Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Challenge #29

My first card challenge! Yeah! Since I'm such a Christmas "nut", I've found the ULTIMATE group to start with called Christmas Stampin' All Year Long. It was so much fun digging through all the Christmas stamps and sets that I've collected over this past year.

This challenge is called "spotlighting" where you stamp your image on your main card and then stamp it again on a seperate piece of paper. You then cut and color your image for the area you want to "spotlight" and then adhere it back to your main card. It sounds alittle tricky but it truly is very easy. I decided to go with a Stampin Up set entitled "Home for Christmas". I LOVE any and all Christmas house scenes and it was so much fun to use my Copic Markers to color it in. I also used the red color Coredinations paper for my card and gave it a good sanding for a more distressed look. I then added some Stickles in crystal to make the side tree "pop" alittle and then used a small Fiskars punch to add something to the corners. I feel like I left something out, but nonetheless, it's a pretty good first attempt and it only took me about an hour (having to track down tools is crazy.....and I still need so many more!)

Okay, so if you know me, you know my husband ALWAYS has to be creative when I'm wanting to be creative and then he usually out-shines anything that I do. He got his Mother's creative talent, but I'M the one that has been taking Stamping classes, not him! Well, here is his card that he did and that took him WAY over an hour to finish and numerous choice words coming out of his mouth! (He also has more ink on him then was left on the pad...he..he..he)



Bob used our Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder and also used the Stampin Up set called Snow Globe. He also colored with MY Copic markers and used just regular colored cardstock from Michael's. A pretty good try for someone who rarely stamps.

So that's it for us tonight. Tune in tomorrow as I may try another challenge! Please leave any comments/suggestions as we would love to hear any ideas on how to improve these cards!

My First Card on my own......

Well, I came up with this Birthday card a few months back and......it's a good effort but I know I can do better. I wanted to log a picture of where I "began" and then where I end up.

Now do I know where I got all of my supplies for this??? Nooooo.....but I promise for future posts that I will have a list of all the nice details.

So, as I start to branch out and try my hand at challenges, be on the lookout for more and hopefully better cards!

Stamping and More

Come back often as I will start to upload the cards I have made and will also give you ideas and links to other projects.

Also, I will continue to post any good coupon deals that I come across as well as money-saving finds!

Thanks for stopping by!