Ornamental Christmas for Paper Players 766

Ann's sketch at The Paper Players was delightful - as were the entries we received in the gallery. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone does with this week's Tic Tac Toe challenge. Will it be Christmas? Or something else? 

I'm afraid that for me, it was Christmas. I played the bottom row: die cuts, trees and sparkle.

I used a mixture of the Modern Christmas suite and some things from the Traditional Labels bundle.

On top of a Basic Black base and a Basic White matte, I added a piece of DSP from Modern Christmas. Being a specialty paper, it has some sparkle of it's own with the gold foil elements of the paper's design.

The white circle is cut using one of the dies from Spotlight on Nature. I used dies from the Ornamental Christmas bundle to cut out the gold-embossed tree and the Gold Glimmer Paper tree - both more elements of sparkle. 

The sentiment, from Traditional Labels, is gold embossed and cut using a die from the same bundle. The final touch of sparkle comes from three red Traditional Sparkling Sequins.

What will you do with this tic-tac-toe challenge?

You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page. 

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Christy Stanford

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.

Branching Out for Paper Players 765

Thanks for joining me for a new challenge at The Paper Players. Thanks to everyone who played along with Stef's CAS Christmas Challenge. There were some really clever and beautiful CAS creations. This week, Ann is our hostess and she has a sketch for us.  

Unlike some people who start on their Christmas cards really early, I just can't quite get in the mood until at least late October and more likely, November. So I took the chance to get another one done with this sketch.

I started by cutting a pair of the labels, one from gold foil and the other from Modern Christmas DSP, using the dies from Branching Out. After layering them up, I cut them into 3 even pieces. These were attached to the card front which had been embossed with the Beautiful Pattern embossing folder. 

This was attached to a Basic Black standard card base. 

The sentiment is from the Traditional Labels stamp set and cut using Stylish Shapes.

The festive cluster is cut using the Branching Out dies in Shaded Spruce, Cherry Cobbler and Gold Foil.

I finished off with a trio of Traditional Sparkling Sequins in red. 

Where will Ann's sketch lead you?

 You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page. 

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Christy Stanford

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.

Ornamental Christmas for The Paper Players 764

It's hard to believe that a whole week has gone by and now it's time for a new challenge at The Paper Players. Thank you to everyone who played along last week with my colour challenge. I enjoyed seeing what everyone had done with the colours. 

Our hostess this week is Stef and she has a double challenge for us. We're not just creating a card that uses a favourite holiday image but doing so in a CLEAN AND SIMPLE style. 

At the Players we have think of CLEAN AND SIMPLE being a creation that is:

•  uncluttered with lots of white space
• minimal layering
• few embellishments. 

We hope you enjoy this double challenge, which involves not only a theme but a style of crafting. 

I do enjoy CAS cardmaking, so I had fun with this challenge. I love my Christmas tree and the baubles on it. My tree has only handmade decorations or those that were special gifts which evoke memories. So I turned to the Ornamental Christmas bundle for this one.

I started by cutting out a bauble shape in Basic White and a hanger in gold foil. I ran the bauble through the Damask Designs embossing folder.  Originally, I was going to leave the bauble completely white but, even with texture, the contrast wasn't quite enough. So I chose a soft colour to sponge around the edges - Bubble Bath. I'm glad I did this, as it not only gave the bauble itself more definition but it also brought out the embossed design more. 

 

When attaching the bauble to the card front, I popped it up on dimensionals for more prominence and added in a hanger string using the White and Gold Baker's Twine.

I stamped the "'Tis the season" stamp in the opposite corner and gold embossed it. I added a trio of pale pink gems around the sentiment to finish off. 

What's your favourite holiday image? You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page. 

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Christy Stanford

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.

Modern Christmas for The Paper Players 757

It's time for a new challenge at The Paper Players but before I share that with you I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered my CAS Watercolour challenge last week. I was blown away by the beautiful entries and choosing the Headliner was not an easy task!

This week, Stef has a sketch challenge for us. I love a sketch challenge because I'm always delighted by the great variation in the projects that all had the same starting point. 

I'll admit that when the September-December Mini Catalogue, and the associated On Line Exclusives, came out I was frugal in my preordering. But the Modern Christmas suite did keep poking at me and I was a late purchaser. In fact, it's only just arrived and this is my first play around with it. 

This card pretty much made itself and is one that you could easily make multiples of. There is a large circle die that's part of the bundle but I started with one of the decorative circle dies from Spotlight on Nature. The large and small stars were cut from gold foil using the Ornamental Christmas dies.

The DSP is Modern Christmas Specialty DSP, layered on a Gold Foil mat on a Basic Black card base.

The decorative circle is popped up on dimensionals.  I added a bow using the gold and white twine, before attaching the sentiment.

We'd love to see what you do with Stef's sketch. 

You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page. 

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Christy Stanford