The Card Concept - Winter Cocoa or Winter Snow

Welcome to another challenge with The Card Concept! Being the second challenge of the month, we're giving you a choice of two wonderful inspirational images.

I picked the Winter Snow theme and used the optional colour palette on my mixed media card.

I began with stamping the house image then coloured using distress crayons. After embossing those gorgeous pine branches I sponged over them with white ink then liberally pounced over them with white distress crayon to give it more depth of colour plus more texture. Further white crayon was added to the roof and trees then everything was splattered with white distress paint. The edges were sponged and distressed.

With the crazy weather we've been having the past couple of months, somedays it feels like winter and on the days it doesn't, it's so hot and humid I wish it were! Lol. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Winterscape, Tiny Text Christmas (both Tim Holtz)
• card - baked brown sugar
• other TH products - picket fence distress ink and paint, pine branches 3D embossing folder, black soot oxide ink
• distress crayons - picket fence, walnut stain, squeezed lemonade, mowed lawn, forest moss
• other - clear embossing powder, heat tool, MISTI, craft foam, paintbrush, sponge dauber, Big Shot, distressing tool

We'd love to see your creation in our gallery and of course there are more cards to inspire you from my fellow team members over on the Card Concept blog. 

Thanks for dropping 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

Baby, It's Cold Outside - CAS on Friday Challenge #219

 

Thanks for joining me for another clean and simple challenge. WINTER is the theme for CAS on Friday challenge #219.

I couldn't resist using this adorable layering snowman die called Winston. He's so sweet! I love him in pastels too. Whole, he's too big for a CAS card so I gave him a little 'cameo' appearance, lol, and didn't use all the layers available.

I added some shimmer to the bottom layer of the scarf and the pieces that came out of the top layer made perfect snowflakes! 

Materials used:

• stamps - Tiny Text Christmas (Tim Holtz)
• card - very vanilla, watercolour
• distress oxide inks - salvaged patina, kitsch flamingo, vintage photo, carved pumpkin
• dies - Winston Colorize (Tim Holtz), layering circles (SU)
• other - blending brushes, heat tool, Big Shot, black rhinestones, salvaged patina embossing glaze, MISTI, clear Wink of Stella, tweezers, embossing buddy, Dimensionals, craft foam

We'd love for you to join us in our winter challenge and my fellow team members have more samples to inspire you.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

JAI #579 - Just Add Two

Welcome back to another Just Add Ink challenge. This week it's a 'just add two' where you pick two out of three elements to include in your design.

Yes, it's all about the shine! 

For my card I picked shimmer and glimmer - though I confess I had to look up the difference, lol. I discovered that glimmer is 'a faint light, a dim glow' while shimmer is 'a faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining'.  

Meet Winston the snowman - isn't he just the cutest? All my snow, including Winston, has been sprayed with white shimmer mist and has a kind of mother-of-pearl glow. 

And for my 'faint light' of glimmer, I popped three teeny tiny rhinestones on the berries in Winston's hat and used black gems for his eyes and buttons. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Tiny Text Christmas (Tim Holtz)
• ard - basic white, basic black, basic grey, pumpkin pie, real red, granny apple green, watercolour
• dies - Winston colorize (Tim Holtz), stitched rectangle (Paper Rose)
• distress oxide sprays - speckled egg, stormy sky
• other - white embossing powder, heat tool, white shimmer mist, rhinestones, black gems

We'd love to see your own shimmery/glimmery/foil creations in our gallery this week! And if you head over to the JAI blog, you'll find more shiny goodness to inspire you from my fellow DT members.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Snowy Treeline

This week I challenged my ladies to make a Christmas card using non-traditional colours, which pretty much means avoiding red and green! So today I sat down to have a play with inks - cos who doesn't love that? - and came up with this wintery scene.

I stamped and embossed the trees first then sprayed the background with distress spray stains. After drying and a bit of smooshing with oxide ink, I stencilled some icicle texture paste over the sky, hoping it would look like icy snow falling. It didn't turn out quite as I was hoping but never mind, it's all practise and experience! 

Materials used:

• stamps - Tiny Text Christmas, Treeline (Tim Holtz)
• card - basic white, basic black, watercolour
• distress spray stains - salvaged patina, prize ribbon
• distress oxide ink - salvaged patina
• other - white embossing powder, heat tool, water spritzer, Icicle texture paste (TH), Speckles stencil (TH), Dimensionals

I've always wanted to experience a white Christmas, it's on my bucket list!

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

The Best Laid Plans...

Yep, it's me. 

Ok, so no, I'm not exactly settled and set up in my new home - in fact, far from it. I'm still in my 'old' place because four weeks ago we were put into a strict COVID lockdown and my plans went on hold temporarily. It's looking highly likely we'll be homebound for some time still - possibly till the end of August. That meant I had to prep more cards for my DT commitments and that meant the craft goodies I'd already packed had to come out again! Oi vey!

The good part is I have not one but two wonderful excuses for playing with inks and paper! 

Last time we were in lockdown I used to give my ladies a challenge each week - I haven't really done that this time, so thought it might be fun to attempt a class by Zoom. I gave them a Christmas theme so they could prep their goodies and then make a card using this sketch:

Naturally, I made a few samples to show them. For the first, a clean layered design, I stuck pretty much to the sketch.

Materials used:

• stamps - Sing Joy! (Penny Black), Tiny Text Christmas (Tim Holtz)
• card - soft sky, basic white, real red, Christmas papers from stash
• other - Dimensionals, MISTI, Copic markers, SU Stampin' Blends

My second card, a shabby/vintage style, plays around with the sketch to show how you can be more liberal in your interpretation. 

 

Materials used:

• card - crumb cake, mossy meadow, old olive, watercolour, retired SU Christmas papers
• other - chipboard Cathedral window die cut (Tim Holtz), chipboard poinsettia (Scrapmatt), gold pearls, Christmas Greetings die (retired SU), sponge dauber, vintage photo oxide ink, gold paint, Holiday Greens die (TH), Mini Holiday Greens dies (TH), mini glue dots

And for my third sample I changed orientation.

Materials used:

• stamps - STAMPSL391 (Studio Light)
• card - basic black, Kaisercraft plaid paper, SU retired paper, basic white
• other - wild honey distress oxide ink, distressing tool, label tape - Christmas (Tim Holtz), Dimensionals, MISTI

Excuse the photo quality - it's far too windy for me to do my usual outdoor shots, so they're taken flat on my desk inside and it wasn't till I uploaded them here that I realised I had printed paper underneath, lol. Did I feel like taking them all again? I think you can tell the answer to that question ... 😉😁

It was lovely to catch up with my ladies and of course the cards they made were completely different but all wonderful. I hope you're getting the chance to be creative, wherever you are. 

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry