A host of angels

I still need to make lots of Christmas cards, so last night I had a session of stamping and embossing using the lovely Inkadinkado angel trail stamp inked with versamark and either heat embossed with gold detail or silver detail powder. I've come to the conclusion that the silver looks much better than the gold. The gold has a dull appearance - I think the powder must be getting old and tired ... just like me!

I added some Paper Cellar glitter strips down the sides of the cards and added some peel off greetings at the top right hand corners - these are some of the remains of peel offs that I must have bought over ten years ago - it's about time they were used or thrown away. Some of the card blanks are black stardream that sparkles.

That's another eleven cards done (unfortunately, two didn't make the grade because there were marks on the stamping that shouldn't have been there - but I won't waste them, I'll just use the card blanks with patterned paper covered over them.

These are for:

Stamps & fun = creativity 128: photo inspiration - angel
Card and scrap 44: something with angels
Catered crop: silver and gold
Cardmakin mamas: silver and/or gold
Papercraft star 123: gold on your holiday card
Freshly brewed 125: Christmas
DL.ART thankful Thursday: December holidays
Deep ocean 40: so this is Christmas
Paper pretties Wednesday 235: Christmas inspired

Kreative bastel 12: Christmas
Critter 144: Christmas - anything goes
Lollipop crafts 95: happy holidays
My craft spot 78: merry Christmas
Tammy's scraping corner 39: anything Christmas
Whoopsi Daisy: Christmas cards
The stamping boutique 61: holiday cards
Top tip Tuesday 91: Christmas
Nighshift stamping 146: Christmas clean and simple
QKR stampede 16: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 

Everybody art 216: Christmas

LEJ designs 32: countdown to Christmas
Natalie and Amy December: winter wishes

A & T 19: anything goes
Loves rubber stamps 29: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
2 sisters 120: Christmas sparkle
Allsorts 183: advent
Cards galore December: Christmas
No matter which 5: Christmas
Addicted to stamps 44: Christmas time
Lexi 79: Christmas
Fussy & fancy 77: I love Christmas
Wags n whiskers 93: Christmas
My sheri 99: 'tis the season
Creatalicious 40: winter
Bunny Zoe: winter
DCC & friends 5: Christmas time
Fab n funky 150: not a traditional Christmas
Ruby's rainbow 43: Christmas with non traditional colours
Incy wincy: non-traditional Christmas colours
Dream valley 46: non-traditional Christmas
Sentimental Sundays 131: non-traditional Christmas colours
Timbro scrap mania 59: Christmas in non-traditional colours
Love to create 44: holiday cheer
One crazy stamper December: holiday challenge
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 136: Christmas card no red or green
Hooked on craft 27: Christmas - no red/green
The sisterhood of crafters: embossing
There's magic in the air magical Monday: sparkle sparkle sparkle
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: make it sparkle
CASology 22: sparkle
The stamping shack: sparkle and shine
Brown sugar 18: clean & simple
Chocolate coffee & cards 27: CAS
Clearlyistamp 64: clean and simple
Penny Black and more at Allsorts December: it's your choice
Whimsy 54: anything goes so long as it's festive
Aud sentiments 69: anything goes
Crafty bloggers network 6: anything goes
Stamp your life 1: anything goes
Great impressions December: anything goes
Crafts and me 113: anything goes
Jingle belles: December to remember
Forever friends 50: glitter and sparkle
Totally gorjuss 160: anything goes ... with glitter!
Stempelsonne 77: anything goes with stamp
Penny's 105: anything goes
One stitch at a time 142: anything goes
House of gilli 47: anything goes
Mema crafts December: anything goes
Catch the bug December: anything goes
AnMaCreatief 15: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 18: anything goes
Crafty boots: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 47: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Lady Anne: anything goes stamp challenge
Make it Monday 118
Inspire me Fridays 87
52 card pickup week 48

Have a cool yule

I'm late, I'm late ... for Margaret's snowman challenge for the Christmas card club. I used snow white leather embossed card torn for the snow drifts and inked my favourite Stampotique snowman stamp by Jo Capper Sandon, coloured lightly with alcohol pens. I added some stickles diamond below the torn edges of the drifts. The snowflakes were cut with my woodware snowflake punch ... the shame is that the card was really too thick to punch, so I put it on the floor and stood on it ... this was successful for four snowflakes before the poor punch keeled over and died ... so now I need a new one. Gems added to the snowflakes and buttons for the snowman.

This is also for Moxie fab world Tuesday trigger: shimmer and shine, where this photo is given (it's just a pity that my card doesn't look as sparkly here as it does IRL):

As usual, difficult to get a photo of white on white, but you get the drift (snow drift, maybe - lol!):

This is also for:

Oldie but a goodie: let it snow (the stamp is well over six months old)

Crafty sentiments: snowmen or ladies

Creative craft challenges: white on white Christmas

Celebrate the occasion 91: Christmas (no red or green)

Everybody art 216: Christmas

LEJ designs 32: countdown to Christmas

Ladybug: sparkaliscious

Shopping out stash 80: winter holiday or snow/winter theme
A & T 19: anything goes
Loves rubber stamps 29: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes

Ten quick Christmas cards

As I was getting cards ready this evening to take to mum for her to write, I had a count up ... and found that altogether I still need to make 60 more!  You'd never believe that I've been making cards all year - in fact, I've lost count of how many ... lots were sold for money to go to charity.

I was so thankful that when we were in Maidstone last week I visited Hobbycraft and they had packs of Christmas aperture cards that I thought might come in handy. I actually thought that I would pretty them up with glitter etc, but, as I need some quick cards, I decided to just stamp 'Merry Christmas' with a HOTP stamp and line the insides to show through the acetate using a mix of memorybox yuletide, authentique peaceful collection and teresacollins Christmas home papers.

Phew! That's another ten made. Think I now need to dig out a Hunkydory kit I bought for ... just in case!

These are for:

DL.ART thankful Thursday: December holidays
Allsorts 183: advent
Cards galore December: Christmas
Lexi 79: Christmas
The paper shelter 92: Christmas is coming
Pixie dust studio: winter holiday
Willow sketchie: merry Christmas
Broken box stock 15: happy holidays
Crafts 4 eternity R100: Christmas chaos
Fussy & fancy 77: I love Christmas
Wags n whiskers 93: Christmas
My sheri 99: 'tis the season
Tanda teaser 203: anything Christmas
Creatalicious 40: winter
Bunny Zoe: winter
Sunshine creations 3: snowflakes
SJ crafts 11: Christmas
DCC & friends 5: Christmas time
Dream valley 46: non-traditional Christmas
Sentimental Sundays 131: non-traditional Christmas colours
Elke Kaart een Feestje 143: Christmas non-traditional colours
Love to create 43: non-traditional holiday colours
Guylou's inimitability: twisted Christmas challenge - non-traditional colours
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 136: Christmas card no red or green
Hooked on craft 27: Christmas - no red/green
The squirrel and the fox 32: summer or winter
Cards for men 24: merry Christmas - suitable to send to men
One stop craft 207: Christmas for the boys
Crimbo crackers 29: anything goes
Jingle belles: December to remember
Challenge up your life 83: first snow
Emma's crafty challenge 11: let it snow
Brown sugar 18: clean and simple
Chocolate, coffee & cards 27: CAS
Catch the bug December: anything goes
AnMaCreatief 15: anything goes
Corrosive 163: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 8: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 17: anything goes
Crafty boots: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 42: anything  goes
Simon says: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 28: anything goes
Lady Anne: anything goes
One stitch at a time 142: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 87
52 card pickup week 48

CHNC challenge 101: make it girlie

How did we get to December so quickly? It's time to get serious about Christmas now ... and that means I should get on with some present shopping as well as continuing to make Christmas cards.

For CHNC challenge 101 I'm asking to see 'girlie' cards. The challenge is being sponsored by Linnie's Whoopsi Daisy shop and I've used one of her images - Rosie from the Daisy & Friends CD for my card. I digitally cropped around her to cut out the white background, doing the same with the postbox image and then digitally mounting on to a snow scene, adding some extra snow by using transparency fade, adding the sentiment and then printing it all out and mounting on a red card blank. I added some stickles diamond to the edging of Rosie's coat and hat and a bit of liquid pearls white opal to some of the snow.

This is also for:

Rudolph day December
DL.ART thankful Thursday: December holidays
2 sisters 120: Christmas sparkle
Allsorts 183: advent
Cards galore December: Christmas
No matter which 5: Christmas
Go fish 30: Christmas
Addicted to stamps 44: Christmas time
Lexi 79: Christmas
Paper makeover 64: Christmas
Going grey with Scrap creations: merry Christmas
The paper shelter 92: Christmas is coming
Pixie dust studio: winter holiday
Willow sketchie: merry Christmas
Broken box stock 15: happy holidays
Crafts 4 eternity R100: Christmas chaos
Fussy & fancy 77: I love Christmas
Wags n whiskers 93: Christmas
My sheri 99: 'tis the season
Tanda teaser 203: anything Christmas
I brake for challenges: I brake for holidays
Creatalicious 40: winter
Bunny Zoe: winter
SJ crafts 11: Christmas
DCC & friends 5: Christmas time
Crimbo crackers 29: anything goes
Jingle belles: December to remember
The cupboard trilogoy December: frosty winter
Tammy scraping corner 38: let it snow
Challenge up your life 83: first snow
Emma's crafty challenge 11: let it snow
Freshly brewed 124: across the miles
Whoopsi Daisy: use a digi
Avadares 6: anything with a digi
Digital Tuesday 188: girly
Paper pretties Wednesday 234: girly cards
By the cute and girly December: red, white and blue
Forever friends 50: glitter and sparkle
Totally gorjuss 160: anything goes ... with glitter!
Oozak December: anything goes + red
Catch the bug December: anything goes
AnMaCreatief 15: anything goes
Corrosive 163: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 8: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 17: anything goes
Crafty boots: anything goes
Paper pretties Monday 67: anything goes
Creative card crew 24: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 46: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 42: anything  goes
Party time Tuesday 96: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 28: anything goes
Lady Anne: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 87
52 card pickup week 48

Guest design slot for QKR Stampede

I have the privilege today of being a guest designer for QKR Stampede challenge 16: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

QKR supplied me with the lovely caroling and sentiment images for me to use. I can't remember where the double sided papers came from (I'll come back again if I remember - or does anyone recognise them?) - thanks to Kath, I can now tell you that the papers are Echo Park 'wintertime'; the lovely snowflake ribbon was a prize from Ribbon Girls and the snowflakes made with a Woodware punch.

This is also for:

Rudolph day December
DL.ART thankful Thursday: December holidays
Addicted to stamps 44: Christmas time
Lexi 79: Christmas
Paper makeover 64: Christmas
Going grey with Scrap creations: merry Christmas
The paper shelter 92: Christmas is coming
Pixie dust studio: winter holiday
Willow sketchie: merry Christmas
Broken box stock 15: happy holidays
Crafts 4 eternity R100: Christmas chaos
Fussy & fancy 77: I love Christmas
Wags n whiskers 93: Christmas
My sheri 99: 'tis the season
Tanda teaser 203: anything Christmas
I brake for challenges: I brake for holidays
Creatalicious 40: winter
Bunny Zoe: winter
SJ crafts 11: Christmas
DCC & friends 5: Christmas time
Crimbo crackers 29: anything goes
Jingle belles: December to remember
Ladybug: snowflakes
Cute card Thursday 234: snowflakes
Tammy scraping corner 38: let it snow
Challenge up your life 83: first snow
Crafts and me 112: ribbon or trim
Whoopsi Daisy: use a digi
Avadares 6: anything with a digi
Corrosive 163: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 8: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 17: anything goes
Crafty boots: anything goes
Paper pretties Monday 67: anything goes
Creative card crew 24: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 46: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 42: anything  goes
Party time Tuesday 96: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 28: anything goes
Lady Anne: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 87
52 card pickup week 48
Forever friends November: anything goes

Mum's birthday

It's mum's birthday today. It's a day of mixed emotions because it's the day that dad died nine years ago.

We took mum out for a meal at the local Harvester - I think she enjoyed her day - 91 today!

I used a shaped card adapted on to a white square card blank, cutting round the edges of the base. The flowers were originally white - I brushed them with dusty concord distress ink. The flower centres are Prima and the silver gems Papermania. After taking the photo I realised that I needed to add two gems to the scallops at the base of the card - I added them in time, but didn't take another photo, so you'll have to imagine they are there. The glitter strips across the base were from Poundland. The sentiment was printed on to vellum which was then stuck on to a piece of card torn and distressed with the dusty concord.

This is for:

Ruby's rainbow 42: shaped cards
Fun with shapes and more 122: everything but Christmas (I had to cut round the shape for the base of the card)
Penny's 104: more than 1 fold
Stamp-n-doodle: fabulous folds
Sentimental Sunday 130: easel card
Emerald  faerie garden 37: easel card
That craft place: no squares allowed
Crafting for all seasons 41: use flowers
Eclectic Ellapu 7: celebration with sparkle
There's magic in the air magical Monday: sparkle, sparkle, sparkle

CHNC challenge 100: for someone special

Today launches the 100th challenge on my CHNC blog - I can hardly believe that! - and I'm asking to see a Christmas card for someone special. I think it's often the case that we get lots of Christmas cards done by now, but tend to leave the 'special' ones till the last minute. Well perhaps my challenge will help you to take a bit of time this week and make a Christmas card for someone special.

I have made an easel card. I cut a bauble with a nestie that I bought quite some time ago and hadn't taken out of the packet until I decided to make this card. I used a piece of snowflake paper from my Christmas offcuts box and then mounted it on to some dark blue card. The bauble shape in the middle is a Healtfelt Creations stamp inked with versamark and  heat embossed with detail silver. All other papers and card were from my offcuts box (shhh don't tell John that I didn't use new papers) - a last-minute entry for Pixie's crafty snippets 47.  'Husband' is a Papermania stamp inked with versamark and heat embossed with silver. The sheer white ribbon with gems was from Hobbycraft.

At last this is a card for week 42 for Sunday's with Santa facebook group: for the man in your life.

This is also for:

Cards for men 24: merry Christmas
Little red wagon 160: boy oh boy
The crafty pad 197: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Victorine 47: anything Christmas
Let's craft and create 58: getting ready for Christmas
Tanda teaser 203: anything Christmas
ATCs and cards with attitude 27: anything goes and/or autumn/winter
Creatalicious 40: winter
Card and scrap 43: make something with Christmas
Crafty blogges network 5: Christmas - anything goes
Sparkles 38: Christmas is coming
Little Claire 27: Christmas
Bunny Zoe: winter
Allways something creative 42: weather (winter)
Going grey with Scrap-creations: winter
Victorine 47: anything Christmas
Crafty creations 197: Christmas is coming
Christmas cards all year round November: shaped or fancy folds
Order of the opus gluei 144: three dee - more than one layer
Fashionista 9: blue Christmas
The stamp man November: emboss it
Whoopsi Daisy: die cuts and punches
Craft room: punches and die cuts
House of gilli 46: die cuts
Penny Black and more at Allsorts November: any die will do
Stamptacular Sunday 190: recipe - ribbon/twine, pearls/gems and dies/punches
Loves rubber stamps 27: fun with ribbons
Ruby's rainbow 42: shaped cards
Amusing challenges: special folds
My mum's craft shop 85: inspiration from a song: We three kings
Use your stuff 61: seeing stars
Artistic inspirations 16: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Paper playtime 89: anything goes
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
The squirrel and the fox 31: anything goes
Creative moments bloggers network 4: anything goes
Divas by design 62: use 2 or more patterned papers
Make it Monday 116
52 card pickup week 47

From ginger to gingerbread

The other day I was in Poundland and spotted some boxes of dark chocolate ginger - one of mum's favourites - so I bought some for her, but I couldn't resist rescuing the box:

I used the front of the box for the central piece on my card, matting it on to the inside of the back piece, then layering that on to an offcut of hunkydory black and gold foiled card - my first snippet of the week for Pixie's crafty snippets 47 - and then on to a black card blank. Of course, I needed to cover the part that identified the chocolate ginger, so I found a couple of tags among some ancient treasurers on to which I stuck a lovely material gingerbread person that I'd bought on the market when we down in Eastbourne. This is suitable for my catch up for Sunday's for Santa on facebook week 25: gingerbread man/woman and I'm also showing it for Kathy's Card a day on facebook.

This is also for:

Joan's gardens 41: use recycled material
CRAFT 181: use fabric
Little Miss Muffet 48: textiles
Cards for men 24: merry Christmas (suitable for a boy and perhaps for a 'grown up boy at heart'
Stampin' sisters in Christ 166: create a card for a child
The crafty pad 197: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Victorine 47: anything Christmas
Let's craft and create 58: getting ready for Christmas
Tanda teaser 203: anything Christmas
Craft us crazy: favourite colour and/or holiday
ATCs and cards with attitude 27: anything goes and/or autumn/winter
Creatalicious 40: winter
Card and scrap 43: make something with Christmas
Crafty blogges network 5: Christmas - anything goes
Sparkles 38: Christmas is coming
Great impressions November: holidays
Little Claire 27: Christmas
Bunny Zoe: winter
Allways something creative 42: weather (winter)
Incy wincy: hip to be square
Gingerloft 52: a touch of gold
Jellypark friends: I'm hungry
Jingle belles: Christmas feast
Artistic inspirations 16: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Paper playtime 89: anything goes
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 7: anything goes
Dream valley 45: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 44: anything goes
The squirrel and the fox 31: anything goes
Creative moments bloggers network 4: anything goes
Divas by design 61: anything goes
Penny's 102: anything goes
Make it Monday 116
Inspire me Fridays 85
52 card pickup week 46

Bright colours for Christmas

It was my turn to choose the theme for this fortnight's challenge for the Christmas Card Club and quite a while ago I chose 'bright colours' - which seemed a great idea at the time, but it had me having to put my thinking cap on as to what I could use. Then I remembered a My Mind's Eye paper pad that I bought when down in Eastbourne from That Craft Place called 12 days of Christmas - the papers are quite zingy, bright colours.

Happy campers 4 is also looking for bright colours, also Without words for November: whizz bang.

I've used the sketch for Always playing with paper merry Monday 41:

I die cut circles using a nestie with my cuttlebug and added some Craftime reindeer that I've had for ages and ages and never opened the packet, so I'm also showing this for my own CHNC challenge 99, which is to use something more than six months old.

This is also for:

Holly jolly Christmas: inspired by a carol - Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer (although I know you can't see his red nose here!)
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: use an animal
Craft your passion 136: CAS
Totally gorjuss 158: plain and simple
Crazy amigo: stripes

CHNC challenge 99: use something more than six months old

It's actually a week since I made a card and blogged - very unusual for me - I'm usually making cards and blogging every day - and this means that I've totally neglected A Card a Day this week. It's been a very busy week and in between lots of other things I've been printing 300 Christmas cards.

The weeks are flying by now and it really won't be that long until we need to write those Christmas cards and get them into the post, particularly any that need to be sent abroad. So, if you're struggling to get them done, why not get out those old supplies and join in my CHNC challenge 99 and use anything that is six months old.

The challenge is being sponsored by Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More who kindly supplied me with the image I've used for my card - 'gilded Christmas dove'. Everything else is at least six months old - and most of it is much, much older than that. I coloured the image with a mixture of copics, promarkers and marvy alcohol pens and used a die cut run through the cuttlebug to frame the image. This is also for Robyn's fetish 133: anything goes and for Sunday's with Santa facebook group week 43: use a digi stamp.

I've used lots of snippets, including a stray piece of sticky ribbon that needed to be used up, so this is for Pixie's crafty snippets 46 - my first visit of the week - just managing to get into the playground before the gates close, which is just as well because I wouldn't have the energy to climb over! Also for Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: oh scrap.

The metallic baubles and swirls on the strip surrounding the ribbons are silver although some parts look gold with the flash of the photo.

This is also for:

Fashionista 9: blue Christmas
Timbro scrap mania 58: first glitter Christmas
Victorine 47: anything Christmas
Crafty sentiments: Christmas
LEJ designs 29: seasons greetings
Crafts and me 110: untraditional Christmas colours
Creative card crew 23: silver and blue
Let's craft and create 58: getting ready for Christmas
Tanda teaser 203: anything Christmas
Craft us crazy: favourite colour and/or holiday
ATCs and cards with attitude 27: anything goes and/or autumn/winter
Creatalicious 40: winter
Card and scrap 43: make something with Christmas
Crafty blogges network 5: Christmas - anything goes
Sparkles 38: Christmas is coming
Great impressions November: holidays
Hobbyhome November: Christmas non-traditional colours
Sparkles forum Christmas November 22: contemporary colour combo
Little Claire 27: Christmas
Fussy & fancy 76: feeling blue
Craft room: punches and die cuts
Drunken stampers 106: cut, crop and die
Ribbon girl November: add sparkle
Songbird 8: diamonds are a girl's best friend - sparkle and bling
Crafty catz 159: let's have sparkle
Creative craft world: mini challenge with bling
A & T 17: ribbon
Bloggers challenge: birds of a feather
Ruby's rainbow 41: birds
Glitter n sparkle 6: things with wings
Catch the bug November theme: things with tails
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
One stop craft: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 7: anything goes
Dream valley 45: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Tammy scraping corner 36: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 44: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 40: anything goes
Creative moments bloggers network 4: anything goes
Divas by design 61: anything goes
Penny's 102: anything goes
Make it Monday 115
Inspire me Fridays 85
52 card pickup week 46

CHNC challenge 98: for a man or a boy

It's getting quite near to Christmas now ... so it's time to get serious with making cards, so what better time to join in my CHNC challenge 98 to make a card for a man or a boy - please click on the link and join in if you can.

For my card I've used part of the snowman4square image supplied by Bugaboo Stamps who are sponsoring my challenge. I printed out the image and lightly coloured with copics and a light blue Marvy alcohol pen, which I then used to go round the edges. I tore a few piece of paper and edged with the pen and then added some stickles diamond.

The card was based on the sketch given for Always playing with paper merry Monday 40: - I turned it to the right and changed the shape surrounding the image.

This is also for:

Created with love 16: Christmas no green and no red
Use your stuff 59: Christmas or holiday themed (I used up some offcuts of white paper to tear)
Pixie's crafty snippets week 45
Sweet stamps 90: Christmas
Tanda teaser 203: anything Christmas
Southern girls 57: Christmas
Live & love crafts November 5: Christmas
Quirky crafts 23: layer it up & let it snow

Another bird

This card incorporates another bird drawing that was given to me - very similar to the previous bird card shown earlier today - this time I've used an offcut that picks up the pink breast of the bird.

This is for:

House of gilli 45: celebrations - birthday
Ruby's rainbow 41: birds
Pixie's crafty snippets week 45
There's magic in the air magical Monday: pretty in pink
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Papertake 74: anything goes
Kaboodle 144: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Make it Monday 114
Inspire me Friday 84
52 card pickup week 45

The last lady in black

This is the last of the black silhouette ladies, this time using a shaped card that was ready printed with the pattern, mounted on to a very pale lilac card blank, with just the addition of layered flowers and a Craftime sentiment.

This is for:

House of gilli 45: celebrations - birthday
CRAFT 180: inspired by a film - the silhouette reminds me of 'Mary Poppins'
Order of the opus gluei 143: it figures - either numbers or silhouette of a figure
Cards galore November: silhouette
Totally papercrafts 142: cute and girly
Simply create too 26: use your stash - I've had all items for some time except the silhouette
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Papertake 74: anything goes
Kaboodle 144: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Make it Monday 114
Inspire me Friday 84
52 card pickup week 45

Another lady in black

I've used another of those velvety silhouettes for this card. The panel on the left was recycled from some craft packaging (I think it was Docrafts, but not sure) - too good not to use - and the piece on the right is from my scraps box. The ribbon with gems was from Hobbycraft and the blog flowers are Craftime.

This is for:

CRAFT 180: inspired by a film - the silhouette reminds me of 'Mary Poppins'
Order of the opus gluei 143: it figures - either numbers or silhouette of a figure (hope this is OK)
Cards galore November: silhouette
Totally papercrafts 142: cute and girly
Pile it on 45: make it sparkle
Ribbon girl November: add sparkle
Unstampabelles 17: monochromatic
A & T 17: ribbon
Pixie's crafty snippets week 45
Simply create too 26: use your stash - I've had all items for some time except the silhouette
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Papertake 74: anything goes
Kaboodle 144: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Make it Monday 114
Inspire me Friday 84
52 card pickup week 45

Harvest fruit

For this card I've used a painting from a card that someone gave me, simply mounted on to pieces from my offcuts box then on to a majestic sparkly card blank.

This is for:

Creative Belli 156: harvest/fruit - the papers used to mat and layer are old and neglected, as was the card blank
Love to create 40: shades of autumn
Paper playtime 88: autumn colours
Perfect sentiments 55: CAS fall/thanksgiving
Pixie dust studio: fabulous fall colours
My Sheri 97: fall
DCC & friends 4: autumn to you
Scrappy frogs: give thanks
Stampin' sisters in Christ 164: thankfulness
Incy wincy: giving thanks
Aud sentiments 67: thanks
Paper pretties Wednesday 231: thank you cards
Wags n whiskers 92: be thankful
ABC: A for appreciation
DL.ART thankful Thursday: thanksgiving
Cardmakin mamas: thanksgiving/thank you
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: happy thanksgiving
Pixie's crafty snippets week 45
Papertake 74: anything goes
Anything goes 79: anything goes
Kaboodle 144: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Make it Monday 114
Inspire me Friday 84
52 card pickup week 45

Lady in black

I was recently given a few blank cards with die cut silhouettes which have a velvety feel, so I've used one of them on this card. The embossed swirls on the silver mirror card were achieved with a dream weaver stencil. The glittered strips on the left were from Poundland the and sentiment strip is one that's been in a box for ages. The 'with love' sentiment was from Craftime.

This is for:

CRAFT 180: inspired by a film - the silhouette reminds me of 'Mary Poppins'
Order of the opus gluei 143: it figures - either numbers or silhouette of a figure (hope this is OK)
Cards galore November: silhouette
Card manai 7: embossing
Everybody art 212: embossing
Fairytale 54: embossing
Friday mashup 84: hey hey boss man - dry embossing
House of gilli 45: celebrations - birthday
Raise the bar 119: birthday theme
Totally papercrafts 142: cute and girly
Eclectic ellapu 4: it's a vintage thing
Pile it on 45: make it sparkle
Scrap cards 37: recycle
Unstampabelles 17: monochromatic
Simply create too 26: use your stash - I've had the stencil for ages and have only used it once - also the glittered strips and sentiments are from old stash
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Papertake 74: anything goes
Anything goes 79: anything goes
Kaboodle 144: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Make it Monday 114
Inspire me Friday 84
52 card pickup week 45

A little bird told me ...

A while ago a friend gave me some lovely bird drawings and I've used one of them on this card. The background is an offcut of a piece of paper that originally came with a magazine and the scalloped edged piece was originally from a Kanban kit. The sentiment was generated on my Dymo letratag label maker. The image and the sentiment were matted on to the back of a recycled card received.

This is for:

House of gilli 45: celebrations - birthday
Papercraft junkies 3: things with wings
Ruby's rainbow 41: birds
Scrap cards 37: recycle
Pixie's crafty snippets week 45
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Papertake 74: anything goes
Anything goes 79: anything goes
Kaboodle 144: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Make it Monday 114
Inspire me Friday 84
52 card pickup week 45

Pretty petals

I made this card the other day and forgot to show it then.  lovely teacup with flowers that has been recycled from a card receive mounted on to a ready decorated card blank, with the addition of the flowers and butterflies:

This is for:

There's magic in the air magical Monday: pretty in pink
Flutter by Wednesday 213: open + butterflies
Papercraft junkies 3: things with wings
The squirrel and the fox 30: flowers, hats or horses
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Papertake 74: anything goes
Anything goes 79: anything goes
Kaboodle 144: anything goes
Forever friends November: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Make it Monday 114
Inspire me Friday 84
52 card pickup week 45