Phoenix Inspirations

It's Saturday and that must mean it's time for another challenge over at  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown . This week it's a colour theme and Mynnette has chosen these gorgeous colours for us to play with I loved the image Mynnette had put with her colours and so I based my card around that - take a look My card is DL size and has been decorated with stamps from the S'U sets Snow Flurries and Hung up on the Holidays. My gingerbread men have been stamped and then cut out by hand, they were then attached using 3D foam pads.  My colours are Cream (for the card base), Real Red and Chocolate Chip. I used the Scallop Edge punch to make my border and I added some red ribbon and a bow. Please pop over and take a look at the other dt cards they are really lovely and I hope you have the time to take part too. Have a great weekend - see you soon - Jacqueline xx

It's  52CCT  time again and this week Mynnette has come up with a fabulous colour combination for us - take a look Here are my cards The first one is my lovely scribble tree from Wondrous Gift and it has been heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I then embellished it with green flat backed gems. It's been cut out and raised up on 3D foam pads and attached to white card stock which has been dry embossed with a snowflakes embossing folder. I then layered it on to purple card stock. My second card is stamped with a Clarity stamp which has again been heat embossed with silver embossing powder. The white background has been stamped with some snowflakes from the Snow Flurries set and purple flat backed gems have been added to the centres. A large silver snowflake has been added to the middle of the O. This has all been layered up on to green card stock. Please pop over to say hello to  Mynnette  my partner in crime and do hop over to take a...

It's sketch week at  52CCT  and it's also my month to choose the challenges - here is the sketch I designed especially for you all and here is the first of my cards This is paper punched pine fronds with paper punched poinsettias (Boho Blossoms) made into a Christmas wreath. Here is my second card - it uses a retired stamp set called Snow Flurries and the sentiment from Wondrous Gift. Now this one is special - not because it's for the  52CCT  challenge blog but because it is also for this month's   Technique Tuesday link Party challenge  -a stamped punch window - over on my good friend  Mynnette's  blog Mynnette  is also my partner on 52CCT so please do pop over and take a look at her Christmas cards too. I shall leave you with a close up of my stamped punch window and I hope I shall be popping around to your blogs soon to take a look at your Christmas cards - Jacqueline xx

The theme this week at  Less is More  is a Let it Snow One Layer Card - here's mine The sentiment and snowflakes were stamped using a Versamark pad and then heat embossed using white embossing powder. A square was then masked off and blue ink was sponged over the images to make them stand out. A few gems were then added for the finishing touches. The snowflakes are from a little SU set - Snow Flurries and the sentiment is from Polka Doodles, the ink is SU Brocade Blue. I think that this may be one of the last Christmas cards that I make this year - unless I've miscalculated and I run out later tonight when I write my cards! Going to save my seat on the sofa now for the X Factor final might even treat myself to a small glass of wine (or two!). See you soon - Jacqueline xx

The theme this week at  Simply Stampin'  is 'Snowflake Sparkle'. I had to think about this one as I don't have very many SU snowflake stamps in my collection - I had to dig deep and rootle out a couple of retired sets - take a look The base card is 5" x 5" square and is stamped with a snowflake stamp from the Snow Flurries set using Ballet Blue ink and a touch of glitter. I also stamped a sentiment from the Wondrous Gift set. I then took a piece of Ballet Blue card stock and scalloped the bottom edge. On to this I stamped some fir trees from the Lovely as a Tree set - they were heat embossed with white embossing powder and a few more were stamped in blue in the background. I then found in my stash my Bird on a Branch set so he was added to the scene too along with a few snowflakes just beginning to fall. A strip of white organza ribbon just adds the final touch. See you soon - Jacqueline xx

I had a bit of a play today - just looking through my stamp sets and trying to get some inspiration. I remembered a card I made back at the beginning of October where I made a tree card with the branch stamp from Bird on a Branch ( here ). So I decided to make a Christmassy one too. I got my favourite piece of kit out again - my brayer and created the background using Baja Breeze ink. Then I stamped the branch in Chocolate Chip and the snowflakes - from the Snow Flurries set in Versamark ink. Then I embossed the snowflakes with some silver tinsel embossing powder. I stamped a sentiment inside the card with a few more snowflakes as I didn't think the front of the card needed anything else. It's my Christmas Fair tomorrow - weather permitting - so hopefully will be able to share some pics of my stall with you - see you soon - Jacqueline xx.