Peek-a-Boo Snowmen Christmas Cards / Journal Cards

I've been having a lot of fun joining in various papercraft challenges, and particularly enjoy combining several different challenges in a single project. I'm particularly enjoying Double Trouble, because they give a main challenge and then add a couple of optional twists.

The latest challenge from Double Trouble includes the following three elements:

• Peek-a-Boo, I See You
• Use Twine or any Type of ribbon, string, cord, or Tape on your project
• Use the sketch from Try Stampin' - Or Not - On Tuesday and enter your project in their challenge

The Design Team had created some awesome projects, but I was particularly inspired by Donna Scholz's side-fold card. It's been a while since I created a card with this type of side fold and it's perfect to go with this sketch!

I'm currently working on items for my Christmas-themed junk journals so I picked out some Crafters Companion "The Snowman" printed card blanks plus some Kanban snowman toppers. The card blanks are 5" x 7" and are printed on the front and back, so I picked out two of the cards, and was able to make two of the side-fold cards sized 5" x 3.5" and one sized 7" x 5".  

For the two smaller designs I used two different dies to create the windows for the snowmen to peek through. I used sentiments from the same Kanban collection, then added gemstones and baker's twine to one card and buttons and a fluffy yarn to the other. 

For the larger card I used some silver card-stock for the front of the card and layered on the second patterned card-stock, which allowed me to layer two dies for the window. I first used the larger die on the top (dotty) layer then positioned this on to the silver layer so that I could tape the smaller die in to correct place before cutting that layer. For this card I used a different sentiment and some silver thread / cord. 

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

1. Double Trouble - Challenge # 97b Peek-a-Boo, I See You
2. Try Stampin on Tuesday - Challenge #533 
3. Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - November Challenge - Christmas / Winter
4. Alphabet Challenge Blog - P is for Patterned Paper
5. Crazy Hazlenut's Christmas Challenge - Challenge #268

Gorjuss Foxes

While I was working on my previous project, I realised that I have a lot of products from the Gorjuss range including toppers, paper and other embellishments. I recently bought a couple of second-hand copies of Little Women to make junk journals, so these may end up with a lot of Gorjuss girls in them! 

I decided to make a couple more cards using the Gorjuss range. I put together two decoupage toppers featuring Gorjuss ladies with cute little foxes. I mounted these on pearlescent card blanks layered with blue pearlescent paper and some purple patterned paper from the Gorjuss range. For embellishments. I added some Gorjuss ribbon and a sentiment.

I'm entering these cards in the following challenges:

1. Alphabet Challenge Blog - O is for Outdoors
2. Little Red Wagon - Challenge #625 Outside
3. Watercooler Wednesday Challenge - WWC327 - Dawn's Challenge: All Things Feminine
4. Crafty Catz Challenge Blog - Anything goes with optional twist add some layers
5. Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog - Challenge #157 Anything goes

Santoro Mermaids

I was tidying up in my craft room when I came across some Santoro products. I love anything related to the sea so I was inspired to make a couple of mermaid cards.

The first card uses toppers from a set of Santoro self-adhesive toppers and a printed card blank from a co-ordinating set. I matted the image on some scraps of card I also found on my desk (free tidying!) and embellished with some more stickers from the same pack and a piece of woven "netting" which has been in my stash forever. 

The second card has a topper from the Gorjuss range also from Santoro. I had put the decoupage together a while ago but never used it. For this card I used some card from a pad called "Fresh Feelings" by Make & Create on a shaped card-blank. I embellished this card with some pretty fringed yarn, some gems and a sentiment.

I'm entering these cards in the following challenges:

1. The Fairy and the Unicorn Challenge - October 2021 Challenge
2. Alphabet Challenge Blog - O is for Outdoors
3. Creative Crafting Uncles - #22 Males Go Feminin
4. Corrosive Challenge Blog - #10 Anything Goes

CAS Cards using the Geometric Mocha Collection

I don't generally make CAS (clean and simple) cards, but I spotted the Geometric challenge on Perfectly CAS. As my goals for this month include using the DoCrafts Geometric Mocha collection, I decided to try my hand at this challenge. The aim is to try and use at least some of everything in the collection and anything that doesn't get used at all will be cleared out at the end of the month.

The card blanks that are part of the collection are definitely not CAS, so I decided to use some shaped card blanks from my collection (octagons and circles) which fit the theme. Looking through the die-cut kit I found die-cut paper bows and some Hello and Thank-you sentiments which I probably wouldn't use in the journals that I'm creating with the kits.

I put together all of the bows left in the kit and created 2 sets of cards - 3 circular and 4 octagonal:

Unfortunately I missed the deadline for the Perfectly CAS Geometric Challenge, but I'm glad that I saw it and used up some more of my stash.

I'm entering these cards in the following challenges:

1. Allsorts Challenge - Week 645 Embellish It
2. Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - Challenge #216 Anything Goes
3. Through the Craft Room Challenge - ATG Challenge 12th October 2021
4. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge - C# 167 Anything Goes