The challenge for Day 12 of the 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge is “Bauble Bliss”.
Although I have a current bauble bundle, I really love the retro feel of this little die cut ornament from the Festive Tags Kit so I decided to make it the focal point of my Christmas card. This kit is a great kit to use as it is for Christmas tags or to turn into cards.
My black and white striped DSP layer is from the Halloween Spells Designer Series Paper and I’ve added one of the Lost Lagoon and gold foil tags from the Festive Tags Kit.
The “O” for the word joy is the cute little bauble from the Festive Tags Kit with Alphabest die cut gold foil from the online exclusive Brushed Silver & Gold Foil Specialty Paper creating the J and the Y.
The gold embellishments decorating the bauble are also included in the Festive Tags Kit.
The double bow on the top of the ornament uses the black and white twine included in the Festive Tags Kit as well as the new online exclusive Gold Twisted Thread.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another “30 Days of Christmas” Christmas card and the AWH Colour Creations blog hop where we will be showcasing Gray Granite.
Today’s card was created for both the AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop and the 30 Days of Christmas Card Making Challenge Day 11, “Frosty’s Wonderland”.
I’ve used the Snowy Wonder bundle to CASE a card I made a few weeks ago that also used the Perennial Postage Dies to create this style of layout.
Most of the products on this card are from the Snowy Scenes Suite Collection, including these adorable White Loose Snowflakes.
The snowflake on the top left panel is die cut from the Snowy Scenes DSP, die cut using the Snowy Wonder dies.
I love all of the little dies in the Snowy Wonder dies!
Now it’s time to hop in over to our next participant, the lovely Andrea Sargent. I can’t wait to see the project Andrea has created this week!
If the next button link is not working or you’d like to see the entire list of participants go to Sharon Davern‘s blog. Sharon does an amazing job of hosting our Heart of Christmas blog every Monday.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another “30 Days of Christmas” Christmas card, on Wednesday night with the Art with Heart Colour Creations team showcasing Grey Granite and with some more Heart of Christmas inspiration next Monday night.
Day 10 of the 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge is a sketch challenge and this is the sketch that inspired my card.
The focal image in the sketch is an oval which reminded me of this large lantern image from on of the designs in the sentimental Christmas DSP.
I’ve used this lantern as the focal image, fussy cutting a few of the pine branches from the same sheet of DSP to add some texture.
The double bow used two new ribbons from the online exclusives: the Gold Twisted Thread and the Lost Lagoon Soft Cording.
Although the sketch layout has two strips to the right of the focal image, the gold foil embossed “Merry Christmas” sentiment (from the Humble Home stamp set) looked so much better sitting on the lantern so my final card ended up deviating from the original sketch.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another “30 Days of Christmas” Christmas card and the AWH Heart of Christmas blog hop.
Day 9 of the 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge is a colour challenge where we make a card featuring the following colours: cinnamon, charcoal grey and birch white.
My colour combination uses the following Stampin’ Up colours: Copper Clay, Pebbled Path, Basic Beige, Very Vanilla and gold foil.
I’ve used DSP patterns from the Nature’s Sweetness Specialty Designer Series Paper, die cut using dies the Decorative Trees Dies.
The middle tree uses the die inlay technique, with a Copper Clay cardstock tree inlayed with a gold foil spine.
I’ve admired the new Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder on so many cards so I popped it into my latest order and I’m so glad I did.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another “30 Days of Christmas” Christmas card.
Day 8 of the 30 Day Christmas Card Making Challenge is all about the sweet holiday spirit with candy canes and peppermint-inspired touches!
My colour combination is Shaded Spruce, Pool Party, Real Red and Basic White. I love Shaded Spruce and Pool Party together!
The candy canes are from the Joyful Images Mix & Match Ephemera Pack and I’ve popped them in a mug made using the Latte Love dies to die cut Pool Party Card stock.
I’ve stamped snowflakes from the Snowy Wonder stamp set in Shaded Spruce onto Shaded Spruce cardstock and added white splatters too. The snowflake die on the mug was die cut using the Snowy Wonder dies.
The white heat embossed sentiment is from the Greetings of the Season Stamp Set.
The holly leaves and berries are from the Reindeer Fun bundle.
I’ll be back tomorrow with another “30 Days of Christmas” Christmas card.
