The Stamp TV Friday Free-for-All challenge this week is to do "Christmas Distressed."
In order to be eligible for a prize in the StampTV challenges now, you need to use only Gina K Designs stamps. Fortunately I have a few Christmas-y ones from them. The candle arrangement and sentiment are from the Light of the Season set. The hanging ornaments are from one of the new Duos - Merry and Bright. This is also a single layer card which can be more of a challenge. I used Stampin' Up! markers to color the ornaments & candle arrangement, and did the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black. Then the distressing was done with four colors of Ranger's Distress Inks - applied lightest to darkest - Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Bundled Sage, and Barn Door Red.
The linky for this card challenge on Just Us Girls has closed, but I like the card and am posting it anyway.
The background is actually packaging from some 7-gypsies stamps, and the picture is from a magazine. The sentiment is by Stampin'Up!
I fell behind with challenges this week, and was checking out the new ones today. The Mix-it-Up Monday challenge at StampTV had a deadline of 8 PM CST, and I didn't even see the challenge until 7:30 PM CST. Not only designing and making the card, but also taking the photo, uploading, cropping in PhotoShop Elements, and finally posting to their site. Just barely got it posted in time!
This card also fulfills the Operation Write Home Mid-week Throw-down (love/anniversary), and CAS-ual Friday's clean and simple with a heart. The doves were a last-second addition. They are from the confetti that my son and daughter-in-law had on the tables at their wedding.
I got a very late start on the World Card Making Day challenges, and had lots of interruptions. I swear I made one more card, but I can't find it! Went through the whole mess on my desk, and it's not there - but I can picture it in my mind. Frustrating and NOT my best card making day.
Anyway, there were a couple of challenges that were to use Pink, and Penny Black had some sketch challenges. These are both with the first sketch. 365 Cards Day 219 was a color scheme challenge (green, blue, purple, and orange). So, here are the cards.
Paper Smoochies has a challenge for World Card Making Day - I just realized there were three options, not three requirements! I tried twice to make a single layer card using the sketch they had, and included some pink on it. HOW do you make a single layer card and still follow a sketch with multiple layers? That was my problem, and I'm not happy with either of the efforts I made.
First I tried using three different background stamps, and masking the areas that weren't to be done by the particular stamp.
Then I tried using different stamps to create the 'layers', but . . . I tried distressing both cards to make them "blend" more, but that didn't work. It was more distressing for me than the cards!! LOL!!
The Stamp TV Friday Free-for-All challenge this week is to do "Christmas Distressed." 
