Mid Month at the Christmas KickStart Challenge

  Hi Everyone, I'm honoured to be Guest Elf for October at the Christmas Kick-Start Challenge #91 -

 

 This month, Jo and I decided on this beautiful colour theme. Such a lovely combination.

 This is the link to my first card. Loving the colour mix so much, I had to do another for the mid month make. How about you, seeing what you can do with this mix?

I was looking through my embossing folders, for another project, and found this one, that had a plain rectangle centre. Then off I went looking for a Christmas stamp and found one I liked, I hadn't used it before, amongst others not used! Anyhow, I stamped the image and heat embossed in clear powder, then fussy cut it, thankfully a simple cut. I don't think I'll ever like fussy cutting. I coloured the image with DI's, although the photo doesn't give justice to the matching colours of the theme, I used.

Then I embossed the embossing folder as the background, and decided to paint the stars with gold paint. 

I found some bright blue card to layer the embossing on and attached it to the base card, then added the image and sentiment. 

car stamp - Chloe's Creative magazine freebies Simply Cards & Papercraft #249

sentiment - magazine freebie

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, stormy sky, weathered wood, broken china, faded jeans, candied apple

gold paint - Kuretake

sentiment die - Card Making Magic

embossing powder - Papermania Clear

gold ink - Kuretake 

embossing folder - Cuttlebug

I hope you join in and start, or even continue, your Christmas cards with Jo and me. The colour combination is so pretty to use on our Christmas cards.

A Super prize is in the offing for the Rudolphs random raffle 

Autumn 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

   

 

I have quite a few stamps that I could use, but went with the iconic ones. I stamped and embossed with gold embossing powder, the pumpkin, leaf, and mushrooms and fussy cut them, ugh! then coloured them with DI's. Next, I die cut squares of coloured card to match and a white one, which I also stamped with the sentiment and gold embossed then I embossed with a wood embossing folder.  The blue card is practically the same colour as the blue in the leaf, but the camera nor Photoshop editing would make it the same! A very simple card. I hope you like it.

 stamps - Magazine freebies SCP

inks - Distress Inks, ripe persimmon, rusty hinge, spiced marmalade, 

vintage photo, tea dye, lucky clover. 

dies - Sue Wilson Square Noble

wood embossing folder - Crafters Companion

card - Lidl

 

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

Trees TMR

 My DT card today is for

The Male Room Challenge
 

I have a number of images and stamps for Trees, but I went with an embossing folder instead. I embossed it then coloured it with water coloured pencils, I couldn't trust myself with anything else! I added water to a brush, to spread them out, I used different gold inks to colour the decorations. Then I stamped a couple of corners in gold embossing ink to the top of the card to balance it out, I thought.  

 Next I stamped and gold embossed a sentiment on vellum and added it to the tree base. They were then layered onto gold mirror card. The card was slightly short, so I added die cut presents with the white card, overlaying gold mirror card to make the border even. The photo is a little darker than normal, due to me wanting you to see the stamped corners. Although they still don't show as in real life.

pencils - Nuvo Vibrant Watercolour Pencils

Christmas tree EF & dies & stamp - Magazine freebie Simply Cards & Papercraft #209 

gold pigment inks - Kuretake Starry Colours

gold embossing ink - Hobbycraft

vellum - Crafters Companion

gold mirror card - The Range

 

 

Guest ELF at Christmas Kick-Start Challenge

 Hi Everyone, I was delighted and thrilled to be asked by Jo, to be Guest Elf for October at the Christmas Kick-Start Challenge #91

 We discussed what theme to work on, and both agreed very quickly, it was to be a colour theme, with the lovely mix of colours below.

 

 

As soon as I saw the colours, a Gnome came into my head, WHAAT? I hear you say, yes I have a strange thought pattern as many of you know.  Anyhow, I found my loved Gnome and stamped him, and his present. Both were die cut and then coloured. The hands and present were 3D'd onto the body.

 

Next it was the background, I blended the sky, and blended the snow. It was then I stamped the church and trees, I wanted that far away look, so they were also stamped in the blues I had used for the snow. The background was cut to size and layered onto navy card. I then stamped the sentiment, again in blue. My lovely Gnome was 3D'd in the middle of the card, for his hat to emphasise the church. 

I felt it needed some sparkle so added Stickles Frosted Lace along the snow, trees, and church.

 

Gnome - Apple Blossom stamps magazine freebie SCP #181

church and tree stamps - magazine freebie SCP #211

large tree - Chocolate Baroque

inks - Distress inks - mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, stormy sky, weathered wood, broken china, faded jeans, candied apple

navy card - stash

I hope you join in and start, or even continue, your Christmas cards with us.

A great prize of Avery Elle stamps, is in the offing 

Halloween gift box 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.

 

 I decided to do something different today. I have been looking through my files, and have so many things I haven't used, that I decided now was the time for this fun Bat to make an appearance. It is Halloween at the end of the month, after all. 

The file is an svg, so I took it into my Silhouette, or digital die cut machine, and cut it out. There were quite a few pieces, the black pieces are attached to the main box on each side, but it was fun putting it together and to use some ribbon, again I don't use enough of it. It's 10 inches (25.4 centimetres) long. I was so excited to get it finished, I forgot to ink around the bat! I'll do so for the others I make, even make them a little smaller, hoping we have some visitors this Halloween, it's not a big thing around here. Although, I'm sure it will be a treat if they do come.

Halloween Cracker - Dreaming Tree (freebie)

card - Craft Sensations "Happy" pad

ribbon Dovecraft 

Silhouette