Beccy's Place Day 20 - R is for . . .

I'm playing along with the
Tenth Annual
Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

at Beccy's Place

FULL details about how it works are HERE

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Day 20 - R

(Beccy's post with "R" inspiration words and super cute

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer cards to inspire are HERE)

My "R" project is a sparkling Ruby Red Christmas card.

No colouring by me today ... instead I am keeping it sparkly and simple,

with die cuts and ruby red glitter cardstock.

   

Although it's a simple card design,

I think the rich ruby red sparkle against the white looks elegant.

No, you're not seeing things, I made a card using this CAS design earlier HERE.

*** INGREDIENTS ***

Happy Holidays - nesting die set - Couture Creations

Merry Christmas sentiment + top white panel

Perfect Layers Rulers - glitter matting panel

smooth white cardstock

ruby red glitter cardstock

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive

pre-scored tall card base - Couture Creations

21mm x 10.5mm (8.2" x 4.1") 

Beccy's Place Day 15 - M is for . . .

I'm playing along with the
Tenth Annual
Month of Holiday Cards Challenge

at Beccy's Place

FULL details about how it works are HERE

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Day 15 - M

(Beccy's post with "M" inspiration words and

Merry Santa two-fer card to inspire are HERE)

My "M" project is also Merry, a Merry Christmas card.

No colouring by me today ... sometimes my fingers refuse to play with markers ... instead I am keeping it sparkly and simple, with die cuts and golden glitter cardstock.

   

Although it's a simple card design,

I think the golden sparkle against the white looks elegant.

*** INGREDIENTS ***

Happy Holidays - nesting die set - Couture Creations

Merry Christmas sentiment + top white panel

Perfect Layers Rulers - glitter matting panel

smooth white cardstock

glitter cardstock

Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive

pre-scored tall card base - Couture Creations

21mm x 10.5mm (8.2" x 4.1") 

Jars of Birthday Wishes . . .

It's time for another challenge with us at 

This fortnight 

Anything Goes with Team Lou

Our generous sponsors for this challenge are:

Krafters Cart

All Dressed Up

Neat & Tangled

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Today I have used the , one of our generous sponsors this fortnight, to make a birthday card and matching tag.  

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I die cut the tag (

It was quite a challenge to photograph this set, so here are
some more pics that hopefully show you how pretty it is.

 

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NOW it's YOUR turn!

I hope that I have inspired you to get creative
and look forward to seeing your projects fill the gallery for

Anything Goes with Team Lou

on the
Southern Girls Challenge Blog

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

All Dressed UpJam Jars
Font Bundles - Dream of Spring - font used for sentiment
this is a FREE font
X-Press It A4 Blending Card

Copic markers - jar / water - C00-0-1 + B0000-000
Copic markers - flowers - RV52-63-66 + YR16-18
Copic markers - foliage - YG03
Sizzix Big Shot

Ultimate Crafts - dies - Tag & Corner Option
from Rambling Rose Collection
Perfect Layers Ruler
1/8
ribbon
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the die cuts

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Sending a big Thank You to All Dressed Up for sponsoring

Anything Goes with Team Lou with us at the

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I am going to enter my card & tag set in the following challenges

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A Perfect Time To Craft - July Challenge #7 – Anything Goes

All Dressed Up Challenges - July Challenge #107

Classic Design Challenge Blog - July Challenge #7 – Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Challenge - Week 26 – Anything Goes

I coloured my ribbon with a Copic marker for the perfect match

Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - Week 27 – Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - No Patterned Paper

Get Creative Challenges - Challenge #93 – Birthdays
Ike's World Challenges - Challenge 134 – S is for Show Us Christmas In July or Anything Goes

Morgan’s ArtWorld Open Challenge - Challenge #7 – Anything Goes

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge - Wk28 – Anything Goes

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Through The Craft Room Door – TTCRD Anything Goes 14th July

R is for Ready, Set, Go, it's Race Time

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 20 is "R"

R is for Ready, Set, Go, it's Red Race Time
I confess, instead of making a Round card with "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" and lots of Red Rhinestones, my heart is Racing from Beccy's surprise Race to the fill gallery!  Here is a quick Race time card using lots of sparkling Red and a pretty plaid paper with a touch of Red!

. . . MORE details to follow . . . 
I'm racing so fast that the ink on my watermark is still drying

. . . I'm back . . . 

I sized a plaid digital paper (details below) to make the front panel for my card, I printed the panel on smooth cardstock, trimmed to size then adhered to a 6" x 6" card base.  I pulled out one of my absolute favourite Christmas sentiment dies (details below) and die cut the flourished Merry Christmas sentiment and snowflakes from sparkling red glitter cardstock, another "precious" from my stash.  It was from an American Crafts Christmas pad several years ago and not seen any with so much sparkle since then, so each sheet is precious.  I die cut the sentiment from plain white cardstock twice and adhered them under the sparkling die cuts to give extra dimension and contrast against the background paper.  Yes, it's a simple card but I thought the sparkling die cuts had so much "WOW" and the plaid elegant yet festive, that together they were enough.  What do you think?



   

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
smooth white cardstock

glitter cardstock

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #307410
Christmas Plaid Seamless Pattern by Kristen Magee
Sizzix Big Shot
Ultimate Crafts - Merry Christmas Script Die
(Ultimate Crafts are the parent company of Couture Creations)
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment & snowflakes

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 20 - R is for Red Race Time
Cardz 4 Galz  - Challenge #110 – Get Ready For Christmas
CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #109 – Christmas

Crafty Catz - Challenge #484 – Anything Goes – optional twist: Spots and/or Stripes

(my stripes have gone a little cross-eyed and become a plaid pattern)
International Art & Soul - Challenge #72 - Christmas With No Image
Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenges - Challenge #459 – Christmas

. . . for a birthday that needs an "OLDOMETER"

Special birthdays often need to have the age included

and seventy is an extra special milestone.

 I remember seeing lots of different "oldometer" cards out there in cyberland over the years, so I decided to make mine ticking over from 69 to 70.

I started by opening my Silhouette Studio to design the panels for my card.  I wanted the numbers to be quite large, so with all the metallic matting layers, the card soon grew, ending up 8" tall and 7" wide, a big card for a big birthday.  I confess that I spent ages choosing the fonts for my numbers and sentiment (details below), it has made me realise that I have become a bit of a font hoarder collector.  In case you're interested, the numbers are 350 font size, making them 4" high, before being trimmed and the "OLDOMETER" is 130 font size and 1 1/4" high.

I cut the "oldometer" sentiment, numbers and panels using my Silhouette Cameo, using metallic cardstock for the gold & silver, heavy textured cardstock for the black layers and card base.  As the card is so large, I had to create the card base using two 7" x 8" panels, scoring the back panel 1" from the top and adhering to the front panel.  I used liquid adhesive to secure all the layers, alphas and numbers.  Note: I aligned the numbers on the gold panel, adhered them in place, then trimmed off the edges with my favourite scissors.

I matted the inside of the card to match the front and added a large die cut sentiment.

Here you can see how I created the top fold.

   

Instead of an envelope, I made a large flat gift box to hold the card.  I used the same heavy black cardstock, cut, scored, burnished the folds then trimmed the corners to complete the dimension.  I made the top 1/8" larger so that it wasn't too snug to put on / take off.

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

age numbers - digital font - Bernard MT Condensed

"OLDOMETER" - digital font - Playbill font
gold metallic cardstock
silver metallic cardstock
American Crafts - 12x12 textured cardstock - black
Silhouette Cameo + own design
Sizzix Big Shot
Couture Creations - Intricutz Dies - Script Happy Birthday
sentiment inside the card

scoreboard and bone folder - for the top fold and gift box
Helmar Acid Free Professional Glue - to adhere the top fold
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the matting layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Crafting By Designs - July Anything Goes Challenge Die Cut Divas Challenge Blog - Anything Goes - Optional Twist of Patriotic
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog - Simon Says: Add A Number
Through The Craft Room Door – TTCRD Anything Goes 16th July

FUN with FANCY FOLDS at the Crafty Gals Corner

It's time for another challenge with us at the

Crafty Gals Corner

This week we are letting our creative juices flow with

Challenge #192 - Fancy Folds

Crafty Gals Corner Challenges are bi-weekly.
Each crafter may only submit 3 projects per challenge.

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The sponsor for this challenge is:

MoonFlower Digistamps

Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate

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Today I have used the Gina Frankenstein Bride digital stamp from MoonFlower DigiStamps, our generous sponsor this week.  The theme for our challenge is fancy folds, so I thought I would add an extra surprise to Halloween with some twist pop cards.

I opened the cut file for the Twist Pop Boo Card cut file on my Silhouette Cameo design mat and enlarged the pieces, making the base length 11 3/4" (as large as I could to just fit on the cutting mat).  I added a couple of matting layers to the front then took the smallest top layer to add the Gina Frankenstein Bride digital stamp, sizing her to fit neatly and adding some bats and a black cat.  I printed the image panel on X-Press It blending card then cut with the Cameo.  I printed the banner sentiment and Halloween patterned paper on textured cardstock and cut it with my Cameo.  I cut all the other card layers and twist-pop mechanisms from textured cardstock.  (note: I added another layer to the sentiment banner so that it had more contrast against the patterned paper.)  The cut file comes with some spooky elements to decorate the front of the card too, so I cut them to embellish the second card.

I heat set the image then coloured with Copic markers (details below).
I burnished all the folds of the card base, mechanism and boo strip then assembled the card.  (Lori's video tutorial is HERE).  I punched out some little black flowers, die cut some leafy flourishes and finished off the card with some sparkling black bling and tiny black star confetti.
What do you think?

Here are the two closed cards together

They both have a big BOO waiting inside,

along with some pretty patterned paper.

One last look of these Halloween cuties ... 

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NOW it's YOUR turn!

I hope that I have inspired you to get creative
and look forward to seeing your projects fill the gallery for

Challenge #192 - Fancy Folds

at the Crafty Gals Corner

Crafty Gals Corner Challenges are bi-weekly.
Each crafter may only submit 3 projects per challenge.

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
Gina Frankenstein Bride - digital stamp - MoonFlower DigiStamps

X-Press It A4 Blending Card
Copic markers - skin & cat's eyes - YG01-03-25-67

Copic markers - dress/cape/shoes - BV01-02-04-08
Copic markers - hair - C5-7-9 + 100 + C1-3 (white flashes)
Copic markers - eyes - E23-25-27
American Crafts - 12x12 textured cardstock
Silhouette Cameo

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #219048
Twist Pop Boo Card by Lori Whitlock
Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #149738
Diagonal Stripe Halloween Paper by Miss Kate Cuttables
Sizzix Big Shot
Ultimate Crafts - dies - Jadene: Careless And Free
assorted flower punches
black rhinestones
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment banner

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Sending a big Thank You to MoonFlower DigiStamps for supplying the digital stamp I used today and for being a sponsor for Challenge #192 - Fancy Folds at the Crafty Gals Corner.

    

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge - Challenge #92 – Anything Goes
A Gem Of A Challenge - Week 9 - Anything Goes
A Perfect Time To Craft - May Challenge #5 - Anything Goes
Aloha Friday Challenges - Challenge #143 – Fairytale / Fantasy
CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #103 - Add a Flower
Crafty Catz - Challenge #462 – Anything Goes
optional twist: use buttons or flowers
Creatalicious Challenges - Challenge #163 Anything Goes
with optional no square or rectangle card
Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog - May Challenge – May Flowers & Showers
Creative Knockouts - Challenge #298 - Favorite Embellishment
you can never have too much bling, so I use lots of sparkling rhinestones & sequins
Die Cut Divas Challenge Blog - Flowers All Year Round in May
Get Creative Challenges - Challenge #80 – Anything Goes – no twist
Love To Scrap Challenge Blog - LTSCB #121 - Anything Goes

Monstrously cute mistletoe kisses

on the My Besties Spanish Challenge Blog!

Yes, it's time for another challenge with us at the
My Besties Spanish Challenge Blog

Our challenge for April is
Challenge #46 - Anything Goes

Remember:  You can participate with ANY project; altered, scrapbooking pages, cards, and anything you can think of.  If you have My Besties images, that would be ideal, but you can use any kind of stamps or digital stamps.  And also remember: You are playing for My Besties digital Stamps!

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Today I had the pleasure of colouring and creating with the super cute
Sherri Baldy's My Besties img826
- Adorable Little Monsters Christmas - Mini Monster - digital stamp
to make a monstrously cute non-traditional Christmas card.

I placed the image on my Silhouette Cameo design mat, sized it to fit on an A5 sheet, added a digital sentiment (combination of the Alyssum Blossom and Ariel fonts) and printed it on A5 X-Press It blending card.  I heat set image panel, trimmed down to 5 1/4" square, then coloured with Copic markers.  You can't see it very well, but I tried a technique to add texture to the fur.  I took a piece of towel, wet it with colourless blender alcohol then blotted the image ... I think it might have worked too well!  I matted the image panel several times using Perfect Layers Rulers then adhered it to a 6 1/4" card base.  I die cut several mistletoe sprigs from white cardstock, leafy sprigs from shades of green cardstock and a dimensional bow from pink (bubblegum) cardstock, then used liquid adhesive to assemble them together on the card front.
I finished off the card front by adding Stardust Stickles to the sparkling gems of her necklace.
I matted the inside of the card with several layers to co-ordinate with the front.

... after looking at my card while writing my blog post I thought it needed something more, so I cut some more white mistletoe sprigs, coloured some rhinestones to match the darkest pink Copic marker and added them to the cluster under the bow.



What do you think?
Better with bling?

   

NOW it's YOUR turn!

I hope that I have inspired you to get creative with your

My Besties (or other branded) images and make a project to enter the

My Besties Spanish Challenge Blog

April Challenge #46 - Anything Goes

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
Sherri Baldy My Besties - digital stamp - img826

Adorable Little Monsters Christmas Mini Monster
Copic markers - skin/lips/fur - RV000-00-52-55-66
Copic markers - eye - pupil - T5-7-9 +Y18 
Copic markers - eye - iris - E53-55-57-59
Copic markers - earings/bow/necklace - YG01-03-17-67
Copic markers - flower cluster - Y13-18 + YR16
sentiment fonts - Alyssum Blossom and Ariel

Sizzix Big Shot
Winnie & Walter - In Bloom: Paulina's Greenery Cutaways
layered leaves
Winnie & Walter - Take a Bow Cutaways
dimensional bow
Couture Creations - Be Merry Collection - Holly Berry Sprigs Set die
the white "mistletoe" cluster under the bow
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges (alphabetical order):

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A Bit More Time To Craft - Challenge #65 - Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft Extra Challenge - April Challenge - Anything Goes
Colour It!  Create It!  Show It Off! - April Challenge - Anything Goes
Colouring In Scrapland - March Challenge – Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs – Pink With A Twist – use pink & add one more colour
my card is pink and green
Crafty Creations Challenges - Challenge #363 – Anything Goes
Creative Moments Challenge Blog – Challenge #139 – Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge #523 – Add A Quote
mistletoe kisses and Christmas wishes
Digi Choosday Craft Challenges – Wk 13 – Anything Goes
My Besties Art Espana - Challenge #22 – Anything Goes + Blue Color Option

My Besties Deutschland - Challenge #51 – Everything Goes with a My Besties

My Besties Dutch Girls - Challenge Anything Goes option Spring / Easter

My Besties Francais - Challenge #73 – Anything Goes

My Besties International Challenge Blog - 

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - PIP Challenge 1812 – Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Penny’s Challenge 373 – Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Craft Challenge - Week 13 Anything Goes
QKR Stampede - Challenge #289 – Anything Goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society - Challenge #135 – Anything Goes option Easter
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog - Simon Says: Inside The Box
my little Christmas monster is boxed in by lots of square layers
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog - Simon Says: Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #332 – Digital Image
Through The Craft Room Door - TTCRD Anything Goes Challenge March 27th