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Saturday 31 October 2020

Happy Christmas

Another card with a topper made with copper mirror card put through the lovely baubles embossing folder mounted on to an offcut of the pink Kanban paper, with glittered poinsettias from Italian Options.

The photo is a bit strange - at an angle so that I didn't get my reflection in the mirror card.

This is for:
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Christmas kickstart 41: festive florals
Krafty chicks 531: anything goes

CHNC challenge 514

These are my design cards for my CHNC challenge 514 -  please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of  'something beginning with the letter H'.

Three simple one layer cards direct to the card blank, made using complimenting stamps that were bought with my Load n Fold from Rare Earth, using two different memento greens and red, colouring the berries with pencils (so that alcohol inks didn't show through).


These are also for:

Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
My time to craft 444: clean & simple Christmas
Krafty chicks 531: anything goes
Creative fingers 196: anything goes

Friday 30 October 2020

More baubles

Another card made yesterday, this time with Kanban foiled snowflake background and the baubles embossing folder used with copper mirror card with Italian Options 3D foam glittered gold snowflakes and the sentiment.

Strange angle for the photo to avoid setting my reflection in the mirror card - lol! 

This is for:

Krafty chicks 531: anything goes
Creative fingers 196: anything goes

Christmas baubles

A quick card made yesterday using Kanban background and the topper made with the lovely embossing folder from Crafter's Companion, with the addition of the Italian Options 3D foam glittered snowflakes and the sentiment.

This is for:

The holy and the ivy 82: anything Christmas goes
Krafty chicks 531: anything goes
Creative fingers 196: anything goes

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Guest designer at Penny's Paper-crafty challenge 483

I was a winner for Penny's challenge 479:

and as a result I was invited to be a Guest designer for today's challenge 483:

I was so pleased to accept the invitation.

Challenge 483 is being sponsored by LeAnn’s World 101 and Bugaboo Stamps and I chose to use Bugaboo's Knobbly knees Christmas-wagon.

I coloured the digi with Chameleon pens, glittered the band on the elf's hat and cut  out with one of the lovely Spellbinder 'marvelous squares', mounting on to green mirror card. I decorated a side opening A5 card blank with Bo Bunny papers and stickers, also decorating the inside.


Inside:


Thank you, once again to Penny's Paper-crafty challenge blog for giving me this opportunity to join them for challenge 483.Please click on the link and see the lovely inspiration shared by the Design team and join in their challenge.

This is also for:

International art & soul 95: fairies and/or elves
Krafty chicks 530: all occasions
Make my Monday 134: masculine 
Crafty catz 524: anything goes + option: hats
CD Sunday plus 47: anything goes (used a digi image)
Digi choosday 43: anything goes
Jan's digital October: anything goes
Crafting happiness 69: anything goes

In emergency please break the glass

This is a commissioned car that I've made this morning. The request was for for a birthday card for a son-in-law who likes a beer. I wanted to make a box with a 'glass' front with a picture of a beer inside with the instructions 'In emergency please break the glass'. I used Docrafts nesting dies to make the frame which is lined with acetate for the 'glass', also die cutting the layers inside the frame. The frame with acetate was lifted with 3D foam. The instructions were made with tape with my dymo letratag. I added a matching paper inside for the insert and, as the recipient is very musical and plays guitar, I put one on the back. The card blank itself is a folded A4 from Kanban.


Photo at an angle to try to show the mirror card:


Inside insert:


Back:


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Have a wonderful day

A simple card with Kanban supplies - the sentiment and hearts are silver foiled. The circle is raised with 3D form. It's suitable to send for a birthday, wedding or anniversary.

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Tuesday 27 October 2020

Enjoy every sunset

... and look forward to every sunrise

Something a bit different. This is a print out of a photo of a watercolour painting I did when I was staying in Whtstable last Autumn ... it seems much longer than a year now. It was the view from one of the windows of the cottage I was staying in. The card I used is DL ... an odd one I found in the box and liked the bright colour for this.


My original watercolour painting that I copied and printed:


This is for:

CASology 377: sunset
Krafty chicks 530: all occasions
Path of positivity 84: anything goes
Make my Monday 134: masculine (I think this is suitable to send to a man)
Simon says Monday: movie inspiration: 'Sunset'
CRAFT 574: memories (of a holiday)
A bit more time to craft 126: anything goes
Crafting happiness 69: anything goes

Lady in pink

This is the last tent style A5 card featuring the topper of the lady in pink from Kanban. This time the backing paper is also from Kanban (bought years ago), with the addition of the sentiment and glittered snowflakes from Italian Options.

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Pink Season's Greetings

Another tent style A5 card made with another piece of offcut from the previous cards with an unknown offcut of pink paper on the right. Once again, the topper was from Kanban long ago and the sparkly snowflakes from Italian Options, with the addition of the sentiment.

This is for:

Fab n funky 499: Christmas
Krafty chicks 530: all occasions
The holy and the ivy 82: anything Christmas goes
Crafter's cafe 253: use some pink
Creations in pink 27: anything goes in mainly pink
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Crafting happiness 69: anything goes

Happy Christmas in pink

Very similar to the previous card, made with one of the offcut pieces of the Hunkydory background card with the addition of some other pink paper ... which I had to join near the bottom in order to use it. Once again the topper was from Kanban long ago and the lovely silver poinsettias from Italian Options, with the addition of the sentiment.

This is for:

Fab n funky 499: Christmas
Krafty chicks 530: all occasions
The holy and the ivy 82: anything Christmas goes
Crafter's cafe 253: use some pink
Creations in pink 27: anything goes in mainly pink
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Polka doodles 43: anything goes
Crafting happiness 69: anything goes

Monday 26 October 2020

Pink Christms

I found up four of the lovely toppers that I've used here, from Kanban, long ago. The background paper is Hunkydory, on to a tent style A5 card blank with the addition of Italian Options sparkly snowflakes and the Merry Christmas sentiment from Kanban.

This is for:

Fab n funky 499: Christmas
Krafty chicks 530: all occasions
Crafter's cafe 253: use some pink
Creations in pink 27: anything goes in mainly pink
Crafting happiness 69: anything goes

Sunday 25 October 2020

Warmest wishes

This is another A5 card this morning using supplies from Hunkydory. I had a card that featured choir boys. Usually I would cut this into two to put on the front of two cards, but once again I decided to keep it in one piece, mounting the topper directly on to put of the 'picture' on the card and adding the sentiment.

I decoupaged the picture with many layers built up with 3D foam.


This is the card opened out to show the back (on the left) as well as the front (on the right):

This is for:

Sending peace and love this festive season

I've made this A5 card this morning using supplies from Hunkydory. I had a card that featured choir boys. Usually I would cut this into two to put on the front of two cards, but this time I decided to keep it in one piece, mounting the topper directly on to put of the 'picture' on the card and adding the borders at the top and the sentiment.


This is the card opened out to show the back (on the left) as well as the front (on the right):


This is for:

We wish you a merry Christmas

Another card using some of the lovely reindeer paper from Papermania with the sentiment topper from Kanban and a few glittered snowflakes from The Works.

This is for:

Fab n funky 499: Christmas
Krafty chicks 530: all occasions
ABC Christmas October:  V for vixen (reindeer)
Jingle belles: not a creature was stirring
Crafty animals 43: anything goes (with an animal)
Word art Wednesday 462: anything goes
Crafting happiness 69: anything goes

Noel Noel

A tent opening A5 card with Hunkydory background, the Noel strip across the top with the addition of the pink cottage picture and the Kanban sentiment Merry Christmas.


Difficult to see in the photo that the cottage oval is glittered: 

Saturday 24 October 2020

Noel

Another Christmas card found up with the plaid paper ready on the card blank, so I added the Kanban sentiment panel and a couple of gold glittered poinsettias from Italian Options.


To try and show the foiling better:

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

This is another card that I found in one of my Christmas boxes with the diamond paper already on the card blank. So, yesterday I added the Kanban topper and snowflakes from Italian Options and The Works.

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Across the chimney pots

The background of this card is a piece of Hunkydory with a topper from Kanban (long ago), sentiment and glittered snowflakes from The Works.

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Merry Christmas

The sentiment focus is from a Kanban book from long ago, mounted on to an unknown piece of paper with 3D foam glittered snowflakes from Italian Options added.

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Merry Christmas

A piece of unknown sentiment paper for the background, a square of poinsettia paper, the glittered square, topped with the Santa square from Kanban long ago, with tw couple of poinsettias.

This is for:

Season's Greetings

Papermania backing paper - the reindeer are actually foiled so they are lovely and shiny. I added the glittered snowflakes from The Works and a topper from the Very  Berry paper Kit from C & C.

This is for:

Fab n funky 499: Christmas
ABC Christmas October:  V for vixen (reindeer)
Jingle belles: not a creature was stirring
Crafty animals 43: anything goes (with an animal)
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Krafty chicks 530: all occasions
Crafting happiness 69: anything goes

Merry snowman

The background of this card, including the lovely snowman and the cat was from Hunkydory and I added snowflakes.

This is for:

Merry Christmas

A card with paper and topper from an unknown kit bought ages ago - the copper is glittered, which doesn't show here. I added the sentiment and the sparkly snowflakes from The Works.

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Christmas wishes

This was one of the cards that I found up in the week with the lovely paper background already done - I then added the sentiment and the lovely church topper by Kanban.

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Snowy garden

Another card that I found in my Christmas box that I had already added the lovely paper before abandoning it. So, yesterday I added the lovely Hunkydory snowy garden topper, the sentiment and the glittered snowflakes from The Works.

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Christmas fun card

Another card that already had the K & Co background on the card blank with the Kanban stocking. Yesterday I added the felt reindeer and the little Kanban Father Christmas square and a sentiment.

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Christmas Choir

This is another card finished yesterday with some of the Papermania backing paper already on the card blank (must have done that over a year ago and forgotten) with the addition of the lovely choir entering church from a Hunkydory kit, with the addition of the 3D foam backed snowflakes from Italian Options.

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