susie's and vikki's christmas club challenge #12

the theme at susie's and vikki's christmas club challenge this week is silver and blue or blue and silver...so i created the above card with paper from my christmas scrap stash, the tag from a paper stack i bought about 5 years ago, the snowflake brad from my embellishment stash, the thicker silver snowflakes from a garland purchased at the dollar store about 8 years ago and cut up and finally the "believe" came from an embellishment pack from a liquidation store!  i'm still meeting my goal of using the products i have on hand.

the above two cards are my recycled christmas cards in each case i just added embellishments from my stash.  three more cards ready for christmas!

susie's and vikki's christmas club challenge 9

as Easter is quickly approaching, i am busily preparing Christmas cards, yeah! that's right!   i am back to participating in the challenge at susie and vikki's christmas club challenge.  the theme for this week's challenge is BAUBLES. i am still trying to use my stash of products to create cards and as i always recycle old christmas cards,  i am using these items for my cards today. 

two of the cards are frame cards bought on clearance from michael's years ago.  where normally you would put a photo in the frame, here i have cut down on old card where the colours of the bauble  matched the frame card exactly and then added a star shaped brad purchased many years ago at the dollar store.

the next card again is the frame card where i used the snowflake embossing folder  on a piece of white cardstock from my scraps and inserted it into the frame as a background. i  added a painted wooden snowman and then attached alphabet letters to baubles to spell "joy"

this card is composed of two old christmas cards, the white one has the cut out window which i have pop dotted and layered over a second christmas card, finally adding them to a brown card that i embossed just the top with swiss dots.  i will later add a heat embossed sentiment to the lower right hand corner!

oh christmas tree

susie and vikki's Christmas club challenge 3 oh christmas tree

this card was pulled together from scraps (yeah!), a recycled card image (yeah!) and light bulb stickers from old stash (yeah!) so it met all the goals i had for completing this challenge !  i only wish i had more time but this is a busy week...but creating a card a week throughout the year will help during those insanely busy weeks at Christmas!

challenges

susie and vikki's Christmas club challenge 3 non traditional

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pdss sketch challenge 7

i have once again combined the pdss sketch challenge and the Christmas club challenge. the theme for this weeks challenge is    NON TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

you can interpret this challenge however you wish, it could be non traditional colours or images, etc.

so i selected the bowling pin paper as it reminded me of snowflakes! i embellished it with shiny black buttons to mimic the idea of bowling balls. i cut out one of the "snowflakes" and popped it with glue dots and used a "holiday season" sticker in the centre.

i tried a second card, this time in non traditional colours-pink and green, non traditional images-waves as the blowing winter wind; flowers as the clouds and snowflakes as well as a non traditional sentiment-"scatter joy". it is hard to tell but i have popped the centre of the scalloped oval and the frame with glue dots, added green pearls, "joy" stickers and a pink and white striped border strip.