Glittery Christmas card

Hi.  It's time for me to share my card for Die Cut Divas today... Our sponsor this month is 

and our challenge is 

to Add Some Glitter.

I don't have any Scrappy Tails dies or stamps, so my lovely team-mate Arlene, sent me some stamped and die cut images. 

Here's my card for today. 

This is from "Santa's Workshop" set.   I coloured the die cut images with alcohol markers and added Glitter Glue to act as the snow on the workshop.  The sentiment is from Altenew - a free set from a magazine a few years back. 

Do come and joint us with your Glitter projects HERE ... just remember to use your Die Cut machine in some way...

Ink blending die cuts - Craft a Flower - Flowering Dogwood Layering dies

 Today I'm sharing some cards that I started last Monday and finally finished on Thursday evening. 

I die cut two sets of all the flower parts and while looking after Grace on Monday I did some ink blending onto them, while she was colouring her Altenew Colorparlooza sheet.  Putting these together is a piece of cake thanks to the keyhole layering system.   I used some glitter card from my stash to added the centre of the flowers. The sentiment from Altenew Versatile Greetings die set.  There is a very subtle stencil inking behind the flowers.  I used some soft pink ink and Classic Stripes stencil.  Finished with some little gold gems.

This one used purple and yellow inks with a touch of green, to add the colour on this one   The stenciling behind the flowers is the Foliage Stencil with some green inks.  The sentiment is from Classic Greetings.  

Shabby Chic with Lace

 My NZ swap group theme this month was "Use Lace" - it could be real, paper lace, lace stamp or dies/punches.    

I decided to go a bit shabby chic.   I found some beautiful patterned paper that had a lace design on it. I added some lace along the top and bottom.  Many years ago I got a roll of lace - around 250 metres - enough to last at least 2 lifetimes!   I used some double sided tape to put it down and then added some glitter which stuck to the little bits of tape showing.  I added some glue in odd spots and sprinkled with more glitter.   I added a ephemera butterfly that I had blended over some brown ink.   Added a foiled sentiment and some gold gems.

It's nice to try different types of cards and although I'm a more CAS card maker, I was pleased with the results of this.  

Christmas Kickstart - Frosty and Friends

Jo's latest theme over at Christmas Kickstart is "Frosty and Friends" -all about Snowmen

 

I had popped over to Digi Doodle Studio the other day to purchase an Easter digi I had seen and while I was there picked up "Joe Frost Snowman" with this challenge in mind....

I printed him onto some light cream card and used some Copics, Spectrum Noir and Altenew alcohol markers to colour him in.  I used Altenew Arctic ink to sponge behind him.  (just love my smallest makeup blending brush for getting around close to the image)  For my snow I smeared some clear Nuvo drops and sprinkled some SU Diamond Dust glitter on it   A few dots with a Gel pen and a Hero Arts sentiment and my panel was done.  I trimmed it, and then matted with some pretty Patterned paper from Meg's Garden, adding it to a cream card base (4 3/4" x 6" - just a little bigger than normal - trimmed down a 6x6 card base)

Thanks to Jo and her challenge, my stash of Christmas cards is growing.  

It's Saturday afternoon and all the house work is done, so time for some more crafting .... there are 5 family and friend's birthdays in May.... so busy time ahead.  

Thanks for stopping by.

You're a Gem

Over at StampNation I took part in a Sursee Swap.  (Sursee means small unexpected gift)
Our theme was You're a Gem - use bling on your card.

My card went to Tracey in Australia.

For my bling I used some Gold Glitter paste through a stencil..  I use a Catherine Pooler Grateful Heart stamp for my flower.  I gold embossed the sentiment on black card.  Added some pretty gems to finish my card. 

Wishing you all, the best wishes for Christmas... I'll be back tomorrow with a Christmas card.

A glitter Christmas at Southern Girls Challenge

It's team Trace's turn to share over at Southern Girls Challenge blog... and our theme is all about Glitter..........

I used a pretty little sweetie from All Dressed Up.- called Christmas Tree Fairy

I printed it onto white card and used Spectrum Noir and Copic pens to colour and then used Spectrum Noir glitter pen and Kindyglitz to added glitter and sparkle to the card.  Added to a gold glitter layer.

Really pleased with this sweetie and all the glitter. I'm entering this into the Christmas Challenge at Simon Says Stamp, Wednesday challenge. 

Be sure to join us at Southern Girls for this challenge.  You have till the 31st Dec to share your project.

Christmas stockings

I'm enjoying entering the Watercooler Wednesday challenges and this week is "All About Holidays" hosted by Gail.  I made a cute Christmas card to enter this week.

I am loving using these 5 inch square cards.  I took a smaller square of card and put it diagonally into my embossing folder.  Was really pleased how it turned out.  I stamped and coloured my little stockings and used the ScanNCut to cut them out. I added some glitter to the tops.   I added some red bakers twine to hang them from and little bows.  Added a little sentiment and it's done.

I'm also entering into the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Lots of Dimension at Papercarft Challenges. 

I had a great weekend... on Sunday I joined 7 other ladies to attend a class run by Meetu from Krafter's Kart.  Denise hosted at her house about 25 mins from my place.  We had great fun making 4 cards - one of which was a window slider card.  I'll share more later.

Thanks for stopping by. 

All that Glitters....

The other day I saw a fabulous tutorial video by Jennifer McGuire using a stencil and glitter.  I really loved the idea and as I had a new stencil that had come with a magazine that I thought would be perfect.

First attempt - failure!  but I did end up with a sheet of plain blue glitter piece.

Second attempt - success.

I used a piece of Jac paper for my adhesive.  My glitter was a blue and silver fine glitter that I got at Spotlight.  It looks great but it went everywhere despite my best efforts... in my hair, over my clothes, all over the desk and the floor...

So this evening I decided to CASE Jennifer's cards.... Two for one glitter cards.

The first card used the main panel, using a Spellbinders Heart die to cut out the centre.  I used a Simon Says Stamp die (or at least part of one).  I cut it out  5 times and layered together.  The top layer was from my rejected glitter place which I added some darker colour to with a Copic.  The sentiment is also Simon Says Stamp...

The second uses the positive heart with a die cut Birthday from a Britannia Die, cut once with white card and one with blue card.  I layered slightly off set.  Finished by stamping part of a Montargo stamp.  Very CAS.

 Entering this one into CAS(E) this Sketch

I'm so loving using stencils in one way or another at the moment.  I bought several more last week and was very happy to see one with the latest magazine I bought.  I'll be back on Friday with a card I've done with a stencil for Die Cut Divas.