Nordic Christmas Card

Thought I would share this card I made last week with you, but forgot to Blog it. Woops!!

I adore Kraft card, and recently bought some in my local craft shop, so thought I would have a play..  I layered Christmas paper, used a snowflake embossing folder along with Tim Holtz Kraft Core papers to tie in with the Kraft theme.

Hope you like the result.

Ingredients

Kraft Card Blank

DCWV Christmas papers

Tim Holtz Kraft Core core'dinations

Snowflake embossing folder

Green paper from stash

Memento ink pad

I have quite a few other Christmas cards to Blog, so hopefully some will inspire you to get creative.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

House of Gilli - Add a sentiment

Squigglefly - Three layer dip

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Going around in circles

Just Some Lines - Lots of Layers

Annabelle Stamps - Colour on kraft

Christmas Stampin' All Year - Anything goes

Stamping with the Dragon - Christmas in August

My Mums Craft Shop - Christmas in August

Another first for me

And this time it is a digital scrapbook page.  I keep seeing awesome scrapbook pages, and decided it was time to make the leap into digi scrapbooking.  I love the Sarah Hurley kits, so cute and so much fun.  I used the Steampunk digi kit to create this page of my hubby at the Guinness Factory in Dublin on his birthday.

I get the feeling I will be making a *lot* more :oD

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Ruby's Rainbow - Anything but a card

Scrap-Creations - 'D' - Digikit, hubbys favourite Drink

First ever Christening card.

I was really nervous making this card as it is for a friend to give her gorgeous grandson on his Christening day.  I had free reign to do whatever I wanted eek. I tend to keep my cards quite simple and clean, and did this with this card too.

I opted to used shades of blue pearlised card, mirri card and a few die cuts.

Ingredients

Pearlised card from The Papeterie

Christening ribbon from Craft World

Die cuts and mirri card from stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

Just Some Lines - Lots of layers

Card Crafter's Circle - For a baby

Tag time

Hi from a sunny Glasgow, strange but true. I am taking credit for the good weather due to the fact I have been busy making Christmas cards and tags :-)

This morning I had a play with tags.  How great would these look on a pressie?

Ingredients

Sizzix Tag Die 3

Gold Embossing powder, Verdigris embossing powder.

Antique Linen Distress ink

Memento Cottage Ivy ink pad.

Paper and ribbons from stash.

Hope this inspires you to make something different with your stamps xx

I do

Love a good wedding, and love being asked to made personalised wedding cards for clients.  It makes me feel a part of a couples special day.  Here is one I made with the theme of "bird cages". I stamped the birdcage and cut it out, mounted it onto some foam to give the card some dimension.  I did the same with the burtterflies. The colour tone asked for was gold, so I used some Brilliance ink and layered gold pearlised papers.  

Ingredients;

Brilliance Ink

Inkylicious stamps

Pearlised paper from the Papeterie

Pearls from stash.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Catered Crop - White somewhere on the card

Penny Black and more - Wings

That Craft Place - Things with Wings

Clearly inspired - Things with Wings

Craftymess Challenge blog - Birds

Cute Card Thursday - Clean and simple.

I hope you like it.

Christmas is coming...

I know, it's only August but this year I decided to *try* and be a bit more organised.  So yesterday I made a start on my Christmas Cards.  

I have made the poem the focal point for the card,  you should be able to read the poem through without being distracted by other features on the card.

Hope you like them.

Ingredients

DCWV Christmas Wishes

Gems and spotty paper from stash.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

Jingle Belles - Santa baby(The backing paper is full of toys, gingerbread men and other fab things Santa would have)

Cutie Pie Challenges - Christmas in July

Here are some of the other colour combinations to give you an idea of how versatile the stamp is.

Have a fab weekend :o)

Embossing.

Hello, and today is a brand new month which means a brand new challenge over at The Cupboard Trilogy Challenge Blog is "embossing". I am fairly new to heat embossing and tend to forget about my collection of embossing folders, so this challenge was perfect for me using forgotten stash.

 I used a car stamp which features a pocket watch, as does the sentiment and tied that it with a Tim Holtz embossing folder and some fab map paper I had in my stash. I also distressed the stamped images just to add a bit more of a vintage look. I hope you like the card, it is quite different from my usual style, though I love the result.

Ingredients

Kraft card blank

Tim Holtz Kraft Core strips, embossing folder, Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress inks.

Memento Cocoa ink, gold embossing powder, paper from stash.

I would also like to enter the following challenges;

Try it on Tuesday - Anything goes.

Twisted Tuesday - Anything goes.

House of Gilli - Fall Colours

Simon Says Stamps and Show - Sentiment

Whoopsi Daisy - Lots of Layers

Alphabet Challenge  - Men only

Pause, Dream, Enjoy - Sports & Hobbies

Stampman - Anything goes, Celebrations

It's all about the vintage - Anything goes