Design Team Project for "My Time To Craft Challenge Blog" #410 "Christmas Animals"

It's time for a new prompt on the "My Time To Craft Challenge Blog".  Challenge #410 is "Christmas Animals".  If you have a minute to spare, please do pop over to the challenge to take a look at the fab creations by my Design Team colleagues.

For my card I've used a Stampin' Up embossing folder called "Softly Falling" for the background.

For the wreath, I have used another Stampin' Up product called "Swirly Scribbles" thinlits dies and the "Pretty Pines Thinlits" dies for the foliage behind the penguin.

For the penguin and the sentiment, I used a Funky Fossil clear stamp set called "Festive Penguins".  I stamped the penguin on a spare piece of card and the sentiment in Versafine "Smokey Gray" ink.  I used water colour pencils to colour the penguin, I then cut it out and adhered the shape over the wreath and foliage.

Week 2 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2018

There has been a fabulous response to the start of the 2018 challenge.  You can see the tags made by checking out the Facebook group.  The prompts for previous weeks and the ones for the 2017 challenge can be found by clicking the button to the right of the "home" button below the blog title. You are more than welcome to join in this challenge.  There is no pressure, do as much or as little as you like.

The prompt for Week 2 is "Vintage / shabby".  I wanted to leave it quite loose so that you don't feel under too much pressure.

Here's my example for the Week 2 prompt.  I had a few ideas in my head about what I wanted to include for this tag.

Firstly I started with a section of cotton weave canvas which I inked, scrunched then re-inked and then ironed flat.  I then got a cream coloured tag and inked the edges in darker shades.  I used a little tool to distress the edges a little too.  

I have never used my sewing machine on a papercrafting project, but decide to ring the changes and sew the canvas layer onto the distressed tag, (I deliberately made the stitching quite rough and did not adjust the tension so it wasn't very even).  I then stamped some text and also used a coral/seaweed stamp from a Stampin' Up set called "By The Tide".

At this stage, I paused for a few hours as I couldn't formulate how I wanted to move forward. Firstly, I layered and stuck down two layers of lace with a frayed end, down the middle of the tag. I found a section of an old die cut in red and positioned it at the top of the tag.

I decided to die cut a wreath using Stampin' Up "Swirly Scribbles" die.  I punched some foliage using a Martha Stewart punch and found some small white paper roses in my stash.

I stamped the bird (I'm not sure what the stamp set is as I purchased it second hand) and then coloured it in using Promarkers.  I then positioned it with sticky foam pads on top of the wreath so it has a 3D look.  Finally, I knotted some thread through a wooden heart shaped button and then stuck it down.

I hope you enjoy the challenge.  Have a good week.  Sam x

Frostyville Peace Tag

The base of this tag was embossed using a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing file.  I then inked the higher areas around the edges.

I then roughly tore a strip of cardstock in a similar shade to expose the inner white core on the edges.  I then stamped this section with a snowflake design using a Brilliance Ink Pad "Platinum Planet" shade.

Next I die cut a Memorybox Frostyville Border (style 98146) and cut it to size sticking it to the base of the tag.

In my scrap bits box I found a Stampin' up "Swirly Scribbles" wreath which tied in with the colour scheme so I stuck that to the middle area.  Using a Stampin' up "Christmas Greetings" die for the word "Peace" I cut and positioned this over the top of the wreath.

Also in the bottom of my oddments box I found some pre punched snowflakes in white, so I added these to the wreath area.

The tag was finished off with self adhesive gems and ribbon.

The Eye Wreath Tag

This card is made up of odds and ends that were in my off-cuts box, so I decided to put them together into an eye wreath.  The sentiment is from a Paper Artsy set. other wise it's just segments of stamped faces and punched foliage on a Stampin' Up "Swirly Scribbles" die cut wreath.

Merry Christmas Wreath Card

This card has lots of die cuts, with minimal stamping (only the sentiment). I'm really happy with the way it has turned out.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the textural background.  I used Stampin' Up "Swirly Scribbles" die for the wreath (I cut two). I  then used Stampin' Up "Pretty Pines die" to cut the foliage and the red bow (I cut two sizes of this for dimension).  I glued everything into place adding some self adhesive pearls to represent the berries for the mistletoe.

I then die cut the word "Merry" using Stampin' Up "Christmas Greeting thinlits".  To finish I stamped the word "Christmas" using Papertrey Ink "Wreath For All Seasons" Christmas sentiment.

Butterfly Cards

Today I have made two butterfly cards, both in similar colour tones, one more fussy than the other.  

I used a stamp & die from Papertrey Ink set called "Love Lives Here" for the stamped & die cut butterfly.  The background is embossed using the Stampin' up "Seaside" embossing folder.  The Swirly rose is also from Stampin' Up, called "Swirly Scribbles" and the love sentiment is Stampin' Up from their "Sunshine Wishes" die set.

Less Is More - Happy Christmas Card

Sometimes I look at cards I make and invariably prefer "the less is more"/minimalist look of cards. The card below is a great example of this compared with the lower card which for me just doesn't work.

 

Happy Christmas Snowflake Swirly Wreath Card

Still on a Christmas theme, I made this card using the Stampin' Up Swirly Scribbles die for the Wreath. I then punched out different sizes of snowflakes. (I don't recall the manufacturer for the sentiment).