We wish you a Twilight Christmas, we wish you a Twilight Christmas and a happy new year! LOL.  Okay it’s a bit early for all that but since I went to the movies last night and saw New Moon I was inspired to do a Twilight Saga inspired Christmas card today.

As usual I made my Twilight inspired cards to amuse myself.  I love trying to figure out how to use my stamps to make them fit into a certain theme and it’s particularly stretching the creativity to come up with a Twilight Christmas card (well it was for me anyway).  Anyone who’s watched the movie will get the ‘dazzling’ line bit… “do I dazzle you?”.  After watching New Moon last night I think the inside of the card should say “just watch out for paper cuts!” LOL.

So here’s Edward in all his sparkly glory presenting Bella in her famous red truck a Christmas present.  But seriously, if you’ve got Edward who needs any presents ever again???

Hope you like my Twilight inspired Christmas card. I’d love to tell you about New Moon last night but I don’t want to give anything away.  I’ll just say that I absolutely loved it (thank goodness) and can’t wait to see it again next week.  Surprisingly there were some funny lines but the funniest thing was listening to the Twimums giggle during the kissing scenes and giggling again when Jacob took his shirt off. LOL, too funny.

So let me know, are you going to see New Moon?

All products used to make this card are by Stampin’ Up! and available for purchase through me at angelasargeant@gmail.com

Rubber Stamps:
Loads of Love (Truck, Christmas Tree and the “wishing you a” and “Christmas” sentiment. “Dazzling was handwritten”)
All In the Family (Edward)
Loads of Love Accessories (gift – only part of the stamp image was used)

Inkpads/Colouring:
StazOn Jet Black
Baja Breeze (to watercolour Edwards Shirt and to sponge around the watercolour paper)
Watercolour Crayons (to colour the rest of the scene)
Real Red Marker (to write the word ‘Dazzling’)

Cardstock & Paper
Watercolour Paper
Old Olive
Very Vanilla
Baja Breeze
Real Red
Ski Slope Designer Series Patterned Paper

Accessories:
Fire Rhinestone Circle Brads (only used the tiny red ones)
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (for Edwards face and arms)

Tools:
Aquapainter

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
2-Way Glue Pen (to adhere glitter on Edward)

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So I was sitting here watching Twilight on my Mac for something like the 500th time and I was inspired to make another one of my Twilight cards.  I enjoy making Twilight-inspired cards as they amuse me greatly

Anyway, it occurred to me while I was watching the movie that I had a truck stamp that would work perfectly as Bella’s Chevy.

So I whipped out the watercolour paper, StazOn inkpad and the truck from Stampin’ Up!’s Loads of Love stamp set and set to work in front of my computer while still watching the movie.  After stamping the image I coloured it in using watercolour crayons then cut it out.  The background is Creamy Caramel ink sponged roughly (my daughter told me she could see the circles from my sponge dauber but I wanted it to look like a bit rustic) then Garden Green for the grass and Sage Shadow for the sky.  The trees are from my absolutely most used stamps ever, Lovely as a Tree, and they were stamped in Garden Green and sponged in Certainly Celery.  I know, I’ve used something like 8 colours on this card but somehow I think it all works okay.  After the background was done I mounted the car onto it using Stampin’ Dimensionals.  The sentiment was done on my computer – I could have used some alphabet stamps but I was feeling lazy so I just typed them up then printed onto Very Vanilla cardstock and punched it out.  The sentiment was then mounted onto Close to Cocoa cardstock and it didn’t quite look right mounted onto a square piece of card so I carefully cut it out following the shape of the punch.

So I hope my card has inspired you – maybe to make your own Twilight card or just a card using a truck and your own sentiment that has some special meaning for you or the person you’re giving your card to.  This card was really out of my comfort zone so go easy on me! LOL.

All products used on this card are by Stampin’ Up! and are available for purchase through me at: angelasargeant@gmail.com

Rubber Stamps:
Loads of Love (truck stamp)
Lovely as a Tree

Inkpads:
Jet Black StazOn
Creamy Caramel
Garden Green
Sage Shadow
Certainly Celery

Cardstock & Paper:
Watercolour Paper
Very Vanilla
Garden Green
Close to Cocoa
Basic Black
Real Red

Accessories:
Watercolour Crayons (Real Red, Basic Black, Going Gray)
Paper Piercer and Matt Pack
Sponge Daubers

Tools:
Designer Label Punch
Aquapainter

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive (for cardstock
Stampin’ Dimensionals (to pop the truck and ‘Forks sign’ up)

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Another card for the Twilight fans out there, if hope you like it and that it gives you a giggle.  If you’re not a Twilight fan and you’re scratching your head over this card then please pretend that instead of ‘tofu’ that the message on the card reads “For You”.

It’s a bit cool here today in Sydney, seems like Winter is really on it’s way and using these colours on my card warmed me up somehow.  I love the rich tones and I feel that the colours go well with the theme of my card.  If you’re wondering how I did the centrepiece of the card, that’s gloss cardstock which I sponged with ink and sponge daubers.  I simply dabbed my sponge dauber into my Sahara Sand inkpad and then using a small circle motion, I sponged ink into the centre of the card.  I was going to use a template to get a perfect oval in the middle then decided I wanted it to look more natural.  The outside of the main image is sponged again with a sponge dauber but this time Ballet Blue ink… an odd colour combination over all with the other colours but I think it works well.  After I sponged the gloss cardstock completley I went over the edges of the cardstock again just to give definition then stamped the script (En Francais background stamp) using Sahara Sand ink over the top of the background – I only stamped it lightly though so that it wouldn’t be too bold.  Next I stamped the tree image (Le Jardin Botanique stamp set) in Almost Artichoke and the (rein)deer from the Winter Post stamp set is stamped in Bravo Burgundy.  Actually, after I stamped the deer I dabbed it’s body a little with a blender pen so that it would look more ‘furry’ rather than a solid image… just to give it some texture and then under the deer I used a blender pen with some Almost Artichoke ink to ‘ground’ it so it didn’t look like it was floating.  So then the main image was adhered to a piece of textured Sahara Sand cardstock.  The word “tofu” was printed out on my computer as out of all the alphabet stamps I have (around 30 of them… cough, cough), I couldn’t find the size and font I wanted to match my card so I just typed it on my computer and printed it onto Very Vanilla cardstock then adhered it to the oval bookplate.  So, under the main section of my card is a piece of Almost Artichoke cardstock and Mellow Moss cardstock.  You’ll notice the Artichoke and Moss cardstocks are distressed, I did this using Stampin’ Up!’s cutter kit.  A little while ago Kathryn and Julie asked me about the Cutter Kit and this is one way to use it – to distress cardstock. Yes I could have used my fingernail to do this but I find that apart from it being damaging for your nails, you seem to bend the cardstock more than distress it if you use your nails, so I like to use the Cutter Kit for that.  As an aside, I will make some more cards using other parts of the Cutter Kit to show you what else it can do but this is a start.  Back to my card… the base of the card is Bravo Burgundy textured cardstock and I’ve also added some piercing to the top and bottom corners as some added interest.

Here’s a list of all the products I’ve used on my card, let me know if you have any questions – of course I also supply all these Stampin’ Up! products, so if there’s something you’d like then feel free to email me on angelasargeant@gmail.com

Le Jardin Botanique stamp set (tree)
Winter Post stamp set (deer)
En Francais background stamp
White gloss cardstock
Sahara Sand textured cardstock
Bravo Burgundy textured cardstock
Almost Artichoke cardstock
Mellow Moss cardstock
Very Vanilla cardstock (just a scrap to print the word ‘tofu’ onto it)
Sahara Sand, Ballet Blue, Almost Artichoke and Bravo Burgundy inkpads
Sponge Daubers (to sponge colour onto the main image and also sponge ink onto the edges of the green cardstocks)
Styled Silver Hodgepodge (bookplate)
Earth Elements brads (Artichoke brad)
Hemp Twine
Cutter Kit (to distress edges of cardstock)
Crafters Tool Kit (Paper Piercer and template to make holes)
Blender pen (to add texture to the deer and add grass under it’s feet)

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So what do you do when there’s dramas around you?  Amuse yourself of course.  And so I did, by making this card:

Okay, I admit it’s not an original sentiment, but neither is Happy Birthday, and it cracks me up so that’s good enough for me. LOL.  For those of you who haven’t read “Breaking Dawn”, my apologies, you just won’t get the joke.  But for all the Twilight fans out there who have read all the books, this one is dedicated to you!

Background to this card: One of my very kind and generous blog followers sent me a lovely card in the mail yesterday and it was so nice to get ‘fun mail’.  And not only did she send me a card (thank you Tegan!!!) but she also sent me a heap of stamped images.  So the feather image is one that Tegan sent me – I have no idea what brand the stamp is but talk about cooincidences…  I was thinking the other day how I wanted a feather stamp and now Tegan sent me this image!

I’m not sure what Tegan used to stamp the feather but it looks like a golden brown to me.  I coloured in the feather using a blender pen and inkpads.  I then sponged the edges of the card and mounted it onto another piece of cardstock on which I had stamped the script background.  The words “I’d rather be on Isle Esme” were typed on the computer, changed to brown then printed onto white cardstock, punched out with Stampin’ Up!’s Designer Label punch and adhered into a piece of Styled Silver Hodgepodge.  Notice that I snipped the end off the right side of the silver frame as I didn’t need/want the tab on that end.

Hope you like my card and for you Twilight fans out there I hope it’s given you a giggle.

Products used to make this card: (everything by Stampin’ Up! except the feather image)

Feather stamp (unknown brand)
En Francais background stamp
Close to Cocoa inkpad
Creamy Caramel inkpad
Bravo Burgundy inkpad
Baja Breeze cardstock (also Baja Breeze textured cardstock)
Close to Cocoa textured cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Styled Silver Hodgepodge
Linen thread
Stampin’ Dimensionals
SNAIL Adhesive
Crystal Effects (to secure the sentiment to the inside of the silver frame)

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The husband and I enjoy getting together with our neighbours for barbeques and dinners, we always have a lovely time and the kids enjoy running around until all hours of the night.  They’re a fun lot and last time they were over here we ended up playing the board game Music Scene-It which ended with a lot of laughs.  I’ve been thinking about having another fun night over here and toyed with the idea of this time doing an invitation and this is what I came up with.

Anyone see my inspiration for this?

So the squares are textured white cardstock which I cut up in 2cmx2cm squares.  The knight and pawn and the words “game night” are from Stampin’ Up!’s stamp set called Game Night.  The knight was stamped in Versamark on black cardstock then white embossed and mounted with Stampin’ Dimensionals to give it ‘lift’.  The pawn was stamped in Riding Hood Red ink on white cardstock then clear embossed several times and cut out.

I quite like the way this card turned out – different from the usual, fun yet serious.

So how many of you guessed where I got my layout/theme idea from?

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I was in fits of laughter making this card, I had so much fun.  So this card is for a friend and now that she’s received it I can reveal it on my blog.  You’re probably wondering why I’d say ‘Bite Me’ on a card to a friend… well she’s been teasing me unmercifully about my Twilight Addiction and she also happens to be a Buffy fan, so I knew she’d appreciate the humour in my card.

The ribbon in the centre of the card (for those few people not into Twilight) is a play on the cover from Eclipse.  The quote “Bite Me” is from (the yet to be published book) Midnight Sun and was said by Edward (hot Vampire) to Emmett (his brother).  There’s also a ‘bite’ mark on the bottom left made by the Scallop Circle punch and to add more to the theme I lined the inside of the card with red cardstock so you can see the red peeking through the bite mark.

Hope this gave you a bit of a giggle… I know I was in fits making it. LOL

Products used to make this card: (all products by Stampin’ Up! and available for purchase through me at angelasargeant@gmail.com)

Lovely Letters Alphabet stamp set
Basic Black textured cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Real Red cardstock
Real Red inkpad
Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon
Scallop Circle Punch
1 1/4″ Square Punch
1 3/8″ Square Punch

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