Thursday, 13 December 2012

More Christmas cards!

I can't believe I didn't make enough LOL!!  So 3 quick makes, all the same style, but different colourways ... I simply embossed the card blank, added a panel of patterend paper and some ribbon, the image, colored with my pens and some gems ... very quick!


Challenges:
Creative Inspirations - Comtemporary Christmas colours
Addicted to stamps and more - bingo (embossing, ribbon, free) 


Challenges:
Divas by Design - use some red
Crafts and me - WHy so blue? no blues


 Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - snow white
Joanna Sheen- with love at Christmas 
Crafty Boots - Christmas
Cupcake Craft - Merry Christmas
Forever Friends - Christmas
Songbird - Merry Christmas
CRAFT - Christmas
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes
PaperPlay - Christmas is coming
Love to Create - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Everybody Art - anything goes

 Supplies:
Image: Stempleglede Grungy Christmas
Sentiment: 
Colouring medium: promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Jovial, Aspen frost
 Embellishments: lace, ribbon, flat backed gems
Tools:



 

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Primrose and the Snowman

I hope I am coming to the end of showing my Christmas cards - just 2 more to go after this one I think!!  I have coloured Primrose in using my pens and then added some stickles and pearl pen.  The white cardstock is simply embossed and I added some ribbon, snowflakes and gems.

Supplies
Sentiment: Craftwork cards
Colouring medium: promarkers
Papers: 
Embellishments: punched and die cut snowflakes, ribbon, flat backed gems
 Tools: Marianne Creatible snowflake die, Martha Stewart snowflake punch, 
snowflake punch, embossing folders

Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - snow white
Joanna Sheen- with love at Christmas 
Fuss n Fancy - I love Christmas 
One Stop Craft - Christmas Friends
Crafty Boots - Christmas
Cupcake Craft - Merry Christmas
Forever Friends - Christmas
Incy Wincy - Christmas with snowflakes
Songbird - Merry Christmas
CRAFT - Christmas
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes
PaperPlay - Christmas is coming
Sweet Stampin' - dies or punches
I Love Promarkers - anything goes
Love to Create - anything goes
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Everybody Art - anything goes
Passion for Promarkers - happy in the sentiment

 

Monday, 10 December 2012

Ellie's Birthday candy

On 7th December my baby is going to be 8 years old ... I really cannot believe that she is going to be 8!!!!  Anyway in honour of that I am offering up a little candy to someone.



 So what is on offer??
$12 Saturated Canary voucher
and
A suprise package.

All you have to do to win the goodies is ...
  • post the picture of the gold present on your sidebar
  • add your linky
  • you don't have to be a follower 
  • (I would rather you didn't follow, than follow and then remove yourself)

 Closing date is Monday10th December at 10pm and I will draw the prize soon after.

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Cooking up a recipe

We have a recipe challenge for this week, over at That Craft Place - and not the cooking type!!  We want you to use1 image, 2 patterned papers, 3 colors (excluding skin tones, and 4 embellishments).

I coloured in the image using my pens and cut her out using nesties.  I have kept the layout simple, and added some mulberry flowers with button centres, a die cut corner and some ribbon - sticking to 4 types of embellishments was HARD!!!  Finally I stamped the sentiment in red ink and cut it out using my nesties.

Supplies:
Colouring medium: promarkers
Tools: Cuttlebug, oval nestibilities, Joy metal shim

Challenges:
CRAFT - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - red and green
PaperPlay - Christmas is coming
I Love Promarkers - anything goes 
 Color Throwdown - red riding hood, crumb cake, basic black, gumball green
Paper Pretties - Christmas inspired
Crafts and Me - anything goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes
Card Crafters Circle - December Celebration
Fussy and Fancy - I love Christmas


 

Saturday, 8 December 2012

Basic Grey Challenge

 This week's theme is Its looking alot like Christmas ... and it is in our house - tree up, presents bought and wrapped, cards wrtten ... for once I am really organised!!

I have really enjoyed making cleaner and simpler Christmas cards this year - and I love this design, going to feature alot next year LOL!!!  It is all matted onto hammered gold card, and I coloured the mistletoe in using my pens.  Some lace, the obligatory gingham and some teeny gems to finish.

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Supplies
Image: Stempleglede Grungy Christmas
Sentiment: 
Colouring medium: promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Jovial
 Embellishments: lace, ribbon, flat backed gems
Tools: 

Challenges:
 Color Throwdown - red riding hood, crumb cake, basic black, gumball green
Paper Pretties - Christmas inspired
Crafts and Me - anything goes
Papercraft Star - include gold on a Christmas card
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes
CRAFT - Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - red and green
PaperPlay - Christmas is coming
I Love Promarkers - anything goes
Card Crafters Circle - December Celebration
Fussy and Fancy - I love Christmas

 

Friday, 7 December 2012

Totally Papercrafts Challenge

 The theme this week has been chosen by the lovely Sue and it is One for the Boys ...
I love this Lala land Crafts Luka image, great for those cheeky boys we know!!  I coloured it with my pens and then simply layered up a couple of layers and added the sentiment.  It is for one of the girls' friends, and to be honest he isn't going to appreciate anything fussy or embellished - he's a bit of a boy's boy!!!

Supplies:
Colouring medium: promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Wander
Embellishments:
Tools: 

 Challenges:
 I love Promarkers - anything goes
Crafts and Me - anything goes

 

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Christmas Dress

This is my neice's Christmas card - very girly!!!  I coloured the image in using my pens and then added sparkly glittery stuff and stickles to the hat, shawl and boots.  I layered up the ribbons and added a double bow.  The flowers are layered with a card candi centre, and I just had to add this gorgeous sparkly twig spray.  Finally some flat backed pearls to finish  A very sparkly, girl Christmas card - but I bet she'd be perfect for a winter birthday card.

Supplies: 
Colouring medium: copics
Papers: Nitwits
Embellishments:  flowers, sparkly spray, ribbon, pearls, stickles
Tools: 

Challenges:
 Ribbon Girls - Christmas
Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time
Challenges4everyone - anything goes
Bunny Zoe - winter
Cards Galore - Christmas
Everybody Art- Christmas 
2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle
Papertake Weekly- anything goes
Totally Gorguss - anything goes with glitter
Pile it On - pile on the embellishments
Sentimental Sunday - no traditional Christmas colours
Stamp with fun - sketch
The Paper Shelter - 2 of anything (ribbons, flower)
Stamp and Create - Sparkly Christmas

 

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Sepia Father Christmas

This has got to be my favourite Father Christmas stamp, and I love colouring him n vintage, sepia tones.  Having coloured him in I added some glamour dust to his hat and coat, and a teeny bit of vintage photo to the edges of the cardtock, just to help him stand out a bit.  I embossed the cardstock using my snowflakes folder and then added flat backed pearls - very simple.


Supplies: 
 Sentiment: Craftwork cards
Colouring medium: promarkers
Papers: linen cardstock
Embellishments: flat backed pearls
Tools: 

 Challenges:
  Ribbon Girls - Christmas
Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time
Challenges4everyone - anything goes
Cards Galore - Christmas
Everybody Art- Christmas 
2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle
Papertake Weekly- anything goes
Totally Gorguss - anything goes with glitter
Sentimental Sunday - no traditional Christmas colours
Without Words - monochrome Christmas
Creative Craft - WOW Christmas
 Cupcake Craft - It'll be all white on the night
Stamps and Creativity=fun - photo inspiration
Crafty Calender - White Christmas
Sugar Bowl- sketch
Bearly mine - Santa
Pasion for Promarkers - 'Happy' in the sentiment
 Tuesday Throwdown - white Christmas

 

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Crafty Sentiments Challenge

 This week's Crafty Sentiment's challenge theme is Snowmen.  Our Challenge prize is a £10 voucher - you be in for 2 chances of winning if you use a Crafty Sentiments image but also why not join in the facebook challenge - anything goes as long as you use a Crafty Sentiments image there is another £10 voucher up for grabs there It can be found here but you only have 1 more day to enter new challenge over there starts friday.

I love snowmen, and how cute is this one with his 3 little friends?!!  Having coloured him in using my pens, i added some stickles and some Cosmic Shimmer glittery snow emossing powder.  I have kept the layout simple, just adding the ribbon and gems, and the sentiment.

Supplies
Colouring medium: promarkers
Papers: Basic Grey Jovial
Embellishments: ribbon, flat backed gems, stickles
 Tools:

 Challenges:
Ribbon Girls - Christmas
The Cupboard Trilogy - frosty winter
2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle
Sweet Stampin' ribbon and snowflakes
Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time
Challenges4everyone - anything goes
Bunny Zoe - winter
Cards Galore - Christmas
Everybody Art- Christmas
 

Monday, 3 December 2012

Blue and White Christmas

Hopefully these are the last of my Christmas cards - they are for hubby's work place, just got 6 left on my desk to matt up.

I used the same stamp for both, simply stamping the snowflake up in chipped Sapphire distress ink, before embossing it in clear embossing powder.  The white cardstock has been embossed using a couple of embossing folders and I simply added ribbon ... very easy peasy!

Challenges:
 Cupcake Craft - It'll be all white on the night
Stamps and Creativity=fun - photo inspiration
Crafty Calender - White Christmas
Ribbon Girls - Christmas
The Cupboard Trilogy - frosty winter
Without Words - monochrome Christmas
Creative Craft - WOW Christmas


Challenges:
2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle
Sweet Stampin' ribbon and snowflakes
Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time
Challenges4everyone - anything goes
Come and Get it - blue Christmas
Bunny Zoe - winter
Cards Galore - Christmas


Supplies
Image: Bo Bunny Snowflake
Sentiment: 
Colouring medium: Distress ink, embossing powder
Papers: linen cardstock
Embellishments: ribbon
Tools: snow flake and swiss dots embossing folders