Has It Turned Cold?

Another card from last year for you today. I haven't blogged it yet but you might have seen it in Papercrafts Essentials if you read the magazine.

The image is a cute Hamish from Sugar Nellie and he has been coloured with Prismacolor pencils then embossed to give that 'just snowing texture' :) I cut the border with a circle template and scissors and stamped the ickle snowflakes in pearlescent ink.

And as luck would have it the SugarBowl has a Christmas theme so I thought I might be a bit cheeky and enter it into the challenge :)


Ever wanted to know about the Cat Herders?
So cute :)

Have a fabulous weekend.

Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie; Pink Cat Studio
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; Brilliance pearlescent
Colouring - Prismacolor pencils; sansodor
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape; scissors
Other - ribbon; circle template; cuttlebug and embossing folder

It Is Christmas

Merry Christmas

Have a wonderful day. We will be celebrating Christmas with a big turkey roast :) having stayed up all night to watch Father Christmas on his journey around the world.

Hope that you have all been good boys and girls and that Father Christmas brings you lots of lovely craft goodies ;)


Materials:
Stamp - Inkadinkado; Papermania; Craft Stamper
Papers - BasicGrey
Inks - Versafine Sepia and Onyx black; Distress inks yellow, walnut stain, tea stain
Usual suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; double-sided tape; scissors
Other - Ribbon; brad; glitter glue

How Busy Is Your Card?

How busy is this card? I think I might have gone a bit mad with this one. I started to add glitter and just kept on going, by the time I had finished I was covered head to toe with the stuff.

This is for the Christmas week challenge over at Magnolia Vs Stampavie Challenge blog which is a lovely sketch. It is nice to be able to do some challenges for a change :)


Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay; Magnolia; Papermania
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Papers - DCWV Winter matchstack
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape
Other - Ribbons; Glitter; Glitter Glue; Cuttlebug and snowflake dies; Brads

Naughty Or Nice?

Nice I hope? Last year I made some Christmas stockings for myself and my OH from Christmas themed fats. I could try and say that they are post-modern ironic but they are, as you can see, full-on Traditional Christmas Chintz with extra sparkly glitz added on for good measure. Well we wouldn't want Father Christmas to miss them now would we?

Christmas Is Here

Well Christmas has truly reached our flat, the decorations are up, the wine is mulled and the mince pies are a baking. But what you have to know is that my boyfriend doesn't drink and he hates mince pies - I've now eaten a packet of mince pies, a carton of cream ('coz you can not have mince pies without cream) and am drinking my way through a gallon on mulled wine. Boy, Christmas is hard work :)



I've cleverly put the mistletoe over the door to the kitchen....


If I hang about there long enough perhaps I will get lucky?

Peace On Earth

The penultimate Christmas card from me this year (I hope) and I thought I would have a go at the challenge Katy has put up on the Craft Stamper Blog which is to use Glimmer Mist in a project. This follows on from a fab masterclass article in the January edition of the mag. So I used the cellophane (clingwrap, saran wrap whatever you might want to call it) technique as I've been meaning to try it for a while, what better excuse can one have?

I love this technique my only problem is being patient enough to let the paint dry :)


Materials:
Stamps - Elzybells Art Stamps
Inks - Glimmer mist; Brilliance Pearlescent
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape
Other - Cellophane; Galaxy marker pens; silver wrapped elastic; silver ribbon; eyelets; crop-a-dile; 3D glue

O Little Town of Bethlehem

A Basic Grey card today and it has a charm so I shall be entering into this week's Basic Grey Challenge which is all about charms this week. The block colours are Basic Grey papers but the pattern paper is actually from Rusty Pickle and the music is from a mini-carol book a friend gave me one Christmas.

We have our Christmas decorations up now :) The Christmas tree lights sparkle in their multi-coloured glory :)


Fabby Candy note - over at Cake, Cocoa & Gossip Blog Becks has some fab Wednesday Wishes candy this week.

Materials:
Stamp - Inkadinkado; Studio G Alphabet
Papers - BasicGrey; Rusty Pickle
Inks - Versafine Sepia and Onyx black; Glimmer Mist
Usual suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; double-sided tape; scissors
Other - Gold wrapped elastic; Sewing machine; thread; Charm

Heavenly Peace

So still going on the Christmas cards. Hope you like today's offering. I love the little 'Joyeux Noel' postage stamps that are actually part of the larger 'Heavenly Peace' stamp and I've cut them out to embellish the card. Finishing it off once again with the cover stamp from January's Craft Stamper magazine and some curled wire.


Materials:
Stamp - Inkadinkado; Stamp Crafter magazine; Meredith Fenwick Designs; Studio G Alphabet
Papers - K&Co; Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Inks - Versafine Sepia and Onyx black; Tim holtz Ditress inks
Usual suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; double-sided tape; scissors
Other - Brads; Wire; Glitter glue; Cuttlebug and nestibilities

Embossing with Kaboodle Doodle

This week on the Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Blog the theme is Embossing. It can be any type of embossing that you like. For my card I have used dry embossing with my cuttlebug, glitzed up with some glitter and using the tree from Andrea's Merry and Bright Christmas kit.

You can see with the tinsel that we have our Christmas decorations out, we might even get around to putting them up today :) Have fun with the challenge.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle
Usual suspects - silicone glue; scissors
Other - cuttlebug; ribbon; glitter glue

First Of The Last Five

On the final card countdown, only four more Christmas cards to do (after this one). So a little triple embossing and the great cover stamp from Craft Stamper arrived just in time to finish this card :)

Question is will I finish the last four before we need to send them?


Materials:
Stamp - Inkadinkado; HOTP; Stamp Crafter Magazine
Papers - K&Co; Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Inks - Versafine Sepia and Onyx black; Tim holtz Ditress inks
Usual suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; double-sided tape; scissors
Other - Brad; Ribbon; Seam Ripper; embossing powder; heat gun

Are They Almost Finished?

YES! I've almost finished ALL of my Christmas cards - Wahoo. I just have five more to do. Yesterday was a Marathon of cardmaking, which might explain why I've been a little quiet. I made 20 cards, the most I have ever made in one day. It was a complete production line of cutting, inking, stamping, glittering. I worked my way through a roll of double-sided tape, half a roll of glue dots and quarter of a tube of silicone glue :)

I would be really interested to know what is the largest number of cards you have made in one sitting? Is 20 a large number or a small number? It feels like a large number to me :)


Right, I have over 608 new blog posts to read in my reader :) But before I go if you haven't had a chance already, go pop over to the totally amazing Tim Holtz's blog where he is doing a '12 tags of Christmas' with blog candy, but be warned he is getting well over 2000 comments! WOW!

Materials:
Stamp - Magnolia
Ink - VersaFine Onyx black
Papers - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double sided tape; scissors; Silicone glue; Glue dots
Other - sepia marker pen; glitter glue

Santa Baby

December is here and the count down to Christmas has started good and proper now :) Simple cards on a theme for you today :) There are lots of glitter highlights here and there but they just never show up in the photo.



Materials:
Stamps - Pink Cat Studio; Magnolia
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Paper trimmer
Other - Glitter glue; Cuttlebug and embossing folder; Coloured card

So What Happens When You Really Like A Design?

You make some more. Sorry folks, I just had to make some more Christmas cards based on the Christmas Cupcake design from an earlier post. Is that cheating? Don't worry these will be the last you see of them (well unless I do another similar design of course!).



Materials:
Paper - Basic Grey Cupcake
Ink - VersaFine onyx black
Usual suspects - Paper trimmer; Craft knife; Double-sided tape; Silicone
Other - Fine marker pen

Christmas Cupcake

Back to the Christmas cards and today's card uses Basic Grey Cupcake papers . Yes, really, I kid you not - I've used the Summery style birthday papers for a Christmas card :)


Materials:
Paper - Basic Grey Cupcake
Ink - VersaFine onyx black
Usual suspects - Paper trimmer; Craft knife; Double-sided tape; Silicone Glue
Other - Fine marker pen

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge 12

So this week we have a monochrome challenge over at Kaboodle doodle. I thought I would have a go at a monochrome Christmas tag and have used the Alien papers from Kaboodle Doodle with a bit of added bling.


Material:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle
Ink - VersaFine onyx black
Stamp - Magnolia Christmas seal
Usual Suspects - scissors, glue dots; silicon glue
Other - crop-a-dile; eyelet; ribbon; gems

Poinsettia Rules

My Mum's favourite Christmas plant, but why do they never seem to last past Christmas? If they do you never seem to see that red foliage again. Mmm, does anyone have any tips for keeping Poinsettias?


Materials:
Papers - BasicGrey
Stamp - Hero Arts; HOTP
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black; Adirondack Rust
Colouring - H2O Twinkies
Usual Suspects - 3D-foam; Double-Sided tape; Trimmer

Friday Sketchers Christmas

A simple card for you today, using the fab sketch from Friday Sketchers. I've used the BasicGrey Wassail (Ah BasicGrey) from Sassy Crafts with a bit of stitching and a bit of distressing. The holly berries are needle felted.

It was fun to get my sewing machine out. I always feel really happy in front of my sewing machine for some reason - weird I know!


Materials:
Papers - Basic Grey Wassail from Sassy Crafts; Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Stamp - Papermania
Inks - VersaMark
Usual Suspects - Trimmer; Scissors; Double Sided tape; Silicon Glue
Other - Needle; Brads; Wool top; Embroidery thread; Sewing machine; Ribbon; Copper embossing powder

No layering for Stamp Something Challenge

A quick post before I go off to my Embroidery Group Therapy - Hello, My name is Kim and I am a recovering embroiderer :)

So today's card is for the challenge over at Stamp Something and this week it is all about being simple, and you don't get much more simple than me ;)

The simple they are talking about is only using one layer of cardstock. So this card is stamped and coloured directly onto the card. I've used fun flock and glitter to highlight areas, which you might just be able to see in the close-up. The stamps were actually freebies from a magazine (can't remember which now - please forgive me) coloured with watercolours.



Materials:
Stamps - Freebies from a UK magazine
Colouring - Koh-i-nor watercolours
Usual Suspects - Er...white cardstock; trimmer; Ruler; Glue pen
Other - Glitter glues; Fun Flock; Black Fine marker pen; White galaxy marker pen

Christmas Decorations

So as a break from Christmas cards I have made some tree decorations with me new stash from Sassy Crafts (Thanks Emma), well I just had to get stuck in now didn't I? These ornaments use papers from the yummy Winter Matchstack from DCWV, and if you follow the link you will see that these papers are on sale. Well you can't say better than that now can you?


Materials:
Papers - DCWV Winter Matchstack from Sassy Crafts
Ink - Rangers Distress inks Dusty Concord and Faded jeans
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Glue dots
Other - brads; silver elastic

More on Christmas

So I've ramped up the Christmas cards, seems that every card I'm doing is for Christmas. Lucky I like doing them :) This one uses Designs By Krista Tula papers.


Materials:
Papers - Designs by Krista Tula kit
Stamp - Studio G Alphabet
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black; Brilliance Pearlescent Sky blue and Crimson
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Trimmer; double-sided tape
Other - Crop-a-dile; Stickles glitter glue