Vintage Christmas

Yesterday I started another card for the Make My Monday challenge as I wasn't that happy with my first entry. This time I've tried the vintage style ( way out of my comfort zone, but the more you do I suppose the better you feel about it?)

I'll also be sending it to St Lukes charity where their theme this month is Christmas.

I've used 3 papers that I'd downloaded years ago from I cant remember where.......a holly print, Hark the Herald Angels music sheet, and vintage christmas angels ( I hope they forgive me for cutting their wings off?! ) .The holly was placed on a cream card base and the edges sponged. A square was torn from the music sheet and red sponged on the edges, and then some fluffy threads were wrapped around it before it was layered on the holly. The 2 children were cut out and stuck down and then the whole thing was sponged with a distress ink. The sentiment banner was added on 3D pads with a bow of the threads dangeling behind it with jingle bells on the ends.

Recipe: Card = from my stash

Inks =  Real Red, Certainly Celery, and Tim Holtz Tea Dye

Stamps = Dovecraft

Extras = Fluffy threads and jingle bells

It's a Grand Prix weekend so I hope I'll get some crafting done.

Thanks for dropping by, and I'd love it if you could call again if you have time.

Orange trees

Today I've rushed around like the squirrels burying their nuts for winter!!

I did manage to squeeze in a few hours at Jacqueline's, and at the last minute before I left, decided to enter the colour challenge at  Simply Stampin where they have these yummy  new colours.

The only SU stamps I had with me was my trusty Lovely as a Tree, so out they came. I've then had to finish it off at mum's friends house ( while they gossiped ) as I was running out of time to enter, so fingers crossed I've made the deadline.

Here's my card using one of my favorite techniques of "sponging". 

On some Very Vanilla card I've sponged the yellowy sky over a Post It sun and a torn scrap paper hill, and then stamped the trees in the snowy foreground. I used the edges of the branches to make hedges along the crests of the hills, and the large pine tree to make a fir tree frame around the card edge. I finished by sponging the foreground to make small hillocks ( sorry they're hard to see in the photo), and drew 3 birds with a write marker.

Recipe: Card = Very Vanilla and square cream card from my stash

Inks = Daffodil Delight, Peach Parfait, and Soft Suede

Stamps = Lovely as a Tree

Extras = Post It

Hope you like it. Tomorrow I'll show you what I did make at Jacqueline's.

Have a good weekend.

Workshop Christmas cards

Would you believe it, I've had another busy day so have not had time to craft, so instead here are the other two cards we made at our Tuesday workshop run by Jacqueline. Click here to visit her fabulous blog to see the details of these cards and her many other stunning creations.

The tree is dimensional and is able to lie flat to fit into an envelope.

Here it is from a different angle.













The other card is this one. Unfortunately, I messed up the stamping of the white tree so it looks thicker than the purple one, oh well.

Hopefully, I can do something tomorrow, so please call again if you can.

 

Baroque Christmas

I've not had much time for crafting again lately, but yesterday it was our craft club day, and for once I managed to make, not just one card, but three.....I know, amazing!!( mind you, it's all down to Jacqueline who did all the hard work and prepared all the elements for us)

I'll show you those later, but first here is a card that I'll be entering into the CAS-ualfridays challenge #27 where the design or embellishments go over the edge of the base card.

As I've used traditional Christmas colours of red, green, and gold I'll also be entering it to the Make My Monday challenge #23, where Christmas is their months theme, and this week it's Traditional or Vintage.

So here it is

I started by drawing around a bauble card of my friend Louise, on some red card and cut it out. The flourish was Versamark stamped on it and heat embossed with gold powder and then gems randomly added. The same flourish was then stamped in green on a 5" square white card that had opposing corners rounded, before the bauble was placed slightly overhanging the edge, as if tied to the green branch behind it. The finishing touches were the gold bow and stamped red sentiment. 

Recipe:  Card = Real Red and Whisper White

Stamps = Baroque Motifs and sentiment ( Jacqueline's)

Inks = Versamark and Real Red

Tools = Heat gun and Xcut corner rounder

Extras = Gold embossing powder, ribbon, and gems

Here's one of the festive cards we made at our workshop. I love that it's so pretty yet so simple to make, and again in the traditional red and green colours.

I'll show you the others in my next post ( if you'd like to pop back?)

Thanks for looking at my blog today, and I'll be back soon with some more projects.

Baroque Motif

I've had a spare hour this afternoon to try to get some housework done, but, oh dear, I only got as far as my craft table, and that was SOOOOO messy that I had to tidy it up!!!.....And somehow, my laptop got turned on and found its way to the Less is More challenge???? Then, I don't know what happened but red and orange inks fell onto my stamps?!...............there was nothing I could do but make a card to save wasting the inks.

This was the result and I'll be linking it to the LIM red and orange colour challenge

The red swirl is enhanced with orange stamped flowers with punched centers ( placed with help of my Stamp-a-ma-jig), and the punched butterfly with the flower stamped on its wings.The sentiment finishes off the diagonal direction of the design across the face of the card.

Recipe : Card = Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White

Stamps = Baroque Motifs and Verve

Inks = Real Red and Peach Parfait

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig, SU Butterfly Punch and Fiskars small flower punch

Extras = Red gems

Thank you for dropping by today, and I hope that I can find the time to do some more crafting this week, as I've really missed getting covered in ink and double sided tape.

Hope to see you soon



Autumn Leaves

No time for crafting today as I'm busy, busy, busy, but here's a quick card that I've made for my favorite challenge blog Make My Monday. The theme is still Autumn and this week they're looking for Autumn Leaves.

This is my card, what do you think??

It started with a square cream card that had the center masked out with a Post It note. I then took some skeleton leaves and pressed them onto some ink pads to coat them with colour, and then I randomly placed them around the edges of the card and rolled over them with a brayer to leave the veins design on the card, and then the leaf removed. Another leaf stamp and some splats were also added before the Post It was removed and a wavy line drawn around the inside of the leaf frame. The sentiment was stamped on the bottom of the center panel ( with the aide of my Stamp-a-ma-jig ) and a brown butterfly added above it stuck by its body so that its wings are dimensional ( the antennae were drawn on the card with a marker.)

Recipe :

Card = Whisper White and cream card base from my stash

Stamps = French Foliage, Strength and Hope, and Verve

Inks = Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, and Adirondack Rust

Tools = Speedball Brayer, Post It note and Stamp-a-ma-jig.

Extras = Skeleton Leaves

I hope to be back soon, but if not, I'll wish you all a good weekend.

Thanks for dropping by

Bermuda Bay Bird

Yaaaaayy, the lovely DT at Make My Monday have chosen me as Top 3 again, Thank you so much Ladies I really appreciate it.

November already??!! Just where has this year gone? Still I love the autumn and winter months, everything looks so beautiful and the colours of the trees are fabulous.

Now, back to the present, today's card is for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge #26  using this sketch as a starting point.


I decided to rotate the sketch through 90* so my card is wider, but still keeping the structure of the design.

This is the end result, what do you think?

I started with some white card and stamping the bird with his wonderful tail on his branch. Then I extended the branch across the rest of the card using two swirls in the same green (with the aid of my Stamp-a-ma-jig ). The stamped image was then layered on some blue card before it all was placed onto a white card base and the corners rounded. To finish, a sentiment and gems were randomly added.

 

Recipe: 

Card = Island Indigo, Whisper White, and white card base from my stash

Stamps = Whimsical Wings, Inkadinkado and Verve

Inks = Bermuda Bay, Pool Party, and Pear Pizzazz

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig and Xcut corner rounder

Extras = gems

I've got a few busy days coming up, so I'll be back as soon as I can.

Thanks for dropping by