Christmas bauble in July

 Another Christmas card using distress oxides on a bauble stencil from Sweet Poppy stencils and stamps from Lavinia placed in the middle. 

I love my new stencil and will probably use it lots :), and might I remind you of our current challenge at ABC Christmas where the theme is N for New and O for Old.

Challenges:

Allsorts - Christmas in July
Lilpatchofcraftyfriends - A/G
613 Avenue - A/G
AAA cards - Christmas (pets) in July
Dare2Bartzy - Christmas in July
CHNC - Anything Christmas
Less is More - traditional Christmas
Inkspirational - Favourite color in monochrome
Taylormadecards4U - Holidays in July
CRAFT challenge - Christmas
CraftyGalscorner - Christmas in July
The holly and Ivy challenge - A/G
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
Alphabet challenge - Holidays

Christmas chickadee and a red bouquet

I really love the digistamp with the little bird from Power Poppy so here is another frosty card featuring it. Coloured with distress inks and I used iridescent painter's medium to make the snow on the branches pop out. 

Challenges:

Cards4Galz - Christmas Animals

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Christmas - the last stretch
Little red wagon - Do they know it's Christmas

The paper shelter - Anything goes
Cutiepie challenge - Cute and cuddly

Allsorts - Wings and/or tails

We love stamping - A/G with CAS option

merrylittlechristmas - A/G

And then I have a Christmas card with a musical background made by dabbing acrylic silver paint onto a stencil, it created a very rustic texture. On that I mounted the flowers and leaves that I stamped, die cut and coloured with distress inks. Lots of elements as you can see in the picture below :)

This creation is for

 

Watercooler Wednesday - Anything goes
A bit more time to craft - Anything goes
Addicted to stamps and more - die cuts and stencils

and

Christmas rose

 Even though it's only October some shops have started to feature their Christmas items 🎄☃️and I LOVE IT! I absolutely adore Christmas and just cannot get enough of it, eagerly awaiting IKEA's Christmas display that starts on the 9th 😁

So anything goes for me right now is Christmas, therefor I used the stamp Hark the Christmas Rose from Chocolate Baroque and really enjoyed paper piecing it. 

I stamped the entire image on kraft paper, then once on water color paper and once on a shimmering white thin paper. On the water color paper I coloured the leaves with distress ink Forest Moss, Crushed Olive and Bundled Sage. And on the shimmering paper I coloured the center of the flowers with some gold water paint from Kuretake Starry Colors. (And in the top left corner you can see a piece of the first kraft paper stamping attempt that I really smudged all over the place. That'll teach me to try to stamp without my stamping buddy 😜.)

Then I mounted them all with tiny foam tape to build up the flower. 

I'm entering this in:

Anything goes - We Love Chocolate Baroque. 

Anything goes - Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge

Anything goes - 613 Avenue Create

A challenge entry - first in ages

 Well, I haven't entered any challenges in ages but when I saw that there's a new challenge blog on the block - well, not exactly new since it's the "old" Penny Black and More-blog, but in co-operation with the Chocolate Baroque, who has the loveliest stamps, I just couldn't resist. 

Their challenge this month is Things with wings or anything goes. So I made a couple of gift tags for Christmas - it's closer than we think ;) - and used one of the birds from the Wise Owl set. I stamped one in black and one in rich cocoa and distressed the edges with distress ink Vintage Photo, die cut the tag (masking of the tail of the bird) and mounted the tag on kraft paper. The cardstock for the sentiment is coloured with distress ink Festive Berries. 

So here it is, my challenge entry for We Love Chocolate Baroque. 

Designing for Inloveartshop

I have been asked to use and review some products from Inloveartshop, an online craft-supplier. And as an extra bonus for you guys, there's a discount code for you at the end of this post.

The first thing that I will show you today is a Christmas card 🎄, totally valid to make them in July 🕶️. I didn't plan it when I made the background, using the flower mask and distress ink Weathered Wood but it felt a little Christmassy so I added the winter scene stamp and a Christmas sentiment and it worked out really well. A good example of using craft supplies in ways they weren't necessarily aimed for.

Flower stencil:                              Christmas Elk and Pine stamp:

You can also find Inloveartshop on:

And the discount code ( 15 % off) if you want to pick up some craft items of your own is:

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  I'll be back tomorrow with another creation.

🍭Allsorts - Inspired by a song

This week at Allsorts Ellie wants us to take inspiration from a song or song title in our creations. I used Let it Snow, one of the songs we sang during our Christmas concert with Snowflake singers.

I printed the pine trees, a free digi from Beccy's place, and stamped the sentiment, mounted on bright pink card and added a colour matching bow. Finished it all off with some sparkling stickles here and there.

Prize this week:

Tattered Lace from the Pastel Heaven collection 2019

Allsorts - seasons

This week at Allsorts the theme is Seasons so pick one and please state in your post which one you chose. I chose winter, but not cause it's my absolute favourite, I think all seasons have their charm.
I used an image from LotV, an ornament die and a stamped sentiment. The blue backing paper is actually a gift wrapping paper with lots of lovely shine to it :)

We have a lovely set of embossing folders from Tattered Lace for a lucky winner this week:

Allsorts - pretty papers

Hello all,
this week at Allsorts the theme is Pretty papers, a good opportunity to use those stashed darlings :)

I have used a Christmas wrapping paper from IKEA cause it's soooo pretty and works perfectly for Christmas cards. I used another wrapping paper from Rusta, in silver glitter, to make the image mat, the corners and the die cut letters.


And we have some really pretty papers and ribbons as prize this week so take a chance and use those saved darlings.

Allsorts - Christmas

Morning,
the challenge at Allsorts this week is themed Christmas.
Using a freebie image that I found here. Thank you so much Kajsan, I adore it!

Other challenges:
Sweet stampin challenge - dies and/or punches
Winter wonderland - anything goes
MAWTT - leaves or trees (hoping the branch that the owl is sitting on counts)
Simon says - Anything goes
ABC Christmas - V for Very cute

Allsorts - embossing

Morning all and welcome to a new challenge at Allsorts. It's my turn to be in charge of this week's challenge. I've set the theme to Embossing and I'm so looking forward to visit you and see all your contributions!

I used an image from LotV, coloured with distress inks and I stamped and embossed the stars from Magnolia and a Christmas sentiment from Flonz.

We actually have two sponsors this week so there will be two lucky winners, one of you will win a £15 store gift voucher from:


and one will win a $20 store gift voucher from:
 

Other challenges:

LOTV - anything goes
Polkadoodles - christmas fun

Allsorts - Pretty in pink

Time for a new challenge at Allsorts and even though the theme is Pretty in Pink I wanted to make a Christmas card since I'm in the mood (and need) for those :)
Image from LotV, snowflake dies and ripped paper. Clean and simple, flat for posting :)

SFTW - Anything goes

This fortnight at Stampin for the Weekend the theme is Anything goes and since we are sponsored by Rick st Dennis I used the Snowman with squirrel image on a silvery backing paper embossed with a TH die. I love these snowman images, so full of expression and so easy to colour!

Allsorts - Snowflakes

Morning and welcome to another glorious weekend :). It's time for a new challenge at Allsorts and since I'm in charge I chose Snowflakes as a theme ;) Sponsor is http://www.apassionforstamps.blogspot.com/

4 IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

Image from Nicecrane, snowflakes made with a Marianne die and scalloped pearls from Wild Orchid.

Scrap och Ting - Julkort

Hejsan,
Idag bloggar jag för Scrap och Ting och mitt första alster är ett julkort där jag använde den nya julserien från Pion design, helt underbar är den!

Jag är väldigt förtjust i "lager-på-lager-principen" så på min vita kortbas - 14x14 cm - har jag beige cardstock bakom såväl mönsterpapper som bakom stämpelmotivet. Alla kanter är raspade och distressade med Distress Ink Walnut Stain för att öka vintagekänslan. Det syns kanske inte jätteväl på bilden men jag bygger gärna lagren med distanskuddar för det ger ett fint djup. Mönsterpappret är Nisse från Pions julserie Wintertime in Swedish Lapland, det allmogemönstrade är samma pappers baksida.

Stämpelmotivet är färglagt med Distress markers (främst Tattered Rose, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain och Weathered Wood) samt dekorerat med liquid pearls.  Jag rekommenderar varmt träbokstäverna, inte alls klumpiga utan små och nätta och ger en fantastisk struktur på vintagekort. Och som ni ser har kakservetten också en perfekt storlek för kort! Tagen är från klipparket tags från Pions nya julserie, jag behövde bara stansa ett hål och trä igenom en liten spetsbit. Bokstäverna fäste bra med vanligt vitt lim, blommor däremot sätter jag alltid fast med smältlim.

Other challenges:
Vintage udfordring - anything goes
Tilda's town - anything goes
Time for Magnolia challenge - anything goes
Addicted to stamps - anything goes
MDU - lovely lace