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Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Letterbox

This was a commissioned A5 tent style card using a Kanban background on to which I stamped the lovely Joanna Sheen letterbox directly, colouring with spectrum noir pens and adding snowflakes and poinsettias,, as well as the dymo letratag sentiments.


This is for:

Creative Friday 264: favourite stamp (one of my favourite Christmas ones)
Retro rubber 144: anything goes (I've had this stamp for much  longer than a year)

Christmas presents

 A set of quick and easy cards made with Kanban card, just adding sentiments.


These are for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
A bit more time to craft 124: anything goes
A bit more time to craft September: anything goes
A perfect time to craft 9: anything goes
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes
Jingle belles: incorporate gold

Christmas dinner

 A set of cards made some time ago with Paper Nation papers, scalloped edged card blanks opening tent style and little glittered baubles from The Works, with the addition of the sentiments.

These are for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
A bit more time to craft 124: anything goes
A bit more time to craft September: anything goes
A perfect time to craft 9: anything goes
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Moonlit scene

 A quick card made with one of the lovely Crafter's Companion cut and emboss folders, with the winter scene with the deer and a big bright moon shining with the mirror card.

This is for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
A bit more time to craft 124: anything goes
A bit more time to craft September: anything goes
A perfect time to craft 9: anything goes
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Vintage Christmas

 Card made some time ago with pieces from The Works.

This is for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
A bit more time to craft 124: anything goes
A bit more time to craft September: anything goes
A perfect time to craft 9: anything goes
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Sleigh bells

 A quick card made a while ago with an unknown offcut matted on to the turquoise card and on to a scalloped edged card with the lovely Kanban Sleigh bells ring ... are you listening.


This is for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
A bit more time to craft 124: anything goes
A bit more time to craft September: anything goes
A perfect time to craft 9: anything goes
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Monday, 21 September 2020

Enjoy the magic of Christmas

A set of five cards made a while ago using Kanban supplies with the middle piece raised to give a little bit of dimension.

These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Jingle bells

 A card made a while ago using supplies from  Kanban - the surrounds are gold foil, which really, sadly, doesn't show up here like it does irl.



This is for:

A bit more time to craft September: anything goes
A perfect time to craft 9: anything goes
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes
Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Jingle belles: incorporate gold
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
A bit more time to craft 124: anything goes

Simply Christmas trees

 Two cards made a while ago with Papermania background paper and added die cut trees that I've had for so long that I can't remember where they were from ... and I thought it was about time they were used - lol! The sentiment pieces were from Kanban.


These are for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
A bit more time to craft September: anything goes
A perfect time to craft 9: anything goes
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
CAS Christmas 17: Christmas tree
A bit more time to craft 124: anything goes
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Frame it

 Three cards made a while ago using some old Kanban frames with domed acetate, using various paper offcuts and sentiments.



These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Purple Christmas

Two similar cards made some time ago with background papers that were free with a magazine with toppers and sentiments.


These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Simply Santa's sleigh

 Two sets of quick cards made some time ago using an embossing folder that depicts Santa and his sleigh and reindeer. For the first set I used blue pearlescent card matted on to kraft card blanks, with the addition of the glittery snowflakes and the peel off sentiments.


For the second set, I used the same pearlescent card, just adding the sentiment.


These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes



Upcycled tags on cards

 These four sets of cards all use upcycled tags that have had the tops cut off, with various backgrounds. The first two sets are on landscape opening A6 cards.  The stars on the third and fourth sets were punched using scraps.




These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Krafty chicks 525: clean and simple
Crafting happiness 67: anything goes

Sunday, 20 September 2020

Cut and emboss

 Four quick and easier cards made a while ago using Crafter's Companion cut and emboss folders - cards are A5 size, opening from the side using various mirror card.




These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Die cut divas September: all kind of holidays time 

Dear Santa

 A couple of cards made some time ago with the same backgroud paper and Santa topper and other bits and pieces:


These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Bizzy Becs September: anything goes

Saturday, 19 September 2020

Where's Santa?

Where's Santa? In these quick cards made some time ago we can see his belt and one of his reindeer ... he must be having a nap - lol! 

The sentiment paper with belt were matted on to some red holographic card with stars.

These are for

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Crafty animals 42: anything goes

While shepherds watched

 For this set of simple cards made some time ago I used pieces of Paper Nation papers, using some scraps.

These are for

Tuesday taggers (Try it on Tuesday): use your scraps
Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September

Blue and silver

 Two sets of cards using various squares and various snowflakes - punched ones in the second set using up some scraps.


Reindeer for 
Crafty animals 42: anything goes

These are for:

Tuesday taggers (Try it on Tuesday): use your scraps
Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September

Hessian with snowflakes

 Two cards made a while ago using a couple of backgrounds from my offcuts - the first one  is glittered - and mounting a piece of hessian that has snowflakes on it, adding the 3D silver snowflakes stickers from The Works and a sentiment.


These are for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Simon says Wednesday: no stamps allowed

Baubles

Some sets of cards made some time ago using an embossing folder that I've had for a long time - very useful to make cards quickly using mirror card.. 



These are for:

Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Simon says Wednesday: no stamps allowed

Snowflakes

Some sets of cards made some time ago using an embossing folder that I've had for a long time - very useful to make a variety of cards quickly using holographic silver mirror card and matt gold. They were mounted open to matt silver embossed card with the peel off sticker sentiments added. And another set using holographic silver mirror card with no sentiment.


These are for:

Jingle belles: incorporate gold (second set)
Make my Monday 131: Christmas in September
Simon says Wednesday: no stamps allowed