Jingle Bells

Good morning all.

Yesterday's weather didn't turn out to be as bad as forecast but we had a bit of everything in the space of about an hour...Scotland at it's best! Kids loved the house...thankfully! One even gave us a list of modifications needed to his room including a second window and a carpet....kids these days...what's wrong with straw!!

Christmas again today and a cute little CAS card.

Image from Stampendous, part coloured with promarkers with added Glossy Accents to Rudolph's nose. Die from Wplus9 cut twice to give some dimension to the card.

Challenges entered:

Christmas Stampin' all Year Round - Christmas gift

Christmas Card Challenges - anything goes

Addicted to Stamps - make your mark

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

AAA - anything goes

CAS on Sunday - Christmas

Let it Snow...

Good morning all.

Off out for a spa afternoon and lunch later....a birthday treat from my eldest which I only just got around to organising.

A Christmas card to share with you, one of several I made at the weekend.

Dies and EF from Spellbinders. Image from Stampendous heat embossed with silver EP. Sentiment and snowflakes from Woodware. Gems from my stash.

Challenges entered:

52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown - friends and family

The Glory of Christmas - CAS

CHNC Extra - anything Christmas

Cas-ual Chic - metals

Wags 'n Whiskers - embossing

Simon Says Stamp - Christmas

Crafting for all Seasons - embossing

Addicted to Stamps - anything goes

First Christmas

Good morning all.

It's been a wild and wicked night here, the forecast is sunny today but to stay windy....better keep the hatches battened down!

I've finally made something I can share with you....I've been beavering away in the craft room getting ahead of myself. I'm down to my last 8 Christmas cards and I need an Anniversary card and December will be done and I can then make a start on next year's DT commitments which are due whilst I'm away. Also been called up for Jury service mid December which is also going to put a spanner in the works!!

I sorted all my Christmas cards yesterday to see what sort I still needed to make...this was top of the list to do for my nephew and his family. Penguin die from Marianne Design; accessories from the Tim Holz Crazy Birds set (coloured with promarkers); holly sprig from Poppy Stamps; snow landscape dies from Lawn Fawn; other dies all from Spellbinders. Background has been stamped with snowflakes from STAMPlorations with versamark, then inked with DI. Sentiment stamp from Clearly Besotted, googly eyes from my stash.

Challenges entered:

A Snowflakes Promise - anything Christmas goes

CHNC Extra - anything Christmas goes

CHNC - red and green must be seen

ABC Christmas - w for wild thing

I Love Promarkers - traditional Christmas

Simon Says Stamp - Christmas

Sisterhood of Crafters - Christmas

Inky Chicks - Christmas

Pile it On - any holiday/celebration

A Gem of a Challenge - Christmas critters

Christmas Card Club "Cardinal or Christmas Bird"

Good morning all.

Made a little progress with the holiday plans yesterday but we're still only half way there...it's exhausting! Did manage to get all the dirty washing washed and dried. Nothing ready for tonight though!!

I'm a day early with my card for the Christmas Card Club as I have a couple of DT posts going live tomorrow. Mary has asked to see "Cardinals or other Christmas Birds" this time.

Unfortunately I still don't have any Cardinals in my Christmas stash so decided to use this cheeky little crazy bird instead. I'm lucky to have the bird stamps and dies and some of the accessory sets....and I used them all here. The background and the bird are cut from pieces made during a distress paint marbling play. The hat was stamped onto red and white card and pieced together, then I added stickles for texture. Mat dies are from Wplus9 and Spellbinders. I finished with some googly eyes.

Think I'll make another two of these and use them for the kids this year!

And since I had made and scheduled this card early I did just that!!

Made exactly the same way as the first using differing birds and colours.

If you'd like to see what the rest of the ladies came up with you'll find the list in my sidebar.

Challenges entered:

CHNC extra - anything Christmas goes

Addicted to Stamps - holiday

ABC Christmas - v for very cute

Work it Wednesday - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp - throwback..Dec 14 holiday card

Winter Wonderland - anything Christmas goes

Allsorts - Christmas

Lucky

Good morning all.

Doctors appointment this morning which will probably incur blood tests and an MRI scan this afternoon which involves being pumped with dye...I just hope they can find some veins or I'll end up looking like a pin cushion!

Today's share is a small canvas. I bought a set of Gelatos quite some time ago and haven't really spent any time playing with them. I made amends yesterday and here is the result:

Using yellow, orange and red I scribbled over the canvas which I'd primed with gesso. I used a baby wipe to blend the colours. Then I decided to have a play with some Tim Holz goodies! Texture paste was applied through the sunburst stencil and left to dry. I stamped and die cut a Crazy bird from some waste gelli print card cutting the smaller pieces from contrasting card and glueing them in place. Sentiment was stamped on tissue with black archival. I used black soot DI to ink around the canvas then used gel medium to attach the sentiment and bird. Canvas was finished with some texty words.

Challenges entered:

A Vintage Journey - things with wings

Love to Create Challenge - anything mixed media/creative/inky goes

Not Just Cards - anything goes

Artistic Stampers - anything goes

Country View Crafts - summertime
Rhedd's Creative Spirit - anything goes

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge - get texty

Happy Birthday to you

Good morning all.

Well yesterday was a bit of a washout and today isn't looking much better! I'm off to the hairdresser's later, then getting my nails done. Hope it fairs up so I can walk there and back....I need the exercise!

Sharing another birthday card today.

The lovely Becca is hosting a Birthday Bash Link-up to which everyone is invited, here is the mood board to get your creative juices going. She has some fabulous prizes on offer!

I was inspired by the bird and the colours to create my card.

This is a real snippet buster....all the card was in the bit box! Die is my favourite from Wplus9, the sun also comes from the same set. Embossing folder is from Crafter's Companion which I sprayed with distress spray...this was a piece made for another project which didn't work. The Tim Holz Crazy Bird from Stampendous and Clearly Besotted sentiment are stamped onto some of the leftover bits from my very first gelli plate play.

Challenges entered:

Becca's Birthday Bash - mood board

Bloggers - the letter B (bird, blue, birthday)

Fussy and Fancy - things with wings

Sister Act Card Challenge - anything goes

Creative Artiste - anything mixed media with texture and spray mists

plus colour palette

Seize the Birthday - anything goes

Southern Girls - get messy with ink and paint
Dream Valley - embossing wet/dry
Not Just Card - anything goes
One Crazy Stamper - anything goes

Spring

Good morning all.

It would seem spring has arrived and it looks set to stay mild for a few more days yet..I'll not be "casting a cloot" anytime soon though!

A journal page to share today. 

 

Another double page spread in my journal completed...finally caught up with myself! 

Pages have been gessoed before using embossing paste through the Honeysuckle and Woodland Flower stencils from Imagination Crafts. I added some tissue tape and re-applied more gesso. Colour was applied using cracked pistachio and abandoned coral DI...loving these two colours! Stencils were then replaced and I painted with twinkling H2O's.

I used several of the smaller stamps from the decoupage stamps sets I have to stamp in the background with DI and archival inks. Bullrush stamp is from Lavinia Stamps. April Showers stamp is from Crafter's Companion, Live Create sentiment is from TH both are stamped direct to paper with archival ink. Bird house was a magazine freebie stamped onto tissue and coloured with promarkers. Spring word art was printed from google onto tissue.

White circles are stamped with white acrylic using a lid, then I used my fingers to apply white acrylic to soften the whole page.

Challenges entered:

Virginia's View - all thing embossed

Artistic Stamper - spring is coming

Inspiration Journal - spring blooms

ATP Exchange - spring

Crafty Boots - anything but a card

Country View Challenges - anything goes

LIM x 2

I love this stamp from the Stamp Barn - stamped in memento ink and embossed with holographic embossing powder. Sentiment from Daisy and Dandelion treated the same way. Then I left well alone incase I messed up!

This is the reason I love the stamp - meet Freya our gorgeous one year old Siberian Husky.



This one made for Debgems - image from Stampendous stamped with versamark and embossed with blue EP. Corners dry embossed.

Challenge Less is More - embossing

Carol x

LIM

Well I've embossed both heat and dry, paper pricked and stamped my way through the last couple of hours and this is plan D everything else will end up as two layer cards!!

Image is from Stampendous and sentiment from Elusive Images, both have been stamped in versamark and heat embossed with pink embossing powder. Corners have been dry embossed using the Ultimate board.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - embossing

Simon says Stamp - look what the stork brought

Carol x

Productive Day

Got up early (for me anyway!) this morning as I had groceries scheduled for delivery between 9 and 11am - a phone call at 9.30am told me they were running late so decided to make an early start in the craftroom. I've managed five in total albeit little ones. This is the first:

I needed a baby boy card and this is my favourite stamp from Stampendous (I have a matching one for a baby girl), stamped with versamark and embossed with blue embossing powder. I'm not sure where the sentiment stamp is from but it was given the same treatment. Card is finished with a blue bow.

Challenges entered:

LIM - off centre

Simon Says Stamp - emboss it

Carol x