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Saturday, 7 November 2020

Season's greetings

I used the lovely Crafter's Companian baubles embossing folder with copper, mounted on to background paper from Crafter's Companion decorative Christmas paper pad with the addition of the glittered snowflakes from Italian Options and the sentiment.

This is for:
12 months 71: anything goes + option: for the boys
Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Merry Christmas & a happy new year

Yesterday I made quite a few Christmas cards, trying to use up some that I'd started and not finished - this is one of them - a piece of unknown background paper, with a couple of little  stickers and the silver foiled deer and sentiments from Kanban.

This is for:

Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Daisy chain 47: Christmas is coming
2 crafty critter crazies 44: anything goes - animal
Crafty animals 44: anything goes
Pearly sparkles 57: Christmas/winter critters
613 avenue create November: anything goes + option: cute critters
Scribbles designs 93: feature a creature
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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CHNC challenge 515

This is my design card for my CHNC challenge 515 -  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  'use a button or two or more'.

I really didn't have to do much at all for this card. The background paper is from Kaisercraft. I added the lovely reindeer (I didn't make it, but bought it at a craft fair some time ago) ... I used it because it has a button on it!! I added the Merry Christmas sentiment.

This is also for:

Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Daisy chain 47: Christmas is coming
Creative craft cottage 135: Christmas/winter
2 crafty critter crazies 44: anything goes - animal
Crafty animals 44: anything goes
Pearly sparkles 57: Christmas/winter critters
613 avenue create November: anything goes + option: cute critters
Scribbles designs 93: feature a creature
Word art Wednesday 465: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Thursday, 5 November 2020

Wrapped up for winter

The background paper for this card is from Crafter's Companion Decorative Christmas paper pad and the piece across the top is from the same pad. It's difficult to see here, but there is gold foiling on both. The lovely wrapped up snowman was bought at a craft fair some time ago. I added the glittered white snowflakes from Italian Options and the sentiment.

This is for:

ABC Christmas November: W for winter wonderland
Crimbo crackers 219: anything goes
Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Craft rocket 76: Christmas/winter
Daisy chain 47: Christmas is coming
Word art Wednesday 465: anything goes
Aud sentiments 263: anything goes + sentiment
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Sending smiles across the miles

I've been asked for some 'across the miles' cards, so here is another one using a lovely glittered background upcycled with the oval pillar box topper from Hunkydory and the sending in silver generated on my dymo letratag. Then I added some silver glittered snowflakes from Italian Options and everything mounted on to a red card blank.

This is for:

ABC Christmas November: W for winter wonderland
Crimbo crackers 219: anything goes
Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Time out 174: festivals + shimmer/glitter
Craft rocket 76: Christmas/winter
Daisy chain 47: Christmas is coming
Sparkles Christmas 118: gold or silver or glitter
Do-al(l) kreatives 47: glitter/sparkle + Christmas
Cardz 4 galz 134: silver and/or gold
Crafty catz 525: anything goes + option: winter
Word art Wednesday 465: anything goes
Aud sentiments 263: anything goes + sentiment
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Lemon shortbread 132: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Tuesday, 3 November 2020

More baubles

Two more cards made a couple of days ago with different Kanban foiled backgrounds and the baubles embossing folder used with copper mirror card with Italian Options gold poinsettias and a sentiment.

Once again, strange angle for the photo to avoid setting my reflection in the mirror card - lol! 


These are for:

Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Aud sentiments 263: anything goes + sentiment
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Lemon shortbread 132: anything goes
QKR stampede 407: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Krafty chicks 531: anything goes
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Stained glass mother and child

A set of five cards for a commission. I stamped the lovely Berkeley Stained glass mother and child, inked with versafine onyx black and embossed with clear detail powder. I coloured with Chameleon pens, not using the fading method with them, but just using as ordinary alcohol pens. I then cut round the images and mounted on to pearlescent white card blanks and added the sentiments that were printed with my dymo letratag labeller.

The photo doesn't do justice to the colours. I coloured the skin tones with quite a deep olive brown, but it's come out a lot lighter here. So many nativity pictures tend to show Mary and Jesus with pale skin whereas they were from an Eastern country.

These are for:

12 months link up 71: anything goes 
Merry little Christmas 28: anything Christmas goes
Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Aud sentiments 263: anything goes + sentiment
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Lemon shortbread 132: anything goes
QKR stampede 407: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Word art Wedneday 463: anything goes
Krafty chicks 531: anything goes
Polka doodles 44: anything goes
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Monday, 2 November 2020

Nativity

Usually, at the flats where I live, we have a McMillan coffee morning and I sell cards, lots of Christmas cards. There are friends here who are putting in requests for cards, mainly Christmas and I was asked if I had any packs of 5 - I usually make these so that they are cheaper to buy.

So, on request, I've made five cards featuring the lovely Inkadinkado nativity stamp which I inked with versamark onyx black and embossed with clear detail powder. I then die cut using a Papermania Xcut label die, using the next size to cut red mirror card and adding a sentiment to each card - then layered on to red A6 card blanks.

These are for:

12 months link up 71: anything goes + option for the boys
Merry little Christmas 28: anything Christmas goes
My time to craft 444: clean & simply Christmas
Creative sketchy girls 53: Christmas/winter
Aud sentiments 263: anything goes + sentiment
QKR stampede 407: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Word art Wedneday 463: anything goes
Krafty chicks 531: anything goes
Crafty catz 525: anything goes
Polka doodles 44: anything goes
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Sunday, 1 November 2020

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper November 2020 challenge

This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper November 2020 challenge. .If you make anything that includes some patterned paper you can link your entries and you might be the randomly chosen winner of the lovely prize that I'm giving away. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.

This was an 8 x 8 commissioned card for a granddaughter's birthday, using Hunkydory papers and toppers with a few flowers and pearls. The sentiment down the middle was created on my dymo letratag.


Inside:


This is also for:

All fun 18: anything goes
Love to craft 52: anything goes
Love to scrap 139: anything goes
Krafty chicks 531: anything goes
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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
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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:


This is for:

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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.

This is for:

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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
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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.

This is for:

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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
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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
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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
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