Atlantic Hearts Sketch 74

I don't know what's up with me and the holiday cards lately, but I've got a couple more for you this week. Today I'm playing with the October SOTM (coming soon!) and the Atlantic Hearts Sketch #74.

I stamped the background repeatedly with the tag image in Cranberry ink onto Cranberry cardstock, then paper pieced a tag to bring out the image on the right side of the card. The bear is paper pieced in 5 layers, which sounds like an absolute pain, but was really quite simple, ad most of the fussy cutting was simple rectangles. There's a coordinating cricut cut for the postage stamp shape too! I stamped him twice in black, once in Cranberry, and once in Sky ink to get all the pieced I needed. His little scarf has some touches of color with a turquoise marker. 

I loved how his eyes and cheeks turned out too. I just added a dot of Liquid Glass over his eyes for a teensy wiggly eye effect. For his cheeks I dotted the circle with a red marker, then tapped it with the alcohol blender to fade out the color. Some mini staples on the ruby shimmer trim and black baker's twine were the final touches...on the outside...

On the inside I added a little embossed Cranberry CS pocket to hold a gift card.

Here's the original sketch - hope you'll pop over to AHSC and play along!

Warm Wishes Card

I love this little house in the October SOTM (coming soon!), so I knew I wanted to do a sweet little card using that image.

I used the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch, but turned upside down so my snow could be like the banner swoosh. I drew my color inspiration from this week's Color Throwdown. I stamped large snowflakes from Best Christmas onto Whisper Cardstock and sanded it heavily. That's where the sentiment came from too.

Then I stamped the house four times in Sky, Crystal Blue, Pear, and Slate Inks so I could piece it together. I added some stardust glitter gel to the edges for snow and smoke from the chimney. The tree is also October SOTM, trimmed out of the center of the large ornament.  I popped the house and one of the trees up with foam tape to add a bit more dimension to the scene.

Now we're off to the circus - have a great weekend!

Mojo Merry Christmas

Sometimes when you see a blog challenge hit your inbox you just know exactly what you want to do. That was the case when I saw this week's Mojo Monday Sketch - and my card idea went perfectly with the Merry Monday Prompt, too! Then I just had to find the time to create.

I embossed the background Cranberry CS panel with the Dots folder. The Glacier stamped panel is a sneak peek of next month's SOTM, and that bit of Black snowflake paper is quite possibly my favorite holiday paper in the whole idea book . 

How cute is this moped?  I colored the moped using Shin Han twin touch markers, then coated with with stardust glitter gel. I took this shot at a big angle so you can really see the glitter! 

I guess I was in a holiday kind of mood, so I've got another holiday card to share tomorrow too. Happy Friday!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch 72

Here we go with another Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Card! 

For this card I used one of my favorite new paper patterns in the whole idea book, this fabulous purple and orange polka dot from the Scaredy Cat papers. There's also a smidge of notebook paper from Wanderful that I stamped the globe on if you can see that. CTMH gave us this Here We Go stamp set at convention and I wasn't sure I'd really want to use it, but I'm loving the little bits and bobs included like this arrow border. This black arrow washi tape is fast becoming a favorite fgo-to of mine!

I stamped the globe stand in Slate ink, then ran over it with my favorite Gelly Roll stardust pen. I love that it only took two pens to color my variegated globe, just Turquoise and a blender. I used Lavender to color my sparkles purple to match. There's a bit of Stickles on my wooden star charms.

Here's the sketch. Just pop over to Atlantic Hearts and play along!

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