Tracy's Christmas Challenge - July!!

Our Christmas card challenge for July was to:

1. Make 5 cards, as always,
2. NO layers!

I had to wrack my brains on this one! I'm at the point where I'm actually using many layers to make my cards and creations, and then Tracy decides NO layers!!! UGH! :)

Luckily, I had this gorgeous Stampin' Up stamp set from last Christmas to use! SO, on a blank A7 (5 in. x 7 in.) I stamped my 2 images, and watercolored them! I do love doing the watercoloring! When I was finished, I colored in the lights in the garland with my SU markers, and stickled them with the Crystal stickles. It really works great on the 'snow' too!

I had a background snowy swirly stamp from Inkadinkado that I used with the Bashful Blue ink to add some interest, without adding layers!

I hope you enjoy.

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Tracy's Christmas Challenge - June!! Yes, it's late, but it's DONE!!

The layers for the snow at the bottom just wouldn't cut, so I got out my Liquid Applique. WOW is that stuff AWESOME for snow effects! I let it dry, and the got out my heat embossing gun... it looks JUST like snow! I hope you can see it in the picture!!




So our Christmas card challenge for June was to:
1. Make 5 cards, as always
2. All cards must use the same main image but do not necessarily need to be all alike.
3. make a card using a different fold other than just an A2 or A7 card.


Originally, I was going to make a Joy Fold card - I found these on someone's blog, and searched out the directions on SplitCoast Stampers. If you look down on my blog through some of my Lime Light Design Team posts, you'll see 2 Joy Fold cards I made.



I actually had these Stairstep card forms waiting for me since last Christmas, and decided since I had that AWESOME Christmas Solutions cart, I just had to use it!!!

Many years ago, I would have my students color victorian style houses, and we would make a Christmas night scene either on our back wall in the classroom, or down the hallway at the school. I had a Santa flying on his reindeer silhouetted on the moon, and either black or dk. blue paper as a background, and snowflakes falling. With the cuts on this cart, it reminds me so much of those years!!!




THANKS Tracy!

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Tracy's Christmas Challenge - May!! Yes, late, but DONE!

So our challenge this month of May was to:

1. Make 5 cards as always.

2. The main image is to be the sentiment.

3. Use as much or as little pink as you like, but it must include some pink!

So truthfully, I wasn't so crazy about this challenge... and put it off, as well as finishing up the school year and being exhausted with all of that going on....

When I finally sat down to do these, I remembered I had bought a stack of Christmas paper a LONG time ago, and recalled that there was pink paper in that stack! I also remember thinking with attitude, WHY would someone put pink paper in a Christmas stack!!!! I mean, I can understand blue or purple along with the reds and greens.... but pink!!?? Now I sure am glad they did it!!

These are my very late May Christmas Challenge cards.

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Tracy's Christmas Challenge - April!

Tracy's challenge this month was snowmen. "Easy!" I thought... until I started looking through DS, and couldn't find a snowman I liked! RRRRR I got busy with other things, and just remembered last night. I got out my binder and started looking around at all my Cricut Cartridges as I always do when I need inspiration. There they were!!! ALL OVER the Speaking of Winter Cartridge!

This particular snowman is from the letter B. I used some DCWV Christmas Stack paper for the background - the Martha Stewart embossed snowflake punch, my brilliance sky blue inks for inking edges and snowflakes, and the Brilliant Blue Craft pad from Stampin' Up to emboss the Christmas sentiment. I also used the cinnamon brilliance ink for the straw on the broom and black, blue and silver glitter gel pens for accents -black for his eyes, blue dots on his mittten, and silver for the stringing on the broom.

The card came together so quickly once I got started!

THANKS Tracy for these challenges!

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Tracy's Christmas Challenge - March!

Here are my cards - created for Tracy's Christmas Challenge.


This month, our rules were:
1. Create 5 cards (as always).
2. Cards must be black and white, with one color accent.
3. Buttons are allowed as the only embellishment.


These are my cards...





I used the background paper from one of my B/W paper stacks,
2 Martha Stewart punches... the icicle border, and the button punch.

I have to admit, I use that button punch more than I ever thought I would!!

The snowflakes are from the Cricut Cartridge "Christmas Solutions",
and the oval is a Scalloped Nestabilities die, with Merry Christmas
stamped in Stampin' Up Glorious Green Craft ink,
and heat embossed with clear Ranger embossing powder.





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Christmas Challenge - February Cards

This month, our 5 card challenge was two-fold.

We were to create a square card, with no sentiment on the front.

This is my take on the square cards, and the stamp shows the

sentiment I stamped on the inside.

I got the Ultimate Crafter's Companion this week, and it is GREAT for making bows!!!

I could never do them very well before, but take a look at these! They're perfect.. Whoo HOOO

LOL

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Tracy's Christmas Challenge - January!

As per Tracy's rules on her site, here are my 5 cards for January. (I started a bit late with this, but will be current the rest of the year.)

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Tracy's Christmas Challenge

First, I LOVE this idea!

Christmas has to be my favorite of all the holidays. Crisp, cold days; snow on the ground; Christmas lights making everything cheery; the Christmas tree sparkling with all its lights...

Tracy's Christmas Challenge is an awesome idea... even with all my projects, I'm really going to try to do this one! It just sounds like fun, and I can have Christmas every month. What could be better than that! ? !

More when I get the first cards finished!

Who wants to join?? Come on! I know you do!


Thanks so much to Mudmaven for posting this idea from Tracy.