Christmas Door

Hello crafters and followers, hope you are all well?  By the time this is posted I shall be on my way back from a relaxing week in Clawton just outside Holsworthy, getting back in time to put my tree up and christmas will start in our household - lovely.

Well Christmas is almost on us, yes honestly, it is on the countdown now and here is my first christmas card of the year.

I started with a C5 card in centura pearl and matted some black card onto that. I then took another piece of centura pearl card, embossed it using falling leaves A4 embossing folder and distressed it using fired brick distress inks.

I die cut a piece of black card using the 5x7 card creator die which fitted my topper perfectly.  My flowers were die cut with a marianne die using gold mirri and some red card topping them off with a dollop of silicone glue and covered it with gold glitter.  The leaves were also marianne die using mirri card.

Shopping List: -

Spellbinders 5x7 Card Creator Die
Marianne Dies for flowers and branches.
A4 Embossilicious embossing folder - falling leaves.
Fired Brick distress inks.
Hunkydory christmas set which was a freebie from Doncaster last year.

Hope you like today's christmas card and thank you for stopping by.

Take care and see you soon.

Challenges: -

Sister Act Card Challenge 35
Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenge
4 Crafty Chicks - Christmas

Autumn Has Arrived at SDD Challenge.

 



 

Hi crafters and followers.  Hope you all find yourself well and happy today.  Yes it is that wonderful time again, time for a new challenge over at Stampin with the Dragon.

 

My dt for this month is a hybrid one using serif craft artist professional.

 

Shopping List

 

French Roast Papers -Stamping Dragon Designs

Tree Frame Stamp - Stamping Dragon Designs
Penny's Apples - Stamping Dragon Designs
Copics - E11 | E15 | E18 | YR07 | YG91 | YG95 | YG00 | G05 | G07 | G17 | E77 | E74 | E79
Serif Craft Artists Professional 2

I began with the backing papers which I took into Serif Craft Artist.  I then inserted some branches and twigs fromone of the programmes.  The ribbon and bow is also from a digikit in the Serif Craft Artist.

Next I turned my attention to the frame which I too into the cutout studio cut some of the white parts on the outside off and converted it into an intelligent frame.    The verse I found from a free site on the internet.

I printed this part out and attached it to my card and then coloured in Penny's Apples Digi Stamp with my copics.  I do think this is the beauty of digi stamps, they can be used for normal crafting and also for digi crafting.

Thanks for checking out my blog and do pop over to the challenge here.

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.

 

 

Dragons-SDD Challenge

Good morning crafters and followers.  Friday is here and I love it as my weekend officially starts.  I don't work Friday's.  Shopping this morning first thing and then some crafting me thinks. 

Saturday is NEC day with major retail crafting therapy and a wonderful day with my friend Wendy.  Lots of catching up, lots of coffee stops, loads of shopping and lots of mooching.  Absolute heaven.

Well my post today is my DT entry for the latest challenge over at Stamping with the Dragon.

Ingredients Used: -

Digi Stamp Penny's Apples
Backing Papers - Gentle Waves
Copics used were - G21|G28|G29|YG03 = Penny
                                E53|E57|E59 = apple tub
                                R32|R35|R37 = apples
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters | Tea Dye
Spellbinders - labels 23
Heartfelt Creations - classic leaf
Marianne Die - maple leaf
Desiree Leaf
150mm centura pearl card
red card
Creative Expression 4A Embossing Folder-Sea Garden.
Crafters Companion Silver Sparkle Spray.

Well it's a square card for this challenge.  I started with a plain white 6x6 card, matted some red card followed by my backing paper - Gentle Waves which I embossed with the sea garden embossing folder and then distressed around the edges with distress ink - tea dye.

I coloured my digi stamp, Penny's Apples, using my copics and die cut her out using spellbinders labels 23 which I distressed whilst in the die using shabby shutters.

Using another of the backing papers from Gentle Waves I die cut my leaves, distress inked with shabby shutters and then sprayed them with silver sparkle spray.

Thanks for checking out my blog and do pop over to the challenge here. 

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.

Hettie on Stage

Hi folks, hope you are having a fabulous Sunday and getting some crafting in.  Me, I am watching christmas movies, yes I  know, it's a bit early but I do like that feel good factor. 

My post today is another card I made for Hettie.  This one was from her grandmother.  As you can guess Hettie sings and I am told very well according to my mom.  I haven't heard her unfortunately.

The image is a digi stamp I found on Esty and coloured in with my copics.  The backing paper is centura pearl embossing using the swirl embossilicious folder- the8x8- which I do love.  So useful. The flower is a spellbinders and the leaves are from crafters companion dies I think.  Beautiful dies I have to admit, so useful.  Hettie is stamped with Clarity alphabet stamps, again such a useful stamp collection to have in your stamp stash.

I have put some glitter on the feather wrap using a glue stick and white glitter.

Hope you like this one.  Thanks for stopping by.  Until next time, take care.

Halloween-StampingDragonStyle

 

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.  Hope your day is going well? 

Don't know what your weather is like but here in the West Midlands it is raining cats and dogs. Good day to stay in and craft - hee hee

My post today is a DT sample for our new challenge over at Stamping With The Dragon Challenge which is Halloween.  Now I don't celebrate or even like Halloween so this is my very first halloween card I have ever made.

Shopping List

C5 black card
Orange pearlescent card
Backing papers - Spooky Night
Digi stamp - Jiggy's Pumpkin
Spellbinders - basic lattice die
Marianne die leaves
Dienamics swirl
Copics - G21 | G28 | G29 | YG00 | YR02 | YR04 | YR07
Pearl moon guilding wax
versamark pen
WOW white twinkle embossing powder
Clear embossing powder
black versafine ink
Clarity alphabet stamp

I matted  my backing paper from Spooky Night selection onto a black card blank, I have also distressed this around the edges..  I then used my versamark pen to draw a spiders web coming out of the top left hand corner and embossed it with the WOW white twinkle powder.  Hopefully you can just see this.

Using spellbinders lattice die I cut some dark green card and placed that onto my backing paper.  I also die cut the swirl using a dienamics die.  My wording was stamped using the clarity alphabet stamp, black versafine ink and clear embossing powder and then cut out and placed onto my card.

Jiggy's Pumpkin digi stamp was printed out and coloured using copic pens.  Cut out, shaped and placed onto my card.   The leaves were die cut using a marianne die and green card finished off with some pearl gilding wax.

I do hope you like my first halloween card.  Thanks for checking out my blog and do pop over to the challenge here.

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.

Hettie Jamming

Hi guys how are you all today?  Hasn't the weather turned nasty.  Gosh I wish this rain would go away, hate the rain I have to admit. Well I have just had a lovely weekend crafting, I actually had 4 days off in a row which was nice, got a good start on my christmas cards but I refuse to start putting them on here until November.  Don't you think christmas starts a little early, our garden centres are already starting to put the decs up and we haven't even got bonfire night over and done with. 

Well my post today was made as an order for a 21st birthday.  Now I have made a few for this customer so I had to come up with something different especially as I was making two for the same person, always difficult.

The image is one I have used before and shown on here actually, Jamming Janice from Mo Manning stable, a lovely image and so ideal for the younger generation.  My topper was coloured in with copics, die cut with a spellie die and I made a faux die to mat and layer.  My sentiment was printed out, die cut and inked up.  The flower is spellbinders too as is the flourish.  You know me and my flowers/flourishes, my trade mark I think hee hee.

The background was made with some music stamps from Dimensions, embossed with a music embossing folder and inked around using spiced marmalade from tim holtz.  All finished off with cosmic shimmer glue dots.  I think I am getting better at those now, more evenly spaced, practice is certainly the key.

Well I happen to know Hettie was pleased with this card and hopefully she had a lovely birthday. Hope you like it and thank you for popping in.  Take care and see you soon.

 

I have entered this card into the following challenge: -

Challenges 4 Everyone - No 31 Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog - Challenge 54 Add Some Orange

2 Sisters Challenge - Challenge 165 Anything Goes

CMC Copic Challenge Group - Anything Goes

Inkspirational - Challenge 41 Anything Goes

Circles - Stamping Dragon Challenge

Hello crafters and followers.  Are you having a good day?

My post today was a challenge for me as I am not known for doing shaped cards and my Stamping Dragon DT challenge was 'circles'.  So I decided to go hybrid and use Craft Artist.

My shopping list
Digi Stamp- Circles Floral Flame
Backing Papers from Lemonade Paper Pack
Serif Craft Artist 2
Sizzix flourishes
Spellbinders Sun kissed Fleur stamps and die.
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - tea dye
Copic Ciao - Y02 | YR04
Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder - Tropic Yellow Lustre

I started with blank 8x8 page and the imported my two backing papers, placed on of them onto my page and stamped out my circle.  I them imported the digi stamp, used the cutout facility to cut out the centre of the digi stamp and when I was happy with that I then converted my digi stamp into an intelligent frame.  This meant that when I imported my photograph I could just drop it into my digi stamp frame.  Before I placed my photograph in I did change the colour of the frame.

My 2nd backing paper I used to punch out a couple more circles, roughened the edges and placed them behind my digi stamp frame.  I then printed it all out onto card and cut around the circle.

I used my copics to do a bit of colouring around the edges of my digi stamp and frame plus the butterflies.  Placed it onto a 8x8 card and cut around that too. I was then ready for my embellishments which are the spellbinders sunkissed fleur stamps and die plus the cosmic shimmer embossing powders all topped off with sizzix flourishes in brown card.

Thank you for checking out my blog and don't forget to visit and enter the challenge here.

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.