Heartland Christmas

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Hello Portal Peeps!  Gail here today.  It the last of July and I'm here with some final inspiration for our Christmas In July Challenge.  It's nice to see so many of you joining us this month.  There is still time to do some stamping and join the fun.  Linky closes 23.59 PST tonight!

I started with a white slimline panel and stamped Lost Coast Designs Hearts and Curls Border and Merry Christmas with cobalt archival ink.  I cut around the two hearts at the bottom of the panel.

I added a strip of silver glitter paper, sliding it behind the two cut hearts.  Then I stamped, coloured and fussy cut Carmen's Veranda Reindeer Doll.   Love this quirky deer.
Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to check out all the awesome inspiration from the team, link up your makes for a chance to win and check back tomorrow for another fun challenge and even more lovely inspiration from the team.  Hugz

A Gnomy Christmas

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Good morning and a very happy Thursday!

It's Sue here, and today I'm sharing the second of my Christmas cards made for our Christmas In July challenge here on the Portal.

I started by making the layers for my background using patterned papers.

This gnomey Santa is so cute, and I would be lost without my misc words stamp.

I've added lots of snow and glitter. If you can't use glitter for Christmas when can you!

These are my lovely stamps, and they can be found here;

Gnome Santa With Toys

Mushroom House

Misc Words 

There's still time to join in with us here, so please get stamping for the chance to win some Lost Coast $'s.

Have a wonderful day, and thanks so much for looking x

 

# 148 Christmas in July challenge

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Hi there stampers and cardmakers, Riet here.

My last entry for this challenge at Lost Coast Designs and Carmens Veranda stamps.

What did I use:

LCD Megans Christmas Bird.

LCD party words.

LCD large snowflake set.

Distress ink:

Aged mahogany.

Antique linen.

Old paper.

Stazon Timber brown.

I colored with Derwent Colorsoft.

Posca white or another acrylic marker.

Cut a piece of craft paper to 12 x12 cm,

 and stamp with Megan's christmas bird with the Stazon Timber brown.

Color as you like.

Create snowflakes and details with the posca marker.

Now take white paper and run it through puddles of Antique linen and Old paper.

Stamp the edge with the large pike flake and Aged mahogany.

Stamp the Merry Christmas on a piece of background paper.

Cut or die cut it out.

Now glue everything together and you're done.

Have you made a nice card or something out of paper,

then participate and have a chance to win new rubber stamps.

There are a few rules you have to follow, you can read them here.

Good luck and you may be the lucky winner.

Click here for the challenge.

Have fun.

Christmas In July: Santa Gnome

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Hi from Laurie with a tag for the current challenge:  Christmas in July.  I must admit it was kind of fun digging into my Christmas supplies in the middle of summer!  

And for this Christmas tag I used the Pompom Gnome stamp and the Bubbles background stamp, both from Lost Coast Designs.

I decided to go with a traditional red and green color scheme for this tag, and started by stamping my white tag with the Bubbles background stamp and some green Distress Oxide ink.  I then randomly colored in some of the bubbles with a red marker and edged the tag with the same green ink.

  Santa was stamped onto white paper with black ink and fussy cut out.  I restamped his hat, cut that out, and affixed that atop the original stamped image with foam tape to give it some dimension.  I colored Santa with Copic sketch markers and attached him to the tag front, using the same foam tape.  Last steps were to add a cotton ball pompom to his hat and some bright red ribbon to the top of the tag.

So dig out your Christmas supplies and show us your Christmas in July projects for a chance to win some free stamps from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.

Christmas in July: Christmas Bird.

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Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with a new example for our challenge Christmas in July! When I made this card it was 36 degrees Celsius here in the north of the Netherlands!! And I was stamping for Christmas hahaaa!

 An easy card: I just stamped Cracked grass and Sky, Merry Christmas (Party words) and of course Megan's Christmas Bird  onto a white card with black waterproof ink. I coloured the images with watercolour pencils and water, and I finished the piece with different colours glitter glue.

Merry Christmas in advance! 😉

Liesbeth XX

#148 Christmas in july

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Hi there, Riet here,

 this is a tag that is so easy to make.

I used the lovely Carmens Veranda Christmas tree stamp and the LCD Merry christmas'

 from the sheet Party words.

Spunge the tag with Distress ink Antique linen.

Stamp the tree with Stazon olive green.

Spunge the top and side with Distressink Frayed burlap.

Take a piece of acetate and smear some Distresink Rusty hinge in stripes on it,

 and spray some water on it.

Use it as a stamp on the tag.

I colored the ornaments with a orange glitter marker.

Stamped the words with Stazon olive green.

And spunged the edges with Distressink Peeled paint.

Now that was easy, wasn't it!

Make a christmas card or item with some stamping on it, 

and join oure challenge. 

There is rubber to win, so come on over and join the challenge.

Click here to join.