Christmas Card Club #7 Cute Christmas

It's time for another challenge at our Christmas Card Club and the theme for today is Cute Christmas.

For my card I decided to use my Hobby Arts "Small Parts" stamp - I think it's so cute with the polar bears and penguins.  I stamped it onto white card and then paper pieced the letters which had Diamond Glaze on them after I'd attached them to the main image.  The little colouring was done with Flexmarkers.....really just a touch of a blue grey and some yellow for feet and beaks.

I made a stepper card for a change.  Now I know these are easy to make but how often have you done one and been a fraction off with your measuring or cutting and ruined the whole thing???  So when I saw that Cheery Lyn had actually released a die that cut not only the main card but also all the panels I did a little happy dance!  I've not seen it over here and actually bought it from the States - which was probably no more expensive than if I'd bought it here.  It always amazes me that the US$ price actually turns into the same thing in £'s................hmm like over twice as expensive right?

Anyway, the main card is a red base with the panels cut from papers in my stash.  For the centre piece I embossed a piece of white card with a Cuttlebug icicle e/f and added a ribbon before adhering the main panel. The bottom has been shaped with a Fiskars border punch, as has the paper panel.

As this card also fits the Completely Christmas  Challenge #5 Anything Goes I will be entering my card there.

Thanks for dropping by - hope you're having a great weekend.

Less is More - Week 108 - Paper Piercing

As my friend Darnell would say............. WHOOSH and here we are at Wednesday already!!!  lol  Although I entered the current Less is More challenge of Paper Piercing it was a little bit of a cheat as it was also my DT card for Addicted to CAS and I think Chrissie would "like to see a bit more white card"............. (hehe) and I'd also mistakenly put Paper Piecing instead of Piercing - humble apologies.

So as I've just found a super talented lady by the name of Teri who owns Delicious Doodles I thought I'd christen one of her digi stamps called Working the Land.  I printed the image out onto super smooth printer card and die cut it with a nesties circle and matted it up on black and silver mirri die cut circles.  The background layer has been paper pierced using an Ornare pricking stencil and then layered onto a square white linen card blank.  The sentiment is Hobby Arts matted onto black card and popped up to give some dimension.




Thought you might like to see a visitor we see quite often either in the garden or the field at the back of us............amazing sight and it's not often I manage to lay my hands on the camera but he/she decided to hang around for a while...... perhaps thought as it was so wet there were bound to be a few fish swimming around!!!  lol

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Less is More - Week 84 - One Layer

Hi Guys - the challenge over at Less is More this week is:

One Layer Card

Challenge Week

For the focus of your contributions this week we would like to see 

FOLIAGE

but PLEASE don't forget to leave that all important white space...


Things have been pretty hectic over the last few days and I've been busy getting samples ready for our club night tonight - if I get a chance I will post a photo of some of them tomorrow.

I started out with an A5 pearlised white card base and scored lines to give my "stamping area".  I then cut a mask so I wouldn't go over the lines..........so easy to do!!!  I've used a clear stamp set which doesn't have a name on it but it is just different leaves and fern fronds.  I stamped randomly in Versamark ink and clear embossed it.  I have then sponged various colours of Distress Inks over the whole area.  When I'd got it to the colour I wanted I then used a piece of kitchen towel to buff up the clear embossed areas.  The finishing touches were a sentiment (Hobby Art) and three green pearls.

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Addicted to Stamps - CAS #1

Hello Everyone - well today signals a new challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and this week it's CAS (Clean and Simple).  For my card I have stamped out my Penny Black Reverie stamp using black Versafine ink.  I've then used three colours of Liquid Pearls (my new best friends!) to fill in the dots on the tree.  I've cut it out using a nestie and edged in silver.  The sentiment is Hobby Arts and it's been embossed in Silver detail e/p.  I die cut a Spellbinders fancy tag and added the sentiment and used the Liquid Pearls to add a bit extra.

Please pop over to ATS to see the wonderful cards the rest of the DT have made and come join the fun!

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Less is More - Week 59 - Theme - Masking

Hello Everyone - a quick post today as I'm off down to Portsmouth in a minute to meet my new great nephew Charlie.

This weeks challenge over at Less is More is Masking and my immediate thoughts turned to my JudiKins stamps - African Safari and Square Postage Frame.  I stamped the frame onto an off white pearlescent card and onto a piece of copy paper.  I then cut out the centre of the frame on the copy paper to use as a mask and also punched out a circle for the sun.  I inked up my brayer with Big & Juicy Foliage ink to give the background colour.  When it was dry I then inked up my African Safari stamp with Versafine ink and stamped into the frame.  I then cut out another mask for the whole frame, placed it on the card and then used an ornate swirl (unfortunately as it's a clear stamp and there's no name anywhere I can't remember where I got it from.......).  I inked this up with the Foliage inkpad and stamped over the masked frame.  The finishing touch was the sentiment which is by Hobby Art.

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Quick post..........

I decided to take a quick break from making wedding stationery to make another LIM card which will fit both the Less is More colour challenge and also the Simplicity challenge One Layer Wednesday Swirly Fun.

I stamped the Medallion Stampin Up stamp half off the page using Versafine Vintage Sepia.  I made sure it had dried thoroughly before stamping an ornate swirl in DI Walnut Stain and then clear embossing the swirl.  I'm not sure where I got the stamp but it's part of a clear set with no name on it.  I added clear gems to the swirls (not sure it shows up too much) before stamping and embossing the sentiment which is from Hobby Arts.

Thanks for dropping by - have a great crafty weekend.

Less is More - Week 49 - Colour - Purple

This week the LIMettes have been asked to base their card around a colour theme which is:
 

Predominantly Purple

On some white card I have stamped the Vogue Silhouette (Stamps Happen) using Dusty Concorde DI.  I then stamped the same image onto acetate using Royal Purple Stazon in.  I drew around the outline and on the shadows of the dress with a Quickie Glue pen, waited for it to dry, and then used purple foil to add more colour.  I then cut the acetate out and used a purple brad to attach it to the original stamped image.  I matted this onto some purple mirri card.  The sentiment is from Hobby Arts and I stamped it in the Dusty Concorde again and clear embossed it.  It was then die cut using a labels die and mounted onto purple mirri.  This was very difficult to photograph as the purple seems almost to turn black but I've taken the front view and a side view so you can see the acetate overlay.

 

Less is More - Week 42 - Theme - Silhouette

The girls over at Less is More have challenged us to come up with a card designed around silhouettes this week.  I decided to use this image from a Debbie Moore CD and die cut it using my oval nesties.  I then triple embossed using Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel.  I die cut the corresponding scalloped oval in black card and mounted.  I've used a square white linen card and put it through my Joy using a Tim Holtz embossing folder but just embossing the bottom 2/3rds of the card.  I tied on a polka dot ribbon and added the silhouette.  I then stamped the sentiment (Hobby Art) using black Versafine ink and added three black pearls to the bottom.

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Less is More - Week 41 - One Layer - Leaves........ No 2!

I've obviously been hit with some inspiration this week!!!  lol  Here's my second offering for the Less is More challenge.  I took an 8x8 card blank and placed a Prima mask on top.  I then used Distress Inks and a blending tool around the edges.  The sentiment is from Hobby Arts and stamped using the DI's.  Very quick and simple.

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Less Is More - Week 35 - Colour of your eyes

This weeks challenge over at LIM is:

Here we are again and it's time for another COLOUR challenge.

This week we have chosen

THE COLOUR OF YOUR EYES

You don't necessarily have to have an exact match, but if your eyes are blue, then any shade of blue will be fine, likewise with brown, grey, green etc.. (We aren't as mean as all that!)

However, the colour you choose should be the predominant colour on your card... we don't want to see just a hint of it.

I decided to use this stamp again and I think it's from Impression Obsession but I've had it so long I can't quite remember.  I've got green eyes so have used Distress Inks in Crushed Olive and Forrest Moss to stamp the image and then die cut using my Spellbinders Blossom dies.  I've decoupaged the layers using Pinflair onto a cream card blank.  The sentiment is a Hobby Arts stamp using Forrest Moss.

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Glitter, Ribbon & pins

Die Cut Dream's challenge this week is glitter, ribbon and pins.

I started off using a new stamp I bought at Exeter the other week - it's called NO-EL by Hobby Art and I loved the polar bears and penguins on it.  Stamped with Memento and coloured using ProMarkers.  I then took some double sided adhesive sheet, cut to size, placed over the image.  I then took the top layer off and sprinkled with Glamour Dust.  I then layered onto black and red mirri card.  The card base is a DL covered in paper from my PM Classic Christmas set.  I punched the long edge using Martha Stewart's raindrop edge punch (which I thought looked a little bit like Christmas lights) and added some red card underneath.  A piece of red card and the patterned paper were placed underneath the main image.  I used some red and white dotty ribbon and then punched out some flower layers from red and black card using SU punches and used a pin from Posh Pins & Charms to attach them.  The pin started off with black beads and a pearl inbetween but as I wanted red I thought I'd try colouring it with ProMarkers and it worked brilliantly.  The sentiment is computer generated (I could just imagine the polar bear on the right of the image saying this in a very gruff voice!!!  lol) and matted using SU punches.  The last thing I did was to put a strip of red liner tape down the right hand side of the card and sprinkle it with Glamour Dust.

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