Glittery tree

You've probably realised by now that I like quick, easy to make cards.  I will take my time and really craft some cards, but on the whole I like an easy life.

Today's card is probably one of the easiest ever!

I took the inner portion of the Christmas tree die from November's Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit,  and cut it from white card.

I pulled up the branches for a little dimension then added loads of  Stickles in the colour tidings.  This is a gorgeous glittery gold.

Once dry I stamped and gold embossed a sentiment from the Festive Friend stamp set, which was free with a recent craft magazine.

I added the finished panel to a green card base to finish off.

I love how effective this is for such a simple idea.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Driving Home

Hello again.

I have another simple card to share today.

This uses the embossing folder, stamps and die from issue 181 of Simply Cards and Papercraft. 

I cut the truck from red card stock and the trees from a green shimmer card.

I then ran a piece of kraft card through the Big Shot using the embossing folder. 

 To give the trees more definition I coloured them with shades of green Copic markers.

I added a sentiment from the same set and adhered the truck with foam squares.

This was so quick but is really effective.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Foiled Christmas Cards

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to the week. I have a few cards for you today, but as I made all of them by printing text and images, and then foiling them, I thought I would put them all together in one blog post.

When I want a specific card, and don't have the stamps or dies, I always turn to my PC and use either SVG cut files or make something up on a word doc. Most of these cards are files that I have bought for my Silhouette Cameo machine, but as I rarely use it, I use them to print for foiling.

I take elements from different files and add them together to make the cards unique and mine, then I make sure everything is coloured black, with black lines and print them with the laser printer.

Then I can customise them using different colours, sentiments and embellishments.

Like this little reindeer, that I made a few cards with, but I did them all with different coloured foils and card.

I love this glitzy one, but foiled cards are very difficult to photograph due to shine, and shadows, so you don't really get how pretty it is in real life.

There are lots of images that can be used, and lots that you can write up yourself to make different designs, and I find it really fun.

I hope you like them, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Trees

Hello again.  

We're on the final countdown to Christmas and this week I have a few more cards to share with you.

This one is so simple!!

I started with a piece of green cardstock and inked the outer edges using black soot distress oxide, fading into evergreen bough towards the centre.

I took the outline Christmas tree from the Reindeer Games set by Mama Elephant and stamped all over the background using Versamark ink.  I then embossed with Hero Arts gold embossing powder.

The sentiment was cut from gold card stock and matted on to vellum.

I used the same gold card to layer the panel on to, then placed both on a dark green card base.

The finishing touch was some iridescent sequins from Lucy's cards.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Red Sky at Night...

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. I'm looking forward to the weekend, and hoping to fit in some crafty time, hope you are too.

Today's card was a bit of a change to see if I liked a different background colour for my Xmas cards, and I do lol. 

I used the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio dies, for my snow banks, and I made the snowman from two different sized circle punches.

I gave him a little hat from a smaller snowman die, and fashioned some arms and a nose from scraps of paper, then gave him some eyes and buttons using black pearls.

The little sleigh and trees are small Cut and Make dies, and I cut them both in sparkle card. Then I added some small punched circles as snowballs, and filled the sky with falling snow using a white gel pen.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Christmas leftovers

Hello again.

On Tuesday I showed you how I had used some of the left over images from last year's Christmas cards.

Today I have another variation to show you.  For this I used Santa and a Christmas tree for the A2 sized cards, and just a tree for the smaller one.

I took a strip of white card and ink blended with Distress Oxide inks.  I have used Candied Apple on one, Festive Berries on the second but added a touch of Victorian Velvet to the Festive Berries on the tree card.

For each card I cut down the strip to fit, splashed with water for some snow effect, and adhered it to the card base.  The tree and Santa are added with foam tape for some dimension.

I added some sparkle to Santa and some Nuvo drops to the trees.  I finished off with some more Nuvo Drops on the larger cards.

Hope you like these.  TTFN Jude xx

Santa squad

Hello everyone!

The cards I'm sharing today have taken almost 12 months to complete, lol.

I really loved Simon Says Stamps Christmas set last year, so I stamped and coloured a TON of images.  However I didn't use them all.

This year I've pulled them out of safe keeping and put together the five cards you see here.

Although they all use the same characters each one is slightly different.  For this one I added snow banks, trees and a snowflake sky,  but the others I left more simple,

The images were stamped in memento black ink and coloured with Copic markers.  I added some sparkle shimmer pen over areas of each figure - mainly any red parts :)

The sparkle doesn't show up well on camera but it is there.

Hope you like these.  TTFN Jude xx

Kitsch Bambi

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend, and managed to fit in some crafty time. I managed to pull together a few Christmas cards this week from all of the bits and pieces that have been taking up space on my desk for the last few weeks, so at least I made some progress lol. 

Today's card was made with the Avery Elle Kitsch Christmas stamp set, I love this 'Bambi' image, and for those of us over a certain age, the 'Babysham' deer lol.  

I stamped the image onto plain white card using Onyx Black Versafine Ink, and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I stamped the deer again onto masking paper and cut it out by hand. 

I used the mask over my deer so I could add the Lawn Fawn snowy backdrop stamp from the Snow Cool set, using Versamark ink and white embossing powder, then I inked the background using Distress Oxide inks, and coloured my images with Copic Markers. 

I die-cut the panel with an MFT Stitched Rectangle die and then drew in a snow line with a black fine liner pen. Then I finished it off with a few Studio Katia Iridescent Snowflakes.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Merry Christmas deer

Hello again.  Friday comes around quickly, doesn't it?

For my final card this week I am again using the set from Papercraft Essentials issue 165.

This time I've taken the fabulous little reindeer and coloured him with Spectrum Noir markers.  I then die cut two plain white versions and stacked them behind the coloured image.  Doing this creates a more substantial piece, almost like a chipboard element.

The Christmas tree comes from the October My Monthly Hero kit by Hero Arts.  I love the dimension you can get by lifting up some of the die cut branches.

I added a ton of Nuvo drops to the tree then placed the reindeer in front.

To complete the card I took a sentiment from Lawn Fawn and gold embossed it on to the same red card I used to matt the tree panel.

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

TTFN Jude xx

Silent Night Scene A5 Card

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is a little bit different for me. I wanted to make a simple silhouette card, with a lot of white space.  So to give me the look I wanted I decided to go for an A5 card.

I used a heavy weight hammered card stock for my card base, and a linen textured card for my scene. 

I stated by cutting the scene with a couple of Marianne Designs dies, I cut the church and houses one first, and then lined the trees die up with the first cut to continue the scene.

I cut a piece of navy blue card stock to size, and used Hero Arts Unicorn White Pigment Ink, to stamp the moon. Then I added a piece of patterned acetate over the top of the blue card to give me the night sky effect. 

I added my silhouette scene and stamped a simple sentiment from the Altenew Build a Flower -Poinsettia set, before I backed it all with white and silver card layers, and added it to the A5 card base.

I think this is quite a simple and elegant card, what about you?

Thanks for stopping by, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx