Christmas in July

The colours for this week's Color Throwdown challenge intrigued me and now that we're into July, Christmas came to mind for a card.

I stamped my background with Versamark then sprinkled with embossing glaze - love their translucency, plus it gives a little shine. My arch piece was cut from teal card and I added teal ink to give it a darker shade, added the ground then splattered with white paint for the snow. My house was cut from various card and also splattered with 'snow'. Then it was a matter of adding some foliage, a sentiment sticker and pearls for berries.

Materials used:

• stamps - Christmas background (My Favorite Things)
• card - basic white, pool party, bubble bath, smoky slate (all Stampin' Up)
• dies - Essential Arches (Spellbinders), Holiday Greens mini (Tim Holtz), Home for the Holidays (Concord & 9th)
• other - Big Shot, MISTI, lost shadow embossing glaze, heat tool, pink pearls, Holiday Talk metallic stickers (Tim Holtz), picket fence distress paint, fan paintbrush, craft foam, Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept - Happy Thanksgiving or Merry Christmas

Welcome to another inspiration challenge with The Card Concept and as it's our second challenge of the month, we have two beautiful images to give you a choice for your creativity. 

   

I picked option (b), taking the house/church ornaments and baubles as my inspiration and also using the colour palette.

The village buildings were all cut from watercolour paper and hand coloured with dye inks and an aquabrush. The (bauble) sky and trees are also watercolour paper, coloured using oxide sprays before die-cutting. For the background I stamped with Versamark and clear embossed, then ran a white ink pad over the whole thing to give a more distressed look. It also helps the clear embossing stand out more. Excess ink was wiped off then I sewed around and lightly distressed the edges. White calligraphy ink was splattered very liberally for a snowy effect. The bauble is raised, as are some of the buildings. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Christmas background (MFT)
• card - basic white, smoky slate, basic grey, watercolour, soft succulent
• SU inks - smoky slate, basic grey, daffodil delight
• distress oxide sprays - speckled egg, tumbled glass, rustic wilderness, mowed lawn, forest moss
• dies - Snowglobe 2 (Tim Holtz), Christmas bauble, Treeline (Tim Holtz)
• other - Big Shot, craft foam, aquabrush, paintbrush, Kuretake white calligraphy ink, MISTI, picket fence distress ink, clear embossing powder, heat tool, Dimensionals, silver ribbons, distressing tool

We do hope you'll create your own card inspired by one of our prompts and of course we'd love to see them in our gallery. For more ideas, check out what my fellow team mates made over at the Card Concept blog.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

JAI #628 - Just Add a Colour Combo

Hello and welcome; this week at Just Add Ink we have a gorgeous colour combination challenge for you.

For some reason the idea to make a Christmas card was fixated in my brain, lol, even though they're non-traditional colours (or maybe that's why 😉). I'm really not fond of petal pink, much preferring blushing bride, but I did use it - albeit very sparingly (lol) - and must admit to quite liking it paired with Bermuda bay. Who'd have thunk? 😁

Materials used:

• stamps - Tiny Text Christmas (Tim Holtz)
• card - basic white, petal pink, Bermuda bay, brushed gold
• dies - stitched rectangle, Snowglobe #2 (Tim Holtz), Home for the Holidays (Concord & 9th)
• inks - petal pink, Bermuda bay, blackberry bliss, Versamark
• other - tarnished brass distress paint, paintbrush, blending brushes, Big Shot, Sidekick, MISTI, white embossing powder, heat tool, craft foam, gold cord

My fellow team members have created some beautiful works to inspire you, so do go and check them out on the JAI blog. As always, we'd love for you to create your own project inspired by these colours and add it to our gallery.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry