52 {C}CT Christmas Card In July Blog Hop

Welcome to the 52 {Christmas} Card Christmas in July Blog Hop - ooh, it's exciting!  If you've arrived here from PATRICIA, you are on the right track!  If you haven't and want to participate for a chance to win honours and/or prizes, please go back to the original hop post and follow along with us!  Come and take a peek at the creations I made using our prompts for the month - I've made a card for each of our four prompts for the month so this is a mega post!

SKETCH PROMPT CARD 

 

As you'll see, I went very literal with the sketch!  I used a set of 3 tree dies to make this card.  I die cut three trees from Mossy Meadow CS, transferred some Picket Fence Distress Stain into a Mini Mister bottle and spritzed the trees to give them a snowy look.  I added Star Dust Stickles to the snowy banks and to the tree on the card front.  I pierced holes and used a Real Red marker to add faux stitches.  I added punched snowflakes and a die cut red sparkly bird. 

Inside and envelope of the sketch card.

 
COLOUR COMBO PROMPT CARD

Four different shades of pink from lightest to darkest, grey and light green.

As soon as I saw the colours I knew I wanted to use the poinsettia stamp from the SU! Joyful Christmas set.  I made a 5" x 7" Pink Pirouette card base and added Basic Gray and Pistachio Pudding mat layers.  I inked the flower and leaves with VersaMark ink, stamped onto watercolour paper, heat embossed with white powder and coloured the images with inks and a water brush.  I used Pistachio Pudding ink for the leaves and Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink and Primrose Petals inks to colour the flower.  I found the grey pearly button in my stash and I used that as a flower centre.  I used the SU! Northern Flurry embossing folder to emboss the white panel and I popped up the poinsettia.  Accents include Primrose Petals ribbon, a decorative punched border and a sprinkling of grey rhinestones.

A close up of the poinsettia.

Inside and envelope of the colour combo card.

RECIPE PROMPT CARD

Vintage is not a 'go to' style for me but I enjoy making a vintage card every now and again.  The card base is made from SU! Brushed Gold CS and measures 5 3/4" square.  I cut a square mat layer of Early Espresso CS, used the Sizzix Ivy Flourishes Texturz Plate to emboss it, rubbed on Golden Light gilding wax and used a distressing tool to roughen up the edges of the panel.  I die cut a Brushed Gold Top Note shape and adhered that to the embossed layer.  The Inkadinkado snowman is very retro so I thought he'd be a good choice for a vintage Christmas card.  I cut him out with a ticket die, inked the edges with Soft Suede ink, added an Espresso mat and popped up the panel.  I die cut and punched several snowflakes, rubbed gilding wax on the Espresso snowflakes and added a button centre to the two largest snowflakes.  I completed the card front by sprinkling on some pale gold rhinestones.  

Inside and envelope of the recipe card. 

STASH PROMPT CARD

I didn't have any stickers in my stash but I found a sheet of beautiful Penny Black Christmas stickers at the Glitter Pot, my local craft shop - and they were in the sale for 75p - you gotta love a bargain!  I stamped the sentiment onto a 5 1/4" cream card base, adhered the poinsettia panel sticker to a piece of CS, fussy cut it and popped it up.  I added the holly sticker below the poinsettia panel and placed a small green square sticker under the sentiment.  I added champagne glitter glue to the poinsettia centre and completed the card front with some red glimmer dome stickers.

I trimmed the length of the poinsettia sticker to make it shorter before adhering it inside the card and I stamped the sentiment.  I placed a red bell sticker on the envelope flap.

Finally, I adhered a long holly border sticker to the front of the envelope.

Thank you for coming by to leave a comment!  Don't forget, hop along with us starting at the original 52CCT post for multiple chances to win honours and prizes.  It's a secret where the prizes are hidden so do make sure you leave a comment at each stop along the way (including the blog hop post at 52 {C}CT).  Then make a creation (or two, or three, or four!) based on our four challenge prompts and then link them up here at 52 {C}CT.  Your next stop on the hop will be JUDY V. Merry hopping and good luck!

Supplies for sketch challenge card:
Stamps: Memory Box 'Woodland Christmas', Stampendous 'Merry Wishes' stamp
CS: SU! Real Red, Mossy Meadow & Whisper White, Red Glimmer Paper
Ink: SU! Real Red & Mossy Meadow, white gel pen
Tools: Impression Obsession 'Fir Trees' die set, Cheery Lynn 'Bird Bath' die, Fiskars & X Cut snowflake punches, Tim Holtz ruler (as piercing guide for the faux stitching), piercing tool, 1 3/4" & 2" circle punches
Embellishments & accessories: Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress Stain, Mini Mister bottle, Star Dust Stickles, SU! rhinestone jewels, Dimensionals

Supplies for colour combo card:
Stamps: SU! 'Joyful Christmas' & 'Greetings of the Season' sets, Stampendous 'Merry Wishes' stamp
CS: SU! Pink Pirouette, Primrose Petals, Pistachio Pudding, Basic Gray & Whisper White
Ink: VersaMark, SU! Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Primrose Petals, Pistachio Pudding & Basic Gray
Tools: SU! 'Northern Flurry' embossing folder, SU! Eyelet Border punch, water brush, heat tool
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Primrose Petals stitched satin ribbon, PaperMania monochromatic adhesive gems, grey pearly button from stash, SU! Dimensionals

Supplies for recipe challenge card:
Stamps: snowman from Inkadinkado 'Holiday Sentiments' clear set, Stampendous 'Snow Brackets' cling stamp
CS: SU! Brushed Gold, Early Espresso & Very Vanilla
Ink: SU! Early Espresso & Soft Suede
Tools: Sizzix 'Ivy Flourishes' Texturz Plate, SU! Top Note Bigz die, Sizzix Ticket die, Sizzix 'Snowflakes #15' medium Sizzlits die, X Cut snowflake punch, Fiskars snowflake punch, 1 1/2", 1 3/4" & 2" circle punches, Tim Holtz paper distresser, sponge dauber
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Victoria crochet trim ribbon, gold lurex thread, Creative Expressions Golden Light gilding wax, PaperMania gold adhesive gems, buttons from stash, SU! Dimensionals

Supplies for stash challenge card:
Stamps: 'happy Christmas' from Woodware 'Holly Perch' clear set, inside sentiment from Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer' clear set
CS: PaperMania cream square card blank, SU! Very Vanilla
Ink: SU! Real Red & Lucky Limeade
Embellishments & accessories: Penny Black Stickeroos 'Christmas Everywhere' sticker sheet, Suze Weinberg Champagne Glitz glitter glue, PaperMania red shimmer dome stickers, SU! Dimensionals