Christmas Bells

 Hi Everyone, I was looking through my photos and realised I hadn't posted this card. So here it is.

The stamps are by Altenew, "Bells and Boughs". The sentiment is Colorado Craft Co. Both freebies with my subscription magazine. I used Distress Inks, the images were layered onto red mirror card. I die cut the ribbons from the same red mirror card. I made it in September, so can't remember the colours I used. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

Pop Up Christmas card

Hi everyone, just a quickie today. I made this card for my brother and his wife. It's a cut file from Lori Whitlock, made with white, navy, and gold mirror card. I added gems to the stars. The sentiment is included, which I printed out and added to the cut pieces. The star is a layer, although it can't be seen properly. I think it has great impact, I hope you like it too. 

cut file - Pop up box Wise Men by Lori Whitlock

Silhouette

ink - Distress Oxide mustard seed 

gems - stash

I'm, like you, will be busy in the next week, so, just in case I don't get around to you.  I'm wishing you all a 

 

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.