Challenge 91 - Christmas

Hey all its me Samantha with a new Challenge and what other theme could we choose this month to help you all out?

Christmas
Easy peasy right!

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Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010.  Gerda Burghardt, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats.  You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls, fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters.  Stamp Fairy has new releases along with a free image every Friday and Guest Designers each month.  Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images.  We hope StampFairy’s images inspire YOUR creativity.

We have some awesome Guest's

Gerda the AWESOME Stampfairy owner using Mimi Peekers 

Gerda has made this cute notepad for Christmas Wishes.
isn't it just the cutest!

Deanne from Stampfairy using Jake Wintertime 

and we also have 2 of our fabulous caught our Eye Designers playing this time also!

Vicky  our Who caught our Eye on the "We're all Heart" challenge.
using Christmas Kids 1 from Stampfairy


and

Renate who Caught our Eye on the Kids and Teens Challenge
She is also using a cute Stamp Fairy image.

and now our lovely Design team creations

Annette using Jake Wintertime 1 from Stampfairy

Tip - Match elements of your design to bring it together. 
Here' I've used a spotty ribbon (white spots on purple) to compliment the spotty backing papers (purple on white).

Bettina - using Al welcome winter 5 from Stampfairy
Tip - Need some background to match your stamp?? Find something in the image, like I did the die cut three, and add slightly behind the image and pop the image up a bit. Gives a great effect. You can also add some white flocking and sparkles to give a glittery and fluffy snow effect;)



Deneen

Tip - I make around 200 Christmas cards and need them to be quick and easy.  To dress up the stamp a little, I embossed the paper with Spellbinder's Decorative Labels 8, it adds interest without being too fussy.

Elaine - Christmas kids 2 from Stampfairy

Tip - Kraft is a great medium as any colour looks good with it. 

Lisa M -Funny Icicles; Group Hug from Stampfairy
Tip - Need a backdrop you can't find on the Internet?
 Take your own picture and incorporate it into your card. Here is the side of my house with the gutter. :)

Samantha - Mimi Winter 4 from Stampfairy
Tip - when you are deciding where everything will go on your layout set everything where you want it to go and then take a photo this way you can remember where you wanted everything to go when you start to add tape things can sometimes get muddled up.

Lisa S - George and Friends 4 from Stampfairy
Tip - Sewing is not my thing (yet) so I used a rub on border to anchor my background panel to my white base. I also stamped white snowflakes randomly on my background paper to lighten it up a bit.   

Aren't they all great!

Now its up to you all to show us what you got?
Remember Anything CHRISTMAS goes!!

hugs Samantha and the teamies


PLEASE NOTE this is a very busy time of year as you all can appreciate so we will do our VERY best to visit all of you!