Case me a Christmas Card with Kasia Leach

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2021 - a Christmas Card blog series! 

From October to December, I will link to a series of guest cardmakers on my blog. I will CASE one of their cards, and they will CASE one of mine! CASE stands for either Copy And Share Everything, or Copy And Selectively Edit. It's about getting inspiration from cardmaking friends, but making a new card that is our own. And, of course, the card we each make has to be a Christmas card!

Background

In November 2016, I started this a little series on my blog. It started with me wanting to challenge myself to step outside my comfort zone with my Christmas cardmaking, so I asked friends to challenge me to do something different. 2016 challenges included using embroidery thread on a card, making a food themed card, making a geeky Christmas card (it had the Tardis on it) and making a dinosaur themed card. 

In 2017, I asked some of my cardmaking friends to join me with these challenges. Then, in 2020, I changed things up a bit by asking each of my guests to CASE one of my cards and I would CASE one of theirs. Ardyth Percy Robb made a video in 2020 (linked here) of a 5 step process that I use all the time when I am making a CASE of anybody's card, so I encourage you to check out her video!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Kasia Leach. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :) 

 This is the card I Cased: 

Kasia also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

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Lovely blooms for Paper Rose Studio

 I have a thank you card to share today using a beautiful stamp sent from Paper Rose Studio.

I stamped the main floral image in vanilla ink from Hero Arts, and then coloured it with Derwent pencils.  I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of vellum in black pigment ink and clear embossed it, before wrapping it around the coloured panel. I then adhered the panel to a pale red/pink note card from Hero Arts. 

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Roses for Paper Rose

Today, I'm sharing a card using products from Paper Rose.

I stamped the roses in a pale coloured ink, and coloured them with Derwent pencils. I cut the roses in half so I could create a border with them on the bottom edge of the card. I stamped the sentiment in grey ink and I was done! 

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Be Kind for Paper Rose

I have a soft and pretty card to share for Paper Rose today.

I used the Sketchy Roses stamp set to stamp the rose and leaves in bubblegum ink, and then used the no-line colouring technique to colour with Derwent Pencils. I inked over the mandala stencil onto the card base, stamped the sentiment in Bubblegum ink, and then adhered the coloured rose.

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Birthday Peony

I'm not very good at no-line colouring, so I'm practicing :)

I used the Japanese Peony stamp from Studio Katia, and coloured it on Bristol cardstock with Derwent pencils.  For the background, I masked off an area with ripped masking tape, and used an ink blending tool to add Distress Oxide ink. I then stamped over this with the musical background stamp from Hero Arts (sadly, discontinued) in Distress Ink. I finished with a sentiment, also from Studio Katia.

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You're one of a kind

I did some colouring with my Derwent pencils earlier this month. I don't often use coloured pencils, because I find that my hands (which get arthritis) get very tired, but I had this image stamped on kraft, and it was just calling out for coloured pencil colouring.

The stamp and "friend" die are from Studio Katia, and the stamped part of the sentiment is from Uniquely Creative stamps.

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Challenge me a Cristmas Card with Aileen Ryan

Welcome! Last year, I did a series on my blog where I asked people to set me a Christmas card challenge. This year, I'm stepping it up a notch, by asking crafty friends to join me!

How cool is this graphic!! My crafty friend, Kylie Purtell, made it especially for me! YAY!  You can check out her blog HERE.

Today, the challenge theme is Christmas Critters.

My special guest today is Aileen Ryan - you can check out her take on this challenge HERE.

Here's my take:

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Calling all Critters at A Blog Named Hero

Have you checked out this month's challenge at A Blog Named Hero? It's so much fun, because we're collaborating with Lawn Fawn to bring you a heap of cute critters!

I went all soft and fuzzy with some no-line colouring on this baby card - so much so that it was really difficult to get my camera to focus to take a pic!
I used the "Hello Baby" sent from Lawn Fawn for the duckling, umbrella and splashes, and the sentiment is from "Little One" by Hero Arts.

 Make sure you visit A Blog Named Hero to check out the rest of the inspiration from the design team, and add your own creation to the gallery!

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Simon Says Stamp

Ellen Hutson

Hero Arts

Where Creativity Meets C9 challenge

I'm joining in today with the "Where creativity meets C9" challenge blog - their challenge is to CASE a designer from their design team. I am CASEing Emily Midgett's post from September last year.

I used the "hello lovely" stamp set from Concord & 9th, and the sentiment is from Avery Elle's "Big Greetings".  
I used Emily's colour scheme (or a slight variation of it), as well as a similar card layout, a gold sentiment of thanks, and the fact that she used the no-line watercolour technique.  I added a strip of gold foil cardstock to the bottom edge to balance the gold sentiment, and I also added some gold embossed dots in a few places, just because I could.

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Love you elephant!

After trying some no-line colouring yesterday, I thought I would try again with different cardstock. It was a fair bit more difficult to get a good blend with the Copics on this cardstock (white Knight) than with the cardstock I used yesterday (Stampin' Up heavy weight Whisper White). But I'm still happy with the result:

I had to use some of these very cute Doodlebug heart shaped sprinkles - they were a gift from my friend and A Blog Named Hero Facebook team mate, Niki Garcia - thanks so much, Niki!

 I will be sharing this card at Addicted to CAS (Bloom), CASology (Valentine), CAS on Sunday (Valentine) and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (One Layer).

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No-line colouring

I find the technique of no-line colouring intimidating. There, I said it.  But I know I'll get nowhere if I don't practice. 

Quite honestly, I was pretty pleased with how this little elephant turned out.  I love how soft the image is with no lines! (I originally thought that this photo was out of focus - lucky the sentiment is nice and crisp!)

 I will be sharing this card over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, where the theme is "one layer".

Thanks for visiting :)