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

Pink and White Christmas....

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend, and managed to fit some craft time in.

I have been trying some different colour combos (for me), for this year's Christmas Cards, and this was my attempt with Pink. 😏 Not great but I'll keep trying until I find something I like, lol.

The stitched hillside is from Mama Elephant's, Stitched Border Trio dies, and the tree lined hill is a Marianne Designs. The Houses and the Santa with Reindeer are from a First Edition, Craft a Card, large die. 

I cut the whole die from pink card, but then just snipped out the bits I wanted. I added some white card behind the houses so I could colour the windows etc. but in hindsight I wouldn't do that again, or just stick to a pale yellow glow.

  

Then I popped it onto a pink note card, and added a Merry Christmas Die Cut from Cut & Make to finish it off.

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

xxx

Peppa Pig

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. Are you looking forward to a nice crafty weekend? I know I am lol.

Today's card is one I made for my great niece who turned 3 last week. I decided to have a go at a Peppa Pig card, after seeing a couple of store bought ones.

I used my circle punches for the head, ears, and nose, and trimmed down a large punched circle for the skirt. I cut small strips of the pink card for the arms and legs, and very simple shapes from black card for the shoes.

Another small punch gave me the cheek, and I used enamel dots for her nose, and gave her googly eyes. I cut the mouth by punching a red circle, and then punching into the circle again with the same punch, to give me a small semi-circle, and then punched that again, to give me the very fine curve!

I used a Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio die to cut the hillside, and then a First Edition cloud die for the top. I added these to an A2 notecard and then assembled Peppa on top.

I gave her a few balloons that I already had cut, and added her name using the Avery Elle, Modern Alpha dies. Then I stamped a simple sentiment from Clearly Besotted, and added a die cut 3 to finish.

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

xxx

Gnome place like home

Good morning, I hope you have all had a good week. I am looking forward to a bit of a rest this weekend, after the hustle and bustle of the last few weeks, and hopefully I may get to spend a bit of time in the craft room too 😊.



Today's card was one I made some time ago for a friend who moved into a new home, but I never got around to sharing it.

I used the Lawn Fawn Gnome Sweet Gnome stamp and die set, and coloured them all with Copic Markers.

I did some very pale inking to the background using Distress Inks and cut the hillside with one of the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio dies.

I cut the grass with an MFT Grassy Edges die from a sticky cardstock and then layered it all on to an A5 card blank.

Then I used Gold Embossing Powder on the Sun from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine set, and stamped the sentiment with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.

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

xxx

Sledging Squirrel

Good morning, I hope you have all had a great weekend. We have had the usual, shopping, cleaning, sorting, type of weekend. But I did manage to fit in a little crafty time :o))

This is one of the cards I made with the Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas Set. I love these little characters, especially the squirrels, which are my current fave. I stamped and die cut all the images and then coloured them with Copic Markers.

For this scene I used the ladders in the set and had one of the squirrels using them as a sledge lol. The hillside is cut with the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio set.

For the background, I stamped all over it with the snowy backdrop stamp and Versamark ink, then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I added a sentiment and a few drops of Glossy Accents and it was all done.

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

xxx

Cheery Squirrels

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you are having a good week.

I have been cracking on with the Christmas cards using a few of our new sets. This one used the Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas set, the Snow Cool set and the Stitched Mountains.

I also used the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio die and the Altenew Moon and Back stamp set.

I used the snowy background stamp on Kraft card with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with Pure White Embossing Powder.

Then I cut the mountains from Kraft and the tops from white card and put these over the snowy background. I used Altenew Warm Grey Inks for the Moon, and then cut this out and raised it on foam pads in the corner.

I added the stitched snow bank and then stamped and coloured all of my little animals and images with Copic Markers. Then I built the seen and finished it off with a simple sentiment and touches of Glossy Accents.

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

xxx

Round roses

Good morning all, I hope you had a good weekend. We didn't do a lot this weekend, but we did go out with the dogs for a bit yesterday and did a couple of miles on the Trans-Pennine Trail again, which was really nice.

Today's card was made for a lovely friend who had a birthday a couple of weeks ago. It gave me the chance to try out one of the new sets that we got from Clearly Besotted. This one is called Round Roses.

This set may only be small but it makes beautiful images, and as it has three different sized roses it is very versatile.

I used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks for the roses, and stamped them on a piece of white card in a random fashion. The ink colours I used are Blush, Rouge, Crimson and Velvet.

Then I stamped around and between the roses with the leaf stamps using Memento inks, in New Sprout, Pistachio and Olive Grove.

I cut the panel down to fit a 7 x 5 card base and then cut two stitched hillside borders, one white and one black. These are from the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio set. I layered the white over the black and then backed the whole panel with black card before stamping a simple sentiment.

Then I added three sticky enamel hearts to finish it off.

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

xxx

Over the hill

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made combining older and new to us, stamp sets from Clearly Besotted.

We have had the Feeling Sheepish set for a while and I still love those cuties lol. But when we got the Laugh Out Loud set a couple of weeks ago, I knew this sentiment would work perfectly with those sheep.

I stamped the images with Memento ink, coloured them with Copics and then cut them out with their matching dies.

I used a stitched landscape border from the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio set and then sat the sheep on top.

I stamped the balloons from the Laugh Out Loud set using Memento Dew Drop inks and then cut those with the dies too.

Then I stamped in the balloon strings and the sentiment, and added a Happy Birthday to finish it off.

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

xxx