Merry Christmas

Hi and welcome back to another Challenge over at The Flower challenge - we want you to use a Christmas floral on your card. 

The poinsettia is from Simon Says Stamp and colored with Copic's. The sentiment is stamped in Lisa Horton's gold metallic ink.  The pine sprig stamp in the background is an old one from Great Impressions stamps.

After 9 years of The Flower Challenge, the December challenge will be our last. We want to thank all our design team members, past and present, and especially all our participants over the years. Finally, we thank Aileen Ryan for coming up with the idea and running the challenge in conjunction with Viv Hodge for the first 7 years. We will post the winners as usual on the 4th of January 2026. The challenge blog will remain open for floral inspiration. We will be back with our reminder post on the 15th.

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Happy Easter

Hello. Playing in two clean and simple challenges today with this Easter bunny card.

The Bunny stamp is an old wood block one from Great Impressions.  I stamped it in Versafine, then heat embossed it with clear so that I could color the bunnies with Copics. 

The sentiment is from Echo Park. I chopped the card down to 4.25 x 4.25 to accommodate the image and prevent it from getting lost. 

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This is going into the following challenges:

CAS ocan Sunday - Easter

Addicted to CAS - Bunny

Birthday Wishes

Hello. Playing in the Retro Rubber Challenge of Spring Flowers today.

This stamp is at least 20 years old, if not older. It's from Great Impressions stamps. I used prisma color pencils and gamsol to color it in. The birthday sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

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Thinking of you

Hello. Playing in the Just Add Ink challenge of large letters or numbers.

The lilac stamp is an old one from Great Impressions. I stamped it randomly and then colored it with pan pastels. Added the large "thinking of you" die cut and stuck it on a purple cardbase. 

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Rudolf gift tag

Hello. Here is another tag inspired by Ellen Hutson's 12 tags of Christmas challenge. This one is for the carol - Grandma got run over by a reindeer, which is day #9. 

The Rudolf stamp is from the former Angel Company. I colored him using Copic markers. The pine branch is from Great Impressions and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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Merry Christmas

Hello. Playing in two challenges today. I started with the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and used a lot of the elements in the photo over at The Card Concept.

Gingham stamp is from Kaisercraft. I stamped it in black ink onto pure poppy cardstock and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I used a sentiment die from SSS to cut out the strips. Pine branch stamp is from Great Impressions. Stamped it in jardin moss ink and then used a bit of rustic wilderness glaze to make it stand out. Sentiment and die are from Recollections.

For the Card Concept - I chose to do a clean and layered style that went with the sketch over at FMS.

It's Thanksgiving today in the states - I hope you all have a wonderful day with family and are staying safe! 

Snowflakes

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch #462 today. Used non traditional Christmas colors for this one. 

Snowflakes stamp is an old one from Great Impressions. I used color fuse ink from Rubbernecker that matched the ombre paper I used on the background. Snowflake background stamp is also from Rubbernecker and stamped using Hero Arts unicorn ink.  I spritzed it with shimmer spritz for some added sparkle that is cool in real life. Inside snowflake is from Technique Tuesday.

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Season's Greetings

Hello - playing in the CAS(e) this Sketch #384 challenge today. 

Evergreen branch stamps is from Great Impressions that I've had forever - it's one of my all time favorites and I'll never part with it. I stamped it in Basil green ink from Rubbernecker stamps. The to get the shine, I covered it in pearl embossing powder. The season's greeting stamps if from Impress Cards and Crafts. I stamped it in versamark and heat embossed it with platinum. I also added a few dots randomly around the branches.

Cardstock is rustic white from Papertrey, Ink and I cut out the main panel with a pierced dot die then popped it up with foam. 

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One layer card - winter flora

Hi there. Playing in the Less is More one layer challenge of winter flora today.

OMG - this card gave me fits. Have you ever made a card like 5 times before you got it right? UGH! I swear that sentiment was just not happening for me today. I finally got it right (it's from a Simon Says Stamp set, btw) and then I was cleaning it off of my misti and now the "holiday" part is missing in action. It is embossed with gold embossing powder from Hero Arts.

The fir branch is probably one of my oldest and most favorite stamps ever. It's from Great Impressions and it's so well loved/used that the wood block is green. =)

OK - I think I'm done for the day. Everything I touch is thrown in the trash bin because it's not straight or some other reason. Calgon take me away!

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Happy Bird-day

Hello. Sharing a non-holiday card today. Playing in the Less is More Birds/feather challenge.

Stamp is from Great Impressions called chickadee. Stamped in versafine, heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Colored with Copic's.

Sentiments and musical notes are from Technique Tuesday.

Kept it very clean and simple.

Holiday pines

Hello. Playing in The Paper Players theme challenge today. The theme is Holiday Pines.

I have had this pine branch stamp for years and it's one of my favorites. It's from Great Impressions and I used Palette ink in Jardin Moss to stamp the pines along the bottom.

The Merry Christmas sentiment is from KaiserCraft. I stamped it in versamark and heat embossed it with platinum embossing powder from Ranger. I repeated it several times to smooth it out.

Attached the white panel onto a deep green card base and decided to not embellish. The only thing I did is highlight the spots with a stardust gel pen. Very clean and simple.

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with all my love!

Hi everyone! Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch which is also paired with this weeks Wednesday Challenge of have a heart over at Simon Says Stamp.

I turned the sketch sideways and made the main panel a bit bigger to accommodate the stamp I used.

Stamp is an oldie but a goody from
Great Impressions. I stamped it in versafine ink, heat embossed using clear and then colored it using Copic's.

Sentiment is from Technique Tuesday and the fishtail banner dies are from My Favorite Things. Kept this very clean and simple for use as a masculine card.

Also adding this into the color challenge over at Repeat impressions, too.

ETA: I'm adding this into The Friday Mashup! as well.

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Chickadee

Hello! Yes, two posts in one day, but I had to get my entry in for this weeks sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. 

I did turn the sketch on it's side and I also decided to something besides a Holiday card today. I don't know about you, but I'm about burned out them.

Stamp is from Great Impressions called Chickadee. I stamped it in Versafine, heat set with clear embossing powder then colored the little that there is with Copic's.

Designer paper is from one of those insta photo fun packs from DCWV.

I used the scalloped die and hole punch die from Blueprints #14 from MFT to add that element based on the sketch. I ended up cutting a bit off each side of the scalloped border piece to fit in. Green self adhesive pearls are from Queen & Co.

ETA: adding this into the Great Impressions blog challenge of anything goes. 

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Christmas tag

Hi everyone! Here is a quick tag I made for the Tag you're it! challenge.

Tag die is from Papertrey, Ink. The "Merry" die is from the Christmas sentiments set from Docrafts. I cut it out of white paper when I first received the set. It sat on my desk for a while and then I got my new spray distress stains and I spritzed it with Barn Door, testing out how they worked. Like them!

Fir tree is from Great Impressions, the berry stamp is from PTI, as is the Christmas sentiment.  I did use more distress ink in Vintage Photo to add a bit of interest to make it a bit more rustic. Lastly, the to and from stamps are from TAC.

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