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.  

 

Christmas Elves.

Recently I was catching up on some You-tube videos and watched one from Natasha Foote where she  used a great layout design for her background.  You can see it here.

I chose to take some Christmas papers -two that worked well together and a page of toppers.

A great card using with patterned paper and no stamping!   This is a layout design that I'm sure I'll use again,  

A Christmas card with No stamping. - and a kitchen update

 Hi there..... well I haven't been doing much card making over the week or so.... as I've been making masks.... I made myself a no-fog mask and wore it at work.  Well won't you know it... people asked me to make some.... so sewed all weekend and then had to take a day off work on Wednesday to sew all day... Actually I was home as the bench was to be installed. Which is another story of it's own!!!!   

I needed to get some more material - I had an order for  5 masks with a Maori design as part of the daily prizes for our Maori Language week celebrations - so headed to a local shopping area where there is an shop called Ike's Emporium.  It stocks a multitude of things. They buy end of lines etc.  Their stock of materials is awesome and also very reasonable.  I found a variety of Polyensian designs and found some Maori looking designs as well.  

Whilst in Browns Bay, I popped into one of the stationery stores and picked up a pack from an older magazine.  The store keeps the extra freebies and sells them for a small price.  I chose a Christmas pack that had a stamp set of Christmas images, a little poinsettia die, some patterned papers, some preprinted cards and some chipboard sheets of images.    So when I saw Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge was No Stamping Allowed I knew I could whip up a quick card with the chipboard images.

I took one of the cards and used the back to make my green panel.  I then used the sentiment, birds and flowers from the chipboard.  I used the mini dimensionals that came with the kit to add them all to the card and then added it all to a navy blue base.  A few gold sequins finished it off.  

So Wednesday with the bench... I was watching the installers bringing the panel with the sink cut out and noticed that there were where two holes - one for the tap and another one near it.  I had specified when the guy came to measure up that we were NOT having a air switch for the disposal unit - so only should have been one hole.  Well long story short... they had to take it away and get a new panel cut!  An expensive mistake for the stone cutters!  At least the cabinet maker was able to get the overbench pantry installed.  Tonight the bench installers arrived at 4.45pm to get the missing benches and the window sills done... finished at around 7.00pm.  Still about 2% to be finished off.  The riser between the bench and the window sill has to be cut to size and the splash back to be added.  They are due back next Thursday.  We will have to put off the plumber as he can not add the tap until the riser is in.  So still a week or so till we can start using the kitchen.  

Thanks for stopping by.  

WWC 278- Michelle's Challenge: Anything Goes with a Feminine Twist

Hi there - time for another challenge at Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  Michelle  is our hostess with an Anything Goes with a Feminine Twist.  

Today my card does not involve any stamping - just utilises some pretty patterned papers and some washi tape.

 The main panel is some paper from a pack by Uniti called Urban Retreat.  This paper was bought from The Warehouse for about $5.  It has beautiful gold foiled papers including several sheets with sentiments on them.  So I cut out one of the sentiments to mount on the beautiful wood grained foiled paper.  I had folded my white base in the incorrect place - 10cms instead of 10.5cms - so added the extra red checked piece at the side (it has a bit of gold foiling as well) and then trimmed it all to American A2 size.  A thin stripe of gold washi finished it up.  It's so hard to photograph gold foiling well... but I think you can get the picture!

 Come and join in the fun at  Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and check out the project from the other designers.  Then take our challenge and link up your project to the challenge post.    We'd love to have you join us.  You have until Monday at 5 pm Mountain Standard Time (Tuesday at 12.00 noon NZ time ) to link up your project.