Non Traditional Christmas Card

Hi Everyone,

I purchased a paper pack a while back and whilst the paper is super pretty i have been scratching my head at combinations to use on a card. Does anyone else purchase paper packs and then just stare at the different designs because you can't figure out which combinations work LOL.

As Christmas is now approaching i thought this would be a good theme to start, Pinterest is also my best friend when it comes to getting card and layout inspiration so i had a good look around. Plus lets be honest you cannot go wrong with Tartan. Hope you like what i have come up with.

For this card i used.
White & Black card stock and Black Gems from Stash
Sentiment Stamp - Kaiser Craft
Dies - Spellbinders
Gold Embossing Powder
DCWV Winter Wonderland Paper Pack
We R Memory Keepers punch board

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge

Stamps & Fun Challenge 

Get Creative Challenges

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

Addicted to Stamps Challenge

The Corrosive Challenge

Hannah Lynn - Monica

Hi Everyone.

Well i know, its a shocking surprised but another Hannah Lynn image. I haven't used Monica for some time but thought she would fit nicely with the layout i was going for.

I was trying a few different things with this one, i wanted to colour her hair using a different colour to my favourite brown copic combo on E13, E15, E17 and wanted to stick to the Purple and Blue colour scheme completely. On my bottom layer i only embossed two corners and i actually really live the effect it has, it really lifts that bottom layer and really draws your eye to the image.

For this card i used:

Hannah Lynn Monica Image
Cardstock and coloured paper from stash
Ribbon (coloured with my trusty copics) from Stash
Purple & Blue Gems by Kaiser Craft
Metallic Purple, Clear Star & Blue Star Gelly Rolls
Copics - BV11, B16, B45, E50
Embossing folders by Couture Creations and Cuttlebug

I would like to enter her in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge - Embossing

Addicted to Stamps - Make Your Mark (Copics)

Crafters Cafe Challenge - Add Glitter

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz - Purple & Blue

Crafty Catz Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes

Happy crafting and thanks for visting

Love Jox

Alternative Valentines Card - Kenny K

Hi everyone,

well you know how i am at being alternative when it comes to my cards and i do like making bright and funky ones. With this in mind a couple of the challenges which i wanted to enter all relate to love etc because of Valentines day, well i figured i would step completely away from tradition and really hope you like my final card.

I used a Kenny K image and coloured her with my Copics. I have to admit i initially coloured her when the power was off a few weekends ago and wasn't really sure what to use her for. I cut her out and left her on my craft table until inspiration hit me LOL

I loved the bright colours and thought they would make a great alternative to the normal reds and pinks, so i cut three panels in the same colour scheme used and embossed them so they had music notes on them. I love the look it gave. I wanted a little bit more texture so i used some black embossed paper i had to give it a bit more edge. I then adhered to my card, after much playing around to get the layout right. I tend to cut out all my different panels together and play around till i am happy as i have a tendency to change my mind.

I added black ribbon and bow (well ribbon i had, coloured with my Copic) and adhered these in the corner of the card and added heart gems in each of the corner. When it came to the sentiment i had an idea of what i wanted to say so typed this out using Word and the many free fonts i have downloaded over time and played around with it until i was happy and then printed this straight onto yellow card stock, cut it out with my small circle Spellbinders Die and adhered to the card. I used dimensionals to add lift to my image as i wanted her to be the focal point and i am really happy with the results.

Hope you like it? here it is...

For this card is used...

Kenny K Digital Image

Card stock was all from my stash

White Ribbon coloured with Copic

Couture creations embossing folder

Heart Gems from my stash

Copics (sorry didn't note these down at the time)

computer and free fonts for sentiment

Spellbinders Circle Die

i would like to enter my card in the following challenges...

The Paper Shelter

Divas By Design

Charisma Cardz

Thanks for visiting and happy Crafting 

Jox

Cards i made to stave off the boredom

I am not entering the following cards in any challenges but these are the cards i made because the power was out and i was quite literally starting to climb the walls, i was ok for the first few hours but after that i needed something to keep me occupied.

Please let me know what you think, i really enjoy getting your comments and am happy with any suggestions or advice you have to offer.

Thanks Jox

My other chosen card

Me again.

This is the other card i have chosen to submit to my challenges. I just love the combination of red and black and i have had this digi in my collection for a little bit as i fell in love with it the minute i saw it but just haven't gotten around to using it.

I wanted to keep this one fairly simple too as she is such a gorgeous image i wanted her to be the focal point. I took a black pearlescent card blank for my base. I then cut a strip of red pearlscent paper and used a Martha Stewart bored punch. I cut another strip from the same black card stock and embossed it to give it a little additional details. I mounted the black onto the red and then mounted these straight to the card base. I coloured my image with my trusty Copics but wanted this to have a little more blink/shimmer so i added some clear star gelly roll to the rose in her hair to give it a little sparkle, i used black aqualip on her shoes so they look like they are patent. I coloured the lamp post using black metallic gelly roll and the light bulb using yellow glaze. I then coloured around the image in really light grey to make it pop out at you a little more. I then mounted the image on black card stock leaving a thin border and then mounted this on red paper leaving another narrow border and then finally again onto black card stock with another narrow border and then adhered it to the card at a slight angle. I then added clear and red gems to complete the card.

I used...

Digital Image from The Paper Shelter

Card Stock Kmart

Pearlescent Paper from local newsagent

Couture Creations embossing folder

Martha Stewart Border punch

Red gems from stash

clear gems Kaiser Craft

Copics R37, E50, C0, C7, C9

Sakura Gelly Rolls Clear Star, Black Metallic

Sakura Yellow Glaze

Sakura Black Aqualip

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges

Creative Inspirations

Cute Card Thursday

Thanks

Jox 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge entry

Hope you are all having a great week so far, not long until the weekend now.

The Challenge at Simon Says is for black and white with a splash of colour. I had a few ideas and must confess a couple did not go according to plan, i think i tried to force the ideas and that just doesn't work. Well amazingly i had the idea for this one on the bus coming home from work and i am actually really happy with the result.

I started off using a black pearlescent card blank (from Kmart) and then took a white pearlescent card blank (from Kmart) and cut to 12.5cm x 12.5cm and then embossed it using a cuttlebug folder i have and my beloved Bigshot. I then took some hot pink pearlescent paper (from my newsagent) which i mounted the embossed card panel onto, i trimmed a small border around so make it jump from the black card stock. I then cut out some mini butterflies using my Martha Stewart punch and arranged them on the embossed panel,  There are actually 2 black, 2 pink and 2 white but the white do not show up very well in the photo. I adhered them using Glossy Accents and added small clear Kaiser Craft Gems. Hope you like it!

Simon Says Stamp Challenge

More butterflies for Creative Inspirations

Well i ended up creating two cards and could not decide which one to enter so i thought i would enter this one also. I kept with the butterflies on this one as well and again tried to keep it fairly simple.

I used a pearlescent white card black. I cut a smaller square from blue card stock and i dry embossed 0.5cm all the way around to give the card a bit more interest, i adhered this to the card using foam tape. I cut four 3cm x 3cm squares from light green card stock and light yellow paper. I then dies cut three butterflies, one each of light yellow, light green and blue. I then stamped a sentiment on one of the yellow squares. I arranged the squares and then adhered them to the card using double sided tape. I adhered a butterfly to each of the remaining squares and alternated the colours. I used Glossy Accents for this. Once the Glossy Accents was dry i then folded the wings out a little to make them more dimensional. I then adhered a light green heart just below the sentiment.

I used...

White pearlescent card stock from Kmart

Blue and Green card stock from my stash

Light yellow and light yellow dotted papers from Pink Petticoat

Glossy Accents

double sided tape

Butterfly Die

Sentiment

Foam tape

Creative Inspirations

Have a lovely week end.

Jox

CAS LIM Male Valentines day card

Me again...

I really got into the Flourishes challenge this week and i ended up getting a little carried away and i totally loved it. I love entering in these challenges as it really helps me with ideas and you get so much inspiration from the fabulous entries by other very talented crafters.

I decided i wanted to make a valentines more masculine and i went with a silver and black theme and i am very pleased with it. It still has hearts but a more manly feel :)

I made a Matt black base using card from my stash and also cut out a black heart in the same card. I then used a shiny silver card stock which i embossed. I panicked a little at first as some of the silver coating flaked off a little which doesn't show up in the photo but when i calmed down i actually really like the effect, it gives it an almost weathered or aged look and now i love it. I also die cut another heart the same size as the other in the shiny silver card stock. I mounted the silver embossed panel on another black square panel just to help it pop out and i used dimensionals on the heart for added emphasis. Hope you like it.

Flourishes Challenge

Thank you for following my journey

Jo

CAS LIM Valentines card

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all having a great week so far.

I have another entry into the Flourishes challenge this week that i wanted to share with you all. I love cute cards but i don't seem to be able to get them quite right so this and my following entries are fairly simple but hopefully very effective.

This card was lovely to do and the shimmery card stock really highlights and makes the embossing really jump out at you.

The card stock i brought in a pack from Kmart, it is lovely and shimmery and makes the embossing look really sharp

The hearts were made using a die in my Big Shot, which coincidentally is one of my most prized possessions.

The embossing folder is by cuttlebug

I really hope you like my efforts and please feel free to leave a comment or two, i truly love hearing from you all.

Flourishes Challenge

I will be posting a couple of others shortly

Jo

Last post of the day - another challenge entry for Crafts and Me

Well as you can probably gather i purchased some more Hannah Lynn digital images from Crafts and me over the break and i have been having a lot of fun with them. I seem to always colour the hair on my images Brown and using the same Copic combination so i thought i would try and get out of my comfort zone a little with this one. I figured because of the colour combination i had chosen black hair would look really good. Well i must confess this is my first ever attempt at colouring Black hair and although it isn't perfect i am actually pretty amazed at how well it turned out.

I coloured her using my trusty Copics and added a few gems. You will be surprised to note i am sure that i did not use any Gelly Rolls on this image which is also a first.

Crafts and Me Challenge

Thank you for viewing my work, your time and comments are appreciated.

Jox