Children With Holly

Good evening all, hope you are well.  A quickie card today and as you will no doubt note a simple little card.  The big flourishes are Kanban stamps embossed with wow glitter powders.  The verse is from Inkylicious and again embossed with WOW glitter embossing powders.
Hope you like it.  Thanks for stopping by and do take care.

Poinsettia Heaven

Good evening crafters and followers.  Sunday again, work tomorrow, yuck.   That is not strictly true as I actually enjoy my job and as I work part time and from home I have a brilliant job.  I am also lucky enough to work for a good company but if I am honest I would prefer to be a lady of leisure and be able to craft at my leisure, but needs must and I have lots of crafting goodies to by so I must work or a little while longer - hee hee.
Well my card tonight is an 8x8.   I used a set of poinsettia stamps from Dimension Stamps.  I began with the leaves, twigs etc and stamped those out in a mixture of pine distress inks and twig distress ink.  The poinsettia actually comes in two separate stamps the leaves part and the flower part finished off with the stamen part.  I stamped and coloured in the leaves and then stamped the flowers twice and coloured those in with spectrum noir pens finishing off with the stamen.  All of these were stamped with versafine and clear embossed.  The berries I coloured in with sakura pens.  Some matting and layering  and all finished off with a little sentiment embossed with gold embossing powder.
Thank you for stopping by and checking out my blog.  Take care.
I have entered this card into the following challenges: -

Challenges 4 Everybody 8 - Anything Goes
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas Anything Goes
Crimbo Crackers Challenge 29 - Anything Goes

Little Claires Monthly Challenge 27 - Christmas

Winter Wonderland

Good evening everyone, hope you are all enjoying your Saturday and I hope this awful rain has caused you too many problems.  Well I am sitting here watching Strictly Come Dancing whilst typing this and just got bored with one of the dancers - hope it gets better.
My card tonight is a stamp from the Swalk Winter Cheer range which was released by crafters this time last year.   I did my usual and inked with versafine black ink and then clear embossed.  I then coloured it in with a mixture of spectrum noir and copic pens.  I have used some matting and layering with blue card and silver mirri card.   I have also embossed using a mask which I am not sure you will see that clearly so sorry.  The sentiment came with the main image stamp and the snowflake is a spellbinder die using a really sparkly mirri card.
Hope you like tonights card.  Thank you for stopping by and for all your lovely comments on my previous cards, they are so lovely and I really do appreciate them.  Do take care.  See you soon.
I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

2 Sisters Challenge 119 - Winter Wonder Land

Kanban Santa

Good evening fellow crafters and followers.  Well I am well and truly recovered from my journey to Manchester yesterday.  Gosh it was awful, 6am in the morning, dark rain, wind and the spray was dreadful especially from the HGV.  I do love Thursdays as someone my followers know because it is the start of my weekend.  Heaven.
My card today is using a set of stamps from Kanban released last year on QVC.  They were lovely stamps.  Santa has been coloured in with spectrum noirs.  The swirls were embossed with gold embossing powder.
Hope you like this one. Thanks for stopping by.  You take care.

Christmas Bells

 Good evening fellow crafters and followers.  Today's post is the last of my DT samples for Sheila's challenge at My Craft Creations - All Things Christmas.
I have used some co-ordinations card, embossed and sanded this off.  Co-ordinations card is so brilliant for this technique. The image is a stamp from creative expressions Christmas set which I stamped in black versafine and clear embossed it.  I then coloured it in with a mixture of copics and spectrum noirs.  A couple of flourishes in gold mirri card, all topped off with a couple of card candi and bobs your uncle!
This is such a beautiful stamp and I really did enjoy making this card.  Do pop along and check out the challenge - it really is worth having a go for such a wonderful prize.
Thank you so much for stopping by and checking me out today.  Do take care and thank you in advance for any comments you choose to make.
I have entered this card into the following challenges: -

Through the Craftroom DoorChallenge 45 - Always Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenge  - A Bit of Bingo (blue/stamps/emboss)

Presents for Snowie

Well good evening folks, hope you have all had a good day today.  Would you believe I have almost finished my Christmas shopping - yep - well to be fair I don't have that much to buy present wise but I have the most important ones now so the pressure is off.  Wonderful feeling isn't it?
Well, tonight's post is another DT sample I made for Sheila's Challenge at My Craft Creations - All Things Christmas hope you have entered, it is a super prize.
I began with my normal 6x6 plain white card and some matting and layering.  Again the backing paper was a freebie from the Making Cards Magazine - Christmas edition from last year I think.  Do you know, I raided all my making cards magazines and you would be surprised how much backing paper I now have, I haven't had to print our any Christmas backing paper this year - brill.

The image is a stamp I have had for a few years now but I love it so much it comes out every Christmas.  I think it a Sugar Nellie one.  I stamped in black versafine ink and clear embossed it.  I then coloured it in with a mixture of copics and spectrum noir pens.   I also used a sakura pen in places to give a hint of glitter.  I then cut him out, shaped him and placed him on the nestie using glue gel.

The poinsettia is die cut using mirri card and Marianne dies as were the leaves.  All finished off with some ribbon and another die cut from memory box.

Hope you like tonight's post.  Thank you for popping by and good luck in the challenge.

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

Forever Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog 7 - Many Layers

Shopping with Daisy

Good evening crafters and followers.  Hope you are well this evening.  Well have I had a busy weekend finishing a scrapbook which will be a birthday pressie for a friend and finishing an exploding box.  Still, all finished now so that takes the pressure off.

My post today is the first of my DT samples for Sheila's November Challenge at My Craft Creations.

I started with a 6x6 plain white base card followed by a little bit of matting and layering.  The backing paper is from an old Making Cards Magazine. 

My topper is a digi stamp from Joanna Sheen's Christmas Daisy CD Rom and I coloured her in with spectrum noir pens. 

 

The die cut is from spellbinders and I have cut a faux nestie out of co-ordinations card.  The 2nd nestie has also been embossed and again a faux nestie cut out.  The flowers etc are all from Marianne dies.

This digi stamp lovely to colour in and I finished her off by putting some white glitter onto the fur of her hat and her pom pom.

Hope you like her and do pop over to Sheilas and join the challenge.  Remember you have to be in it to win it.



Thanks for stopping by and do take care.

I have also entered this card into the following challenge: -

Divas by Design Challenge - Anything Goes

Joy

Good evening peeps, hope you are all well.  Gosh Thursday has gone and going into Friday - these weeks are going so quickly don't you think?
Well, today's post is a christmas card.  I started with a 6x6 plain white base, followed by some red card and then some pale green co-ordinations which I embossed and sanded off.  I do love co-ordinations for that, it always looks lovely.
The flowers and leaves are a mixture of spellbinders and marianne dies.  I then embossed a piece of white card with a dotty embossing folder and matted that onto somemore red card.  I stamped out the Joy and embossed that.  This was stamped from a christmas alphabet from dimension stamps.  I cut them out, shaped them and placed them onto the dotty embossing.
It was a Joy to make this card.  Hope you like it.  Thanks for stopping by.  Take care.
I have entered this card into the following challenges: -

Challenges 4 Everyone - Challenge 7 Anything Goes

Love that Kitten

Good evening crafters and followers.
My post today is a swalk stamp from the winter collection.  She was stamped on watercoloured  card and coloured in with whisper pens.  Some matting and layering of green card, white card and then some patterned vellum which was a freebie from a making cards magazine.  I have secure that with brads all finished off with an ivy diecut from Memory Box.
Thanks for stopping by and take care.
I have entered this card into the following challenge:-

Crafters Companion - November Challenge

Jayne

Good evening peeps, hope you are all well today.
My post today is a birthday card which was made to order for a customer.  The recipient is a dancer hence the ballerina.  She was also of a special age, you know the one, but she would not want to have advertised the fact.
I started with an 8x8 plain white card, matted some deep pink card followed by some centura pearl which was embossed with one of the new 8x8 crafters companion embossing folders which I might add a absolutely fantastic.
The image is a decoupage image printed onto photo glossy paper and was from a FeeJ CD Rom called Ballet Belles.   The flower is a spellbinders die and I printed out one of the matching backing papers also from the cd rom.  I then added some swirls in white and gold.
The name Jayne is stamped using the alphabet stamps from Clarity Stamping.  I embossed them with WOW glitter gold embossing powder.  The insert had the ballerina on the loose leaft and the recipients age was included within the verse.
Hope you like this as much as she did.  Thank you for stopping by and looking I really do appreciate it.   Take care.

Humphrey's Mistletoe

Good evening crafters and followers.  I know it has been a couple of days since my last post but I did have a fantastic time at the NEC on Saturday and paid for it on Sunday so I had to recover but it was worth every minute.  It did seem alot busier this time than it was in March this year I have to admit.  It was a great day though, coffee/shopping/coffee/shopping/lunch/shopping/coffee/home.  Loads of gossip and catch up with my mate Wendy who has recently started crafting too.  She used to cross stitch and still does but I eventually got her into stamping and she is so enjoying it.
Well my post today is from the humphrey christmas range as you will no doubt have guessed.  I didn't use these much last year - too many christmas stamps according to my husband - but I soon put him right.  Humphrey was coloured in with spectrum noirs and the layout is a very simple one all finished off with card candi.
Hope you like this.  Thank you for stopping by and do take care.

Christmas Messy Rabbit

Good evening fellow crafters and followers.  Friday is a wonderful day don't you think?  For me it is my day off, but for those folk who work full time it is the start of their weekend - yippee.
You know one thing I do love about Christmas and Christmas crafting is rediscovering stamps that you haven't used for 12 months.  Messy Rabbit here is one of those stamps.  I am not sure whether you can still get this stamp now but it was originally from Joanna Sheen website.  Messy has been stamped in my usual black versafine and then clear embossed.  He was then coloured in with spectrum noirs.  The backing paper as from my crafty stash and with a little bit of matting and layering and a few card candi to finish off.  Hope you like this one.  Thanks for stopping by and take care.

A Christmas Wish

 

Good evening fellow crafters and followers.  I do so love Thursday's as I know tomorrow is Friday and it's my day off.  I am also getting excited about Saturday because I shall be going to the Hobbycrafts Show at the NEC with my friend Wendy.  Just think a whole girlie day with my chum, having coffee, lunch, coffee some major retail craft therapy and a good old gossip.  A heavenly day.

 

Well my post today is, to be honest nothing special, but I posted it because it is such a quick card to make.  A bit of matting and layering, I stamped the big C from a large stamp from Dimension Stamps.  The 'hristmas' was also from Dimension Stamps.  I finished it off with some card candi. 

 

It was such a quick card to make but quick cards can look effective, even though I say so myself.

Well, I hope you like this.  Thanks stopping by.  Do take care.



Gingerbread Man

 

 

Good evening crafters and followers, hope you are all well today.

Today's post is using an image from an older creative expressions set of stamps.  This gingerbread man is such a cute little chap I couldn't resist using him again this year. I coloured him in with spectrum noirs.  The backing paper was a freebie from a crafting magazine.  In fact this year I have not had to print a Christmas backing out, I just went through all my Christmas crafting magazines and took the papers out of them.  Most of them come from the making cards mag as those papers are always such good quality.  The swirls and snowflake were from Marianne dies and sizzix.

Hope you like it.  Thanks for stopping by and do take care.  See you all soon.



Kanban Christmas Angel

Good evening crafters and followers.  Well it will be christmas cards for me now starting with this little lady.
I started with an 8x8 plain white base card.  I matted some red card and some green tartan backing paper which was printed from Kameo christmas cd rom - some beautiful backing papers on that one.
I then took a precut nestie and stamped some holly for a background, distressed around the edge with tim holtz antique linen.  I then took a smaller precut nestie and stamped my image.  The image is a stamp from Kanban that I purchased last year in a set from QVC I think.  I stamped the image in black versafine and then clear embossed.  I then stamped another and cut the angel out.  I coloured her face and arms with spectrum  noirs, oh and her head wreath.  I then sprayed her with crafters companion silver spray, shaped her and placed her onto the already stamped image.  I used the same holly stamp for the little sprays each side of the sentiment.  The snow flake at the side is a marianne die.
Hope you like this one.  Thank you for stopping by.  Take care.
I have entered this card into the following challenges: -

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Anything Goes Challenge 70

Family Time

 

 

Hello crafters and followers.  Monday morning has arrived - AGAIN.  Funny how it seems to come around faster than Friday.

My post today is  a SWALK stamp from crafters companion.  This was their winter collection released last year, such a gorgeous collection.  I coloured the image in with whisper pens and stamped it on watercolour card.

The backing paper was from a crafters companion cd rom.  The poinsettias are Marianne dies.

Thank you for stopping by.  Do take care.

With Love

Good evening crafters and followers.  Hope you are all well.
My post tonight is my final DT sample for My Craft Creations - Sketch Challenge.
This is an 8x8 plain white card followed by a piece of plain blue card.  I then embossed a plain sheet of white card using one of crafters new 8x8 embossing folders but before running it through the GC I inked the folder with a Tim Holtz distress ink - squeezed lemonade.  The image is a digi stamp from Joanna Sheens Christmas Daisy and friends, so is you have that CD Rom I am sure you will have realised it is not just for Christmas.  I have coloured her in with spectrum noirs.
The border is spellbinders as is the large Astor flower and leaves.  The sentiment is also a spellbinders and the actual sentiment is a stamp but I cannot remember where that one came The little leaves at the side of the image are Marianne dies as are the tiny corner ones. All finished off with gems.
Hope you like it and do enter challenge it is a super prize and don't forget you have to be in it to win it.  Thanks for stopping by and do take care.
I have entered this card into the following challenges: -

Papercraftjunkies Challenge No 3 - Things With Wings
Inspire Me Fridays 83 - Anything Goes



Holiday Joy

Hi crafters and followers.  Hope you are all well tonight.  Phew almost didn't post tonight I have been so busy.  This year I have designed my mom's christmas cards and her nextdoor neighbours in Serif so I have been busy printing out tonight.
Well today's post is another DT sample I made for My Craft Creations - Sketch Challenge.
This one is an 8x8 white base card.  I have matted some green card and then embossed some centura pearl card using the new embossing folders from crafters companion - the 8x8 ones.  They are absolutely gorgeous and I am so hoping that they will bring more of these out.  Such a brilliant size.
The image is another stamp which was a freebie from one of the craft magazines which is a recent one and I have coloured this one in with copics.  The die cut poinsettias are all spellbinders and marianne dies.  The sentiment was also from the same set of freebie stamps and the swirly border is from sizzix.
Hope you like this one.  Thanks for popping by and do take care.
I have entered this into the following challenge: -

 KraftyHands November Challenge - Christmas Creations.
Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Christmas
ABC Christmas Challenge - V for Vibrant Colours.
Christmas Stamping - Anything Goes
 Crafty Ann's Challenge 77 - Christmas in October

Best Wishes

Good evening crafters and followers.  Hope you are well today.
My post today is the first of my samples designed for My Craft Creations challenge - Sketch.
This one is a 6x6 white base card followed by a sheet of green card.  I then embossed some white centura pearl card using one of the new 6x6 embossing folders from crafters companion - beautiful isn't?  The image is a stamp which came free with one of this months craft magazines but I am sorry I cannot remember which one, but I can tell you there were two lovely stamps.  I have coloured this one in using spectrum noirs and copics, die cut using spellbinders.  The flowers and leaves are all Marianne dies.  The sentiment is a die from Xcut.  All finished off with a couple of card candi and some gems.
Hope you like it and do join the challenge as there is a super prize. Thanks for popping in and do take care.  There will be another sample tomorrow.