Various challenges in a Christmas card

Ok, let's start the Christmas cards.

Doing challenges is the way I make my cards every year.

I don't like makinging many of the same cards.

I have been noticing this color challange thing going on

on the Daily Maker Blog

and thought it would be fun to follow it for this month.

So the challenge for today is to create a background.

Here is the background I created.

I used this pine leave stencil first on the

background panel and stamped the sentiment.

Next I took the swiss dot embossing folder

and rand the background panel through

the big shot and this is the result.

For the colors of my card I choose the 

Cupcake Inspiration Blog

with the fun color that was me for Halloween,

but I love making non traditional Christmas cards.

The eyecatcher is the bauble on the card

(which is a SU! die) with a bling gemstone

in the heart of it.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Mojo Monday 445

Today I looked at the Mojo Monday sketch

of this week and right away had an idea.

I chose to make the square card,but who knows,

I might give the round one a try to soon.

For the card I used Club Scrap Dahlia papers

and stamps:

In the kit i found a pre embossed piece of paper

and cut a 5 x 5 inch square piece and sprayd

this with purple distress ink.The lines of the flower

resisited the ink. I also splatteredsome waterdrops.

Next I used the matching stamp. Embossed this with black ink

and colored the flower with neon pink ink. Then cut out

the flower with scissors. 

The butterfly is cut out with a SU! die in black

and with a pencil I drew the outline on the orange

paper and cut it out and glued the two together.

The leaves are embossed in green and colored 

with neon green like I did with the flower.

Card for any occasion,

so I leave the sentiment for later.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Coffee Spring Blog Hop: Day 4

Good Morning Coffee Lovers!

And here is another card.

For this card I made a watercoor background

and used a burlap stencil on top of it.

The circle and sentiment stamps are by 

Concord&9th : Let's Chat stamp set 

(I won the set  after the last blog hop and LOVE!)

In the center of the circles you see a stamp

by Inkadinkado old and much loved.

The flowers are pinched out with a SU!  flower punch

and fastned with a brad. I finished the card with

some sequences from Create a Smile.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!