CASE me a Christmas Card 2025 Blog Hop

 I'm most excited to join this year's CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) me a Christmas Card with my crafty friend Michelle Lupton and friends. The format this year is slightly different to previous years as anyone can join in by making a Christmas card inspired by any card made by designers participating in the hop. This year, I was inspired by this card from Emily Midgett - Sixth Street Sundries. 

I don't have a dark brown card stock and decided to use a green card stock instead. I was inspired by the bright colours against the dark background and decided to use some old dies in my stash - some of these may no longer be available as I've had a them for quite a number of years. They get to feature every now and then! It was easy to put together as I'm really into simple cards that are easy to mass produce during this busy time of the year! Thank you so much for dropping by, please hop along to Emily's card on the blog hop! 

I'm adding this card to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Clean and Simple

Materials used:

Dies - Wreath and bow from Winnie and Walter, Sentiment from Simon Says Stamp, Square die from Lil'Inker designs

Others - enamel dots from Simon Says Stamp

Emily's card is below:

Case Me A Christmas Card 2022

I'm excited to be invited again by Michelle Lupton to join along with her Case me a Christmas Card series. It's always fun to pick one of Michelle's cards to case. I picked this card that she blogged in August this year - I love the simplicity of this card and adapted it for Christmas. I'd actually made 6 versions of this card in the one session! The stampset is a recent purchase from Simon Says Stamp and the blocking was done with sticky note strips. Here is Michelle's Case for one of my cards! Thanks for stopping by!

Materials used:

Stamp - Simon Says Stamp Season of Joy
Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

http://handmade-by-michelle.blogspot.com/2022/08/one-layer-sending-smiles.html

CASE me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton

Hello! It's nearly that time of the year again! I'm happy to join my crafty friend Michelle Lupton for her annual Christmas challenge again. I've cased this card (photo below). I masked off a strip and coloured with Distress Oxides and stamped with a background stamp inked with white ink. Once dried, the embossing was inked on top!

Michelle has cased one of my cards, check it out here!

Materials:

Background stamp - Hero Arts

Embossed stamps - Concord and 9th

Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Oxides, Unicorn white ink

 

Christmas 2021 - 1

Yay! Finally! My first Christmas Card for 2021. It's been really slow for me this this year as I'm very busy with work and also doing a Certificate for Health Informatician course at the same time - nearly there now! Here is one that I've made a bunch one night on a break from studying. I just love using stencils nowadays for quick cards. More to come later as I get bored making the same cards over and over again!

Challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make your own background

Materials:
Altenew Pine Stencil, stampset, inks and sprays

Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and friends

My Crafty friend Michelle Lupton has asked me to join her again this year with Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and Friends. The challenge I set for her was to create a ‘Baubles’ card. She sent me a gorgeous bauble card last year.

Here is my card using a bauble die and patterned paper. It was a really quick and simple card to make. Pop over to Michelle’s blog to check out her creation! I can't wait to create more cards with the new Kaisercraft collection! Thanks for popping by!

Ingredients:

Die - Lil Inkers Stitched Squares and Jingle Bells

Paper - Kaisercraft Peppermint Kisses and Neenah Dessert Storm 

Others - Sizzix EF 

Peace and Joy

These are the last  of my Christmas cards and I've started giving them out on the weekend. I've use the Simon Says Stamp Tim Holtz Stamptember set to make this series of cards. They were so easy to make in production line with the Misti! I'm adding this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials:
Stamp - SSS Tim Holtz Stamptember 2018
Inks - Distress Oxide, Versamark, Hero Arts Silver EP, Kuretake Tambi Gansai 

CTS 297

I had fun making these really quick Christmas cards. The first one was based on a sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch challenge. I decided to use my new Tim Holtz stamps for this challenge. I stamped the image around 3-4 times using my Misti with two shades of inks. The sentiment was gold embossed and background splatters were made with the same ink and gold watercolour ink. The second card was made with the image cut out, mounted on gold card stock and dimensional foam added. I ended up making 6 of the second card! Thanks for dropping by!

Materials:
Stamps:Tim Holtz Stamptember 2018 and Glorious Gatherings
Dies: Hero Arts Infinity Rectangles
Inks: Altenew Frayed Leaf and Evergreen, Kuretake Gansai Tambi ink and gold EP

November Inspiration

Back with another Inspiration challenge from Altenew. As I do not have any Altenew Christmas stamps, I decided to use small stamps from a combination of stamp sets to make a wreath. As I was using the Misti and rotating the stamps, the first one was round and the others turned out squarish! As it was so much fun to produce multiple cards with the Misti, I made a series of 6 cards in the one session with gold and silver embossed sentiment. I still have a lot more Christmas cards to make! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenge:

Altenew Inspiration Challenge

Materials:

Stamps - Altenew Lacy Scrolls, Bride to Be and Lyrical Script

Ink - Altenew Crimson, Parrot and Moss, Silver and Gold EP, Kuretake Gansai Tambi paints

Others - Kaisercraft gems

CTS296

I've kick started my Christmas card making with a series of 5 cards based on the current CAS(E) this Sketch challenge. Just imagine the sketch upside down... perfect as a Christmas tree! I adhered patterned paper to Neenah card stock and cut strips of same sizes. They were then trimmed to various lengths and foam tape was added to each strip. The assembly was fun and the gold star finished off the tree nicely. This is a great way of using left over patterned paper! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:
CAS(E) This Sketch - Sketch #296
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Materials:
Paper - Kaisercraft Mint Wishes
Stamps - Concord and 9th, Tim Holtz Glorious Gatherings
Die - Concord and 9th

Christmas Challenge with Michelle

Hi everyone! I'm most excited to share a card for my crafty friend Michelle from Handmade by Michelle. She asked me to pick a Christmas challenge for her. I didn't have to think long to pick something that will be challenging for someone who is so good with water colours and alcohol inks! My challenge is to make a Christmas card with patterned paper! Here is the link to Michelle's challenge card and below is the card I made with patterned paper from Kaisercraft Mint Wishes. This was last year's collection but I loved it so much, I bought more after Christmas when they were on sale! I'm also in love with this new stamp from Tim Holtz, love the details in this image! Thank you Michelle for getting me started on my Christmas card!! Looking forward to the rest of the challenges! I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes challenge.

Materials:
Stamp - Tim Holtz Glorious Gatherings
Paper - Kaisercraft Mint Wishes
Ink - Distress Ink Gathered Twigs
Others - Gold washi tape from Altenew

Christmas Card 2018 - 1

My first Christmas card for 2018! 

I made this card at a recent craft retreat and I used borrowed supplies to make this card. I experimented with alcohol inks during this retreat and created the background for these cards. I just loved the die cut windows which made this shaker card easy to create! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Lets get ready for Christmas

Materials:
Stamps - Altenew
Dies - Simon Says Stamp Sensational Snowflake
Others - Ranger alcohol inks and EP

Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and Friends

I'm very excited to take part in Michelle Lupton's Christmas challenge this year! Michelle challenged me to make a 'Purple' Christmas card. Make sure you pop over to her blog to see what she made! Here is my interpretation of the challenge. I used the die from Concord and 9th to create a stencil and added some droplets of water and clear drops to decorate the tree. The sentiment was embossed with various embossing powders.

Thanks for dropping by!

Fa La La La

I've had a lot of fun using these Concord and 9th dies for making Christmas cards. What I love is that the tree die is so big it fills up the whole card. I was most amused when I saw the current Muse challenge this week - perfect as I have the same dies! Here are my interpretations of Ardyth's card.

Materials
Card - Neenah Solar White and Desert Storm, Kaisercraft Glitter card
Stamps and Dies - Concord and 9th
Paper - Kaisercraft Mint Wishes

Ardyth's Muse Card

Snow White Bauble

Some more glorious Christmas Bauble cards using the wonderful die from Concord and 9th and mixing it up with some patterned paper from Kaisercraft Mint Wishes. I'm adding the first card to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Snow White challenge. Thanks for dropping by!!

Glittery Christmas Tags

I'm back with some quick tags made with Kaisercraft products. I'm adding these to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Christmas Gift Tag Challenge. Thanks for dropping by!

Casing Jessica Frost-Ballas

I'm casing this card made by Jessica Frost-Ballas for the Hero Arts Holidays Blog Hop. I love the colours she used in the background! I used Distress Inks to create the background and white embossed some snowflakes. I decided to add a silver tape to the bottom of the card before adding the sentiment strip the die cut trees and house. Hope you like it! Thanks for dropping by!

Materials
Card - Neenah Solar White
Inks - Distress Inks Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet
Stamps - Hero Arts various collections
Die - Memory Box

Inspiration card by Jessica Frost-Ballas

More Christmas Card

I'm back with another Christmas card to share for the A Blog Named Hero's Calling all Critters challenge. I finally added a couple more Distress Oxides to my collection and couldn't wait to try them out on a Kraft card. I masked a circle and sponged with Iced Spruce and Faded Jeans and the sentiment was stamped with Fired Brick. I love how the inks stand out on kraft, especially after I spritzed with some Perfect Pearls! I made three cards and selected the best one for the blog. Thanks for dropping by!

Materials
Card - Neenah Desert Storm
Stamps - Hero Arts July kit, sentiment from an old stampset
Inks - Distress Oxides, Versafine
Others - Perfect Pearls Spray