Sleigh Bells ring...

My mind has been buzzing with ideas since I saw the current challenge at Jingle Belles. Are you ready?
It's "Sleigh BELLES Ring.  Isn't that a fabulously fun prompt? It took me all day to narrow my ideas down, before I finally settled on a sleigh bell harness as the focal point on my card. I began by punching six circles from metallic paper. Next I punched two small holes in the center of each circle. I cut away the metallic paper starting at the bottom of each circle, cutting towards the two small circles at a slight angle. To create the strap for the harness, I took a strip of chocolate cardstock, cut it into the shape of a harness then crumpled it up and carefully flattened it.  I highlighted the texture that this created by sliding a brown ink pad over the top of it.  I punched three holes in the narrow end of the harness, added a buckle that I cut from metallic paper and a small gold brad just below it. I adhered the bells with dimensional adhesive and layered the harness over a piece of patterned. Fortunately, among the Christmas words on the patterned paper,  I found "Sleigh Bells ring..." .  I cut this portion off and created a banner and adhered it with dimensional adhesive. I finished by adding red gems. Since the large photo doesn't really show the texture of the gold metallic paper that I used for the bells, I am sharing a close-up of the  belles.

I decided to link this card up with:
Winter Wonderland, since the current challenge there is also BELLS. 

Hazel's Christmas "Anything Goes" challenge 

at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 

and the 

Merry Monday "Anything Goes: Christmas in July" 

challenge at Always Playing with Paper

Supplies: Cardbase: Recollections, Cardstock: Bazzill (red mat), Core'dinations: chocolate, Metallic Paper: Highgloss, Dimensional Adhesive: Elmer's Glue Spots, Patterned Paper ? (open stock, not sure about manufacturer),Gems: Studio G, Ink: Memento, Adhesive: Scotch ATG, Circle Punch: EK Success

Christmas Deer

If you are familiar with my blog, you know that I love to create Christmas cards. Since there are two current Christmas challenges ....both "Anything Goes", I decided to create another card for both.  I'm playing along with the "Anything Goes" challenge at Crazyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge as well as the Merry Monday Christmas challenge at Always Playing with Paper.  I started by printing random Christmas related words on a piece of Kraft cardstock. Next I die cut the deer from the Kraft and lightly inked around the edges and added hooves, an eye and a nose with a marker. I adhered the deer to an embossed chevron and dotted cardbase. Before I adhered the deer, I ran a white ink pad over the embossed background to make it pop and added two strips of embossed red cardstock and clear gems.

Supplies:
Cardbase: Recollections: Cardstock: Recollections, Ink: Studio G, Die Cut: Tim Holtz, Embossing Folder: Darice, Gems: Studio G, Adhesive: Scotch ATG

Christmas in July

I have been wanting to play along with the "Anything Goes", month long, MERRY MONDAY CHRISTMAS IN JULY challenge at Always Playing with Paper and here I am on July 24th just submitting my first card. I've been wanting to play since I first saw the challenge post at the beginning of July. Sometimes I don't know where the time goes.

Since Craftyhazelnuts Christmas Challenge is also "Anything Goes", I am submitting this there as well.

About my card:
To create my card, I dry embossed a tree using a Fiskars Dry embossing template and green cardstock. I trimmed around it and used a push pin to poke tiny holes in it to create stands of trim, then added small red pearls and a bit of ink. I used a die cut to cut a scalloped oval in the front of a cardbase, then used the push pin once again to poke tiny holes next to the scalloped edge. I adhered the tree, then added decorative tape to the top and bottom of the cardbase.  I finished by adding green ink over most of the white cardbase.

Supplies:
Cardbase: Recollections, Scallop Die: Spellbinders, Decorative Tape: Darice, Tree: Fiskar's Shapeboss, Pearls: Queen& Co, Ink: Studio G, Adhesive: Scotch ATG