Pink Christmas

Happy week before Thanksgiving!

I have a Christmas card to share with you all today...

A pink Christmas Card.. My mom will love it I'm sure as she LOVES

all things pink!

I won this cute as a button Stampendous stamp a few weeks ago from

Designed to Color

and I thought this was the perfect time to use it!

Aren't those elves just so adorable???

I wanted to add the stars but could not for the life of me figure out how to make them

a banner... Finally I just popped them on with pop dots and added the twine behind them... It turned out cute right??

For the Heart I die cut it and then I used my new

Distress Stains to make the pretty mottled background, I stamped

the "merry christmas" with my staz-on black, and added a start inside the heart as well..

The December is a Tim Holtz embossing folder and again the heart was a die cut!

I'm following along with a number of challenges with this card

Bearly Mine Challenges: Pink Christmas

By the Cute and Girly: Twinkle Twinkle little star

Crafty Sentiments Design: Christmas

Cute Card Thursdays: Starry Night

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes

Diva's by design: Anything goes

Using Kraft Resist

First off I have to share that my Bright and Bold Card won over at Dilly Beans, check out that post here

I'm super stoked to get started on their newest Challenge "hearts"

Ok, so today I finally had some quiet time to myself in the craft room...

I had swung by Michaels yesterday on my way to work and picked up a pad of

kraft resist from Tim Holtz (after I saw his tutorial on his blog here)

I didn't really have anything in mind when I started, was just gonna play with the product a little bit

This is what ended up happening!

The kraft resist is basically kraft paper that has varnished images on it...

When you ink over these images and wipe the ink away there is color on page everywhere

but where the varnish is... It's a pretty cool effect.

As I was just playing around, I didn't care too much about color, but I think this

little card ended up pretty cute!

I did a sentiment only card per the challenge over at creative inspirations

Plus the bling (sorry it doesn't photograph very well!)

on the sentiment for the bling it up and gems and twine at cute card Thursday and

Crafty Creations respectively.

I also hand dyed and stamped the background for the anything goes challenge,

and added the buttons for the challenge over at corrosive challenges by janet

Finally, the background is mostly all hand made, the inking, the stamping, ect ect that is for

the challenge over at Anything goes challenge make your own background

I hope you're having a fabulous weekend!!

I am on a mini mostly staycation next week, so I will be in the

craft room with the kitty! 

Entering into: 

Creative Inspirations: Sentiments

Crafty Creations: Gem's and Twine

Cute Card Thursday: Bling it up
Anything goes: make your own background
Flutter by Wednesdays: Friends (must use butterfly or fairy)
Corrosive Challenge: Cute as a Button
A Blog Named Hero: Use Kraft

Fairy nice with a tag

I couldn't resist coloring up this cutie!

She is of course a Saturated Canary digi from the super talented Krista Smith

I colored her with my pinks, and added some distressing on the edges...

A couple of rhinestones and a flower punch to the side,

And then the little tag with a sweet sentiment on the bottom. 

I love the little tag!

Tied up with just a little bit of twine, and popped up with some foam squares!

Entering into: 
Cute Card Thursday: Fairy nice
Pile it on Challenge: Tag your it
All sorts challenge: Distressing
Crafty Creations: Tags Challenge #179
Perfect Sentiment: anything goes