Christmas Altered Coffee Tin

The year is coming to the end at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges and this one of my last projects for 2017.  It is a two part  challenge over the next month with lots of great prizes from our sponsors that have sponsored us this year.   For this part of the challenge I chose to do an anything but a card portion of the challenge using a really cute image from Bugaboo Digital Stamps called Snow Couple.

To make my cookie tin I altered a large coffee tin by painting it first with Gesso and then with turquoise chalk paint. I added some matching designer paper and some snowflakes that I die cut.  For the lid of my cookie tin I added designer paper and a large snowflake.  The image was coloured with a glitter pen and Copics.  The snow is Styrofoam that I graded and glued to the image. 

Closer look

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Pop over to our challenge blog to view the projects that our design team has created to to inspire you.  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family.   

Christmas Challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges

2016 is coming to an end and we are having our last challenge of the year at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges.  The challenge is a 2 part challenge.  You can make either an anything but a card or a Christmas cards.  Why not make both? This is my card I made for the challenge using an image from one of our great sponsors this year, A Day for a Daisies.  The image is called Candy Elf B. 

I saw a video by Sandra Allnock on you tube and decided to try her background using Copic markers to create the allusion of a Christmas tree.  You can find  her video here.   I coloured my image with my Copics and added a sentiment die by Tim Holtz.   

Hope you will join in the Christmas challenge.  We have many great prizes from our wonderful sponsors. Pop over to our challenge blog to see the inspiring creations of our talented design team. 

Happy holidays everyone.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
My Sheri Crafts  - Winter, Christmas ....
Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes
Color Inspirations Monday- Hand Colored
Crafting with the Heart - Anything Goes
The Merry Christmas Challenge - Christmas Elf

Ribbon or Lace Challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges

 I made this Christmas tag for this weeks challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges. The theme of the challenge is ribbon or lace. Aurora Wings is the sponsor of this challenge and I used one of her cute images called Christmas Tree Sprite Gingerbread Man. 

I coloured the image is my Copics and glitter pens.  I added the image to some lined Christmas paper then added a sentiment, gold stars and of course a ribbon.  Hope you will join in this challenge.  Pop over to our challenge blog to view the inspiring cards of our talented design team.  Thank you for stopping by. 

Magic is in the Air

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week has another great Christmas challenge.  The theme of the challenge is Christmas Trees and I have used a lovely Santa carrying a tree by QKR Stampede.  The image is called Bring a Tree Digi. 

 

I think this Santa and the Christmas tree makes such a cute card, The image is coloured with Copics, metallic pen and glitter. I used glitter for the falling snow and graded Styrofoam for the snow on the ground.  

  

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the inspiring creations of the Design team. 

Snow/Snowman Challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges

This week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges it is a Snow.Snowman Challenge and I have maDe a card using this image from our sponsor, Dr. Digi's House of Stamps.  

The image is called  Selfie Santa and I coloured the image with Copics and a glitter pen.  I also added some snow made from grating some Styrofoam and some Diamond Glaze on the cellphone.  I love Dr. Digi's images especially the Christmas ones.  They are perfect for the men in my life. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the projects of our talented design team. 

Make It Merry and Bright

I made two cards for this weeks challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week. The challenge is a technique challenge and I chose to use  a dry embossed technique and stitched technique for this card. 

This card was made with a cute image from Oddball Art  one of our great sponsors this week.  The image is called Bobby Baby Elephant with Antlers .  

Pop over to our challenge broad to see the beautiful inspiring creations of our design team. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.   

Use a Technique Challenge at Holly Jolly

Time for another Christmas challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week.  The challenge is to create a card with one of the following techniques Embossing (wet or dry), Stitching / Piercing or Paper Piecing .  I have used an inage from one of our sponsors for my Christmas card  Holly berry with ribbon from The Stamping Boutique. 

I used my sewing machine to sew the background of my card for my technique.  I used Copics, glitter pen, glitter, and a white gell pen to colour my card and added a sentiment using a button.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a creative day.  

More than One Fold Card Challenge

We have another great Christmas challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges and the theme is more than one fold. I have used a an image from one of our great sponsors, Fred, She Said called Dancing Penguin.

For the challenge I chose to use a tri-fold card for my more than one fold part to the challenge.  I love Fred's cute penguin with the cute puffy cheeks. I coloured the image with Copics, added some Wink of Stella, diamond glitter, and Chunky White embossing power. 

To complete my card I added a snowflake, sentiment  and ribbon. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will pop over to our challenge blog to see the more than one fold cards that the design team has created to inspire you. 

Non Traditional Christmas Colours

Time for another challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges.  The theme of this challenge is to create  a card or project for Christmas using non traditional colours.   I chose to use the colours pink and purple for my round card. 

The sponsor's image I am using for this card is called Elf Digi and us by QKR Stampede. 

I added some Tim Holtz word die and a couple of snow flakes to complete my card.  Thank you  for stopping by and we hope to see you here again soon.

Anything but a Card Challenge at Holly Jolly

It is a Anything but a Card Challenge this week at Holly Jolly and I decided to make a gift bag out of a brown paper lunch bag.  

The image I used is from the fabulous collection of stamps from Bugaboo, one of our sponsors this week.  The image is called Noel Birds.

 I coloured them with Copic Markers, gell pen and a glitter pen. I layered the frony of my bag with scraps of Christmas papers from my stash. 

 I added a red and white sticker and some jute to complete the project.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join in this week and show us your Christmas project. 

Show us some Sparkle

Time for another Christmas challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week.  The theme of the challenge is Show Us Some Sparkle at I used this great image by Art by Miran for my card.  The image is called Hey Miss Santa and I coloured her with Copics and a Wink of Stella.  

The Wink of Stella gave the image some sparkle and I added couple of glitter background

papers.  The sentiment is by Just Rite Stamps.  I added a cane cane to complete the card.  Thank you for stopping by and have a very creative week.   

Christmas Card Based on a Song

This week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges the them of the challenge is to make a card based on a Christmas song.  The song I chose was "Early Christmas Morning" by Cyndi Lauper.  The digital image I used for the card is by Sami Stamps, one of this weeks sponsors. 

 The digital image is called  Christmas Morning Magic.  The sentiment stamp is by Just-Rite Stamps.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Pop over to our challenge blog to see the cards that the design team have created to inspire you. 

Tag Your It

It is a tag challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges. I have used an image from Sherri Baldy's My Bestie's images.  I love her cute stamps.  Check out her images here.   

I coloured my image with Copics and Wink of Stella. I layered my image on to two designer Christmas papers, add snow make out of Styrofoam I graded with a cheese grader for the fallen snow and used Chunky White Deep Impression embossing enamel for the falling snow. I added some silver glitter to some plastic snowflakes from my stash to the tag along with a sentiment and ribbon.

I hope you will join us this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the inspiring cards of that the design team has create for you. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  

Traditional Christmas Colour Challenge

Time for another Christmas card challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas challenges and this week it is an traditional coloured themed challenge.  I am using a image from one of our great sponsors Odd Ball Art.  My snowball throwing lady is called Kawaii Big Eye Girl in Winter Snowball Fight.

I had fun making my card.  I cut my card shape with a step die from Cheery Lynn  and added my pattern paper.  The image was coloured with Copics and a Wink of Stella. I added some mittens, snowflakes garland, baker's twine and snowball ribbon to complete the card.  

Hope you enjoyed mt card and will join us at Holly Jolly this week.  

Thank you for stopping by. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
Eureka Stamps - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Texture
Our Crafting Corner - Anything Goes 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Use a Sentiment
Crimbo Crackers - Anything Goes
Christmas Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Lots of Layers

It is a Lots of Layers challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges.  Hope you will join us  and pile on the embellishments and papers.  I have used an image from our sponsor this week, Aurora Wings called Christmas Holly Sprite with Coat.  I think she is such a cute Christmas image. 

I made a tent card for this challenge. To colour my image I used Copics, metallic pen, white gell pen, gold leafing pen,  and Wink of Stella.  I used a die cut from Elizabeth Designs to make the ten card. To complete my card I added some fabric snowflakes and a sentiment.  

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Meowy Christmas

The theme this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges is "Christmas Animals" and I have used this cute digital image from Bugaboo, one of our sponsors called Meowy Christmas Cats.

I used a few scraps of designer Christmas paper for the layers of my card and coloured the image with a Wink of Stella and Copics Markers. I had the perfect sentiment is from my collection of rubber stamps.  

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Use a Die Cut Challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges has another challenge for you this week.  The challenge is to use a die cut in your project.  I have used for my tag a digital image from one of our great sponsors this week, Dr Digi.  Dr Digi is such a fun digital company and I used this image called Simple Santa. 

 

I used several die cuts for my tag including the tags, sentiment and trees.  My image was coloured with Copics  and a burlap string was used to complete the tag. 

Come join us this week at Holly Jolly and thank you for stopping by. 


I am entering this tag in the following challenges:

Scrappers Delights  Always Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin tags

A Beautiful Mess -  Anything Goes
Craft for the Craic -  Anything But a Card

Crafting-With-Friends - Anything Goes

PDE Linky Party - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
Artbymiran Challenge - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar – Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Anything goes 

Santa, Santa

It is a Santa challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges.  and Eureka Stamps is the sponsor of the challenge. I have used this cute Santa Riding Reindeer  image for the card. I think he is such a fun image. 

Once I had coloured my image with my Copics I layered the image on some colourful Christmas designer paper , added snowflakes, bling and a  sentiment.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Use and item from your Stash

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges challenge with week is to Use and Item from your stash.  I have used one of the images from one of our sponsor, Morgan's Artworld. This image is called Christmas Bell. 

I decided that from my stash I would use up some of my scraps of Christmas paper for the layering and the bow.  I also used a scrap of ribbon from my stash. The Christmas Bell  was coloured with Copics and glitter.  

Thank you fro stopping by and have a creative day.  

L is for Lace

The theme at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week is "L is for Lace" and this is my card for the challenge.  I used an image called Christmas Moose by QKR Stampede, one of our sponsors this week.    Isn't she cute?

To make my card I used the following products

Embossing folders

Inka Gold

Copic Markers

Lave Christmas tree die

Gell Pen

White Gell Pen

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.  Please join us this week at Holly Jolly.  Pop over to the challenge blog to see the cards the design team has created to inspire you.