CARDtober #2, #9, #16, #23, #30 Wednesdays Product Playtime

Glitter paper holly berries:

grammadee, your card is beautiful!

Shakti, very pretty Christmas card, and I’m glad that you pointed out the glitter berries, because I am apparently blind.

I rarely use glitter anything, because a grandchild dumped a full jar of glitter on my carpet years ago, and no matter how much I vacuumed, I couldn’t get rid of the glitter. I banned glitter from my home after that. However, I did find one glitter paper in my stash that wouldn’t spread throughout my house. Unfortunately, I did not think my project through, probably since it had been a very long time since I used glitter paper. I chose an intricut die, and the glitter paper did not die cut well, no matter how many times I ran it through my Big Kick. It was very time consuming to weed. Once I finished weeding, I decided to keep the rest simple.

grammadee So glittery! I like that even the sentiments are glitter paper. But I also like the textured background and then the patterned/cut background as well.

Shakti 3 for 1 woo hoo! Your cards are so well done. Your papers and elements play so nice together.

scrapnnana Worth it! Your frame looks great and adds plenty of detail to highlight the sentiment.

angel97701 Thank you for the glitter challenge! Your flowers are so spectacular. They look like they are enameled or something. The lighting might have not captured all my glitter, but I have red glitter background paper, glittery candy canes paper, glitter silver washi strip and glitter emboss on the bow and sentiment. So sparkly!

I used glitter cardstock and a foil sticker paper that I was given which looks like iridescent rainbow glitter close up. (I also posted this in the sketch challenge.)

Glitter sunburst by jo.blackford, on Flickr

The lighting is awful but hopefully you can see the contrast between the glittery yellow gold cs and the shiny foil printed sticker paper with a glittery design.

Glitter sunburst by jo.blackford, on Flickr

jjpeapea, your glittery candy canes look good enough to eat!

joblackford I absolutely LOVE what you did with the sunbeams and clouds on your cards!

Thanks for the new challenge, angel97701. Your card is really striking. Mine won't be nearly as intricate, but I do like to ink embossing folders, so I think I will see if I can find a snowfall one.

The example links are working fine for me. Lots of different ink blendy backgrounds

I used a 3D embossing folder technique I saw on Vicki P's YT here - youtu.be/7qC6QOF3Oks?si=OejDfNzAq-FlLPlr

That put dark red ink into the deepest parts of the design. The contrast between the white watercolor paper and the red inking didn't look quite right so I thought I should add more inking. I brushed ink lightly around the edges with a different red, regretted that it looked too pink, added the original red, added yellow/gold lacquer pen dots, regretted that (and put the pen in the donate pile!) I made the best of it with a gold sentiment. It's not horrible, but I'm not going to do it this way for the rest of my cards. 

October share by jo.blackford, on Flickr

A good experiment. Thanks for the challenge
I'll come back with an example I like better tomorrow. It's mostly done, just needs a sentiment.

Here ya go, angel97701. This technique is one of my favorites with embossing folders. I borrowed the idea of the chimney from yesterday's Justine Hovey class. She had fun Christmas images flying into the chimney. I decided to use some feet from my Jaded Blossom gnome add on dies.
Ct #16 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

That’s such a fun card grammadee! Perfect use for those gnome legs.

Here’s my more satisfying inky experiment, starting with colored cardstock, inking on the 3D embossing folder to get a darker shade of red in the deepest grooves. I added the glitter tape, a thin band of baker’s twine, and my own color scheme challenge to make this a 4-fer! I could mass produce this one and change up the sentiments - both peace and joy in the same font looked good.

CARDtober challenges by jo.blackford, on Flickr

joblackford I like your card. I like all the shades, layers and interest. Very dimensional. On your second card I see how the ink brings out the details.

grammadee how cute and comical with those legs sticking out. You used the folder technique so well!

Shakti so snowy and pretty.

angel97701 Thank you for the ink folder challenge! Wow does your card look great. I have never inked a folder before, so this was a new technique for me. My ink is uneven but I like the swirly snow effect it created. As for inky fingers, I promise this clumsy crafter had much ink on the fingers.  

angel97701 is on a road trip and has asked me to post CARDtober #23 for her. She set the challenge, PM'd it to me, and I am simply copying and pasting it here.

CARDtober #23: The product we are playing with is RIBBON! Tie it up with two or more ribbons or fibers! For this challenge you are to use at least two different ribbons. They can be tied together in a bow, or used in some other way. In my sample I wove together 8 different scraps of ribbon from my left-over ribbon jar.

Here is her cool sample card...


Her explanation:
"This example on my blog shows three ribbons/fibers tied together to decorate a gift box. snippetscrafter.blogspot.com/2022/12/vertigo-christmas-gift-box-with-stazon.html Threading the ribbons through a tag would also count.

angel97701, that is such a clever use of ribbon, and it is a beautiful card.

grammadee, your card is lovely, and I really like your use of the cardinal and the velvet ribbon.