It's time for another 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge, and this week's theme is "Baubles". Now, I have plenty of bauble stamps and dies in my craft room, but as soon as I saw the theme I remembered a gorgeous sheet of Stampin' Up! designer series paper featuring beautifully illustrated Christmas baubles. Sometimes the patterned… Continue reading Christmas baubles | 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Theme Challenge
Category: Using scraps
A Floating Strips Penguin Card | 52 Christmas Card Throwdown June Sketch Challenge
This week’s June Sketch Challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown provided the perfect opportunity to tackle a technique that had been on my "must try" list for a while — a floating strips card. I always enjoy finding creative ways to use up scraps, and this design is ideal for that. A handful of leftover… Continue reading A Floating Strips Penguin Card | 52 Christmas Card Throwdown June Sketch Challenge
A Blue, Grey & Pink Christmas Card | 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
This week’s colour challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is a slightly unusual one — blue, grey and pink. Not my go-to festive palette, I’ll admit, but that’s exactly why I enjoy these challenges… they really do push you to try something different! I had a lovely time putting this card together using elements… Continue reading A Blue, Grey & Pink Christmas Card | 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
A Festive Star Card | 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Sketch Challenge
This week’s sketch challenge over at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is such a great jumping off point. I always love a good sketch — it takes the guesswork out of layout but still leaves plenty of room to play with papers, textures and embellishments. For this card, I kept things fairly clean with a white-on-white base,… Continue reading A Festive Star Card | 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Sketch Challenge
