Sunday 12 December 2010

It's snowing at Sentimental Sundays! - DT card #33

Hiya!

Only 13, 12 or 9 sleeps to Santa, depending on your circumstances ;->. Yeeepie!!!

To help you get into the Christmas spirit, we’ve arranged for a sprinkle of white, white snow for you :). So join us this week at the Sentimental Sundays with a beautiful creation, add a sentiment and… “Let it snow”!

My project this week has multiplied! :) :) :) As most of the wonderful crafters out there I have already started my production line of Christmas cards. I decided to do them in “series” to speed up the manufacturing process…

Roll the drums….


Ladies and gentlemen…


Let me introduce you to my first series of Christmas cards…


“Blue Christmas”!!!



I started by creating some background sheets that I could then chop up as needed. The backgrounds were created by a happy unison of wrinkle free distress technique with lots of snowflake stamping and hot embossing. Then I “snowed” some snow with a “random dots” stamp and Cool Peri paint dabber.


The hot embossing was paired with dry embossed panels :). The quotes so artfully arranged are of course by Raindrop Echo for Whimsy stamps.


After adding a ribbon, Christmas sentiment and final sprinkle of punched and glittered snowflakes each card was complete…;)


Here you can see the whole set. I was virtually trying to fly over the cards to get a good aerial shot but somehow my “hovering” skills have let me down and the camera experienced a little shake shock… Hence the pic not so good, sorry about that…


Don’t forget to grab yourself a free set of Ann’s fabulous sentiments and check my DT Sisters’ samples on the challenge blog. The inspiration this week is so absolutely….inspiring! lol ;)

Happy Sunday everyone!







I would like to enter the following challenges:
The Stampsmith Challenge #5 - Holiday season
City Crafters Challenge Blog #34 - Let it snow!
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Christmas (no red, no green!)
Simon Says Stamp and Show - A Holiday Greeting
GC #82 - Spicy Supply Challenge - White glitter
Alphabet Challenge Blog - G for glitter
Lots to do challenge - Glitz

22 comments:

Tracy Evans said...

Gorgeous Christmas cards Joanna, I love the cool blue and your background piece is fabulous and you have embellished each background piece perfectly. Tracy Evans x x

Shirl said...

Joanna stop making me feel guilty about the Christmas cards I am making, the work you have put into that paper for your cards is making me feel lazy. Sooo worth the effort your cards are just gorgeous. Love the blue and white combination, everything looks so cool.
Hugs Shirley x x

Karen McAlpine said...

I really like the idea of creating "sheets" of backgorund paper. I have to try this! Lovely cards! Thanks for joining the Stampsmith Challenge!

Carol Q said...

Fantastic Joanna. Lucky people who receive those! The background are a fab idea and a great start to making the cards.

crafty creations said...

Stunning cards and that backing paper is amazing

Thanks for sharing with the Lotstodo challenge x Hilda

Naturally Me Creations said...

You have beautiful cards! Stunning! :) I love your flower pot makeover as well, it's gorgeous, not only the design and decorations but the colours as well! :)

I'd love for you to link up your creations on my weekend linky parties every weekend, if you like... :)

http://naturallymecreations.blogspot.com/search/label/Who%20made%20What%3F%20Weekends%20Linky%20Parties

shaz earl said...

Simply gorgeous cards many thanks for joining us at Alphabet challenge.

Ros said...

Fabulous paper! and your cards are just beautiful ... thanks for sharing at CCCB

Zoechaos said...

Way to go your background is magical and each card remains unique. Thank you for sharing with us at Lots to do xx Zoe

Jaqi said...

Fabulous set and these colours just compliment each other so well they are fab

Nigel said...

~In best Craig Revel Horwood voice~ Fabulous Dahling ;)

You are one very talented lady :)

Julie Mutch said...

Joanna, these card are spectacular! Gorgeous background and beautiful layouts. Thanks so much for joining us again this week at The Stampsmith Challenge!

Happy Holidays!
Julie

Unknown said...

So creative how you made your background paper..
Your cards look wonderful as always..

Hugs, Linda

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

Lovely christmas cards, especially they are blue..... thanks for sharing it with us at CCCB!

Heather said...

You've created such beautiful background paper and turned it into a set of stunning card!!
Love the wonderful sentiment and gorgeous details.

Thank you so much for joining us at the Simon Says Stamp challenge,
hugs Heather xx

cnelson said...

Absolutely GORGEOUS! Thank you for joining us at CCCB!

Lynne Forsythe said...

OK...LOVIN' the paper you created and the card...OMW....AMAZING...who wouldn't love to receive your card!!

THANKS for playin' along with the Teamies at Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge blog!!!

Cheryl said...

Beautiful! I love the background you created. It is so very elegant.

Valerie H. Marshall said...

Totally gorgeous! Not only is the background stunning, but the layouts are all so striking! Thank you for joining us again for The Stampsmith Challenge!
Happy Holidays!
Val :)

Sarah Anderson said...

These are STuNNiNG Joanna! Totally gorgeous :)

Tameko said...

Wow. These are beautiful. Love the colors!

SmilynStef said...

What fun winter sentiments ... and great glittery snowflakes ... thanks for joining the White Glitter Challenge at Gingersnap Creations.

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