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 the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!  

You have until December 10th at 8:00 AM CST to be inspired and share your project!

Current challenge details and link-up are here.

The LEAD of this challenge will be invited to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

 A randomly selected participant in the Clearly Christmas challenge will win a $30 shopping code
from our sponsor, Winnie & Walter.

Here is my second card for the challenge.

I have silver embossed the sentiment from The Big, the Bold and Merry stamp set from Winnie & Walter and the hollies from Happy Christmas stamp set also from Winnie & Walter, on watercolour paper. I then added green and blue colour wash on the background. Finally added Sparkly Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

We look forward to seeing your creations!

Be sure to stop back on December 14th for the Lead and Show Stoppers from this challenge.
Then come back on December 15th for the next challenge!

Christmas Card Series - Set #9

Hello friends,

Welcome to the Christmas Card  Series. This is Set #9 in the series. This card set is inspired by this tag card I made for tag You're It Challenge #12

I loved this card for its simplicity but I wanted to add a bit more umph! Come on, it is festive season and I am making Christmas cards, right? So I added some sequins and spatter and jazzed up the rest of the cards in the set. Here is how I made them

I die cut the Poinsettias and coloured them using copic markers. Colour the diecut while they are still in place. Makes it a whole lot easier. I also used Wink of Stella clear shimmer on them to add some subtle shimmer.  

I die cut 9 of them, coloured and stacked glued them together with rhinestone in the middle. These poinsettias as really beautiful and adorable as they are small. So I need three for one card.

Then I die cut two tags using MFT tag die namics set. I layered the smaller tag over the bigger tag using foam adhesives.

The sentiment is also die cut. For the first card I used Merry Christmas diecut from Merry & Bright by Essentials By Ellen. But I wanted a diecuts slightly wider. So I used the dies from Papertrey Ink instead for the rest of my cards. I have diecut using gold foil cardstock.

I have prepared the card base using white card stock. The panel is Grout Grey cardstock from My Favorite Things. I have trimmed using my new American Craft paper trimmer which has the tiny scallop blade. I then sprayed the panels with Tsukineko's Sparkle shimmer and spattered with gold colour shine from Heidi Swapp. Now thats what I am talking about jazzing up the cards.

The tags are now layered with the sentiment and flowers. They are then glued to the card front at the centre using adhesive tape.

Here are the three finished cards.

For this card I added some green 6mm and 4mm sequins from Classic Christmas Collection from Pretty Pink Posh.

For the next card, I added some red baker's twine and gold 6mm and 4mm sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

For the last card, I  added some red 6mm and 4mm sequins from Classic Christmas Collection from Pretty Pink Posh.

Here are all four cards.

Hope you are inspired by this set. Next weekend card set will be my final set for the year.

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Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

Tag You're It Challenge #12.

Sharing with you new Tag You're It challenge #12.

Here is Tracey's Jingle all the way tag as inspiration.

I am simply inspired by the die cut elements and the sentiment on the tag. So here is my take on Tracey's tag.

I decided to make a tag card instead of a tag. I have used diecut elements and sentiment on my tag(s) on the card. The die cut element are the poinsettias from Simon Says Stamp. The tags are from My Favorite Things. The die cut sentiment is from Essentials by Ellen Merry & Bright dies.

The poinsettias are real beauties. They are tiny but pretty adorable. I did hesitate to die cut them because of its size. But once I started, I could not stop. They are so adorable. I have a tutorial on this tag card tomorrow. So not giving away many details at the moment. :) Here is a closeup.

Check out Tag You're it challenge Blog for more design team inspiration. Come and play along. Enter your take on the challenge at the linky at TYIC blog.

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure to stop by tomorrow for the tutorial of this card (set)

Warm Winter Wishes - A distressed Christmas card

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Hello folks,

Today I am sharing a Christmas card for Virginia's View Challenge #10  - All Things Distressed.

I love distressing technique but I rarely use the technique except if you consider  using distress markers on my cards lol! It is not my style but I have given the technique a go :)

Here is my card for the challenge.

I have used kraft cardstock as my base and for the panel. The stamp set I have used on my card is called Gleeful from Penny Black.

I stamped the row of houses, the girl with the dog on the sledge and the kids with dog on the sledge image on the kraft panel and white heat embossed the images. I love colouring on kraft cardstock. So I went ahead and coloured the images using distress markers. I also added some distress markers to ground the images. I stamped and heat embossed the image at three levels to give some depth.

I then trimmed the panel, sponged the edges with Frayed Burlap distress ink, distressed the edges of the panel using scissors. Then used white gel pen to draw faux stitching detail. On the card base, I sponged the edges with Frayed Burlap distress ink and then drew border lines using white gel pen. I then curled the edges on the panel and adhered on the card front using foam adhesives. The sentiment is from Whooo's Wishes stamp set also from Penny Black which I have white heat embossed on the kraft cardstock, trimmed and cut the fish tail banner, sponged the edges with frayed Burlap distress ink before adhering to the card using foam adhesives. I added Wink of Stella on a few images.

I am so happy with how this card turned out. The colours just pop out with the white embossing. This is one of my favourite Christmas cards this season :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Papercraft Scrapbooking Magazine Blog Hop

Hello everybody,

Welcome to Papercraft Scrapbooking Magazine Blog Hop. 

You should have come from Annette Witherspoon's blog. Don't worry if this is your first stop. I will list all the participants towards the end of the post.

It all started with playing Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab world for me. I looked forward to playing along the challenge every week. What an excitement when I saw my name in honourable mention :) Then more when my card was the winner. This gave me confidence about my work. It was one of my goals to get published in the prestigious Papercraft magazine. After a few attempts, my work got accepted. That thrill of waking up to see Susan's acceptance email, wow! I can never forget that :)  I am one of the lucky ones who got published many times at Papercraft Magazine when they were in print. I am forever grateful to the publication because my work got noticed in the craft community. I came to know of lot of designers, made friends, got into design teams and learned a lot in the process.  I am so sad that the legendary magazine is closing down but the memories of being part of it will always be with me. 

This is one of magazines where my card made it to the cover.

This is my card on the cover using The Craft's Meow stamps. Unfortunately The Craft's meow also closed :(

Here is my thank you card for the entire Papercraft Magazine team. 

My trademark bright, bold and colourful card using Altenew stamps. The sentiment says it all :)

Now head over to Laura William's Blog next in the hop.
Here is the list of all the participants in the blog.






Thank you very much, Susan, Jennifer, Stacey, Holly, Kerri, and all the PC Go to Gals. BIG HUGS to all of you :)