Tinsel Tree Inspiration Galore

It seems we were not the only cardmakers inspired by that gorgeous Tinsel Tree Inspiration Photo, there are some amazing takes in the Readers' Gallery, so if you haven't scrolled down to have a look around, we highly recommend the trip! Meanwhile here are three cards that especially caught our eye this time:

Suzanne H who posts via Flickr

...incorporated all of the colors and sparkle from the photos, and even added a trio of trees with beautiful baubles... we love the way she stacked them to fit on her card!

Prudence aka Penguin Parade on Instagram

...captured all of the colors in her that gorgeous mixed media panel, and even added tiny green trees as well as the tan and black from the tree stands!

Susan B of Cardmaker's Garret

...chose to decorate a different sort of tree entirely, but the predominance of white, the sparkly ornaments and that soft, artful background all refer to the photo beautifully!

Many thanks to everyone who played along, we enjoyed seeing ALL of your cards and continue to be amazed by your creativity. We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt we hope will bring you down to Earth... in a very very good way! ;)

Taking (Card) STOCK

Some of us (ahem LAUREN) find creating without patterned paper a challenge, but clearly there are many Jingle Belles who are quite undaunted by such an assignment and the Cardstock Gallery strongly reflects that. If you haven't cruised around to see all the cards, we highly recommend the trip. In the meantime, here are three Cardstock-Centric creations that especially caught our eye this time:

Rosi of Let's Take Time and Stamp with Daen'Ys

...chose a dramatically elegant black and silver color palette and spiced things up with a little bit of  grunge and a splattering of white ink.

Bonnie of Stamping with Klass

...has gone CAS with touches of traditional red and green; the combination of that perfectly colored snowman with lots of textural white is very sweet indeed!

Lorraine of Paper Vernissage

...absolutely rocked the diecutting with LOTS of subtle shades of green, blue and white making up that supercute trio of holiday gnomes, who appear to be dancing across her card!

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Many thanks to all who participated, we genuinely do love seeing EVERY card and never fail to be impressed and inspired by your creativity. We'll be back at Midnight with a brand new prompt that we hope you'll find pretty as a picture!

The Twelve Days of Cardstock.

We're still eschewing commercial patterned/designer paper and celebrating Cardstock Christmas! Remember you can use any or all your favorite tricks (embossing, stamping, sanding, tearing, layering, diecutting, painting, etc, etc) you just need to start with plain cardstock.

Here's how we were inspired this week:

Lauren's Other Cards

Lauren says, "This week I've used one of my favorite techniques on all the little offcuts of cardstock in my scrapbox: cut them into strips of various size and arrange them in quilt-like patterns. This is quite an addictive process, so I'm not sure I've ever sat down and only made just ONE panel. In this case, I made a red and a green; then pressure embossed them (the green with Spellbinders' Forevergreen; the red features an older Sheena Douglass folder that seems to be OOP) and added a little sanding and Unicorn Ink to emphasize the texture. Large fabric flowers, ancient ribbon and brads, bold cardstock mats and machine stitching complete the design(s)."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "I too used cardstock scraps for this week's card.  I pulled out the colors of the rainbow (for the Hero Arts #staycraftychallenge Somewhere Over the Rainbow) and cut 1/4 strips, which I attached to my card on the diagonal working my way down from the top.  I had intended to go back and fill in the corners with the smaller scraps, but ended-up liking the contrast of white, so I stopped.  I inked the sentiment from Hero Arts Holiday Borders and Icons with a rainbow inking - I started with the red, stamped that portion, then added orange overlapping slightly and stamped again and continued until I got to the end of the rainbow.  I finished with some green bling since that was the color that ended-up in the center of the sentiment."

Cardstock Christmas continues until 6pm next Wednesday night (3/22/23) so there's plenty of time for you to join the fun! Scroll down to the original post to see the Readers' Gallery and to link your own cardstock creations.

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 how we used cardstock this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "For my primarily die cut card, I die cut a stitched circle as a backdrop for my PoppyStamps Whittle Friendly Snowman cut from white, black and a watercolor marker colored pink cardstock (I colored his nose orange with a marker).  I used the sketch from the BYSH Cardmakers and swapped the paper strip with the Poppystamps Frozen Flakes Die Cut.  I finished with a sentiment from Memory Box and a few bits of pink bling in the snowflake centers."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "At first glance, you may think I've cheated and used a cloudy patterned paper, but no... it's Avery Elle's Cloud Mat Die, on which I've used the "inset" diecutting technique. I cut the background from a rich colonial blue cardstock, the clouds from bright white and the frame from a pebbly texture of lime green. I used an older Memory Box pine tree with an appropriately deep green cardstock and Tim Holtz's Sizzix "Reindeer Flight" on copper glitter cardstock. The snowflake is Impression Obsession (cut from ivory shimmer cardstock) held on with an Eyelet Outlet Snowflake Brad. The sentiment flag is from around the millenium, I think, so it's exciting to finally use it up!"

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