, but it's done and I ain't doing it again!

Thanks for visiting.  Be sure to check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the amazing DT.  And as a special treat, we have the genius who created Freshly Made Sketches as a guest.  Be sure to check out Lesley's blog - she does amazing work!

Products used:

Stamps:  April Showers (Clearly Besotted), Basic Borders (Mama Elephant)
Ink:  Green Apply, Audrey Blue (SSS), Daffodil Delight (SU), Memento Grey Flannel, Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock:  White
Accessories:  Wink of Stella, sequins, April Showers die

Cheers
Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at Friday Mashup.

Just for You in Purple

This is the second card I made on my bonus day of my long weekend, but I thought I'd save it for a few days before posting it, so as not to bombard you :)

I made this card using the sketch at Just Add Ink, the inspiration pic at Just Us Girls and the Create your own Background theme at Seize the Birthday.

I decided to use the purple tones with the touch of yellow and orange from the inspiration picture as a watercolored background.  So I white embossed the geometric background stamp onto watercolor paper and then after liberally wetting the panel, I dropped on various distress inks.  I concentrated on the purple tones with accents of yellow and orange, just like the photo, being careful not to overlap the colors too much.

I cut the panel down and layered onto a black piece before adhering it to my Elegant Eggplant card base.  The banners and circle were perfect for the sketch and I'd just received them as a freebie with my last order from My Favorite Things.  I'm not too sure about the sentiment, but I had to look hard to find a big enough sentiment that still fit inside the circle.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Summer Garden (SSS), Highline Geometric Background (Hero Arts)
Ink:  Versamark, Archival Black, Seedless Preserves, Dusty Concord, Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade
Cardstock:  Elegant Eggplant (SU), white, watercolor
Accessories:  White EP, Layered Treat Tag die (MFT)

Cheers
Karren

Believe Wreath

It's Merry Monday day and that means a new Christmas card challenge.  This week our hostess is Wendy and her challenge is to use greens, pinecones and the word "believe".

This was a real challenge for me as I don't tend to use the word "believe" in my stamping.  So I hunted through my sizeable collection and found one stamp that said "believe" - never inked, of course!

I turned it into this CAS card.

I stamped the wreath in Olive ink, then stamped and die-cut the pinecones in Sparrow and the berries in Schoolhouse Red, which were then popped up on the cardbase.

I gold-embossed the word Believe and fussy-cut it before adhering to the cardbase using some foam tape.  And that's it!

Thanks for visiting.  The design team have some wonderful samples to delight you so be sure to check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  Autumn Blessings (SSS), Snowflake Soiree (SU)
Ink:  Versamark, Olive, Sparrow, Schoolhouse Red (SSS)
Cardstock:  White
Accessories:  Autumn Blessings dies, gold EP

Cheers
Karren

Smooshed Tag

Hi!  It's my "bonus" day today - the last day of a long weekend - and I intend spending as much of it stamping as I can.  It helps that it's a grey, drizzly day outside :)

I made a card to cover several current challenges:  Less Is More has a tag theme, AAA cards are looking for a hole in our card, the color challenge from ColourQ and the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch.

This card came together pretty quickly as I really wanted to try the ink smooshing technique.  I love that technique!  So quick and easy and I really love the little dots of color.  

After I smooshed on the watercolor paper, I stamped a texture stamp with Crumb Cake ink then die-cut a tag.  I went around the edge of the tag with a black marker to make it pop and stamped the sentiment from Slang Gang.  On the card base, I sponged Peacock Feathers ink behind the negative die-cut.

The watercolor sheet is popped up on foam tape onto the card base.  I tied some hemp twine onto the tag and adhered that to the card front and I was all done!

Thanks for visiting.  If I'm lucky I might have another challenge card to post today and then there's my Merry Monday post all scheduled for later on.

Products used:

Stamps:  Slang Gang (Paper Smooches), Mesh (Darkroom Door)
Ink:  Peacock Feathers, Crushed Olive (Distress), Archival Black (Ranger), Crumb Cake (SU)
Cardstock:  White, Watercolor
Accessories:  Black Twine, Tag Me die (Reverse Confetti)

Cheers
Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at Less is More and ColourQ.