52 Christmas Card Throwdown - August technique challenge

 The technique challenge for this month at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is to create a fracture card. You can see a tutorial for this technique on the 52CCT blog.

Sometimes called a shutter card, this technique involves a shaped centerpiece (typically a square or diamond), a pattern paper background and thin 1/4" cardstock strips that match the card base.  Here's my card for the challenge:

I stamped and colored the square Santa image, then tilted it slightly so the fracture strips would be angled. I added a few tiny clay peppermint pieces to the top and bottom strips.

Cozy Christmas

 Jingle Belles is hosting a "Masculine Merriment" challenge right now, featuring cards with a more masculine feel to them.

I pulled out an older Hero Arts stamp and die set and made this little Christmas fireplace scene.  It's a more muted color scheme with the darker red fireplace and gray hearth, so I thought it fit with the more masculine theme.  Plus, who doesn't like to sit by the fire on a cold winter night?  I inked around the edges of the background with some dark red and kraft inks to create a bit of a frame for the image.

ABC Christmas Challenge for August

 The current challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge is a choice between:

P - penguins

Q-Quartet

R-rectangles

I went with Q for quartet, with four sparkly little bottle brush Christmas trees.

The background was embossed with snowflakes.  I stamped the bottle brush trees in various colors, using gray for the bases on all, then die cut them.  Crystal glitter was applied to the trees and once that dried, I adhered them to the card front, along with a silver embossed sentiment.  I love the nostalgic vibe of the colorful bottle brush trees.   

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - August color challenge

 The August color challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is to use red, green and brown on your card.

Here's my card for the challenge:

Stamp and dies are from the Timeless Tidings set from Tonic Studios.  I reallyl like the pine branches in this die set, they cut really well.  The white label die is from Gina Marie Designs.  I don't use kraft as a base for Christmas cards to often, but it was just perfect for this woodsy foliage feel.

Sparkles Christmas challenge #186

 The current challenge at Sparkles Christmas is a monochrome Christmas.  For my card, I used shades of green/teal for the trees and the sparkle background behind them, as well as the sentiment.

I added three tiny gold star sequins to the top of the trees for a bit of shine.  The tree stamps are ones from PaperTrey Ink that I hadn't used in a long time.  I'd forgotten how cute they are!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #112

Christmas Kickstart's current challenge is all about the presents!

Here's my card for the challenge. I used a few different stamps sets for this one.  The sentiment was heat embossed in gold.  The presents were adhered with a mix of flat and dimensional adhesive.    I used a splatter stamp for the background sparkles.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - "Baubles" challenge

 The theme challenge for July from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is "baubles".  

Here is my card for the challenge.  The ornaments were stamped and colored with Olo markers.  I lightly ink blended around the edges of the snowflake patterned paper and added some shimmer pen to areas of the ornaments for some sparkle.