Snowman box

 Hi Everyone, I made a few snowman boxes for the Christmas dinner table, they were quite quick to put together and a bit of fun. I cut the pieces with my Silhouette, and glued them together. They took 2 of the new Maltesers Truffles. I suppose I could have squeezed in 3, but it's not a present, just a little fun after dinner. I hope you have fun this Christmas.

Snowman Pillow box - Pebbles in my Pocket

scarf paper - Aimee Harrison Holly Jolly Christmas paper 2

brown and orange card - Lidl

white card - CraftuPrint

 

Winter mid month WLSC

 

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Winter

   

 

I have quite a few stamps that I could have used, but went with Winter florals, my subscription magazine had a wonderful colour mix using the free stamps in the magazine, so I thought I would case the card from it.

 

I started by masking part of the card. I cut masks for the poinsettia and holly, then stamped the poinsettia placing the mask over it, next stamping the holly and added the masks to them too. I then stamped different leaves. The masks were removed and I used DI's to colour everything. Next I coloured the background with a paler shade of the purple and stamped the sentiment.  

floral stamps - Magazine freebies SCP248

sentiment stamp - Colorado Craft Co. Magazine freebies SCP248

inks - mowed lawn, peeled paint, picked raspberry, dusty concord, milled lavender,  

 Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 

We have Three prizes from AALL and Create, A4 sets Pheasants, Alstromeria and Key Botanicals

 

 

 

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Masculine Big Wishes

 Hi everyone, a birthday card for a change, it's for my GNephew, whose birthday it is today. I have been lost with no mojo, I spent a couple of hours trying different things, but got nowhere, but I did have lots of card and inked pieces in the bin. I then decided to case a card of mine, here.

The paper is from a Craft Sensations Paper pad. I cut the letters with my Silhouette  and die cut the candle, colouring the flame only. The cut piece was layered onto black card and attached to the base card. A very simple card, but I think as a masculine card effective. I'm quite pleased with the end result. Isn't it great how just a change of paper makes things look different?

font - Stencil

patterned card - Craft Sensations

candle die - I think it's a Cut and Make mini die

black card - Crafters Companion

 Silhouette

Anything Goes TMR

 Hello Everyone, my card today is for

 

Santa Wine bottle wrapper (freebie) - Dreaming Tree

inks - Distress Oxide, lost shadow, lumber jack red

sparkly card for the white pieces - stash

red card and tree card - Hobbycraft

pink card - Lidl

sparkly bobble - stash

curled silver ribbon, off a past present

 

Anything goes? That means my Silhouette comes out, especially as I wanted to make a few bottle pressie labels. I cut out all the pieces, using white sparkly card for the white pieces. I glued them all together, then inked the edges, but the piccie doesn't show much of the inking.  I found a previous present twirly ribbon, that I could use on this one. I added the cut out bells to it, and added them to the neck of the bottle.

 

I think this will bring a smile to the recipients. I hope it does to you too.

Winter WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my second DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Winter

   

 

What could be more Winter than a snowman? So that's what I went with, a favourite happy Snowman. I stamped the snowman and made a mask of him, then stamped the stones either side of him and made a mask of them. With the masks in place, I blended the background with DO's. Then using a snow stencil to add snowflakes, added a touch of water to the ink, but it spread a little, so I added some Stickles for sparkle onto the snowflakes. Next, the stones were coloured and the snowman, adding more sparkle to the snow. I also added 3D gloss to his nose. 

 

Next, I stamped a couple of snowflakes and the sentiment and die cut the sentiment. They were layered onto a blue card which has gold through it. The image was attached to the base card following the CAS #334 sketch.

snowman stamp - Penny Black "Snowy"

stones stamp - Chocolate Baroque "Sticks & Stones"

snowflake stamps and dies - Pink Fresh Mag Freebie SCP 251 

snow stencil and sentiment - Magazine freebie SCP 182

 sentiment die - Julie Hickey

inks - Distress Oxide, mustard seed, fossilized amber, ripe persimmon, peacock feathers, chipped sapphire 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 

 

 This month we have Three prizes from AALL and Create, A4 sets Pheasants, Alstromeria and Key Botanicals

 

 

Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here

Slider card CCC

    Hi Everyone, the first of my DT makes 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 know there are Christmas cards about now, but my GGNephew was 5 recently, and this is the card I sent him. I love the interactive cards for the children, and decided to make one with dinosaurs, well every little boy loves dinosaurs, don't they? I hope he does :)

I printed the background twice, then cut a narrow slit, wide enough for the sentiment. I then added card to the slider and a Pull instruction tab.

 

Next the dinosaur was taken into Silhouette and I print and cut a couple of layers, they were attached and added to the tab. You know I hate fussy cutting.

 

I die cut the number, coloured it to match and attached it to the top corner of the card, I then covered it with 3D Glaze. I computer generated and printed out his name and it was attached too. After that I decided it needed grass, so off to my Silhouette again and I cut 2 strips to add to the bottom of the image. After cutting I inked the edges.

I also included a colouring page I downloaded from BusyShark.net of a dinosaur and birthday cake.

I can't find the card dinosaur or background in my files. I've had it for at least 14 years. I can only find it in another card I made. But can't find that on my blog either. Duh!

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

yellow base layer & grass card - Lidl

SVG file for grass - Birds Cards 

Silhouette

number dies - could be First Edition?

This is him using it, during a weekend break with his family.

His Mum always sends me a photo of them, with their cards, which is lovely of her.

Nativity card

Hi Everyone, my card today was made for a few on my Christmas card list. I have had no mojo and looking through stamps and file images, I found this. I thought it beautiful, and it would be a quick make, with far too many cards on my list, I had to get down to it. 

The image itself was very simple, I decided to add a pale blue circle behind it, and add the Peace, Joy and Love in an arch on top of it. A few were printed out and cut, then layerd onto a matching blue pearlised paper. I'm happy with it, but I hoped it would spur me on to get my mojo in gear, but nope.  

As for the piccie, even the camera was out with the framing, making it look like the blue layer wasn't straight, it was, and if I tried straightening in Photoshop, it made other parts go off kilter, so I decided to just show it as is, so to speak.

I hope you are all getting on well with your card list, and mojo is being kind to you.

image - Prairie Song Scraps

 (Blog Hop Christmas 2023 at Digital Scrapbooking Studio)

Photoshop

blue pearlised paper - Jellybean

I'm going to join Jo and Gail at the

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #92

Thank you box

Hi Everyone, I have a little gift box for you today. I have been having hydrotherapy at the local hospital, as it has helped me be more mobile. I felt the physiotherapist and her receptionist, who were both friendly and so very kind, deserved a little thank you. I bought a big bag of chocolates and shared them equally between them, placing them inside red tissue paper, and then into the boxes. They are a really nice size, 4 inches high by 3.5 inches overall.

Quite a simple box, but I felt the card I used showed it off well. They were impressed, so I was happy, that they were happy.

free box - Mini Hat Treat Box - Dreaming tree

paper 250gsm - Craft Sensations

black card Crafters Companion

red cord - stash

Silhouette

  

here you can see the red tissue paper popping out, with the chocs inside it. The flower top, is part of the file, using the same floral card. I added a button gem to the centre. What you can't see is, that there are reinforcing tabs, through which the ribbon goes.

 

Christmas card mid month WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Christmas

   

 

I have a lot of stamps not used, so decided to do just that and use NBUS as Darnell says. I took 3 borders and the reindeer included in the pack. Next I drew a line corner to corner onto the card and started with one of the borders, it was short of the length, so I stamped it, then heat embossed it with gold powder. I then stamped again which took me to the opposite corner.I carried on until the corner was filled.

The reindeer and sentiment were stamped and embossed onto plain card, these were then layered onto gold mirror card, and placed onto the bottom corner of the card. Little gems were added to the antlers. I love the shine of everything.

 

stamps - Signature Collection by Sara Davies an SCP Magazine freebie

gold embossing powder - Papermania

mirror card - stash

 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

This month we have Three prizes of Sweet Dixie Christmas die sets from Aldridge Crafts

 

 Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here

Delicate florals

Hi Everyone, it's been a while since I made a card, apart from my DT items, but my SiL asked me to make a card for my Niece. It was quite short notice and I decided to make a side opening landscape, I looked through my stamps and decided to go all out with stamping multiple times.

 

I stamped in green, seeing as the details are small, and then added a little more green on the stems and tiny leaves with DO. Next, I coloured the flowers in red DO. The sentiment was then stamped in the same permanent ink. I die-cut the layer and attached it to a red layer, both laid onto the base card. I decided to add tiny butterflies with a dab of ink on a piece of card, placing them onto to the card.

 

I then turned to the insert and found a few sentiments for "daughter" on the web and a couple I had in my files, SiL chose what she wanted, so I printed it out. Next, I stamped the floral onto the insert and placed it inside the card.

  

stamp - Penny Black, Delicate Florals 

permanent ink - Whispers, pine green (very old ink}

inks - Distress Oxide, rustic wilderness, candied apple 

insert verse - CraftsUprint

butterflies - Tattered Lace?

red layer - Lidl paper

 

 

A Note: I love the top hung format portrait 5x7-inch size, but all my cards always open wide to display. I hate that, so I decided to cut mine in landscape. I took an A3 card and cut the landscape shape with my Silhouette. I also used an A3 160gsm paper to cut the insert. 

 

It was only then I realised my printer wouldn't recognise the A3 size, DUH! I thought how am I to get the insert paper to go through my printer and print correctly?  A lightbulb moment, had me attaching the cut insert to a piece of A4 paper and printing it out, it was perfect. Now I can do more of the landscape shape and not worry about the insert printing correctly. I expect a lot of you already know how to do that. I blame my age for not knowing!

Lest We Forget

 

poppies design by Julie C Designs

Flip ear dog TMR

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

OH! My goodness I did procraftinate about this card, I had a few ideas, even made 2 and threw them, one of them I spent ages measuring then put it together and what a mess. So this was my best effort. I’m really not good at measuring and making, I usually have one or other pieces not fit together, so it was off to my Silhouette and download a file to enable me to get it right. I then inked each piece. He makes me laugh and took some putting together. I 3D'd his nose and I chose the same colours as the designer,  I'm sure I will try other colours next time. He’s fun, and I'm sure one of the Great Great Nephews will love pulling his tongue out to get his ears to pop up.

 Flip Ears dog design - Lori Whitlock

all card - Lidl

inks - Distress inks, ground espresso, tea dye, festive berries, candied apple

Silhouette cut file

 

with his tongue pulled out, his ears pop up

 

Christmas Card WLSC

 

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Christmas

   

 

Out of the selection of Christmas stamps I have, this Jolly Santa shouted at me. I had seen a card that I thought would be great with Santa, so I went looking in my files for suitable paper for the face of the card and found this one. Thinking it is a simple design, suiting the theme of the card.

I added the paper to the cut shaped card, then die cut the circle. The circle needed to be highlighted a little more, I thought, so I embossed it with the next size up die, you can see it in the insert photo. I marked the circle through the hole, to stamp Santa, then coloured him with markers, then rubbed the circle guide out.

Next I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of card, and used a marker to make a simple outline around it, to match the outline theme of the paper, attaching it to the front of the card. I then stamped the insert sentiment. Whilst writing this post, I realised it didn't say "have a". I had a look through my stamps again and luckily found one I could adapt. Too late for this post though.

A fun and simple card, that I think will be duplicated for the small children of the family.

Santa and other stamps - Magazine freebies SCP221

paper -  magazine freebie 2023

markers - Spectrum Noir

dies - Tonic

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

This month we have Three prizes of Sweet Dixie Christmas die sets from Aldridge Crafts

 

 Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here

 

 

Winter Robins CCC

   Hi Everyone, number 1 of my DT makes 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 Christmas on the horizon, my card today is a - Yep! You've guessed, a Christmas card. I went looking through my files, as I have a mass of digital stamps. I found this lovely image and decided to use it. Then took it into Silhouette to cut it out, no fussy cutting for me, as you well know. I cut 3 layers, then using inks I coloured the top layer, next I added sparkle pen to the snow in the image.

It was only then I thought about a design, I looked through some sketches I have saved, and decided this one from Atlantic Hearts could be adapted to suit. 

I cut a layer to add to the base card, then lightly drew the oval, onto the base card, to blend it. After blending, I placed the layer on top, but didn't like the plainness, so used a snow embossing folder, then attached it to the base card. The image was 3D'd over the oval. I found a die sentiment that fitted into the space, backing it with red card. I'm quite pleased how it turned out 

image - Ikes Art Winter Robins

inks - Distress inks, tumbled glass, vintage photo, ground espresso, candied apple, ripe persimmon, mowed lawn, forest moss

embossing folder - Crafters Companion Snow

sentiment die - Lisa Horton magazine freebie  SCP#250

red card - Dovecraft

Stickles - used on top of the holly snow 

7 Year old birthday Girl

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for my Great, Great Niece, who was 7 years earlier this month. She is a real little lady, so I thought I would do a very pink card for her, after finding a lovely paper pad in my stash.

I used a celebration number, cut with my Silhouette, it's the same alphabet as this card. I think it looks so different cut in a colour. A back layer was cut for the 7 in silver mirror card. Her name, Dorothy, was also added inside the top of the 7. 

I then hand cut 2 layers of different card to back the number, the lower layer has stars on it, although they can't be readily seen, the stars match the star on the number. I punched the corners to round them for a softer feel, I thought. 

The next layer has some pretty bows. I thought I would add a bow to the 7 to tie it all together. I love the 3 layer design of the bow, with cut centres to the top layer.

Sparkle pen was added to the number, which shows up in real life, but the camera doesn't pick it up. She is always thrilled with her cards and on a visit in August, was delighted to see where I make my cards for her and her siblings. 

 paper pad - Craft Sensations Kids

 number - Extraordinary Chaos

bow - Silhouette Design Store #352883 

This is a different view, I was hoping to show the sparkle on the number, but you can see the details better. 

 I touched on her siblings, earlier, this is her 2 year old baby sister Iris, playing with my eldest brother, her 88 year old very active, Great Grandfather, in August. I think it's extraordinary she should know him, let alone be able to play with him. He had been running around, playing ball with her too. Although, I suppose, not as rare as in my days, mine had long gone before I was born. Anyhow, here they are.

Autumn mid month WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Emma of  

Autumn

   

 

More unused stamps used for this card, I went with this seed head stamp, (I thought it was seed heads!). I found some autumnal paper and decided to stamp on it. Then the seed heads were coloured with DI's, using oranges and yellows, although the oranges don't seem to have shown as well. I stamped a sentiment, knowing what a wicked sentiment I was adding onto the insert. I layered it onto die cut brown card.

It was then I decided to use a cream base card and bend the front in half. I added a ribbon which I thought matched and added the stamped layer to the rest of the half fold.

stamp - Woodware "Autumn Flowers"

ink - Memento black

sentiment stamp - magazine freebie

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimon

paper - Nana's Digi Scraps 2012

ribbon - Dovecraft

insert sentiment stamps - Creative Craft Products

 

I cut the paper to size and attached it to the insert, then I went into fun mode, no idea why, that's how my mind works sometimes. I stamped the sentiments and then for more fun added the balloons. The black sentiment says "This Young".

 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Three prizes from AALL and Create, two of border stamps and third two stencils 

 

 Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here