Glittery Christmas card

Hi.  It's time for me to share my card for Die Cut Divas today... Our sponsor this month is 

and our challenge is 

to Add Some Glitter.

I don't have any Scrappy Tails dies or stamps, so my lovely team-mate Arlene, sent me some stamped and die cut images. 

Here's my card for today. 

This is from "Santa's Workshop" set.   I coloured the die cut images with alcohol markers and added Glitter Glue to act as the snow on the workshop.  The sentiment is from Altenew - a free set from a magazine a few years back. 

Do come and joint us with your Glitter projects HERE ... just remember to use your Die Cut machine in some way...

Quick birthday card with PET Tapes and washi stickers.

 Today I'm sharing a quick card I made using some PET tapes and washi stickers from a book of stickers and tapes I got from Journalsay.   It is so easy to combine the two.  The tapes are translucent and the stickers are on a white background. 

I had fun sticking these in a combination that pleased me. I got a new die at the Craft show- from Creative Expressions... so cut from gold card.  I die cut the panel and added some pale green for a layer.  Took a pale green shimmer envelope and added a line of floral tape along the bottom.  

Loved how quick this was to put together.    

Ink blending die cuts - Craft a Flower - Flowering Dogwood Layering dies

 Today I'm sharing some cards that I started last Monday and finally finished on Thursday evening. 

I die cut two sets of all the flower parts and while looking after Grace on Monday I did some ink blending onto them, while she was colouring her Altenew Colorparlooza sheet.  Putting these together is a piece of cake thanks to the keyhole layering system.   I used some glitter card from my stash to added the centre of the flowers. The sentiment from Altenew Versatile Greetings die set.  There is a very subtle stencil inking behind the flowers.  I used some soft pink ink and Classic Stripes stencil.  Finished with some little gold gems.

This one used purple and yellow inks with a touch of green, to add the colour on this one   The stenciling behind the flowers is the Foliage Stencil with some green inks.  The sentiment is from Classic Greetings.  

Fun Day at The Auckland Papercraft Show...

 Yesterday I took the day off and together with my friend, Suna, we head off to The Auckland Papercraft Show.  The big craft fair this year was cancelled, so a few of the contributors got together to put on a smaller show.  It was over the Harbour Bridge so off we went.  Luckily for us, the weather held and it was a good drive over (plus the traffic was quite light!)  We spent up well ... have to support the local stores!  And we had super fun taking part in a class.  It was from Scrapbook Central and our tutor was the lovely Chick Mitchell.  We did 3 cards in 2 hours- lots of ink blending and embossing - and lots of painting with watercolour shimmer powders.  Our kits used products from Memory Box.  I didn't quite finish my cards during class so did that last night.  

Are they just gorgeous!   And luckily for me, I already own the bird die.  And the sentiment foil and die set.   I loved the colours we used  - did have to buy one Distress Oxide colour - Tattered Rose. 

Of course, I did a good amount of shopping.  - Got some practical storage - extra large stamp pockets and another Tim Holtz tin for my Distress Oxides.  And some glue and Stick-It double sided adhesive.  Got a cool snowflake embossing folder from Altenew, a Birthday stamp and die from Gina K, a cute Birthday Wishes die from Creative Expressions and some different rub-ons.   All in all, a great haul.  

Craft Roulette #223

 I watched the latest Craft Roulette on replay over the weekend.  For the last few days I've been contemplating what to do to meet the parameters.   This afternoon after work I finally decided what to do.   This one is my 17th submission.  

Project - Smaller/Larger - Two sized of my gnomes.

Colours - Planets - Red for Mars, Blue and Green for Earth, Brown for Pluto and Yellow for the Sun. 

Element - House(s) - Gnomes live in a Mushroom House. 

Random - White Border - border around the main panel - highlighted by the wonky frame. 

The gnomes are from a NZ company called Montarga.  The little one is from a stamp with three gnomes and the bigger one is a single stamp.   The house is from a Freebie set from 2017. 

Espressly for You...

 I was asked to make a card for some colleagues, whose team leader has moved to a new position.  They told me that he loves his coffee... so I made a 5 x 7 card so the team can sign it.

I trimmed some kraft paper and stamped it with Catherine Pooler Icing on the Cake ink with an Altenew Coffee Ring stamp.  The little bean and the two coffee sentiments are from a 2011  Hero Arts Sparkle Clear Coffee stamp set.  It's a mini 2 x 4 stamp set. The coffee cup is a digital one I got in 2022 from My Scrap Chick.  Not sure if it still available.   Being digital it was easy to size up to suit a larger card.  I used some alcohol markers to added the colour to the cup.   The sentiment is from another Hero Arts mini set - Mini Messages (2008) 

And added upside of making this card, when I was searching for the older Hero Arts stamps, I found 2 Studio G stamp sets that I haven't even opened, and a few sets I'd forgotten about that I pulled out and put close to my desk to remember to use soon.  

Two floral cards

 I had won a gift voucher from Altenew for one of my recent cards so was pleased that my parcel arrived Friday afternoon... 

Just a few items this time... saving my pennies to go to a craft fair coming up on Friday.  

Yesterday I got a bit of time to play with the Rose Bud dies and stencils. 

I decided to go for some darker colours.  I used the four inks from the Woodland Escape Fresh Dye inks... Pink Sand, Dusty Rose, Toasted Mauve and Redwood.  And used Marshlands and Sea Forest for the stems and leaves.  I then spritzed with some Frost Shimmer Spray.  It looks amazing in real life, but didn't photograph well.   I embossed a white panel with the Dotted Circles 3D folder.  Added the flowers with a bit of 3D tape behind the buds and glued the stems to the panel.   A few enamel dots for embellishment.  The sentiment is some glitter card, die cut from Versatile Greetings.

As this is the first time I've used the dies and stencil set, I'm entering into Darnell's -NBUS challenge 

My next card is made with the Colouring card that came with my purchases.  

I used Altenew Alcohol markers and Copic Markers with a touch of pencils to colour the card.  I trimmed and added some glitter card behind it.  Added a sentiment from the Elegant Sayings stamp set.  

Again used some Altenew Enamel dots for embellishment.  

Tomorrow I'm on Nanny duty for the day.  It's school holidays here.  Pop did Friday.  Had a lovely day with Grace, building a little veggie garden.   I'm taking her swimming and then we'll hit the craft room - her favourite place when she comes to our place.

Festive Frames at Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

 

Another wintery day here in Auckland, NZ so a bit more time in the craft room today.  While tidying yesterday I found a set of peg stamps by Rubber Stamp Tapestry.  I see my local stamp store has a number of these type of stamps.  The set I have is called Holiday Garden set.    

Here's how I used the peg stamps to add a festive frame around my sentiment. 

I lightly drew around a circle die and then used 4 colours of CP stamps - Rockin' Red, Peppermint Scrub, Eucalyptus and Green Tea to stamp the 4 different pegs.  Added a lot of little dots of the Rockin' Red and Eucalyptus inks and a few gems for the centre of some of the flowers.  The sentiment is from a NZ company called Montarga.  And to finish this CAS card, I used the Rockin' Red and Eucalyptus inks direct to paper to die cut 2 of the smallest die from Spellbinders Poinsettia dies, in the red, and the next size up in the green.  Added some yellow gems for the centre.