Winter Wishes in Blue

Good afternoon fellow crafters.

Hope you are all well and looking forward to Christmas.  I know I am but then I always thoroughly enjoy this time of year.

I have to admit, except for one pressie I am all ready now.  Pressies done, cake done, food sorted except for my meat which I have to collect Christmas Eve morning.

My card today is a Christmas card to  my friend Sheila in Scotland and I have used tattered lace dies.  The poinsettia in that range to gorgeous but then I love poinsettias so have used them loads this year.

You all take care and see you soon.

Snowflakes Galore

Good morning fellow crafters and followers.  Its Friday, and my weekend has begun because I am lucky enough not to work Friday's.

I started with a visit to the dentist - yuck then some Christmas shopping at M&S Food Hall.  My friend and I always do Christmas hampers for each other so I went to choose some bits for that. Back home for lunch and then an afternoon of crafting.  Perfect day, except for the dentist.

My card today is a simple one which I did to ease myself into Christmas cards given we crafters start so early.

My Shopping List

1. C5 plain white card base
2. a piece of plain white card cut smaller as a mat.
3. I stamped some snowflakes 'willy nilly' using distress ink - stormy sky
4. I then embossed that when it was dry using a snowflake embossing folder - one from the snowman collection via crafters companion.
5. I also distressed around the edges with stormy sky
6. some blue ribbon around and secure that to my card base. 
7. I then die cut my snowflake using a spellbinders die and layered it up. 
8. Finished off with a simple merry Christmas stamp in stormy sky again.

Hope you like this and thanks for stopping by.  Do take care and see you all soon.

Mail Girl - GetCreative Challenge No 3.

Good morning folks.  Hope you are all well?

It is officially December so we are on the countdown to Christmas.  No groans please, I just love this time of year.  I think it is that feel good factor, you know, when the weather is horrible outside, everything is dreary and suddenly you walk into a house or a shop and see the Christmas lights and decorations it always cheers me up and gives me a happy feeling.

Talking about that happy feeling, today starts a new challenge over at GetCreative.  No 3 challenge is a CHRISTMAS THEME and our sponsor is: -

The Stamping Boutique

 

Tracey is offering 2 images of the winners choice. Also if the winner has used a TSB image they get to choose another digi.

 

My Shopping List

 

Mail Girl Digi Stamp

Copic marker pens = E44 | E43 | RV69 | RV46

Red card

White card

Green card

Tattered lace poinsettia die

Tattered lace winter wishes corner embossing folder

Marianne holly die

red gems

Glue pen

Glitter

1. I coloured my digi stamp in with the above listed copics.  This stamp is a lovely stamp suitable for beginners and experienced colourer inners.
2. I then did some matting and layering onto a C5 plain white card
3. I pricked around the edges of my white card and also embossed the corner with a tattered lace corner embossing folder.
4. I then cut my image our, matted and layered it onto some white card and then red card.
5. I die cut my flowers, put them together with hot glue and assembled the rest of my card.
6. I finished it off with some glitter on my image and some gems.

 Hope you like my little Mail Girl and what I have done with her. 

 

To see other ideas from our design team follow this link to our challenge and don't forget to enter for a chance to win a super prize from our sponsor.

Why not pop over to our sponsors website and check out their digi stamps. Just follow the link above.

Thank you for stopping by. See you again I hope and do take care.

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Christmas Card Challenges - Challenge 53 Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams Challenge 11 - Lets be girly using die cut or punch
My Perfect Life - Festive 48 Any Christmas Card Goes
Robyns Fetish - Challenge 240 Anything Goes

 

An Elegant Lady-StitchyStamps

 

Good evening.  Hope you are well today and enjoying your day whatever you are doing. I had a brilliant day at the NEC yesterday with my mate Wendy.  We always enjoy our crafting days, its a time to catch up, loads of chatting, coffee and shopping.  Very busy at the show but a fantastic day. Came home very tired, very spent out but very happy. 

 

Today's post is a sample from Stitchy Bears Stamps .

 

Stitchy Bears

 

My Shopping List

 

Stitchy Stamp - Lady digi stamp

Copis = E000 | E00 | E11 | Y35 | E29 | E04 | B26 | B28 | B29

Spectrum blending pencils

Spellbinders daisy flower, oval shapes dies

Sue Wilson leaf die

Distress ink - salty ocean

white 5x7 base card

blue card

lattice using brother scan and cut

 

1.  I began by colouring my digi stamp with copic markers listed above plus shadowing using spectrum noir blending pencils.
2. I die cut my image our using spellbinders and matted it onto some royal blue card die cut using another spellbinders die.
3. My lattice background was cut using 'Bob' my brother scan n cut.  The frame was created using 5x7 spellbinders matting basics.
4. Leaves are sue wilson and the flower is spellbinders.  All coloured using distress ink, salty ocean.



She was a lovely digi to colour in.  I do hope you like her and my card.

 

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my blog.

 

I have entered this card into the following challenges: -

 

 

Challenge up your life - Anything Goes

Sister Act Challenge - No 82



 

 

 

May with Candy Cane- Get Creative Challenge 1

 Good morning all.

 It's an exciting day today as it will be the start of a brand new challenge called

Get Creative Challenges

The challenges will run bi weekly and our first challenge is sponsored by

Angie's Digi Stamps

This is my first sample as a design team member for this super new challenge.

My Shopping List

May with Candy Cane Digi Stamp
Copic markers = B21 | B23 | B26 | W1 | W3 | W5
                            E00 | E11 | E21 | E23 | E39
                            Y04 | Y06 | Y067 | R46
Blue card
White card
Red ribbon
8x8 base white card
Card Candi
Sentiment

1. print out your digi stamp in draft quality, heat emboss and put at least overnight to ensure it is dry
2. mat piece of blue card 7.75"x7.75" onto my base white card
3. using my BSC or a circle cutter I cut our two circles 1st = 7"x7", the 2nd = 6"x6"
4. distress around the circle edges with scissors and ink around the edges with blue ink, I used stormy sky distress ink the 6"x6" circle I embossed too
5. I cut out a die shape in blue card of a suitable size to fix my image too.
6. I cut two more circles, one in blue card and one in white suitable for my sentiment.
7. I assembled my card
8. using the above listed copics I coloured my image.
9. I then cut my image out on my BSC leaving a 3mm edge and the 'direct to cut' option.
10. After placing my image onto my card I finished it all off with the card candi.

Hope you like my take on using this image, she is such a cutie pie. 

To see other ideas from our design team follow this link to our challenge and don't forget to enter for a chance to win 3 super images of your choice from our sponsor.

Why not pop over to our sponsors website and check out their digi stamps. Just follow the link above.

Thank you for stopping by. See you again I hope and do take care.

May with Cupcake - Crafting from the Heart Challenge 41

 Good morning folks.  Hope you are all well.

This was originally a post for the Crafting from the Heart Challenge but due to unforeseen circumstances the challenge had been closed .

 

 

My Shopping List

Digi stamp May with Cupcake from Angie's Digi Stamps
Copic markers - Skin = E02 | E00 | E01
                           Hair = E50 | E21 | E31
                           Dress = R83 | R85 | R89
                           Boots etc = E74 | E77 | E79 | YR24
7" blank white card base
red | pink and green co ordinations card
Sue Wilsons dies - flowers and leaves.
Spellbinders round and deckled round dies
Tonic square deckled edge dies
6x6 embossilicious folder
antique linen distress ink

1. I printed out my image in draft quality, left it overnight to ensure it was fully dry.  I then scanned it to direct cut on my BSC and then cut it out.
2. I coloured it in using the above listed copic markers.  I also played a little with my spectrum noir pencils on the dress only.
3. My base card is a 7x7 square card.  I cut a piece of white card 6.5"x6.5" and pricked around the edges in true Sue Wilson style.
4. My red card is a 6x6 piece of co ordinations. I then cut another piece of white card out using my tonic square deckled edge dies and ran that through a 6x6 square embossilicious embossing folder.
5. I inked around the edges with antique linen distress inks.
6. I typed my verse in word, printed that out and die cut using a basic round die.  I have matted that onto a piece of the red co ordinations card.  I have also inked around the edge of my verse again in antique linen distress ink.
7. To finish I cut my flowerrs and leaves using green and pink co ordinations and sue wilsons dies.
8. I finished off with some pearls from my stash.

May is such a sweet image to use and is ideal for any age.  She was lovely to colour in.

Thank you for stopping by. See you again I hope and do take care

Christmas Bear-Crafting from the Heart Challenge

 

Good morning all.  Monday morning really does come around quick.

 

According to my Slimming World leader there are 12 weeks to Christmas, bet you didn't want to hear that did you!  Mind you as crafters I am sure all of you have started your Christmas cards or are thinking about it.

 

Well Monday also means the start of a new challenge at Crafting from the Heart and our sponsors this week are:

 

Eureka Stamps

 



 



Crafts and Me 

 

 

 

My Shopping List

 

A5 plain white card blank

purple card

white card

wow powders in purple

Christmas alphabet stamp from Dimensions

Digi stamp - Christmas Bear from Eureka Stamps

Spectrum Pencils

card candi

parcel stamp

versafine ink

 

1. I printed my digi image onto copic blending card in draft quality, heat set it and left it overnight.
2. I then coloured my image in with spectrum pencils and blending solution.
3. starting with my A5 blank white card I matted a piece of purple card followed by a piece of white card which I had stamped and embossed with a parcel stamp and purple wow embossing powder.
4. I stamped out my 'M' and 'C' again using purple wow embossing powders and fussy cut them out.  I also fussy cut my image out and shaped it.
5. My 'M' and 'C' plus the 'erry' and 'hristmas' is from the Christmas dimensions alphabet stamps.
6. Finally I placed all my items onto my card.

Why not pop over to our sponsors website and check out their digi stamps. Just follow the links above.

 

If you want to see more ideas do pop over to the blog at Crafting from the Heart to see what the rest of our design team have created and don't forget to join in the fun and enter your own creation.

 

Can I also say that we have a Facebook page, where there is other ' just for fun' challenges, so if you are not already a member of the group, I urge you to pop over and join us.

The winners and Top 3 from the last challenge can be found here.

Thank you for stopping by. See you again I hope and do take care