Supplies:
·
Digi and Background- The Paper Shelter
(Santa’s Family Selfie)
·
Colored with Spectrum
Noir alcohol markers, Sakura Gelly Roll white & silver gel pens
· Front sentiment-
Desert Diva (Hello)
· Front
Sentiment- “I Believe in Santa Claus” from Beccy’s Place Digi set (The Big Guy)
·
Sparkly Christmas Greenery Stickers- Hobby Lobby
Entered into:
Bugaboo Stamps Christmas in July- Fri: Color Challenge
The Paper Shelter- #437 Anything Goes
Word
Art Wednesday Challenge- #448-449 Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut’s
Christmas Challenge- #500 Anything Goes
Jan’s
Digi Stamps- Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #138 Christmas
in July (Week 4)
Since I’m a
DT for the sponsor of this challenge, I’m entering just for fun!
I’m loving
Christmas in July this year because I’ve added so many new Christmas stamps,
digis, dies, and embellies to my stash over the last year. This sweet digi from
Ching-Chou Kuik joined my CCK collection earlier this year and it was fun to
create a card featuring “Christmas Elf.” Since the current challenge theme for
CCK is to use dies and/or punches, I punched gold stars (from an upcycled bag
from Door County Coffee. One of our favorite Wisconsin products) and used a set
of Stampendous dies that I won in a challenge a few years ago but hadn’t yet
used.
So… am
able to enter this card into the NBUS Challenge (Never Before Used Schtuff!)
and also since it is packed full of embellies, I’m entering it into the Outlaws
Saturday Challenge “Fancy” (I looked up the word Fancy. It is an ADJECTIVE that means “elaborate in
structure or decoration.” In other words, the opposite of CAS. Since creating CAS
cards is always difficult for me, I
guess I’m more of a Fancy gal! On second thought, I might be more "fussy" than fancy as apparent on the inside of the card where I added a tree made with a scrap of green paper as part of the backdrop. Plus, I sketched around the inside of the sentiment with a fine line permanent black marker and dotted the 'i' with a silver star and little heart-shaped gem. Sometimes I just can't stop myself from adding more details!)
Supplies:
·
Digi- Ching Chou Kuik (Christmas
Elf)
·
Colored with Spectrum
Noir alcohol markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen
· Front
Sentiment- “Merry”- Stampendous Christmas Bright die set
· Inside
Sentiment- “Christmas”- Stampendous Christmas Bright die set
·
Gold Stars- made with tiny star punch and upcycled gold packaging from my stash
·
Assorted card stock and background papers, corrugated, gold photo
corners and tiny red heart-shaped rhinestone sticker from my stash
Entered into:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Reach For The Stars
Cute Card Thursday- Challenge
#644 Christmas in July
Ching-Chou Kuik's FB Challenge- [FB] Die-cuts
or Punches or Both
NBUS
(Never Before Used Schtuff!)- Challenge
#16
Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays
Outlawz Challenge- Saturday Paper Ala Mode- Fancy
Outlawz
Challenge- Inlinks Challenge
Living in Wisconsin
where dairy farms are everywhere means that EVERY day is Ice Cream Day! However,
I appreciate that July is the "officially designated" Ice Cream Month and July 19th was
National Ice Cream Day. So, I wanted to make a card to commemorate the event.
I opted for an iris fold card (using a free template) so pulled lots of pink
scraps from my stash for the cool treat, plus used scraps of tan vinyl
wallpaper from an old sample book to create the cone. (The scraps have lots of
texture and a mottled pattern that works perfectly for the cone!) The inside
sentiment made me laugh out loud when I found it on a wonderful blog, named Gingershouse,
which is jam-packed full of freebie sentiments. This was one of my favs… maybe
because in my job I work closely with our police department and sheriff’s
office. I think this card might just go to our Chief of Police who is an
amazing guy with a quirky sense of humor!
Supplies:
·
Iris Fold Ice Cream Cone- Instructions HERE.
· Inside sentiment- A freebie from
Gingershouse (I Scream You
Scream)
·
Assorted card stock, upcycled wallpaper scraps and paper scraps, pink
gems and photo corners from my stash
Entered into:
Day of the Month Challenge- National Ice Cream Day
Di’s Digi Stamps- Use Your Scraps
Pixie's Snippets-Week #383
Crafty Catz Challenge-
Anything Goes #516 (Optional twist- Make It Funny)
A Perfect Time to Craft 2020-Anything Goes- July Challenge
#7-2020
Hi Kathy your cards are stunning. I love them all. Take care. Hugs Jackie
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely cards!! I like the Bugaboo card with the fun "photo" stamp you colored in. I also love the inside. My favorite is the Iris fold ice cream!! This is SO COOL!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNow that is one cool ice cream cone! Brilliant idea! Perhaps one day I will have a change to taste Wisconsin ice cream - looking forward to it already! Thank you so much for playing with us at DotMCC!
ReplyDeleteFantastic cards! Thanks for joining in the Christmas In July challenges at Catch The Bug. Bonnie GDT
ReplyDeleteI just love the image on your Christmas card!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining in the fun in our Christmas in July at Catch the Bug!
Hugs from Africa!
OlgaB
Fantastic Christmas cards and I love your iris folding one too!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for joining us at Cute Card Thursday this week!
Debxx
LOL, love the sentiment and wonderful folding technique. Great card! Thank you for playing along with us at CRAFTY CATZ this week. Best of luck! Nick
ReplyDeleteAll of these cards are fabulous too!
ReplyDeleteThank you for playing along with us at Di's Digi Challenge!
Wonderful work Kathy - I adore your snippets entry. So clever!
ReplyDeleteHugs
Di xx
Great cards - thanks for sharing it with us at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge.
ReplyDeleteHelen x