Wishes for You

Hello!  My card today was inspired by the Inspiration Palette Challenge J1720 at The House That Stamps Built shown below.  I used a old stamp from my stash that I stamped on white cardstock with Memento inks and colored lightly with Copics.  I trimmed the image and matted with 2 cardstocks with colors inspired by the photo.  I attached this to a darker color mat and then to a card base.  I stamped one of my favorites sentiments from Repeat Impressions with Versamark and heat embossed with Green Pearl EP.  This is a card that can be used for several events. 

Other challenges:
Crafty Sentiments Design: Anything Goes: 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Swans-a-Swimming

Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying a great holiday season and had a Merry Christmas day.  Thought I'd drop by with another one of my Twelve Days of Christmas series cards that I have not posted.  This features swans -a-swimming but I only have 2 of the 7.  The other 5 must have swum away out of site. I stamped the swans on 2 panels of white card stock and fussy cut one set of the swans to attach to the blue fiber cloth that I used for the background on the other panel of white cardstock.  Added some silver embossed snowflakes and stamped sentiments.  Used silver metallic CS for the card base. Stamps are from a free stamp set with Creative Stamping Magazine.

(The blue fiber cloth is what is used as a pot cover for plants)   

Challenges: 

Double D Challenges: Twelve Days of Christmas-Part 2.  This is my 3rd entry for this challenge.

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #469 Anything Christmas with Optional Theme-use word Christmas

Christmas Kickstart Challenge: #26 Last minute Madness-If it's Christmassy, link it up!

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Twofer Challenge Birds

Welcome!  Today I am posting cards that I created for the Twofer Card Challenge #12 - make 2 different cards for 2 different occasions using the same stamp, stencil, or die.   I used a Swan stamp from The 12 Days of Christmas stamp set that was in an issue of Creative Stamping.   For a Christmas card I stamped the swan 7 times (using a mask) on white CS with Memento Black ink, colored with Copics, stamped sentiments from the same set, and layered with a blue card base and an orange mat.   

The second card was made with 2 panels of White CS inked with Distress Oxide Ink Salty Ocean.  The panels were both results of my playing (experimenting) with DOI and were found in my stash  of saved handmade backgrounds.  The bottom panel ( inked by swiping the pad over the paper) was embossed with Fiskars Texture Pad Ocean and trimmed  along a wave. On the top of the card, I used a panel that looks like a sky with clouds.   I stamped another swan, colored with Copics, fussy cut, and attached to the card. Stamped some sentiments from my stash with DOI Salty Ocean.  Also added some glossy accents to the swans' beaks. 

Challenges to enter:

Twofer Card Challenge: #12 Birds

Tuesday Throwdown: #423 Theme is  Embossing. Use Fiskars Texture Plate Ocean.

Merry Little Christmas: #6 January  Anything Christmas

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa