Quick and simple no stamping card.

Hi there.  It's been a week since my last post... another week of super busyness  - getting ready for Christmas and not a lot of crafting done.   We held our annual neighborhood Christmas party on Tuesday evening.  The weather played it's part and it was a nice warm day and into the evening.  We had a great evening with a good turnout of neighbors.

Today I packed some supplies to take with me for our week away.  Might not get time but at least I'm prepared!   Before I did though, I was tidying up some paper patterned scraps and ephemera to put away.  And wouldn't you know it... a card sort of appeared!

I used one of Jess Craft's designs from the Stress Free Cardmaking Summit.  It is a fast favourite now!  Not sure who the ephemera is by... it was in an baggie with no identifying labels.  I trimmed my scrap to make the three panels.   2 are 1.5" x 4" and one is 1" x 4" - worked well as the piece had a circle cut out of it and I wasn't able to get three even pieces.    I used some kraft card to make my layering mat.  The colours on the ephemera matched the flowers on the paper reasonably well.   Addes some light brown ink onto the white centre panel and around all the white areas on the flowers to match the creamy background of the paper.  Some little blue gems finished it off.

I'm going finish with a quick pic of my littlest Grandson.... 

Finn was gifted this little Santa suit onsie

Merry Christmas from me to you.  

 

Happy World Card Making Day

 I made the most of this being a weekend of card making for me... Today - Sunday 8th is still WCMD on the other side of the world. 

Some of these were made on Saturday 7th and finished today. 

First up is another cat card for Christmas Kickstart - Cat Lovers Challenge.

Some of one of my new patterned paper with a Tim Holtz - Snarky Christmas Cat.  Sentiment from a now defunct NZ coy called Kiwistamping. 

Next a card inspired by Jess Crafts (from the SFCS)  - again using some of one of the new paper packs.

I also was inspired by Crafty Al... using ephemera.   I used Jess's design.  My paper was double sided - patterned on one side and plain on the other. So I used two sheets to get what I needed.   I used the reverse side for the focal panel and used some Anko ephemera (Floral set).  The little stamp is from a NZ company called Hastings Stamps.  

Third one - again inspired by Crafty Al from the Stress Free Cardmaking Summit. 

For this one, I took Al's design and stepped it up.  She provided a video with a lot of ways to step up the original design.  For this one, I use a Gina K embossing folder after I had done the soft green inking.  Added the ephemera from a Kaisercraft pack.  The sentiment was a freebie from Crafty Al which I printed and trimmed.  

I had a lovely visit from my son and his two girls....

Our Princesses  

Video call this afternoon - cousins  together!  

thanks for stopping by - hope you managed to get some card making done this World Card Making Day.  

Stress Free Cardmaking Summit -Part 2

 Hi there... I'm back to share three more cards I've made this week inspired by more of the presentations I've watched from the Stress Free Cardmaking Summit...  so a warning that this post is long!

First up I was inspired by Mary Polanco - I actually made two for this one... but simply did not like the first one.... The blues were too green and I found I don't have a medium sized snowflake stamp!  I tried to make on with some fun foam and a die... but my fun foam was too thin and the die too intricate - so that panel ended up in the bin... so back to the drawing board - or should I say the painting board!

For this one, I took some Fabrico Mixed Media paper and masked around the edge.  My first attempt used Catherine Pooler inks to paint, this time I used some Distress Oxides in blues... one little corner seeped under the mask - but that was ok.   I took the snowflake die (a freebie from a magazine) and some silvery shimmery paper and die cut three snowflakes.  I used Altenew's Charcoal Suit grey ink to stamp the Waffle Flower sentiment.   Added some Stampendous Dot Sparkles in silver.  They really are iridescent.  This time my heart was singing.  It was just how I wanted it to look!

Card two was inspired by the presentation by Jess Crafts - her sessions was all about take 12x12 papers and cut them up to make 6 cards.   Well I don't have many Christmas 12x12 papers but do have some 6x6 ones.  So I did just one card - but have enough stripes for at least one more card.  The papers she used had some pages of toppers - I found a topper in my stash... not sure where it came from but I put it to use. 

A nice and quick card to put together as I had cut up my 6x6 at the time I watched the presentation and put it together this afternoon.  Added some Wink of Stella shimmer pen to his hat and finished with some Altenew red enamel dots.  This design will be used a few more times I'm sure - I think I'll make some topper with my stamps, stencils etc. 

And the final one for today - inspired Crafty Al.  Her presentation was all about using Ephemera to make a quick card - using a lovely design.  I found a pack of Christmas ephemera by Kaisercraft - got it when I bought a kit from Uniquely Creative in Australia 2 years ago.  I hadn't even opened it!  And I have two more packs of Nature and Floral ephemera so will be trying out the design and the stepped up versions that Crafty Al provided as an add on to her presentation.   Today's card was the basic design,

The main design element was the soft ink blending behind the ephemera and sentiment.  I used Altenew Firefly green ink for my glow behind the cute Nutcracker which I added with dimensional tape.  Al used small printed sentiments, I decided to stamp a sentiment directly to the card panel.   I used a gold shimmer pen to add some splatter.  

Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate if you made it all the way through.   It's World Card Making Day tomorrow - my time so for me - it's like WCMD weekend as I love trying out some of the challenge in the US - which will be my Sunday!