Digital Cards by Tengrrl

The twenty-first card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge came from Jennifer Buck’s design. I just changed the colors around to fit the Designer Series Paper I had. Here are the details on how I made it in My Digital Studio:

• Background: Old Olive behind Christmas Cheer—Pattern 1
• Large Square Punch: Holly Berry Bouquet—8 with a 1 pt mat in Old Olive, with Christmas Jingle—Stitched square
• Horizontal Bar: Holiday Harmony II—2 with a 1 pt mat in Old Olive behind Very Vanilla
• Star: Homemade paper* (of Whisper White with Lucida Calligraphy, 24 pt., in Cherrry Cobbler) with a 1 pt mat in Cherry Cobbler
• Embellishment: Grosgrain Bow in Cherry Cobbler with Hand Selected Embellishments—Star, both with drop shadows
• Sentiment: Heard from the Heart—Sentiment 3 in Cherry Cobbler

*You can download and use the Happy Holiday paper using the same basic instructions that I posted for the homemade glitter paper. Please do not sell it, but share freely as you like.

The twentieth card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge started as one of the simple snowman staring up at the sky cards—but then it got really complicated. I wondered what else someone looking down at that snowman might see, so I created an overhead view of trees and a little girl with a sled plus some snowflakes beginning to fall. In some ways it was a complicated card, but the components are fairly simple.

Here are the details on how I made it in My Digital Studio:

• Background: Candy Cane Lane—Pattern 1, Opacity at 40%
• Trees: Stacked and rotated Star Punches and Flower Punches, in a variety of sizes, in Garden Green and Wild Wasabi
• Snowman:
  • Body: Stacked Circle Punches in Whisper White
  • Hat: Square Punches in Basic Black with a band in Bashful Blue, and Holly from the Jolly Bingo Bits
  • Scarf: Frostwood Lodge—Pattern 9
  • Buttons & Eyes: Brads in Basic Black
  • Nose: Petite Pennant Punch in Only Orange
  • Arms: All in the Family—left arm
• Little Girl:
  • Shoes: Oval Punch in Basic Black
  • Pants: Circle Punch in Night of Navy
  • Coat: Circle Punch in Baja Breeze with Word Window Punch for sleeves
  • Face: Oval Punch of Blush Blossom with All in the Family—head 10
  • Hands: Oval Punches of Blush Blossom
  • Hat: Oval Punch in Real Red (masked with rectangle of Blush Blossom at the bottom), and Word Window and Circle Punch in Whisper White for the trim
• Sled:
  • Tag Punch in Frostwood Lodge—Pattern 3
  • Long, thin rectangle punches in Sahara Sand to create the look of slats.
  • Baker’s Twine – White knot to simulate the rope to pull the sled
• Snowflakes: Various embellishments from the Christmas Cheer – snowflake set
• Sentiment: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” typed in Arial, 32 pt.

My card for this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC17) is the eighteenth card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge. Here’s the original sketch:

At first I wasn’t sure what to do with this layout. It seemed almost too simple to me. As I thought about it longer though, I imagined a fireplace in the squares in the center. I tried some other ideas, but once I had thought of the fireplace, nothing else seemed right. Here’s my version of the card:

I ended up taking some liberties with the layout. The basic shapes are there, but I broke up the top center square to make my idea work properly. I had to add some decorations to the top of my make-shift mantle, which is outside the original design, but otherwise, I think the elements are all there and all the same. Here’s the breakdown on the elements:

• Background: Rectangle punches of Frostwood Lodge—3 on top and Crumb Cake across the bottom
• Wide Horizontal Rectangle: Frostwood Lodge—4
• Top Rectangle:
  • Pieced rectangles of Frostwood Lodge—3 on top for the mantle
  • Pieced rectangles of Cherry Cobbler for the bricks on a Very Vanilla rectangle (for the mortar)
• Fire:
  • Logs: Word Window Punch in Soft Suede, Early Espresso, and Chocolate Chip
  • Fire:
    • Boho Blossoms Large Flower Punch in Pumpkin Pie (very back)
    • Custom punch created from the Sunny Days embellishment in Pumpkin Pie and Summer Sun
• Stockings: Stocking Punch in either Garden Green or Whisper White with a Basic Gray Mat, and then topped with Stitched Stockings—Socks 1,2,3, and 4 in the opposite color
• Decorations on the Mantle:
  • Holly & Jolly Embellishments—Trees
  • Jolly Bingo Bits—Candle in Whisper White with a circle punch of Summer Sun behind
  • Christmas Jingle—Berries 2 on the candle holder
• 3 Presents:
  • Jolly Bingo Bits—Gift in Garden Green with a Square Punch of Whisper White behind
  • Merry Winter—Gift in Certainly Celery with a Square Punch of Whisper White behind, and a Grosgrain Knot in Certainly Celery on top
  • Holiday Blitz—Gift in Night of Navy with a Square Punch of Whisper White behind
• Brads: Cherry Cobbler
• Sentiment:
  • Hugs & Wishes—Large Warm Wishes in Cherry Cobbler
  • “for a happy holiday” typed in Arial, 14 pt, in Cherry Cobbler