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

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

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

Cute Robins

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today I have a trio of little Robin's for you, using the Clearly Besotted Red Robin Stamp and Die set.

I stamped the Robin with Tuxedo Black Memento ink, and then masked him with a full stick post-it note, while I stamped the log for him to sit on. 

Then I used the sentiment from the same set and stamped it onto the panel above him. I did this three times to make multiple cards, as it was so quick and easy to do.

I coloured my scenes with Copic Markers and then added some different strips of card and patterned papers to the bottom of the panels. 

I cut one of the panels out with an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die, and backed another with a black card mat cut with an MFT Stamps Stitched Rectangle die. Then I added twine, holly, and a few sequins to finish them off.

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

xxx

Poinsettia Wreath Card

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great week, and are looking forward to the weekend. 

Today's card was again inspired by different cards on Pinterest, but changed to make my own. I started by stamping the branch wreath from a Creative Stamping magazine set, onto navy blue card stock using Versamark ink.

Then I heat embossed it with Ranger Fine Detail Embossing Powder in Liquid Platinum. We have had this powder for about 4 years, and are only just starting to think about getting a new one, they really do last for ages. It is one of mine and Jude's favourite colours as it is neither gold or silver and goes with both.

 I then cut my panel out with an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die, and put it on to a white card blank. The little poinsettia flowers came in one of my Wow Embossing Powder kits, and I layered them together and added a gold sequin to the center.

 Then I added a few bits of white fern leaves and mistletoe to the flower, placed a small layered sentiment in the middle and some gold stars. Then to finish it off I added some white and gold gel pen flurries. 

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

xxx

Cool Penguins

Good morning crafty friends, and happy hump day. I hope you are having a good week so far. 

Today's cards were a couple I made after seeing this fabulous card from Kristina Werner on Pinterest. Can you believe that she made this one back in 2014 ?. 

I didn't have the exact same stamps etc. So I adapted the design to what I did have, and mine used the little penguin from Lawn Fawn's Snow Cool set, and the ice float from Avery Elle's Polar Pals set.

I stamped my little penguin first, and then masked him while I stamped the ice float. Then I masked them both to blend the background.

I used Distress Oxide inks in, Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Blueprint Sketch, and I taped a strip of masking tape across the center to work from, to give me the line.

I coloured my images with Copic markers, and then used a Tim Holtz  Handwritten Holidays greeting, for my sentiment. I stamped one in Versamark and used white embossing powder, and the other with Red Versafine ink, and used clear embossing powder.

Then I added lots of snow dots with a white gel pen, and a few gems and snowflakes from Studio Katia to finish.

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

xxx

Sending Joy

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. We had our granddaughters to stay over on Saturday, four of them (two of mine and Alan's and two of Jude's) ranging from 3 to 10 years old.  They were all so excited that they got to spend time with their 'cousins' lol, and they were all beautifully behaved for us.

Right, today's card is as clean and simple as it gets for me lol. I started with a piece of pink card, and stamped it with a Hero Arts background stamp called Graphic Snowflakes Bold Print, in Versamark ink.

Then I used Fine Detail White Embossing Powder from Simon Says Stamp, and heat embossed it, then I cut the panel to size with a Stitched Rectangle die from an MFT Blueprints Dienamics set.

The little ornament die is a Cut and Make die, and the letters are from Lawn Fawn's Finlay's ABC's. I cut each three times from white card, and stacked them together with liquid adhesive for dimension.

I used the string and bow from a Memory Box Snowflake die, for the string to my bauble, as I like the design. I just cut it off the snowflake and then pieced it on to my bauble with glue, and my card was all finished.

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

xxx

With Love

Good morning all, I hope your week is going well. I thought I would give u a little break from all the Christmas cards today and share a card I made a few weeks ago.

I was lucky enough to win an Instagram giveaway a couple of months ago, and these papers and stencil from Concord & 9th were included in the prize. They are from the Aloha Fill In range.

This is a totally different look from my usual cards, but I do like it, I decided on the black and grey paper, and used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks to fill in the flowers, using the stencil. I think the colours were Fresh Lemon, Maple Drizzle, and Sunkissed.

The card didn't need a lot else, so I added the large Love sentiment from Marianne Designs, which I die cut 3 times and stacked together for dimension. 

Then I added the Clearly Besotted, With, die cut, some Studio Katia Polka Dot Sequins, and some smaller black and silver sequins to the flowers.

Then to finish it off I put it onto a standard A2 card blank, and added a few drops of Tonic Nuvo Crystal drops to the center of the sequins.

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

xxx