Christmas Card Challenge # 16 - Anything Goes.

Welcome to a new Christmas Card Challenge!

 

It's Anything Goes this week, easy-peasy right?

 

 

 

My card is made with a stamp I've recently bought:

 



 

They are Christmas Carols from Marianne Designs matched with papers from an Italian brand, Modascrap. I love the vintage feel of these two carolers (you know, carolers are a passion for me!) and these new papers were the perfect background for them.

 

Can't wait to see what my teamies have created since I had little time to check their cards in these past few days.

 

We can have a look here at the challenge page or at their personal blog:

 

                       Alanna    Carol    Donna     Gail    Heather     Jessica     JoAnn     Margo     Marsha    
                                                             Monica     Shirley Anne     Tenia

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge # 136: Anything Goes

CraftyHazelnut's Christmas Challenge # 221: Christmas Singing

CraftyHazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for March: Anything Goes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge # 50: Make It Green

Winter Wonderland Challenge: Warm Winter Wishes

Winter Wishes.

I have another small card to show you today with one of Eat Cake Graphics stamps:

 

 

I wanted to go gold this time, a color I rarely choose. Back in october I found a paper pad by First Edition (Gilded Winter) and I decided it was something I needed in my Christmas papers stash.

I eventually had the chance to use it together with Light Post in Winter rubber stamp and a stripe of gold glittered tape.

 

Lamp posts are something I adore, possibly in a Christmas scene with carolers around singing songs... They remind me of Victorian Christmases in a London street with horse carriages and snow...

 

If you like this lamp post as much as me, you can find it in Eat Cake Graphics shop.

 

A Step Back in Time.

It seems I'm slowly back on track even if, with Easter just around the corner, I'll surely be behind schedule again soon...

Anyway, I have a few minutes today to share a card I made a while ago using one of my Kraftin Kimmie Stamps. I love their images and every now and then I treat myself with some. Unfortunately, I have little time to use them being busy with DT requirements.

One day I took out all the stamps I wanted to work with and started stamping them: at least I have tons of images ready to be colored!

The first one I colored is Sabrina the Spinner (which seems to be our of stock since I can't find it in Kraftin Kimmie shop). My original idea was to keep her vintage style in the colors of the card but I found a dotted lilac card and I decided it was the perfect match for my image.

Here's my card:

I chose this lovely dotted lilac card from Dovecraft and matched it with a very old paper with flowers (sorry, no idea of where it comes from). I added a lilac lace ribbon my daughter gave me for Christmas and the image of Sabrina colored with Copics.

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Kraftin Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Love to Create Challenge # 111: Vintage Romance

ABC Challenge: J for Just as You Like

Fan-Tastic Tuesday Challenge # 31: Use Some Pastel Colors

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge # 246 - Christmas

It's Christmas again at C.R.A.F.T. Challenge!

This week I've had the chance to work with some lovely clear stamps from Flonz. I chose the Snow and Christmas set of stamps (you can find them here) which is a bit unusual for me.

I love these vintage-style stamps and the fact that some parts of the stamps have both outlined and full areas.

I've made two projects for this week's challenge.

I've made a card in a lovely vintage green, stamping the image with brown ink on ivory paper:

I'm happy with the unperfect coloring of the image, it adds to the vintage look I wanted to achieve. Papers are from the Christmas Village paper pad (First Edition).

Then, I've made some tags:

I had some silver tags in my stash and I decorated the border with a Martha Stewart punch. Then, I added a satin and a red sequins ribbon, some dots made with paint and the lovely Santa face from Flonz.

As usual, I suggest you take a look at the fabulous creations of my teamies, you can find them here.

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
CraftyHazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for February: Anything Goes
Merry Monday Challenge # 95: Use an Animal
Challenges 4 Everybody # 38: Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door Challenge Feb. 11 - Feb. 17: Anything Goes
Sparkles Monthly Challenge # 52: Use Your New Stash (stamp)

Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge for the Very First Time!

Although I'm a fan of Paper Smooches stamps, I think it's the very first time I enter their challenge so I'm a bit scared to confront with such wonderful designers. Their cards are always so original!

I actually didn't make a card. Yesterday, after reading about the challenge, I took out my Paper Smooches stamps and made these:

 A while ago I made several of these Post-It covers with other stamps and I though that this lovely vintage telephone from the Perpetual Bliss set was perfect.

I was so happy with the result that I also colored the clock included in this set and thought about a new creation!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge Feb. 2-9: Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap Challenge # 11: Always Anything Goes

The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge # 62: Embellishments

Music! At Christmas Card Challenges

This week I've had great fun in creating my card for Christmas Card Challenges.

The theme is Music and, while looking through my stamps to find a proper image, I've come across Music Lucy from DigiStamp Boutique, a digi I bought a long ago and never used.

My challenge was to transform an everyday image into a Christmas one, a modern-looking girl into a girl suitable for a vintage-looking card.

I started with the papers: I've found the music paper in the Lost & Found Christmas paper pad from My Mind's Eye and matched it with another paper in the same collection.

Then I colored Lucy using the most "vintage" colors I had among my Copics and added a few details.

Here's my card:

I really love how it's turned out and, even if Lucy is still a modern-looking girl, she is at her ease in a vintage-looking card!

As usual, have a look at my teammates' cards, they always do a great job:

Alanna

Anne C

Anne J

Heather

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Sabrina

Well, Christmas is fast approaching but I should have made 30+ Christmas cards so far! Maybe I'll be able to make at least 50 by the end of November!

I'm entering this card into DigiStamp Boutique September Customer Competition.

Christmas 2013 - Card # 9

While checking Christmas Challenges earlier this week, I noticed that at Christmas Card Challenges the theme was perfect for a card I've had in mind for ages: VINTAGE.

First, this is the card:

I've already told you how much I love Poinsettia Charlotte from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps and, back at the end of last year, I bought a paper pad from First Edition called Stocking Fillers mainly for I loved a paper with a vintage feel which was perfect for that stamp.

Now that I finally have my Poinsettia Charlotte I've made my card.

I had these pretty cards out for another project I'm working on so I decided one was perfect for this project too.

I love its fresh simple look with a touch of vintage!

I'm entering this card in the following challenge:

Christmas Card Challenge # 19: Vintage

256 Dyas to Christmas and 9 cards are done!

Vintage Christmas

This should be my last Christmas card for this year.

Apart from my DT work, I've decided to stop making Christmas cards, put away some stamps I didn't manage to use and take some time for family, house cleaning and daily chores before Christmas.

When I saw this Stampavie stamp I decided it would have been a perfect addition to my collection. And when I inked it, I decided to keep its Victorian atmosphere using soft traditional colors.

Anyway, this is my card:

I've found a very old ivory paper with snowflakes (I'm sorry I don't even remember where I bought it) and added a few touches: a grey cardstock panel and stripe behind the image, a glittered snowflake and a touch of glitter on the snow.

I love its atmosphere which reminds me of Christmas past, Dicken's novels and London in the late 1800s.

Well, being my last Christmas card I suppose these will be the last Challenges I'm entering for this year:

Crafty Mess Challenge # 23: Vintage Christmas

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Monthly Challenge: Celebration

Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge # 103: Birthday or Christmas

Stamptacular Challenge # 194: Christmas Time

DYSU Challenge # 102: Christmas 

I'll surely be back for some new DT cards but for now, Happy Christmas!