Claire Creates Cards

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Merry Christmas Keeping Christmas

Jan. 25, 2020

It's time for this month's installment of the Keeping Christmas Inspriration Blog Hop! The Challenge Design Team is sharing Christmas creations on the 25th of each month!

The whole idea is to have some Christmas cards and projects in your stash ready to go for December 2020!

So hop along and be sure to visit each blog.

There is a lot of inspiration and ideas to get your creative juices flowing!

Kelly Lunceford (Creator)

Vicki Finger

Claire Broadwater

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

Nancy Guse

Marybeth Lopez

Nancy Penir

Carol Hintermeier

My card is created on an Olive Green card base. I added a black panel on top of the base. I created a background on watercolor paper using Distress Inks. I stamped the trees in black using the Rubbernecker Stamp set Winters Night. The snow is from the same stamp set and I stamped it on top of the trees with white ink. I love the way this turned out. I stamped the sentiment in black ink. It is a very simple and serene card. I know it is not traditional Christmas colors, but I wanted it to look like the sunrise on Christmas morning. I love the way it turned out. I made two of the same cards to start my stash for next Christmas.

Thanks for stopping by! Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts. I love to hear from you! Do you have a favorite?

The hop is hosted by the fabulous Kelly Lunceford's blog, so head over there to start from the beginning.

ENJOY the blog hop! I hope we inspired you to make a few cards, too!

HUGS!

Claire

Thursday, January 23, 2020

With Love Inspired By 108

Jan. 23, 2020

It's time for a new challenge at Inspired By!

This month is passing by quickly and this photo reminds me that Spring is coming.

How does this photo inspire you? Is it the colors? flower? letters? symbols? clusters?

I was inspired by the colors and the flowers. I love this bright green and turquoise color combo. I used a cover plate die to create the background. The vase , flowers and sentiment are from the Simon Says Stamp Mandy's Flowers stamp set. I colored the vase and flowers with Copic Markers. A few grey enamel dots were added to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Check out all the inspiration from the Design Team. We sure hope you will play along with us this week!

HUGS!

Claire

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Life Is Short, Buy The Shoes Paper Players PP474

Jan, 19, 2020

It 's Sunday and time for a new challenge at The Paper Players!

The lovely Laurie is the hostess this week and she has a fabulous Clean and Simple Challenge for all of us. Now, fashion is right up my alley and I was so excited to create a card. We can't wait to see what you create!

I love shoes, so I knew I had to use this fun stamp set by The Ton, Holiday Shoes. I colored the image with Copic Markers and fussy cut the image. I added Wink of Stella and white gel pen. The sentiment is stamped with Versa Mark and heat embossed with white embossing powder on black card stock. I added the black and white pattern for my background. A few black enamel dots were added for fun. I hope Laurie considers my card CAS.