2014 Christmas Cards

Afternoon all,

Back with another card for you all. This is the design I did for this year's Christmas cards. I forgot to take a photo of them, but I was over at my brother and sister in laws yesterday so I kidnapped theirs to photograph it for the records, which also means I can share it!

 

It's a woodware stamp, which I have to say is not the easiest thing in the world to get a clean impression off most the time - patience was a definite requirement for this years cards. Stamped on hammered cardstock, mounted on pearlised green card and coloured with promarkers

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

Creative Inspirations - Christmas/New Year
Simon Says - Anything Goes (entry 2)
C.R.A.F.T challenge - Anything Goes (entry 2)

Until next time - happy crafting!

Playing with Paper Piecing - Happy Birthday

Morning one and all,

 

Is everyone feeling massively stuffed? over indulged on everything? sluggish? - just me then..... Moving swiftly on. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and have enjoyed your break - no matter how short or long - from work.

 

I have a couple of cards to share with you before we see out the year and the first is a Birthday Card for a male friend. I hate making men's cards with a passion but I love this Happy Birthday Stamp as it makes life so simple. It's also a great way of using up scrap papers.

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (wow it's been a long time since I managed to do that!):

 

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T challenge - Anything Goes

Until later, happy crafting

Crafty Catz DT - Last Minute Christmas

Well here we are - at the last challenge over at Crafty Catz for the year and a fitting challenge it is too!  The theme was set by the lovely Jac and it's Last Minute Christmas.

 

We have two sponsors this week - Kenny K Designs and Make it Crafty

5 images of winners choice

 

$10 Gift Certificate

 

For my card this week I used the fabulous Winter Scene from Make it Crafty:

I printed the image twice on linen card and spliced it three ways so that the image was not only staggered up and down but layered up. I mounted each of the sections onto dark blue card and coloured the image with promarkers - I have to say that doing large areas of a single colour on linen cardstock is not fun - it just absorbs the ink!

 

The ribbon is from Wilko's Christmas gift-wrap range and the button is from stash. I finished the card with some stickles glitter all over the place and white pen to highlight the falling snow.

 

Hope you like it and don't forget to swing by and see the other girl's creations on the blog.

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

 

Crafty Catz DT- Christmas Card With A Snowman

Morning all,

Another week closer to Christmas and another week of the year gone....  this weeks challenge over at Crafty Catz is set by Christine and she want's you to make a Christmas Card with a Snowman. We are sponsored this week by the fab team at Bugaboo

7 images of winners choice

 

The image is coloured with promarkers, the fab saying was a printable I found on Pinterest and the papers are all really old freebie papers from magazines. The doily is from a do-craft collection and the gems are from my stash.

 

Nothing too complicated. I have to say for a non traditional card I quite enjoyed making it.

 

Hope you like it and don't forget to see the other fab inspirations on the Crafty Catz website. Until next time though, happy crafting.