Classic Twinkle Tidings

My second project with the October Betterpress Society plate, Twinkle Tidings was a more classic colour combo.

I pressed the plate with a Pinkfresh Studio green ink to mimic a classic strand of Christmas lights.  I used the coordinating stencils to ink blend the other colours onto the lightbulbs.

I cut a Pinkfresh Studio frame die in matching green cardstock, and layered it a couple of times for a bit of dimension, adhering it to the base.  I cut the Merry and Bright dies (old Echo park dies) in some red glitter cardstock, layered them once and adhered them over the frame and base.

The 'and' was from a stamp set in my stash.  And that was it!  Quick and easy.

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Gingerbread Martini

 I've made my last martini cards for the year!  I hadn't had a chance to use the little gingerbread man or the Santa hat yet, so I put together a couple of these in a bright & pretty colour combo.

This is the Olive Martinis set, with the Christmas Cocktails add-on, and the Betterpress Cheers Sentiments, all from Spellbinders.

I used some old patterned paper from my stash, and die cut a smaller rectangle from it that I layered over two other pieces of cardstock so that it was raised up from the base.  I used glitter cardstock for the glass, and added a few gems for some sparkle.

Halloween Martini card

This was my first project with the October Betterpress Society plate, 'Twinkle Tidings'.  It's pretty clearly a Christmas plate, but I got it in my head that I should see if I could make it a Halloween card.  I was going for 'Pretty Halloween' with my colour combo:

I used four Distress Oxide inks along with the coordinating stencils to colour the plate, then used Hickory Smoke and Black Soot to add a grungy look to the edges.

I'm using the Olive Martinis die set from Spellbinders to make a sparkly Halloween martini - cutting the glass out of black glitter cardstock, and the other bits from cardstock that coordinated with my ink colours.

And yes, I made the little olive dies into eyeballs, drawing on some pink veins with a Twintone marker.  The sentiment is from the Cheers Sentiments press plate that coordinates with the Martini dies, and was popped up on 3D foam adhesive.  A few black gems finished it off.

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Unity Gretchen Girl

My sweet niece gifted me this image and sentiment!  It was the perfect thing to colour up with my Copic markers while the snow was falling outside my window.  My daughter thinks it looks like me from behind :-)  This is Gretchen Girl from Unity Stamp Co.

I pulled out my Handmade Christmas papers by Simple Stories from a few years ago, as this needed some cozy, homemade vibes to go with the image.  The image is adhered with 3D foam adhesive.

I added a little greenery and some brushed gold snowflakes.  When I decide who to give it to, I'll probably add a little glitter to the snow.

Not a Creature was Stirring

Such a sweet stamp set!  This is 'Not a Creature was Stirring' from Lawn Fawn.  I stamped quite a few of the images several months ago, then coloured and fussy cut them all out this fall.  Today I got five of these put together!  And I still have a pile of extra images to use another time.

 

Everything was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then coloured with Copic markers.

I used some old CTMH papers from my stash to create a tabletop, and stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  A little glitter was added to many of the white areas.

I've taken a couple of non-staged photos, as it proved difficult to capture how pretty the colours of this were!

Snow One Like You

I won a prize on the Lunar New Year Challenge blog last year, and was able to get the sweet Snow One Like You stamp set that I'd missed out on a few years ago (the image).  I coloured a bunch of them up a few weeks ago, and got three made into cards today.

I ink blended my sky using Wild Honey, Kitsch Flamingo and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide inks.  I added the Birch Trees dies, and cut a snowbank with the Hillside Background dies.  The sentiment is from the Snow Much Fun set - all from Lawn Fawn.

I trimmed my panel with the A2 Stitched Rectangle die, matted it with black cardstock, and glued it onto a piece of patterned paper from the 6131 Halloween S3 pack - both from Art Impressions.

Winter Sprig Christmas cards

I had stamped all of the greenery for today's five cards last year!  So all I had was a pile of pretty die cuts waiting to be used.  It feels great to pull them out and put together some cards.

 

All of the greenery is from the Winter Sprig set from Pigment Craft Co., stamped in shades of Distress Oxide ink, and cut with the coordinating dies.  The bows are from the Fit To Be Tied die set by The Greetery.  I arranged everything in a swag, and put them on a Postage Rectangle die from Spellbinders that was attached to the base with some foam adhesive.  For the first three, I used the Candy Cane stripe stencils from Pigment Craft Co. to add a little background interest.

For all of the cards, I used Foilable sentiments from Pink & Main that were run through my Minc machine with silver and gold foil - a nice little bit of sparkle.