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 Hi everyone! I'm back today with Challenge #257 with

Today's Theme is: HOLIDAYS

Our sponsors for today's challenge are:

Prize: 2 digi images of winners choice

Prize: $10 in images (no patterned paper)

For my card today I chose The Three B from Scribbles Designs. I love penguins so when I saw this as one of the choices it was a no brainer!

I started my card by coloring my image in using a variety of copic markers. For the penguins I used different warm greys. I had so much fun choosing how to color these guy!

I cut the snowy hills using MFT stitched slimline snowdrift dies. I then used a light shade of blue alcohol marker to give a little dimension. 

Once I added the musical notes I knew I wanted something else coming down. I stamped three different sizes of snowflakes in two colors and then started adding them. This just finished the card for me!

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HELLO THOUGHT OF YOU WATERCOLOR BACKGROUND CARD

  Hi everyone! Diana here with you today to share a fun holiday hello card. This card started out as a traditional Christmas card but as I started working on it I knew I wanted a large sentiment so it changes just a bit. 

I started by stamping my desired images with versamark ink onto watercolor paper, then adding platinum embossing powder, and heat setting. then I sprayed my panel liberally with water. 

I used my altenew watercolor brush markers to color in my images first. Spraying the water first helps the ink move more freely on the image. 

 I then watercolored the background to give more texture. I went ahead and added my gold string trim. I did end up with a small splotch but no worries, my sentiment will cover that up. 

For my sentiment I watercolored another piece of paper in the reds I used on my flowers. I then die cut the large hello. 

I then cut two more from white cardstock to give some dimension. This also helps keep the sentiment sturdy. 

Using liquid clue I adhered all three pieces together and adhered them to the front of my card. I stamped a secondary sentiment on white cardstock and die cut it out.

A little closer look at the watercoloring. I am loving the large hello. 

I finished my card by adding Ornament Mini Dew Drops around my sentiment and on the sentiment strip. 

Supplies:

Robin's Nest: ornament mini dew drops

Altnew: happy pomegranates stamp set, mega hello die, sentiment strips 2 stamp set, feature sentiment dies, spring garden & winter wonderland watercolor brushes, antique gold linen thread, platinum embossing powder. 

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FUN GNOME HOLIDAY CARDS

Hi everyone! I have some fun Christmas Gnome cards to share today. 

To create the bright colored backgrounds I took my Catherine Pooler ink pads and ran them across all four sides, just far enough to not leave any of the white panel showing

I had so much fun using this cute Gnome stamp set from Close To My Heart. I was at a crop over the weekend and one of our challenges was to create something in red and green. 

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WE WHISK YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS MAGIC PICTURE CARD

 Hi everyone! I'm here today sharing a fun magic picture changer card. This is my first time giving this a go and it came together quite nicely!

This card was so much fun to make. I used A Creature Was Stirring from Lawn fawn along with their fun along with their Let It Shine paper pack.

I layered a panel of black cardstock onto my base and using Catherine Pooler's Stamped Rectangle Dies I cut a piece from the striped patterned paper to give a bit more pop. 

I love the wow factor of this card. I showed it to my daughter and she said "Wow! How did you do that"? Always a great response!!

A closer look at the dimension this card has. 

Here's a little video of this card. 

SUPPLIES:

Lawn Fawn: a creature was stirring stamp set, a creature was stirring dies, magic picture changer dies, magic picture changer add on dies, let it shine petite paper pack

Catherine Pooler: postage stamp dies

 

MONOCHROMATIC MERRY CHRISTMAS

 Hi everyone! Welcome to another fun challenge over at

Today's challenge is: Monochromatic Christmas

For my card today I decided to use Catherine Pooler's Sage ink and embossing powder. 

This card is created using only white cardstock. For the colored panel I used the sage ink pad and ran it over the edges before adhering down my top panel. 

Using two strips of double sided adhesive in two different sizes I created the embossed glitter strips under my tree. 

Per my usual style I didn't think about the sentiment until AFTER my card was all adhered together lol. I seem to do this every single time. I put the panel into my misti and then layed out my sentiment. Using lawn fawn jet black ink I was able to get a nice crisp sentiment.

Here's a closer look of the embossed glitter strips. I haven't used her chunky glitter before and I really like it. 

Supplies:

Catherine Pooler:

Festive trimmings stamp set, festive trimmings dies, wanderlust & bundled up embossing trio, sage ink pad

Lawn Fawn: 

jet black ink pad

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SENDING YOU WARM HUGS

Hi everyone! Welcome to another great challenge over at

As always theme is ANYTHING GOES

We have three great sponsors for this weeks challenge

Prize: 3 digi images of winners choice

Prize: 3 single digi images of winners choice

Prize: 2 digi images of winners choice

For my image I got to use Fruity Babies Strawberry from Stamper's Delight. This is such a sweet image. 

I started out by using three different distress oxide ink in pink having the darkest color in the center and blending out with two light colors. I then used a branch stamp to add a bit more interest to the background.

I added a little bit of sparkle by placing some clear/iridescent sequins around her. 

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A FUN CHRISTMAS TREE W/RINEA & CONCORD & 9TH

 Hi everyone! I'm back sharing another fun design team project for

I started by cutting all of the greens from cardstock using a fun die set from Concord & 9th. Once I had them cut I started adding them to the stick provided.

Once I had them all together I started cutting out my garland, ornaments, and star using Ruby/Gold foiled paper, silver/silver starstruck foiled paper. 

I then started decorating my tree by wrapping the garland. 

What I like best about this foiled paper is if you want you could twist the garland to show both the ruby and gold. I wanted to keep it more traditional. 

I then started adding the ornaments. Since I cut one panel from each color I still have quite a few left over for a future project. 

Here is a closer look at the ornaments once they are added. 

I love the shine this adds! For the star I cut two from the Silver/Gold glossy foiled paper and glued them together at the top of the stick.

Supplies:

Rinea:Ruby/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper, Silver/Gold Glossy foiled paper, Silver/Silver Starstruck foiled paper

Concord & 9th: In the Classroom-take a bough encore dies

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LOVE YA

 Hi everyone! Welcome to another great challenge over at

As always: ANYTHING GOES

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Prize: 3 images

For my card today I used a really cute image called Cinnamon Snow People. I couldn't wait to get started with this. I decided to print out three images and color them differently to give a bit of pizzaz to the snow. 

For the snow I used Tim Holtz texture fades snowfall/speckles embossing folder. Then, using speckled egg distress oxide ink, I lightly blended over the embossed image to give a nice blue color to the background. 

Once I had all my snow girls colored I fussy cut them out. Then I used a stitched slimline snowdrifts die set from MFT. I took the speckled egg ink, again, and added some color to the drifts. 

To give a bit of glitz to the snow drifts I added nuvo glitter drops in white blizzard. I love how it just gives a little glimmer at the bottom. 

A little closer look at my snow. I did add some of the nuvo drops here as well. Looks like snowflakes catching the winter light. 

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