Holly! It's a Resource Gathering Quest

Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I travelled to the far off village of Inkston where the annual Holly Festival was being held. We brought our bags-of-holding, intending to load them with the festive holiday plant. Inkston was crowded with people attending the festival, everyone hoping to snag the best of the holly harvest for their Winter Festival needs.

I started this card by colouring the Bugaboo “Ava Mistletoe Fairy” image using Prismacolor pencils and cutting her out. The sentiment was cut out using the Lawn Fawn “Finley’s ABC’s” die set and the snowflakes were cut with the Lawn Fawn “Stitched Snowflakes” set, earning me +88 cutty XP points. I cut them out of these old "thank you" cards that we had at work and were just going to be thrown away. They're really good for die cutting because they're super thick so the pieces are almost like die cut embellishments you'd buy! I added some shiny red brads over the berries in the picture to punch them up and make them more “berry-like”.

The inside sentiment was stamped using the There She Goes “Tis the Season” set. I stamped and die cut the holly using the Lawn Fawn “Joy to the Woods” set and its coordinating dies.

The envelope was stamped with the holly image from the Tim Holtz “Christmas Memories” set by colouring the stamp with Distress Markers to get the two different colours.

This card will have a holly jolly time in the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Challenge #120: Anything Goes

Catch the Bug November Bingo Challenge: (use only two designer papers, bugaboo image, brads)

CHNC Challenge #203: Go Green

CHNC Challenge Extra for November

Crafty Catz Challenge #255: Christmas is Coming

Craftyhazelnut’s Patterned Paper November Challenge

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #347: Red and Green

Dream Valley Challenge #95: Anything Goes

Jo’s Scrap Shack Challenge #66: Anything Goes

Kraftin’ Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday

Love to Scrap Challenge #42: Say it in Colour

Milk Coffee Challenge: Use Hand Coloured Image

Penny’s Challenge #203: Use Black Cardstock

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #233: Brads, Buttons and/or Bows

The Lady Commander and I filled our bags-of-holding to maximum capacity, using every inventory slot available. The festive plants would be used to decorate the Guild Hall and make some Christmasy potions for the upcoming season. I’m not sure what status effect they will induce, but there are sure to be sparkles involved.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

Magical Scrolls of Secret Spells

Greetings traveller! Welcome to the Guild Hall. Today the Guardian of Glitter and I paid a visit to Montaglow, one of the elders of the Wizards Council. He had created some new spells and wished to pass along his knowledge to the Crafters Guild, knowing that we would use them for the good of the realm. We entered his dark, musty chamber at preciously half past nine as instructed. His large black cauldron was already bubbling over with some sort of concoction, that emitted a horrible smell.  

I created this magic infused card by colouing the Bugaboo image using Distress Markers and my fabled Hydra Brush of +30 wetness. I then used the Lawn Fawn “Summertime Charm” set to add some stars to the background and the little glow halo thingy around the ball/bubble thingy. The sentiment I just printed off my computer and cut out. I cast a spell of +50 bravery and cut up a sheet of glitter paper that I’ve literally had for two and a half years and only ever used one other piece out of the entire package. I embossed the blue rectangles using my Cuttlebug. Lastly I added some silver stars. Unfortunately my trusty glue wasn’t sticking them to that suuuuuuuper thick glitter paper so I had to turn to my hot glue gun. As you can see, it had the added effect of burning some of the stars in the middle. *siiiigggghhhh*

On the inside I stamped a few more stars to make it match the front, then added the sentiment using the My Pink Stamper “Birthday Crazy” set.

On the envelope I brought it all together by adding even more stars. This gave me +333 triple tech magical exp points.

This card will apparate into the following challenges:

Catch the Bug: Anything Goes

Paper Playtime Challenge #9: Emboss (wet or dry)

Crafting for All Seasons Challenge #51: Monochromatic

Movie Magic Monthly Challenge #3: Lord of the Rings vs Harry Potter

The Perfect Sentiment Challenge #78: Dry Embossing

Divas By Design: Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Challenge: Use a Sentiment

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #268: Something Blue

Spark Your Creativity Now! Challenge #9: Anything Goes

After a quick demonstration of his new spells, Montaglow handed us the scrolls which would allow us to duplicate the magiks. He did caution that we should level up to at least level three in each one before actually using them in the field on one of our crafty quests. I’m not sure why, but I wasn’t going to question one from the Wizards Council.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~