Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 489 - Include a Tree or Two or More

This week at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge, we are looking for cards with trees! I decided to make some more watercoloured tree backgrounds and trees. I used various tree stamps and dies from Tim Holtz, Penny Black, Stampin' Up, Impression Obsession and Dee's Distinctively Dies.

I used Distress Ink sprays and ink pads as the watercolour media, watercolour and Neenah Solar white card stock/paper. The snow hills are hand-cut. I tried using multiple colours for a blended effect, and the smooshing technique. All around I simply had fun.

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C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 511 – 25th of April – Distress your project

This will be my final card I make as a member of the C.R.A.F.T. Design Team. It has been a fabulous 4.5 years and I will truly miss working with Jo and her wonderful team. The C.R.A.F.T. challenge this week is to distress our project. I used a SVG digital file simply called Ice Skate card delightful cut by Digital Delights by Louby Loo. I downloaded the project to Cricut Design Space and cut out the pieces. Before assembling the skate I distressed and inked each piece using the Tim Holtz distress blade tool and Distress ink. Vs using the circle holes for the skate, I opted to use my We R Memory Keeping Eyelet punch and used twine laces. I added a Merry tag by Kaisercraft.

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C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 510 – 18th of April – Recipe

For our CRAFT challenge this week, Jo is inviting everyone to design a card based on a recipe. It must include an image, 2 ribbons, and 3 patterned papers. This challenge was especially fun as I used papers designed by our own Design Team Leader, Jo at Trimgym’s Digistamps, Papers and Images.  For my image, I used a cute mouse and snowflake by Penny Black that I coloured with my Copics.

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C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 509 – 11th of April – Christmas

The CRAFT design team is trying to help you establish your Christmas card stash, so we have another Christmas card challenge. I decided to do something a little non-traditional. I used a fun silhouette digi stamp called, Roping Santa Digital Stamp Q-digi13709 by QKR Stampede. I started by printing the digi using my laserjet printer. Next, with my Minc embossed the image with black foil. Using Distress Ink I blended a sunset background. Finally still using Distress Ink and Versafine ink, and a retired western themed stamp set by the late Waltzingmouse Stamp Co. I stamped the mountain/desert background. The sentiment was from cardstock from my stash.

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 508 – 4th of April – Inspired by a Song

The C.R.A.F.T. Design Team is looking for a project inspired by a song. With St. Patrick’s Day just passed, I was listening to the Irish Rovers. One of my favourite songs is their Unicorn Song. Yesterday was my honorary granddaughter’s Fourth birthday. Her theme was “Unicorn Princess”. I racked my brain for ideas because I wanted to make her something extra special. I ended up with a Unicorn Princess paperscape shadowbox. For the base of the picture I used Dreaming Tree’s, For Mom SVG Bundle and added the Unicorn Princess SVG from Printable Cuttable Creatables. All the papers, gems, pearls, were from my stash. The shadow box was picked up when Hobby Lobby had their buy one get one free sale. Everything was cut with my Cricut Explore Air and Design Space. I did cut 4 sets of eyelashes and doubled them up for more dimension. My granddaughter loved it. She loves her bling! Note: It was hard to photograph as the picture was behind glass.

 

Jo-El’s 4th Birthday Party Dress!

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 507 – 28th of March – Add a Charm

This week, the DTs at C.R.A.F.T. are looking for a card with an added charm. I am using a simple mistletoe digi from Dr. Digi. I placed the Copic coloured digi inside a die from Find It Trading – Precious Marieke Die – Spirit of Christmas Snowflake Circle and added a metal charm by Tim Holtz from my stash.

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 506 – 21st of March – Spring/Easter

The Design Team at C.R.A.F.T. are thinking of Spring and Easter on the official first day of Spring. To celebrate the end of Winter we are looking for a Spring/Easter card. I used an adorable Easter basket called, LizzyLove IMG35 by Odd Ball Art Co.  I love digital stamps because you can make the image any size you want. I made two A2 cards to demonstrate this. I coloured the images with Copic markers. I used various papers from my stash and some dies – bunnies, sentiments, and frame to complete my design.

Card 1

card 2

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 505 – 14th of March – Christmas

Welcome to this week’s C.R.A.F.T. Challenge. We are looking for a Christmas themed card. I selected an adorable snowman and ornament digi stamp by Bugaboo Stamps. I coloured him with my Copics and highlighted the heart and ornament top with glossy accents, The papers are from my stash.

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 504 – 7th of March – Sketch

 

Time again for another Sketch Challenge from C.R.A.F.T. I changed up the design slightly to fit a 4.25″ x 5.5″ A2 card. I used a stamp set called Snowman Soup by Sweet n Sassy. The stamped image was coloured with Spectrum Noir Markers. The papers and stickers are from my stash. Note: I purchased my clear stamp and die set from Sweet n Sassy, however now it is only available as a digital stamp – The bonus is that you can make the image any size!

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 503 – 28th of February – Mothers’ Day

Gosh, Christmas and Valentine’s Day just passed, and Mother’s Day and Easter are fast approaching! Our challenge this week is the create a Mother’s Day Card. I decided to dust off my Cricut machine and using a fabulous Cascade Card design from Dreaming Tree, I created a Mother’s Day card. This card design would also be lovely for a birthday, wedding, anniversary, and more. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps.

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 500 – 7th of February – Colour Combo

 Red: R151, G1, B21

Pink: R219, G111, B137

Off-white: R245, G240, B210

Yellow: R252, G231, B47

Orange: R234, G124, B13

We at CRAFT are running a Colour Theme Challenge this week. I had a digital stamp called, Summer Holidays by Dr Digi in my stash so I used it and paper from my stash is create a quick travel card for friends leaving for the South. I like to colour while watching TV and often colour numerous images in advance. For this image, I had used my Copic markers and luckily used all the colours from this week’s challenge.

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 499 – 31st of January – Anything Goes

This week the challenge is open – Anything Goes! I decided to get a start on my Easter cards. I choose a cute digital grouping from Bugaboo Stamps, called “Bunny Block Trio“. I coloured them with my Copic markers and placed arranged them on some papers from my stash.

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Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge 422 – No Sentiment

This week’s challenge at CHCC, we are looking for a card without a sentiment. I chose to use a stamp by Stampendous called, Christmas Cottage. I started by embossing the image with white embossing powder. Nxt using Oxide Distress Inks I coloured the card front using yellow, oranges and reds. I cleaned the ink off the embossing, layered the card on card front then flicked water droplets over the front for effect.

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C.R.A.F.T. – Challenge 498 – 24th of January – Love/Valentines

This week the CRAFT Design Team is looking for a Love or Valentine’s Day Card. Yes, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! I picked this adorable digi from The Paper Shelter,  called Pizza Chef. I was originally thinking on the Dean Martin song, Amore…When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie – That’s amore! but I ended up with “You stole a pizza of heart! Happy Valentine’s Day” for my inside sentiment. I used my Copic Markers to colour the chef, and dies and scraps to make the pizza.

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