A new challenge in town....Festive Friday Challenge #1

Hello,
It is Friday night and it seemed like the perfect time to join in one of the newest challenges in town the Festive Friday Challenge.  The design team is absolutely incredible!!!! - just go take a look - and they have completely inspired me with all of their GORGEOUS creations!  This is the very first challenge and it is a color challenge:  Here is the inspiration graphic from their website:

I hope you will decide to play along too!  I love these colors and was inspired tonight when I visited my friend Geri's blog "Paper Wishes".  She had just posted this stunning card: HERE.  I loved the silver embossing on her card and immediately wanted to try it....but guess what - no silver powder in my stash...just gold!  Ho Hum...but alas an idea did pop into my mind when I glanced at some red burlap I recently purchased at Hobby Lobby...and here is my card:

 

One of my very favorite Christmas sentiments is "Have yourself a Merry little Christmas".  It just makes my heart smile!  This sweet little stamp is from Lili of the Valley stamps in the UK and is from a set called "Christmas Grungy Messages".  It is set #33.  You can find it: HERE

I die cut 6 small rectangles into my white card stock (using this die from MFT) and then threaded the burlap through to create this ribbon decoration.  NOTE: I first stamped the sentiment in silver ink, embossed it with clear embossing powder, and added some red COPIC marker to dress it up.  I then ran the white panel through my vagabond with the burlap embossing plate from Cheery Lynn Designs: HERE   After these steps were done I threaded the burlap through the die cut holes in the white card stock piece.

To finish the card I matted the white panel on some silver metallic paper and a red card base. I then embellished with three little glass and silver heart buttons with some metallic red floss threaded through them. I sure love how this turned out.  The idea in my head translated well into the finished card!


Thanks for taking a look at my card.  I hope you get to join in the challenge or at least go and check out all the beautiful cards and leave some comment love!
Happy Weekend!
:) Jill

Silent Night, Holy Night....

Hello,
I am starting to steal a few minutes here and there to work on Christmas cards and tags as we are into November and the time really does start to fly by.  I sent a bunch of cards and tags home with my sister Beth who was visiting from Oregon and forgot to take any pictures of what I created.  Oh well.

Tonight I wanted to play with a nativity silouhette 4x4 die from Cottage Cutz.  Here is the card that I made in just a few minutes tonight and it would be easy to reproduce to send to many.  I plan on giving it to the Pastor at my church who has been so kind to my family and performed Stuart's Funeral Mass back in February.  Thanks for taking a look at my card!  I have been enjoying seeing so many holiday cards starting to be posted on everyone's blogs in the last few days or so.  This is such a fun time of year to be creative....well really any time of year is fun for creativity!

 I die cut the nativity die from the center of the card base.  I then embossed the dark blue cardstock base with the "old parchment" embossing plate from Cheery Lynn Designs to give it some lovely texture.  Next I cut out a nativity silhouette die cut in white.  I then backed the opening in the cardbase with some double sided paper with "starlight" on it in yellow and white.  Once this paper was in place I glued the white nativity silhouette die cut into the opening.   I placed a portion of the semtiment in the center of the nativity silouhette die cut on the front of the card by masking it.  The full sentiment says "Silent Night, Holy Night". 

   I then worked on the inside of the card.  I first placed the second half of the sentiment - "Holy Night" - on the inside of the card on the left hand side.  I added a second sentiment to the right hand side.  (Note: Just click on the pictures if you want to see a bigger photo)

To finish the card I added some stickles to the star, the stable and the halos on each of their heads. Then a nice blue and white twine bow on one end. This is a beautiful card in person and very simple to make!  I love that!

Thanks for taking a look!
:) Jill

I tried to link to the Nativity Silhouette die but the website of the store was down tonight.  I purchased mine from The Scrapping Cottage which should come up if you do a search.