XOXO- Negative Diecut Stenciling

Hi Artsy Friends,

Following my previous card, I quickly made this one. I definitely love making two background panels at once. Even though it’s a quick card, I challenged myself to make a DIY glitter paper by Glitter Ritz. I just hope you can see the pink sparkly second layer heart.

Hope it’s eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a sparkly day.

Card Details 

Stencil, sentiment and die are by Altenew.

Challenge Entered

• Tic Tac Toe Challenge #146     

I chose Any Shape Die, Love Sentiment and Glitter.

• Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #165- Make it Sparkle
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – With Love
• Simon Says Stamp IG February Challenge – Love & Friendship
• International Art and Soul Challenge #126 All about Love/Hearts
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge 463 My Heart BEETS for you

I have lots of  Hearts in my card.

• Watercooler Wednesday Challenge WWC334 - Helen's Challenge: All About Occasions
• Allsorts Challenge Week 661 ❖ A/G with option use a stencil

Sending Warm Blessings – Layered Die Cuts

Hi Artsy Friends, 

I can’t stop making another snowflakes card. Each snowflake is unique and beautiful. Snowflakes are particularly precious for people like me living in subtropical countries. This time I challenged myself applying non-traditional winter/Christmas colors.

Hope this card is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Card Details

All dies and sentiment are by Altenew.

Challenges Entered

• Altenew A Year In Review Inspiration Challenge 2021     

I noticed that I also missed Altenew’s March Inspiration Challenge. I’d like to make it up.     

• Crafter’s Cafe #280 - Use Some of Your Favourites (colours, techniques, theme and/or supplies)

I love layered die cuts, snowflake theme and lots of glitters.

• Sweet Stampin Challenge - Anything Christmas
• Use Your Stuff #438 - Snow or Winter
• SheepSki Designs Challenge #57 - Embellish It
• Sparkles Christmas Challenge #131-  Non-Traditional Colours
• Try it on Tuesday Challenge – Snowflakes
• Little Red Wagon Challenge #632 - Do They Know It's Christmas

• PIP Challenge 2151- Anything Goes
• International Art and Soul Ch#123 Use Dies or Punches

Be Merry- Die Cuts Negative and Postive

Hi Artsy Friends,

I made another sparkling and shining snowflakes card. All the card front is covered by Glitter Ritz. The glittering shine just made me happy. 

Hope this card is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Card Details

Snowflake dies and sentiment are by Altenew.

Challenges Entered

• Altenew A Year In Review Inspiration Challenge 2021     

I missed Altenew’s November Inspiration Challenge. It’s great that I have a chance to catch up. I applied the color scheme and substituted the leaves by snowflakes.     

• Try it on Tuesday Challenge – Snowflakes
• Allsorts Challenge Week 655/6 ☃️ Anything Winter
• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Simon Says: Bling It On
• As You Like it Challenge- Favourite Christmas Sentiment (and why)

I like “be merry”. It’s simple and powerful.

• Little Red Wagon Challenge #632 - Do They Know It's Christmas
• Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #420 - Die Cuts and/or Stencils
• AAA Cards Game #205 - Christmas + optional twist Slimline     

• CAS on Friday Challenge #220 | Christmas
• Girlz Creative Crafts challenge 20 Christmas

Joyful – Triple Glitter Ritz with Stencil

Hi Artsy Friends,

It’s time to play along with Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge again. The December Challenge Theme remains to be Anything Goes.    

For Challenge Rules and other DT’s inspirations, please check out the Challenge Blog. Please join us for the fun. I can’t wait to see what you have come up with.  

Glitter is addictive. Following my previous card, I challenged myself to further extend using triple Glitter Ritz. Boy, the sparkly shine is so gorgeous. Hope my DT card is inspirational to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Card Details

1. Triple Glitter Ritz Technique is similar to Two-Tone Glitter Ritz Technique demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire a few years ago. You just need to combine the Masking Technique.

2. Snowflakes Stencil/Mask and sentiment dies are by Simon Says Stamp.

Challenges Entered

• KRAFTY CHICKS CHALLENGE #589 - WEEK 2 – CHRISTMAS
• Little Red Wagon Challenge #630 - NBUS (Never-Before-Used-Schtuff)

The snowflake stencil and sentiment die are all my Never-Before-Used-Schtuff. I’m so glad I dug them out.

• Cut it Up Challenge 240 - Holiday Cards

• Country View Challenges December 2021 - Christmas Anything Goes
• Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Snowflakes

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge- Happy Holidays/Christmas
• Tic Tac Toe Challenge #142     

I chose snowflakes, free and winter.

• STAMPlorations December Stencil Challenge- Always Anything Goes     

• Allsorts Challenge Week 653 💫Use a Die
• The Crafter’s Café Challenge #279 Anything Goes

Happy Ever After – Two-Tone Glitter Ritz

 

Hi Artsy Friends,

I need to make a wedding card for a subordinate. I revisited an old card and made this one. It’s sparkly gorgeous. 

In my country, red is a traditional color for wedding event despite that nowadays young people may not follow the tradition. I used it anyway. Hope my card is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Card Details

1. Stencil is by Simon Says Stamp. Stamp and sentiment are by STAMPlorations.

2. For  more Two-Tone Glitter Ritz cards, please check out my old card. I also applied an old school technique – Faux Metal Technique for the sentiment.

Challenges Entered

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes
• As You Like it Challenge – Favorite: Dies versus Stencils and Why

I love using dies and stencils in my cards. If I need to choose only one, I’d choose stencil because it’s inexpensive and can be used to stamp, layering, emboss, etc. And you can apply lots of media on it to achieve versatile effects.

• Freshly Made Sketches Challenge # 513     

• STAMPlorations November Stencil Challenge – Anything Goes     

• STAMPlorations Never-ending Anything Goes Challenge     

• Krafty Chicks Challenge KCC #587 {ALL OCCASIONS}
• Allsorts Challenge Week 652 🌺 Use a hand stamped or digital image
• Card Making & Craft challenge - Anything Goes - Challenge 24
• Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Anything Goes Challenge November 2021

Happy New Year

Hi Artsy Friends,

Happy New Year! I wish all of you another successful year full of achievements, laughter and love. Let’s stay healthy, be creative and happy throughout the year of 2020.

I made this card for my extremely talented artsy friend, Ann Chuang who was sweet enough to have sent me a Christmas card earlier. The inspirations came from Ann’s card sketch below,

my previous ATCs,

and the scene I saw in my recent trip to Nikko, Japan.

Hope this card is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and wish you a great day and year ahead.

Card Details,
1. Stamp is by Hero Arts and dies are by Memory Box. Stencil and die cut are by Memory Box.
2. For the mixed media background tutorial, please check out my previous DT post here.

Challenges to Enter

•  A Blog Named Hero December Challenge – Sparkle

  

• Through the Craft Room Door Challenge – Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge – Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge #107 - Anything Goes
• The Card Concept #HOL19 {Fav Card or Christmas Tree}

  

The Christmas Day (12/25) is a normal working day here in Taiwan and I haven’t decorated a Christmas tree in my home for some years. So I’m sharing a snowy landscape card with several snow-covered trees.  I made this card on the last day of 2019 and it surely is one of my favorite cards.

• Allsorts Challenge Week 551/2 - Anything Goes
• Dies R Us DRU Challenge #136 - Anything Goes
• STAMPlorations January Stencil Challenge- Always Anything Goes

  

• Happy Little Stampers HLS January Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

  

• Mix it Up MIUCB #33 - Anything Goes + Paper Piecing

Merry Christmas / Holiday Cheer

Edited on 2/1/2020
I’m super excited that this set of ATCs was chosen as the Winner of More Mixed Media White Challenge as well as a Top Three by ATCs with Heart # 87. Thank you all, DTs. It’s indeed double happiness.

 

 

 

Hi Artsy Friends,
It’s time to play along with Happy Little Stampers (HLS) ATC (Artist Trading Card/Coin) Challenge again. The December Challenge Theme is Bling. For Challenge Rules and other DTs’ inspirations, please check out the Challenge Blog. 
  
I instantly thought about making a snowing Christmas theme with lots of bling bling might be a good idea. And boy, these ATCs turned out to be quite gorgeous, so shiny and sparkling! My bling is made out of Glitter Ritz (Transparent Micro Fine Glitter), Gold and Silver Embossing Pastes. Hope you like my interpretation. I'd like to thank and credit my artsy friend/mentor, Mandy, for this Mixed Media Tissue Paper Technique which I learnt from her during a Christmas Handmade Card Gathering in mid November.
Thanks for stopping by and wish you a great day ahead.

ATC Details
1. Apply three Acrylic Paints (Ocean, Sky, Lapis) on Gelli Plate and mix well with a brayer.

2. Lay snowflake stencil (Memory Box) on Gelli Plate.

3. Place a tissue paper and press with fingers. The tissue paper will get acrylic paints for the positive snowflake images.

4. Remove the stencil and place another tissue paper. Press with fingers. The tissue paper will get acrylic paints for the negative snowflake images.

5. Place two tissue papers together, one on top of the other.

 

6. Use bottle caps to apply Gold Metallic Embossing Paste on background tissue paper. Boy, this monochromatic mixed media tissue paper background is beautiful, isn’t it?

7. Cut background tissue paper into ATC size. Apple Silver Metallic Embossing Paste over Falling Snow Stencil on ATC background tissue paper.

8. Apply Be Creative Tape on white cardstock and die cut Country Landscape die (Memory Box) from it. Cover Country Landscape image with Glitter Ritz (Warm Highlight).

9. Assemble the ATC and affix text stickers (Tim Holtz) as shown.

 

Challenges to Enter

• Simon Says Monday Challenge – Let’s Sparkle
• More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes with Optional White

  

• Memory Box Challenge #56- Holiday Cards

    

• A Vintage Journey December Challenge – Holly Jolly Christmas

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #17 - December Anything Christmas Goes

• STAMPlorations December Stencil Challenge

    

• Love to Craft Challenge LTCCB #41 – December Anything Goes
•  ATC Around the World Challenge # 60 * * Snow & Ice
• ATCs Mit Herz Challenge # 87 - Christmas
• We Love 2 Create Challenge #12 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes