Happy Holidays-Send A Smile 4 Kids

 

This month at Send A Smile 4 Kids we are celebrating the holidays. I created my card by stamping the adorable nutcracker using the Recollections Christmas Noel wood block stamp that I picked up from Michael's last year on clearance. I stamped the image three times onto Copic-friendly white cardstock and colored them using my alcohol markers in three different shades. I fussy cut them out. Using left over paper strips, I colored them in the matching inks using my Copic markers. I die cut black panel using a postage edge die from Papertrey Ink. I laid the strips of colored cardstock I created at the bottom of that panel and stamped the sentiment from Sunny Studio Christmas Cookies stamp set using Versafine onyx black ink. Using a piece of green metallic cardstock from Tim Holtz and the Honey Bee Spring Leaves cover plate, I created a textured metallic background. I adhered everything together, aligned the nutcrackers in a row across the focal panel, and adhered the entire panel to my white A2 card base. This was such a fun card to create! Now, be sure to pop on over the Send A Smile 4 Kids blog and see how everyone else was inspired. We would also love it if you participated in our challenge this month!

Season's Greetings

 

Today's card was created for the latest Inkspirational card challenge. I created my card by using a hex punch from Fiskars and patterned paper from The Paper Studio Vintage Christmas 6x6 collection. I created an A2 card base using some forest green cardstock from Hobby Lobby. I die cut a postage edge panel using a Spellbinders die. I cut down a smaller panel using scrap cardstock and adhered all of the "quilt" pieces. I adhered the whole panel to my card base. I then stamped the sentiment using Gina K Designs black ink and Recollections Christmas-Noel wood block stamp. I cut the panel down to a large sentiment strip and backed it with more forest green cardstock. I finished the card off by added some beautiful dark red gems to the berries using gem stickers from Honey Bee's Fresh Brewed collection. Thank you for stopping by my blog today!