Foiling Christmas Folder

My husband bought me the GoPress and Foil machine last year for Christmas.  I have used it with the foil dies in the past but I just learned something new.  I am so excited.  I now have not one but two new ways to foil!  One uses my embossing folders with the GoPress and Foil machine.  The second is how to use the left over foils.

 Using the folder was so easy to do and worked so well my first time, I can't wait to try this method again.

In the picture above, the one that is white with navy snowflakes was with the embossing folder.  

The second photo with mostly navy blue was using up the leftover foil

I was so excited to try this out, I forgot to take photos as I went along so stay tuned.  I will try this again.

Thank you for stopping by!

Netta

GoPress Foil Iridescent Navy Blue
Go Press Foil Machine
Snowflake Embossing Folder
Stamping Up Carols of Christmas Stamp Set
White Cardstock
3D Foam Squares
Spellbinders Holiday Tree Picking Die
Clear Embossing Powder
Versamark Stamp Pad
 Noel Word Die
Stampin Up Night of Navy ink pad

52 CCT October Technique Challenge

Please join us this week at 52CCT with a...new to me... technique called Smooshing.  I was excited to give this one a try!   I love sneaking in some new and cool techniques while having tons of fun. 

I wanted the colors I chose to remind of a cold winter day.  I used two blues and a purple to try to get that affect.  My Tim Holtz glass mat comes in handy for this!  I just pressed my ink pad down right onto the mat, spritz the ink with water and "smooched" my watercolor cardstock onto the colors until I was happy with the coverage.  A few areas left white were left on purpose.   

Photo below will show the effect I was trying to achieve with leaving some white, blue and purple areas.  You can see the deer was popped up.  I tried laying them flat down flat against the cardstock but they got lost in the scenery.  The deer has too many skinny areas to try to pop up using pop up dots. I just cut grey fun foam out of the deer die and glued the deer onto it.  

A little spritz of color shine over the top of the background to resemble the glistening of ice.

It's now time to crack down on those Holiday cards...Halloween, Thanksgiving and New Years Eve.   

Head over to https://52cct.blogspot.com/ for some more inspiration from the other designers and have fun creating your Christmas Smoosh Card!

Netta

Heidi Swapp Color Shine White

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide: Salty Ocean, Stormy Sky, Seedless Preserves

Penny Black Wintry Trail Stamp

Amazon Deer Die

Gray Fun Foam

52 CCT October Theme Challenge

Can you tell what the theme is at 52CCT? 

SNOWMAN!!

You cannot go wrong with a snowman on a Christmas card.

Love this adorable country snowman.  

All the pieces were colored and cut.  I made one error by gluing the scarf down before I got the coat on so it took a bit to slowly lift the edge of the scarf to tuck the jacket under.  Each dark piece was also colored with brown sparkle before I glued them down, even each stripe on the scarf.  The PDF also came with the black springs for the arms, eyes and tiny buttons but they were too delicate to cut out.  I remembered from years ago I had a long thin die from Sizzix for celebration that looked like it.  Dug it out and decided it would be just fine!  The eyes were easy...just dug out my wiggly eyes!  For the buttons, I just used a small hole punch and used a white pen to draw in the 4 button holes.

On the background, I dropped two drops of sparkle on my Tim Holtz glass mat and also dropped a couple drops of water.  Mixed the two up so the sparkle was diluted in color and watery.  Next take a brush and get it saturated with the mix.  To get the drops of "sparkly snow", just put the brush over the area that you want and tap the brush against my other finger.  Droplets big and small will spray onto the paper.  Just keep doing that until your happy!  Because it is not really soaking the paper much it does not warp it.  I also flipped the paper  over onto the small amount of mixture remaining to get bigger colored areas.  

I think he is just adorable!  Perfect Christmas Card for someone back home.

Please join us and have some fun!  Also, go check out the other design teams snowman projects. https://52cct.blogspot.com/

Netta

Copic Colors B0000, B00, E17, E18, RV00, R27, 100,  YR04

Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens Colors Smoked Quartz, Moonstone, Rose Quartz

Regular Hole Punch for Buttons

White Pen for button Holes
Stampin up Pretty Pine
Impression Obsession Die Fir Sprig

Sizzlits Loopy Die

Snowman PDF
Wiggly Eyes

Goodluck Butterflies

Today, at work, we will be saying good luck to a co-worker.  She is the sweetest person and such a dream to work with.  Last night I sat down and made a card for her.  The butterfly cutouts on the front and the butterflies inside are from Memory Box.

I cut the butterflies inside out of an experimental background I had made long ago.  There is a gold shimmer on top of them so I used a gold metallic ink pen and put an edge of gold around each one.

I placed each butterfly inside to match the same spot as the butterflies on the front.

Here is the card opened up.

I will place this at her desk for her to find when when she comes in.  I wish her lots of luck but I want her to know.....She will be missed!

Netta

52 CCT October Color Challenge

Welcome to a new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  Challenge this week is to use Blue, White and Brown.

I first stamped the rubber stamp with the white craft ink down onto Kraft cardstock.  Next, I inked up the same stamp with the blue ink.  Instead of stamping right down, I wiped a couple of the petals off.  That way when I stamped down, some of the petals would stay white.  

I used the pencil and Sparkling pens to tidy and fancy up the image.

Happy Holidays was stamped down using my Misty and my favorite black ink.

We all know how it goes in November.  The rush to get the Christmas shopping down, decorations up and get all the Christmas cards done in time.  The challenges are just to help us all get them done in plenty of time to mail.  One less thing to add into the crunch time!  I hope this inspires you to get going...if you haven't yet.

Netta

Penny Black Cling Stamp "Scarlet Majesty"

Penny Black "Berry Merry Christmas" sentiment

Whisper White Stampin Up Craft ink pad

Ranger Distress Oxide Tumbled glass ink pad

Versafine Onyx Black ink pad

Derwent Inktense white pencil

Spectrum Noir Teacup and Moonstone Pens

Happy National Card Making Day 2019

This is my 2nd post today in celebration of National Card Making Day.  This card is about using scraps from a background I made & loved. 

 I saved the scraps and had no idea what to do with them until today.  I covered white cardstock with adhesive from my Xyron Creative Station  and layered my scrap pieces over the top.

I left some white showing between the pieces so I could burnish black glitter in between the pieces.  It will fill in the sticky gaps but not be over powering with glitter.

I used Impression Obsession die to cut out all the pieces.  I was able to turn each piece 1/4 turn and place them back together. Now all the lines are not going just straight across.  I glued that whole piece down onto a gold left over piece of cardstock.  I saved the scraps for later on the card.

I cut and glued down the rest of the card.  The bow was actually a bow I had made at some point in the past and it seemed to fit perfectly.  The balls are tiny glass colored beads I have had for years.  Merry Christmas was cut from the left over piece I had saved.

Thanks for checking in with me today to see what I made.  Have a happy and creative day!

Netta

52 CCT October Sketch Challenge

Happy World Card Making Day!

Did you know that this day was created by Paper Craft magazine back in 2006.  It is always the 1st Saturday in October.  The idea was to inspire everyone to get started on their Holiday cards.

So...let's get that inspiration going for you!

Do you remember the Twinkling H20's?  I have had mine for about 18 years and periodically I pull them out to play with.  If my memory serves me right...I believe they actually went off the market for a short bit and then made a come back.   The card I made actually took me two tries.  First one did not go in my junk pile for later use.  It was beyond junk!  I was much happier with my second attempt.   

The image was embossed on water color paper with clear embossing to keep the color within the walls.

I just sprayed the pots of color with water and used a water brush to pick up the color.  Think of the H2O's as another form of water color paint with such a gorgeous shimmer to them.    

After I was done painting, I stamped a few branches and embossed some snowflakes.  

The 52cct challenge was a sketch.  I flipped mine to get the image on the card the way I wanted it.  

Will not get a whole lot of time to play today as it is my birthday.  I will head out to an early dinner tonight with my husband. 

Happy Birthday 🎁 to me!

Netta

LuminArte Colors: Green Tea, China Black, Natural Linen, Heavenly White, Hot Cinnamon, Periwinkle, Blue Ice

Bird Stamp: wish I knew!  It's so old.  If you know...tell me!

Branches Stamp: Penny Black Winter Branches

Stampin Up Beautiful Baubles for snow falling

White Embossing Powder mixed with fine glitter

Clear Embossing Powder

Tim Hotz Distress Watercolor Paper