Sparkle and Shine

Here is my easel card for my challenge this week - yes a Christmas card.... can you believe we are almost at the end of August? only 4 months to go.
I brayered the background card using Sweet Pea Big and Juicy leaving some white at the top then cut out with my Tim Holtz die and Cuttlebugged with Divine Swirl.  The Eco ARt Board piece I covered in some glitter paints from Suze Weinberg in mauve and silver then stamped the image on the top in black (can't remember who the stamp is from sorry but it is one I use a lot.)  I added a blue strip of glitter card and a cut out snowflake border from Martha Stewart using some blue and whitepaper  and added some silver glitter glue. The sentiment is from Personal Impressions and the swirl from Dawn Bibby. I hope you like.
I will also enter this for Bah Humbug 'Winter Wonderland' and  the Winter Wonderland Christmas challenge this week too.

Paint it

My dear musician friend John has a birthday next week so here is the card I created for him and for my challenge this week - the topic being 'Paint it'.
I created the background on white Eco Art board using Eco Green paints, green with butternut over the top. I dragged a plastic tool over the two colours to get the textured background then mounted it onto a die cut shape from Tim Holtz run through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. I stamped the guitars and coloured them in slightly with big and juicy inks not covering totally so as to see the grained texture underneath. I added a couple of die cut shapes from a QVC kit and stamped the message from Banana Frog. I finally edged the art board with the same green paint to cover the white edges.
If you like messing with paints do pop over and give my challenge a go this week and have some fun.

FAIRY DOORS

In the town of Ann Arbour in the States lots of Fairy Doors have appeared in various places over the years.  You can click the link to read about them.  I have always been fascinated by the story so thought this would make a nice topic for my Challenge blog this week.  I created the background using Mica mists sprayed onto a white card and adding a few drops of water to get the lightness in the sky and the moon.  I then overstamped using Lavinia stamps in black, purple and blue inks, chomped the corners and hey ho my card was made. Hope you like it and maybe you will go away and make your own fairy door for my challenge.