Christmas Card Club - Festive Flurry meets Banner Blast

Stampin' Up! Festive Flurry meets Banner Blast

This club challenge is really great as it often stretches my thought patterns and most definitely my imagination and use of products.  Our current challenge has been set by Christine who's challenge title is 'Let's see some wings' and her suggestion comment is

'I thought this week we could make something with wings. Now this could be angels, Christmas fairies, or birds of some sort or another.'

Now I felt I'd excelled myself a fortnight ago in my Stampin' Up! undefined post by designing and making my own Robin stamp for the feature a robin challenge.  However this one really caught me on the hop! I thought and I thought and I th......... and I decided to make snowflake fairies for those of you who are thinking I've lost the plot!  I was inspired by my lovely friend Victoria who made a stamp using undefined with a very simple but effective image which you can see here. 
To make my fairies I used Stampin' Up! 's Festive Flurry set and then added my own arms and legs and used the Starburst framelit dies to make a head and drew the faces.  The banner is made using free twine from the Sweet Sorbet Saleabration accessory kit along with stamped banners again a free gift of the stamp set Banner Blast and free Banner punch.

To create the matting layer I embossed with Decorative Dots embossing folder some silver foil sheet and added a sentiment from Snow Day.

For more bling and sparkle because after all that's just what Christmas needs I've added some rhinestones and silver glimmer paper. Downside with all this silver and shine it's difficult to photograph, but I think this shows the twinkle!

Hope you are having a wonderful day and the sun is shining with you too!

Hugs Zx

Christmas Card Club–Festive Flurry

Happy Sunday morning!  The sun is shining here in Lincolnshire and I really hope it is for all the people hit by the terrible storms bringing them a tiny bit of brightness.  I just hope the sunshine continues.  Let's hope so.  Thoughts are with you all. 
Our Christmas Card Club challenge this fortnight has been set by Hazel She asked for snowflakes or all white on our cards.  I've gone for the snowflakes and mostly white using my Festive Flurry stamp set and the small snowflake from Snow Day.  I used circle framelits and my 2.5 inch circle punch to make 'holes' in my top layer and then stamped through them to add the large snowflakes which are heat embossed with silver.  The remaining mini snowflake were stamped and heat embossed with whisper white and a rhinestone added as a central feature.  Candy dots are fast becoming one of my favourite embellishments and I've added those to the centre of the large snowflakes.  Mini 'fork' bows, yes I tied them using a plastic fork, just add a little more discreet sparkle.  The whole card is made using Shimmery White card stock which adds an extra shimmer, although difficult to photograph well. 

If you like the Festive Flurry stamp set it's still available along with some of the other Stampin' Up! stamp sets from our winter catalogue on a carryover list. Contact me for details. 

Challenges
CHNC Extra - Anything Goes
Happy Day to all!
Zx

Christmas Card Club - An upcycle challenge

Yet another fortnight closer to the festive season and I feel it is getting a little close for comfort.  I have so much to do and like many of you supportive readers, not enough hours in my week!  Many of you have met Ben, our Border Collie in real life or on my FB page, but I don't think I've introduced him here yet.  Those who know him, know that he occupies a lot of my time usually chasing him around the garden to retrieve something he has stolen. Well today it was tomato plants; yes and still in their pots. Whilst their season is just about done green tomato chutney was still an option until they were Ben'd this morning. 

Ah well onto the matter of this post!  Our challenge at Christmas Card Club is to upcycle an item on our card!  I've cheated a bit and so I've made a double bill.  I'm now a Body Shop consultant as well as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and so I've made a gift box by upcycling a body butter container and I've made a card to accompany it.  The card below is a very simple easel card made using my favourite stamp set from the Stampin' Up! autumn/winter catalogue called Festive Flurry. It has matching framelits which save you the hassle of cutting them out and give a perfect outline which after all is what snowflakes usually have.  I've also used the new thinlet expressions dies to add a large scripted 'Merry' as well as my sentiment.  If you have the thinlits you'll find it easier to remove your die cut word if you add a piece of baking parchment or wax paper between the thinlit and the card stock before putting it all through you Big Shot. 

 

Check out both on the box and on  the card the beautiful frosted finishes embellishments in the centre of the snowflakes. They are so, so  sparkly and make great earrings too which will be a perfect gift to go inside  my new gift box.

Have a great week and remember you could join Stampin' Up! from tomorrow for the next two weeks for just £25. What a bargain. Check out my Join Stampin' Up! page to find out more.

Thank you Maureen for this fun challenge and I hope you forgive me for cheating!

 

Challenges

Crafty Hazelnut's Extra Christmas Challenge - Anything goes

Christmas Cards All year round - Christmas preparation eg presents 

Moving along with the times - Anything goes