Christmas Card Tutorials 2015 - Week 14 - White Space

I made two cards this week, because the first didn't turn out quite right. I masked with rubber cement, watercolored the background, and got impatient. I think that trying to dry the watercoloring affected the rubber cement, so the poinsettia, which was intended to be white, had a whitish green look to it... so I just colored it. I'm still including it, because I'm happy with how it turned out (after a little copic coloring).

Here they are:

Materials:

Paper: TH watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock, vellum

Stamps/Inks: HA Shadow Inks - Field Greens, Memory Box - Blooming Poinsettia, Wplus9- Fair Isle Backgrounds, Hero Arts - CL359 Holiday Cheer, Versafine - Onyx Black ink

Cutting/Embossing - Ranger superfine clear embossing powder

Misc: Gansai watercolors, zig wink of stella clear glitter pen

Materials:

Paper: TH watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock

Stamps/Inks: Unity Stamp Co - Cheer & Joy and Birds of a Feather, Versamark, Ranger Archival Black ink, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass

Cutting/Embossing: Ranger superfine opaque white embossing powder

Misc.: Zig Clean Color water brush pens, Penny Black Stencil - Snow Dance

CAS-ual Friday's

Here's this week's challenge over at CAS-ual Friday's!

Create a Clean And Simple project that is black and white plus one color of your choice.

Here's my contribution:

Been sick with a cold, so putting this together was way more of an effort than it should have been. Very cute stamp -- was my first time pulling it out!

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock, watercolor paper
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Unity Stamp Co - Itty Bitty - A Beautiful Sight
Misc.: TH Distress marker, Celebrate It Ribbon from Michael's, dimensional adhesive, Liquid Pearls - Onyx Black

Frenzy of Christmas Cards

I may not have been posting, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy.

Cards....

Knitting....

 Fiddlehead mittens.

Self-ruffling scarves - Tinseltown.


More cards....

Some Random Cards

Here are a couple of other random cards that I put together tonight. Most of this evening was actually spent coloring, so hopefully I will have some new and exciting things to put together over the next few days!

Card #1: Stamps are DeNami and sentiment is from Paper Smooches, yellow stickles, copic markers.
Card #2: Wreath is Penny Black and sentiment is from Unity, Xmas red stickles, Bamboo and Rhubarb memento, Paper is reverse of Peppermint Twist in previous post

Sweet Stop Sketch

Here's this week's fabulous sketch at The Sweet Stop Challenge Blog...

Here's mine...

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, We R Memory Keepers - Peppermint Twist Winter Berry, Imaginisce - 003357
Stamps/Inks: Penny Black - Berry Wreath, Memento - Bamboo Leaves and Rhubarb Stalk, Unity Stamp Co - Tiny Tags Vintage Christmas
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard and Scalloped Circles, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots
Misc.: Stickles - Xmas red, Twine from The Twinery, vintage buttons

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Here's this week's sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday...

Here's my interpretation...

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Harmonie - Cardinal
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Unity Stamps - Birds of a feather
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard and scalloped circles, Sizzix Embossing Folder
Misc.: Copic markers, xmas red stickles, pearl embellishments and button from Michael's, twine from The Twinery

Play Date Cafe

Here's this week's color challenge over at The Play Date Cafe....

It looks to me like the colors are aqua, navy, and a yellow-beige.

Here's mine....

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Paris Dusk, Unity Stamp Co - Birds of a Feather
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - standard and scalloped circles, pennants
Misc.: Copic markers, glossy accents, jewel embellishments from Michael's