JOFY Trees Obsession

Hi! Here are a couple more cards made with Distress Oxide backgrounds and a JOFY trees stamp. These two are inspired by the colour challenges at Color Throwdown and MFT. I used Distress Oxides to make the backgrounds (with some Brilliance ink for the silver in the first card) and cut them out to fix to the card. I used a glitter pen and Nuvo Drops to add some final touches.

I'm entering this one in the Color Throwdown challenge:

I'm entering this one in the MFT challenge:

Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Distress Oxide Inks: Faded Jeans, Broken China, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Wilted Violet
Brilliance Ink: Platinum Planet
Glimmer Mist: Iridescent Gold

Nuvo Drops: Silver Lining, Violet Galaxy

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star

Stencilled Tree

Hi! Here's a Christmas card I made which is hopefully subtle enough to be ok for a man. It's really hard to make non-blingy Christmas cards! I made this one by sponging distress oxides over a stencil, then spritzing with water. Once dry, I gave it a spritz of Glimmer Mist, so it has got a bit of a shimmer.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps:

Watercooler Wednesday:

That's Crafty!: 'Stencil It!'
Stamping Sensations: 'One Layer Christmas Cards'


Ingredients:
Imagination Crafts stencil: Fir Trees
Sentiment stamp from Happy Little Stampers
Distress Oxide Inks: Cracked Pistachio, Broken China, Peeled Paint
Glimmer Mist: Iridescent Gold

JOFY Trees - Getting My Fussy Out

Hiya! Sorry if you're bored of the JOFY trees, but as the saying apparently goes, I need to get my fussy out... According to my lovely crafty mate Linda and my lovely Aunt Sue, 'Getting your fussy out' is a common saying, which means getting it out of your system. However, I have never met anyone else who has ever heard this saying, and it sounds a bit rude to me, so be careful who you say it to. Maybe it's an old Nottingham saying that has fallen out of use, who knows!

Anyway, I tried to make some oxide backgrounds based on 3 colour challenges, with mixed results! But I love how they have turned out, anyway.

For this one, I used Peacock Feathers Distress ink, Bottle Adirondack ink and Platinum Planet Brilliance ink to create the background for the trees, and added detail with a glitter pen and silver Nuvo Drops. I'm entering this one in the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge:

For this one, I used Faded Jeans, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide inks, but as the colours have blended a little, there's actually some green on there too! But as I only used the colours in the challenge (despite what I ended up with), I'm still going to enter it in the Paper Play challenge, and hope they'll let me off with that!

I made this one with Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide inks, Peacock Distress ink and Bottle Adirondack ink. I added gold Nuvo Drops, but they have taken up the colour of the ink in places, which I quite like and wish I could say it was deliberate... I'm entering this one in the Shopping Our Stash challenge:

Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Distress Oxide Inks: Faded Jeans, Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber
Distress Ink: Peacock Feathers
Adirondack Ink: Bottle
Brilliance Ink: Platinum Planet

Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold, Silver Lining

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star, Copper

Muse Trees

Hi! Here's a card inspired by this week's Muse challenge, although my trees are black with a white background. I really like black & white Christmas cards, they make a nice change from all the bright colours! I made a background with black Distress Oxide ink and Liquid metals, then stamped and embossed the trees. I cut them out and pieced them onto the card. I added Nuvo Drops and a glitter pen for sparkle and dimension.

I'm entering this one in the Muse challenge:

Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Distress Oxide Ink: Black Soot
Liquid Metals: Platinum, Pewter

Nuvo Drops: Silver Lining

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star

CAS Christmas Card

Hi! Here's a card I made using a new stamp I bought. I love the cute little reindeer faces! I coloured with inks and a water brush, and used a Gelly Roll glitter pen for some sparkle, although it doesn't show up very well in the photos.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CASology:

Stamping Sensations: 'One Layer Christmas Cards'
HLS Christmas:

Ingredients:
Penny Black stamp set: Joy to the World
Distress Ink: Fired Brick
Adirondack Ink: Meadow, Espresso, Sail Boat Blue

Stampin' Up! Ink: Tip Top Taupe

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star
Promarker: Almond

I Love My New JOFY Trees So Much

Hiya! I can't stop making cards with my new JOFY set. I really love these cute trees! Here are a couple of cards I made, by creating backgrounds with Distress Oxides, stamping onto the background, and then paper piecing onto the stamped image on the card. I usually hate cutting out, but even I can manage triangles, and using oxides for colour means I don't have to do any colouring in! :D I used a Gell Roll glitter pen and Nuvo Drops to add sparkle and dimension.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Challenge Up Your Life: (Yellow / Green / Gold)

CAS Mixup:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Less Is More: 

Corrosive Challenges: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Distress Oxide Inks: Peeled Paint, Cracked Pistachio, Twisted Citron, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry

Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold, Red Berry

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star

 

Reindeer Baubles

Hi! Here are a couple of cards I made using Distress Oxides for the background. I am so addicted to oxides now, I think I need to buy some more colours! I have 14 so far, which seems a lot, but urggg... I just want them all!

The first card has a liberal spray of Glimmer Mist on the background, but I left the second one as it was. I layered the bauble die cut over the background, adding a bit or torn card under the reindeer's feet, for a snowy bank. I used 3D squares to fix the bauble to the card, and added a bow to the top. The bows took me ages! I am so rubbish at tying bows, damn faffy things. I might have to get one of those bow maker things.

Anyway, here are the cards:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Pink Gem: 'Buttons and/or Ribbon'
Dragonfly Dreams: 'Winter'
Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'
Less Is More:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

HLS Die Cuts:

Addicted to CAS:

Ingredients:
Reindeer Bauble Die
Distress Oxide Inks: Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Faded Jeans, Broken China, Wilted Violet

Glimmer Mist: Iridescent Gold

Ribbon