25 December - Christmas Day

This week's Crafty's Hazelnut's Challenge is 'Anything Goes' and Hazel is asking for cards which haven't been seen before or a new card for next Christmas.  This was a card I made last month, but hasn't yet been seen.

I used Versafine Black Onyx to stamp the Woodware 'Christmas Date' stamp onto white pearlescent card and embossed the image with clear embossing powder.  I then cut around the image, layered it onto red mirri card and used Promarkers to colour the holly and numbers.  I layered a square of red Marianne Design paper (a magazine freebie) onto red mirri card and attached it to the card blank.  The image was attached with foam tape.  To finish, I used Diamond Stickles on the snowflakes and Glossy Accents on the holly berries.

Kath x

Wee Love You Bunches

Another horrid wet day.  My OH is decorating the living room and insists he doesn't need any help so I've decided to make a start on birthday and anniversary cards for next year.   This card uses a Wee Stamp which was a freebie in a magazine earlier this year - I've followed the CAS - Colours and Sketches sketch to make the card.

I used Tuxedo Black Momento ink to stamp the image onto white pearlescent card and then coloured it with Promarkers.  I cut two squares of green/purple paper and layered it onto green paper.   The image was also layered onto green paper.  These papers are fabulous, although I've no idea what make they are as they were a Secret Santa present.  I used double sided tape to attach the squares to the front of a square card blank and foam tape to attach the image.

Kath x

My Five Favourite Christmas Cards

I've just come across Debby's blog and she is asking crafters to choose 'My Five Favourite Christmas cards' - there is also a chance to win some candy.  These are the five cards I have chosen and the reasons I have chosen them:

This Christmas Wreath was for a colour challenge - I wouldn't normally have chosen these colours but I was pleased with the finished card.

My OH bought this cute Bella stamp for me - I've used it several times but liked it layered onto the dark green heart paper for my sister (she liked it too!).

This Patchwork Christmas Tree was the first time I had tried paper pieceing - and I'm now hooked as it's a great way of using paper snippets.

This Carol Singing card was for a challenge - a traditional image with non-tradiitional colours - it was made from a recycled image and I liked the non-traditional colours

This Blue and Green Christmas Tree was the design I chose for my 'quick and easy' cards and made 20 in one evening using oddments of green paper for the trees and various colour papers and gems for the decorations.

Kath x

Congratulations

My Christmas cards are all written and delivered, presents are wrapped and under the tree - probably a good job as it's Christmas Eve!   It's time to start making birthday and celebration cards as my card box is empty.   This week's Less is More is a recipe challenge and the recipe is 'Drinks'.

I used Imperial Purple Versafine to stamp the Woodware Champagne Celebration stamp and Hobby Art sentiment onto white pearlescent card.  I then embossed the images with clear embossing powder.  I used a Woodware Squared Corner Cutter to punch the corners of the card.  This was layed onto purple mirri card and then onto a square pearlescent card blank.   The image was coloured with Promarkers.  To finish, I added Diamond Stickles to the champagne bubbles and Glossy Accents to the hearts.

Kath x

Girlie Christmas Tree

One of the cards I've made this week is for a friend who loves pink - it also fits well with this week's Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge which is to 'make it girlie'. 

I placed a Woodware silver bubble tree peel off onto white pearlescent card and layered it onto silver mirri.  Pink paper (a magazine freebie) was layered onto silver mirri and attached to the card blank - the topper was then attached to the front of the card.  To decorate the tree I used pink and purple pearls and rhinestones, and pink and purple Stickles. To finish, I coloured the pot and tree trunk with a pink Promarker and glossy accents.

Kath x

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