I decided to make a cutesy card for my hubby this year …
I mean this Tim Holtz die is just so adorable.
I die cut him lots of times from cream cardstock and then coloured him in using my promarkers. After adhering everything together I also added glossy accents for the eyes.
I chose to emboss the background using the woodland folder and then added a ribbon and two of the extra heart die cuts from the set.
Then the sentiment is an old one from the stash which I stamped and mounted it on the red.
I then decided to mount this onto a Parakeet Party card base as it’s one of my favourite colours at the moment and also matches with the scarf for the bear.
I printed off the image on Smoky Slate and then coloured it with my Prismacolour pencils and cut it out… so actually the fact it was a coloured cardstock base ended up making no difference!
I made quite a small (4×3) card this time so it’s really cute. I added some dsp with a green colour and then a panel of white. Then to finish off I die cut the blue Merry using the Tim Holtz dies. Finished off with the gems.
Cute and although the colouring took some time (and a some fiddling as the image is quite small) an easy card to make. There is a little bit of dimension as I raised up the main image and I stacked the merry die cut a couple of times.
I also added just a touch of sparkle with wink of Stella on the tree decorations and the gift trimmings.
Hello … onto week 5 of my Christmas cardmaking challenge already…. wow those weeks have gone by so quickly. Before we know it we will be at Christmas day! And between this and Martin’s challenge I have been joining in with on and off I will have more than enough cards for this year!
This weeks theme was gifts and so I looked through my stamp sets and found a magazine kit that had two gift stamps that I thought would work well for pattern making.
I decided to make two cards out of the mixed media cardstoxk and stamped directly onto the front of the card. The first one I went for an all over pattern and then for the second just a block in the middle.
I stamped in Versafine and then painted the parcels with shimmery watercolour. Unfortunately doesn’t show up on the photos but they are super shimmery!
To finish off I die cut the sentiment from black and white cardstock stacking them for plenty of dimension on what is otherwise a very flat card.
I love how these cards came out and painting them was so relaxing! Definitely prefer the one where it is in a block but both are so cute.
I’m also amazed I am keeping up with my own challenge whilst still joining in with Martin’s challenge on some of the days too!
I started with a piece of mop up glossy paper. I always do this when I do ink smooshing… I use photo paper to mop up the ink off the glass mat.
From this I die cut three flowers from the Tim Holtz dies.
Then I cut some squares of scrap cardstock and added one of the flowers to this.
I then double mounted on scrap white cardstock so it gave the card some simple definition. I also added a simple sentiment mounted on the coordinating cardstock.
I used the slimmest of the diecuts for adding to a strip of cardstock for decorating the envelope.
Then inside I added three tiny banners and the larger die cut.
Love how this card turned out… and pretty much all from scraps and in a change from my usual style … pretty CAS!
Yet another batch of Christmas cards made using the templates and guides from Cards by Kendra. This time I used the one for challenge number 3. You can find all the details at Kendra’s blog.
This particular template makes 16 cards from base of 6 pieces of 6×6. I used papers from the Indigo Blu magazine kit I got last year, admittedly they are double sided so for some of the card layouts I chose to turn over the paper and use the reverse. It definitely gave me more options when I was designing how to finish the cards.
I learnt from last time to not add too many other pieces of cardstock too so I could reduce the weight of the cards.
Here is the full lot…
I used a few different shades of cardstock in the pale blue and greens along with the shimmer vellum in Evening Evergreen. I mainly used images from the magazine kit of stamps or those printed on the paper kit. Occasionally I added die cuts either as part of the sentiment or leaves for the flowers.
I chose to use the die cut snowflake embellishments on quite a few too … sometimes the iridescent side, sometimes the matt side. They worked well with the papers and the feel of the cards I think.
I did a lot of embossing too… this added texture and worked well with the grungy nature of the papers. Especially when I chose to add ink too.
Thoroughly enjoyed putting these together, the whole set took a good few separate sessions over the course of a few weeks. I particularly enjoyed colouring those Holly leaves and berries, although the fussy cutting less so!
Creating these also made me want to do more with the Merriest Moments embossing folder and get the dies and stamps out for that bundle too… so maybe that will be the next set of Christmas cards …. unless another set of papers and one of Kendra’s challenges tempts me first.
I decided it was time to have a bit of a clear out and sell some of my craft supplies I’m not really using (so i can buy new stash!)
And then it turned into a fun playtime of using up scraps off the desk and making little thank you collages for the little brown paper bags I had got to put sold items into.
I kind of got a little obsessed all afternoon making up these little bags … and of course forgot all about the tidying up!
Here are 12 of the many I made up (I didn’t take pics of all of them!
Such fun to play and just create little collages from scraps.
Now must get back to the tidying and sorting at some point!
Todays challenge came from what was left on the desk from the previous challenge… namely a pile of scraps! So decided to use the scraps to create some fun cards. And what is more I only had to stamp and die cut the sentiment oval for both as new elements … the rest was either already die cut or scraps from the previous projects!
So here is what I started with…
Of course because SU papers are double sided this gave me 12 patterns to play with!
I decided to create a patchwork piece by inking each piece and then sticking them onto some scrap old paper I had on the desk.
When this was finished I then cut it into 2 panels as background for these cards.
I then grabbed the leftover die cuts from the previous project and some gold laser cut embellishments to create a cluster. I then grabbed some Cherry Cobbler scrap cardstoxk and stamped and embossed and die cut the stitched ovals. I inked the edge to that too so it fit with the inked theme of the background.
What a fun and different way to use up scraps… told you I wanted to get through all the Tis the Season papers… well I’ve not got there yet but these have helped me!
Back again with some more Christmas cards. After all I am currently waiting for the end of the Euros final so I can go and pick the no doubt stress ridden and maybe drunken husband up from his friends where he is watching the game with his friends. So now seems as good a time as any to update my blog.
This time I decided the theme would be to add flowers … not always something you think of when thinking of Christmas cards but I love these stamped images from an old Creative Stamping magazine so went to town and stamped 2 of each image and chose a slightly different colour scheme for each.
I chose some green papers from last years Tis the Season 6×6 dsp pack. I still have a fair amount of this left so really want to use it up so I can feel justified in buying new dsp from the next catalogue!
I decided to do the same fun fold for each card and cut the bases from Crumb Cake and scored at 10.5cm from one end as well and the centre so they can be sealed at the end and then a square element for the opening.
I cut each paper into a square and and a side strip and a small strip for the inside of each card … again keeping the dimensions all the same.
For the Shaded Spruce papers I kept the colour scheme to Real Red and Just Jade colours, and for the Garden Green to Cherry Cobbler and Mossy Meadow colours.
I did lots of die cutting using both Tim Holtz dies and Artistically Inked dies.
I found some red ribbons in the stash to wrap the end part. And the sentiments I chose were from all sorts of different places.
I also used glossy accents to add some shine and dimension in different places.
So happy with these. Love the design of this simple but fun fold to make the cards a little different!
Now come on England… one more goal in the next 8 mins so we can avoid penalties.
The project last month was making collaged masterboards. Well this month I had to take someone else’s collaged masterboard and make at least 4 somethings out of it… but using ALL of it.
So Dianne had sent me two masterboards and I chose to use this one.
It was challenging to cut into something so pretty but cut it up I did… and ended up with these bits and pieces to play with…
And the left overs…
I think I am forgiven for chopping these little bits off! Lol!
So what did I make… well I made a postcard…
I added washi, the die cut little circle flowers, the punched butterfly and stickers. I also added ink and the strip of fabric and the corrugated oval. Love how the different elements worked well together.
I also created 2 tags, one slightly larger than the other but based on size 8 ranger tags…
Again I added some extra bits like the tissue paper, fabric, die cuts, washi, sewing, stickers, keys and inking! Also some ribbons and trim for the top of the tags.
Next I made 2 small tags…
I grabbed little elements with texture from my stash… I love the little gold theme for the fairy one… and the sewn elements for the butterfly one. I ended up adding the base tag to this one in the Calypso Coral cardstock to lengthen it a little too.
Finally I made a bookmark with inchies as the element of the masterboard.
Again I added the extra layers such as the wax paper, ribbon, book print, die cut and sewing. Love how this finished up so much!
So hopefully Dianne likes these and can make use of all the different pieces I made for her from her gorgeous background.
Looking forward to making use of the other masterboard she sent to me for things I can then keep and use.
I’m joining the Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge for another six months and decided this time to do a one sheet wonder each month…. well that’s the plan anyway!
This time I decided to use old SU paper to create all male themed cards and I managed to make 21 cards!
I used the template from Karamiasu.
I used a map based paper and then some text paper as a secondary paper to add background and to stamp some images on it.
Lots of stamps from the Creative Stamping magazine sets and some random Paperartsy and Carrabelle ones too.
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