2 Challenge Cards

I've completed a couple more challenge cards I wanted to share with you today. First up is this origami folded Christmas tree card I made for the Stars & Stamps mid-week throwdown found here. The challenge is to create a Christmas card and mail it to OWH before the deadline of Oct. 31st. I followed Jan's great tutorial for making this tree, and went a little crazy with a gold paint pen! I find that tracing around the inside edges of a die cut (with the image inside) using a marker of some sort not only defines the image, but at the same time it eliminates the need for a mat which means lower mailing costs. I used a labels eighteen for the tree background, and used some BoBunny scraps of paper to create the tree. I doodled just about everything with the gold paint pen, but I was happy with the way it turned out.
I made this card for the WT343 challenge to use some sort of a hot beverage or container for a hot beverage on our cards. For the background, I used random strips of retired SU! dp, adhered them to a scrap of card stock, and cut it using the top note die. After cutting, I embossed the image with a SU! square lattice ef. The image was cut with a labels eighteen die, and I drew around the edges with a black marker to define it, because adding a larger mat would have covered up most of the background. The image is SNSS Rhubarb's cuppa joe, and the sentiment is from Cup of Cocoa. The rest is pretty much blah blah, so if you need any details, shoot me an email and I'll fill you in!

Have a fantastic Thursday and thanks for stopping by!

Carol