Hi everyone, happy Saturday!
I’m interrupting your Advent Calendar Extravaganza schedule to bring you a special post!
I think you can tell by now that Christmas is without a doubt my favourite holiday to create cards for. I’ve truly loved every single project I’ve put together that has a Christmas theme – whether it’s for Advent Calendar Extravaganza, Design Team work, or Guest Design work – or even simply for fun! Creating for Christmas brings me so much joy, and I really enjoy mixing it up in terms of styles, and it feels a bit like anything goes – colours, techniques, traditional, modern, funky, vintage, cute, religious… the possibilities feel as endless as the magical feel of the season.
Working with products from my favourite companies is also something I love doing even more so at Christmas. I especially love playing with new goodies but finding different ways to use them, stretching my supplies and creating something others haven’t, thanks to a few clever techniques.
Today’s projects are a perfect example of doing something a bit different with some products (in this case, dies). It also has given me the opportunity to team up, once again, with one of my favourite companies – Ellen Hutson, who very kindly and generously offered me an opportunity to Guest Design for them this month! The result is a fun duo full of glitz, Scandinavian charm, and a clever technique thrown in for good measure too…
This is just one shot of this project – you can find many more images, close-ups and a full step-by-step description of how I made them over at the Ellen Hutson CLASSroom blog (squeal!), where I’m guesting today! I’d truly appreciate you hopping over there and taking a look! See you there!
Giveaway
Ellen Hutson have very generously offered a $25 gift certificate for me to give away – and there’s a matching one on the CLASSroom blog too, so that’s $50 up for grabs!!
Simply leave a comment on this post for a chance to win!! You have until 23:59EST on 31st December to enter, and I’ll draw a winner shortly after that. Good luck!!
Supplies
i’m obsessed with this coverup die, so what a perfect opportunity to try this technique!!
Fantastic card Taheerah. Love the technique with the cover plate. The sweet tag looks amazing too.
Gorgeous card! Love all of the dies!
I love the cover plate. It is very generous of Ellen to offer a gift certificate! Her store offers great customer service!
gorgeous! Love all of the sparkle on here!
Wonderful projects! Love how you used both the positive and negatives!
So cool ! Love this design
Great card and tag!Thank you for the inspiration!
Awesome card! You are one creative lady! I hope you have a relaxing Christmas after all your work (advent calendar , etc). Thank you!
Beautiful Christmas card and tag!
Great techniqiues to create this beautiful set.
Beautiful card and tag and great instructions on how it was made.
Love your beautiful card and tag!
Great technique. It makes a wonderful backdrop for the deer.
This is so so sweet!
Love all your cards because they are cute or elegant.
Love the dinosaur party. I have a grandson that loves dinosaurs and builds them and reads all about them and he is 10.
Thanks and Merry Christmas.
I love the Stitches Cover plate, and the card is graceful and pretty! Happy Holidays
Simple but lovely!
Simply, BEAUTIFUL!
Such a wonderful card! You are very talented to be able to create so many diverse projects. Thanks for all of your inspiration. And, congrats on being a guest at EH!!
A really cool card and tag. I’ve never used my impression plates as letter press plates before. I might give this a go now. Love all the glittered pieces.
So gorgeous!!
Went, saw, gazed in awe, left a comment and came dashing back to say: Taheerah, an absolutely stellar card and tag duo! From the inked coverplate background, to the positive/negative deer die cuts, to the gold words (stapling them adds to the dimension impact for sure!), to the sequins…outstanding! The tutorial: THANK YOU for showing us how the magic happens! You’re a fabulous ambassador of EH products! Impressive in every way! The best part of all your creations: the joy you infuse into each one! Makes my heart smile….
~carol
Great card. Inking the cover plate popped that image.
Visited the Classroom. I was glad to see how you made that card. I thought you had used patterned paper. Well done as usual.
congrats for being a guest designer for Ellen Hutson. Enjoyed the double goodness post there and here. Great projects. Now I’m going to enjoy the Advent Calendar Extravaganza. I sure enjoyed it last year. Thanks for doing it again this year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
A fun way to use the cover plate, it really makes the stitches pop on the background!
I love your Scandinavian inspired projects–just lovely!!
Your card is beautiful and such a great use of the stitched background and the Christmas words!!!! Thank you for all your amazing inspiration the Christmas season!!!
Your card Taheerah is so pretty as usual!! I love the stitches plate background. And all the glittery words are just stunning.
Shimmery and stylish, Taheerah … your gorgeous, texture-y card and that delicious, creative tag … brilliant! Anita 🙂
Lovely!! You have certainly been busy! I a, so glad I discovered your blog 🙂
Love the graphic images on this card, stunning! You have me very curious about your clever technique…
Love the background of this card and the bold words!
Just beautiful. That is a wonderful deer die cut…oh the things one could do with that! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas.
That stitches cover up plate is Fabulous!
Beeautiful… hopping over to see your process now!
Beautiful! I love the sparkle on the deer and letters.
I love the Colors of this çard. It’s simple but really gives you a holiday feeling.
I love the bold words and glitter paper!
Lovely card!
So pretty! Love the sparkle! And the Scandinavian background.
Love both! Simple color theme but so dramatic!
Off to EH to check it out! Congrats on the guest spot!!
Such a lovely traditional card beautifully put together….
The card and tag are both fantastic! I forgot to mention over on Ellen’s blog how I love the fact that you used the deer for the tag now, when you first cut it, rather than waiting to use it at a later time. I am finding that to be the best way (whenever possible) as it helps to eliminate “scraps” that accumulate far too quickly. A great job!
Love the card, I am really into anything deer right now? don’t know why but I am so this sings to my heart. thanks for sharing and for the Extravaganza too!
Looks beautiful!!!
I am seriously drooling over that cover plate die! I didn’t catch all the details until I hopped over to Ellen’s website. Nicely done!
Oh – that is a beautiful card! I love the silver glitz, but the black glitter deer is wonderful!