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Challenge Title: Sparkling Season
Hostess: hbrown (Holly)
Keyword: HYCCT1330
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Welcome to the 4th Annual Hope You Can Cling To challenge and card drive! What an uplifting time of the year for cardmakers!
With the holidays fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to have a challenge focused on making holiday cards. In order to make them "Sparkling Season" holiday cards, my requirement is to use glitter on your cards.
So make a Halloween card, a Thanksgiving card, a Christmas card, or even a Valentine's Day card with glitter on it. Bonus points to those who use PINK on their cards!! :-)
Don't freak out about the glitter requirement. You can use so many different things. Regular glitter, chunky glitter, Stickles, glitter cardstock, pre-glittered brads and other embellishments, even your kid's glitter glues all work just fine for this challenge. Just have fun and enjoy the sparkles!
Thank you for playing along! Special thanks to my amazing sample makers and stamping friends, saffivort, mrslaird, va.sunshine, Ksnurse, LuvLee, JBgreendawn, CAKath, LMcAree, and dini! All of the details for sending in your cards and where the galleries are, are below!
VIEW THE GALLERY FOR THIS CHALLENGE HERE
View the Hope You Can Cling To Gallery HERE
View the Hope You Can Cling To Master Challenge Thread HERE
UPLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. All Hope You Can Cling To Challenge Entries must be uploaded to the Hope You Can Cling To Gallery, with the specific challenge keyword, no later than November 7th, 2013 at 12:00 Noon Central Time to be eligible for our fabulous prizes! Post a link to your entry in this thread.
2. You may not combine challenges, but you are welcome to create multiple cards for each challenge.
3. Please remember to put in the correct keyword when uploading your image. Copying and pasting the challenge keyword is recommended to avoid typos.
4. Please package all challenge entries with an envelope, protected with a clear plastic bag and mail them to our partner at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center to benefit patients being treated for breast cancer and their family. We would like for them to receive cards throughout the month of October, but we understand if you'd like to mail all your cards at once.
5. Since these cards will be used by visitors for patients, most should be blank inside, but feel free to send cards with messages of hope for the patients in addition to your challenge cards!
The Department of Volunteer Services � Unit 115
Attn: Maggi Suttles
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston, TX 77030
(Please note - because MD Anderson is part of the State of Texas, they ask that no religious sentiments be used on cards sent to the Cancer Center.)
I had enormous fun making this AND salvaged a piece of card which had been so over-misted that I thought it was beyond redemption. A win all round - thanks, Holly. Apart from the deer and the letters - and the glitter card - everything else is one less bit of clutter on my desk, LOL.
I finished my card...and tried a new technique...using sticky tape to make lines and dumped Jazzy EP on it (whatever Jazzy EP is...'cause...well...I didn't find any "glitter" in the stamp room other than Stickles and the design I had chosen wouldn't work with Stickles...
This evening someone will take a picture for me so I can upload the card.
Fun morning of play...thanks...
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I finished my card...and tried a new technique...using sticky tape to make lines and dumped Jazzy EP on it (whatever Jazzy EP is...'cause...well...I didn't find any "glitter" in the stamp room other than Stickles and the design I had chosen wouldn't work with Stickles...
This evening someone will take a picture for me so I can upload the card.
Fun morning of play...thanks...
Jazzy EP?? That sounds, well...., jazzy!! ROFL! I can't wait to see it!
Holly- great challenge, Thanks! I had been wanting to do a Thanksgiving card, so I bought this cute turkey stamp from Lawn Fawn this week. Paper pieced the tail feathers, and mounted him on an embossed olive green panel. I added a floral luncheon napkin panel for a little pizazz, and some sparkly gold trim. Finished with a striped ribbon border, accented with dc leaves. Here's Happy Turkey Day
__________________ "You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." -- Maya Angelou
Holly- wanted to do a companion holiday card- went with Stampa Rosa's Fashion Statement (Amanda)- as I think this is such a darling image- kept it simple with a bit of bling and sparkle, and texture with the pine branch. Here's Festive Friends
__________________ "You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." -- Maya Angelou
Here's my card with sparkles on the snow and star.
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I've been in the mood for Christmas! So this is great for me. It even snowed a bit here this morning. I normally wouldn't have made this card pink, but I think I like it. Thanks for the fun. Only one more day left...it makes me sad. I have had so much fun doing this this year. This is gonna have to become a tradition for me.
Loose glitter and I get along like oil and water, so I've used glittery cardstock and Stickles to make my card sparkle. HYCCT1330 - Sparkling Rhubarb Santa
I've been in the mood for Christmas! So this is great for me. It even snowed a bit here this morning. I normally wouldn't have made this card pink, but I think I like it. Thanks for the fun. Only one more day left...it makes me sad. I have had so much fun doing this this year. This is gonna have to become a tradition for me.
You definitely need to play in the Dare To Get Dirty challenges in the summers and these Hope challenges every October. They are SO much fun! I've done the DTGD challenges for three years now and this is my second or third time playing in these Hope challenges. I truly love these two times of the year here at SCS. :-)
Thank you to EVERYONE who has played in our Hope challenges this year. It wouldn't be possible without all of you creating and sharing your cards. :-)
HYCCT1330 Sparkling Season Chat Thread
HYCCT1330 Happy Turkey Day
HYCCT1330 Festive Friends
