PDCC108 AND MORE CARD CHALLENGES

Happy Thursday to all of my blogging friends. Today is so special: it is my daughter’s birthday!!!!! Happy Birthday Gina!. I was supposed to be visiting her this week but since I broke my ankle, I could not make the trip. I am so bummed about not being with her today.  So, to help cheer me up, I have a card that I made before the accident but didn’t get a chance to share.

This card is being entered in The Play Date Café Challenge PDCC108

I always love this challenge I guess because color challenges are so much fun to me.  The colors in the challenge this week are so warm and cozy, just perfect for Christmas!

My card is made with MME Lost and Found Christmas.  This is my favorite Christmas paper this year because the colors are muted, warm and so rich.  My Fiskar’s crimper got a change to get involved this week by crimping the top part of the card.  The MME embellishments and the paper on the lower half of the card have beautiful red glitter, and you all know that I love glitter! 

A red satin ribbon flower and pretty little Merry Christmas tag complete this card.  The tag is made using Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Merry Christmas Peg and the Deer Forest Stamp set.

These are all of the card challenges for this card:

Play Date Café Challenge PDCC108: Maroon...Copper...Tumeric

Heart Song Inspirations: Challenge #25 - Gold or Glitter

2 Sister’s Challenge Blog Challenge #65 Anything Goes

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you like my card and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• RUBBER STAMP TAPESTRY:
• Merry Christmas Peg
• Deer Forest Stamp set.

PAPER

• MME Lost & Found Christmas
• 5 x 7
• 5 x 2.75 
• Scrap to cover chipboard square
• Scrap  for 2” circle
• White paper
• • scrap for 1.75” circle

INKS

• VERSACOLOR
  • Bark
  • Pinecone

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Sizzix Sizzlit circles
• Fiskar’s Crimper
• Crop-A-Dile Eyelet and Snap Punch

ACCESSORIES

• Red satin ribbon
• Eyelets (4)
• Gold half-pearls
• Deep red half-pearls
• Red specialty ribbon
• MME Lost & Found Christmas embellishments

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Use Big Shot and Sizzix Sizzlit circles to make the circles for the tag.
3. Use RST;s Merry Christmas Peg and the Deer Forest Stamp set on white circle
4. Adhere 2 deep red half-pearls to tag.
5. Adhere small circle to larger circle to complete tag.
6. Use Fiskar’s Crimper and crimp the top half of the 5x7 MME paper 
7. Adhere the 5 x 2.75 to the bottom of the 5 x 7
8. Attach red specialty ribbon across the panel where papers meet.
9. Adhere MME Lost & Found Christmas to the front of the square chipboard. I used a self-stick pre-cut chipboard with the circle already cut in the middle, peeled the paper from the sticky surface and attached the MME paper
10. Use the Crop-a-dile and attach 4 eyelets; one at each corner of chipboard
11. Adhere MME December 25 embellishment to chipboard, centering in opening.
12. Adhere MME half circle embellishment to top of panel
13. Adhere chipboard square so that it overlaps the half circle and the bottom rests at the top of the red ribbon
14. Make the red satin flower by running a stich down one side of the ribbon and pulling to gather ribbon into flower shape. Add half-pearl in center of flower.
15. Attach flower and tag to card.

PDCC 105

Hello again to all my lovely crafty friends! LOL I love to watch Joy playing with her blanket, which she is doing right now.  It is in her crate but she likes to pull it out and drag it around. She is SO full of energy this time of day, and that is after a good long walk!  She is really growing fast now…. Just 6 weeks ago she was 4 pounds and now she is 10 pounds.  She is quickly becoming my crafting buddy.

Today, I have a card that was inspired by the Play Date Café Challenge PDCC 105 with this weeks colors being Kraft/Taupe...Flesh...Cadet Blue. First for my card:

and now their inspiration photo:

Aren’t those yummy colors?  I just love that combination and how it looks on my card.  The papers are ATD Jack Frost and MME Lost & Found Christmas.  The cute snowman is fussy cut from the Jack Frost paper. 

The sentiment is on a piece of flesh colored cardstock that is cut using the Spellbinders Labels Four.  I used Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Small Oval Positioning Template  with their Winter Night Sky Set and metallic inks to decorate the label and then stamped it with RST’s Merry Christmas Peg Stamp – Mini.  The glossy finish comes from an embossed finish I applied to the label.

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you like my card and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….

 

STAMPS

• RUBBER STAMP TAPESTRY:
• Winter Night Sky Set
• Merry Christmas Peg

PAPER

• MME Lost & Found Christmas 5 x 7”
• ATD Jack Frost 4 x 6 and the snowman
• Flesh cardstock for Spellbinders

VERSACOLOR INKS

• Atlantic
• Polar Blue
• Umber
• Other Inks: Pigment
• Blue Ice
• Pewter
• Copper
• Silver Starlight

TOOLS

• Spellbinders Labels Four
• Big Shot
• RST Positioning Template

ACCESSORIES

• Crinkle Ribbon – Blue
• “Rhinestones” – Light blue
• Bakers doily

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Fussy cut the snowman from the Jack Frost paper.
3. Use Big Shot and Spellbinders Labels Four on flesh colored card stock
4. Use Oval Positioning Template on die cut.  I like to use a Q-Tip to outline the template shape in the color ink I am going to use as the background (in this case Polar Blue).  I then use a makeup sponge to lightly blend the same color from the outside of the template to the edge, leaving the oval shape in the base cardstock color.
5. Next use Atlantic around the edge of the die cut to give it a darker outline.
6. Stamp the die cut with the Winter Night Sky stamp set. Go ahead and stamp a few in the center oval too. I used the metallic pigment inks for this. If you want them to show up more use Versacolor Inks.
7. Stamp Merry Christmas with the Merry Christmas Peg in the oval. I stamped mine a little on the diagonal since I wanted to mount my die cut on the diagonal.
8. Run Versacolor Umber over the bakers doily to give it a flesh color.
9. Adhere the 4 x 6 to the 5 x 7.
10. Add the denim blue crinkle ribbon.
11. Position the bakers doily so it will be beneath the snowman and adhere.
12. Cut a small piece of the ribbon and tie it around the snowman’s neck to make a scarf.
13. Position the die cut and snowman and adhere.
14. Place “rhinestones” as desired.
15. Tie a bow and attach by snowman on the ribbon.