My Time To Craft 'ATC' Challenge

Good morning all, how are we all doing on this cold and frosty morning?

Today we start a new challenge at My Time To Craft and this week we are challenging you to ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) and let me tell you this was definitely a challenge for me. Having not made one before I was looking for the necessary measurements to start with which are 3.5" x 2.5" and once I saw those I was thinking what on earth can I fit on that!

However I turned to my trusty Silhouette Cameo and came up with two ATC's, go me. The first one was a bit of a trial and I started by creating my size on my cameo mat and then seeing what worked best. I cut a star background and used that as a mask, inking through it with Faded Jeans, Broken China and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks lightest colour at the bottom.  Then cut my three tree's adding the smaller two flat and raising the middle biggest one on foam tape.

Supplies:-

Card Stock - Bazzill

Ink - Ranger Distress Ink 'Faded Jeans', 'Broken China' & Tumbled Glass

Die Cuts - Christmas Tree Set #34387 by Lori Whitlock

The second one was actually a card design that I shrank, cutting all the necessary elements but then adding some snow to the ground.

 

Supplies:-

Card Stock - Bazzill

Snow - Deco Art Glamour Dust

Die Cuts - Tree & Snow Layered Card #68745 by Kristen Magee

I will be back shortly with my Crafty Calendar Challenge post.

 Have a lovely weekend.

Natalie & Amy's 'Cute & Cuddly Christmas' Challenge

 Good morning everyone, thank you for stopping by. 

I am here today with my card for the new challenge over at Natalie & Amy's and our challenge to you this month is 'Cute & Cuddly Christmas'. I used this adorable Humphrey's Corner image called 'First Christmas' to make a first Christmas card for a little one who was born in July and named Mason. I got this idea from another blog sometime a go but I cannot find it now so if anyone knows who it was please let me know so I can give credit.

I started with a 6" scalloped square card blank and used a really old snowflake stamp and distress ink's in frayed burlap and tumbles glass to create the background, then cut the large 'M' on my Silhouette along with the sentiment. I used the out of frame cut to cut this super cute little ellie out, coloured with promarkes and flexmarkers before I added glamour dust to his hat trim for a bit of sparkle. Finished off by mounting the image and mat on foam tape for some dimension. All supplies are listed below with those available from Natalie & Amy in RED.

I love how this turned out so may have to try it again but with a difference.

Supplies:-

6" Scalloped Square Card Blank - Natalie & Amy's

Card Stock - Kraft Core 'Nostalgic' 

Image - Crafter's Companion Humphrey's Corner '1st Christmas' & Dawn Bibby Snowflake (Retired)

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Sentiment - Computer Generated

Dies - Spellbinders Nestabilities 'Classic & Scalloped Circles'

Glitter - DecoArt Glamour Dust 'Crystal'

Distress Inks - Ranger Frayed Burlap & Tumbled Glass

Image Ink - Momento 'Tuxedo Black'

Foam Tape - Stix 2 3d Foam Squares

Double Sided Tape - Stix 2 12mm Ultra Sticky

Glue Pen For Glitter - Stix 2 Night Glow Glue Pen

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Humphrey - Blue Grey 1 - 3

Nappy - Linen

Hat - Sky Blue, Arctic Blue & Glacier Blue

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

A Creative Romance - Old Stash (Snowflake Stamp) 05/12

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes + Twist (Snowflake) 06/12

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes 03/12

Bunny Zoe - Snow 08/12

Animal Friends - It's Cold Ice & Snow 01/12

Crafty Calendar 'Things With Wings' Challenge

Good morning again. As I said in my post below I am back with my card for the Crafty Calendar Challenge but if you are looking for my My Time To Craft post you will find it below.

So this month we have a fabulous sponsor from an artist I love and that being Elisabeth Bell who generously gave us some images to play with as well as a wonderful prize for one of you.  Our challenge this month is 'Things With Wings' and I can tell you Elisabeth has several of those images so in both rubber and digital so no excuse to join in. 

For my card I went with something different for me, no patterned paper and lots of die cuts all in white! I must admit I quite like the final card but boy was it hard to choose those die cuts lol. I have used Fairy Merrily and of course gave her lovely glittery wings, I added a pin and a charm as these were the challenge requirements over at Elphine House Australia. I was lucky enough to win last month's challenge with my apron card found HERE, so had to play along again even though pins are a real challenge for me as I can never get them to look good! 

For some unknown reason my image looks like her dress isn't coloured but it is in pale blues.

Supplies:-

6" Square Card Blank - Natalie & Amy's

Card Stock - Bazzill

Image - Elisabeth Bell 'Fairy Merrily' 

Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Die Cuts - A2 Ornate Sliding Card #42109, 4 Scalloped Shapes #26510, 3 Borders #17335, 2 Flourishes #42119 & Flower Flags #12516 by Lori Whitlock, Heart Tag #38225 by Jennifer Wambach, 

Glitter - Decoart Glamour Dust

Pearl Dots - Ranger 'White Opal' Liquid Pearl

Charm - Stash

Pin - Hobby House

Items in Red are available at Natalie & Amy's.

Promarkers & Flexmarkers Used:-

Skin - Coral, Oatmeal & Blush

Hair - Cinnamon, Tan, March Hare & Light Fawn

Dress & Wings - Frozen Lake, Pastel Blue & Blender

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

Elphine House - Charms & Pins

Mema's Craft - Anything Goes

Creative Moments - Anything Goes/Things With Wings

Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Things With Wings

Fab n Funky - Fairytale

Divas By Design - Anything Goes

That is all from me, have a good weekend whatever you are doing. We are off to our step grandson's 6th birthday on Sunday so hoping it doesn't rain.

My Time To Craft 'White On White Christmas Card' Challenge

Good morning all, wow it is windy here at the moment but no rain so that is a plus point lol. I hope the weather is better where you are although I know some of you have snow appearing so keep safe. 

This week at My Time To Craft we are challenging you to a 'White On White Christmas Card', you can colour your image but the main parts of it must be white and as it is Christmas we are giving you two weeks to make your card!! 

For my card I used a cutting file from the Silhouette Store by Elizabeth Mayne, then embossed some of the different layers and inked some others to give some definition to it. I then added some glamour dust to various parts for some sparkle. When I made this card I wasn't sure I liked it but the more I look at it I do lol.

Supplies:-

Card Stock - Lidl

Die Cut - Happy Holidays #33461 by Elizabeth Mayne

Embossing - Cuttlebug 'Swiss Dots' & 'Tiny Bubbles'

Inks - Ranger Distress Inks 'Evergreen Bough' & 'Broken China'

Sparkle - Decoart 'Glamour Dust'

This will be my last post before Christmas so I would like to take the opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you have a fabulous time.