Christmas in July

It's Christmas in July and I've pulled out some snippets from the Kringle paper pad and made 3 Christmas cards. I punched a pile of squares from the snippets in the double-sided paper pad and came up with these designs. 

For the first one, I assembled the squares into a larger square, then cut 4 strips of paper and added them. Lastly, I cut 2 squares diagonally and added them to the corners and added a sentiment to the center on a stitched circle die. Adding red, black, and silver gemstones was the final touch.

Entering this into the Christmas Craft Creations July Challenge - A/G Christmas

 

Here's design #2 with squares and red gemstones and a Kaiser Craft die-cut sentiment.

Sharing this with the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #44 A/G Christmas

with this inspiration board

Here's design #3 which I embossed with a SU! tasteful textiles ef and added a SSS pre-printed sentiment. Each square was decorated with metallic and glittered ornaments done with a retired SU! mini punch with an added gemstone on each one. I hand-drew the cords from which they hang with a gold paint pen.

I'm entering this into the Snippets Playground #459 - must use snippets and have a Christmas theme.

 Here's a picture of the snippets I used for the squares. Each paper is double sided so there's a wide range of possibilities.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your weekend is a good one for you.

Carol

Christmas Star

 I recently won a gift certificate by playing along with a challenge at Simon Says Stamp and I treated myself to this pretty star die as part of my prize. I die-cut it with some vanilla and mirror gold cardstock and added a golden pearl to the center. All the tiny "stars" were from assorted stamp sets and heat-embossed with gold on the navy card base which was die-cut with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle. The Noel sentiment from PTI was also heat-embossed in gold.

That's one more Christmas card added to the stash for this year and I'll enter it into the following challenges:

June Rudolph Day Challenge - A/G Christmas

the NBUS Challenge #51 - never before used schtuff (the star)

the Christmas Craft Creations June Challenge - heat  embossing

the Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #42 - A/G Christmas

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Happy Christmas

 My long-time friend Heidi who started this blog with me more than a decade ago surprised me with this beautiful Sizzix die set this past Christmas. It's got so many dies included that it took me a while to figure out how to use them all together. I pulled out snippets of dark brown, light brown, blue, green and kraft and put this card together with a pre-printed Simon Says Stamp sentiment. I added liquid applique for the snow, along with some red Stickles for ornaments on the tree. The little sparkly red star atop the tree was a die-cut negative from a border die done in red glitter paper. I'm not sure I did this die set much justice, but I tried. That's one Christmas card for this year done with many many more to go!

I'm sharing with these challenges:

The January Rudolph Days Challenge - A/G Christmas - must be posted by the end of January

The Christmas Craft Creations January challenge - A/G using snippets

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #32 - A/G

The Double D Challenges - Snow

Ha Ha - don't you just love how that snow covered car was cleaned off? LOL That's creative!

Thanks for stopping by and do have yourself a great rest of the week!

Carol

Christmas in July (again)

 I'm still trying to use snippets to reduce the clutter in my craft room but I swear the gremlins sneak in at night while I'm asleep and deposit more into my collection! I can't come up with any other logical explanation?! 😊

For this card, I used a couple strips of SU! (r) striped dsp along with some pre-cut Poppystamps Shasta twig dies I had stashed away that were used to create branches. I used a retired SU! ornament punch with a snippet of red and white polka dot paper and tied it onto the branch/card with some very old retired SU! gold cord. The sentiment is a pre-print from SSS and I added some droplets of gold Stickles to the branches and called this one done.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground #432 -  Christmas in July (must use snippets)

Christmas Craft Creations July Theme - must use patterned paper

Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge - Stars or Stripes Forever

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #19 - A/G

Dies R Us Challenge #196 - A/G using dies from their store (Shasta Twigs)

I'm sliding in on the seat of my pants for a couple of these challenges just before they close, but I think I made it! (whew)

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a super summer day!

Carol

Blue Christmas

Today I have a Christmas card made with a stencil and some Tumbled Glass distress ink. I simply sponged through the stencil; then sponged a snippet of white with the ink to make the mat for the pre-printed SSS sentiment. I added a few silver pearls and called this one easy and done!

I'm entering this card into these challenges:

The July Rudolph Days Challenge - a/g Christmas

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog MLCCB#36 - July a/g Christmas

Christmas Craft Creations July anything goes

Sending prayers and healing hugs to those facing wild fires, floods and hardships this life is handing to so many. I hope each day brings some newly-found hope to each and every one of you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carol

 

Christmas Before Easter

I haven't used this Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp set called Itty Bitties for ages, and since it was created in 2009 I thought it was time to pull it from the cobwebs and make a card with it. I stamped each of the images with Versamark ink, and heat-embossed them each with gold embossing powder; then colored them with red and green glaze markers and a SU! gold paint marker. Next I die cut each image with a MFT stitched square die. I found a piece of dark red shiny card stock I've had for ages and made a card base, then used the rest of it to die cut squares to mat the images. I also used the stitched square dies to make a white panel. In my stash, I found a few pieces of green glitter card stock that closely matched the green on the images so I used a KaiserCraft Merry Christmas die to cut the sentiment. It looks better IRL, but the shine of the cardstock and shine from the gold embossing confused my camera and this was the best edit I could get of the card.

I'll share with the Retro Rubber Challenge #132 - Be there or be square (use squares)

Also sharing with the MLCCB #21 - April anything Christmas Goes

Also sharing with the Christmas Craft Creations for April - Use a Stamp

Thanks for stopping by to visit and I wish everyone a wonderful weekend of good health and happiness.

Carol