Day 4 - D is for Dandy Double Lever Card

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 4 - D

Beccy's inspiration is a cute cardinal card using a Digital Stamp HERE  

My D is a Dandy Double Lever Card.

I opened the Circle Double Lever Card cut file in Silhouette Studio and sized the Santa digital stamp from the Cozy Christmas digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place to fit inside the first circle.  After scrolling and scrolling and scrolling through my fonts, I finally decided to use the Gingerbread Cake Roman Font to create my HO HO HO sentiment circles, stretching them to fit nicely in each circle.  I printed the image-sentiment circles, then cut the circles and card panels with my Silhouette Cameo.  I coloured the image panels with Copic Markers.

Next came the card assembly and I confess, I had to follow the video, as it was my first time making a double lever card.  The little hinge linking the circle panels at the back was a real challenge that could never get easier with practice.  The image-sentiment circles were adhered to the card panels and my Dandy Double Lever card was Done.

check out these fancy folds and dimension

and they fold flat for mailing too

   

the fun thing about this fancy fold is that there is something to look at from all angles

Here is the back view, looks like I might need to do some more colouring.

Lucky last photos, because Santa and these HO HO HO's make me feel so festive

. . . hope your day is filled with reasons to smile :)

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INGREDIENTS
Santa digital stamp from the Cozy Christmas digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place
HO HO HO sentiment – Gingerbread Cake Roman Font 

Circle Double Lever Card - cut file - Silhouette Design Store ID #51598

Copic Markers:

- Santa - hat - R22-R24-R27-R29-B000-B00

- Santa - skin - E000-E00-E01-E02

- Santa - beard - C1-C3

- HO HO HO - R22-R24-R27-R29

textured cardstock

Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue - to adhere join tabs 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the layers

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 3 - C is for Cute Curly Candy Cane

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 3 - C

Beccy's inspiration is a set of Candy Cane cards HERE  

My C is also for Candy Cane, a Cute Curly Candy Cane Card.

Using Silhouette Studio, I created the image panel for my card.  I sized the Curly Candy digital stamp from the Candy Canes digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place to fit a 4" square panel.  I created the sentiment (font details below), printed the panel then manually trimmed to size.  I used Copic markers to colour the candy cane, OK, it's partially coloured, this is my quirky take on the "loading t-shirts" you see people wearing and translating it to Christmas.  Once coloured, I matted the panel with sparkling green glitter cardstock.  I made a 5 1/2" square top folding card base, adhered the image panel and my Cute Curly Candy Cane card was complete.

   

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INGREDIENTS
Curly Candy digital stamp from the Candy Canes digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place
Christmas Spirit sentiment - Curlz MT Font

LOADING sentiment - Courier New Font

smooth white cardstock - for the image panel & card base

Copic Markers - R22-R24-R27-R29

and a touch of "0" when I coloured outside the lines!

green glitter cardstock

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the layers

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 2 - B is for a Bell with a Beautiful Blue Bow

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 2 - B

Beccy's inspiration is a Beautiful Bargello card HERE  

My B is for a Bell with a Beautiful Blue Bow.

My card started in Silhouette Studio with a Thanksgiving Side Step Rocker card cut file (details below).  I modified the design to include the delightful Silver Bell pre-coloured digital stamp from the Silver Bell digital stamp set, a now retired set from Beccy’s Place.  I sized the image to fit neatly in the front panel and the sentiment to fit on a made-by me back panel, printed them on textured cardstock and cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  It was a bit fiddly to form the fancy folds but once they were burnished with a bone folder, the card stood up and rocked smoothly.

I adhered the layers in place and it looks ever-so-pretty.

   

Confession time ...

I started adhering the image panel to the BACK of the card and the glue left some dreadful marks.  Luckily it gave me the opportunity to "embellish", so I created a sentiment panel to cover it.  I used one of my go-to favourite digital sentiments, "Merry Christmas Happy New Year" from the Emu Parade stamp set, also retired from Beccy’s Place.  Now my "B" card is complete, ready to be written in and posted, hopefully before the end of the month, it would be nice to have it arrive before Christmas.

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INGREDIENTS
Silver Bell pre-coloured digital stamp from the Silver Bell digital stamp set

- a now retired set from Beccy’s Place

Merry Christmas Happy New Year digital sentiment from the Emu Parade

stamp set - a now retired set from Beccy’s Place

Rocker Card Gather Wheat Side Step cut file

Silhouette Design Store ID #307989

textured cardstock

bone folder to burnish folds

Tombow Mono Multi Glue - to adhere small pieces & around stitching 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the layers

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

 

RACE TIME

My card was a work in progress until I saw that it was

RACE TIME!

... full details to follow soon ....

*** UPDATE ***

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

My card was a work-in-progress "circles card" planned for the "C" prompt.

Now that the race is over, I'm back to share the details.

First off, I have to say that I was INSPIRED by THIS card shared by Sarah W. in the October Challenge at Beccy’s Place.  THANK YOU for the inspiration Sarah :)

My card uses the Poinsettia 2 pre-coloured digital stamp from the Christmas Blooms digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place.  Using Silhouette Studio, I created a scalloped circle frame (cut file details below) and cut the frame from textured cardstock.  I sized the poinsettia flower to fit inside the 4" scalloped circle frame, printed the image in a circle on 300gsm smooth white cardstock then fussy cut to size.  I created a sentiment to go on a 5 1/2" square card front, printed on 300gsm smooth white Letter sized cardstock, scored at 5 1/2" then trimmed to make a square top folding card.  I adhered the image panel to the back of the scalloped frame then adhered the framed image to the front of the card.

   

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INGREDIENTS
Poinsettia 2 pre-coloured digital stamp

from the Christmas Blooms digital stamp set from Beccy’s Place
300gsm smooth white cardstock - for image panel and card base

cricket green textured cardstock - to make the frame

Scallop Circles with Inside Circles Nested - cut file to design frame

- Silhouette Design Store ID #57523

Silhouette Cameo - to cut the frame

Tombow Mono Multi adhesive - to adhere image to frame
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere framed image to card

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

Day 1 - A is for Animal

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Place Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 1 - A

Beccy's inspiration is a cute bear card HERE  

My A is for Animal, a pretty purple monster.

Introducing Harold Monster,

a pre-coloured digital stamp from the Lil Monster digital stamp set.

This stamp set is currently on sale as part of Beccy’s

48 hours of throw back Thursday HERE, so if you want to get creative with these

cute monsters, head on over now, TODAY, before they're gone forever!

As soon as I saw these cuties on our Aussie Halloween, I immediately saw the purple monster sending Christmas wishes and they quickly jumped into my shopping cart!

Here is my Harold Monster, filled lots of MERRY.

I popped Harold in an ornament from the Five Baubles digital stamp from the

Festive Baubles digital stamp set (has been retired and is no longer available).

I printed the image panel, added a touch of colour with Copic markers to finish off my "Harold ornament" then trimmed the image panel to size.  I matted the image panel with a luscious 1/8" red glitter cardstock then adhered it to a 5 1/2" square top folding card base, finishing the card off with some sparkling red rhinestones.

   

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INGREDIENTS
Lil Monster digital stamp set – from Beccy’s Place
This stamp set is currently on sale as part of Beccy’s 48 hours of throw back Thursday HERE, so if you want to get creative with it, head on over now, TODAY, before it's gone forever!

Bauble digital stamp from the Five Baubles digital stamp

from the Festive Baubles digital stamp set from Beccy's Place.

Sadly this stamp set has been retired and is no longer available.

Copic markers - to colour my Harold ornament

gold gel pen - to colour ornament hanger

smooth white 300gsm cardstock - image panel and card base

red glitter cardstock - matting layer

Perfect Layers Ruler - to trim matting layer

Copic Markers - for ornament detail

B0000-B000-B00 - for the ornament glass

B000-B00 and C1-C3 - for Harold's shadow

C1-C3-C5 - for the top of the ornament

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere layers
red rhinestones - to embellish

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges 

 

More Lotus Flowers . . .

No, you're not seeing things, I shared THIS pair of lotus cards last week.

These new cards are the "same-but-different",

with the lotus image mirrored to give a different look.  

   

My lovely lotus flower cards combine the Lotus Flower pre-coloured digital stamp from the Hello Lovely digital stamp set from the Beccy's Place Store with the "Beautiful Day" digital sentiment from the same stamp set.  I mirrored the lotus image then sized the image and sentiment to fit on a 5.5" square panel, printed on smooth white 300gsm Letter sized cardstock, making it easy to score and trim to create a 5.5" top folding card.

I added some ripples of water around the Lotus image to anchor the flower and leaf stems to the card.  Although the cardstock is NOT “alcohol-ink-friendly”,

the Copic markers blended quite nicely, giving a watercolour effect.

The markers I used were BG70, BG72 and BG75.

   

The ink bleeds randomly, so no matter how hard you try,

no two are ever the same.

   

   

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As mentioned earlier, these cards are the same-but-different.

My first cards used the Lotus Flowers image straight from the stamp set,

with the image to the right, the sentiment to the left.

For my second pair of cards I have mirrored the Lotus Flowers image,

with the image to the left of the card, the sentiment to the right.

You can read all about my original cards HERE or click on the photo below.

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INGREDIENTS

Hello Lovely digital set from the Beccy's Place store

Lotus Flowers pre-coloured digital stamp - mirrored

Beautiful Day - digital sentiment

300gsm smooth white cardstock - for card

scoreboard & bone folder - for card fold

sharp craft knife + self healing cutting mat + steel ruler

- for trimming the card to size

Copic markers - BG70-BG72-BG75

to add water under the lotus flower and leaf stems

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I have entered my cards in the following challenges:

October Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges