I stamped the feathers in muted rainbow colors with the help of the wreath builder stencil. I die-cut a square in the center, stamped the sentiment, and popped it up with square black craft foam. I placed the square a little offset so that the black card base will show.
The gallery of Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas is growing and it's so much fun to look at all the gorgeous samples and entries!
This is the second tag I've made for the event.
1. The
background is an alcohol inked acetate sheet. It's a leftover piece from this project. I pasted the sheet onto the white cardstock and die-cut it with a tag die. 2. The trees were stenciled with pearl embossing paste. I die-cut a tree from a piece of acetate sheet and used the negative as a stencil. I sprinkled crystal powder over the embossing paste before the paste dried to add more shine. 3. The hill was die cut and the sentiment was heat-embossed in silver pearl on the die-cut vellum. 4. I stamped and die-cut my favorite bear. I gave him an alcohol inked heart. I added Glossy Accent to his nose to give it a shine. Finally I popped him up with foam squares at an angle.
You have until November 23 to link up your tag here.
Thanks for visiting me today!
Stamp: All Inside, Cozy Christmas (Ellen Hutson) Paper:Whisper White, Vellum (Stampin' Up!), Embossable Window Plastic (Judi Kins) Ink: Alcohol Ink (Stream, Botanical, Teakwood, Framingo, Watermelon, Raspberry, Sunshine Yellow - Ranger), Early Espresso (Stampin' Up!), VersaMark (Tsukineko) Accessories: Dies (All Inside, Home and Hearth - Ellen Hutson, Die-namics Cross Stitch Tag, Stitched Snow Drifts - My Favorite Things), Pearlescent Embossing Paste (Dreanweaver), Embossing Powder (Silver Pearl - Wow!, Crystal - Stampendous!), Glossy Accent (Ranger), Ribbon (Organdy Cross-dye - Casa Collection), Thin 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives)
Christmas is coming in just about a month. I'm sure you're all getting busy preparing for the holiday. If making Christmas cards is one of the things on your preparation list, why don't you make one or two (or many!) with a Santa theme? This month's CAS Christmas Challenge is Santa, hosted by Christine. We're joined by a wonderful Guest Designer, Pam (Expressions with Heart).
And here's my card:
I heat-embossed the Santa image and the sentiment in white on the red panel. I made a white Scallop trim and layered it under the red panel. Everything was attached to the Kraft card base. It's a very quick and easy card to make - perfect for a last-minute Christmas card.
The Design Team and our wonderful Guest Designer, Pam, have some fun Santa cards to share with you at the challenge site. Please check it out and play along with us! The link is open until November 24.
I'm
sad to say that this will be my last month to share my cards as a CAS
Christmas Challenge Designer. Thank
you so much, Loll and Bonnie, for inviting me to the CAS Christmas
Challenge. This was my first time to be on a Design Team of any kind and
I've really had a great time and learned a lot. I'm also so thankful for the friendships I've made with the wonderful and kind Designers of the challenge.
Starting from next month, I'll be on the Design Team of our sister challenge, CAS Mix Up and I'm really looking forward to the new adventure. 😊
Stamp: Fat Pants (Ellen Hutson), Gift Tag Greetings (My Favorite Things) Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Crumb Cake (Stampin' Up!) Ink: VersaMark (Tsukineko) Accessories: Punch (Scallop Trim Border, Scallop Trim Corner - Stampin' Up!), Embossing Powder (White - Hero Arts)
This month's CAS Watercolour Challenge is hosted by the talented Susan Bridgman (Cardmaker's Garret) and she chose "Christmas Florals and Greenery" as a theme. I need to make more Christmas cards, so the theme is just perfect! Thanks, Susan, for choosing such a timely theme!
I made 2 cards using the same design.
[Card 1]
[Card 2]
The berries and the leaves were gold heat-embossed and colored with Zig markers. I partially die-cut the images using the matching die, leaving the horizontal strip as a connector.
The sentiment was gold heat-embossed. The letter "C" of Card 2 somehow didn't get heat-embossed and was missing (and I didn't notice that until later), so I added a die-cut "C" to fix the problem. The gold strip was layered under the die-cut piece. I'm happy about how it came out.
I used woodgrain cardstock for the Card 1 card base, and I made a frame impression on the card base for Card 2.
An entry tag should be a Mixed Media or CAS Mixed Media Christmas tag.
Here's my tag:
1. I stenciled the berries and the greenery on a piece of Bristol paper
with distressed crayons. The stencil image was quite small, so I used
damp Q-tips to push the crayon into the stencil openings. 2. I die-cut the
stenciled piece and brushed the image with a shimmer pen. 3. I heat-embossed
the entire tag with Ultra
Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE) and heat-embossed the sentiment over the UTEE
coated surface. 4. I die-cut the same tag with light blue for backing.
I sponged light
blue Distress Ink in the background but it didn't show much, especially
after covering it with UTEE which has a yellow tint.
I love the glossy-look of the tag!
Check out the gallery here. I hope you join the fun!
Hello! I'm Hideko Lagan. (My first name is pronounced as "Hee-deh-ko".)
I'm originally from Tokyo, Japan, and my husband and I moved to the States in 2008.
I started papercrafting in June, 2012, and I enjoy it on weekends. I used to love origami when I was a child, so the paper-crafting seeds were already in me at that time!
