A last Christmas card

 Hi there.   31st December - Christmas is done and dusted for another year but today I'm sharing a card I made just in time for Christmas!   It's my share at Die Cut Divas.    

Our lovely sponsor for December is Waffle Flower 

I used the Waffle Flower Postage Collage die again... a big favourite and the Postage Collage Block die - paired with the Postage Collage Poinsettia stencil set.

I die cut the block dies and before taking it out of the die, pressed it onto my sticky mat.  Then used the Poinsettia stencil set and a variety of Altenew inks to add the colours.   Die cut the Postage Collage die from red and added the blocks in the appropriate spaces.   Had a panel of embossed white card on my desk.  Thought it would give just a little bit of texture around the edge.  Added a little stripe sentiment from my stash - a LDSR stamp and die set of Christmas sentiments.  White embossed on black.  

There are a few hours still to enter our challenge  - it closes at 9.00pm US Pacific time. 

Christmas Postage Collage from Waffle Flower

 Hi there.   Today I'm sharing my design team card for this month's Die Cut Divas challenge... Our challenge is Winter/Christmas  and our wonderful sponsor is 

My card today uses the Waffle Flower Postage Collage Die and paired it with some 49th and Market Christmas rub-ons.   

I started by making my background.  I used a smooshing tool to add some Shabby Shutters Distress ink and some Lindy's Stamp Gang - Sea Grass Green spray.  Add the rub-ons from 4th and Market  Mistletoe and Memories.  Die cut with the Waffle Flower Postage Collage die and added it to an Evergreen card base.   Added a sentiment from Waffle Flower Star Snowflake Sentiment.  I die cut some dots from the Evergreen card and added together with some little red dots for the berries.

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas - just remember to use your die cut machine.  

Adding to the Christmas Kickstart Challenge -  If it's Christmasy, Link it Up!

Feel better soon and a Christmas card

 Been a very busy week at work and as we had been away last weekend... not much crafting done this week.   Today I'm sharing a scrappy Christmas card and a Feel better soon card I made. 

First up the feel better card....

Another card of encouragement for my SIL who has just had her second round of chemo.

I recently purchased a gorgeous layering stencil from Papertrey Ink- In The Meadow - which I paired with a Waffle Flower Postage collage die and masking stencil.  I used Altenew purples/pinks  and greens inks with some soft blue to make background.  I used a sentiment from my stash - from Altenew Build a Flower  Grand Carnation stamp and die set.  

And my Scrappy Christmas card 

The patterned paper stripe was left over from a previous card.  Matted it onto a white panel and added to my card base.  The bells (Couture Creations) were already stamped and in a baggie with other Christmas bits and pieces.  I just added some colour with my Tri-blends from Spectrum Noir.   The circle die was in the bits pile, already embossed with Altenew's Organic Linen 3D folder. The little banner was already cut from a freebie from Natasha Foote.  I'd printed a few and cut with my Scan'n'Cut.  All I did for this one, was to use my dotty die to cut some dark red glitter card to make the embellishments.   

Looking forward to tomorrow as my crafty friend, Suna, is coming for a play date!   We haven't got together for a long time.... and this year I'm away for the craft fair we usually go to.   We finally found a Saturday we were both free and she is coming over.   I've been saving up ideas to do while she is here!

Hope you all get some crafty time this weekend.  

Butterfly Postage Collage

One of my recent purchases was the Waffle Flower Butterfly Postage Collage stencil. 

I chose to use some Teals and Blues (Altenew) inks for make my card.   Once I had finished the stenciling and stamping, I spritzed the panel with some Sheer Shimmer Spray - Sparkle.   It really does shimmer for real.  I stamped a Gina K sentiment with Altenew Emerald ink that I clear embossed and die cut.  Added some gold dots to finish.  Can't wait to try more colours.

Christmas challenge at Sweet Stampin'

 It's time for our December challenge at Sweet Stampin' - and both teams are taking part in providing some samples to inspire you.   Our challenge is Christmas. 

Here's the card I made.

I recently added the Poinsettia stencil to my Waffle Flower Postage set.   This is the first time I've used it... I used a few different Altenew inks - in pinks, greens and blues.  I white embossed some stars onto my red base.  After I die cut the postage die I used the stencil and then cut it up to add to the panel.  The sentiment is from Waffle Flower Star Snowflake stamp set.  

Do come to join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge. 

Postage Collage - Four card mix and match set

I finally got some crafting time Thursday and Friday evenings,,  and pulled out my Waffle Flower Postage Collage dies ... the original one and my new block die.... Another of the purchases from the Craft Fair last month...   It's great... it cuts out a slightly larger frame that the original and cuts out the panels.   

I used five sheets of patterned paper from Rosie's Studio pack called Twinkle All The Way and cut the Blocks Die from each.  Then I cut the original die from some light olive card and mixed up the patterns.  I ended up with four cards - messed up a couple of the panel pieces so still have a few pieces over to use on another card.  Some of the cards, I used the frame from the panels behind the original and some I didn't. 

Added a sentiment from Gina K - Holiday Tapestry cut with circle dies from Gina K Master Layout #3

This one used a sentiment panel cut from another patterned paper pack - 

And used the Gina K sentiment for this one too.   I had to use two of one of the pattern on this one, due to messing up some of the other panels. 

For this one I used a circle sentiment from The Stamp Village - the Concord & 9th one.  Cut with a circle die.  All used the Postage Collage stamp set for the added stamping.

And yesterday my package from Krafter's Cart arrived with two more of the Postage Collage stencils to use.  One summer and one the Poinsettia Christmas.  Now to find time to do some stenciling!  

Craft Roulette #189

Recently my friend Suna started following Craft Roulette and I've seen my friend Arlene entering... so over the weekend I watched Episode #189 and today I made a quick card.   I am too late to submit it to the challenge, but still sharing it as I really loved what I made. 

Cathy Zeilske was the guest and it was her card that inspired me.  The wheel spun the following 

Project - Guest's choice - Cathy chose A2 for the base

Colour - Forest colours

Element - starting with "H" 

Random - Postage stamp or mark.

Here's what I came up with, inspired by Cathy's use of the Waffle Flower's Postage Collage Die

 I have used an A2 card base -top folding, the colours of my 49th & Market rub-ons are greens and browns of the forest, the little hearts and the hugs postmark and used the Postage Collage die and the postmarks are the random element.   

I added the rub-on first to white card and the die cut it.   Love this arty rub-ons.  I stamped the sending hugs, postal lines and the little hearts from the Waffle Flower Postage Collage stamp set.   I added the die cut panel with dimensional tape. Love the look of white on white. 

Entering this into the Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Die cuts challenge

Playing with a Gelli plate...

 A couple of weekends ago I pulled out my Gelli plate and had a play.   I had been watching some You Tube videos  - This one from Ardyth and this one from Natasha - both using inks on the gelli plate.  I did about 10 pieces and today I have two cards to share that I've made so far both using Natasha's water drops technique.   

First card: 

I used some Catherine Pooler Aquatini and Tiki Torch inks.  Still getting used to how much water to drop onto the plate. I added some white ink spray splats and some dark gray splats.  I used Gina K Master Layouts 2 & 3 to make my layers and the circles.  The background layer used Ardyth's blending trick using some Catherine Pooler Lime Rickey.   The sentiment is from Gina K's It's all you mini stamp set. 

Second card:

Another blended background using water drops.  This time I used two different blues from Catherine Pooler on my Gelli plate- one lighter and one darker.  I was also inspired by Natasha's video here   She added lots of little stamps in gold embossing  and cut into postage stamps.  I cut the panel into two and then took a lot of little stamps from a freebie stamp set and used some Rose Gold powder.  I then cut the Waffle Flower Postage Stamp die four times - twice in white card and then out of each of the dark and light blue paper.   I then fussy cut the centres out of the blue papers and glued to the white die cut which I had cut apart.  I then added the four stamps (two light and two dark) onto the panel with 3D tape.  The sentiment is from Altenew - Birthday Builder stamp set. 

I've still got lots of papers to use.  One background has been worked on... but still waiting to decide how to use it. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Postage Collage Card

 This week I managed to get some time to play and today I'm sharing a Postage Collage card that made using Waffleflower's Postage Collage die and stencil set.  This time I used the Everyday stencil.  

I used a variety of inks with the stencil layers to colour the die cut in.   It was fun matching up different colourways.  I haven't added a sentiment to the front so can used it for any occasion. 

And here is some WIP -  did some watercolouring this morning.  

Used a variety of water colour mediums - metallic paints, cheap watercolour pencils, Altenew watercolour paints, some paper piecing as well.    And then this afternoon I got two made into cards.  I'll share them later. 

Tomorrow is Father's Day here in New Zealand.   I've got my son, daughter-in-law and the two granddaughters coming for lunch.   I'm doing a roast of lamb with roast veggies.