A glitter Christmas at Southern Girls Challenge

It's team Trace's turn to share over at Southern Girls Challenge blog... and our theme is all about Glitter..........

I used a pretty little sweetie from All Dressed Up.- called Christmas Tree Fairy

I printed it onto white card and used Spectrum Noir and Copic pens to colour and then used Spectrum Noir glitter pen and Kindyglitz to added glitter and sparkle to the card.  Added to a gold glitter layer.

Really pleased with this sweetie and all the glitter. I'm entering this into the Christmas Challenge at Simon Says Stamp, Wednesday challenge. 

Be sure to join us at Southern Girls for this challenge.  You have till the 31st Dec to share your project.

Peace Wreath

Several years ago I made a wreath card that I gave to my friend Yvonne...and in the weekend she asked me to make it again for a friend of hers that is very sick.  The card for Yvonne had the word "hope" and for her friend, she wants the word "peace" so a quick view through my Flickr cards, I found the original card and I copied it...

A very CAS card but just what was wanted.

I have entered this into the Craftyhazelnut's Challenge blog... Christmas with optional gems...which I have added to my wreath.  

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Christmas stockings

I'm enjoying entering the Watercooler Wednesday challenges and this week is "All About Holidays" hosted by Gail.  I made a cute Christmas card to enter this week.

I am loving using these 5 inch square cards.  I took a smaller square of card and put it diagonally into my embossing folder.  Was really pleased how it turned out.  I stamped and coloured my little stockings and used the ScanNCut to cut them out. I added some glitter to the tops.   I added some red bakers twine to hang them from and little bows.  Added a little sentiment and it's done.

I'm also entering into the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Lots of Dimension at Papercarft Challenges. 

I had a great weekend... on Sunday I joined 7 other ladies to attend a class run by Meetu from Krafter's Kart.  Denise hosted at her house about 25 mins from my place.  We had great fun making 4 cards - one of which was a window slider card.  I'll share more later.

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Christmas Robin

It's my day to post over at the Die Cut Divas blog.  Our sponsor this month is

I got to use Winter Robin image to make my card today

I printed the image and used Prismacolor Pencils to colour it up.  I used a Spellbinders die to cut out the oval image.  While the die was in place and sponged a very pale blue ink around it.  I added some glue and glitter for the snow.    I had the background sitting in my box of bits and pieces - made last year with a Catherine Pooler stamp.  Added the big ribbon and it was all done.

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Twofer Wreath.

 

I haven't played along with Darnell's Twofer card challenge for awhile but the arrival of my Gina K Wreath Builder stencil this week, got me enthused to join this month's Wreath Challenge.   

I took a couple of stamps from Catherine Pooler's Candy Cane Lane set (the two holly stamps and the matching berries) and started off my wreaths.  Both cards use the same design 

I did the Christmas one first, using some Altenew inks for the holly leaves and the berries.  Once I had these done, I used some little peg stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry to fill in the rest of my wreath.  Added a few red Nuvo drops.   The centre of the wreath was stamped with a Penny Black sentiment.   I used my score board to make around the edges of the panel and mounted it onto a dark green mat.  The card base was also scored.

My second card is a fall colour card with a thankful theme.  I used the holly leaves in brown/orange inks and darker different greens for the extra little bits and pieces.  Added some dark blue glitter N dr

I die cut the thankful die from some shimmery brown card and added it as a mat as well.

I really enjoyed using the holly stamps as autumn leaves. 

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Christmas Quilt card

I have been making lots of cards for Christmas as I have been selling some at work.  After last weekends marathon effort, I had lots of lovely little pieces of Patterned paper so decided to piece them together to make a quilt card

After piecing the scraps onto the base I ran it through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder to give the quilting look.  I added a die cut Peace cut with white and red card with a Hero Arts die.  Added the little words, white embossed onto black card.

I am entering this into  Heidi's All About Occasions challenge at Watercooler Wednesdays

It's been awhile.....

Yes, 10 days since my last post!... I have been busy making Christmas cards to sell and for swaps, but no time to post.  Plus we went up to the beach for the weekend.  I got 10 cards made over the weekend up there.  Plus went for a lovely 50 minute walk.

Today I am sharing three cards that are on their way to swap partners for a Christmas card swap

I used the same design for these cards. I have a TON of Patterned paper so this is a great way to use some of it up.  All my sentiments are from an Altenew stamp set.  I embellished with stamped, fussy cut flowers and holly leaves and some die cut snow flakes.

I really love this design so most of my 10 cards from the weekend are using this design.  I had a couple of packs of 5"x5" cards and they are super to use. 

Well this has taken me a while to write up as I started it before we headed out for an Indian meal at the local restaurant - 500 metres down the road.   Amazing curries and lovely to spend time with my son and his partner (hubby was out at another function).  It was my son's 30th birthday yesterday so this was a carry on for him.

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One Embossing Folder - Two looks

I got out an embossing folder that I got last year to make a Christmas card.  The folder and matching stamps and die were a freebie with a magazine, so I pulled out the magazine to give me a starting point.  So I CASE'd one of the cards.

I stamped the oval with Altenew Evergreen ink and used my ScanNCut to cut an oval around it.  I cut a slightly bigger oval and used the ink to colour it to match.  I die cut the spray in red and added them behind the sentiment and the whole topper added to the embossed piece. 

I then decided to try the letterpress technique.  I inked up the inside of the embossing folder with some Evergreen Ink and run it through my Cuttlebug.

I die cut the holly spray from Green card and added Nuvo drops on the berries.  Used the same sentiment. 

I have to get more cards made soon as I took my Christmas cards to work and sold a number of them there.   

And this weekend I'm off to a Craft Event.   It's about 2 hours south of here and I'm doing a day trip with my friend Suna.  I'm looking forward to seeing all the new stuff that will be there.  I've been saving up and have a big list of things I want to get.  

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Christmas cards galore!

WARNING... PHOTO HEAVY

My Mojo is still waning.... and I need to make some Christmas cards - getting asked at work when am I bringing them in to sell!   So while I was in Spotlight yesterday morning getting some knitting needles to make some little Ugg boots for the upcoming arrival... I spotted a pack of pre-cut dies cuts

So I thought that with some patterned papers  I might get some cards done with out too much effort,

These first two use die cut poinsettias.  I enhanced them with some grey pencils.  The first one was added to some purple patterned paper and used a Kaisercraft  sentiment embossed onto black card and the second one used an embossed panel with the same sentiment.

Loved these three gnomes so added them all together on the one card.  I grounded them with a strip of bronze glitter washi tape.  The panel was embossed in the upper corners and finished with a gnome sentiment.

The next two cards used patterned paper.  One had a little touch of stamping of some pine branches in the corner.

the deer and the Merry Christmas banner are actually silver but it was very hard to get the photo to show this.  Both papers came from a Recollections paper pack

 

And my final card for the day was a commissioned card.... Request was for something for a NZ'er and his Italian partner who live in Spain..... so came up with NZ Pohutakawa branches covered with some snow.... and with a Spanish sentiment. 

Think I got the brief covered.
I am adding this to the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge... it's Tristan's All About Holidays...

Well if you've made it here... thank you for visiting.  Please leave me a comment and let me know if you liked my cards. 

Christmas Holly Wreath.

My Mojo has been on holiday for a couple of weeks now... really struggling to create.  Just the odd card here and there.  In fact over our long weekend, I only managed to make just one card.... mind you, warm sunny weather made me wanted to sit outside which I did, with my book.    Even new stamps haven't really enthused.... but yesterday I did pull out the new Holly Stamp set from Sunny Studio that had arrived on Friday.. and CASE'd a card on their website.

 

I used several green inks from Altenew to stamp a number of the holly leaves and berries and cut them out with my Scan'N'Cut.  I embossed a background panel with a diamond pattern.    The sentiment is from a freebie set from last year,  I added some Nuvo drops on top of the berries and finished with a grosgrain ribbon bow.  

I stamped enough holly leaves to make another wreath  - will change up the background a bit I think. 

Sketch inspiration Christmas...

I was watching some You Tube yesterday and saw Dawn Griffith making a card using her Sketch #50 (see it here)

 

 Dawn did a pretty card using a Stampin' Up deer - I CASE'd it using a deer I got with a magazine last year.   I liked the purple colour scheme so went with with that but in a softer version.

 I used some PP from the pack I got the other week.  It's all pretty purples, blues, teals and pinks,  I stamped the deer with Catherine Pooler Royal Treatment ink and fussy cut it.  Used my Scan'N'Cut to cut some purple snowflakes.  The sentiment is also from the free stamp set. 

I like the sketch so adapted it to use with a regular A6 (NZ sizing) card.  I wanted to make a card for Watercooler Wednesday's Masculine challenge - so used blues to make a masculine Christmas card.

The PP is again, from the same pack.  I trimmed strips 3/4" wide and cut to fit around the background.  I added a white rectangle panel in the middle on which I stamped a Kaisercraft sentiment.  I then stamped the Poinsettia from the same Kaisercraft set and used Prismacolor pencils to colour it blues and greys.    I really loved how this turned out.   I'm going to try out for their Design Team with this one too. 

It's a great sketch to jump start a card.  I'll be using it again for sure. 

Hope you get to do some crafting over the weekend.  It's a long weekend here in NZ with Monday being Labour Day and a public holiday.   We are going out to dinner on Sat night to celebrate Hubby's birthday (earlier in the week) and the great news that at the end of April 2019 we will be grandparent's again.   My son and his partner are expecting their first child.  Here was their announcement photo

The hammers are because my son is a builder.

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CAS Christmas - Birds

I haven't been doing much this week as I've been working on  a commission for a girl from work.   She wanted a card for her husband for their anniversary, but wanted a number of photos on it... so I suggested an exploding box  - that gave me an ability to use all the photos of their wedding and the family.  I really am pleased with the result but it did take quite some time to get it all done.

Today I did get some time to time to get a quick CAS Christmas card done for the the CAS Christmas card challenge - cue word BIRDS

I used a die cut to make my dove from silver mirror card.  It was a die from a couple of years ago that came with a magazine.  I die cut the frame with a MFT die.  The sentiment was from another freebie set from a few years ago as well.  

And here is a quick collage of the exploding box - not fully finished

I've added more photos and the lid has a photo of them on their wedding day with the words For Ever die cut and other embellishments and sentiments on some of the flaps.

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World Card Making Day/ Weekend....

6 October is World Card Making Day so I invited my friend Suna over to have a "play date" with me.  We spent a couple of hours together... chatting and crafting... I haven't seen her for some time as she retired from work in April (we worked for the same Government Department) so it was great to catch up and enjoy the hobby we both love.

I got a DT card finished and a couple of quick Christmas cards done as well as my NZ couple technique swap card done... But as it's going to Maxine (who is a follower here)  won't be sharing that one till I know she has it!

So here are the two quick Christmas cards I made.  Using only patterned paper from a pack by Recollections called Northern Lights.  It is a beautiful pad with soft blues, teals, pinks etc.

I added some Wink of Stella onto the stars and called them done!  How quick is that.

I also started a card using some free stamps from a magazine and using one of the sample cards as inspiration.   Suna has shown me how she uses her watercolour pencils to colour without using water with them so I decided to try it with my Faber Castell watercolour pencils.... Finished it off after she left.

I added some sparkle to the centre of the flowers with Wink of Stella.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.  I used some Catherine Pooler inks to stamp the leaves that are directly on the card.   The edge die came with the stamps in the magazine.  I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Watercooler Wednesday's Anything Goes Feminine challenge
The Flower Challenge's Sparkle Challenge
MFT - World Card making Day - Flower Power challenge.

And of course because it's still the 6th in the Northern Hemisphere (7th here in NZ) I did some more cards today... will share later in the week.

Hope you got to spend some time crafting, be it stamping, cardmaking, scrapbooking... as long as you had the chance to be creative...

Alcoholic Gnomes....

I bet that got your attention....  No my cards done have drunken Gnomes... but Gnomes with a background of Alcohol inks....

This is one of my alcohol ink backgrounds from last weekend.  I trimmed it up into different sizes and added a little Gnome on each one.  Two of the sentiments came with the Gnomes stamp set and the last one from a Kaisercraft set.

I'm entering the challenge at Watercooler Wednesday - it's Heidi's Anything Goes "All about the Holidays"  with these... or at least one of them will go into the challenge....

I still got a pile of backgrounds to use so more of these Gnomes in different colours might just be on
the way to building up my Christmas cards supply.    Plus I got two new 6x6 paper packs today... so some serious Christmas card making in the next little while.

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Christmas cards - Poinsettias

Poinsettias are a favourite for me when making Christmas cards.  I have a number of stamps and dies that I can use.  My latest two Christm
as cards both use Poinsettias. 

First up is a card using a stunning Digital stamp from Graciellie Designs (from the Hello Christmas set)

I printed the Poinsettia and the pine cone onto some lightweight watercolour paper and used Altenew watercolour paints to colour and add some splatter.    I trimmed it down, layered with some dark green paper and onto a white base.   There is a little bit of Wink of Stella on the flower and pine cone. 

My second card used a stamped Poinsetta that I fussy cut out.

The Poinsettia - a Kiwi Stamping one - was stamped onto a piece of Yupo paper coloured with Alcohol inks and foiling.  I fussy cut the flower.   I took a piece of double sided patterned paper and using a Kaisercraft Poinsettia stamp and some Altenew green ink.   I used another Kaisercraft stamp set to stamp the sentiment.   I added the diecut Poinsettia over the stamped one. A stripe of the reverse side of the patterned paper finished off my card.   I have entered this into the Using Punches/Dies challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge blog and the Christmas at Sweet Stampin' challenge.

I also got to spend some time this weekend making more Alcohol ink backgrounds as well as enjoying a nice warm sunny day today - sitting outside this morning with a beautiful bright sky

It did cloud up a bit later in the day but we got to sit outside for most of the day.

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Noel Christmas cards

I have a couple of Christmas cards to share today.  I did lots of colouring over the first few days of June for Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day colouring challenge.  I have also been spending some time working out how to use my ScanNCut and had found a great Noel text image, I wanted to try out on a card.  I set it up in Brother Canvas and decided I wanted to use it as an Eclipse card.  So I decided to stamp and colour a background to die cut.

I stamped the Hero Arts Poinsettia several times and coloured it.  I then cut it with the ScanNCut.  I cut several more white die cuts and one out of dark green card so I could layer the sentiment when I laid it back in the negative space.  I quite like the result, but think the background is just a touch too busy to see the sentiment that well. 

The next card came about as I was about to throw out the negative space of one of the white layers.   I looked at it and decided it was too good to throw away.  So here's what I did

I die cut a stitched rectangle and added some patterned paper behind the opening.  I added some Nuvo drops as embellishments. 

So that's my first two Christmas cards started. 

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