Day 23 - "B&W+1"

B & W + 1

Black and white plus one extra colour.

YOUR TURN: Create a card using black and white plus one additional colour.

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Products:

Goose With Baubles

Original artwork by Beccy Muir, all rights reserved. Images are for personal use and must not be copied, swapped, shared, resold or mass produced without the express written permission of the artist.

Day 6 - "F"

Stanley's Bauble is a free image from right here on the Beccy's Place blog. I've coloured him with alcohol markers and then loaded up his bauble with Kindy Glitz followed by a generous layer of Crystal Accents for a super high shine.

YOUR TURN: Create a card using the letter "F" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

Family, father Christmas, Feliz Navidad, feast, fir tree, frankincense, Frosty the snowman, fireplace, fruitcake, figgy pudding, festive, freebie, fussy cutting, fancy folds, flip flop card, fluorescent, fuchsia, French blue

Day 26 - "W"

Wink of Stella is one of my favourite mediums for adding sparkle and shine to coloured images. It's not as vibrant as glitter but when it catches the light at the right angle it really puts on a show!

YOUR TURN: Create a card or papercraft project using the letter "W" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

Wise Men, winter, wreath, workshop, wrapping paper, wonder, waterfall card, window card, watercolour, Wink of Stella, watermarks, wax resist, weaving, white, white on white, white with one.

Stamps:

Day 10 - "I"

I love the contrast between clean white pencils and warm, homey kraft card stock, it's one of my favourite combinations. I've added lots of Stickles Rock Candy and Icicles around the image panel to give the impression of snow and ice, and I coloured the baubles with white and grey pencils with a white gel pen "string".

YOUR TURN: Create a card or papercraft project using the letter "I" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

Ice, ice skating, icicle, imagination, iridescent, inking, italic, iris folding, indigo, ivory

Stamps:

Day 2 - "B"

I'm going with "B" for bauble today, it's a freebie that you can find HERE. After colouring it with my alcohol markers, I decided to jazz it up with some Wink of Stella (my all time favourite sparkle medium) as well as some "Rock Candy" stickles along the centre band.

YOUR TURN: Create a card or papercraft project using the letter "B" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

Blitzen, boots, bows, box cards, bendy cards, building block cards, bleaching, beads, brads, burnishing, blue, brown, black, baubles

New Releases

I don't usually release new images in November, given how busy things get with the monthly challenge, but this year I had some designs that I really wanted to share (and also use for the challenge prompts!)

Christmas Cheers

digital stamps

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Making Merry

digital stamps

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Day 17 - "O"

Okay, so perhaps these are more bauble than ornament, but I'm thinking an ornamental bauble also fits the brief... right? Right. The little bit of sparkle you can see is from my trusty Wink of Stella brush.

YOUR TURN: Create a card or papercraft project using the letter "O" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:
ornaments, over the edge cards, oval cards, one layer, origami, outdoor, Our Lord, orange, ochre, onyx

STAMPS:

   

Hot Tip Tuesday

You don't always have to spend lots of time colouring to get great images for your cards, scrapbook pages and paper craft projects. For a fabulous, consistent look, try stamping directly onto coloured card and then add some highlights and shadows with pencil. As you can see in the photo below, I've also used a gold pen for some extra colour and shine.

Stamps:

Day 16 - "N"

For today's "N" prompt, I've chosen no-line colouring. It's a technique where you stamp or print your image in very light coloured ink so that the lines virtually disappear when the image is coloured, giving you an artsy, hand-drawn look. You can find a tutorial under "Everything Papercraft" at the top of the page.

YOUR TURN: Create a card or project using the letter "N" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

North Pole, noel, nativity, naughty, nice, nutcracker, northern lights, no-line colouring, napkin fold, never ending card, naples yellow, navy, neon

Stamps:
Festive Baubles digital stamps
Festive Baubles clear stamps

Day 6 - BINGO Grid

It's our first non-letter challenge for this round of Holiday Cards, and we're starting with one of my favourites - a Bingo Grid! Select one line from the grid below, horizontal, vertical or diagonal, and create a card using the selected elements.

YOUR TURN: Create a card using the Bingo Grid above.

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Day 2 - "B"

This was originally a practice piece, but I was so happy with the artsy look of the baubles that I decided to use it on a card. It wasn't a complete success though... the rather large sentiment flag is hiding a bit of a mess, but we'll just keep that between ourselves.

YOUR TURN: Create a card using the letter "B" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

Blitzen, boots, bows, box cards, bendy cards, building block cards, bleaching, beads, brads, burnishing, blue, brown, black, baubles

Stamps: Festive Baubles

Day 26 - "W"

Many years ago, when I was still scrapbooking regularly, I often joined in a challenge called "White with One". I liked the name because that's how I drink my coffee, but it was also a colour challenge where you must choose one colour plus neutrals. That old challenge is what has inspired my white with one card.

YOUR TURN: Create a paper craft project using the letter "W" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

Wise Men, winter, wreath, workshop, wrapping paper, wonder, waterfall card, window card, watercolour, watermarks, wax resist, weaving, white, white on white, white with one.

Stamps: Stanley's Bauble (freebie)

Day 19 - "Q"

A quilted stocking stuffed full of vintage glass ornaments would be a superb gift for someone who loves the holidays. Sadly, I don't own a quilted stocking, and even if I did, I have nary a vintage glass ornament with which to stuff it. Alas, I shall simply have to settle for an image of a quilted stocking stuffed full of the aforementioned vintage glass ornaments.

YOUR TURN: Create a card or papercraft project using the letter "Q" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

quilt, quilted paper, quote, quilling, quill, quiet, quarter fold card, quatro fold, quartz

Stamps: Christmas Stocking freebie

New Release: Festive Baubles

Festive Baubles is a clear stamp set containing five image stamps and four mix and match sentiments. The baubles are based on traditional glass ornaments and are simple to colour and fussy cut for all sorts of papercraft projects. The individual baubles come in three sizes and are perfectly symmetrical for projects requiring a "front" and "back".

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Carla and Anesha have created some wonderful projects using the new stamps...

Day 17 - "O"

"O" is for ornaments, the one Christmas decoration in our house that seems to multiply every year. And not only do they multiply, but they end up in places that I don't ever remember storing them.

YOUR TURN: Create a papercraft project using the letter "O" as your prompt.

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INSPIRATION WORDS:

ornaments, over the edge cards, oval cards, one layer, origami, outdoor, Our Lord, orange, ochre, onyx

Stamps: Festive Baubles

December Challenge

Create a card or paper-craft project using any Beccy's Place image, upload a photo of it to your blog and submit a direct link below. The challenge runs from now until midnight on the 31st of December 2017 (AEST).

PLEASE READ THE CONDITIONS CAREFULLY

BEFORE ENTERING THE CHALLENGE

• Your project must be created during the month of December 2017 and entered into the challenge during the active challenge period. Due to an automated system, late entries cannot be accepted.
• Each month I will include a re-mastered digital image from my library of freebies. You DO NOT have to use the design on your project, but you MUST use a Beccy's Place image, either free or purchased, to be eligible for prizes.
• You can enter as many times as you like and you can submit your card to any other challenge you wish.
• At the end of the month three winners will be randomly chosen to receive a $20.00AU store credit for any digital stamps at Beccy's Place. To redeem the store credit, winners must have a Beccy's Place customer account. (Please note, you do not need an account to enter the challenge. It is acceptable to create an account in the event that you win. Accounts can be closed at any time.)
• Store credit won during any Beccy's Place challenge is only redeemable for digital stamps.
• Beccy's Place designers may enter the monthly challenge but are not eligible to win prizes.

New Release: Peace & Joy

Oh my goodness, I've been so caught up with the Month of Holiday Cards Challenge that I forgot to post our newest release! Which means, unless you follow their blogs, you've all missed out on seeing the beautiful projects my designers have created with the new set. 

Peace and Joy

digital stamp set

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And now for the beautiful projects created by my designers...

Judy's Card

Two cards from Karin 

Petra's Creation

Carla's Project

Two cards from Anesha