Just-Rite Christmas Treasures Fan Club Christmas Challenge

Hi blogging friends

Thank you for your kind 'Get Well' messages from my last post.  My cold is lingering on and on but hopefully it will start to improve soon.  My loved one is still sick too but they feel quite a bit better than a few days ago and their cough is certainly not as yucky so the antibiotics seem to be working.

Today, I am sharing a Christmas card which I made for the Splitcoaststampers Christmas Fan Club Challenge for July and the theme is "All about the Sentiment".  I have hardly made any Christmas cards this year.  I had originally planned to make a card each month for the Christmas Fan Club Challenge but just wasn't "feeling it" until now.  I have to be in-the-mood for Christmas cardmaking and if I try and force myself to make one when I don't want to, I usually end up with a messy Craft Room and very little to show for it.  

The dry embossing is a Nellie Snellen Christmas Square-1 EFE004 embossing folder.  The sentiment and border is from an old Just-Rite Christmas Treasures set (which uses their own 3-1/4" round stamper) and was stamped using Versamark Watermark ink and heat-embossed using Ranger Silver superfine embossing powder.  I really love how you can see such fine detail with this embossing powder.

After I attached the main panel to the card, I thought that the panel needed something more so decided to cut a silver glitter cardstock border using my Lifestyle Nesting Circles and the Magnetic platform in my Big Shot.  The magnetic platform makes it so easy to cut a border this way because you can lay the dies exactly where you want them and they don't move in the machine.  I glued down the silver circle using Tombow Mono Multi glue.

I used my Perfect Layers Tools to trim a 1/16" border around the silver cardstock base (LOVE these tools - they make crafting so much easier!).  By the way, I attached the silver glitter cardstock to the white cardstock using Ranger Wonder Tape.  Doublesided tape, in my experience, just doesn't work for attaching glitter cardstock - it isn't strong enough.

Lastly, I added silver rhinestones.  Finished size is 5-1/8" x 5-1/8".

Challenges:

Apart from the SCS Fan Club Challenge, I am entering my card in the following challenges -

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything goes - with the optional extra of doing something for Christmas in July

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - July - Anything Goes 

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #183 - Let's get Sentimental

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today.

Jocelyn


Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Just-Rite Christmas Treasures (sentiment and border)

Ink:  Versamark Watermark

Accessories:  Just-Rite 3-1/4" round stamper, Big Shot, Big Shot magnetic platform, Ranger Silver superfine embossing powder, heat-gun, Perfect Layers Tools, Lifestyle Nesting Circle dies, Nellie Snellen Christmas Square-1 EFE004 embossing folder, Ranger Wonder Tape, Tombow Mono Multi glue, Papermania adhesive stones Silver PMA351103, cardstock - silver glitter, white

JustRite Christmas Treasures card

Hi blogging friends

I had totally forgotten about some JustRite stamps that I bought a couple of years ago as I had put them in a folder and they were up on the shelf with some other totally unrelated folders - out-of-sight, out-of-mind!  Anyway, I thought I should drag them out and put them to use.  JustRite Stamps originally had their own wood blocks in various sizes and the size that I used was a 3-1/4" round block.  These stamps are still around here and there - and I saw the set that I have on Frantic Stamper's website (I have never bought from them so can't recommend them).

I (again), went for a clean and simple Christmas card as the silver version is for my Mum - the gold version is for myself:

I stamped the 3 Wise Men and sentiment onto the white cardstock using Versamark Watermark ink and heat-set it using Ranger silver detail embossing powder - and diecut them using my Big Shot and Lifestyle Circle dies.  The outer circle is up on dimensionals.

The dry embossing is a Nellie Snellen Christmas Square embossing folder which I really love.  To finish off, I added 4 silver rhinestones.  Finished size is 5 inches square or 127 millimetres.

And now the gold version:

I decided to add a gold glitter cardstock layer plus another white layer as I didn't have any gold rhinestones/pearls for embellishing (do they make them as I have never seen any?!) and the card just didn't look finished - there was something missing.  I trimmed the gold layer to 1/8" using my Perfect Layers Tools and the white layer to 1/16".

The image and sentiment were stamped with Versamark Watermark ink and heat-set using Ranger gold detail embossing powder.  The outer circle is up on dimensionals.  Finished size is 5-3/8" square or 136mm.

Challenges:

I am entering my card in the following challenges -

Splitcoaststampers Free for All F4A199 Christmas Carols - make a project inspired by a Christmas song (or anything holiday and musical), song lyrics, instruments, red nosed reindeer etc.  My cards are inspired by the Christmas Carol:  We 3 Kings of Orient are.

CAS on Friday Challenge #23 - Christmas

Crafty Catz Challenge #211 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! 

Jocelyn


Card Recipe:

Card #1 -

Stamps:  JustRite Christmas Treasures set - 3-1/4" diameter

Ink:  Versamark Watermark

Accessories:  Big Shot, Lifestyle Circle dies, dimensionals, Nellie Snellen Christmas Square-1 EFE004 embossing folder, Ranger silver detail embossing powder, heat-gun, cardstock - white (Paper Mill), Kaisercraft Silver rhinestones, JustRite 3-1/4" diameter wood block

Card #2 -

Stamps:  JustRite Christmas Treasures set - 3-1/4" diameter

Ink:  Versamark Watermark

Accessories:  Big Shot, Lifestyle Circles dies, dimensionals, Nellie Snellen Christmas Square-1 EFE004 embossing folder, Ranger gold detail embossing powder, heat-gun, JustRite 3-1/4" diameter wood block, Perfect Layers Tools, cardstock - white (Paper Mill), gold glitter

JustRite Christmas Treasures - quick and simple Christmas card

Hi blogging friends and welcome to my new followers - it's lovely to have you!

No, your eyes are NOT deceiving you:  it really is a Christmas card.  As there are a few Christmas Challenges popping up here and there (not to mention Christmas in July sales - yippee!), I thought I should jump on board and make my first Christmas card for the year.  I went for quick and simple - and this one would be easy to mass produce.

The white cardstock embossed panel is one of the embossing folders from the Sizzix Winter Set #3 which I ran through my Cuttlebug using the same sandwich as for Cuttlebug folders.  I love this folder and it seemed to match the image perfectly with its stars - a match made in heaven!  I added the purple brads in each corner then popped the panel up on doublesided foam tape to attach it to the white cardstock base.

The main image and sentiment is from my JustRite Christmas Treasures 3-1/4" diameter set.  I love how you can mix and match the main images and the sentiments.  I stamped the image with Heliotrope pigment ink, poured on some satin pearl embossing powder and heat-set it with my heat-gun.  I inked around the circle lightly so the panel would stand out a bit from the white embossed background then popped it up on doublesided foam squares (dimensionals) to attach it to the cardstock.

The organza ribbon was attached in 2 separate elements and the bow itself was made with my Bow Easy.  That's it - easy peasy.  No colouring for a change!   Finished card size is 4-1/2" or 113mm.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnuts's weekly Christmas Challenge (CHNC) #27 - pinks and/or purples - where you can use any materials, any techniques - anything goes - as long as the end result is a Christmas card and it has pink and/or purple somewhere

Allsorts Challenge - Week 110 - Free and Easy July (anything goes)

On a totally different note, I finally went to the Doctor last week because my left wrist and thumb has been swelling up and getting very sore.  It has been sore for quite a few months, but particularly sore when I  was doing some embroidery these past few weeks.  The doctor sent me for an X-ray and ultrasound and it showed arthritis in the thumb and wrist joint.  Nuts!  I am waaaaay to young to get arthritis (I think so anyway!) and as a classical pianist as well as all my other crafty endeavours, I am NOT happy!   At least I am right-handed so I am thankful that it's not my right hand but I do use my left hand alot nonetheless.  Many years ago, I dislocated this wrist (twice!) and the doctor thinks maybe that my wrist was damaged from it.   I am having some cortisone injected into it this Thursday so my crafting will come to a standstill while I am not allowed to use my hand.  I have almost finished my DH's birthday card so I should be able to post it here on my Blog next week (well, as long as it stops raining and blowing a gale and I can photograph it!)   .

So, I shall leave you a happy note.  If you love cats, this video is for you.  It is a Simon's Cat video (there are around 14 on You-Tube) and there is even a website for Simon's Cat books, mugs, calendars etc.  I have no connection with them, but I do have the first book that came out that had me in stitches.  Enjoy!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  JustRite Christmas Treasures set 3-1/4" diameter

Ink:  Colorbox Heliotrope pigment

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, Sizzix Textured Impressions embossing folder set - Winter Set #3 - #656586, Bow Easy, 1" or 25mm wide purple organza ribbon, foam tape, doublesided foam squares, heat-gun, satin pearl embossing powder, purple brads - Franceville Australia - from Love Mini Brads set #130004, Cardstock:  white