Sleigh Ride in Shades of Pink -TGIF #87

Christmas in Pink looks quite exquisite!
I came across the challenge at TGIF (Thank Goodness its Friday) challenge where the theme this week was to think of a pink Christmas.
Well, I'm up for a challenge, and inspired a card given to me by one of my downline, I  create this pink Christmas card.

I apologize for the colour.  I used a lot of glitter on the card and the glitter bounced the light back so the card looks dark.  I took many pictures of the card  and this is as good as it gets.  The close up shows the card best.

The base card is Sweet Sugarplum card stock, layered first with Vellum with gold snowflakes in it.  That tones the pink of the sky somewhat and makes it look lighter.

The first layer was die cut in Red Rose card stock and adhered directly onto the vellum.

The second layer, was die cut with Sweet Sugar plum card stock and adhered to the first layer with dimensionals.

The third layer, was die cut with Pink Pirouette card stock and adhered to the second layer with dimensionals.

Wink of Stella (clear) was brushed on all layers and gold Baker's twine wrapped around the top and tied into a bow.

Supplies Used:

Stamp: Jingle All the Way

Ink: Sweet Sugar Plum

Papers: Sweet Sugar plum, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum

Accessories: Sleigh Ride Edgelits, Gold Baker's twine, dimensionals, Clear Wink of Stella glimmer brush

Jingle All the Way - Freshly Made Sketches #212

I wanted to use the Delicate Ornament Thinlet Die to make the card for the sketch challenge with Freshly Made Sketches but do you think I could find the thinlets?  Noooooooo!  For days I looked everywhere, but could not find it.
Today, I cleaned the entire craft room, took all the stamp sets off the shelves, took all the embossing folders out of the drawers, as well as all the framelits, but it wasn't anywhere.  Finally I started taking items off the top of the cabinet, and there stuck at an angle towards the back wall were the framelits.
Well, I now have a clean craft room.

 

• The basic cardstock is Night of Navy, layered with Whisper White cardstock.
• On a separate piece of Night of Navy cardstock, the ornament was die cut.  In the center of the die cut ornament, I adhered the horse and sleigh. Two way glue pen was used to adhere Dazzling diamonds to the snow under the sleigh.
• Dots of glue from the Fine tipped glue pen were randomy applied to the sky and dazzling diamonds added.
• The ornament topper was die cut with the die topper using dazzling diamond glimmer paper.  Some silver cord was inserted through it, and then a bow was made and added to the top using a glue dot.
• The completed ornament was added to a piece of Whisper White cardstock embossed with the Lucky Stars embossing folder using dimensionals.  This piece was matted with Night of navy cardstock.
• DSP (Home for Christmas) was cut in the same dimensionals as the other piece.  It was covered with a piece of Dryer sheet and dazzling details, then matted with Night of Navy cardstock.
• This piece of adhered to the card front, with the focal piece of added overlapping and slightly lower than the DSP piece (with dimensionals).
• The sentiment is from "Jingle All the Way".

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Jingle All the Way
Inks: Memento
Papers: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Home for Christmas DSP, Dazzling diamond glimmer paper
Accessories: Delicate Ornament Thinlet Die, Silver cord, Dazzling diamonds, Two Way glue pen, Fine tipped glue pen, Dimensionals, Glue stick, Lucky stars EF. 

Cozy Christmas - with poinsettia

Last night I pulled out a Christmas stamp set I hadn't touched yet, and made 3 days, some are partially cased from Pinterest.

• This is a 5 by 5 Whisper White card, with a died circle in the center.
• The stamp was stamped with Night of Navy, and shaded a bit with Smoky Slate using a blender pen.  The fox and the snowflakes in the sky are from "Jingle all the Way"
• Some dazzling diamonds was placed on the roof, trees around the house.
• The Festive Flower Punch was used to make a Real Red poinsettia (only 1 layer).  The petals were sponged with Cherry Cobbler ink; the leaves with Always Artichoke.
• Three red glimmer stars were adhered to the top left because my fingers had smeared black ink there just as I finished the card.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Cosy Christmas, Jingle all the Way
Papers: Whisper White, Real Red, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Red Glimmer Paper
Inks:  Night of Navy, Smoky Slake, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke 
Accessories: Two Way glue pen, dazzling diamonds, blender pen, Festive Builder punch, 1" circle punch, small star from Accessory Pack, glue dots, hot glue gun.

There's No Place Like Home - Try Stampin' On Tuesday #240

This card is for the Try Stampin' on Tuesday . I decided not to use an Autumn theme, instead using Christmas as I am short of Christmas cards.
I had a bit of fun making characters out of the little snowperson from "Snow Place" and placing them in little squares tilted on their sides.

 

• I started by punching three 1 3/8" squares in Whisper White, and matting them with 2" squares of Real Red cardstock.
• In each of the square I stamped the upper body of the small snowperson.  On a separate piece of Whisper Piece I stamped the top hat in Black, the ear pieces in Real Red, and the snowman hat in Real red.  All of these were die cut using the Snow friends Framelit dies.
• In the meantime I stamped some stick  arms (s) on the snowperson, and the coal belly buttons.  The nose was colored with a Pumpkin pie marker.
• The accessories were added to the snowperson with dimensionals.  With the ear piece I stamped some musical notes from "Jingle All the Way"
• Finally I added bling in the form of Dazzling diamonds - on the santa hat, the ear pieces, the hat, and the outline of the snowperson.
• A Home for Christmas enamal dots were added to each square.
• These squares were added onto a strip of Home for Christmas DSP matted with Smoky Slate cardstock.  The outer two squares were adhered directly to the DSP; the middle one with dimensionals.
• These DSP panels were adhered to a piece of Whisper White cardstock which was the matting for the Real Red cardstock base.

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Noel and a Sleigh Ride - Fab Friday #74

It's nice to do a challenge again and to make use of left overs from other projects. My craft show has kept me so busy I've hardly had time to breathe.  The sketch challenge with Fab Friday was pretty wide open, so I used the die cut from Sleigh Ride in a scene behind a window.

• The basic card is Whisper White cardstock, layered with Everything Chic DSP (both sides).
• On a separate piece of Whisper White the winter scene from "Happy Scenes" was stamped with Old Olive ink, and the sky coloured with Marina Mist.  Some clouds were made using scalloped circle punchies. I then added the sleigh and horse to the bottom of the scene. To make the sky sparkle with snow, I used the Fine Tipped Glue and dabbed it all over the sky and sleigh and then added Dazzling Diamonds. This Whisper White piece was then trimmed to fit behind the window and then adhered it to the window back.
• The window pane was attached to the window.  A piece of paper doillie was added and a piece of Old Olive cardstock added on top of that.
• The sentiment was stamped on a piece of Whisper White and made into a banner.  It was added to the green cardstock and a bow made of gold cording trim was added to that, as well as a Home for Christmas enamel dot.

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Home for Christmas

I managed to get a lot of work done today for my craft show this weekend which is a really good thing.
I also got ready for a cardmaking class tomorrow night.
Tomorrow morning I have to be totally prepared.

But I wanted to make another card with the Sleigh Ride Edgelits. I had so much fun with it last night. Tonight I wanted to use all three of the edgelits. It was a bit tricky, and I had to repeat the die cutting a number of times. Then when I got everything just right,  I made a mistake with the stamping of the sentiment. Some black ink had gotten on my finger and it smeared the words. So I decided to stamp it on a separate piece of Whisper White cardstock and added it over the error with dimensionals.

• The base cardstock is basic black, layered with Whisper White.
• the die cuts were layered on this Whisper White layer
• The first one I die cut was the houses - and that was die cut in Basic Black.  Before attaching it to the card I stamped the snowflakes in the sky using Soft Sky ink.
• The second layer, the trees, was die cut in Basic Gray cardstock.
• Finally the horse and sleigh - die cut in Whisper White.  I stamped a little doggie in the lower right corner, welcoming the individual home
• Dazzling diamonds was applied to this lower white layer.
• The sentiment is from"Jingle All the Way"
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Silent Night

I used the Sleigh Ride edgelit set for the first time tonight and I just loved it.  The problem with participating in craft shows is that you get so busy getting everything ready you don't always have time to just play.

Tonight I decided I needed a break, and I just played.

• I started with a basic cardstock of Night of Navy, and using Whisper White ink, stamped snowflakes all over the sky over 2/3 of the top of the card.
• Then using the Fine Tip glue pen, I dabbed ink all over the snowflake covered sky, and added dazzling diamonds to the sky.  Too bad the picture doesn't really show the wonder glimmer of that night sky.
• A piece of 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Whisper White was die cut using the edgelit with the buildings, and adhered it to the card front.  The piece of cardstock that was left was adhered to the inside of the card.
• The sentiment is from the stamp set "Jingle All the Way"

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