Calling all Crafters!

Friday, 6 December 2013

Thin dies

Over the last few months I have added several 'very thin' dies to my collection - I have been waiting patiently for my stuff to be out of storage so I could get at my Big Shot!!

I first used the 'poppies' and found it pretty hard to remove the image - so many thin stalks!!

However my friend Stella suggested 'powdering' the die before using, with my anti-static embossing bag - and yes, it was much easier!

So what did I do with them?

I will show you some of my makes...

Firstly with the 'Cheery Lynn' 'Owls with gears' - just a square card blank matted with Christmas red card. I printed HOOT HOOT HOOT on my computer, cut it to size and added it with some twine and three owls. Hope it amuses you!

I am submitting this to

Crafter's Cafe Anything goes #40 - red and lots of it

My next cards all feature the lovely flourish - the one that I think looks like fireworks!

I thought this could be a New Year card.

I used blue and silver shiny card in the die and glued it to black card on a blue base.

I used the same black and blue cards for the sentiment which I stamped using the chalkboard technique (Here is a Splitcoaststampers tutorial showing how)

I am linking this to Merry Monday Use the Chalkboard technique

at Always Playing with Paper

I still had three flourishes cut in different colours so I chose three different coloured card blanks:

I am submitting this design to

Catch the Bug Holiday Chaos celebration

The image is a Freebie for the December 3rd challenge.
I used non Christmas colours and bling - "Christmas Treats and a glass of milk"

The sentiment is a free stamp from Get Stamping magazine. I used Promarkers for the mouse and black Versafine for the sentiment. The toning matting card is from my scraps - and I added a few gems.

So this is linked to Catch the Bug December 3rd Challenge

I am also linking it to

Seemacrafts Challenge

and

Treasured Times Challenge #9

Happy Crafting!

A couple of sketches or so...

My first sketch is from Seize the Sketch Challenge #9

A lovely simple sketch...

I always have lots of 'bits and bobs' around my craft room -

I save everything and like to recycle!

I came across this tag that had been on a Mother's Day gift from my daughter - very sparkly!

I layered it up and trimmed it and adhered it to a card base matted and layered with black card then a turquoise DP (from my scraps).

Finally I stamped the 'Christmas gift' stamp from 'Stampendous' in the corner.

I am submitting this to

Seize the Sketch Challenge #9

My next sketch is Stella Says Sketch #147 and is part of Bugaboo's

Holiday Chaos Celebration

I decided to use Digi Darla's Holly and Berries again -

coloured with Promarkers and with gems added.

Although I bought this digi it is available as a Freebie with

Digi Darla's Copy Cat Challenge 91

The image and its matching oval mount were cut using the Big Shot and nesting dies.

I used white card, Christmas red card for the banners, DP from Papermania's 12 Days of Christmas and a Paperchase Christmas paper ribbon.

I am submitting this to

DDC#91 Copy Cat

Stella Says Sketch #147

Through the Craftroom Door Anything Goes

Scrapping Everyday Miracles Christmas Challenge

Through the Purple Haze Challenge

I am just going to add one more card to this post...if you have been reading my blog before you will know that I recently moved to India - but still wanted to make and post all my usual Christmas cards. I was rewarded by a couple of my first batch arriving in the UK in 4 days! Fantastic! Not sure about other parts of the world!

I am now about to post my 3rd batch.

Anyway because of posting around the world I have been trying to make small, light cards as far as possible. This is a very simple one using a purchased tag to complete it. Just some red card, Papermania DP and a stamped image:

I am submitting this to

Shabby Tea Room #195

and Crafter's Cafe Anything Goes #40 - Red and lots of it

Happy Crafting!!

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Gertie Goose

If you read the comments on my last post you will see that Kris B surprised me with gift of one of her digi sets as I was first to enter the Imagine That December Challenge

I chose the Gertie Goose set!

I noticed one of the example cards on the website had this cute sentiment:

'Snow Much Fun'

Usually I use the outline digis and colour them myself but for these cards

I used the pre-coloured image...

I printed the sentiment on my printer with a few snowflakes. I added glitter to the images and matted them and layered them as shown. All the papers were from my scraps and the ribbons with paperclip were the final touch.