Ornament Inspiration for Tis The Season

It's time for another challenge at 'Tis The Season and this week we have another great inspiration photo for you. I really hope you'll come by and play along with us. We're a new blog, just a few challenges in, give us a try. I'm just a girl who loves Christmas cards :0)
 
From the inspiration photo I tried to draw from the colors and the ornaments. I used the retired color Taken With Teal but after looking the photo more I think Bermuda Bay would have been closer but oh well! The patterns from this DSP worked well with the photo and what I envisioned in my head.

I know there is no red in the photo but I liked it against the teal. I originally was just going to emboss the top red portion of the card with the snowflakes but in the end I did the whole panel and I must say, I really like how it came out. It also came out pretty patriotic looking didn't it? LOL That wasn't intended but I sure don't mind it!

My sketch inspiration came from the current sketch at Sunday Stamps.

Make sure you head over to 'Tis The Season and give us a try, we'd love to help you bring a little bit of Christmas into your day :0)

 

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Ornament Keepsakes

Paper: Ruby Red (retired), Taken With Teal (retired), Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Holiday Lounge DSP

Ink: Taken With Teal, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Big Shot, Snow Burst EF (retired), Crumb Cake Ribbon, Sahara Sand Candy Dots, sponge, dimensionals

Stripes and a Sketch for TTS#3

It's Thursday so that means a new 'Tis The Season challenge! This week we have a sketch for you, with the option of using stripes on your project!

Even though there is an ornament on the graphic you don't have to use one...I did because it just happened to work well with the idea I had going in my head. I stamped the ornament in Bermuda Bay and then used the matching framelit to cut it out. It's popped up with dimensionals and I used silver stretch cording to act as a hanger for the ornament. The DSP is Winter Frost, which can be found in the holiday mini, and is perfect for the stripes option. For a little more visual interest I added some rhinestones on my ornament.

I'd like to thank those that are coming out to play with us at 'Tis The Season, we are having so much fun! Only 55 days until Christmas! However, since today is Halloween I hope you have a SPOOKTACULAR DAY!

Sparkling Ornament for Friday Mashup

I just love the challenge that Amanda is bringing us this week at The Friday Mashup! It's all about ornaments and sparkle!

If you come to my blog regularly you'll know that I love to make Christmas cards....doesn't matter what time of year it is, I love making them. When I saw that Amanda wanted us to make a card with a Christmas ornament I went 'wooohooo'!

Sparkle is the 2nd portion of the challenge and that is usually a little tougher for me but SU's Silver Glimmer Paper made it easy for me to get all the sparkle I needed and more on this card. For a little extra bling I added rhinestones to the ornaments and also to the sentiment banner.

Head on over to the Friday Mashup blog to check out all the great cards from the rest of the design team, and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you come up with!

1. Make a project with a "Christmas Ornament".
2. Or Make a project with some "Sparkle".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Christmas Project with some Sparkle".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Ornament Keepsakes, Greetings of the Season

Paper: Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer Paper

Ink: Midnight Muse, Silver Dazzle Marker

Accessories: Rhinestones, Silver Stretch Cord, Holiday Ornament Framelits Dies

 

Shaped Christmas

This week over at the Jingle Belles Blog the challenge is to create a shaped Christmas card, and to not use the standard square or rectangle card.

I went into the challenge with a pretty positive attitude and lots of ideas going through my head. I was going to make a house using one of my Cricut cartridges, but I didnt like how that was turning out. Then I was going to make a snowglobe with a template I had but that wasnt going my way either. Finally I settled on this ornament shape but by this point I was SO frustrated and was wondering where the heck my Christmas mojo went.  The shape and the 'Merry Christmas' were both cut using the Joys of the Season cartridge and I used stickles on the top to make it look like a silver hanger. I then sponged the edge of the ornament with Real Red, just to give the edge a more defined look. I tried different embellishments on the card but it just didnt look right, so I figured what the heck, its a clean and simple look.