Saturday 25 July 2015

Christmas in July

   Our new challenge today at Send a Smile 4 kids has the theme 'Christmas in July' and again we have three very generous sponsors: Dollar Graphics Depot ($15 gift certificate), A Day for Daisies ($12 gift certificate) and Fred She Said ($10 gift certificate).


   For my first card I cut white card out to form ridges of snow  and dusted the edges using distress ink. I then attached this to the lower edge of paper printed using a House Mouse CD ROM from Joanna Sheen to form a pocket and matted this combo onto blue core'dinations cardstock and white card.
   I printed Boo Boo Bears Winter Frolic fron Dollar Graphics Depot twice. I cut the bears out from the second copy and decoupaged them onto the first. I then tucked this into the pocket formed ealier and fixed it to the card. I used a white Sakura gel pen to add falling snow to the decoupaged pieces.
   Finally I added  a peel off sentiment to core'dinations cardstock and attached it to the card.



   For my second card I die cut a red mirri card bauble using a Die'sire die, stuck it onto gold mirri card and cut round it. I threaded narrow satin ribbon through this and fixed it to paper from a Papermania contemorary Christmas pack. This was then matted onto blue core'dinations cardstock and white card.
   I coloured the body of the Christmas bulbs digi image from A Day for Daisies using Promarkers. The antlers were coloured using a silver gel pen and the hooves and bulbs were coloured using glitter pens. The image was then attached to the card using foam pads.

   I would like to enter these cards into the following challenges:
   Ooh La La Creations - Christmas in July
   Crafty Calender - Christmas in July
   Crafty Hazelnut's hristmas Extra - anything goes
   Crafty Boots - Christmas in July
   Paper Creator's Crafts - Christmas in July
   One Sweet - Christmas in July
   Pile It On - Christmas in July
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - Christmas in July
   Beccy's Place - Christmas in July
   Tuesday Throwdown - Christmas in July

10 comments:

  1. Great cards Mary, the first is such fun.

    Hope you have a good weekend.

    B x

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  2. Gorgeous cards and thanks so much for joining us at Crafty Calendar hugs Sue J xx

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  3. Two fabulous Christmas cards, lovely lay outs and images. Thank you for sharing your work with all of us at Crafty Boots Challenges.

    Dionne

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  4. What beautiful cards! I love them both, the blue colour scheme you used is wonderful. The cute little teddies building the snowman on the first card are adorable, and I really like the leaping deer on your second card. Well done.
    Cheers,
    Beccy

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  5. Lovely cards thank you for joining us at ooh la la creations hugs Sue xx

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  6. Wonderful cards !
    Thanks for joining us at the Paper Creator challenge ! xx

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  7. Super cute cards - love those little bears! Thanks for sharing with us at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge!
    Mandy x (PPCC DT)

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  8. Gorgeous Christmas in July creation...thanks for sharing at One Sweet Challenge..xx
    {One Sweet Challenge DT Member}

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  9. Lovely cards, especially the 1st one.....that image is adorable! Thanks for joining us over at Crafty Calendar this month & good luck!
    hugs Jo x
    Dt

    I have a birthday candy on my blog if you'd like to join in.....
    You can find my candy here
    You can find my atc swap here

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  10. Gorgeous card! Thanks so much for joining us at CraftyHazelNuts this month. Hope to see you again.
    Hugs
    Fiona DT x

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