Cardstock Champions

Yes, you were rockin' the Cardstock ... we loved seeing all of the creative ways you used cardstock in your holiday card designs.

Here are a few of our favorites:

Guild Master Crystal 

of 

Sisters of the Crafters Guild

embraced lots of fabulous inky sprays together with wonderful stamping ... and you've got to click through and see the sentiment on the inside ... it made us snort (in a good way).

Mary M.

of

Made by Mary

showed that it only takes a few special elements (unexpected shape, textured embossing, ink sprays, and touches of glittery sparkle) to turn cardstock into a holiday masterpiece.

Tenia Nelson

of

Jazzy Paper Designs

showed us perfect execution of a clean and simple cardstock design ... love those sequin ornaments and how she used the negative die cut space and layers.

Make sure you take some time to wander through the gallery of cardstock masterpieces and leave a little jingle belles love ... and join us a midnight for another fun card prompt ... and a talented lovely guest star ... and maybe even a little prize.

The Twelve Days of Cardstock

We're still celebrating a Cardstock Christmas by making holiday cards which eschew designer patterned paper and embrace all things inky, misty, textural and creative... and we hope you, are too! Here's what we did this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "Writing the description of my card last week, I realized that I've fallen into the habit, in cardstock challenges, of nearly always relying on texture to replace pattern. Which isn't a bad thing, necessarily, but it was starting to feel a little predictable. So this week I decided to burst definitively out of my comfort zone and get inky! To make my grungy background I used 1 mask, 3 mists, 5 inkpads, and 9 or 10 different stamps in a frenzy of layering that was waaaaaaaaaay too much fun. Patterned paper? No, thanks, I'm ok without it, lol!"

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "Since going *inky* is usually my go to technique for cardstock, I decided to switch it up this week as well and create a clean & simple design.  My sweet little Deer Family were stamped in Rhubarb Stalk Momento ink, die cut, and matted on a coordinating cardstock die cut.  A touch of silver ribbon, touches of silver glitter pen on the ornaments, and a few silver ball embellishments, and my clean & simple design was done."

So whether you go inky ... textury ... or even clean & simple ... just break out your cardstock collection (we know you have one) and have some fun.  Cards should be linked-up by no later than 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, July 17th. 

Cardstock Christmas

Today we're asking you to step away from the designer paper ... yes, put it away ... none allowed ... not even a scrap ... because the next prompt is to create a card using only cardstock.  You can tear it, ink it, stamp it, spray it, emboss it ... but stick to only cardstock for your holiday card design.

Here's what we came up with:

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "As soon as you take color or pattern away from me (my two favorite elements!) I start amping up texture. In this case, that meant tearing, embossing, sanding, misting and embellishing as many different Core'dinations cardstocks as I could find in white, cream, and green; then piling lace, ribbon, micro-beads and pearls on top of that! I used a combination of machine stitching, foam tape and fast dry tacky glue to assure that all my layers STAY layered; and last week's Retro Sketch to insure that they were all in the right place!"

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "When I hear cardstock, I think of INK ... all kinds of ink.  For this card I stamped an Ornate Snowflake repeatedly in Versamark on White cardstock & clear embossed.  Next I sprayed on Frost & Dragonfly Glimmer Mist for all over color & sparkle.  The same snowflake was inked with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and stamped on the blue sprayed paper before embossing & detail cutting.  I attached it with a 3-D glue dot and added a pearl.  I finished with a Peel-Off sticker sentiment & snowflake on another scrap of the over-sprayed paper."

So break out the cardstock ... whole sheets or scraps ... and get festive.  We can't wait to see what you create.  Cards need to be linked-up by no later than 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, July 17th ... use keyword JB:13:14 for our Flickr Group and other galleries.

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