OH Yeah.... The cards I'm sharing with you is the last set of Christmas cards I did last weekend. It's very BRIGHT.
So far I have total of 40 Christmas cards (5 cards per month) and just have to do one more to be up to date and back on track.Been busy with camping and back to school that I haven't have chance to check the bloggin' world. I just found out that I won 3 digis from Tiffany Doodles. Go me!!!!
Thanks for bloggin' by!
Our good friend's Mom passed away last Sunday the 5th of September. She will be missed.... specially when we do our quarterly card making here at my house.
I used Monday Mojo sketch and Flourishes challenge "Rustic Beauty" for this card. I did a lot of distressing and I also used my favourite technique, Distress ink with Alcohol Blending Solution. I stamped the image three times and then layered the flowers to give it some 3d. I also heat embossed the flowers so I can shape them for easy layering.
Pollycraft's challenge is to add anything nature and I combined it with Sketch and Stash Challenge sketch.
It's so good to be home and be back in my craft room. Was able to do my Mojo sketch, but must say.... with such great difficulty. I wanted to do the circle sketch, but the circle nestie was not big enough for me to design it and kind a cheated a bit. I guess I could of used my Cricut like how I planed it to be....
I had to design the inside as well do make it more sturdy. I usually don't, but I kind like it and might start doing it. We went to a wedding last weekend and made a wedding card, but somehow I can't find the picture. I really like how it turned out, but I guess I'm not gonna be able to show you. Oh well... hope I find it somewhere and not accidentally deleted from the camera.
Water is the challenge for this week and I started this one on Tuesday, but just managed to complete the card last night while I was doing the "CALGALS" all by my self!! It was cancelled Friday morning and was very disappointed because we haven't seen each other for 3 months.
I did my Mojo sketch challenge yesterday, but didn't get a chance to upload last night. This digi image is from Pollycraft and it's the sweetest thing! I enjoyed colouring her and this time I didn't have problem printing...didn't even have to heat set!! I used Neenah paper, which is easier to colour than PTI (not as thick and you don't use that much ink)
I always check Allison's blog for sketch challenge. I luv it cause it's all there with her "inlinkz" and it's easy to choose instead of checking each blog. Thanks, Allison!
The sketch lay out is from A spoonful of sugar challenge 116. I was gonna do TCC, but the challenge for the month of August is Purple. I just did four cards with that colour and thought it would be nice to use something else.
I was gonna enter it for ABC Christmas challenge, but it's a tad late. I don't know what I was thinking when I made these.... wonder how much it would cost to mail each one. I might save them to be hand delivered instead.
What's with the colour Purple?? I know you're probably getting sick of my colour combo, but it's the only way for me to cut down my scrap file. I always try to make 4 cards and this is my third one, so if you don't like purple.... I'm afraid there's one more post coming your way.
When I saw Clean and Simple sketch challenge, I knew I just had to use my "4 up bears" by Stamp it
Here's my take on FTL 102. I really luv how it turned out and thinking of doing the same layout for my TCC Christmas cards (the one that I have fallen off the wagon since Tracy decided to pass it on to someone else) I believe I have 4 months of challenge to catch up with.
I stamped the image 6 times and coloured with copic markers. Cut three bears including the frame or box and then cut the remaining 3 bears and flowers which I heat embossed to give it a shine and glued them on top with dimensionals.
Flower power!! I luv this digi image by Tiffany
I didn't have any problem colouring with my copics this time, but printing using PTI was not fun at all. My PTI paper kept jamming the printer due to the thickness. I was only able to print one sheet and gave up after wasting 3 sheets of PTI. Maybe I need new printer??
I was going for a very dark coco bear, but instead... you can't even see the face of the bear. I'm playing around with water color using distress inks. If I was using my copics, I could of made it lighter. I tried lifting off some of the paint with just a wet brush, but the color turned grayish. Oh well... what can ya do.