A pop of Christmas red

Hello, crafting friends!

 

There's a brand new board at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge today! Betty has created it very cleverly so that you can go festive with the ideas, or use them for other occasion cards.

 

If you're a regular here, it will be no surprise to you to hear that Mrs McLateness here is still making Christmas cards!  Here's what I came up with using the central column Frame/Embossing/Winter Foliage:

 

I was also influenced by the White on White suggestion (top left of the board) but opted for a pop of festive red to liven things up :) I started by embossing a frame on a white panel with a folder by Sheena Douglas called Frosty Ice Border. I thought it gave a suggestion of pine needles. Next came the beautiful sentiment from Stampin' Up's Hope and Peace, stamped in their Real Red ink.

 

The edges of the front of the card base was coloured with the same red ink. I trimmed the card panel down a little before attaching it to the card front so that a red border showed around the embossed frame. Two of the corners were decorated with a variety of winter foliage die cuts which used up a whole load of white snippets, and I finished with a liberal sprinkling of sparkling gems.

Ok, it's over to you! Do hop over to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge blog to see the beautiful cards my team mates have made to inspire you, then choose a column, row or diagonal and create your own card.  When you're ready to share, you can link up using the blue Linky Tool button at the bottom of the Tic Tac Toe Challenge post. Have fun!

CHALLENGES

At Jingle Belles, Lauren and Stephanie are doing their annual Be Inspired By Our Header challenge! I was inspired by the red font and by the white foliage in opposite corners; I'm also joining in with Word Power, where the sentiment takes centre stage; I was marked absent for last fortnight's Snippets Playground homework (sorry Miss!) but have just managed to scrape in for this one - hooray!

AND IN OTHER NEWS

We have put up our Christmas tree, aided and abetted by a pair of curious golden girls poking their soft little noses into everything! Lulu is managing to leave the baubles alone so far...!

Sending hugs,

Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Hello, crafting friends!

 

I've been using up some more snippets today in my quest to get some more Christmas cards made. 

 

 

This panel of designer paper from UK store The Works was a left over piece. It was tall enough to fit an A6 card front but not wide enough, but I thought it would make a nice vertical panel with white margins either side. At first I couldn't figure out where a sentiment would work but then I realised that if I turned the snippet upside down; then the main 'star' would be in a better place for a scene and the sentiment could go at the top!

 

 

I tore a sticky note, held it in place over the designer paper and sponged in a hill just below the star using black ink. To emphasise it, I sponged a tiny bit of white craft ink above the hill line. The shepherd and a sheep were die cut from white snippets using a nativity set from Gemini. I cut a couple of extra sheep, so my shepherd could be watching a flock by night rather than just the one! They were coloured with markers and attached to the panel, with the shepherd and one of the sheep popped up on dimensional pads.

 

The sentiment is from Hope and Peace by Stampin' Up, stamped on the DSP with versamark and heat embossed in white. Finally, the panel was glued to a card base.

CHALLENGES

I used a left over snippet of designer paper and some snippets of white card for this card so I'm off to The Snippets Playground with it in my satchel; I'm also joining in with Try it on Tuesday where the theme is Traditional Christmas;  The optional theme at Happy Little Stampers Christmas is Festive Animals - as it is also at Double D, so I'm linking up there too.

 

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I have taken Lulu to a fenced off wooded area which runs alongside a field which is home to sheep for much of the year. She hasn't come across sheep before and predictably she was quite excited by the them, possibly thinking they were some kind of weird dogs! This was where Eva had her 'Leave It!' training with sheep and I hope it works as well for Lulu! Naturally I would never let her off lead in a field with sheep in it but you have to train for all eventualities. Once, when Eva was a pup, we were walking on a familiar path and found that a couple of ewes had escaped from their field. Thanks to her training, Eva was able to cope well with what could have been a difficult situation.

Sending hugs,