12 weeks of Christmas Week 6

Welcome to Week 6 of my 12 weeks of Christmas!!  Today's card features the Stitched Triangle Dies.  I am really drawn to geometrical shapes and just love how 2 different sized triangles can nestle together to form a great focal point.  

Stamps:  Merriest Moments stamp set, Perfectly Plaid stamp set

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler

Card:  Basic White, tidings of Christmas designer series paper

Tools:  stitched triangle dies, pine tree punch, tasteful label dies

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Tidings of Christmas and a Sketch Challenge from the Paper Players PP564

My card today uses a Sketch Challenge from The Paper Players.  

Stamp set:  Stars are Shining

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler

Card:  whisper White, Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen, Tidings of Christmas DSP

Accessories:  Christmas Trimmings Dies

Great Tidings meets CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge - CTC337 - Step up a mini catalogue project

Todays project, I have chosen to do a challenge.  Challenges are great to get the creative juices flowing and the CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge is a great one to choose.  The challenge this week was to step up a project from the July-December 2021 mini catalogue CTC337.  I chose to step up the project on page 66 of the mini catalogue.  

To step up the project, I used the be dazzling specialty papers in the SAB catty.  

I also used a block with a dribble of whisper white reinker on it, with a squeeze of the wink of stella pen, which gives a nice sheen.  Mix it well with the wink of stella brush and then flick this ink on to your bottom layer.  It's a great way of making white splatter and gives a great effect. I also coloured in some of the bushes with this white wash.  The bushes were inked in versamark and clear embossed.

 

Stamp set:  Great Tidings

Ink:  versamark, whisper white reinker

Card:  soft succulent, be dazzling specialty paper, tidings of Christmas dsp, misty moonlight, night of navy, basic black, whisper white

Tools: wise men tidings dies, wink of stella

Tidings of Christmas and a sketch challenge - The Paper Players PP560

 Todays card uses the designer series paper called Tidings of Christmas.  I used The Paper Players PP560  sketch challenge to help me with the layout.  

These cards use The Tidings of Christmas designer series paper and are paired with the Christmas Trimmings dies.

Stamp set:  Poinsettia Petals (sentiment)

Ink:  Misty Moonlight

Card:  Basic White, Tidings of Christmas DSP, misty moonlight, soft succulent, be dazzling specialty paper

Tools:  Christmas Trimmings dies, detailed trio punch

Herringbone Technique using Tidings of Christmas dsp

 

Last week at the Adamstown Uniting Church craft zoom chat session, one of my friends showed a beautiful card using the herringbone technique.  Everyone loved it so today I thought I would do a followup tutorial for today's craft zoom chat session.

Our project today uses the Tidings of Christmas 6"x6"  dsp.  Find 4 designs that you like and cut at 3/4" thickness.  So you then will have 4 pieces of 3/4" x 6" strips. as seen in our first picture below.

Cut a piece of Basic White, for your top layer.  Mine measures 10cm x 14.3cm.

Turn your card layer sideways and measure on the top edge in from the corner 1.5cm.  On the bottom edge, measure in from the corner 8.5cm.  Draw a faint line joining up those 2 points.  This is your starting point for your first strip of dsp.  

Use your preferred adhesive and put a line of glue above the line - I like to put the glue straight on the card.  Line up your first piece of dsp on the line.  My second strip is now going to be at a right angle, being parallel to the first strip of dsp.  I started with the darkest of my dsp.  Do  2 more strips at the same angle.  To fill in the blank space, now turn the strips to be in the same direction as your first strip.  Glue these in place.  This gives an eye catching focal point for your card.

Stamp your sentiment in the bottom right corner of your layer, then place on your base card.

Stamp set used:  Perfectly Plaid

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler

Paper:  Tidings of Christmas dsp, basic white, cherry cobbler

Tools:  Stampin Up paper Trimmer, Tombow multipurpose glue

Christmas in July - Tiding & Trimmings

This month at Belair Creative Cards we will be making 2 cards featuring the products from the Tidings of Christmas Suite. 

My first card is a CASE and was inspired by Narelle Farrugia.  She is an amazingly talented demonstrator and you can see her original card here. 

The base card is basic white, the first layer is misty moonlight and then basic white which is embossed with a new folder called Star-Crossed from the upcoming mini catalogue.   The scalloped rectangle is cut from the Stitched So Sweetly dies and the leaf is from the Artistic Dies.  The star and stocking are from the Tidings & Trimmings stamp set and coloured with pool party and misty moonlight.

 

My second card features the Tidings of Christmas Designer Series Paper.  This paper has beautiful designs and is double sided with traditional red and greens on some sheets and a hint of sahara sand and misty moonlight on others.  A very versatile dsp for those who prefer traditional colours for their cards.  The star is cut from the "Christmas Trimmings" coordinating dies from the Tidings of Christmas Suite.  Sentiment is from For Unto Us.