Stamps Ahead

Here are gift cards I have created for Soul Scrappers Christmas card challenges - this time to be inspired by a photograph of a Gingerbread House - see end of this post. I have made 16 of these gift cards to hand to my ladies (together with an actual gingerbread man cookie) at our Christmas function this week. I have used Tim Holtz Alterations die Fresh Baked #1.  Following is a plate of goodies made with these dies before making them into tags. After cutting the shapes I used distress ink Vintage Photo to colour and lots of Glossy Accents to make the icing appear real. Here is the inspiration photo from Soul Scrappers,  took inspiration from the gingerbread construction as well as star shapes and snow on the house.                                                     I love them all - but so fussy at times with little dots and stripes which I disposed of!!! Thank you for looking, Margaret

Latest challenge over at Soul Scrappers was to add 'snow' somewhere on your card. Here is my card: I have used a Kaszazz stamp - Silhouette Santa's Sleigh, and a Kaisercraft House die-cut.  For the snow effect I have used Stickles Star Dust Glitter Glue (again available from Kaszazz) to highlight the torn edges of my papers. I loved the way this card turned out and I hope you do as well. Thank you looking, Margaret Contact me by leaving a comment if you would like to know more about Kaszazz products available.

I am putting these 3 cards into challenges over at Soul Scrappers . As many know I lead a cardmaking group at a local community group and for several weeks we have been making Christmas cards.  The following are just some of the cards the ladies made.  Challenge was to create a card with a fancy fold.  Here is look at what card looks like when open from above. Another view showing the double cards that make up the fold. Papers (except glitter paper) and inks are from Kaszazz.  The "JOY" was lent to me from a friend. If you look closely you can see that JOY has been die cut many times - 3 times in black plus the centre "O" with manger scene once in red and the star at top of "O".   They were then glued together to form a raised embellishment. This challenge was to create a card with an added wreath.   All products are Kasazz.   The painting was done with Liquid Pearls and water. This challenge was to create a card that had holly added.   I