Frosty Christmas

Hello!  I am back with another card for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge.  

This week they are hosting a color challenge for creating a Christmas card (yay!)

Here's the card I created

Frosty Christmas

This color combo was a challenge for me for a Christmas card, but the beautiful thing about these challenges is stretching your creativity and I love it!  

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IB Gallery Inspiration Week One and Two

Good afternoon! 

Last week I decided to start a fun feature (that will be shared here on my blog and on my Instagram: danni.reid) and share how people in the gallery and around the industry inspire me.

The first card I chose was shared in the Inspired By Bring in the New Year gallery.

I was inspired by Vicky Hayes from Crafting Clare

Her cute card was so beautifully designed and perfect for the theme.  I was inspired by her design and created a card inspired by it.

Here is her CUTE card

Happy New Year card

This is definitely a fabulous start to the new year right?  Love it!

And here is my card inspired by her card.

Friendship is the Sweetest Flower card

And this week, I was Inspired By DJ from Sendable Sentiments

Her cute card caught my eye because I love the theme and the design.  I was inspired to stay with the overall theme and design to create a coffee-themed card for my stash.

Here is her CUTE card

Coffee & Friends card

Isn't it fabulous?  

The Inspired By gallery is always so amazing and jumpstarts so many ideas for all the participants and dt too :)

And here is my card inspired by her card.

You Got This --coffee  card

I used the awesome digital stamps from Graciellie Designs: Cheery Cocoa

 And the gallery is looking inspiring again this week for our current challenge: Inspired By Hot Chocolate, it's going to be so hard because there's just not enough time to create a card for every card that inspires me weekly.  

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Wishing You a Beautiful Holiday

Good afternoon.  I created a Christmas card for the current challenge over @ ABC Christmas Challenge.  

The challenge this month?

Anything Goes Christmas

or 

B is for Bingo 

I chose to create an "Anything Goes" Christmas card using some Christmas sentiment stamps and a candy cane stamp.  I pulled out the acrylic paint to create some red berries on the holly and contrast between the repeated sentiment.

Wishing You a Beautiful Holiday card

 To create the patterned papers, I stamped the holly and merry sentiment using white chalk ink and then added the red berries and polka dots using red acrylic paint.  I die-cut a scalloped circle out of vellum and stamped the sentiment and candy cane.  After machine-stitching the sentiment tag, I adhered the sentiment to the vellum tag and the candy cane to the sentiment, and then Silhouette-cut a bow and added some sequins.

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Beautiful and Bright tag card

Good morning.

I am back with a card inspired by the challenge over at CAS Christmas card challenges.

Beautiful and Bright card

Here is the challenge this month:

 Make a card with a Tag on it

I chose to stamp a tag using a fun Christmas holly stamp and then used a toothpick to paint the berries using acrylic paint.  I stamped the sentiment using a glittered silver ink and then scored some lines into the white cardstock for interest.  I finished the tag with some glittered ribbon I had in my stash and adhered to the white cardstock mat and then to my card base.

(paint and glittered ribbon details)

(sentiment flag and score line details)

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Merry Happy Jolly card

Hello!  I am back with another card for the 52 Christmas card throwdown challenge.  This week they are hosting a sketch challenge for creating a Christmas card (yay!)

Here's the card I created

Merry Happy Jolly Card

And here's the awesome sketch this week!

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winter time is the best time tag

Welcome back to the second week of brand new inspiration challenges over at Inspired By card challenges. 

 I am in love with the challenge again this week because it jump-started my tags (goal for this year again (and one I've kept every year and around Christmas am glad I do...smile)

 winter time is the best time tag

I decided to use an old (oh so old) houndstooth label for the cuff on my mitten and it made 

me happy to see the results.

and here is the fabulous inspiration!

and all the dt cards are awesome, check them out HERE!

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Beary Birthday

Happy New Year!

Here's to more fun and inspiration in 2020!

We are back with another inspiration and challenge this week over @ Inspired By card challenges.

This week we are taking on a new year, new month and some ice skating fun!

Here's the first of many January birthday cards to be created this month.

Beary Happy Birthday

I was inspired by:

*winter theme

*white

*layers

*ice skating

And here's the incredible inspiration to get you started!

Fabulous right!

Happy 2020 friends!