Showing posts with label Christmas 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas 2016. Show all posts

Friday, 23 December 2016

Santa and Mrs Claus and some Tags

Merry Christmas!  My last Christmas card of the season, as always, belongs to Greg!  When I make his, I know for sure that I'm finished!

This one uses this lovely image from Eat Cake Graphics - Santa and Mrs. Claus
Coloured with watercolour pencils.  Sparkle added to Santa's fur trims (though I've just noticed I forgot to do his boots!).  Simon Says sentiment die; Paper Smooches snowflakes dies.  I've no particular reason why they're standing in front of a wall - other than it was a new stencil and I was dying to use it ;)
And here's my gift tags made with another Eat Cake Graphics stamp:
I added some clear gloss and lots of glitter to the stripy edge and to Santa's specs, so there's lots of the regulation Christmas sparkle ;)

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Monday, 19 December 2016

Not done yet!

Ha, so much for being finished with my Christmas cards.  I'd miscounted the ones I made for work, so had to knock another couple out this evening.  Mind you, they don't come much simpler than this!

I've used this fab, slightly grumpy looking moose from catsonappletrees that I bought earlier in the year after being led astray (again) by DottyJo.  Sentiment from Sugar Pea Designs.  A few gold stars from my stash and some doodled borders and job done!  That's DEFINITELY me finished now.
I even have Greg's card made and it's not yet Christmas Eve!  (I'll blog it later in the week)

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Thursday, 15 December 2016

Naughty or Nice - Modern or Traditional

We're midway through December, so it's challenge reminder time at Naughty or Nice.  This month's theme is a Christmas one (of course!!) and you can go traditional or modern - A Christmas Carol versus Frozen.  Hope you'll play along and pop over to the blog to see the other Troublemakers fab creations :)  And there's a prize of some Die-namics up for grabs this month!

I've gone for traditional for my card - and what could be more traditional than my little family of Carolers from Eat Cake Graphics again!  Coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss /glitter added to their hats / ear muffs.  Snowflake die from Paper Smooches.  Sentiment from Happy Little Stampers.







And just so I have a record of what I made for next year, here's more of the same in the shape of some special request teacher's cards:

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Monday, 12 December 2016

Poinsettia Christmas

Apparently today is National Poinsettia Day (according to Simon Says Stamp), who knew there was such a thing!  Maybe it's the optimal day to buy your poinsettia and still have it alive on Christmas Day (it would still be a bit dicey in my house LOL)

I needed to make a Christmas card that wasn't too jolly and didn't say 'happy Christmas', so this is what I came up with.
My poinsettia stamp is an olide from Art Gone Wild (I think).  I'm not convinced about the sentiment, it may or may not change!
Coloured with a red watercolour pencil, gold stickles added to the flower centres.

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Sunday, 11 December 2016

Flowers and Carolers

Aww boo hoo, Sunday evening already and the last episode of David Attenborough's Plane Earth, definitely the best programme on telly!
I've been in full-steam-ahead card making mode today, I still haven't finished my Christmas cards and needed some extra non-Xmas cards as my stash is almost kaput!

This birthday one features a lovely set from Simon Says Stamp - coloured with watercolour pencils, fussy cut and then glued in layers.


Here's my Family of Carolers from Eat Cake Graphics again .... you're going to be seeing more of them over the next few days too probably ;)
I've added some silver snowflakes and a silver border.
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Thursday, 8 December 2016

Penguintastic

I couldn't decide which of my penguins I wanted to use the most, so I used them all ;)

They're from Eat Cake Graphics of course (from left to right)....
5077-D Right foot up penguin
5076-E Left foot up penguin
5075-D Sliding Penguin
5074-E Looking Up Penguin
Aren't they fab!
The two in the corner look like they've got cold feet, the dude in the middle is having a blast sliding down the hill, and the guy to the right definitely looks like the Health and Safety Officer LOL

Coloured with watercolour pencils, and clear gloss added to their beaks and feet.  I finished my card with a Simon Says Stamp Christmas die, Paper Smooches snowflake die, a little silver star and some clear bling.

This card is also posted over at A Sprinkling of Samples and Techniques blog, where you'll find lots more loveliness from Eat Cake Graphics

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Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Family of Carolers

I got this stamp so I could 'personalise' my sister's Christmas card ... it couldn't be any more perfect - a boy and a girl and a labrador!   It's following on from my card for them last year which featured my nephew and niece - here's the link if you want a peek.
Anyway I liked the finished result so much, it ended up being my card to all my family and friends!  There's a bit of colouring to do, but the images do all the hard work, so there's no need to be faffing about cutting things out!

My stamps are from Eat Cake Graphics:
Family of Carolers
Lamp post
'Deck the Halls' sentiment from Happy Little Stampers.

I've coloured my little family with watercolour pencils and added glitter to their baubles, trim of Dad's Santa hat, and Mum's ear muffs.  Clear gloss added to the lantern glass and I covered the boy's hat, Dad's scarf and hat, and the little girl's skirt in my clear sparkle pen.  I masked my family and the lantern off, and splattered the background with pink watercolour to match my base.  Oh and I added some Frosted Lace stickles to the ground for my fallen snow, so there's LOTS of sparkle on this card!  Little gold stars from my stash.

This card is also posted over at A Sprinkling of Samples and Techniques blog, where you'll find lots more loveliness from Eat Cake Graphics

And here's another version of the same card, but this time I used the Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil, but to be honest it was a bit of a faff and I couldn't be bothered with it for mass production.

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Thursday, 1 December 2016

Naughty or Nice - modern or traditional

It's a new month, so that means a new challenge over at Naughty or Nice.  This month's theme is a Christmas one (of course!!) and you can go traditional or modern - A Christmas Carol versus Frozen.  Hope you'll play along and pop over to the blog to see the other Troublemakers fab creations :)  And there's a prize of some Die-namics up for grabs this month!


I've gone for the 'modern' look with my card. I watercoloured my base in the Frozen movie colours - I think every little girl in the country has either an Anna or an Elsa dress and all the other stuff that goes with it!  I wouldn't be surprised at all if you could get Frozen toilet roll!!
My singing goose is an oldie from Penny Black, and the sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers.  Paper Smooches snowflake dies.

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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Snowy in a blizzard

Isn't it great when a card turns out like it looked in your head!  Doesn't happen to me very often!

This one uses a couple of stamps from Eat Cake Graphics -
Snowman (Assembled)
Row of Pine Trees
and the sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers.
I stamped my snowman, masked him off then stamped the trees, masked them off and then used my falling snow stencil.  Clear gloss and glitter added to his hat band and nose, and sparkle added to his scarf.

Day 23 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge
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Sunday, 20 November 2016

A puppy's Christmas list

Oh brrrrr it's been such a cold day today - we'd a freezing fog down all day and even the ice in the bird bath didn't melt.  No bath time for birdies tonight!  If they'd any sense, they'd be at home in their PJs anyway with the radiators toasty warm and the fab Planet Earth on TV like me ;)

For day 20 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge I've used this fun Santa from Eat Cake Graphics:
Santa's Doggy Welcome 
and sentiment:
 A new squeaky toy
Coloured with watercolour pencils and glitter added to his hat / mittens.
Snowflakes cut from silver mirror card.


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Sunday, 13 November 2016

A thankful doggy and a Christmas Sheep

It's another quickie visit to blogland tonight.  The best programme EVER is on the telly ... the lovely David Attenborough and the fabulous Planet Earth II.  If you don't watch it, you're really missing out!

This thank you card uses an oldie Lili of the Valley stamp - coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on dimensionals.  Flowers covered with my clear glitter pen. Dotty die in BG from Die-namics.

Day 13 of the Daily Marker 30 day Colouring challenge

The photo of this card is so disappointing, it looks so much better in real life :(

My little sheepie is an oldie Penny Black and my sentiment from Happy Little Stampers.
I covered my sheep with my glitter pen, clear gloss to his legs, and flower soft to his hat.  Silver stars from stash.

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Sunday, 6 November 2016

Shepherd boy

A quick visit to blogland tonight .... the last episode of Poldark's on shortly and I need to get the kettle on ;)

Tonight I have a Christmas card using this old stamp from High Hopes.  You'll have to trust me when I say it's much nicer in real life!  I had to brighten my pic a bit, so it's kinda lost the depth of colour in the sky - there's lots of grey, blues and purples here, and my green grass is a nicer shade than it looks here.  :(

I added lots of gold glitter to the big star and to the little shepherd's headband.  Silver mini stars from stash.  I should have stepped away from my card, but felt the need to add some white enamel dots and I really wish I hadn't.  Sentiment from Happy Little Stampers.

Day 6 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge
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Saturday, 29 October 2016

Kitties Galore

I can't believe it's nearly the end of October already, this year has whizzed by!  I'm not looking forward to our clocks changing tonight, I hate coming home in the dark and it'll only be a few weeks before it's dark in the mornings heading to work too.
Anyway, enough waffle, here's a couple of cards for you!  I usually don't make square cards, but I ordered the wrong size envelopes so you'll be seeing more of them ;)

My Christmas one features Not a Creature Stirring (Scene) from Eat Cake Graphics.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss added to the candy cane.  Snowflake die from Paper Smooches.


I had this really pretty sailboat DP in my stash ... but I managed to cover it all up.  Doh!
My image is Kitty on Rocks from Eat Cake Graphics.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and some sparkle added to my little fishie.
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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

On the nice list

Yummmmm it's patisserie week on Bake Off this week, I'd LOVE to be there for a taster ;)  I reckon the best I can do tonight is a choccy biccie from the cupboard if I'm lucky :(

Here's a super quick Christmas card.  I've based it on Cornelia's fab card over at Muse Christmas Visions:

For mine, I used this old and unloved Marianne Designs Christmas tree die that I 'had to have' a few years back and I've barely used since!  I used some snazzy DP here - the silver pattern in it looks like tinsel!
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Thursday, 13 October 2016

Elf News

I had an evening with a difference, we were out listening to the stars in our local park!  I think the jist of it is the size, speed and brightness of the stars passing by the North Star were demonstrated as a sound and when you stood in the middle of a circle of speakers the effect was really spooky!  It really made you think about all that's going on in the universe that we really are never aware of.  Oh, and we saw the Space Station when we were there, so that was great too!
LOL, I've just noticed the amount of exclamation marks I've used!! 

Anyay this card uses more of my new goodies ... the spellbinders banner die.  I've fancied these for ages, and the bargain over at Bunny Zoe's 70% sale was too good to resist.
I've also used my little elf from Eat Cake Graphics - Christmas is Coming (elf with newspaper)
Coloured with watercolour pencils and I went over his gloves + scarf with my clear glitter pen, and then clear gloss + glitter to his hat.  I also chalked behind my image in blue, but it hasn't shown up very well in my photo.  Paper Smooches snowflake dies.

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Monday, 10 October 2016

Snowdude and a Birthday Mouse

I'd one of 'those days' in work today, so offloaded some stress with some cardmaking this evening ;)

This card was inspired by this week's Featured Stamper challenge over at Splitcoast - here's Francie's original.

For mine I used Snowman (Assembled) my all time favourite stamp from Eat Cake Graphics, and All is Calm (text).   Coloured with watercolour pencils and then I covered his body and head with my clear glitter pen.  His scarf and band on his hat are covered with clear gloss and glitter, and then if that wasn't enough sparkle I added some clear stickles for the snow.
Old Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder.

Here's a real quickie!  Just a sentiment stamp and this olide from Whipper Snapper.  I think I used over a dozen of my watercolour pencils on this one!  I thought it needed a wee touch of something, so I added some clear gloss to the petals after I'd taken this pic.  

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Thursday, 15 September 2016

Food or Drink ... Naughty or Nice

Wow we're half way through September already, time is flying ... though that means I'm closer to my holidays yippppeeeee :)

This month's challenge at Naughty or Nice is for food and/or drink.  Hope you'll play along :)

For my card I've used these naughty critters from Eat Cake Graphics:
3058-M Where the Milk and Cookies go pets
There's a great sentiment that goes with this stamp that I really must get:
8212-F Where the milk and cookies go (text)
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Sunday, 21 August 2016

Happy Snowdudes


Ahh boo hoo, my week off is over!  We did win the Lottery at the weekend, but it was only for 2 lucky dips, so its back to the grindstone tomorrow for me ;)
Sorry this photo is so pants, I should maybe have taken it without the flash on, but the dark evenings are here already.  Anyway, the inspiration for my cards came from Donna's lovely snowman card - she's this week's featured stamper at Splitcoast.  I've used some of my favourite Eat Cake Graphics stamps:
1193-J Snowman (assembled)
8234-F All is calm (text)
I've coloured my snowman with watercolour pencils and popped him up on dimensionals.  A good layer of my clear glitter pen was added to the band on his hat and to his scarf.
I'd no intentions of making 2 cards, but when I made the first (blue) one, I realised my snowman should be looking into the card so made the red one and think it looks much better :)

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Saturday, 13 August 2016

Camp Create cards

Apologies, long post ahead ... !
Yipppeeeeee, a whole week off work for me, looks like the weather might be looking up too :)
I had a nice crafty evening in the kitchen, just me and the Olympics (which I'm loving!), so I thought I'd get caught up with the MFT Camp Create sessions.  It was one of my New Year's Resolutions to be more adventurous and try new techniques, so these are great for me!

Card 1 is for Divine Dry Embossing.  I've used this sweet little snowman from Eat Cake Graphics:
1193-J Snowman (assembled)

I've coloured him with watercolour pencils, and added Spectrum Noir sparkle and clear gloss to his hat band and scarf.
For my BG, I used an MFT embroidery stitched rectangle to cut out a template, chalked with blue and green, and then embossed the same die.  I don't know if it shows up in my pic but I slightly missed my edge for the embossing, but I like how it turns out anyway.  I also added some
sparkle and clear gloss to my snowflakes.


Card 2 was for the Camp Create bonfire challenge - single layer savvy
I followed Stephanie's fab card layout and copied her dotty ground idea.  
My farmyard critters are from MFT - coloured with watercolour pencils.  Spectrum Noir sparkle added to the haystack and to the horse's mane and tail, clear gloss added to the cow horns and their hooves.  Little star sequins from Taylored Expressions.

And finally, card 3 is another new technique to me - stunning shadow stamping.
I found an old mostly dried up white ink pad at the back of the cupboard, so used it with my one and only coloured ink pad - Memento Rose Bud.  The pink base is a much nicer shade than it looks here, but I can never get it to photograph right!  My flowers and sentiment are both from Simon Says Stamp (I think).  Bling from Taylored Expressions again.

So that's me with my 6 camp badges for the week!  I'm so pleased I managed to play along as there were a few of the sessions I thought "I'll never be able to make that!" :)


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