Christmas Twofer - Christmas Kickstart #16

Over at Jo's Christmas Kickstart this fortnight she has the lovely Darnell as her elfin helper.... and as Darnell runs her own challenge - Twofer Card Challenge... that's what its all about.  Create two Christmas cards using two different designs but only one stamp/die with the prompt being Christmas Tree.   

 

I did have to think a bit about this one... then it came to me that I could practice my Gelli plate backgrounds and make that my twofer.   So off I went and inked by the Gelli plate, lifted off some trees and stamped onto card... then realised I had two similar backgrounds...and the idea was to use two different designs.  Oh well, at least I had one card done...and then the second one came quickly to mind... CAS as is my want!  So here they are:

  

For my Gelli plate background I used some Altenew Parrot and Olive inks to add the colour to my plate and then a quick spritz of water and used my Hero Arts "Merry Merry Christmas Tree" stamp to pull off some of the ink.  Because it's not a full solid stamp, it was hard to see where it came off the plate but I got some awesome stamping onto my other card.   Once my print had dried, I use the olive ink to add some of the trees back onto the background.  I the took a Catherine Pooler stamp "Wonderful Time of the Year" to add a sentiment.  Just a few gold faceted gems and it was done.   And the bonus is I still have this background to use

My second twofer card uses an embossing folder for it's background with the tree stamped in the centre panel.  I found the sentiment in a Me to You Carte Blanche set (from 2014) - I used just the fist tree words from the sentiment.

And as I went over to link this up at Christmas Kickstart I was nicely surprised to see my Angel card made a Star on the top of the Tree for the last challenge... Thanks for choosing me Jo.

It's a cold winter's day here today, so was fun to spend some time in the crafting room with the heater on.  Later today Miss Grace is coming to visit Nanny (and Pop) when her parents come for dinner.  They are off to Hawaii next weekend for a week.  Big trip with a 3 month old but I'm sure she'll take it in her stride.   I haven't seen her for two weeks so looking forward to all the smiles I've been seeing on her mummy's Instagram and Facebook.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Happy crafting this weekend.

Twofer Wreath.

 

I haven't played along with Darnell's Twofer card challenge for awhile but the arrival of my Gina K Wreath Builder stencil this week, got me enthused to join this month's Wreath Challenge.   

I took a couple of stamps from Catherine Pooler's Candy Cane Lane set (the two holly stamps and the matching berries) and started off my wreaths.  Both cards use the same design 

I did the Christmas one first, using some Altenew inks for the holly leaves and the berries.  Once I had these done, I used some little peg stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry to fill in the rest of my wreath.  Added a few red Nuvo drops.   The centre of the wreath was stamped with a Penny Black sentiment.   I used my score board to make around the edges of the panel and mounted it onto a dark green mat.  The card base was also scored.

My second card is a fall colour card with a thankful theme.  I used the holly leaves in brown/orange inks and darker different greens for the extra little bits and pieces.  Added some dark blue glitter N dr

I die cut the thankful die from some shimmery brown card and added it as a mat as well.

I really enjoyed using the holly stamps as autumn leaves. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Twofer Card Challenge #9 - Leaves

I woke this morning with a massive headache.... all I wanted to do was sleep... so I did till nearly 11.00am.  A couple of Paracetamol and something to eat and felt a bit better.  So did some blog hopping and saw a few girls doing Darnell's Twofer Card Challenge.   I've seen this challenge before but never got myself organised enough.  Challenge #9 is Leaves.  I have a Catherine Pooler Leaf stamp set "Leaf Motifs" that has never been used -still sealed in my stamp drawer.  So this was a good time to get it out.  The idea behind the challenge is to use one stamp or die based on the theme, in two different sort of cards.   So here are my two cards 

 One a sort of Autumn/Fall thanksgiving type of card and the other one a Christmas one.

 For this first one, I took the leave from the set and stamped it onto some lightweight water colour paper and using my Altenew paints added some greens and orange-brown colours.  My background was a cheerful mistake.  I used my cloth to dab off some of the excess water/paint and accidentally pressed it onto the card.  The texture caused a "rag roll" type of background which I really loved, so did some more.  Finished with a large greeting from another Catherine Pooler set "Autumn Blessings: another NBUS set!   (got them when it was coming into Summer last year)   Anyhoo... edged the card panel with some gold paint pen and added it to a very dark wine coloured card base.

 For my second card I used the leaf together with a smaller one from the set, to make a Poinsettia which was embossed with Rose Gold powder from Altenew and painted with the Altenew paints.  A very loose watercoluring style was used and added some dark red/pink splatters and some gold splatters with a gold Wink of Stella pen. The sentiment from a CP Christmas set was embossed in the same Rose Gold onto some heavy weight vellum and a few sequins added.  

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you all have a great week.