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Stamping => Stamping Challenges => Topic started by: Iring on November 01, 2016, 09:46:21 AM
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We're getting down to the wire .... so let's get stampin'
Please post your Christmas creations in the album for this challenge in the gallery : Christmas Cards All Year 2016.
As always, follow the prompt, or not, we still want to see your Christmas cards.
This month's prompt, in keeping with Christmas icons is a Santa hat, either alone, on Santa or on an animal.
Happy Christmas stamping!
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I am always very appreciative of this challenge! Thanks for hosting!
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Thank you Heidi! You are welcome!
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Here is my submission for Christmas All Year 2016 November. I am combining this challenge with Uninked, as I purchased this image last year and just now got it out to play with. Sorry the photo doesn't show the shimmer of the Stickles, as I had bad light today.
Nora S
http://duhnproductions.com/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=1004.0;last_msg=15566
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I actually followed the prompt again. My new penguin stamp set has one with a Santa hat and he is small and fun and easy to color.
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3045#top_display_media
Thanks for looking!
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Here is another submission for Christmas All Year.
Nora S
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3046#top_display_media
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I made cards with some uninked ornaments stamps.
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/thumbnails.php?album=86
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Not a traditional looking Santa hat, but this vintage Santa is wearing a hat!
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3054#top_display_media
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Here are my entries. Two have a santa hat and one doesn't. I think I have enough Christmas cards made now! I have so enjoyed all the prompts! ;D
April
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3055#top_display_media
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3056#top_display_media
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3057#top_display_media
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Thank you all for posting such wonderful Christmas cards! I love looking at them!
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Finally! I have something to post for my own challenge!
Lucky me, Stampwilly Rak'd me with a stamp featuring an elephant wearing a Santa hat (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3058#top_display_media) as part of my Bingo prize! I also used some paper from the 6x6 pad she sent. I'm entering this in the Uninked challenge Heidi is offering this month.
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Here is my submission for this challenge. One more card done!
Nora S
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3066#top_display_media
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Here is another card for this challenge. I am getting there!
Nora S
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3067#top_display_media
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Your cards are gorgeous, Nora! Lucky are those who are on your Christmas card list!
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Well, it is now December 17, and I am still making Christmas cards. This is what I get for procrastinating all year long. I have had so much going on with the feral cats and foster cats that they have taken over my life. They are now all spayed or neutered. The eighteen kittens I brought into the house are down to six. Eleven went to great homes. One sadly died of an injury that I still don't understand. One of the six is missing (A man working on the heating system left the door open.), but I'm counting her because we just have to find her.
I posted the eight Christmas Marathon cards in my gallery at scrapbook.com. I posted my favorite one here, but I forgot to come here to this thread to link it: Memory Box Grand Stag (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=86&pid=3076#top_display_media)
Today I posted a card that I began months ago. I colored them at Nora's house a long time ago. I kept trying different matting/card base options and couldn't decide which to use. Actually, a brown card base that matched the bare tree was a great option. Then I decided to add some Wink of Stella. Then I decided to add color to the sky. At last, I just grabbed white cardstock and green mats and put the darn things together. I made eight of these:
Stampendous Christmas Cottage (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=86&pid=3091#top_display_media)
Last night I die cut seventeen Memory Box Bare Trees, sprayed them with adhesive, and added glitter. I'm planning to remake one of the cards we made at the Marathon Class. I have enough red foil cardstock to make a dozen cards. I'm getting desperate here. Assembly line here I come. This morning, I brushed off the excess glitter. Then I decided to cut the cardstock for the focal image and the mat. I, unfortunately, decided to change the blade on my Genesis trimmer. I've been using the same one for over ten years. It's not really noticeable to the naked eye, but the edges are not as smooth as they use to be. Now I can't get it to work right. Darn. I sent Bonnie (Bonnie's Best) an email asking for advice. I hope she replies soon. If I can finish those cards, I will have enough for this year.
I have one more to post so I'll be back soon.
Daria
ETA: The trimmer is working fine. I remembered that there was a way to adjust the position of the blade, and it's working fine now.
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OK. I'm back with my latest card. I had planned to make a bunch of these, but coloring with colored pencils is a time-consuming process. I completed four of these:
Stampendous Snow Bird (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=3092&message_id=6e9fd43c1f7613d3d7cf577803da5c36&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock)
Daria
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I finally finished fifteen of these cards:
Impression Obsession Bare Tree & Cardinals (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3096#top_display_media).
It took a lot longer than I had anticipated.
Daria
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Way to go, Daria! Your cards are just lovely! And you have really been churning them out!
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You are turning out such wonderful cards Daria, and this is the only month I haven't gotten a challenge posted! (wedding month, as I'm sure you're all sick of hearing about!) I am so glad you went ahead and linked your cards up here. I am going to just edit the title of this thread to include December.
You are really on a roll. We (DH and I) were hoping to have a wedding picture of our newly extended family to send out but I hear the photographer takes awhile to process the photos ... maybe we'll send Valentines? The photographer has posted a few to FB but I wasn't sure if I grab a photo off of FB if it will be high resolution enough to have cards printed ... I might try it, probably next week, after Christmas.
Good for you for taking care of SO MANY cats and kittens! I hope you find your lost little one.
If I don't get a chance to hop back on here ...
Merry Christmas to All! Thank you so much for creating along all year, or whenever you get a chance, and for linking here for all to enjoy. I will probably make more Christmas cards in January than I did in December (I have the urge, it's just getting it done), so watch out for me in 2017!
I love being a part of this group!
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Cindi, I had to laugh when I saw "and December" added to your subject line. I was wishing I could do that! Of course, I'm the only one who was still making Christmas cards four days before Christmas. I posted my last card a couple of days ago, and I forgot (again) to come here and link it.
I made fifteen of these Impression Obsession Bare Tree and Cardinals card. (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=3096#top_display_media)
I mentioned in my comments on the gallery post that I'd used 3M Super 77 Multipurpose Adhesive Spray . I've used it before to hold things together, but this was the first time I'd used it with glitter. It took at least three days for the glitter/adhesive to lose its tacky feel. I could work on the cards after two days, but it was still tacky. Then when I was sorting through the cards to decide who would get each card, I noticed that the card we made at the Marathon Class sparkled quite a bit more than the ones that I made at home. I still love those trees, but I think I like the sparklier one better. At the Marathon Class, we used Aleenes All Purpose Tacky Adhesive Spray. I'm going to get some of that. Using spray adhesive to adhere glitter to an intricate die-cut saved so much time and works great.
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!
Daria
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Thanks for your tip on the adhesive spray. Sometimes I have trouble with tacky glues in that they never lose their tackiness, so if any of it at all is exposed I fear it will be tacky forever (as in stick to the envelope!) I'm glad to know Aleene's works. Haven't had a chance to see the rest of your marathon stamping at scrapbook.com ... but I will.
I have not mailed one card this year :(
Still playing catch up after the wedding. I might send some out next week ...?
I was hoping to send a family photo from the wedding as our Christmas card this year but photographer doesn't have them finished. I've seen just a few photos she posted to FB but no family group photos yet.
So, even though I haven't sent a card ... I'm thinking of you!
Merry Christmas!
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Cindi, I got to the point that I was so late I thought about just skipping sending Christmas cards this year. Just think. I'd be all done for next year. ;) However, I did get mine out, and most even arrived the day before Christmas. Some are probably still working their way around the world.
I am going through the Christmas cards in the Christmas All Year Gallery. Oh, my. I missed so many of them. I am now on page three of four pages of cards, and I need to take a break. My vision is beginning to blur, and it's time to feed the cats.
Thank you for offering this challenge again in 2016. I hope you'll do it again in 2017.
Happy New Year!
Daria
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Just think. I'd be all done for next year.
::) I've had that thought! haha!
I should go back through the gallery, good idea to look at them that way rather than month by month.
Don't put your Christmas stamps away ... make a few in January ... I'm about to start the first challenge of 2017. Look for the post coming soon.
Thanks everyone for playing along in 2016 even though I didn't do much. "Do as I say, not as I do, haha! Ever heard that before?"