Jesus is Born on Christmas

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 612 - Sentiment Background, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 403 - X3 and today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 474. I dusted off a set from Sweet N Sassy stamps sets that I have never inked up to make this Christmas card. I used the sentiment REJOICE! and stamped the focal image in momento tuxedo black on white cs then on paper and cut out the image for masking. With the mask in place I stamped the sentiment 3 times on each row in river rock. For the small panel I used the sentiment "The Savior Is Born" and stamped it masking for 1 word at a time in river rock. That panel is popped up on dimensionals with a ribbon tied across the top. I colored the focal image with copics. For the inside I stamped the Rejoice and another sentiment from the set and Rejoice on the envelope. One more card for next month. 

RECIPE:

Stamps: Sweet N Sassy - Jesus is Born

Paper: White, River Rock

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, River Rock

Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, copics

Techniques: 3D, CAS, Copic Coloring, masking, out of the box

More Merry Chritmas Messages WOW Card

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 569 - Gate Fold. You can follow the SCS GATE FOLD CARD TUTORIAL to make yours. This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 360 - Snow and Ice and last weeks CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 359 - WOW Them where we were to use only white on white cs and 1 ink color for the sentiment. These 2 CAS challenges just had to be done together for me. My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 431. I have got to stop with the Christmas cards but this was the 1st thing that came to mind.

RECIPE:

Hope you like it.
Stamps: More Merry Messages 
Paper: white 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, deer die, Christmas Tree die, Snowflake EF, stickles 
Techniques: 3D, Gate Fold, dry embossing

Season's Greetings Silhouette

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 563 - Christmas Eve where we were to use silhouettes. My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 572. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 562 - A New Year. I cut the focal circle panel from some silver dp and trimmed it with black cs. I used black cs to cut our the trees and deer silhouettes. I used delightful Dijon cs for the gold. I stamped the sentiment and greeting in black ink. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Season's Greetings 
Paper: white, silver, black, delightful dijon 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black 
Accessories: Nestabilities Circle, IO Trees, IO deer 
Techniques: 3d, silhouettes

Merry Christmas to Jessie

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 562 - Bring on the Bling, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 571 and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 564 - Rags to Riches. I used copiic coloring and dry embossing for my 2 techniques and the holly panel started out months ago as a 4 1/4 x 5 /12 panel. I trimmed it today to fit the sketch. I have been waiting for ever to ink up this darling set and today was the day. I stamped the image in momento tuxedo black then trimmed and colored with copics. I added stickles to the star, garland and dots on her collar. My focal image was matted on real red and then adhered to the wild wasabi panel. I embossed the wild wasabi panel iwth the holly and berries embossing folder and colored the berries before matting the focal panel. My white card base will aid in the inside sentiment to be decided before giving to my darling hubby. HE has a black lab/pit bull mix MUT!! I stress that it is HIS dog since he has to remain tied or fenced due to his irratic snapping and bitting behavior. God was with our granddaughter earlier this year with this MUT took at bit at her face and made a huge gash under her eye. The vet that we took him too for his next check up stated "no GOD was with the dog because if he were mine I would have put him down right then". My sensitive dh just can not seem to do that so we will see how keeping him tied and fenced goes. Anyway bc he loves this dog so much I had to make his card this year with this set that I bought just for him. I did finished the envelope by stamping in momento tuxedo black and will do the inside tonight. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:

Stamps: IA - Punny Christmas Pups

Paper: white, wild wasabi, real red

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: stickles, Holly EF

Techniques: dry embossing, bling, copic coloring

Trimming the Tree with Peaceful Christmas Wishes

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 564 - Rags to Riches where we were to use something that we had lying around from another project or a failed project. Mine was the cording and die cut which I had for a previous challenge but did not like the way it looked so I didn't use it as well as the card. I had stamped the branch once and was going to use it but could not decided how to use it until today. I added 2 more stamped branches and like it much better along with adding the die cut. This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 355 - Trim the Tree.  Well the tree is trimmed and the ornaments are hung. It will soon be time to take them all down again but for now this is what I came up with today. 

I stamped the greeting on the front in cherry cobbler and  I stamped the branches in wild wasabi as well as the sentiment on the inside and envelope. Hope you like it. I am so miffed because I am finished labeling all my cards and have a stamp set I bought just for this holiday and have not even had an opportunity to ink it up. Hopefully tomorrow's color challenge will work. Now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Peaceful Wishes, Christmas Cheer .
Paper: White, gold dp
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Cherry Cobbler 
Accessories: gold cording, Shapeabilities Holiday Tags, dimensionals 
Techniques: CAS, 3D, die cuts

Come To Bethlehem Feeling the Night Breeze

This is for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 560 - Feeling the Night Breeze and gold for dessert. I was not exactly overly thrilled with my card for Tuesday and had this in mind after seeing Maura (aka beesmom)'s gorgeous creation and commenting that I saved it to favs for CASing rights. I CASEd her Silent Night card. I changed the orientation and used a scene rather than trees.
I stamped my image in night of navy then sponged above using a mask to simulate a snowbank, I used a small circle for the moon and sponged some baja breeze around the circle and then inked just the star and stamped it in the clear white area. I added stickles for bling. I dropped down and sponged with some baja breeze using a different mask. I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment in night of navy on the front and envelope and the other sentiment on the inside in NON.

I stamped the image over the sentiment in baja breeze after stamping off once.  I took my daughter's advice and added some dimension to the navy background and I tied some gold cording and matted that on NON then on white cs base. I like this one much better and hope you do to. This is what happens at 1am when I can not sleep. I stamp. LOL.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come to Bethlehem 
Paper: white, night of navy 
Ink: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Accessories: stickles, cord cording, white jel pen 
Techniques: sponging, masking, reverse masking

Every Blessing Christmas Nativity

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 560 - Feeling the Night Breeze. That's right ladies, just 1 challenge today. GASP!!! I cut the nativity scene out of baja breeze and adhered it to night of navy then added some stickles to the star. On the inside

I stamped the image in baja breeze then the sentiment in night of navy. I also stamped a sentiment on the envelope in night of navy. Hope you like it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Every Blessing 
Paper: White, Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Ink: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Accessories: cottage cutz Nativity border, stickles 
Techniques: die cuts

Season's Greeting Lovely Tree

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 563 - Small Stamp Designs. 
I used the small stamp from Lovely as a tree to border my focal image. I stamped all images in garden green for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 354 - Christmas Greens. After stamping my tree on the focal panel and without inking again I stamped again on the inside of the card for a slightly lighter image then stamped the sentiment over the tree.

I also stamped Merry Christmas on the upper panel of the inside as well as the back side of the envelope. I distressed the edges of my focal panel with the ink pad before matting on white card base. I cut an oval and used the cut out for my reverse masking around the tree using pear pizzazz ink. I added stickles to the tree and all the small twigs around it. I hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Season's Greetings 
Paper: white 
Ink: Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz 
Accessories: Stickles, oval mask 
Techniques: Reverse Masking, Small Stamp Designs

More Merry Jingle Bells

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 559 - Honey there's a Rose in our Garden, and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 562 - Pieced and Cut Words.
I wanted to keep this a CAS so I avoided the temptation to add layers and ribbons, etc. I cut the jingle bell die in hello honey, rose red and garden green and trimmed the top of the garden green panel and glued it on top of the rose red. I filled in the bells with hello honey and rose red. I stamped the sentiments omitting the M and C which were cut out from Quickutz Ginger alphabet and attached appropriately. 
I stamped the sentiment on the inside and envelope in rose red. Hope you like it and now off to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: More Merry Messages 
Paper: white, Rose Red, Garden Green, Hello Honey 
Ink: Rose Red, Garden Green 
Accessories: Memory Box Jingle Bells, Quickutz Ginger 
Techniques: Paper piecing

More Merry Messages with Cute Critters

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENG E# 568. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 558 - Tip top Chocolate Wonder with dessert of die cuts or punches. My cute feeding deer is for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 352 - Holiday/Winter Critters.  I used the ornament for the circle on the sketch and popped it up. I sponged watermelon wonder and tip top taupe ink on the ornament attached the deer and then added stickles for snowy effect.

I stamped the sentiment on the front in choc chip. The inside and envelope were stamped in watermelon wonder. I hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: More Merry Messages 
Paper: Vanilla, Choc chip, tip top taupe, Watermelon Wonder, Bo Bunny Altitude dp
Ink: Choc chip, tip top taupe, Watermelon Wonder 
Accessories: IO Deer, Spellbinders Holiday Tag die
Techniques: 3D, sponging, die cuts

Cute Critters with Winter Wishes

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 558 - Tip top Chocolate Wonder with a dessert of die cuts/punches. This is also for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 561 - Box Card and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 352 - Holiday Winter Critters. Now how could I resist using all of these together. I was not sure about the box card, afraid it was far from CAS but was wrong again. It was very quick and simple.
I cute my deer and moose then stamped the coordinating images in choc chip and black. These are popped up on dimensionals.
Now lets go to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: DieVersions Winter Wonderland 
Paper: choc chip, tip top taupe, dp
Ink: choc chip, black 
Accessories: dimensionals 
Techniques: Box Card, 3D

More Itty Bitty Merry Christmas Messages

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 559 - A CASE in point where we were to make a selection from the lists. I chose to REDO last Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 558 - White Silhouettes while CASing my LOVELY DECORATING SNOWMAN CARD. I left off the snowman. After loading last week I thought duh, why not have a snowbank with white trees so today I accomplished that. Whoo Hoo. I used a different stamp set today as well. I sponged the ink onto white cs then stamped the background stamp with versamark and added some white detail embossing powder and heat set it to simulate falling snow. EEK I may have to CASE this one since I left off the stickles on the curvy snow banks that I wanted to add. I was only 4 when my Grandmother passed away but 2 things I remember and have pictures of where a lot of trees in the yard so this is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 350 - Memories of Grandmother's House.

I stamped the sentiment on the front, inside and envelope with Island Indigo ink from More Merry Messages SU Stamp Set. I hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: More Merry Messages, Itty Bitty Backgrounds 
Paper: white, indigo island, versa mark
Ink: Indigo Island 
Accessories: Cottage Cutz - Tree die, white detail EP 
Techniques: heat embossing, white silhouettes

Lovely Decorating Snowman

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 558 - White Silhouettes where I stamped my tree in versamark then added white embossing powder and heat set it. This is also for today's CAS349 - Time To Hibernate and for this I inked up my Inky Antics "Decorating Snowman" set and stamped the image in momento tuxedo black once on the white card base and once on white paper which I cut out and used as a mask. After my images where the way I wanted I began sponging at the bottom with soft sky, then pool party then coastal cabana at the top. I love these 3 colors together. I colored the snowman image with copics BG10, 11, 13, & 15, R13 & 15, Y02, and YR23.

The inside sentiment and the tree on the envelope were stamped in coastal cabana. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree - SU, Decorating Snowman - IA 
Paper: white, Coastal Cabana 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Soft Sky, Pool Party, Coastal Cabana 
Accessories: white detail embossing powder, copics 
Techniques: sponging, masking, hombre, silhouettes, copic coloring

Snow Globe with Burst of Merry Messages

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 554 - Eating Cake in the Breezy Meadow with dessert of pattern paper, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 557 - Dangle Art, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 348 - Holiday Ace It. I am so loving this new stack of Christmas dp Shannon and I picked up on opening events at Hobby Lobby in Tifton. Bo Bunny Altitude is the name of it. I started out to make a shaker card and realized I had stars but no snowflakes and all of my punches were too big so I just stamped the globe on acetate, cut it out and glued it to the image. My dangled artwork was colored with copics. The globe was stamped in crumb cake, the trees in mossy meadow and the sentiments on the inside and envelope in mossy meadow.

On the inside I also stamped a snowflake from Snow Burst in Baja Breeze.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Snow Globe, Snow Burst, Many Merry Messages 
Paper: white, Bo Bunny Altitude dp I
nk: black scripto 01 pen, crumb cake, Baja Breeze, Mossy Meadow 
Accessories: dimensionals, copics, scripto 01 pen 
Techniques: frame, dangle art

Dangled Merry Christmas Wishes

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 557 - Dangle Art and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 348 - Holiday Ace It. I am not much of an artist but I gave it my best shot and am ok with the results. I think everything is self explanatory and this is truly a CAS creation. No ribbons, no thrills. I covered the entire front panel with acetate and when I looked at it I was reminded of a card I bought eons ago that the entire front was acetate and I kept trying to remove the wrapping. LOL. OH well. Let's begin our week with a smile and a pray.

RECIPE:
Stamps: More Merry Messages 
Paper: white, Wild Wasabi 
Ink: Scripto 01 Black, Wild Wasabi 
Accessories: scripto black pen, acetate, copics 
Techniques: acetate covering, dangled artwork, freehand, CAS

A Snowman with More Merry Messages for Christmas

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 553 - An Elegant Calypso in Old Bermuda with Pearls or Rhinestones for dessert. For Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 556 - Die Cut Critters, for CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 347 - Me Want Candy. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 420. OK so Monday when I first looked at the photo for the CAS I saw Frankie but today I studied it a little more and the head looked like a decorated flower pot so I went with it and the google eyes. I used a flower pot cut from elegant eggplant and turned it upside down for a hat. I used various sizes of circle punches for the snowman and attached some google eyes, gems and ferns for arms.

On the inside and envelope I stamped my sentiments in Bermuda bay. I hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: More Merry Messages 
Paper: white, calypso coral, elegant eggplant, Bo Bunny Altitude dp
Ink: Bermuda Bay 
Accessories: MS Snowflake, Fiskers Fern, Spellbinders Flower Pot, Ribbon, dimensionals, google eyes, gems, circle punches, 
Techniques: 3d, die cuts critters

Come To Bethlehem you Ombre'

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 550 - Punc-tu-a-tion, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 559,  andTuesday'sCOLOR CHALLENGE # 549 - Whispering in the Silver Lagoon. Just could not resist another attempt at Ombre technique with this sketch and color challenge making a Christmas card. I stamped the image omitting the star in lost lagoon. I stamped the star in smoke slate a scrap of white, cut it out, popped it up then added some silver stickles.
I stamped the star on the envelope then on the inside over the sentiment that was stamped in lost lagoon without re-inking. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come to Bethlehem 
Paper: white, lost lagoon, smokey slate gray 
Ink: Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, smokey slate 
Accessories: dimensionals, silver stickles, sponges 
Techniques: 3d, sponging, Ombre' 

Season's Greetings with Snow Burst

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 559 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 549 - Whispering in the Silver Lagoon. I have been wanting to try the OMBRE' TECHNIQUE using SCS Tutorial and today I gave it a try. I tried first with my brayer which I have NEVER mastered the use of then with sponges using pool party and lost lagoon ink pads. Liked it much better since I got a more even and smooth look. I stamped the snowflakes the heat embossed across the top then the sentiment with lost lagoon at the bottom where the color was the lightest. This was matted on smokey slate gray cs then white base.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment in lost lagoon then on the envelope I stamped the largest snowflake in pool party then over the sentiment without re-inking. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Season's Greetings, Snow Burst 
Paper: white, lost lagoon, smokey slate gray 
Ink: Pool Party, Lost Lagoon 
Accessories: detail white, winter wonderland, and silver embossing powders 
Techniques: heat embossing, ombre'

Come To Bethlehem for Christmas

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 549 - Whispering in the Silver Lagoon with dessert of Christmas. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 416. I used my Maurvy Circle punches and adhered in pieces the nativity border scene. Stamped all sentiments in lost lagoon.

On the inside I stamped the image over the sentiment after stamping it on the envelope. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come To Bethlemen
Paper: white, smokey slate gray, lost lagoon 
Ink: Lost Lagoon 
Accessories: Mauvry Circle Punches, Cottage Cutz Nativity Border 
Techniques: die cuts, stamping off

Half On Half Off Decorated Snowman

Here is my COLOR CHALLENGE # 547 - attempting Blissful Pirouettes, and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 550 - Half On Half Off. I stamped my image in momento tuxedo black then colored the top panel with copics. I added some clear stickles to the snow cap and yellow stickles to the star on the front panel and the envelope.

I stamped the sentiments in blackberry bliss on the front and the inside. I doodled around the top, bottom, and left side using blackberry bliss. Hope you like it. Now off to work I go after a lovely 3 days weekend.
RECIPE:
Stamps: IA - Decorated Snowman 
Paper: white, Basic Gray - Eskimo Kisses 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Blackberry Bliss 
Accessories: clean and yellow stickles 
Techniques: copics, half on half off, doodling