Here we go! Challenge #2 at Jan's Digi Stamps Challenges, or, as those of us that have followed her work affectionately refer to it as, JDS Designs Challenge Blog. The challenges will be on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month, so what a great way to start out your week! The will run until noon (Eastern) the Sunday before the new challenge. You'll find all the rules on a tab at the JDS Designs Challenge Blog. Her beautiful digis can be found in her shop here.
Starting to feel the need to make Christmas cards? Maybe you need to mass produce a few? Jan's Digi Stamps are perfect for this. Each set comes with both a black & white version, and a pre-colored version. Today, I'm showcasing a pre-colored image to show how easily they make up into a card, and how pretty they are!
This card uses 2 different sets from Jan's store: Tree Scene and Reindeer There are several options of trees in the Tree Scene set, but this is the one I chose to work with that awesome reindeer. What a rack on that guy! The sentiment is also from the Tree Scene set.
I used edger dies from Queen & Company to cut out the image and back it. Papers on this card are from Lemoncraft, out of Poland. The ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.
You have 2 weeks to join in the Anything Goes Challenge at JDS Challenge blog. You can truly link up anything -- cards, mini albums, sewing projects, knitting -- Anything Goes! You have until noon Eastern of the Sunday before the next challenge begins. You might win a $9 gift certificate to the store!
Here we go! The first ever challenge at Jan's Digi Stamps Challenges, or, as those of us that have followed her work affectionately refer to it as, JDS Designs Challenge Blog. The challenges will be on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month, so what a great way to start out your week! The will run until noon (Eastern) the Sunday before the new challenge. You'll find all the rules on a tab at the JDS Designs Challenge Blog. Her beautiful digis can be found in her shop here.
For the first challenge, I wanted to showcase one of Jan's beautiful Christmas images. I decided on a silhouette so I could play with inks. This is 722J Reindeer:
Each of Jan's Digi Stamp's sets comes with a black and white version (what I used here), a pre-colored image, and several sentiments. This set also has each of the deer separated, so you can also use them in whatever configuration you wish. Lots of flexibility here!
I placed the Reindeer family to my liking on white card stock, then placed the sentiment (included in the Reindeer set) where it appealed to my eye. Then, it was time to ink it up. I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks to achieve the look I wanted, and lightly spritzed some water on it to give the look of snow.
The snowbanks were cut out with dies from Lawn Fawn. The snowflake background was created using a Gemini Hot Foil Press machine and a foil stamp. The blue snowflakes are dies from Cheery Lynn.
That's it! My first card for the first challenge at JDS Designs Challenge Blog. It's Anything Goes! You might win a $9 gift certificate to the store!
I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
Outlawz Festive Fridays --Christmas
D.L. Art -- November Linky Party
Dragonfly Dreams Challenge -- Christmas/Winter
The Paper Players Challenge -- Into the Woods
