Christmas Hugs-Send A Smile 4 Kids

We are rapidly approaching the end of 2022, and this is our last challenge of the year at Send A Smile 4 Kids. This month we are creating winter cards for kids. I am still in Christmas card-making mode, so I had to make a Christmas card. I created this card by stamping the adorable little images from Mama Elephant's Hot Cocoa stamp set onto white Copic-friendly cardstock and coloring them using my alcohol markers. I fussy cut the images out leaving a small white border around them. I then embossed a plain white piece of cardstock using the Spellbinders plaid embossing folder and mounted the panel directly onto my white A2 card base. I then added a panel of wonky plaid patterned paper from the American Crafts Very Merry 6x6 paper pad onto my card at an angle. Then using a Fiskars scalloped edge punch and some olive cardstock I created a small, scalloped border using some which I attached under the patterned paper to create some interest between it and the white embossed panel. Then using Spellbinders scalloped circle and nesting circle dies I created the focal panel. I popped the adorable little images up using Stampin' UP foam dimensionals. I then stamped the sentiment from the Crate Paper Snow and Cocoa mini stamp set onto more olive cardstock using Versamark ink and heat embossed it using Ranger detail embossing powder in white. I cut that down into a small sentiment strip and mounted it under the focal panel using more foam dimensionals. I die cut the Hugs sentiment using more olive cardstock and My Favorite Things Essential Elements Alphabet dies. I glued the sentiment directly onto the card base, and finished the card with some white gel pen detail and some light green enamel dots from Simple Stories. Now, be sure to head over to Send A Smile 4 Kids and see how the rest of the design team was inspired by this month's challenge. 
 

Merry Christmas

 

Hello and happy Friday! Today's card was created for the latest Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. To create my card I started by layering some cherry cobbler cardstock from Stampin' UP onto my white A2 sized card base. I then die cut the Flurry Frame from Mama Elephant using some plain white card stock and popped it up off of my card using foam adhesive strips from Stampin' UP. I then die cut the banner and the snowflake circle from the same Mama Elephant die set using more white cardstock. I stamped the sentiment from the Papertrey Ink Winter Snow Globe stamp set using Gina K Design basic black ink. I stamped the adorable image from Mama Elephant's Hot Cocoa stamp set onto white Copic-friendly cardstock, colored it using my alcohol markers, and then fussy cut the image out. I edged it with my dual tip Memento marker and added some white gel pen details to the image, and adhered it onto the die cut snowflake circle panel from the same Mama Elephant die set. I cut a floral piece of patterned paper from the Simple Stories Cozy Christmas 6x6 paper pad and adhered that directly to the card at the center of the snowflake panel. I added the snowflake circle panel and the sentiment banner to the card using more foam strips from Stampin' UP. To finish off the card I added some small black gems from a diamond art kit that I had. I just couldn't throw them away and thought they would make good elements on cards! Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!