Christmas Card Club Challenge - Cards 1-3/2022 - Black & Gold

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year to all the Christmas Card Club members. I hope I find you well. I've been poorly, nothing very dramatic, but I woke up feeling better today. Well enough, in fact, to spend the afternoon making cards for the first Christmas Card Club Challenge of the year. Black and gold is Kate's challenge and I really enjoyed searching through my boxes of scraps and dies to make the following three three cards. 

The background on the first card is one of my experiments with the gelli plate and a chevron patterned stencil on a scrap piece of white card. I don't know why I kept it because I wasn't altogether happy with the result then but I'm glad I did now. 

The other two cards have embossed gold card backgrounds. It's been a while, a couple of years actually, but whenever I got a new folder I'd always try them out on some bits from my leftover box. That box can come in very handy for cardmaking.

The greetings in the first and second cards are actually gold peel-offs on black card. 

Stencil, Embossing Folders and Dies used:

Chevrons stencil - Creative Expressions That Special Touch

Kassie's Brocade folder - Cuttlebug

Sun Rays folder - Craft Concepts

Poinsettia - Spellbinders

Trailing Ivy & Rectangle die set - sources forgotten

Merry Christmas Wreath - Sara Davies Signature Collection

That's it for today - it's my bedtime. I hope you will pop over to see what my teammates have created this week. You'll find a list of their names and links on my right sidebar - as always they are so much more creative than I will ever be

Sunday Snippets

Hello Everyone,

Two posts in one day - I'm excelling myself. Well, I'm starting of 2017 as I mean to go on - with a visit to the Pixie's Snippet Playground on Sunday whenever possible.

I did make this card before Christmas but haven't found the time to share it until today. The topper was made from snippets of white card, stamped and cut using an old Spellbinders die set, which is really pretty and deserves to be given an airing more often!

I liked it so much, I made a few more.

To make it I used the following:

• Several A4 sheets of white cardstock trimmed to create base cards measuring 4" x 5¾2 (10cm x 14.75cm).
• A selection of patterned papers from Mistletoe 6x6 paper pack (Memory Box Co.) trimmed to fit front of card leaving a small, 1/8", margin all round. The paper pack is an old one, by a few years, so I'm not sure it will still be available.
• Snippets of white card cut with two dies from Spellbinders Shapeabilities Holly Motifs for base of the topper.
• More snippets stamped with stamps from Die'sire Sentimentals Jingle Bells set using Versafine Crimson Red ink and then cut out using a circle die from Spellbinders Sapphire Basic Set A. 
• Each card was finished with an insert made from white copy paper stamped with a Merry Christmas greeting in the same red ink. The stamp has come detached from the set it originally came from and I've forgotten which set it is - yet more evidence of my declining years!!!

Of course all that trimming of A4 sheets of cardstock means that I have added even more snippets to the box. Sometimes you just can't win!

I love the Mistletoe paper pack and will be sad when it is finally gone and the Holly Motifs die set is lovely. I've just discovered the joy of piling motifs on top of each other to create pretty toppers so look out for more made that way.

Before I go, I'd like to wish all snippeteers a happy, healthy and prosperous year 2017. I look forward to seeing all your very inspirational creations throughout the year.

In the meantime, take care and stay safe.