Songbird

Hello again.  With only 10 weeks left until Christmas I've started batch making some of the cards I need.  These will be for friends and colleagues - close family get individual ones!

This set is Winter Cardinal from Altenew.

This is one of the multi-layer sets to give added realism to the final stamped image.  These were a little tricky to line up but I don't think they turned out too badly.

Unfortunately when I was making the card up I managed to get ink on a couple of the backgrounds (dirty fingers!)  To help cover these up I hand drew some music notes.  I think I got away with it, don't you?

The berries don't have multiple layers so I stamped them in 3 shades of red ink to build up the colour.  I then used a white gel pen to add some highlight.

The branch was also stamped with a few shades of brown ink to add some realism to the finished article.  I really like these cards although they did take too long to make too many.  I'll settle for the 8 I've currently finished :).

TTFN Jude xx

Merry Christmas?!

Monday again and no I haven't gone mad, I do know it's February ;)

After Christmas I resolved to never be making cards at the last minute again.  That hasn't gone too well so far but I am going to try to remember to make a few of this year's Christmas cards each month.  I don't know how long it will last but every one I do make is one less to do in December lol.

This is the first!

This is a Jade Dragonne image called Winter and is available from Deviant Art (here)

I used papers from a free set that came with Crafts Beautiful magazine back in 2012!  These were all matted on dark green card and added to a 6 x 6 card blank.

I have loads of cards to make between now and December, but it's a start, right?

TTFN Jude xx