Christmas 🎄/ Christmas 🎄

Hello Stamplings!

I have an exciting post for you today! I am delighted that Dotty Jo, the owner of Christmas Kickstart Challenge, has invited me to be her guest designer Elf for this challenge and I was really pickled tink when she asked if we could make it a Twofer-inspired challenge!

The fun prompt for this challenge is Christmas 🎄/Christmas 🎄!

To make your card a Twofer, you need to use the same Christmas 🎄stamp, die, or stencil and create two different design layouts when making your cards. Since the word "design" can be subjective, we got help from Dictionary.com:

To prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of an object, work of art, decorative scheme, etc. To plan and fashion artistically or skillfully. To form or conceive in the mind; contrive; plan. To make drawings, preliminary sketches, or plans. (Noun: Such outlines, sketches, or plans.)

You're free to do what you like with regard to your style or the techniques you use: you can use the same style and techniques on both cards, or you can use different ones. To be Twofer-inspired, the only design criteria is that your underlying layouts need to be distinctly different for each card. You can find more information under the Twofer Card Challenge Definitions/Examples tab.

Dotty Jo and I have each prepared Twofer cards as examples of two different designs using the same Christmas 🎄/Christmas 🎄. You can find Jo's designs on the Kickstart challenge blog and here are mine:

The die that both my cards have in common is "Evergreen Trees" by Poppystamps.

Onefer

The bottom snowy panel is a gift from my friend Chrissie. I've been wanting that e/f for ages, but it is hard to find in stock, so Chrissie kindly sent me some embossed sheets. Crafty friends are the best! 

The Christmas 🎄here is a negative of the Poppystamps die, cut from a panel of pp. For my sediment, I white heat-embossed "warm" on the black pp panel and then black heat-embossed "winter wishes" on the white snowy bumps. A few gold sequints and shazambam another Christmas cards in the DONE pile!

Twofer

For my second design, I created an entire winter nighttime scene. I die-cut the NBUS CUTplorations home on a hill die by STAMPlorations out of heavy vellum and attached it to another one which was die-cut from white card. The vellum has a beautiful sheen. 

I then attached the hill to another sheet of the same pp I used on my Onefer, but this piece has a bright full moon blurred by the schparkly falling snow.

I added three Christmas 🎄s to the hill because Hammy reminded me of The Rule of Three. (Please note that works in art, not in marriage.) Two 🎄s are from the same die used on my Onefer and the third one is from "Evergreen" by Taylored Expressions. All the 🎄s were also double-layered, once in white card and once in vellum.

To finish the card with a nod to Captain Obvious, I clipped the word "winter" from a NBUS "warm winter wishes" CUTplorations black die cut and added it to the front. I lost the dot on the letter "i," so I replaced it with a gold sequint ~ according to the Rule of One, which I just made up ~ and because it brought out the gold stardust in the pp.

I'm also linking this card to Pixie's Snippets Playground and Rudolph Days.

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Thank you so much, Jo, for inviting me to be the Elf for this Twofer-inspired Christmas 🎄/Christmas 🎄challenge! 

I love this fun idea of having you make Twofers this time and I can't wait to see what you make for this Christmas Kickstart Challenge! The challenge runs from now until August 12th at 23:55 BST.

It will be a pleasure seeing you stretch your design skills and increase your Christmas card stash!

Because, gulp, August is like two days away! 😲😲😲

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