With all our Love Sister

I've spent most of this week wrapping Christmas presents and making boxes to disguise gift cards.  I've also started to make my 'special' cards so was pleased to see that this week's Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge is to make a card for someone special - this is the card we're going to send to my sister.  As the card used paper and mirri from my snippets drawer, I'm also paying a quick visit to the playground with Pixie's Crafty Workshop.

I stamped Wild Rose Studio's 'Bella in Pot' stamp onto white pearlescent card.  I coloured  the image with Promarkers and used Diamond Stickles for the snowflakes.  This was attached to red mirri card.  I attached a strip of green/gold paper to red mirri and attached it to the front of the card.  The Bella image was attached using foam tape.  To finish, I used a gold peel off greeting.

Kath x

Welcome to Your New Home

I've just had received a note from friends to let me know their new address, so I've made this quick 'New Home' card.   As the papers are from my snippets drawer, I'm also in the playground for Pixie's Crafty Workshop.

I used my Woodware Crafty Edger on a scrap of dark red paper and attached it to a white card blank.   I then attached a strip of green 'house' paper.  The sentiment is from Hobby Art's General Greetings - which is one of my favourite greeting sets - and I used Olympia Green Versafine ink.  Very quick and simple, but I was pleased with the result.

Kath x

Santa with wine and mince pie

I'm going to enter this card into Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 'For a Man or a Boy' and also for the Winter Wonderland 'One for the Boys' challenge which must show an image of a boy or man.

I used a Crafts Too 'Swirl Frames' folder to emboss white pearlescent card and trimmed it to size.  I cut the oblong from the middle of the frame and attached the Kanban image to the rear of the embossed card.   This was then attached to dark red mirri card and a white pearlescent card blank.  To finish, I attached peel-of silver stars to the frame.

Kath x

We Three Kings

This week's Winter Wonderland challenge is 'While Shepherds Watched or We Three Kings'.  I found this black sparkle Three Kings peel-off in my oddments drawer and thought it would be perfect for the challenge.    As the pink/purple/black are contemporary colours for a Christmas card, I've also entered this card into the Sparkles Christmas Challenge which is 'Contemporary Colour Combo'.  I'm back in the playground this week for Pixie's Crafty Workshop as all the papers came from my snippets drawer.

I attached the peel-off onto white pearlescent card and layered it onto purple mirri card.  I then layered snippets of pink spot and pink checked paper onto purple mirri card and attached it to the front of a white pearlescent card blank.  I covered the join in the papers with pink/purple stripe paper and a strip of black sparkle peel-off which I had saved from the edge of the peel-off sheet (I hate throwing anything away!).  I then attached the topper to the card front. 

Kath x

Humphrey and Snowman

I made a second card to share today using a coloured Humphrey image which was a magazine freebie this month.   As I have used dies and punches I'm going to enter it into this week's 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown embellishment challenge.

I used my Classic Large Oval Nestabilities die to cut the image and Lacey Oval die to cut red mirri card.  I layered a scrap of green/blue snowflake paper (I think this is a HOTP paper) onto red mirri and attached it to a white card blank.  I then attached the topper to the card.  I used Woodware snowflake punches to cut large snowflakes from white vellum and small snowflakes from blue vellum.  These were then attached to the card.  To finish I added small white pearls to the centre of the snowflakes.

Kath x

Patchwork Christmas Tree

My Mr & Mrs card won the Woodware July Challenge and I had £12.00 to spend in my local craft shop (Japonica, Exmouth).  I was a bit like a kiddie in a sweetshop, but chose three lovely Christmas stamps.  One of them was the Large Patch Tree stamp which I used to make this card.  I'm going to enter this into Pixies Crafty Snippets challenge - this is my first time in the playground!

I embossed a piece of white pearlescent card using my Crafts-Too 'Twinkle' stars folder and then layered this onto a scrap of dark green card and then onto a pearlescent white card blank. I stamped the Christmas tree onto white card and cut around the shape.  I stamped the tree onto various snippets of green/red/fawn papers and attached them to the Christmas tree shape.   The heart was stamped onto dark green card and attached to the pot.  The Christmas tree was then attached to the front of the card.  As the card has used snippets,

Kath x

Popcorn the Bear

This week's 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown is a sketch (I find sketches are great when I want to make a card but my mind has gone blank!).  This card was made by following the sketch and using oddments of Popcorn the Bear papers.

I layered cream script paper (not a Christmas paper, but the colour co-ordinated with Popcorn) onto silver mirri card.  This was then attached to a square card blank.  I die-cut circles from scraps of Popcorn paper and also one from blue snowflake paper (all magazine freebies)  These were attached to silver scalloped mirri circles.  I used Majestic Blue Versafine ink to stamp the sentiment onto the blue snowflake paper - the sentiment is from Hobby Art's 'Christmas Greetings' set.  I used a Woodware snowflake punch to cut two snowflakes from the silver mirri card.  I assembled the card following the sketch layout.  To finish, I used a white Sakura glaze pen to highlight the snowflakes on the sentiment circle.

Kath x

Carol Singing

This week's Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge is 'Carol Singing'.  I used an upcycled image from one of last year's Christmas cards.  The colours I have chosen also fit with this month's Christmas Cards All Year Round challenge - 'to create a card using non traditional image with traditional Christmas colours OR a card with a traditional Christmas image using non traditional colours'.  I chose the traditional image with non traditional colours - purple and cream.

I layered cream snowflake paper (a magazine freebie) onto purple pearlescent card and attached it to a square card blank.  A strip of purple snowflake paper was attached to purple card and attached to the card front.   I used Nestabilities to cut the image and a scalloped purple circle.  These were then attached to the card front.  Imperial Purple Versafine was used to stamp the Hobby Art sentiment.  To finish, I added two purple nailheads to the top right and two to the bottom left of the card.

Kath x

Thinking of You

This card was made for the Less is More 'Silver' colour challenge.

I used my Woodware Crafty Edger on one edge of a square of silver mirri and attached it to a white pearlescent card blank.  I cut another piece of white pearlescent card and attached it to the top.  The silver rose image was attached to the left side of the card.  I attached the 3D elements to scraps of card, cut out the individual pieces and used silicone glue to attach them to the card.  To finish, I attached a silver peel-off greeting to the card.

Kath x

Three Wise Men

I made a 'Nativity' card for this week's Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - the challenge can show any facet of the nativity.  I decided to use a Three Wise Men topper from Kanban.

I layered gold mirri and Kanban Snow Red background card onto a pearlescent card blank.  I attached a strip of star paper onto gold mirri and attached it to the card.   The topper was layered onto gold mirri and then attached to the card front with foam tape to add dimension.

Kath x

Skating Bears

This week's Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge is Fun and Games and I used a teddy bear image from Making Christmas Cards magazine. 



I cut the image with a circle die and attached it to a scalloped circle which w(a magazine freebie) onto a square of turquoise card and attached it to the card blank.  A strip of co-ordinating paper was attached across the card and the image was placed in the middle.  To finish, I attached two red nailheads to the top right and two to the bottom left of the card.

Kath x

Santa with Presents

Another upcycled card was this lovely picture of Santa with a bag of presents.  I made this card for both the Christmas Cards All Year Round September Challenge which is 'Christmas Presents' and for the 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown Theme Challenge for 'Gifts of the Season'.

I cut the image into a square and attached it to red mirri card.   This was layered onto Hot off the Press dark red vintage paper and red mirri, before being attached to the front of the card.  The snow on the roof was already glittered, but I added Diamond Stickles to the snow flakes and coloured the stars with a Sakura gold metallic gel pen.  To finish, I applied white Fun Flock to Santa's hat and coat.

Kath x