52 CCT May Colour Challenge-Christmas Wreath

 Brown, Green, Red

That was a hard color combo to come up with for Christmas card and the only thing that stuck in my mind was this wreath, so I went for it.

I used white cardstock and cut two wreaths.  Before I glued them together, I randomly colored the twigs with the copic markers to give them a two tone look.   

I glued everything down and punched a bunch of red circles from scrap red glitter paper for the berries.  After everything was glued down, I added glitter red dots.

I think I covered the color challenge well.....brown twig wreath, red ribbon and holly berries with green evergreen leaves.

 Some day I will get good at taking photos because it really is pretty. 

 Submitted to Challenge

https://52cct.blogspot.com/2023/05/may-colour-challenge.html 

 

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Supplies

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock for Base

Scraps Green, Brown and Glitter red Cardstock 

Impression Obsession Twig Wreath Dig Set

Embosselicious Evergreen Embossing Folder for Background

Ribbons from Stampin Up Pretty Pines Die Set

Evergreens from Penny Black Holly Flourish Die Set

Merry Christmas Die from Spellbinders 3D Poinsettia Surprise Envelope Die Set

Stickles Christmas Red 

Copic Marker for the Wreath E57 & E29

Regular hole puncher

 

52 CCT November Color Challenge

Now we are talking!  Real Christmas colors...Red and Green!  You have to admit...there sure has been some different color changes this year!  They made me really stretch my imagination but that is point right?  Work outside the box and be challenged. 

 I bought this digital image from Jan's Digi Stamps a couple of weeks ago and it is called Holiday Candy Deluxe.   When I began to work on ideas, this image came to mind.  I had a bit of a problem trying to make it look good on my regular A2 cards and decided why not?  I might as well jump on the band wagon and try out a Slimline card.

It took only a few pencils to color this image.  It actually went pretty quick.

I wanted a little sparkle on the Christmas candy and was very unhappy with my red sparkling glue.  I think it is time to buy another.  It was coming out in clumps. 

Hope you head over to 52CCT and give this challenge a try.  

You do realize time is short to get your Christmas cards done right?

 Happy crafting everyone!

Netta

52 CCT October Color Challenge

I am here again with another 52CCT challenge.  Come join us for this months color combination.

It features Kraft, White and Blue.  Don't forget you can use black but the 3 colors of the challenge has to be the dominate colors.

Here is my inspiration for you but do not forget to head to 52CCT and get more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team!

You have until Friday, October16th to upload your creations!

 Hugs,

Netta

Ingredients:

Paper Studio Kraft cardstock

Blue Foil Cardstock

White Cardstock

Memento Danube Blue ink

Impressions Obsession Poinsettia Die Set

52 CCT September Color Challenge

Black, Orange and Gold

Halloween card? 

NOPE...its the challenge that Rosi gave us at https://52cct.blogspot.com/.  We are allowed to use a white card base but the main color scheme on our Christmas cards must be just black, orange and gold.  

I had an idea of a sunset or sunrise where the sky is orange reflecting onto the snow with the same color.  I tried to mix gold in the snow to show valleys and hills but I think my idea did not come out so great.  I think my ink pad is old.  I will have to get myself another one.  I was able to get my gold on the card by glueing Merry Christmas on top.  

I also used an Orange Stickles glitter on top as well.  

The background stamps was not enough to go across the card so I had to stamp it twice. 

 Before I stamped the second time, I cleaned off the stamp and I masked off the area where the deer are with regular tape.  I just wanted to extend the tree areas.

After inking the card and before stamping it down... make sure you remove the tape!

You can see where I inked the stamp... leaving the section clean where the deer are.

 The beauty of using a Misty makes it easy to repeat the steps again to get a darker black image...clean, tape, ink, remove tape and stamp down.

My husband is my judge on cards.  He will tell me if a card is not the best.  Even though I was feeling not so great on this card...he gave me a thumbs up.

I went with his approval and popped it in with my stash of Christmas cards!

Now follow me over to 52CCT and check out the other Designers.  I can't wait to see what they do with this challenge!

Netta

52 CCT August Color Challenge

Good morning everyone!  

Happy Saturday and welcome to a Color Challenge day.

When I read a couple of weeks ago the challenge AndrejaM created for today...I cringed.  Orange? Christmas?  Ouch that will be tough!  I had to do some serious thinking....sunset in the winter...a fox?  Then it came to me...flowers!  Poinsettias to be exact.  

Now...add gold and green.  I said "I got this!"

Here is what I came up with...

I cut this die 4 times.  I cut three white and one gold.  The bottom layer was left white on purpose.  On the second white layer I used copics and colored the green.  When I glued it onto the white layer, I off set it slightly on purpose. The next layer I colored the flowers with Copic orange and cut them.  They were glued down onto the 2nd layer. 

 The lantern actually has 4 layers glued down, 3 white and one gold on the top.  I took the 4 white windows of the lantern and colored them with orange and glued them in the lantern.

I must say...I am quite pleased with the results! 

AndrejaM...please bring on the next challenge at 52CCT!  After surviving this one, I know I can do the next!  *S*

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my blog.  

Netta

Copics: G07, G29, YR02, YR09

Stampin Up Punch Border

Cottage Cutz Die Lantern & Poinsettia

Scrap Green Merry Christmas paper

Company Unknown Background Die

Spellbinders Radiant Rectangle Die

Words Printed from Computer

DCWV Foiled Gold Cardstock

52 CCT June Color Challenge

Christmas card created with a couple of non-traditional Christmas colors.

Purple, Pink and Gold Christmas card!

I used Distress Oxides...one pink and two purple to make the background.  The background stamp was stamped with gold in a Misti.  I left the stamp in the Misti and stamped again with clear embossing so I could heat emboss it.  I found over the years I did not need a ton of colors of embossing powder.   Just stamp in color and embossing with clear.  You get just about the same look and effect.

I cut two wreaths..one gold and one purple to match the mat.  

So now is your turn!!  Grab that pink, purple and gold items in your stash and have a go!

See you at 52CCT!

Scrap purple cardstock

Gold ink

Scrap gold cardstock

Clear Embossing powder and heat gun

Penny Black Whirl Wreath die 

The Stamping Place Background Stamp

Distress Oxide Spun Sugar, Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord

52 CCT May Color Challenge

52CCT's color challenge is Non-traditional colors.  Peach and gray!  Definitely not your normal colors for Christmas.

Penny Black Christmas stamp  "Berry Merry Christmas" was stamped with grey ink.   The berries were first colored with orange watercolor paint.  I spritz a lot of water onto my Tim Holtz glass mat and dripped just a couple of small drops of Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pink Champagne onto and mixed it up. It is hard to see but the berries were painted again with it to give it a lighter more peachy color.  Also used it to watercolored along the right bottom corner.  The upper corner was done with watered down black watercolor to get a grey color.  The sentiment that came with the set was stamped onto vellum.  Chalk white acrylic paint was used for the snow on the berries and snow falling.

I didn't think I would like this card but I thought about it all week.  Now that it is actually done, I do not mind at all.

Thank you for stopping by!  Now head over to 52cct to see what the rest of the Design Team created!
Netta

52 CCT April Color Challenge

I love the Poinsettia set from Tim Holtz.  Combined with the folder in the set, it makes such a beautiful flower with all the details.  

The colors in today's challenge is just red and white.  I used a cranberry red on my card.  

In the closeup below it looks like I used pink stickles on the flower but it is actually diamond.  It must have picked up the pinkish in the sparkle.  

Come join us with the red and white challenge.  You will find us at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

Netta

Copic #R39
Embossalicious Evergreen Embossing Folder
Tim Holtz Sizzix Layered Tattered Poinsettia
IO Berry Branches Die 349-J
Stampin Up Big Shot die Pretty Pines
Spellbinder Die A2 Curved Borders One
Diamond Stickles

52 CCT March Color Challenge

Here is the March color challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown...Green, Kraft and White.

This was an easy challenge for me.  

 I have now caught up and back to normal!

In spite of what the world is going through, keep crafting and keep busy.  I know for me it keeps my mind busy.  

Netta

Penny Black Whirl Wreath Die
Kraft embossed cardstock
Green cardstock
White cardstock

52 CCT February Color Challenge

This week at 52CCT it is a Monochromatic color challenge..using only 3 blues.  White is allowed but no other colors.

I chose the blues because it reminds me of snow, cold, ice and winter.  

My card looks like it it was stamped in black but actually it is a navy color.  I went online to search Stampin Up blue colors to make my card and these are the three blue colors I chose and used on my card...

Many consider a monochromatic card to be boring but in some cases it just works well.

Come show us your creation and check out the other Design Team members work while you are there.  

Netta

Stamp by Fun Stampers Journey "Stay Wild"

Stampin Up ink

Gelly Roll Clear Pen and Signo white pen for snow

Navy ribbon

Circle punch to mask the moon

Sponges to sponge the color on the card

My Favorite Rectangle In and Out die

Navy and White Cardstock

52 CCT January Color Challenge

Andreja at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown has the all the January challenges this month.  Whew!  She sure did pick out a hard challenge for me but I was up for a challenge.

Yellow, white and brown are not your normal Christmas colors at all but I did it!

This is a die from Spellbinders called Joy.  The lettering J-O-Y was cut from a background I had left over from long ago.  It was stamped with evergreens in two brown colors and embossed with evergreen folder.  It sure looks like the mat is a very dark brown but it is lighter in color.

Are you up for this challenge?

If so, head on over and leave your link to your site and if you need some crafting samples, check out the other designers creation.

Netta

52 CCT November Color Challenge

 Today is a new 52CCT challenge and it is a color challenge.

Can you tell what the colors are in this challenge?

Your got it...purple and white! The focus on the card is a large snowflake which is glued onto cardstock and acetate.   

When I first made the card, the front would not stay up.  It was too weak.  I added an additional layer of acetate glued together along the top and bottom.   I glued a 2" piece along the bottom front to match the 2" top.  To hide the glue on the acetate on the inside of the card, I attached two 2" pieces of purple cardstock along the top and bottom of the card.  Adding the extra also helped the front to be stronger.

I decorated the front by stamping purple snowflakes and added stickles to give it some sparkle.

Now it is your turn.  What can you come up with using purple and white?

I counted up my Christmas cards made and counted the list of people I need to make Christmas cards for.  I am so happy!  I am 3 over what I need!!  Which is perfect because I always need "just one more card" each year and end up scrambling to get it done last minute.  This way, I already have the "one more" done!  

Go me!!!

Netta

BoBunny Snowflake Stamps
Tattered Lace Christmas Snowflake Frame Die
My Favorite Things Stylish Snowflakes Die
Memento LuLu Lavender Ink Pad
Stampin Up Gorgeous Grape Ink Pad
Stickles Stardust
Purple and White Cardstock
Acetate

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

52 CCT September Color Challenge

This week's challenge is a color challenge: black and white.  

This card is a very quick card to make if you are in a hurry to make a few Christmas Cards.  I used a die on black cardstock to cut out the area and backed it with white sparkling cardstock to resemble winter/snow.  I had a slight issue on my plan.  I was going to run out of the white sparkling cardstock to finish cutting out the trees.

Here is a trick that I used on this card to get my extra piece I needed.  If I had glued my black top piece down onto the mat, you would have only seen the sparkling white edge and everything underneath the black would have been wasted. The trick is to cut out the middle.  Just leave enough to glue the top piece down.  In my case, I had to leave some along the top because of the open area on the black cardstock.  It gave me enough to get my trees and words.

This card is so quick, I even did another one with blue and white.

You have to agree though, the black and white, makes such an elegant card.  Please head over to 52 Christmas Card Throwdown as you will find so many inspiring and fabulous cards from the other Design Team members!

https://52cct.blogspot.com/

Thank you for stopping by!

Netta

Amazon

Woods and Deer Herd Frame

The Paper Studio 

Christmas Cardstock Pack

Impression Obsession Die

Fir Trees

Sizzix Die

Christmas Phrases

Spellbinders Die

Holiday Sentiment

52 CCT August Color Challenge

Second week for me to be the hostess over at 52CC and color challenge is up for this week.  For this challenge, I chose the colors dark blue, teal and either bronze or copper.  

I used Stampin Up bronze foil cardstock.  Have you ever had that one sheet of paper that you hung on to for that "special" card?  The bronze foil sheet was mine.  I cut out Penny Black Holly Flourish, Simon Says Stamp Frame, as well as both IO small & large Poinsettia's dies.

My teal was the feathery ribbon and the teal Perfect Pearls background.  I inked up Ellison Holy Background with Perfect Medium and dusted it with teal powder.  I inked up Close To My Heart "Merry Christmas" with Perfect Medium and used the Stamp Lift Technique.  It left a watermark Merry Christmas 4 times across the front.  It is hard to see it so I took photo with flash to show you.

The first photo is just the holly background stamp inked, stamped and dusted.

This second photo, Merry Christmas was stamped from top to bottom with just Perfect Medium.  When you stamp with just Versamark or Perfect Medium, it will lift off the Perfect Pearls that was already stamped down. 

The rest I die cut and glued them all together.  

I do want to show you a trick that I have been doing for years.  Every word die set I get, right away I die cut out all the words out.  I line them up on a laminate sheet and laminate them.  I save the sheets with the dies.  Now every time I am not sure where or what size word I want on my project, I pull out my laminated sheets and I can now see!   It's helped me out a lot in the past. 

Now head on over to 52CCT and check out the other examples by click on the picture below!

I would love to see what you did as well!

Netta