Beary Happy New Year CCC

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

  

 

I wish you all a Happy New Year.

 

My first card of the year, a bear that I have had since 2015, certainly not new, but the first time I have used him. I printed him out to suit a 6 x 6 card and die cut him out. I then coloured him. I thought of Winter colours, so went with that. He was then layered onto die cut pearlised card layers, matching the ink colours, the greens look different but are a great match in real life.

 

As for the sentiment, I found it in my sentiment box pre stamped, I thought it suited, so went with it. After all, we enjoy having fun in the snow, don't we? OK! We used to, hahaha. I added a touch of glue to the sentiment corners, and the snowflakes, and sprinkled glitter onto it. And of course, he had to have eyes and a 3D glaze nose.

 

bear - Collette Smith, Cosmic Strawberry 

inks - Spectrum Noir markers

die - Sue Wilson Square Noble dies

sentiment - magazine freebie SCP

card - Hunkydory 

eyes - stash

3D glaze Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 Not a brighter photo due to lashing rain, when taken!   

Thank you

 Hello Everyone.

I want to thank you for your continuing support of my blog, but mostly for the kind thoughts, prayers, and beautiful cards I have had for the loss of my Dear Husband. I can't do much else but let you all know it has all touched me greatly and made me feel that I have so many friends around the world who care. 

It will be impossible for me to reply to you all or even send thank you cards. I wouldn't have enough time to respond to your lovely words and thoughts, but -

I THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.

I will be back in the New Year, hoping to fulfil my commitments to my DT work and comments. 

 

In the meantime

 

I'm thinking warmly of you, and wishing you 

and your family an extra measure of comfort, 

joy, and hope this Christmas. 

Red & Green WLSC mid month

    Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping.  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Anesha  

Red & Green

 

I love the traditional red and green for Christmas, this is my offering for mid-month at the Challenge.

 

With things as they were for me at the time of making this month's cards, and all before hubby's passing. I followed on a theme of the last couple of months using another inspirational card by Katie Skilton from my subscription magazine. 

 

After stamping, I die cut the image and coloured it with DI's. I found some plaid paper in an old paper pad, which was placed and attached to the image. I stamped the sentiment and placed it under the image. These were then attached to red paper. Then onto the base card. 

 

image, sentiment & die - Magazine Freebies SCP #247

inks - Distress Inks, barn door, mowed lawn, forest moss, hickory smoke

paper pad - Dovecraft Winter Blooms (old) 

 

 

 

 The wonderful stamps for our prizes this month. 

Stamp and die from Visible Image, plus a surprise second prize of an A4 stamp set.

Red & Green WLSC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping.  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Anesha  

Red & Green

 

I love red and green for Christmas, so traditional. With things as they were for me at the time of making this month's cards, all before hubby's passing. I used my subscription magazine again for inspiration by Nicky Gilbert. 

 

I stamped the wreath, then coloured it with DI's. I tried some white pens for the berries, but they didn't give the impact I wanted, so I used tiny pearls. Next, I stamped the sentiment and cut it at an angle.

 

I then went looking for red and green paper, none suitable in my paper pads, so I went into my files and found this red and green tartan, which I felt was perfect, I hope you agree. I printed it and layered it onto green card, the wreath was placed onto that and all placed onto the base card. It is pure luck the reds match with the inks and printing. 

 

wreath and sentiment - Altenew Christmas Wreath

 a Magazine Freebie SCP 275 

inks - Distress Inks, barn door, evergreen bough,

 paper - Dovecraft - Winter Blooms (very old)

pearls - The Range

 

The wonderful stamps for our prizes this month. 

Stamp and die from Visible Image, plus a surprise second prize of an A4 stamp set.

Christmas Colours TMR

 My DT card today is for 

Mojo was definitely on holiday, with things as they were for me at the time of making this month's cards, all before hubby's passing, so red and green, an idea, red background and green trees, simple yes? 

Except I went around in circles with what I wanted to do, then decided CAS. I went into my Silhouette and cut the Noel from the red card. I couldn't find a Christmas embossing folder I liked for this, so used an argyle folder I have had for years. It is a masculine design, after all. 

I had numerous trees I could have used, but decided on these. I cut them out in white and then looking for something else I found the holographic card, so cut the snow details again. They were added to the trees. I decided to cut a piece for under the Noel too, it added extra sparkle. All of them were added to the red card and all attached to the base card.

I then added a cut star, that I had coloured with gold ink, and decided to splatter the same gold ink onto the red card. 

I hope your red and green card comes together easily. See you at the Challenge.

red and green card - Lidl

trees -  Snowy Pine Trees by Sarah Bailey ID #234547 Silhouette Design Store

holographic card -  B&M 

embossing folder - Argyle Embossing folder Embossalicious Die'sire

gold ink - Kuretake Starry Colors 

 

Christmas Sparkle CCC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

  

 

With no mojo and with things as they were for me at the time of making this month's cards. I went through my stamps and found this beauty, so a simple stamping and silver embossing, layering onto silver mirror card and my card was done. I wish every card came about so quickly.

 

stamps - Chloe's Creative Festive Sparkle,

a magazine freebie in SCP 274

embossing powder silver - Dovecraft

 

 

you can just about see the shine here 

Sweater Card

 Hi Everyone, with things as they are, I had to make a card for my Great Nephew who was 6 a few weeks ago. It was an easy cut file that meant I chose the paper, embossed a cable design onto the pieces, added a 6 to cut with the sweater, put it together, nice and quick, with no thinking. The sentiment was added in Silhouette and cut for the insert. I also found a safety pin in my files to add the tag, which was also printed and cut in Silhouette.

sweater - SVG.Cuts 

cable embossing folder - Magazine freebie SC&P 

safety pin - image by Studio Linda Renee from Thankful kit 2013