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Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Winter trees

This card is a bit like the style of the previous ones shown here, but much simpler this time, using a Stitchy Bear digital image 'winter trees'. When I saw that this week's One stitch at a time challenge is 'Choccy's Christmas challenge' to use a Stitchy Bears digital stamp, I had a look on their site to see what I might purchase and the 'winter trees' seemed perfect to use with the brayer and Big & Juicy Happy Birthday (toned down by rolling on to rough paper a few times first. I put a post-it note circle for the moon before brayering and masked off the bottom for snow. In real life, the lower bit at the base of the tree looks far more pink than it does here.

It's hard to see the sentiment here because it's silver on grey, but it says 'Season's greetings'.

And, yes, this is my first Christmas card since Christmas!!


This is also for:

AiFactory 99: Christmas
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Incy wincy 126: winter wonderland
One stop craft 163: winter wishes
Digital Tuesday 141: winter wonderland
Paper pretties Monday challenge: winter wonderland
Fairytale 31: something simple
Everybody art 173: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 120: I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Lexi 55: untraditional Christmas - no red or green
Stamp n doodle: it's Christmas
Crazy amigo: oh Christmas tree
Creative belli 133: merry Christmas
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Little darling 13: Christmas
Crafty purple frog: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Rainbow lady 184: white Christmas
Alphabet: W for white Christmas
Prairie fairy Fridays 68: holly jolly Christmas - no red or green
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Bee crafty: it's Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
Joanna Sheen 1: Christmas wishes
Bizzy becs: Christmas
St Luke's: let it snow
Christmas cards all year round: anything goes
Crafft room: anything goes
Top tip Tuesday 66: anything goes
Aud sentiments 44: anything goes
Crafts and me 66: anything goes
Let's craft and create 35: anything goes
My mum's craft shop 37: anything goes
Scrapbook sisters 66: anything goes
Digi doodle 88: anything goes
Secret crafter Saturday 166: anything goes
Mark's finest papers speedy the cat 87: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 48: anything goes
Make it Monday 69
Inspire me Fridays 38

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Inspired by Barbara Gray

For Christmas, I was very fortunate to get some DVDs by Barbara Gray of Clarity Stamps along with some of her stamps and other bits and pieces.

Before Christmas John had a chest infection - in fact, he ended up having to go to A & E two days before Christmas to be checked out - he's still being troubled by the airways disease, but the infection has subsided. Meanwhile, he passed his germs on to me just at the wrong time! I began to feel unwell on Christmas Eve and am not sure how I got through Christmas Day with all the cooking etc, but I did. However, yesterday is a bit of a blur and today likewise. I stayed in bed for quite a while today and am still in my PJs now.

I've been curled up watching some of the DVDs by Barbara, so I thought I'd have a bit of a play to see if it helps me to feel better.

This first card involved brayering with a rubber band round the roller. I inked up with Adirondack wildflower rainbow ink pad, but, unfortunately, this hasn't been used for ages and had become muddied, so the background turned out to be very dull and dark, but I stuck with it, using the Clarity tree stamp in various ways, including the hedgerows from using the stamp sideways.

For the second card, I've brayered with Big & Juicy vibrant primary (toning this down by brayering a lot on paper before committing to the card) adding a little stormy sky DI across the top. I stamped the Clarity Christmas tree and then used the tree silhouette that I'd used for the previous card several times in the background, all stamped with Adirondack espresso.


The background of the third card was brayered using Big & Juicy Happy Birthday, once again using the tree silhouette in various ways together with a My Mind's Eye wild asparagus stamp.


I think I need to practise a lot before I can get anywhere near the standard of success Barbara Gray achieves, but at least I've had a play and tried to divert my attention from how I feel.

I'm linking these for:

Anything goes 57: the colour blue and one other colour (the first card)
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Incy wincy 126: winter wonderland
One stop craft 163: winter wishes
Fairytale 31: something simple
Sunday stamper 186: do anything you wanna do
Crafty cardmakers58: use it three times - I've used the tree silhouette stamp more than three times in different ways on each card
The stamp man: use a technique you've not used before (rubber band for hills and paths)
Little miss muffet 25: anything goes
Stampin for the weekend 23: anything goes
Stampelsonne 52: free choice of subject
Our daily bread 90: anything goes
The crafty pad 152: anything but Christmas
Sparkles forum 27: anything but a Christmas card
Everybody art 173: anything goes


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Friday, 23 December 2011

CHNC challenge 52: Happy Christmas!!

Over on my CHNC today is a special day of celebration - yes, it's Christmas Eve and it's also almost a year since I started the challenge blog. I have been amazed at the number of people who have entered the challenges throughout the year. I am offering some blog candy as a big THANK YOU.

Please go to my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog here for details of the blog candy and how to be in with a chance of winning it - and you might also want to show some Christmas cards that you've been making in the last few days or weeks.

Here are some cards I made last week, using some lovely embossed toppers that I got ages ago in a kit. The first four cards have Basic Grey jovial papers as background and the fifth card uses Websters pages background paper.






I'm linking these for the following challenges:

Basic  grey 58: anything goes
Crazy challenge 98: Christmas
There's magic in the air magical Monday: bird image
Craft your passion 89: things with wings
Critter 95: let it snow and spread the holiday cheer
Order of the opus gluei 120: I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
St Luke's December: let it snow
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Little darlings 13: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
Creative Belli 133: merry Christmas (the fifth card has the word 'Christmas')
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Jingle belles: wrapping it up
Crafty boots: Christmas
Victorine 23: Christmas
Crafting for all seasons 16: Christmas
Papertake: last Christmas card of the year
Top tip Tuesday 65: anything Christmas
Crafty purple frog: Christmas
Rainbow lady 184: white Christmas
Alphabet: W for white Christmas
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

For someone special

This is a very simple card that I'm going to give to John. Poor John is not at all well atm - I'm hoping he will be well enough to enjoy Christmas.

Because John is visually impaired (very little sight actually), it's best to give him something that is bright without too many embellishments to confuse.


This is for:

Paper players 76: Ann's clean and simple colour challenge:


Totally Gorjuss 111: for someone special
Annabelle: say it with ... Christmas 3 - cards

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Monday, 19 December 2011

Webster Christmas vellum cards

These are some cards that I made the other day - very quickly put together - Webster papers vellum overlays run through my xyron and stuck on to the Websters paper with the robins and sentiments and then on to a card blank, with a circular little topper and a sentiment. Once again, the vellum papers do most of the work.



These are for:

Crazy challenge 98: Christmas
Kaboodle 98: Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree
There's magic in the air magical Monday: bird image
Craft your passion 89: things with wings
Critter 95: let it snow and spread the holiday cheer
Do you stack up 50: winter
Order of the opus gluei 120: I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
My Sheri 75: let it snow
St Luke's December: let it snow
Mark's finest papers Speedy the cat's challenge 86: make a Christmas card
4 crafty chicks 68: Christmas
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Joan's gardens 14: quick Christmas card
Little darlings 13: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
Creative Belli 132: winter and Christmas (I used 'forgotten about' vellum)
Penny's 68: merry Christmas
Paper-crafting journey: Christmas challenge
ABC Christmas: Y is for yippeee!! anything Christmassy goes
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Jingle belles: wrapping it up
The paper shelter: it's a celebration - Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Victorine 23: Christmas
The pixie cottage 100: anything goes Christmas style
Crafting for all seasons 16: Christmas
Little red wagon 111: another Christmas challenge
Aud sentiments 43: more winter holiday sentiments
Cutie pie 7: use a sentiment
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Silver reindeer

For this card I used the same stamp as for this card I showed earlier, but this time I heat embossed with detail silver. Unfortunately, the photo is very blurred, so the embossing doesn't look as fine as it actually was - and I can't take another photo because the card has gone in the post.



This is for:


Oldie but a goodie: Christmas animals (the stamp is more than six months old)
Hooked on craft 14: Christmas - anything punched or diecut
Delightful: anything goes
Stempelsonne 52: anything goes
Di's digi designs: show us Christmas
Crazy amigo: embossing
Simply create too 2: embossing
Crimbo crackers 4: embossing
Hiding in my craft room 25: embossing technique
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White and gold Christmas

Another simply stamped and embossed card I made the other day - another Kanban stamp inked with versamark and embossed with gold detail. I added a few pearls around the sentiment because I caught the edge of the stamp and got a bit of embossed powder where I didn't want it, so I covered it up! I then added pearls for the holly berries (yes, I know holly berries are really red, but I'm sure the white is OK with the gold).


This is for:


Hooked on craft 14: Christmas - anything punched or diecut
Craft room: die cuts and punches
Delightful: anything goes
Stempelsonne 52: anything goes
Di's digi designs: show us Christmas
Hiding in my craft room 25: embossing technique
Order of the opus gluei 120: I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Paperminutes 195: clean & simple (mostly white)
Creative inspirations 142: whitewash
Cards und more 43: monochrome
Ruby's rainbow 18: monochrome


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Sunday, 18 December 2011

Simply reindeer

This card is made with another Kanban stamp:


This is for:

Oldie but a goodie: Christmas animals (the stamp is more than six months old)
Hooked on craft 14: Christmas - anything punched or diecut
Craft room: die cuts and punches
Dutch dare 143: tic tac toe - I chose: embossing, stamped image, die cuts
Delightful: anything goes
Nadia 20: Christmas black and white with one colour
Stempelsonne 52: anything goes
Di's digi designs: show us Christmas
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Another simply stamped Christmas card

This is a Kanban stamp inked with versamark and heat embossed with detail gold - shame the shine doesn't show up here.

Colours are for Paper players 76: Ann's clean and simple colour challenge:




It's also for:

Stamp, scrap & doodle: bells

Papercraft star 75: a bell or an ornament

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Christmas chipboard

Here's a couple of quick cards I made the other day using Websters papers for the background (they really don't need much added to them), some Eno chipboard trees and some sentiments from stash.



These are for:

Sweet stamps 45: chipboard
Crazy 4 challenges 117: it's Santa
Christmas crafting 6: Santa Claus is coming to town
2 sisters 70: kid's Christmas
My mum's craft shop 36: cute and funky Christmas
Paper sundaes 100: celebrate
Charisma cardz 49: last minute Christmas makes
Paperminutes 195: clean and simple (mostly white)
Southern girls 36: let's celebrate
Just us girls 115: colour challenge - red, olive, white/kraft
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The true meaning of Christmas

It was Pinky's turn to choose the theme for the Christmas gang girls for today and she chose 'religious' - I'm so glad she did because it's an opportunity to share cards that depict the true meaning of Christmas. It can be so easy amid all the trimmings and festivities to ignore what the season is really about, so here is an opportunity to include some cards for which I've used the lovely Woodware Mary and Joseph stamp, inked with memento and coloured with copics and marvy le plume.

I made these cards the other day - and quite a few similar ones that you might be seeing over the next couple of days if I get round to blogging them.

The first time include silver foiled papers from a past QVC kit (shame the silver looks black here, but hey ho) and the blue and white paper in the second one is a snippet left from some English Paper Company paper.



The third and fourth cards feature Flowersoft papers:


These are also for:

For fun: Christmas - anything goes
Charisma cardz 49: last minute Christmas makes
Sarah Hurley 56: colouring
Annabelle: say it with ... Christmas 3 - cards
Sparkles forum Christmas challenge 11: nativity
Creative stamp friends 40: Christmas

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Saturday, 17 December 2011

Sending Christmas cheer

I don't usually make batches of cards that are virtually the same (except when I make packs to sell for Tearfund), but time was running out and I needed to make another five cards, so I used the lovely Papermania bauble decoration stamp inking it up with versamark and heat embossing with detail silver on to navy blue card which was then mounted on to silver mirri card and mounted on to a lighter blue base card. You'll notice that one of the cards has a different greeting stuck over where the others are stamped with 'Christmas cheer' - this is because the stamping was a bit feint so I decided to cover it up.



These are for:

Colour create 86: blue and silver with the option of embossing (I used heat embossing)
Papercraft star 75: a bell or an ornament
CCEE 1150: Christmas ornament
Glitter geeks 28: anything goes
Crimbo crackers 4: embossing
Mark's finest papers Speedy the cat's challenge 86: make a Christmas card
One stop craft 162: Christmas sparkle
Pile it on 49: bling it up
Cupcake 172: don't look at the light
Lexi 55: untraditional Christmas - no red or green
Crop stop 50: unique and non traditional
Scrapbook sisters card challenge 64: two colours
4 crafty chicks 68: Christmas
Joan's gardens 14: quick Christmas card
Crafts and me 65: Christmas
Little darlings 13: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
Creative card crew: tis the season
Creative Belli 132: winter and Christmas
Penny's 68: merry Christmas
Paper-crafting journey: Christmas challenge
ABC Christmas: Y is for yippeee!! anything Christmassy goes
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Jingle belles: wrapping it up
The paper shelter: it's a celebration - Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Lollipop crafts 61: happy holidays
Victorine 23: Christmas
The pixie cottage 100: anything goes Christmas style
Crafting for all seasons 16: Christmas
Little red wagon 111: another Christmas challenge
Stamptacular 142: Christmas glitz
Sunday stamper 184: Christmas
Inkspirations 100: Christmas
The stamping boutique 21: no traditional Christmas colours
Aud sentiments 43: more winter holiday sentiments
Cutie pie 7: use a sentiment
Prairie fairy Fridays 68: holly jolly Chrisstmas (no red or green)
Stampin' with the dagon: Christmas bling
Drunken stampers 80: glittery holiday
One crazy stamper December: Christmas/holiday theme
The artistic stamper creative team December: Christmas
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Simply create too 2: embossing
Hiding in my craft room 25: embossing technique
Crazy amigo: embossing


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Simply stamped and embossed

I needed to make another couple of cards to get in the post before 12 o'clock, so this is one of them. The Kanban stamp was inked with versamark and heat embossed with gold detail.


This is for:

Nadia 20: Christmas black and white with one colour
Dutch dare143: tic tac toe - I chose the middle line: embossing, stamped image, die cuts
Annabelle: say it with ... Christmas 3 - cards
Glitter geeks 28: anything goes
Crimbo crackers 4: embossing
Paper sundaes 99: anything Christmas
For fun: Christmas - anything goes
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CHNC challenge 51: Anything goes

Would you believe that we're only just over a week away from Christmas Day?! And it's time for challenge 51 on my CHNC blog. This week's challenge can only be 'anything goes', to give you the opportunity to show any of those last-minute cards that you are still making. Or perhaps you've made some recently, but not had time to blog and show them - now's the time to do so.

I've actually made a lot of cards in the last couple of weeks - I took photos of most of them, but haven't had time to blog them. I made two black and gold cards a few days ago and managed to get photos taken outside, but had to take them at strange angles because of the reflection on the gold mirror card.

The black and gold card on the first one is Kanban and the holographic gold trees on black on the second one was recycled from a card I received last year. The little black and gold trees were part of a QVC kit a couple of years ago and the glittered ribbon was from Hobbycraft.



And I made these yesterday, using more of the Kanban black and gold card, strips of black gems from Poundland and larger versions of the trees, this time adorned with Anna Griffin bows.



I'm linking these for the following challenges:

Mark's finest papers Speedy the cat's challenge 86: make a Christmas card
One stop craft 162: Christmas sparkle
Pile it on 49: bling it up
Cupcake 172: don't look at the light
Hooked on craft 14: Christmas - anything punched or diecut
Craft room: die cuts and punches
Paper pretties Monday challenge: use ribbon
Frosted designs fabulous Friday: ribbon
Really reasonable ribbon 38: anything goes & ribbon
Pretty little ribbon 5: Christmas with a bow
Lexi 55: untraditional Christmas - no red or green
Crop stop 50: unique and non traditional
Scrapbook sisters card challenge 64: two colours
4 crafty chicks 68: Christmas
Joan's gardens 14: quick Christmas card
Crafts and me 65: Christmas
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Little darlings 13: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
Creative card crew: tis the season
Creative Belli 132: winter and Christmas
Penny's 68: merry Christmas
Paper-crafting journey: Christmas challenge
ABC Christmas: Y is for yippeee!! anything Christmassy goes
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Jingle belles: wrapping it up
The paper shelter: it's a celebration - Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Lollipop crafts 61: happy holidays
Victorine 23: Christmas
The pixie cottage 100: anything goes Christmas style
Crafting for all seasons 16: Christmas
Divas by design 17: merry Christmas
Little red wagon 111: another Christmas challenge
The sisterhood of crafters: Christmas (celebrate the holidays)
The paper variety: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Prairie fairy Fridays 68: holly jolly Christmas (no red or green
Meljen 89: no rectangle cards



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Friday, 16 December 2011

Vintage Santa

This Santa picture was too good to waste, so I rescued it from a card received a couple of years ago and mounted it on to a piece of Websters paper with lots of Santas.


This is for:

I did it 85: Santa's getting ready
Crafty catz 113: Santa's hat
Crazy 4 challenges 117: it's Santa
Soartful: tis the season: Christmas - Santa
Christmas crafting 6: Santa Claus is coming to town
Let's craft and create 34: round and round - lots of circles
My time to craft 168: vintage Christmas
I brake for challenges 15: vintage
4 crafty chicks 68: Christmas
Joan's gardens 14: quick Christmas card
Crafts and me 65: Christmas
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Little darlings 13: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
Creative card crew: tis the season
Creative Belli 132: winter and Christmas
Penny's 68: merry Christmas
Paper-crafting journey: Christmas challenge
ABC Christmas: Y is for yippeee!! anything Christmassy goes
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Jingle belles: wrapping it up
The paper shelter: it's a celebration - Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Lollipop crafts 61: happy holidays
Victorine 23: Christmas
The pixie cottage 100: anything goes Christmas style
Crafting for all seasons 16: Christmas
Divas by design 17: merry Christmas
Little red wagon 111: another Christmas challenge
The sisterhood of crafters: Christmas (celebrate the holidays)
Cupcake craftroom December: traditional Christmas
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Meljen 89: no rectangle cards
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A dog isn't just for Christmas ...

... but this is - it's for Moving along with the times 128: cats and dogs:


This was a very simple, quick card made with a Kanban topper, a striped card black and a sentiment.

This is also for:

Cute card Thursday 195: stripes
Polka doodles 50: through the window - it's just as if this dog is looking out of the window
Crafting when we can 8: friendship - a dog is a man's best friend
Charisma cardz 49: last minute Christmas makes
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A few more Classic Christmas cards

I'm loving using these PM Classic Christmas papers (I don't know why they had remained tucked away for so long!).

The colours (particularly of the last card) are for Colour Q 115:





These are for the following challenges:

4 crafty chicks 68: Christmas
Joan's gardens 14: quick Christmas card
Crafts and me 65: Christmas
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Little darlings 13: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
2 sisters 69: Christmas
Creative card crew: tis the season
Creative Belli 132: winter and Christmas
Penny's 68: merry Christmas
Paper-crafting journey: Christmas challenge
ABC Christmas: Y is for yippeee!! anything Christmassy goes
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Jingle belles: wrapping it up
The paper shelter: it's a celebration - Christmas
Papertake weekly: I'm dreamin of a red, white and green (traditional) Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Dream valley 22: Christmas
Lollipop crafts 61: happy holidays
Victorine 23: Christmas
Paper and such: quick Christmas card - CAS and get it done in a hurry
The pixie cottage 100: anything goes Christmas style
Aud sentiments 43: more winter holiday sentiments
Crafting for all seasons 16: Christmas
Divas by design 17: merry Christmas
Little red wagon 111: another Christmas challenge
The sisterhood of crafters: Christmas (celebrate the holidays)
Cutie pie 7: use a sentiment (the bottom two cards)
CES 65: a traditional Christmas
One stop craft 161: traditional Christmas colours
Cupcake craftroom December: traditional Christmas
Meljen 89: no rectangle cards
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More classic Christmas

As I still need quite a few Christmas cards (no one would guess that I've been making them all year - lol!), I decided to make some more using the Papermania Classic Christmas papers.

The parts that look black in the photo are in fact red foiled - they look lovely irl.

These are for:

4 crafty chicks 68: Christmas
Joan's gardens 14: quick Christmas card
Party time Tuesday 46: red and green Christmas
Crafts and me 65: Christmas
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Little darlings 13: Christmas
PaperPlay 50: Christmas
Allways something creative 20: merry Christmas
2 sisters 69: Christmas
Creative card crew: tis the season
Creative Belli 132: winter and Christmas
Penny's 68: merry Christmas
Paper-crafting journey: Christmas challenge
ABC Christmas: Y is for yippeee!! anything Christmassy goes
Gingerloft 30: Christmas and winter
Raise the bar 86: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Jingle belles: wrapping it up
The paper shelter: it's a celebration - Christmas
Papertake weekly: I'm dreamin of a red, white and green (traditional) Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Dream valley 22: Christmas
Lollipop crafts 61: happy holidays
Victorine 23: Christmas
Paper and such: quick Christmas card - CAS and get it done in a hurry
The pixie cottage 100: anything goes Christmas style
Aud sentiments 43: more winter holiday sentiments
Crafting for all seasons 16: Christmas
Divas by design 17: merry Christmas
Little red wagon 111: another Christmas challenge
The sisterhood of crafters: Christmas (celebrate the holidays)
Cutie pie 7: use a sentiment (the bottom two cards)
Crafty ribbons 8: traditional colours for Christmas (the second card)
CES 65: a traditional Christmas
One stop craft 161: traditional Christmas colours
Cupcake craftroom December: traditional Christmas
Meljen 89: no rectangle cards
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Classic Christmas

Having dug out the PM Classic Christmas papers for the cards I showed in the previous post, I decided to make a few more batches of cards using some of these papers - what a shame the red foiling doesn't show on the photo like it does irl.

These are for:

Party time Tuesday 46: red and green Christmas
Paper sundaes 99: anything Christmas
Make my Monday 27: seasonal - red ribbon (the spotted ribbon is from Handy Hippo)
Crafty ribbons 8: traditional colours for Christmas
Friendship's garden 6: anything goes Christmas
Our craft lounge 95: a clean & simply holiday Christmas
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Nordic Christmas

When I saw what this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge was, I remembered some Papermania Classic Christmas papers by Stephanie Dyment that I thought would fit the bill, so I chose designs that had plenty of red and white and also reindeer.

This was the photo inspiration given on DCM and we were asked to think knitted jumpers, reindeer and lots of red and white:

This fitted in nicely with my plan to make lots of quick cards this week (oh dear, time is running out rapidly ...). These papers have some beautiul red foiling on them that, unfortunately, doesn't show up here. The glint that you can see on the reindeer at the top left is representative of the foiling - the card below it has a beautiful red foiled reindeer on the left.

So this is for:

Daring cardmakers: Nordic Christmas
Polka doodles 49: quick Christmas card
For fun: Christmas - anything goes
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