Week #14 - Just Christmas and Birthday Cards

Another week, another challenge on Karin's blog - Just Christmas and Birthday Cards.

Sketch #14 comes from our talented Tanja and I tell you, it was a real pleasure to work with it.

The prize for this week's lucky winner is
one cute bug on flower from Alota Rubber Stamps

Here's Tanja's versatile sketch:

My Birthday card

Stamps: TAC, Papermania [sentiment]
DP: Papermania (Raspberry Champagne pack)
The rest is from stash

I decided to try the "Stamp Kissing" technique for the butterflies, after seeing an extraordinary video tutorial on YouTube. I was so impressed with it that I need to share it. :)

For my card I used the plain "naked kissing" and the two color "dirty kissing" (for the palest pink butterfly). I then heat embossed the results with holographic embossing powder. Seeing how this was my very first attempt, I am quite pleased with the result. :)
And I realized I will need some more solid stamps, the most I have are the outline/contour type which can be coloured inside.

A close-up of my butterfly....

My Christmas card

At the beginning of January, I told my JCBC boss, Karin, that maybe it's better if we switch to making other type of cards for a few months, instead of Christmas ones. I am so glad she didn't listen to me. :D

It was such a joy to make this Christmas card as I couldn't wait to use "Emma the Hugger"! And I dare you to say she's not adorable ;)

Emma (Tracey's daughter) comes as a digital stamp pack created by the talented Tracey Lynn Miller - more "famous" to bloggers as Fred, She Said or, the shorter version, FSS. :)

Thank you for looking and I am hoping you'll stop by our JCBC Blog to see the wonderful creations of the other DT members. I'm so honoured to be part of this team of very talented ladies.