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I have been crafting since May 2008, when in desperation to find an unusual birthday card for my Mum, I gave up looking in the shops and decided to have a go at making my own. I soon realised that crafting is addictive and I haven't brought a card since. I am slowly starting to sell my cards now to friends, family and work colleagues. As my confidence has grown I have started to enter Challenges on line and in magazines, and I love having to think outside of my comfort zone to come up with something different. I really like the current trend for vintage and shabby chic. I really enjoy using die cutting in my designs and am just starting to poke my toe in the water with regards to stamping and colouring my own images.

Monday, 3 December 2012

Pastel Christmas

Having three grandchildren of similar ages it is always a challenge to create their Christmas cards every year. They have to be different enough for them to feel that each card is specially for them, but similar enough to prevent any falling out. This year I decided that they are old enough to move away from pictures of Santa, which have formed the basis of their cards for the past couple of years, so I went with stockings.

I don't do much colouring but am trying to get to grips with my Spectrum Noir markers, so I used a digi stamp from Crafty Sentiments. It was sent to me last year when I took part in a blog hop at Craft Your Passion, it is a simple design but looks really effective. I also decided to go with a pastel palette for a change.  Here are the three cards I came up with


By using different papers from my stash I was able to create three designs.


 I went with lovely girlie pink for Chloe-Ann our granddaughter. I am entering this card into the following challenges.
http://inkyimpressionschallenges.blogspot.co.uk - Pastel Christmas
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk - Girlie Christmas
http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/challenge-93-christmas.html - Christmas








Damien and Aaron got green and blue respectively. I added two tiny 'jingle bells' to each card on top of a snowflake glittered the appropriate colour using stickles glue and then added snowflakes which had been coated with iridescent stickles. I also added a thin layer of glossy accents too the candy canes to give then a shiny finish.

Finally I printed matching inserts for each card and added a die cut greeting panel with their names on.
I am entering the boys cards into the following challenges.
http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk- Christmas sparkle - lots of stickles
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ = pile on the embellishments, ribbons bells and snowflakes
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/ - snowflakes
http://simplycreatechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ - Anything goes
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/ -Anything goes
http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ - Non traditional Christmas colours
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9 comments:

  1. beautiful cards pretty colours thanks for sharing with us at 2 sisters this week good luck with the challenge Tracy x

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  2. Adorable cards in those soft tones...love them...thanks for joining Inky Impressions!
    xxx Margreet

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  3. the green stocking is to die for! thanks for sharing and joining us at inky impressions, good luck in the draw and happy holidays!

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  4. I love your pastel Christmas trio of cards. The stocking image is wonderful and love the embellies on these. :) With cards this pretty couldn't help but become a follower lol. Thanks for sharing with us at Make It Monday!

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  5. These are beautiful - such lovely pastel colours - thanks for joining in my CHNC challenge 101 - hope to see you again soon. x

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  6. Beautiful card in pastel!!! Wow! Thanks for participating in our PILE IT ON challenge!!

    ~DEANNE~

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  7. Hi there Alli!
    I was SO blessed to happen upon your lovely blog today. You have so many delightful projects, and I was SO inspired. Thank you for that!
    I would like to let you know about Word Art Wednesday, and invite you to play along. We're always an Anything Goes challenge, and this week we have two awesome sponsors (Really Reasonable Ribbon and Paper Sweeties). I hope you will join us and play along.
    Have a great week, and I really hope you will join us.
    Karen
    Word Art Wednesday
    www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com

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  8. I saw your beautiful creation on Make It Monday and had to visit and take a closer look. Gorgeous! TFS!

    My entries are: #9, #12, #30, # 87, # 126, #127, #128, #157, #172, #173 and #176.

    I would love to have you visit my blogs: Paper and Scraps Creations by Julia and Me and Myself on the Dark…

    Hugs,

    Julia

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  9. love the soft colors on all of the projects, thanks for joining SC

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