I’ve drifted a touch from Nostalgic November and haven’t used any retired products for Day 9 of the 30 Day Christmas Cardmaking Challenge. However, I could stretch it and say I did use Blueberry Bushel which is a returning colour so it’s a bit nostalgic!
I cut a Kraft notecard into 2.5 cm strips and glued it to a Basic White panel to create the background. I like the country charm the Kraft cardstock adds to the Cottage Wreath. This background style is a great way of using up Cardstock scraps as well.
Both layers of wreaths were die cut from White Cardstock. The base layer was coloured with the Light Old Olive Stampin’ Blend. For the top layer I sponged Old Olive and Blueberry Bushel inks using a Sponge Dauber. Then I added some moore colour with Stampin’ Blends. I also added some Blueberry Bushel sponging on the bottom layer. This created a fuller wreath with varying colours.
The bow was coloured with the Light Blueberry Bushel Stampin’ Blend to coordinate with my card.
Check out the #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge inspiration this entire month for lots of fun ideas and you can play along too. Products are available in my Online Store or by contacting me.
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The creeator of this challenge – Martin Stone from Martin’s Mayhem, made me laugh with this challenge. As he has subsequently admitted, Feastive was meant to be Festive but due a slight typo, this changed the entire meaning of the challenge. However, I had already created a card along the ‘festive’ line and then had to reconfigure to go ‘feastive’!
I didn’t have many Christmas food stamp sets but the Sweet Candy Canes from last year’s Christmas was perfect. I used one of the candy canes to create a border along the bottom of the card.
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To create the leaves I blended a panel of White Cardstock with Parakeet Party, Garden Green and Shaded Spruce, Then I spritzed it with water and die cut several holly leaves from it. A large sentiment from the Joy to You stamp set completes this simple design.
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For Day 4 of the 30 Day Christmas Cardmaking Challenge we have a colour palette inspiration using Night of Navy, Pool Party and Lemon Lolly.
I created a muted background by blending all 3 colours. Then I added the large rosette from the retired Bring on the Presents stamp set. Guess what? I hadn’t used the stamps or dies until this card. I was pretty excited about these die cut strips which form the ribbon across. So many ways these could be used, even as accent pieces. I coloured the image with Pool Party and Night of Navy Stampin’ Blends and love this 3D bow.
I used the Waves of Inspiration stamp set to create some movement in the background with Gold embossing. There was a white border around the tag which I coloured in with the Night of Navy Stampin’ Blend to create a defined border and make the sentiment stand out.
I hope you have enjoyed this project and give this colour palette a try.
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Happy Friday! Bring on the weekend and perhaps some of you will be enjoying a long weekend. It’s Day 3 of the 30 Day Christmas Cardmaking Challenge and we are Rockin’ Around.
Today was lots of fun to create using the rocking horse from the retired Little Cuties stamp set. I had completely forgotten about this set and my goodness, it’s got a bunch of cute images. I’ve cute a rockin’ horse! I coloured the horse with a range of Stampin’ Blends and really like the natural tones against the rich Shaded Spruce background.
To bring the rhythm to the rockin’ I added some music score from the Joyful Specialty Designer Series Paper. The sentiment is from another retired stamp set, Seasonal Chums. You can substitute the rocking horse with our new Rocking Horse bundle #162041 which even die cuts it for you.
A beautiful gold ribbon and some Blooming Pearls add a touch of glam to this vintage card.
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For Day 2 of the #30daychristmascardmakingchallenge our theme is Frosty Air. With Nostalgic November I’m using my retired stamp sets and as I saw this theme I visualised the beautiful Cambridge Carols stamp set. I love this old fashioned images and am a bit partial to purchasing all of them … and holding onto them. Funny thing – I hadn’t inked this set up! I looked up when this set was released (and retired) – 2018. I couldn’t believe that I’ve had this for 5 years and not used it.
This skaters on the ice made me think of cold frosty air and that’s why I went with this image. I chose the colour palette from Sunday Stamps Challenge. These colours do have a more autumn tone to it but I chose to use those colours to bring some warmth to this cold wintry day depicted on the card.
Using a range of ink refills and Watercolour Pencils I coloured the scene which was stamped on Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper using Blender Pens (#102845) and Water Painters (#151298).
I added some neutral Designer Series Paper in the background with a pop of sparkly sptrips for the stamped image to be mounted on.
Apart from the stamp set, other products are available in my Online Store. You could substitute the scene with a number of other stamps including Regal Reindeer #159722 or Graceful Deer #162084.
I hope this inspires you to try some watercolouring or maybe pull out a stamp set you have never inked up!
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