Day 15 Advent Village

No card today, just a couple of houses from the advent village:

 I added a bit of Frantage embossing powder to the bottom of this one for snow.

And on this one I've covered all the baubles with liquid gloss.  You can see it a little better in the pre-assembly photo.

Three French Hens and Day 14 Advent Village

There's a fun challenge at this week's Less is More - a one layer card based on the Twelve Days of Christmas.

The 12 days of Christmas

Feel free to interpret this how you wish... but we would like to see some connection!

I'm also entering it into this week's Muse, where Therese has provided this fabulous inspiration card:

Penny Black: 3764K Par Avion
Hero Arts: CL630 Miracle of the Holidays

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Day 14 Advent Village

A snowflake and Day 13 Advent Village

Here's another card I made from last week's Distress Ink master board, this time using Penny Black stamps.  I'm entering it into the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays - Let It Snow

CASology - snowflake

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Let It Snow

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Christmas

Penny Black: 3897H Starflake, 3898F Joy Hope

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Day 13 Advent Village

Red White Kraft and Day 12 Advent Village

Playing along with a couple of challenges featuring red and white:

Paper Smooches SPARKS picture challenge:

  

Fusion Card Challenge - Ive just gone for the photo inspiration.

And City Crafter Challenge,  Christmas colours of red white and kraft.  The kraft on my card is in the form of the paper branch.

 

I used Paper Smooches Tri-balation, and another Christmas tree decoration from the supermarket.

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Day 12 Advent Village

Magenta Christmas Tree

This Christmas tree stamp by Magenta is one of my all-time favourites, so it's only fitting that I use it for their current challenge, Simply Christmas:

The current challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to use a tree or trees on your project:

CFC122: Show us your Clean And Simple projects that feature a tree or trees.

And the challenge at Less is More is to use a metallic element plus one colour.

My metallic element is silver embossing.  My first instinct is always to go for gold (!) and the silver embossing powder tends to get neglected, but it got a run out today.  I paired it with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink which I used with varying intensity.  Because I wasn't adding a sentiment I painted a bit of ground under the tree to anchor it.

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Day 11 Advent Village

Gelli Background

After raving about my new Gelli Arts plate when I first got it, I couldn't let this week's Simon Says Wednesday challenge pass without entering a card that used a Gelli background.  This is probably my all time favourite (so far!!) of all the backgrounds I've made.  I love the earthy shades and the layers of lace and the hemp ribbon across the centre.  Lace seems to give the best patterns.

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Day 10 Advent Village

Back to making Christmas cards - normal service is resumed!

Christmas Snowflakes and Day 8 Advent Village

I've been playing with Distress Inks again, this time to make a master board.  I took an A4(European) sheet of card, sponged Distress Inks over it, then cut it into into 4 squares and 2 rectangles.   On one of the squares I stamped the images and sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black, then sprayed a snowflake stamp with water and stamped it onto the panel.  It was fairly wet so the first stamping was a bit blobby, but I like it.  I stamped again without re-wetting and you can see in the bottom left corner how the purple ink was picked up from the centre stamping and laid down on the next stamping.  I just continued like that on the panel, re-misting when necessary.

I'm entering this into Keep It Simple (a first for me) where the challenge is Snow,

CAS on Sunday where the challenge is Christmas,

Simon Says Monday Challenge, With a Flourish,

and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, Make Your Own Background (using Gelli plate or stencils if you can).  Surprisingly, I didn't get the Gelli plate out for this one.  But maybe there's still time...

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Day 8 Advent Village

Ooh, look - there's today's stamp!