Snowy scene

Good morning all. Another Saturday and it's getting nearer to Christmas.

 It's kind of snuck up on me as October whizzed by!

I've just realized that this is also my 500th post, my hasn't that caught me by suprize!

Anyway, down to business. Over at Fantasy Stampers we are asking you to get in the mood for Christmas with our latest challenge, which is

WINTER WONDERLAND

A great way into your Christmas card making!

Here is my DT inspiration.

For this scene, I used a stamp I bought earlier this year from Heartfelt Creations, Magnificent Spruce Trees.

The technique is one I saw quite sometime ago and as usual I can't remember where, sorry, I thought it made the scene a little more special.

I placed a stitched circle die cut with a circle cut out of a Post it over the main panel and attached it with a small bit of double sided tape to keep it in place while I inked the sky with a mixture of DIs in Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire and Weathered Wood. Removing the Post it circle to reveal the moon, I then stamped my trio of trees from the set in Black, Chipped Sapphire and second generation Memento Nautical Blue  across the middle of the base card. When I was satisfied with the trees I popped the large circle up on pads and added some torn card snowdrifts and a sentiment. The snow was twinkled up with a little bit of Stickles and some dots of white Cosmic Shimmer PVA were added to the sky. Job done.

So now it's over to you. We'd love to see what scenes you come up with but please remember to use good old fashioned stamping as the main focus of your card. Check out the rest of the DT's fab inspiration here.

I'd like to join in over at-

Oh Christmas Tree

Leaves and/or Trees

Getting Ready For Christmas

Happy Birthday Di

Good afternoon, hope I find you well.

Yesterday was my best friend's birthday. Sadly she lives too far away, since we moved, to be with her on her birthday, but as is our tradition recently she came around to my son's house for tea yesterday followed by a craft class. 

I gave her pressies before I left together with this card. It also happens to follow the latest theme over at STAMPlorations!

This month's theme is -

or you can follow the sketch

or you can do both!

For my card I used the newsprint stamp from the Mixed Media Grunge set together with Dee's Artsy Impressions 'Blooming Buds'. I repeat stamped the text on the square base card then on a separate panel I cut a large circular aperture, trimmed it to be smaller than the base card then popped it up on pads. The center is a couple of stitched circle die cuts stacked on top of one another and the sentiment from the Noteworthy set and a small happy birthday from my stash stamped in Memento Grey Flannel, as was the newsprint. 

I stamped the flowers then used Copics to colour before fussy cutting them out.

OK, please check out the rest of the DT's fab inspiration here along with our GD this month Helen Liu. Why not join in, we'd love to see what you make of the sketch and/or theme. 

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Love the red poppies on this photo. 

Joy

Evening all and welcome to a late post to share a little project with you.

Last year one of my blog buddies, the wonderful Loll of Stamping with Loll, hosted a Twelve Tags of Christmas Challenge. Well she's decided to host it again and for what ever reason asked if I would take part as one of the Guest Designers. Of course I said yes! 

This year's challenge started yesterday and will continue for another 10 days after today, with lot's of fab GD's taking part.

Loll has been a great influence on my style since I happened on some of here fab work when I first started to blog. Her style just speaks to me, classy and CAS so I hope you like my effort here, a kind of a homage to Loll -

I had some fun making this mixed media tag. 

First off I needed a tag so out came my Sizziz thinlet stacked tag dies, then I stamped and embossed in white with a Stampendous Christmas phrases background stamp. I inked the tag with some Old Paper DI then used a stencil to add the diamond shapes in the same ink. 

The poinsettia die and evergreen one are Le'Crea cut in white then rubbed with antique silver Inka Gold around the edges. I had to use these waxes as Loll introduced me to their delights! The pearls were added to make the small flowers in the center, instead of using the die that came with the set. JOY was cut from the same white card using a really old Sizzix die then rubbed with the Inka Gold wax. In real life it's really pearly but it doesn't really show up in the photo.

To finish I added some ribbon and a string of tiny pearls.

OK, so why not pop over to Loll's blog for all the details and check out the other GD Kathy's tag and join us

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Love the neutral colours and the detail in the hook panel. Definitely Mixed Media! 

There were one or two tags that caught my eye but the ones from Tracey Day 1 and 4 probably influenced the most.

[CASE]ing Deepti

Hi, welcome to a post to share a card I made at the weekend but as I've been away from my craftroom for a couple of days, didn't get to finish it 'til this morning.

My fellow STAMPlorations buddy LauraJane posted a card that was linked to the blog of Kelly Latevola, where she is hosting a challenge based on her [CASE]ing Genius series. I followed her link and found this wonderful group of exceedingly talented artists that she has [CASE}d over the year.

She is asking for work influenced by one of the [CASE]ees. Well when I saw that the wonderful Dee of  Dee's Art Utopia I just had to play along.

When I first started blogging she was one of the few card makers that really sang to me. I loved her soft watercolours  and clean and simple style. I've been lucky enough to be have been on the same DT as her at ATSM as well as being able to use her new stamps over at STAMPlorations. So here is my CASE of genius -

and this is Dee's wonderful inspirational card

I have to say that this same card influenced me once before when I saw it over a year ago and I made this card here. 

This time I let the daisies fill the paper and die cut several black happys, glued them together, then adhered them to the painted panel. The birthday is from one of Dee's stamp sets, Balloons and Banners.

6/11 Oops forgot to nominate someone to case, a genius cardmaker, mmm I nominate Loll of Stamping with Loll!

Thanks for looking.

Hippy Chick

Good morning folks.

This week has been dreadful over here in Blighty. I know it's the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness but it's getting a bit depressing now, but I'm looking forward to some clear crisp days!

Anyway its time for a new challenge at Cardz4Galz.

For our theme this week we would like to see your projects for -

A TEENAGE GIRL

My offspring and rellies are either too old or too young to come into that category so I struggled to find a suitable image. Just as I was contemplating buying a digi I remembered a stamp from a long time ago I found in a bargain bin and has only been inked up once before to my knowledge! Don't know why because when I'd finished I quite liked the end result.

I used one of Sketch Saturday's sketches and the colours at Copic Norge for this project. The central white panel was embossed using a knit effect EF I bought awhile ago that went with the pattern on her trousers and the DP is a strip of scrap from NitWits that was in my bit's box. The image was stamped then coloured with Copics to match the DP, then fuzzy cut. I had to extend the width of the horizontal mount as the DP was a little too narrow but to soften the impact, I cut a zigzag edge with a strip die. The Happy Birthday is stamped on another scrap of matching paper using a MFT banner die and I die cut the numbers in white then coloured with Copics to match

OK, that's about it from me, please check out the rest of the DT's fab projects here and join us, we'd love to see you.

I'm joining in over at:-

   

    
U is for Unlimited                          Autumn Colours photo

Thanks for stopping by.