Christmas Card Club - Blue and Silver theme

Happy Sunday and welcome to another Christmas Card Club Challenge.  Today we are sharing Christmas cards with a colour combo theme of blue and silver.   Mine is a very simple make, but the embossing folder I've used is just so gorgeous that it doesn't need too much fuss.

I've used it on silver foil card and mounted that onto a piece of Night of Navy card. 

My sentiment  is a combo of two stamps. I stamped the Happy in Night of Navy ink, having stamped it off first so that I could stamp with 2nd generation ink for a lighter shade in order to add the second part overlapping a little which I heat embossed with silver powder.  The Christmas stamp will be available soon with a fab new stamp set coming in the Stampin' Up! winter mini catalogue which will be available from 3 August. If you'd like to see all the new stamps and winter stash please ask me for a catalogue. I love the big letters of the Happy they are modern font and connect with so many other sentiments.  

I've added some sparkly ribbon and used a white card base to make the embossed snowflakes really pop.  These would be really easy to make a batch of in no time at all.  

I also made this card for the theme, but I'm not sure about it. It didn't quite go with the idea in my head, but it does follow the theme and as a shaker card will be fun and a little different. 

I used a mask/stencil to create a background using Misty Moonlight and Pool Party inks. I added the ink with a blending brush first with the lighter colour and then a dauber to add the darker colour by dabbing rather than blending to avoid going where I didn't want to with the ink.  I placed the self made paper background into a self seal cello bag and added some sequins.  I've adhered the bag to the card base with tear and tape and then added a die cut frame which I stamped with snowflakes from the Penguin Place stamp set.  The stencil is from the Adorning Designs Decorative Mask set in the upcoming winter mini .

With another piece of embossed foil card I cut some snowflakes using the So Many Snowflakes dies and added a sentient this time just stamped with the two shades of blue.  

Tell me which you prefer of the two cards. 

Keep safe and keep stamping

Zoe x

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Robins for Christmas Card Club

 

Happy Sunday and what a strange one it is.  One minute lovely sunshine and the next hail or snow.  I've also spotted  a friend's photo on facebook showing inches of snow that settled overnight a little further north and west from here admittedly.  

However it does make it seem a little less crazy that it is Christmas Card Club Challenge today and Margaret asked for Robins as the Robin is her favourite bird.  I don't possess any Robin stamps apart from this one that I carved using a kit a few years ago, but I think it does the  job and I managed to stamp him onto the branch featured in a new set coming soon.  

I started with a snowflake background inspired by today's weather which is just white on white die cuts using So Many Snowflake dies which will also return in our new annual catalogue.  Before die cutting I added double sided adhesive sheet to my card to make it much easier to attach them to the card layer.  

The Robin I coloured with Stampin' Write markers to blend the colours and give a slight feather look before stamping.  My sentiment is simply white heat embossed and is from the Snow Wonder set on the carryover list from the winter catalogue.  A strip of designer paper just adds a touch more colour.  

Keep warm and safe lovely readers and enjoy looking at the other Robins around the club members.  

Hugs Zoe x

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