HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hi folks, my last post of 2013.  Gosh that year has flown by don't you think?  2013 wasn't a bad year for me hope it was good for you all and here's to a brilliant 2014.

My last post was another birthday card for my dear friend Angela, this was made as an order for one of her friends.  Angela is, not only a lovely person, but is also a qualified aroma therapist hence the aloe vera etc.

Lots of spellbinders used and tumbling leaves embossing folder with shabby shutters distress inks and some wow powders too.

Hope you like it as much as she did.

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.

 

Take care.

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -
Artistic Inspiration - Challenge 72 Anything Goes
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Challenge 204 Anything Goes
Challenge 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

 

Happy Birthday Angela

 

Hi guys, how are you all?  I do hope you have had a brilliant Christmas with lots of nice pressies and some crafty ones too.

 

My first day back crafting.  Thought it would take my mind of the remnants of a stinking cold I have had over Christmas, plus I have lost my voice and at least when I am crafting I don't have to talk to hubby - not that he is complaining, with me whispering gives him a good excuse not to hear me!

 

Voice went Christmas day so it has been peaceful since then.  Why do we always get sick over Christmas?  Soooo not fair.  Still worse things happen at sea and I will eventually get back to normal.

 

A very good friend of mine had her 70th birthday early December and apart from my own card I also had to do two others for her as orders.  By the time I got to mine I decided to just let rip.

 

 I chose teal as that colour fitted with her birthstone.  I used an 8x8 white card blank, matted some teal card followed by some pearlescent card which I have embossed after stamping a swirl stamp from Chloes Creative Cards using teal wow powder.

 

My large flower is also from Chloe's which is her 8 petal stamps, 2 of each stamped using teal wow powders onto vellum and cut out, shaped and secured with a brad.  Behind the flower you can just see a die from tonic studios which is one of their Christmas circle verso dies.

 

All the other flowers are a mixture of d-lites flowers and sprigs.

 

The day before her birthday we all went out for a Christmas/birthday celebration at a place called Dunsley Hall in Kinver and we had a ball.  She certainly had a brilliant birthday which lasted all weekend and after the year she has had she definitely deserves it.

 

Thanks for stopping by and you all take care.

 

See you soon.

 

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

That Craft Place Ltd - Anything Goes

The Squirrel & the Fox - Challenge 60 Anything Goes

Hiding in my craft room = Anything but holiday

Kaboodle Doodles - Challenge 204 Anything Goes

Artistic Inspiration - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - Anything goes

The Pink Elephant - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

 

 

 



Merry Christmas

 

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year. 

 

Last Minue Christmas from Stamping Dragon Designs

Good morning crafters and followers.  Hope you are all well today?  How's the Christmas prep coming on?  Not long now, only 4 more days to Christmas day.

My post today is my DT design for SDD challenge.  Last of this year but don't worry we start again in January.

The design for this card is actually a card kit and I chose to cut it all apart but for beginners it would be ideal as a starter card, all you would need is a base card, scissors and glue.  Ofcourse you have probably already finished your Christmas cards but just in case, our challenge today is for last minute cards, decs etc.

Shopping List

Centura Pearl Card Base - C5
Red card
Gold Mirri Card
Jiggy in the Bauble Card Kit
Spellbinders DLites - Sprigs

I first took my sheet of images into Serif Craft Artist 2. I cropped a portion of the striped section, then using the stamp mode stamped 3 strips. This was one A4 page.

I started another page, added my image sheet, cropped the top section consisting of the image in the circle.  I also cropped the flowers so I could print off two sets of those, 1 image of the sentiment and two sets of the round image.  I then printed those two sheets off.

I matted my red card onto my card base.  I cut down two pieces of the striped section and matted those onto gold mirri card.

I cut out one full image of Jiggy in the Bauble and matted him onto some red card and then gold mirri card.  I then cut out just Jiggy and then just Jiggy's head and santa hat and decoupaged him up.  I finished him off with a glue stick and white glitter on his hat.

I then turned my attention to the flowers.  I cut them out, gave them a spray with gold glitter spray, put a small gold brad in the middle of them all and shaped them a little with my shaping tool.  I die cut my sprigs out in both green and gold and then placed them all onto my card with hot glue.

I topped it off with the sentiment from Jiggy in the Bauble Card Kit.

Hope this gives you some thoughts on how to use the card kits, they can be so useful to have in your stash for when you lose your mojo a little.

Don't forget to pop over to the shop and check out the beautiful digi stamp and papers at such brilliant prices - just follow the links.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the

Stamping Dragon Store

You may want to check out the following too: -

Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Take care and see you soon and don't forget this challenge runs until the 9th January 2014 so you will have extra time to enter.

 

Merry Christmas everyone.

Merry Christmas

 

Good evening all.  Another christmas card, topper was from hunkydory as is  the red striped backing paper which I cut using the  circle cutter from ek success which is brilliant.  The embossing folder is tumbling leaves from crafters companion and the poinsettia is a marianne die as are the leaves.

 

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

 

Take care.

It's Bauble Time

Good evening folks, just watching strictly with a nice glass of wine really pleased I am now finished from work for 3 weeks - yippee.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and your christmas shopping is on track.  I finished all my pressie shopping this morning so that's good but gosh the shops were busy.

Well my card today is one I have made for my friend.

I picked up some really lovely silver card from AnneMarie Designs a few months ago and that is what I have used tonight together with centura pearl with a hint of silver.

The swirl stamp is a creative  expressions single which is a lovely useful stamp and I embossed it with cosmic shimmer silver embossing powder.

My poinsettia is using a marianne die and the bauble is a spellbinders 2012 I think and I stamped and embossed a sheet of stitching using a stamp from Inky Doodles. 

Still practising my cosmic shimmer glue dots, I think I am getting better.

Thanks for joining me tonight see you soon and take care.

Fun in the Snow

Good evening everyone.  Only one more day to go at work then I will be finished until January 6th.  YIPPEE.

My post today is a simple card really.  I don't normally do kits, never buy them but I attended the show at Hunkydory show last year and this year and received a free christmas kit each year so I thought I would use them this year.  This topper was one from those kits.  The flower and leaves are marianne dies and the backing paper was also from one of the kits.

Hope you like it.

See you all soon.  Take care.

Gifts & Decorations SDD Style

 

 

 

 Hi crafters and followers, how are you all?  Is your christmas shopping on track or are you all organised and finished,  mine is about half way done.  Will be giving my last feed to my christmas cakes this weekend all ready for decorating.  Christmas tree is up and decorated, house looks lovely even if I do say so myself.  I do so love Christmas, all of it mind you I don't get worked up over it I have to say.  I suppose all the years I worked all over christmas has taught me how much I love it now.  Plus I only have one more week to go at work and then I finish until 6th Jan, wow, I can't wait.  Some major crafting will be done most definitely.

 

So my post today is my DT sample for SDD Challenge.  I have actually made three crackers and boxes for me, hubby and mom on the big day which will be table pressies.  Not sure what I will be putting in the boxes but it will be edible and yummy.

 

Shopping List

 

Winter Wonderland Papers

Tonic Cracker Die

Tonic Sentiment Die

Poinsettia Stamp

Wow embossing powder - Blue Glitz

 

I made the cracker using the Winter Wonderland Papers, put in a cracker snap and joke together with a Lindt chocolate - mmmmm.

 

The box I made using a template I had made whilst at a Jayne Nesterenko workshop a few years ago and is made from one piece of A4 card.

 

The flowers are poinsettia stamps which I embossed using wow embossing powders - blue glitz. 

 

Don't forget to pop over to the shop and check out the beautiful digi stamp and papers at such brilliant prices - just follow the links.

The prize for the winner is a £5 voucher to the

Stamping Dragon Store

You may want to check out the following too: -
Links:

STORE: Stamping Dragon Design: http://dragonslairdesigns.com/shop/

Challenge blog: Stamping with the Dragon: http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.ie/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427447597324391/

Sister blog: The Dragons Den: http://stampingdragondesigns.blogspot.ie/

Take care. See you soon.




 

 

Chloe's Poinsettia

 

Good evening crafters and followers.  Oh I do love christmas, my tree is up and looking fantastic even though I say so myself.  The rest of the house is all decorated, christmas cards done just need to write them out.  Some christmas shopping done and only 4 days more at work before I finish until the 6th January absolutely brilliant.

 

My card today I have used a sue wilson embossing folder, some lovely soft gold card from Anne Marie Designs, gold cosmic shimmer glue dots and poinsettia stamps from ChloesCreativeCards which I have stamped and embossed in gold wow powders, all finished off with a leaf die cut from crafters companion.

 

I think I am getting the hang of these glue dots now, they are almost all the same size - tee hee.  Hope you like this one.  Look after yourself and take care.  See you soon.