Back to the Birthday Cards

A birthday card for February! Yep, it is for a birthday in February 2009, but don't worry I haven't done the birthday cards for December 2008 yet! Mmm, I better get on with them now.

So how are you all getting on with those Christmas cards?


Materials:
Stamp - Pink Cat Studio; HOTP
Ink - versafine onyx black
Colouring - Letroset promarker
Papers - Basic Grey
Usual suspects - paper trimmer; double-sided tape
Other - ribbon; nestibilites and cuttlebug

Spring Time in December

So I have finished my Christmas cards and not only that but they are all written and sent - don't hate me! It was so nice to be able to do a 'Spring' Card. I really enjoyed making this card after all those Christmas card.

This one uses Basic Grey papers and the cute Sarah Kay stamp that I've coloured in with Distress inks.



Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay
Papers - Basic Grey
Inks - Distress inks
Usual suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape; silicone glue; Scissors
Other - Buttons; Embroidery thread; seam ripper

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

Get Well Soon

I felt like using my little Whipper Snapper Morgan the Nurse stamp, she is just the cutest. So here she is and I've coloured her in with Tim Holtz Distress inks. The little first aid brads were white brads coloured with a red promarker pen.

So to anybody out there who might be feeling a bit under the weather:



Materials:
Stamp - Whipper Snapper
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Usual Suspects - Silicone Glue; Double sided tape
Other - Cuttlebug embossing folders and slider die; Brads; Letraset Promarker; Ribbon; computer and printer

Needle Felted Christmas

Well I'm a little later than usual with my posting today. On top of that I don't have a finished project to show you - Shock! Has the 20 cards marathon washed me out? Well perhaps, but the main reason is I've been a bit busy on other things - Double Shock.

I've been to a creative embroidery class, I'm starting next year and went along to meet the group - it was fab and perhaps if I manage to get anything done I will be able to show it on here at a later stage :)

So what is this image today? I thought I would play about with some needle felting on a stamped image and here was my first attempted. You might recognise the image as an Elzybells stamp - so cute. Stamped onto calico and filled in with wool tops and a felting needle. Then cut out carefully and mounted onto the image stamped onto card.

As I said - I was just playing about :)


Materials:
Stamp - Elzybells stamp art
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Usual suspects - Silicone glue; paper trimmer
Other - calico; wool tops; felting needles; flower flock

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

Flowery Donkeys

It has been quite dreary outside weather-wise so here is a colourful, cheery card for you today. It uses the DCWV Blossom and Butterflies paper pack and the Alota Stamps Sweet Little Donkey stamps from Sassy Crafts.



Materials:
Stamp - Sweet Little Donkey Alota Stamps
Papers - DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies
Colouring - PrismaColor pencils and sansodor
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Paper Trimmer
Other - Glitter glue; Epoxy brads

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

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge 14

So Kaboodle Doodle Challenge number 14 is all about scallops. Andrea has a new background papers kit for Christmas called the Contemporary Christmas - it has some lovely stars and snowy backgounds.


I've used one of the snow backgrounds for my challenge card this week. Don't forget to have a go at the challenge and you could win one of the downloads.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Contemporary Christmas
Stamp - Papermania
Usual Suspects - Circle template; Paper Trimmer; Scissors; Double-sided tape; Silicone glue
Other - Stickles glitter glue; Cuttlebug, ebossing folder, snowflake die; Green embossing powder; Heat gun; Versamark

Sledging All The Way

These sledgers, Lily and Billy, are from Pink Cat Studio. I've recently discovered and fallen in love with Melissa's wonderful stamps I love the fact that you get a plate of stamps which you can create loads of different images for different occasions - it is fab.

Have you finished your Christmas cards? I have loads more to do - I'm threatening to buy them this year :)



Materials:
Stamp - Pink Cat Studio
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Papers - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape; Silicone glue
Other - Buttons; Glitter letters (freebe from a magazine); Embroidery thread

Is It Chilly?

Here is the lovely new Winter kit from Designs By Krista called 'Chilly'.


I've been playing about with this new kit it has some lovely colours and patterns to the papers - Love it! Of course it is fab for both digital scrapbooking and making cards :)


Materials:
Papers - Designs By Krista
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Paper trimmer
Other - Stickles glitter glue; Seam ripper

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

Forever Friends in Spring Time

I don't know why but I am often drawn to yellows and greens together. As I was working through the sample of DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies I have from Sassy Crafts these papers just jumped out of the pack at me. I thought the papers matched the sweet Forever Friends stamp just perfectly and I adore the glitter finish on the papers :)


Materials:
Stamp - Forever Friends
Colouring - PrismaColor pencils and sansodor
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape; Silicone glue
Other - Ribbon; Sewing Machine

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

Sweety Jar

Today's make is a decorated sweet jar. I've used the DCWV Winterstack papers from Sassy Crafts, I love the purples and blues in this stack. The image on the tag is the Sarah Kay 'Joy of Giving' stamp.

And the sweets? Well they are all mine of course!



Materials:
Paper - DCWV WinterStack
Stamp - Sarah Kay
Colouring - Letraset promarkers
Usual Suspects - Paper Trimmer; 3D-foam; double-sided tape
Other - Stash glitter snowflake; Ribbon; Silver string; eyelet; Crop-a-dile; Recycled jar; Glitter

Very Shapely Kaboodle Doodle Challenge 13

It is cool not to be square (or rectangular) this week at Kaboodle Doodle. Shapely cards are the way to go and this card is for a little girl's birthday, the daughter of a friend, and is somewhat lion shaped :)

I've used the Animal papers from Kaboodle Doodle, printed to approx 4 inches tall and 5 inches wide and printing the head out three times. I then trimmed a straight edge along the side of the left leg through the head and stuck this against the folded edge of the card. I cut around the body and then layered up the head to give some dimension. The sentiment is a little flag attached to the tail.

He is so cute, I just want to keep him :)


Materials:
Paper - Kaboodle Doodle Animal Kit
Usual Suspects - silicone glue; glue dots; Trimmer; Scissors; Card
Other - Glitter glue