Christmas Pinecones and Ornaments

 Hello everyone!  I have a Christmas in July card with some pinecones and ornaments today.

I had this image of of Christmas ornaments hanging from a pine branch with pine cones in it with a kind of wood grain background on my mind, that was the inspiration for this card. I started by embossing a piece of 5 x 7 card stock with Craftwell - Woodgrain Cottage embossing folder and inked the raised edges with a light brown ink. Then I die cut all the pieces on my Craftwell SNAP. I used the Greetery - Botanicuts Pine Bough die set to die cut the pine cones on brown card stock. For the pine boughs, I used Spellbinders - Susan's Garden - Evergreen Foliage die set on light green card stock. I used my Copic markers to add some shading to the pine boughs. I used the Memory Box - Snowflake Ornament to die cut the ornaments. I used the Your Next Stamp - Merry Christmas die to cut the sentiment. Now it was just a matter of arranging the die cuts. I used liquid glue to adhere all of the die cuts. 

For the inside of the card, stamped a simple sentiment in black and stamped some pine bough and some berry branches from The Ton - Outline Holiday Cones in gold ink. This card is easy to make in batches, I made 20 of them. 

I loved how this turned out. Please let me know your thoughts and comments. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Christmas Poinsettia

Hello!! I'm here to share with you a Christmas card that I made recently. Without much ado, here it is:

I was inspired by the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch's current challenge. I made the strip of leaves with the cedar punch, which is one of my favorites :). I made the poinsettia with a flower punch and used glitter for the center.

A closer look at the poinsettia.

The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps "Christmas Penguins Clear Stamp Set "(Couldn't find the link now). 

I recently bought some sequins and find it looks good on most cards :)

After a long time, I had a chance to take the pictures in natural light :) The photos look good in natural light. Usually I rush and take pictures at max 30 mins before a contest ends :) Today I had plenty of time to take pics ;)

Submitting this to:

• CAS(E) This Sketch
  
• Craft Room Challenge - Something Old Something New - New - sequins, everything else is old
• CRAFT Challenge - Christmas
• Creative Fingers Challenge
• Fairy Tale Challenge - CAS
• Imagination Crafts Challenges
• Scribble and Scrap Crafts
• Word Art Wednesday

CAS Spring!!

Hello all... I haven't posted in a long time. After the baby, we moved half way around the world to the US.. It took us some time to get settled here with the baby and now we have to look after the baby alone!! So now I get very very limited time to craft. It was very exciting to see snow for the first time and now I'm waiting to see Spring bloom.

Anyway, on to the card!!

I was inspired by the lattice cards that Indira had posted (check them here) and was determined to make one!! And now, especially with the time crunch I'm attracted to CAS cards!! (check my previous one here) So here is my card, inspired by the Spring flowers.

I made a Spring wreath around the round lattice window. I made the flowers using some new punches that I bought recently. I cut the leaves using punches. I couldn't stop myself from adding a cute butterfly, again to show off my newly bought punch :D

A closer look

A view from the side.

I have not added any sentiment. I'm planning to add it as required.

I love how this card has turned out!!

I'm planning to buy a die-cutting/embossing machine in the near future. Any suggestions/advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance.

Do tell me your thoughts and comments. Hope to see you soon!

Submitting this to:

• Addicted to CAS - Challenge 35 - Wheels (Wreath is a flower wheel)
• A Creative Romance - Spring Flowers
• 3 Girl Jam - All things spring
• Bearly Mine - Spring
• BGC 49 - Grown with love - Flowers, leaves and butterfly
• Catchy Challenges- CSCC #2 - inspired by the colors
• One Stitch at a time - Challenge 206 - Anything goes
• Pinque Peacock Challenges - Challenge 4 - Flowers.html
• Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 126 - Anything goes
• Scribble and Scrap crafts - Challenge 15
• Case Study Challenge -185
• Just Keep on Creating - Anything goes