OLW 26 Black, white & red
Posted: October 31, 2010 Filed under: CAS, Patterned Pines 5 Comments
The OLW challenge this week is hosted by Jennifer Styles and asks us to make a black, white and red card. I don’t think I have ever made a black Christmas card; it’s not really a traditional Christmas colour, but at least the snow is white. The black textured cardstock was just sitting there on the table and I do love textured card so I thought, why not? I guess what I have here are snow covered trees in the dead of night, lit by some unknown source of light!
The trees were stamped in versamark and embossed in white on textured cardstock so the trees have a little of a linen look to them. I added my red in the form of little rhinestones. Unfortunately our family is without a working camera at present so my card is scanned this time.
Supplies:
Stamps: Patterned Pines, All Year Cheer
Inks: Versamark
Cardstock: Basic Black textured cardstock
Also: white e.p., red rhinestones
The Pine line
Posted: November 7, 2009 Filed under: Best Yet, Gifts of Christmas, Patterned Pines 4 Comments
This is the third card out of the four I designed for the workshop. For some reason, rather than just stamping the three tree stamp in the centre of the white panel, I felt the need to run the image off both the sides of the panel so I stamped half the stamp on one side and then re-inked and stamped again on the other side. My friend who was demonstrating this one for me at the next table always started her demonstration by telling the ladies they could do it my way or the simpler way! I don’t blame her, it also looked just fine stamped in the centre!
Not much more to say really, I’m looking forward to doing a bit more with this set, maybe cutting out the trees, stamping them in different colours and spreading them around a bit.
Supplies:
Stamps: Patterned Pines, Best Yet
Inks: Real Red, Handsome Hunter
Cardstock: Real Red, Handsome Hunter, Whisper White
The fourth card is a little different again. I wasn’t sure I liked it at first, but several friends assured me that it appealed to them so I went ahead.
I cut along the stripes of the Dejardin designer paper for my decorative strip and then just matted my image once and stuck a knotted piece of ribbon on with a glue dot. All the cards for the workshop were fairly simple but that meant that four cards were easily completed by the women and girls who came, some of whom are not stampers. And there was plenty of time for chatting too. I really enjoyed the night as I have done for the last few years. I hope to do another similar night at the church in the new year making a selection of cards.
Thanks so much for dropping in.
Supplies:
Stamps: Gifts of Christmas
Inks: Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Le Jardin Designer paper, Almost Artichoke, River Rock
Also: Artichoke grosgrain ribbon
Heather Telford 