Day 27 - X is for X-Press It

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 27 - X

Beccy's inspiration is a delightful winter scene card HERE,

with the snowman coloured beautifully on X-Press It blending card.

My "X" is also for X-Press It blending card,

I printed the image panel on X-Press It blending card

and made another Candy Cane Christmas Card

coloured with Copic markers, this time

I swapped the red and green from my first card.

No, you're not seeing things,

I shared a red Candy Cane Christmas Card for Day 3 HERE

and a red Cute Curly Candy Cane Christmas Card for Day 3 HERE

   

Like my first Candy Cane Card, I used Silhouette Studio to create the image panel for my card.  I sized the Texture 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 on X-Press It blending card 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 red glitter cardstock.  I made a 5 1/2" square top folding card base, adhered the image panel and my Candy Cane Christmas Card was complete.

   

Here are my green and red Candy Cane Christmas cards together.

and here are my red and green Candy Cane Christmas cards

with the red Curly Candy Cane Christmas card.

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INGREDIENTS
Texture 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

X-Press It Blending Card - for the image panel

Copic Markers - C0-C1 + G20-G21 + G24-G28

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

red glitter cardstock

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card base

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 

We have a little overlap with the challenges at Beccy's Place Challenges

this month, so I'm going to enter this card in the December Challenge too.

December Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges

Day 30 - Doing what I love with dimension again

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 30 - Do What You Love

Beccy's inspiration is a set of four STUNNING cards HERE,

she has coloured a single poinsettia image in shades of grey then cut it into four

- WOW - they're breathtakingly beautiful!

My list for "Do What You Love" is endless, because I love making anything

and everything papercraft, from cards to treat boxes and decor pieces. 

This time my love is for dimension again, more cards with lots of inky dimension.

To make these cards, I opened the Joy This Holiday Christmas Card cut file (details & links below, available from two stores) in Silhouette Studio and enlarged the card.  One of my favourite sizes is 5” x 7” and this card was A2, which is a much smaller 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.  The best I could do was to lock the aspect of the grouped elements of the card and enlarge it to be 6 ¾” wide x 5” tall, almost 5" x 7" and it will fit nicely in a 5” x 7” envelope.  I changed the sentiment for this card and used one of my favourites from Beccy’s Place, the Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment from the Jingle Bells digital stamp set.  I printed the sentiment panels then cut all the pieces in Vintage shades of textured cardstock (details below).  I inked the flowers, foliage and sentiment panels with Distress Inks, curled the petals and leaves then assembled the layers.  I used 300gsm smooth white cardstock to make card base then adhered the assembled layers on top.

   

   

   

The layered sentiment panels were popped with foam dots so that

they would sit neatly over the sprigs of foliage and berries.

   

Here they are together, same but a little bit different.

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INGREDIENTS

The "Joy Holiday Season A2 Card / Joy This Holiday Christmas Card"

 cut file can be purchased from either

My Scrap Chick or Silhouette Design Store

Joy Holiday Season A2 Card – My Scrap Chick

OR
Joy This Holiday Christmas Card – Silhouette Design Store – Design ID #369967

Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment – Jingle Bells digital stamp set

– Beccy’s Place

textured cardstock - Straw-Brown Sugar-Leaf-Spinach-Pomegranate

Distress Inks:

- Scattered Straw on Straw cardstock

- Tattered Rose on Brown Sugar cardstock

- Shabby Shutters on Leaf cardstock

- Bundled Sage on Leaf cardstock

- Fired Brick on Pomegranate cardstock

foam dots - to pop the sentiment layers

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card bases

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere small pieces 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the larger pieces

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I have entered my cards in the

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

Day 30 - Doing what I love with dimension

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 30 - Do What You Love

Beccy's inspiration is a set of four STUNNING cards HERE,

she has coloured a single poinsettia image in shades of grey then cut it into four

- WOW - they're breathtakingly beautiful!

My list for "Do What You Love" is endless, because I love making anything

and everything papercraft, from cards to treat boxes and decor pieces. 

This time my love is for dimension, lots of inky dimension.

To make these cards, I opened the Christmas To Remember Poinsettia Card cut file (details & links below, available from two stores) in Silhouette Studio and enlarged the card.  One of my favourite sizes is 5” x 7” and this card was A2, which is a much smaller 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.  The best I could do was to lock the aspect of the grouped elements of the card and enlarge it to be 6 ¾” wide x 5” tall, almost 5" x 7" and it will fit nicely in a 5” x 7” envelope.  I changed the sentiment for this card and used one of my favourites from Beccy’s Place, the Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment from the Christmas Blooms digital stamp set.  I printed the sentiment panels then cut all the pieces in Vintage shades of textured cardstock (details below).  I inked the flowers, foliage and sentiment panels with Distress Inks, curled the petals and leaves then assembled the layers.  I used 300gsm smooth white cardstock to make card bases then adhered the assembled layers on top.

   

   

   

After the sticky situation I had earlier today, I didn't think I would be using foam dots again for a very long time but the dimension of the poinsettia was calling for a dimensional sentiment, so I popped foam dots between each sentiment layer.

   

Here they are together, same but a little bit different.

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INGREDIENTS

The Christmas To Remember Poinsettia Card cut file can be purchased from either

My Scrap Chick or Silhouette Design Store

Christmas To Remember Card – My Scrap Chick

OR
Christmas To Remember Poinsettia Card – Silhouette Design Store

– Design ID #369966

Merry Little Christmas digital sentiment - Christmas Blooms digital stamp set

– Beccy’s Place

textured cardstock - Straw-Brown Sugar-Leaf-Spinach-Pomegranate

Distress Inks:

- Scattered Straw on Straw cardstock

- Tattered Rose on Brown Sugar cardstock

- Shabby Shutters on Leaf cardstock

- Bundled Sage on Leaf cardstock

- Fired Brick on Pomegranate cardstock

foam dots - to pop the sentiment layers

300gsm smooth white cardstock - to make card bases

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere small pieces 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the larger pieces

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I have entered my cards in the

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

Day 26 - W is for Winter Wonderland . . . take 2

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 26 - W

Beccy's inspiration is a delightful white-on-white card HERE

My "W" is for Winter Wonderland,

another layered Winter Wonderland shadowbox scene card,

this time without the shadow.

My first attempt at making this card design is HERE.

My layered Winter Wonderland scene card started with a cut file (details & link below).  I enlarged the file from being a 6" x 4" card up to 6 3/4" x 4 1/2", no, it's not my preferred 7" x 5" but this size is a compromise, larger for cutting the delicate elements with the added bonus of fitting two panels on 12"x12" sheets of cardstock.  I gathered one of my last packs of American Crafts Winter Cardstock and selected the colours to layer together (details below, sorry, no links, this cardstock is no longer available) and started cutting.  Now this is when the "shadow" part of the card is supposed to happen.  I struggled adding the foam dots to my first attempt making this cut file design, my fumble fingers just didn't want to play with a gazillion foam dots, single layer foam dots, double layered foam dots and triple, yes triple, layered foam dots.  So I made an executive decision, no more foam dots.  I used liquid adhesive to secure the layers in place, nice and flat.

The different colours of each layer still give a nice dimension to the scene.

   

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INGREDIENTS
3D Christmas Reindeer Shadow Box Card with Snowflakes - cut file

– Silhouette Design Store ID #1233019
textured cardstock - American Crafts Winter 60 sheet pack

- Stargaze + Shadow + Ash + Stone + White

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere small pieces 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere the larger areas

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I have entered my card in the

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

Day 26 - W - Winter Wonderland

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 26 - W

Beccy's inspiration is a delightful white-on-white card HERE

My "W" is for Winter Wonderland,

a layered Winter Wonderland shadowbox scene.

My layered Winter Wonderland scene card started with a cut file (details & link below).  I enlarged the file from being a 6" x 4" card up to 6 3/4" x 4 1/2", no, it's not my preferred 7" x 5" but this size is a compromise, larger for cutting the delicate elements with the added bonus of fitting two panels on 12"x12" sheets of cardstock.  I gathered one of my last packs of American Crafts Winter Cardstock and selected the colours to layer together (details below, sorry, no links, this cardstock is no longer available) and started cutting.  Then came the foam dots, a gazillion foam dots, single layer foam dots, double layered foam dots and triple, yes triple, layered foam dots.  

I love the dimension ...

... just feeling a bit challenged by getting the layers stuck on my fingers

while trying to remove all the little cover tabs from the foam dots!

   

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INGREDIENTS
3D Christmas Reindeer Shadow Box Card with Snowflakes - cut file

– Silhouette Design Store ID #1233019
textured cardstock - American Crafts Winter 60 sheet pack

- Stargaze + Shadow + Ash + Stone + White

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere small pieces 
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to adhere the larger areas
foam dots - black - LOTS and LOTS of foam dots

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I have entered my card in the

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