Sunday, March 4, 2012

Sometimes you don't want to celebrate

The latest challenge for Christmas Crafting is to create a Christmas card using a non-Christmas stamp and as I looked through my stamps, for some reason, I decided on a couple of Stampotique stamps. I also decided to go a step further and use non-traditional Christmas colours and an unexpected sentiment. I plan to give these cards to Send A Smile 4 Kids and I think the slightly snarky/sarcastic tone and the non-traditional everything will be just about perfect for a couple of teenage girls who consider themselves a bit "above" all the holiday fuss. Certainly these would've been quite appreciated by me as a teenager!

As I said, the images are both Stampotique stamps - I am accumulating quite a collection of these wonderful stamps! The background papers are freebies from Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine. I created the sentiment on my computer (it reads "I'll deck the halls but I refuse to jingle any bells"). Hope these made you laugh or at least chuckle a bit.

Challenges:
Catered Crop - ribbon
Christmas Challenges - sketch
City Crafter - extra extra (use 2 or more ribbons & 9+ words)
Creative Card Crew - humour
Crimbo Crackers - female
Fashionable Stamping - make it for a child
Fussy and Fancy - long sentiment
Pile It On - spots and/or stripes
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Stampotique Designers Challenge - pink/purple with black

25 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards, love the colours and layout. Thanks for joining the Stampotique designer's challenge

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  2. Fabulous cards! Thanks for joining us at SDC 49.

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  3. Such fab and funky cards. Thanks for joining us at Stampotique.

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  4. You've created two wonderful cards. Thanks for joining us at FSC this fortnight.

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  5. Yay! 2 ribbons ... more than 9 words and a fabulous card! Thank you so much for playing along at CCCB

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  6. both cards are cute and girly. Thanks for sharing your creation at SDC

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  7. Two wonderful cards, perfect for teenagers. Thanks for joining us at FSC this time.
    Meggymay/Yvonne

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  8. Two beautiful cards Shelley...they fit perfectly for this month's theme over at Christmas Crafting! Thank you so much for joining us this month.
    Debbie x

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  9. 2 Fabulous cards Shelly, they did make me chuckle, great sentiments and images, and fabulous colouring.
    Thanks for joining in with us at Fussy and Fancy.

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  10. Love both cards - and the sketch layout was just perfect to highlight the cute images. Thanks for joining us this week at the Pile it On Challenge.

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  11. Your card are to cute.. Thanks so much for playing along with us at CCCB!

    Hugs, Linda

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  12. These are so CUTE! Thanks so much for playing along at CCCB!

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  13. Super fun images, love these cards, great layouts... thanks for joining us at Simon Says Challenge blog

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  14. Some teen is really going to love these.

    Thanks for "humoring" us at Creative Card Crew.

    Mari

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  15. Fantastic cards, & you're right just the thing for teens, thanks so much for joining us at FSC.xx

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  16. Great cards sweetie. Thank you for joining us at Creative Card Crew this time and good luck.

    Hugs
    Cathy
    xxxxx

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  17. These are great cards! Love love love the sentiments and those images are fab! Thanks for joining us at Christmas Crafting this month xx

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  18. love both cards but the red one to me is soooo striking! Thanks for joining us on the Pile It On challenge this time, see you soon! hugs Samantha :0)

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  19. Beautiful!
    Thanks for joining us at Fashionable Stamping Challenges!

    xxx Ellie xxx

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  20. Absolutely perfect for teenagers.
    Thank you for sharing with us at FSC.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  21. Mwa ha ha! Lots of chuckling here! I love this pink / purple combo, thanks so much for joining us at the Stampotique Designers Challenge.

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  22. both of these are so cute! Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

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  23. Superb use of these fantastic stamps!

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  24. Oh my goodness, I LOVE these! thanks for playing along with Christmas Crafting!

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