Saturday morning and a challenge-fest!

Morning all,

 

Challenge day for me - that's how I (mostly) spend my Saturday morning's and there are some doozy's out there to choose from.

 

There's a couple of Christmas card challenges going on right now:

1) Festive Friday - where there's a photo for inspiration

2) Jingle Belles - are celebrating all things golden and glittery

3) 52CCT - Sketch challenge

 

And those nice peeps at the Friday Mashup  have a sketch - who knows? Perhaps a twofer, a threefor or even a fourfor (from that selection)?

 

             

 

The photo inspiration (Festive Friday)   and the sketch (Friday Mashup)

 

52CCT's sketch

And here's the first make from me today

 

My Make for the THREEfor!

 

Materials used:

• 15cm square white, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• 14½cm square panel of green card (x 2 including the insert)
• 14cm square panel of white card (x 2 including the insert)
• A snippet of white card on to which I stamped my Penny Black wreath three times, using Adirondack bottle, pesto and finally Versamark inks before adding gold dazzle embossing powder and heat embossing (a technique I've recently re-discovered!!! Forgot quite how much I love the effect)
• I then die cut my image using a Go Kreate plain oval
• Having drawn round the oval on the base white panel I then stamped my Hero Arts sentiment using Versafine onyx black ink and a partial bough image (manufacturer unknown) numerous times using Encore gold ink before adhering my image panel, to give me a nice gold border

 

Yes, I think I've managed a "threefer"! It's also my turn to set the monthly challenge over at Craftbubble2½ (membership required) this month and I've selected "More than one" as my theme (with 3 stamped wreaths, three layers and three colours of inks) and will be using the above card as my entry. I'll also be entering this over at Festive Friday (with the boughs) and also at Jingle Belles (all that gold and glittery embossing powder) - I tried for one of the above sketches but managed to make a complete pigs ear of it so it's back to the drawing board for that one! I DID, however, manage to make one for this sketch over at Sketch Saturday

I will also be entering it for the "UNDER" challenge over at CASology. And, as usual, here's a view of the inside and the envelope as well as a close up of the three images and all that glittery loveliness

Carrying my theme across the inside and the envelope

Twinkle, Twinkle

And, of course, there's the new challenge over at Simply Less Is More, where their new challenge is a colour challenge:-

Colour Challenge 

this month we have a yummy combination of colours!

CHOCOLATE MINT

Now I have to be honest I don't much care for these colours let alone together so, I'm predisposed towards NOT LIKING this card but I ask you for your opinions ..... imagine my surprise to find I was first to enter this week!!

Materials used:

• 5" x 7" white, 300gsm, scallop edged card and matching sized envelope
• Dutchdoobadoo vanishing circles stencil through which I sponged Distress Ink in evergreen bough, using a Color Box stylus and blending foam head
• Using splat images from Inkylicious, Visible Image and Paper Artsy I stamped a pretty random design using Brilliance coffee bean ink
• Woodware sentiment stamped (at what I felt was a jaunty angle!!) using the coffee bean ink too

I didn't have exactly mint and chocolate so used these instead, think they are pretty close though ...

Have a great weekend