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Tuesday, 17 November 2020

Merry Christmas

 Yesterday I made a few more Christmas cards, so this is one of them with  a large topper on to red mirror card and then on to a piece of Papermania paper from an old kit with the addition of some silver glittered snowflakes from Italian Options.


This is for:
The holly and the ivy 83: anything Christmas goes
Daisy chain 47: Christmas is coming
Time out 174: festivals + shimmer/glitter
Simon says Monday: happy holidays
Word art Wednesday 464: anything goes
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Saturday, 14 November 2020

Happy birthday Grandson

This is an A5 commissioned card made today to be given to an adult grandson who works with computers. The background card is Hunkydory (it's the same on the back) and the Happy Birthday sentiment paper is from Kanban. I printed the sentiment and die cut with a Spellbinder die, using a larger one to cut out of Hunkydory card (used the rest for the inside of the card). I used a word cloud that I had previously created for another commissioned card, again cutting with a Spellbinder die. I just added a few stars here and there.


Inside:

This is for:

As you like it: favourite his or hers birthday and why - I like many both, but am pleased when a card for a male comes together with a specific theme, whereas hers cards tend to be quite general
Dream factory 85: maleficient
Cardz 4 guyz 257: birthday for an adult male
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 464: anything goes
Arty divas 31: anything goes
Morgan's ArtWorld 11: anything goes
Crafter's castle 35: anything goes
Creative moments 202: anything goes
Corrosive 11: anything goes
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CHNC challenge 516

These are my design cards for my CHNC challenge 516 -  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 some glitter'.

A couple of cards using offcuts of patterned mirror card with glittered robins from The Works and sentiments mounted on to white card and then on to red card blanks.


These are also for:

Sparkles Christmas 118: gold or silver or glitter
Daisy chain 47: Christmas is coming
Creative craft cottage 135: Christmas/winter
Do-al(l) kreatives 47: glitter/sparkle + Christmas
Time out 174: festivals + shimmer/glitter
Crafty animals 44: anything goes
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 464: anything goes
Cardz TV 127: anything goes
Arty divas 31: anything goes
Morgan's ArtWorld 11: anything goes
Crafty creations 415: anything goes
Crafter's castle 35: anything goes
Creative moments 202: anything goes
Corrosive 11: anything goes

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Thursday, 12 November 2020

Happy birthday for a golfer

I needed to make a commissioned 8 x 8 card this morning for someone who likes playing gold. The background paper is from Paper Nation (long ago), not sure where the golfer images came from ... decoupaged. The Scrabble type letters from The Works are lovely shiny copper. The big Happy Birthday was from a set from Kanban.

This is for:

Cardz 4 guyz 257: birthday for an adult male
As you like it: favourite his or hers birthday and why - I like many both, but am pleased when a card for a male comes together with a specific theme, whereas hers cards tend to be quite general
Dream factory 85: maleficient
Day of the month card club 21: make your own head day
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Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Happy Christmas Grandog

This is a fun Christmas card - a request from a friend who calls her son's dog 'Grandog'. I searched and found a picture of a fallen Christmas tree and digitally added the text. I'd already used a dog that looked the same when I made another card so I digitally cut around the dog and put him into the card. It was then printed out and put on to the A5 landscape scalloped card blank.

This is for:

Dragonfly dreams November: Christmas/winter
Daisy chain 47: Christmas is coming
The library 72: Christmas shopaholic:I focused on the tree:


The paper shelter 448: Christmas is coming
Craft rocket 76: Christmas/winter
Creative craft cottage digi creations 120: Christmas is on the way
Creative craft cottage 135: Christmas/winter
ABC Christmas November: X for extra special
Double D: pine trees and/or pine cones
Animal friends 92: dog or cat
Day of the month card club 21: make your own head day
Creatalicious 198: anything goes + option: humour
Crafty animals 44: anything goes
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Digi choosday 45: anything goes
Di's digi: use a digi image
Classic design 11: anything goes
Love to craft 52: anything goes
Love to scrap 139: anything goes
QKR stampede 407: anything goes
Jan's digital November: anything goes
LeAnn's world 101 32: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 464: anything goes
Cardz TV 127: anything goes
Polka doodles 45: anything goes
Arty divas 31: anything goes
Morgan's ArtWorld 11: anything goes
Unicorn 60: anything goes
Crafty creations 415: anything goes
Crafter's castle 35: anything goes
Creative moments 202: anything goes
Corrosive 11: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Sunday, 8 November 2020

Floral Christmas

One more card made with an 6 x 6 paper from Anna Griffin with a very similar card to one shown yesterday, this time with the Scrabble type letters from The Works and a couple of poinsettias from Italian Options.

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Poinsettias

Another background paper from Anna Griffin from long ago - so nice that it doesn't need much  on it and certainly  wouldn't want to wide any of that gorgeous poinsettia, so I just added a couple of sprigs of holly and a glittered poinsettia from Italian Options and a sentiment.

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Saturday, 7 November 2020

Wishing you a happy Christmas

Another card made yesterday with an Anna Griffin 6 x 6 paper, to which I added the wooden frame with green mirror card behind it and a couple of glittered poinsettias from Italian Options. I chose to use yellow tape in my dymo letratag for the sentiment because the stamens on the flowers on the paper are yellow (although you can't really see that here).

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Noel

Some time ago I bought some 6 x 6 papers from Anna Griffin - they are lovely, but I couldn't really think how to use them. This is one of them - so I added the Scrabble type letters from The Works and the holly from Italian Options. The paper itself is so lovely that it really doesn't need much added.

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Loved up penguins

Still showing cards made yesterday, this one with a Kanban background from long ago with the penguins on the glittered and foiled topper, with the addition of the Merry Christmas sentiment.

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
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Merry Christmas

Another reindeer card using another piece of Papermania paper from long ago with the silver foiled Kanban topper and the holly from Italia Options, with the addition of the Merry Christmas sentiment.

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
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Reindeer

Another card made yesterday with some old Papermania background paper (taken from a 12 x 12) (some lovely red foiling, with the addition of two felt reindeer, glittered gold snowflakes from Italian Options and the sentiment.


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
Cute card Thursday 659: anything goes
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Red and black with a touch of gold

Another card made yesterday using an upcycled topper from a card received (too good to put in the recycling bin), mounted on to the gold foiled paper from Crafter's Companion decorative Christmas paper pad with gold and black 3D foam snowflakes from Italian Options. I was tempted to add something else, but think it's OK as it is.

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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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