Outlawz Crash Your Stash - choose one of the techniques from this year's challenges

   This is my pair of cards made for my DT make for Outlawz Crash Your Stash!

Our sponsor this month is Cara Malmrose

We have hit the end of the year so this challenge will combine ALL the challenges from the past year. 

you MUST tell us what you used to be considered for the prize draw!

Your choices are:

Corner punches - this is what I used!

Doilies

Felt

Flocking

Heat Embossing powders

Mesh

Old Design Paper

Ribbon

Twine

Washi tape

I started with black glossy card blanks.

Using squares of white card I masked circles in the centre and stamped circles of images round these. (Stampin Up stamps). 

I corner punched the corners and added some faux stitching with a fineliner.

Hope to see you in the challenge...Happy Crafting!

Christmas by John Betjeman

 This is my make for the DT team of Outlawz

 Sunday Songs and Rhymes

December 12th - December 25th

 

 For the month of  December our sponsor is:

Alex Syberia Design 

The prize for the winner would be a $15 gift card to the Etsy shop

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Find inspiration in the song or rhyme:

Christmas by John Betjeman

 

The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain
In many a stained-glass window sheen
From Crimson Lake to Hookers Green.

The holly in the windy hedge
And round the Manor House the yew
Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge,
The altar, font and arch and pew,
So that the villagers can say
'The church looks nice' on Christmas Day.

Provincial Public Houses blaze,
Corporation tramcars clang,
On lighted tenements I gaze,
Where paper decorations hang,
And bunting in the red Town Hall
Says 'Merry Christmas to you all'.

And London shops on Christmas Eve
Are strung with silver bells and flowers
As hurrying clerks the City leave
To pigeon-haunted classic towers,
And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.

And girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum,
And sleepless children's hearts are glad.
And Christmas-morning bells say 'Come!'
Even to shining ones who dwell
Safe in the Dorchester Hotel.

And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Baby in an ox's stall ?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me ?

And is it true ? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant,

No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare -
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.

I printed this image to make a single layer card and painted it with watercolours - easy peasy!  

 

Hope you will join in the challenge...

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Happy Crafting!

Gecko Galz Inspirations

  This month our Challenge theme is 

 "Holly & Ivy"

December 1st to the 29th.

Feel free to grab the badge, and share on your blogs.

There is only one rule, and that is you need to use at least ONE  product from Gecko Galz!!  

It can be one of the free products, stamps, collage images, or digital papers!!  It is up to you!!

The winner will receive a $25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree 

My second make for  "Holly & Ivy" is a journal page using mages from the Holly and Ivy sheet.

I started by preparing the background in my grey journal -

 inspired by Jen at Hillbilly Scrappin

This involved inks and a stencil, followed by a collage of scraps from my stash - some Gelli plate pulls, papers and an embossed piece.

I then added the images and some embellishments.

Today is also my turn to share the next tag of Christmas:

Happy Crafting!

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge 572 for 11 December 2021 - quick and easy

A new Christmas Challenge every Saturday!

Today Crafty Hazelnut brings a new weekly Christmas Challenge

with the theme 'Quick and Easy'.

Do pop over and see the fabulous inspiration from my teamies!

If you enter you could win a prize... 

Every week a prize is given to a randomly chosen winner...

A simple card today... as it gets closer to Christmas my cards become part of a conveyer belt, making lots of backgrounds, then adding to them. As the cost of postage has become so much more expensive I am also making more smaller, one layer cards with fewer embellishments!

Today I am sharing another of the same!!

Recipe:

1. This started with a white card blank.
2. I added a layer of stamping using Cactus Green Stazon - one of my favourite Noolibird stamps - the tree, then the script (Finnabair Messy)
3. I then added the die cut robins and sentiment (Advent calendar one year).

Happy Crafting!

This picture shows the cards from this week and last week...

Color Dare Challenge #474

  These are another set of makes for the 

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge DT

Do pop over to the Color Dare Challenge and take a look at my teamies' makes!

This is today's colour scheme 

These cards are based on a workshop by Mel Johns during a virtual retreat from

 Hillbilly Scrapping. To start I used acrylic paint in the colours of Papaya, Avocado (in the pictures this looks a bit yellow), and Flamingo and then Harbour with a BeeArty stencil.

I then used another stencil and gold paint.

I trimmed this to size adding each piece to a white card blank, matted with black.

I stencilled the figure in black (Stencil from Scrapbookingncraft) six times and cut these out.

I doodled on the backgrounds in black and white and then added the figures and sentiments.

Hope you will join the Color Dare Challenge...

Happy Crafting!