Red Florals for Christmas and a Birthday

 I saw the December challenge the Flower Challenge and knew what I wanted to do...

 

I have a few Christmas digital images from Gracielle Design and one is a hanging Poinsettia. A Christmas Hello set...

I printed the flower and the sentiment from the same set onto white card.  I used two of the dies from Pink Fresh Studio's essentials mini slimline card.  I used Copics to colour up the flower and and then added it to the red die cut frame and then onto the white mini slimline base.  I added some white pearls to the background florals.  A very CAS card for Christmas.  

This morning we had to pop into our Local Mitre 10 (hardware store) to get some hooks and screws to repair my wardrobe that collapsed yesterday... and while I was there I picked up some Valspar paint chips and chose reds and greens so I could do a red flower. 

I used Altenew Fantasy Floral 3D die to layer up the three colours of the paint chips.  The leaves are only one layer.  I used a Gina K Designs sentiment which was white embossed.  I added some white pearls to finish.  I used Gina K Master Layouts 2 to cut the black and white layers.  I added to a red top fold US A2 card base. 

Just one more week at work before I take my Christmas break.  I had planned to have been in Perth Australia this Christmas and took 4 weeks leave, but COVID put paid to that plan.  But I decided to still take the 4 weeks off and just relax.  We might go North for awhile to visit our friends.  The hard border around Auckland is being lifted on Wednesday night, and as we are both double vaxxed we can travel..  

Take care everyone.  

Paint Chip flowers.

Hi there... Yesterday I shared a card with flowers made with Paint Chips...and today hubby has to visit the hardware store and I tagged along and got some more paint chips.  This time I gathered some Valspar chips.  Not as big as the British Paints ones, but large enough to get two flowers/leaves with each one.  Of course as soon as I got home I went into the craft room and created this card.

I CASE'd a card that Therese Calvird made.  I used her idea to use stripes and to use a sentiment with the line between the two words.  Therese used a stamp from Trendy Circles Stamp set, but I made my own by taking words from the Sentiment Stripe and masking and stamping them one over another and drawing a line between.  I cut some plain leaves from Virginia Rose 3D dies.   The striped paper is from an Altenew paper pad.   I finished with a few white enamel dots and some pearls for the flower centres.

Our kitchen reno has started.... Hubby has started to demolish the current one.  So I'll be without cooking facilities for a few weeks as our son is helping us to the reno and can only do it in the weekends.  Before the new kitchen is ready to be put in (26th) we have to remove the old one, re-gib some of the walls and put down the new wooden floor in the dining and kitchen.   Can't wait to get it finished. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope your weekend is going well.

Using Paint Chips

This month over on our NZ Craftycardmakers site, the challenge set by Carol was to use Paint Chips to make our project.  I had disposed of any that I had so a quick trip to Bunnings to get some was in order.  I love the Dulux paint chips - they have three different shades of the same colour on each card. Plus they are named after NZ places.   I went online to Pinterest to get some ideas and here's what I made,

I didn't have a 3/4" punch so used my 1" one and used the Corner Chomper at 1/2" to round the opposite corners on each one.    Maxine, who I sent this one to, has let me know it's arrived.

I'm off to a walking weekend this weekend... I'm doing two activities - Saturday we are trying Stand Up Paddle boarding followed by a walk through the sand dunes.  And on Sunday we are doing a Wine tour... some walking between a couple of the vineyards and some busing as well.

Off to do some colouring... I'm way behind in Feb's class and March's class is out tonight! 

Thanks for stopping by.