Quick round-up

From the cards I didn't manage to send out this year due to a long-lasting cold.

Xmas card 2014 #2

This is from the piece where the reindeer came from in my previous post. :) It's really simple, I just put some stickles on certain bulbs of the Christmas trees to make the background more interesting.

Then again, I'm entering this card into Virginia's View Challenge #9 - All Things Metallic.
And I'm not done yet! :-)

I'm also entering this into ric#71 - In Memory of Oscar de la Renta challenge with this dress.

Xmas 2014 #1

The title says it all. :-) 

A big thank you to Scrapfellow for the deer motif. You'll see him around.

Challenge: Virginia's View Challenge #9 - All Things Metallic

Supplies: cork star, stickles, christmas tree patterned paper, silhouette, gold embossing powder, baker twine

It's Snow Time!

I just love everything about this card. Feels like everything is as it should be. Exactly like on Christmas Eve. ;-)

Challenges:
CFC 123: Let It Snow
Simon Says: Let It Snow
CASE Study Challenge #170
Pinspired Challenge #23

Warm

This was something experimental. Sticker on cardstock decorated with white gel pen, glossy accent, Xmas red stickles and white acrylic paint.

I'll be back tomorrow with my favourite card for this year. :-)

Challenge: Keep it simple #29 - warm

Thanks for looking!

Inspired By

Thanks for the inspiration to Case Study 167!
The colours of this photo are somewhat misleading... e.g. the flower below is embossed in gold, though somehow it looks brown but the other colours are just fine. hehe Oh, and I love this paper (it's from Basic Grey, the whole pad is just so cool).

Thanks for looking!

Owly Christmas

This was an attempt to try my snow paste on a card. Lesson learned: you have to use it on a thicker cardstock (here it's on Neenah Desert Storm).

Owl I Want Is You

Just to make sure he shows up on the Big Day in February. ;-)

Challenge: Lawnscaping - Challenge 69

Another Simple (Or Not?) Christmas Card

On our summer holiday in Maastricht I managed to get my hands on some white StazOn ink and now I finally found the time to use it what I'd bought it for. The result: me likey. :-)

Challenge: SSS - Christmas / Happy Holiday

Simple Christmas

Feels too early at shops but not in cardmaking: Christmas. This is one of the first attempts from me for this year.

Challenge: SSS - Christmas/Happy Holiday

Boldog karácsonyt! / Merry Christmas!

So these are my gift card holders for this year. The last one is just an embellishment but I got the ingredients from the ubersweet Virginia. :) Sadly, after having done it I forgot it at D's place though I was planning to give it to its receiver (sshhh....secret) this morning. Silly me. :-/ 

 To my brother (because he has never enough sporting goods)

 To my best friend and her husband (IKEA gift card for their new home)

To Dad from Mom (concert tix)

To ...ssshh...

Supplies: Neenah Desert Storm / Solar White cardstock, ??? patterned paper, Echo Park Sweet Day / Dots & Stripes papers, Hero Arts & Basic Grey Konnichiwa stamp set, IKEA wrapping papper, gold satin ribbon with snowflakes, Uniball gel pen gold, die cut circle (from V), SRM stickers (from V), little heart punch, red Ranger Stickles, red card stock, gold lame cord, Hero Arts Midtone inks, CART-us snowflake stamp

Mini Ticket Holder - Sneak Peak

Just a little sneak peak for those who are interested. Sorry for the bad quality. These are holding 2 really small concert tickets for my dad from my mom. :-) I still have to make 2 gift card holders and a little box, so I'll be back when I'm all done and post a better picture of them.

Baubles

I was so waiting for the right time to share these cards because I'm absolutely in love with them! I made these for mailing to my friends whom I cannot meet around the holidays this year. I clear embossed the background and I really loved that it got so sparkly! Very christmassy. :) The ornaments belong to the same big stamp from HA, I just coloured them with Copics and cut them apart. I'm planning to do a second series of them because I definitely need some more. lol

I'm entering these cards into the following challenges:

Addicted To CAS #2 - Bauble
Simon Says - ANYTHING GOES

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Már nagyon rég vártam arra, hogy megoszthassam ezeket a lapokat, mert nagyon elégedett vagyok velük. Ezek kifejezetten postára adásra készültek, azoknak akikkel az ünnepek előtt már nem tudok találkozni. A háttérül szolgáló bélyegzőhöz átlátszó domborítóport használtam, és nagyon-nagyon tetszik a végeredmény! Igazi karácsonyi hangulata van. A díszek egy nagy bélyegzőhöz tartoznak, csak kiszíneztem, aztán szétvágtam őket. Már készülőben van egy második sorozat is, mert biztos, hogy szükségem lesz még rá. :)

Winter Blue II

The sentiment was made with D's pretty old-school Dymo. I so wanted to have one as a child. :) The snowflakes were stamped with the same ink multiple times. Really easy and flat card, just perfect for mailing.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges again:

CFC79 - Winter Blues 

ATCAS#1 - Codeword: Snow 

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A feliratot ezúttal D apukájának régi Dymojával nyomkodtam (tudjátok, amivel régen a postaláda-feliratokat készítették :D hogy vágytam egy ilyenre!), a háttér pedig ugyanazzal a nyomdapárnával készült, többször rányomva a hópelyheket.

(The sentiment is straight. The photo is not. :))

Winter Blue / Téli kékség

I tried to use some canvas on my card base for the first time. I may not sprinkle any water on it next time because I'm not sure about the darker shades. :-)

For the exact measurement with the birds and the banner I finally used my Fiskars stamp press and just love it. I hope you can see the crystal Stickles dots – they were intended to mimic the magic of snowfalls and are more sparkly than in this photo – believe me. :)

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

CFC79 - Winter Blues (you still have plenty of time to enter, this time it lasts for 2 weeks!)

ATCAS#1 - Codeword: Snow

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Most próbáltam ki először a ragasztós vásznat hasznosítani egy képeslapon. Ezt aztán shadow ink típusú nyomdapárnával színeztem, és kipróbáltam, milyen ha egy kis vizet is spriccelek rá, de ez lehet, hogy nem volt a legjobb ötlet, nem lett teljesen egyenletes. Mindenesetre egy próbát megért.

A madarak közé szabad kézzel rajzoltam egy zászlószerűséget, és ebben nagy segítségemre volt az új Fiskars nyomdaalapom (4 kis szivacslába van, négyzetrácsos), mivel egyenletes lett és mindkét madár a helyére került. Kisebb hibalehetőség. :) Kicsit üresnek éreztem a hátteret, ezért még pöttyöztem rá egy kis csillogós ragasztót hóesés gyanánt. A fotón ez nem igazán jön át, ezért tessék csak elhinni. :-)

Supplies: Basic Grey-Hero Arts - Konnichiwa stamp set, natural twine, canvas sheet, Basic Grey button set, Hero Arts mid tone shadow ink - Tide Pool, ColorBox pigment ink - Aqua

So Torn

First I just wanted a matching pattern paper with my washi tapes for the ornaments. And there was this chevron piece. Then I remembered I pre-made some snowflakes with my flower punch and some stickles for better days. Then I figured this card reminded me of a winter window: the chevron pattern is the curtain, so let's put some snow underneath the snowflakes – a torn piece of cardstock with some stickles again. The strings are embossed but I still have to practice the perfect use of embossing pens. :)

I'd like to enter this card into the current CAS-Friday challenge: So Torn.
Thanks for popping in!

Kick Start Homework / Day 1-2

This is my first homework for the new online card class called Kick Start and also the base card for one of the cards I will mass produce. First I saw these Christmas brads from Artemio at my local store. I did not know what to do with them at the time but this was the last package so I bought them because I wanted to use them definitely. Then I saw the challenge at SSS and it all clicked together: I love my hexagon stamp from PaperSmooches and it would be fun to put some brads on it. I also bought some Christmas washi tapes and ribbons with the brads so I can change and vary their colours for each card I will send to our families. 

On the first lesson I learned a great idea from Kristina. From now on I will always jot down my ideas about elements that comes to my mind because I just realized I keep forgetting about a lot of them. It would have been a shame to forget about this one for example. I created a folder for color block inspirations and took out a notebook for element ideas that I am now expanding with a supply list. No matter how small mine yet is. :)

With that being said I am also entering this card into the SSS challenge We're so TRENDY.

PS: Till now I thought making Xmas cards in September was ridiculous. Then I counted how many I would have to make. TONS! So it is not a bad idea at all...