Creature Feature challenge @ Jingle Belles

The current challenge at Jingle Belles is to include some type of "creature" on your Christmas card.  I used these cute little penguins from Mama Elephant's "Polar Pals" set. 

The background die is from Simon Says Stamp, and sentiment and tree are from Hero Arts.  I used some curved stitch dies from Paper Smooches to make the snowy hills, and then added some stickles and some touches of clear Wink of Stella glitter pen on the stamped images.

I'm also entering this in the Christmas Cards All Year Round Challenge, which is to create a card with no patterned paper. 

Warm holiday wishes

I made this card as part of the "homecoming" celebration going on at Catherine Pooler's blog.  Catherine is the owner of StampNation, a SU representative and pretty much an expert on rubber stamping!  She just gave her blog a completely new look, and to celebrate, she is hosting a challenge to create a card with a "home" theme. 

The stamps used on this card are from Hero Arts (house and tree) and Mama Elephant (sentiment).  The house was stamped, then masked off so the trees could be stamped behind the house a little bit.  The image was colored with Copic markers and then I added some Stickles for a little bit of snowy shimmer.

 

Check out Catherine's blog and join in the challenge for your chance to win some fabulous prizes!

Another hybrid card for Jingle Belles!

I combined the Jingle Belles hybrid card challenge with a card sketch challenge over at My Scraps & More to come up with this card.  The snowman in the Polaroid frame is a digi stamp from Whimsie Doodles.  I printed it three times, inked and colored different portions and then adhered it back together for some dimension.  I added some Stickles and a stamped sentiment from Mama Elephant.