Saturday, November 15

Day 15 - Extending Your Stamps (tutorial)

Not everyone has a huge collection of stamps for creating holiday cards and sometimes "making do" is necessary.  Have a look through your collection of stamps and try to think of ways you can use what you already have to create holiday themed cards.  Perhaps you can add a little cardstock Santa hat on animals or teddy bears, or colour a beautiful flower bouquet in traditional Christmas colours, or stamp multiple candles for a Hanukkah greeting.
 
I used two leaf stamps from my stamp collection, some white embossing powder and pink scrapbooking paper to create these three dimensional poinsettia cards.
 

 
YOUR TURN: Experiment with your non-holiday stamps to create a holiday card.
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Stamp the leaves onto pink paper with clear versa mark ink and heat emboss with white embossing powder.  Cut out each leaf with a small pair of scissors.

Shape each leaf by rubbing a ball tool gently over the back until the leaf bends into a cup shape.  Now they're ready to use on your project!

Friday, November 14

Comment Winner - Day 13

Congratulations Donna!
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With white on white, I think the texture is so important. I love the texture in your card! That snowflake just jumps off the card. Really gorgeous!

Day 14 - Christmas Symbols

There are lots of symbols that represent the celebration of Christmas, from evergreen boughs to jolly old Santa.  Fortunately for card makers we are spoiled for choice when it comes to subjects for stamping and colouring.  Sometimes it's fun to work with a lesser used symbol such as a plum pudding, pair of ice skates or in my case, a sleigh.
 
 
YOUR TURN:  Use a Christmas symbol as the focal point of your card.
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Thursday, November 13

It's Prize Time

Let's have some more random winners...
 
Jennifer H. (card 44)
Jacee (card 46)
Pinkjools (card 53)
Cora Schram (card 77)
Teresa H. (card 104)

Congratulations ladies!  Please visit my online store to select a set of digital stamps and email your choice to me at beccymuir@yahoo.com.

Comment Winner - Day 12

Congratulations Judy V!
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Such a beautiful white on white card Beccy! This is something I've never done but I am quite tempted to give it a go seeing the outcome of yours! Thanks for the inspiration!

Day 13 - White with One

Technically this is a monochromatic card, meaning it uses one colour in various tones and shades with white at one end of the tonal spectrum and black at the other... but it's much more fun saying "white with one" because that's how I like my coffee!
 
 
YOUR TURN:  Create a card using a "white with one" colour scheme.
You can choose any colour you like as well as black and white.
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Wednesday, November 12

Comment Winner - Day 11

Congratulations Carla!
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So you can see that you do not much need to make something beautiful.
A lovely border punch and nice colors.
A great card !
Carla

Day 12 - White on White

White on white is one of my favourite styles of card.  The important thing to remember when making these cards is that you need lots of texture (layering, embossing, textiles, embellishments, etc.) to catch the light and form shadows around the different elements making them more visible.
 
 
YOUR TURN:  Create a white on white card or project.
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Tuesday, November 11

10 from 10

I think it's time for some more winners!
I've been looking through all the beautiful entries in this month's challenge so far.  Everyone has been doing a wonderful job getting their cards made, but there are a few people who have actually managed to create and enter ten cards in ten days!  I think they deserve a little prize to keep them motivated.
 
GranMargaret
Cards: 1, 5, 16, 17, 26, 32, 48, 80, 81, 87

Suzana (Floare de colt)
Cards: 9, 11, 14, 20, 30, 43, 51, 60, 74, 84

Dee
Cards: 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 49, 57, 69, 73, 82

Congratulations ladies!  Please visit my online store to select a set of digital stamps and email your choice to me at beccymuir@yahoo.com.

Comment Winner - Day 10

Congratulations Theresia (Trees)!
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Ow I like this one very much, Beccy. The wreath is so nice. If you make this a little bigger, you can hang it on your frontdoor! (0_-)
The colors are again beautiful.
xx Trees

Day 11 - Border Punches

Border punches are wonderful tools for card makers.  They are easy to use, require no electricity and come in a wide variety of patterns to suit most occasions.  Today, I've used a snowflake border punch to make several really simple cards... plus I've kept all the little snowflakes to use as embellishments on other projects!

 
YOUR TURN:  Use a border punch on your Christmas card.
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Monday, November 10

Comment Winner - Day 9

Congratulations Judy V!
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Beautiful card Beccy! I've become addicted to dry embossing! It makes it so easy to turn something ordinary into something extraordinary!