Three Holidays

My final entry into the Paper Shelter challenge, "Music or Dance" includes a sweet digi image from Beccy's Place named "Finns Scarf Set." In order to also enter the card into the Sketch Saturday challenge, I made the image into a tag, attached it atop another tag and tied them together with a few scraps of ribbon. The "Wish you a merry Christmas" song sentiment printed on vellum is from Lili of the Valleys digi set named "Christmas Wishes" that includes 29 sentiments!

The inside sentiment is from Whimsie Doodles, a web-based company that is sadly no longer in business. The musical notes on the lime colored background paper helps to reinforce The Paper Shelter theme and also pulls the card together.

Entered into: 

The Paper Shelter- #357 Music or Dance                                       (thepapershelter.blogspot.com.ar)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge- #407 Anything Goes  (craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk)

Sketch Saturday- Week #535 Choose                                             (sketchsaturday.blogspot.com) 

Beccy’s Place Challenge- Oct                                                            (beccysplace.blogspot.com)

Happy Little Stamper- Christmas-Anything Goes (ribbon)       (happylittlestampers.blogspot.com)

I really enjoy the Twofers Challenge because it makes me think outside of the box, and also requires that I use stamps [not digis] or dies. More and more I find myself using digis and I sometimes forget how many other image options I have… if I get my fingers a bit inky. This months challenge is titled "Harvest." So I dug through my rubber and clear stamps looking for a few candidates that I could use to make "two different designs for two different occasions using the same stamps and/or dies."  I decide upon the trio of pumpkins from an Inkadinkado Halloween themed clear set as my crossover image.

For the Halloween card, I stamped the pumpkins plus a sentiment from that set onto colored cardstock scraps, trimmed them into shape and set them aside. I made an A2 sized gatefold card with an octagonal shaped frame to hold the pumpkins. [There is no template or directions for this. I snipped and trimmed and sketched until I got it the way that I wanted.] Adhered a few strips of bold B&W background prints to the gatefolds. Made a belly band for the sentiment and added a few layers of additional fall colors. Who knew that Halloween could be elegant?

For the Thanksgiving Card, I used another clear set from Inkadinkado called " Harvest Expressions." Stamped the pumpkins and one of the sentiments from this set onto leaf covered patterned paper. Also stamped the image on orange vellum, fussy cut it, adhered it over the other image and added a few highlights with a white gel pen. Added some richness to the card with layers of royal colored cardstock. Added a strip of rich brown heavyweight cardstock, wrapped with gold metallic ribbon and gold and burgundy trim. The final touch was to add a bit of warm gleam by attaching a red "gem" to catch the light. The inside of the card includes two sentiments from a Power Poppy digi set named "Autumn Opulence." Opulence is the perfect description for this card, don't you think?

 

 

 

Entered into: 

Twofer Card Challenge- #10 Harvest                                      (twofercardchallenge.blogspot.com)

Mod Squad Challenge- Pumpkins and Gourds                      (modsquadchallenge.com)

Word Art Wed Challenge- #356-357 Anything Goes           (wordartwednesday.blogspot.com)

Cute Card Thursday- #551 Halloween                                     (cutecardthursday.blogspot.com) 

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge                        (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com)

Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween Challenge                     (stampendousblog.wordpress.com)

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps  Challenge-Halloween        (cck-digitalstamps-challenge.blogspot.com)