Monday, September 15, 2025

Just a few cards

 


Christmas Kickstart Challenge-Santa

The Male Room- Create Your Own Background 

I have a lot of  stuff hanging around my craft room that just wants to be made into a card and one is this Santa that I stamped a long time ago. I decided to make it vintage looking since I felt the actual stamped image wasn’t clear, to me. I used a couple of Tim Holtz distress ink pads, my foam piece to place on the ink pad and rubbed the whole image in a light colour. I took darker inks to sponge along the edges. I layered the image and added some gold corners and framed it in. Some bling was added onto the card and my Christmas card is done.

Tic, Tac, Toe Challenge- tttc279- diagonal. rectangle, 3 or more colours, embossing

Simon Says- Layer It Up

Crafty Animals- Anything Goes

I had this peacock on my desk for so long so he needed some loving. This is a stencil I had used and so I finally glued him in place on a background I created using yellow dye inks. I started stamping the ferns and other stamps I have to create a scenic frame. The peacock is viewed in a small clearing. I used green, brown and merlot distress inks to create the scene and coloured in the edges. I layered up the card with the last layer covered I  tissue. The final bit were the borders in gold and some bling and stickles.

Finally, a couple of cards 

8 comments:

  1. Wow I just love the vintage Santa Birgit….and your beautiful peacock…
    2 glorious cards xxx

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  2. Nice!
    Okay, must be because it's so early. At first, I saw a bunny sitting in a chair in the first card.

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  3. Two super cards, Birgit! I'm so glad Santa was hanging around asking to be made into a beautiful card. Thanks for joining Leslie and me at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge, Jo x

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  4. Beautiful cards, and I'm especially loving your vintage Santa! Your card design supports the image so perfectly. Thank you for joining us at Christmas Kickstart!

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  5. Thank you for joining The Male Room blog challenge. Two different cards both great.

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  6. Beautiful masculine card. Thanks for sharing at The Male Room

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