Simon’s monday challenge blog wants to see shades of blue and Kreativer Bastelblog wants to see snow. Here’s my ATC: 
Unfortunately, it’s difficult to take a good picture or scan of this atc, for the snow crystals have been embossed with holographic embossingpowder.
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I’ve been creating a number of snowman ATCs for a swap in our Yahoo-group and this is the card I made as a treat for my swap partner:
It’s my entry for the current Dilly Beans ‘Snowmen’ challenge.
Stamps used
Hello there, happy New Year to all you crafty people out there! I’d like to share a new card with you.
The background was created by smudging broken glass distress stains, evergreen bough distress ink and pearl paint dabbers on my craft sheet. I used a Tim Holtz folder to emboss the trees, which I then cut out. I covered them with a layer of crackle paint and and added a layer of pearl paint dabbers. The icicles and flourish were heat embossed.
This winter scenery is my entry for the following challenges:
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Here’s a clean and simple Christmas card that I’d like to share with you:
The stars have been punched out using a die cut. After decorating them using stamps, I covered them with Versamark and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.
Here’s a more detailed picture:
I hope I’m still in time to enter my card into the following challenges:
Studio L3 Grungy Monday wants to see our projects inspired by Tim Holtz’ 12 tags of Christmas 2011. I took inspiration from Tag n° 4, my favourite tag of this year’s series (so far, there’s still one tag to go). Here’s the result:
As there are lots of Tim Holtz products that I don’t have, I had to be creative. I substituted his snowman die cut for his snowman embossing folder and I cut out the embossed snowman manually (I used paper instead of grungeboard). I also don’t have the picket fence distress Stain, but I discovered that Pearl acrylic paint dabbers combined with broken china distress stain also produce wonderful results.
Here’s a more detailed picture, but i’m afraid it’s impossible to show the card’s real colours and texture on pic:
Instead of punching ’25’ out of the snowman, I punched snowflakes out of the background, I added a stamped paper behind it (music sheet) and then I filled up the snowflakes with Glossy Accents.
I quite like my Tim inpired card and, what’s more important, I really enjoyed creating it!
The Stamp Man Challenge Blog wants us to be inspired by one of Tim Holtz’ previous Christmas tags. I chose his first tag of 2009 and turned it into an ATC-sized card:
As I don’t have white stickles and white paint dabbers, I used white and holographic embossingpowder and glossy accents to create a frosted look (unfortunately neither the holographic powder nor the glossy accents show on scan). I also had to omit the flourish die cut and the grungeboard, but I’m still quite pleased with how my atc turned out. Pretty cooooool, huh? I really enjoyed following Tim’s instructions and now I’m even more looking forward to Tim’s 12 Tag of Christmas 2012!
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Created by Hand wants to see winter landscapes or shades of blue. I opted for a winter landscape, but I used shades of grey and brown:
I painted the background with acrylic paint. All stamps are Katzelkraft, except for the script background, which is Crafty Individuals.
Well, it’s winter solstice today, so I thought it a perfect time to share a wintry ATC with you!
At first sight, there’s nothing special about this ATC, but there’s a catch: the image glows in the dark! I wish I could’ve shown you somehow, but I was not able to catch the glow on photo…
I created the background using glimmer mist and heat embossed a few snow crystals in white. The snowman and the sign (both Stampotique) were stamped with Stazon on ‘glow in the dark paper’ and cut out. I added the snow crystals that were punched out of the glow in the dark paper and added a bit of Distress stickles at the bottom.
This is one ATC in a series of four and they are on their way to The Stamp Man for their December swap ‘t Is the Season‘.
It’s also my entry for the current Stampotique challenge ‘Punches and die cuts‘.
This week, Simon says stamp and show wants to see a Holiday Greeting. Here’s mine:
The background was sprayed with glimmermist and the image was heat embossed in black.
I’m not a big fan of Christmas themed images, but I do adore this Inkadinkado stamp. It’s different (no santa, no reindeer, no snowman, …), it’s simple, stylish and very versatile! Tim Holtz’ Baroque die cut has also proved very useful in the creation of my Christmas cards this year. I just love that shape!
This week, Lots to Do wanted to see words on our cards. Here’s my entry:
I just love using this lovely winter poem (Third Coast Rubber stamps) in my Christmas cards. The floral background (Darkroom Door) was stamped with a Pearl Paint Dabber and than sponged with Distress inks.
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