52 Christmas Card Throwdown - sketch challenge

 There's a new sketch challenge for March at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:

I went vintage style with my card for the challenge:

The Santa was stamped with brown ink and then lightly tinted using Tim Holtz watercolor crayons.  I added a few gold star sequins and some gold snowflake rubons.  The background stamp is from Stampabilities and the Santa image is from Paper Artsy.

North Pole Elves

 I'm playing along with two Christmas challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge:   E (elves), F (foliage) or G (gems)

Addicted to Stamps and More:  

Here's my card, with some North Pole elves getting ready for Christmas.

I used stamp sets from HoneyBee Stamps and Simon Says Stamp for this card, with a little glitter added to the snowy ground and some shimmer pen added to the snowy sky.  After a few very spring-like days, we're back in the 30's wintery weather here, so a snowy Christmas card just seemed fitting, lol!

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Galaxy challenge

 The challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters is "galaxy", which could include sun, moon, stars, etc.  I went with an ink blended galaxy background, which was a technique learned in the recent Blending Bootcamp event from Scrapbook & Cards today.

The stamps are from Lawn Fawn.  I love those little green aliens!

Freshly Made Sketches #727

 Here is the current sketch for the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches:

Here's my card for the challenge:

The squirrel and flower images are from Lawn Fawn, and the grass and sentiment are from The Ink Blot Shop.

Can You Handle the Pressure embossing challenge

 The current challenge at Can You Handle the Pressure is to use an embossing folder on your project.  The optional twist on this challenge is to make a sympathy card.  Here's my card:

I used the SSS Roseville Bouquet embossing folder with watercolor paper.  The sentiment was heat embossed with platinum embossing powder onto grey cardstock.  I try to keep sympathy cards pretty simple and subdued and I think the embossed floral design works for this.

AAA Birthday #83 - die cuts

 AAA Birthday is hosting challenge #83 - use die cuts on your project.

I used some stamps and dies from Concord & 9th for this birthday card.

It's hard to see in the photo, but the background die has a stitch pattern that embosses over all the placements for the die cuts, and also marks the balloon strings and the center oval.  This will go in the Cards for Cubs donation box I'm working on.

Addicted to CAS #303

 The current challenge at Addicted to CAS is the theme of "garden".

I used a very old from Great Impressions for this card.  I just love this happy little mouse with his wagonload of flowers.  The sentiment stamp is from Clearly Besotted.