On a Roll...........

I'm certainly making the most of my time off making cards... particularly Christmas cards.  This set of three cards all use Heather Ellis's Pure Innocence (#10)  I had such fun with this image.  (warning Long post...)

#1

I resized this one reasonable small and then printed onto white card and then some coloured PP to piece the hats and scarves.  Unfortunately the ink ran a little on her face.  But that's okay... The blue background was made with a new little Hero Arts cling I picked up the other day... it is only 2.5 x 2.5 inches, so stamped it a number of times onto the card in Versamark and white embossed it.  Then using the Soft Pool ink directly to the card, did a resist technique. I made the snow by running some scraps of white card through Swiss Dots CB folder and layering onto the oval.   Added some Kindyglitz glitter glue.  The base card was made with Spellbinders Oval Scallop dies.  Sentiment by Hero Arts.

#2

This one was made with 2Peas Stamptoberfest challenge (Pattern Paper) in mind.  You needed to use 3 PP.  I did 4 if you count the snowflakes on the blue background.  That background came about by pure accident.  I was playing round with the image in my Word Document and did some negative colour changes and lo and behold ~ it coloured the background of the image!  I never knew you could do that... so something new learnt for the day!.  I printed out the image with the coloured background and then again without.  I stamped the background with the HA snowflakes cling and white Colorbox ink.  The plain one, I coloured with Copics and added some Diamond Dazzle glitter and cut out.  I then took some PP's to make my card.  The red snowflakes from DCWV, the stripes I made with HA Stripe Pattern stamp, some clear embossing and distress inks and finally a strip of scrap paper for my mini rosette.   I like how it turned out... so colourful....

and bearing with me....
#3

For this one, I used Card Patterns #135.  I liked the look of this sketch and knew immediately what I wanted to do.  I had seen this tutorial on making washi tape ( via Vanessa's blog).  I made some snowflake tape with snowflakes from old Hero Arts set ( came out in 2007).  I stamped them with Soft Pool so they are very subtle on the tissue.  I added the tape to a strip of purple card I edged with a Fiskers punch.  I stamped my cream background with Magical Background in Scattered Straw distress ink.   I had the panel coloured and cut so only had to add with the sentiment.  Notice I added some Liquid Appliqué for the pompoms and the snow.  Finished with some punched snowflakes and gems.  This one has been entered into Lily Pads Cards  Bling Challenge 

Thanks for sticking through that lot.  I really enjoyed this image and got my money's worth out of it ( It's on sale here)

I'm off to have some lunch - nearly 1pm here now.  Then off to the library to pick up a book.... yes I do other things .... including reading ~ a Nora Roberts series on Weddings... some nice light hearted reading.

Take care
Cheers

Dawn

I've been soooo busy.........

that I haven't had much time to craft, or visit blogs and leave comments....  with my parents here, I have wanted to spend as much time as I can with them.  Plus I was addressing all my Christmas cards...which took ages I must say.  Then work was busy ~  out on the road for a couple of days and we had our Christmas Day.... started with team building and ended with Lunch.

We started the day by Lawn Bowling.... we were put into teams and played against each other.... hilarious as only one of the 20 odd of us had ever bowled before.  My team of me, Fiona and Abdul drew one game and lost the other....

We followed this by coffee at the Naval Museum nearby in Devonport and then onto North Head for a Scavenger Hunt.   North Head is an a headland overlooking Auckland Harbour that was a strategic defence area and has lots of old tunnels, gun emplacements and other interesting things.  Our hunt involved a looking for a number of clues and writing them down,.... my group ended up just wandering around the site as it was such a beautiful day and there was just so much of interest to see.  We did however get most of the questions completed as one of our members went straight to watch the video in the info centre while the other 4 of us meandered around.

A few hills to climb, but as you can see the sights were lovely.    The place down on the beach is where we went for lunch.  It is called McHughs.  It has the most amazing food.

A fun day was had by all but everyone commented the next day how tired they were that evening...  More so for me as I ended up going out to dinner with my parents and my son and his girlfriend.  A spur of the moment thing but great fun.  Hubby was at his touch rugby so we got takeaway for him.

Well my parents are now winging their way home to the Gold Coast after 3 weeks with us, - back to normality for us.... I will miss having them here.... loved it Mum and Dad!!!!!!!!!  )
( know they will check this when they get home!!!!!)

Enjoy your weekend all.... hope you did the Hero Arts Blog Hop.... a great showcase of the new stamps coming out!!!

Cheers for now.