Out of the woods

 Challenge #108 - Out of the Woods

I finally decided to get ahead with this years Christmas cards and  found inspiration on the Christmas Kickstart Challenge blog.I hope my wee mouse in the stocking meets this criteria !

I must admit this card evolved through the mistakes that I made more than by design but actually once I had finished I quite liked it :)

I found the colouring in very soothing.... after doing it 20 times and getting it wrong the other 19.But overall i am quite happy with it and that my first one made so thank you Christmas Kickstart for the  inspiration.!

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xXx

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Christmas in July

I was in the mood to do some colouring today, but I also wanted to make a Christmas card that is easily replicated for making them in batches so only another 20 or so to go! .This fitted the bill :) Stamped coloured and a bit of wink of stella and red stickles and it was done - hardest part was making small enough holly for the hats :) 

Then I saw that the Addicted Cas challenge was Christmas in July ...perfect !

I decided recently to sort my stamps by themes and of course forgot to add the names on the pockets so have no idea who the stamp belongs too...senior moment will know for the future :)

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xXx

 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge

I have been very busy decorating and looking after children so I have had very  little time to blog or take part in challenges ,but when i saw the challenge over at the Christmas KIckstart blog I just had to take part !!

Happy 100th challenge!

The challenge was to have circles or dots on your card think i meet the challenge with those .

Santa ,tree and sentiment are from an old set from  Clearly Besotted that I love using at Christmas so versatile!

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xXx

 

 

Color throwdown blue,lime green and green

 

Over at the Color Throwdown challenge this weeks colours are blue ,lime green and green....and it just so happened that i was making this card for a friends birthday .I am loving this flower!!! I havent a clue where or who its by as a friend who is giving up card making gifted me a few of her dies last week and unfortunately they were just loose.

To keep within the challenge guidelines I used lime and green cardstock for the leaves and coloured the blue parts with a promarker.

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xXx

AAA challenge

When I saw the sketch challenge over at the AAA Challenge blog for some reason I saw the sketch as a  boys card .

A few years ago I saw all these beautiful watercoloured handmade cards all over the internet and after watching lots and lots of videos,I invested in an expensive watercolour set....needless to say I am  totally useless at it :) so I use the paints to do splatter paints and other non painting techniques :) . I thought that it would add a bit of playfulness to my card and I admit who doesnt like a bit of splatter painting :).I used a clearly besotted stamp set coloured with promarkers and one of the sentiments from the set to finish it off.

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 I

CAS on Sunday

2025

2017

FLOWERS

I have started this year with a bit of a cardmakers block and when that happens I often recreate a card that I've done before and this time I did that with a card that I last made in 2017! Though I used the same idea -  the word "Happy" as the main image and stamped flowers coloured with promarkers on the letter, when I looked back it was totally different from todays offering !!I added a panel, kept the blue shading ann the placement of the sentiment :)  What do you think,enough of a difference??:)

 

I thought so and I felt that it would meet the challenge over at Cas on Sunday for flowers on your card :)

Though must admit on my phone the card is much clearer and darker but for some reason it appears much lighter on my laptop :)

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Color Throwdown

 

Over at the Color Throwdown  they are asking that our cards have green,red and cream on them .I had this little Inkers stamp for years and had never used it,but once stamped loved it!!.I coloured it with promarkers and a little bit of wink of stella for a little bit of sparkle:) 

But needed to add the cream so I used a creamy toned perfect pearls and dotted them  around.

Sorry about the photograph it is very overcast and dull here today !

Thanks for looking

xXx