Christmas Wreath Green

Not much to say here except I ran out of red bases so decided to try the green and I really like it. This was one of the first designs I made this year and I might make more ready for next year as it was so effective.

Christmas Wreath

I used the larger limetree cards again this time the red ones and made a few of this design, I am trying to only make smaller batches this year as I need to use some of the hundreds of christmas stamps and dies I own. Lets see if that is still the case at the end of december lol.

I used the hero arts wreath stencil, I was originally going to over stamp with the stamp set but decided it worked exactly as it is.

 

Christmas Tree

 This card design used all stuff I could find after moving from my tiny craftroom to my new space and I am still trying to find my way around having twice as much space and wondering how I ever fitted into the previous room lol.

The die and papers were from Die Cutting essentials magazine and the card bases from limetree, they came together really quickly and I liked the larger size too.

Cheers Big Birthdays Number 7

Woohoo the final one of these for 2020, of course I may make more next year because f it ain't broke don't fix it lol.

I did enjoy making these and even though it took a few days it made my craftroom fun again and for that I am grateful. It gave me sunshine on some very dark days and I am hoping that my the time this post goes live those days are a memory locked in time.

Ingredients
Image: "cheers to you" A La Mode from MFT stamps
Sentiment: as above
Dies: A2 stitched rectangle stax from MFT
Card: "navy" from Limetree crafts
Background Stamp: Number Jumble stamped in Versamark and using Pearl embossing powder from WOW


Copics
Skin - E13, 11, 50
Hair - YR27, 24, 23
Champagne - E50, 51
Dress - B69, 66 63

Gingerbread Cookies version 2

After making several batches of red and green I wanted to try other colours so I went with these two, now I liked them but not as much as other colours I tried so I only made these two.

I will say that now I see them on screen I wish I had made more lol.

Ingredients
Sentiment : “christmas pageant” neat and tangled
Dies: blueprints 20 and 29 from MFT
Background:  "jolly gingerbread" layering background stamp from crafters companion
Inks : peanut brittle, rich cocoa, danube blue and bamboo leaves all from memento and
Card: Navy from Limetree crafts and sour apple from MFT

What's Up Dude? Card 1

I bought quite a few Kraft Kimmie Stamps on my last florida trip and so far I have been busy using them. I stamped both images from this set and have used them both already, it will be a while until you see the other card though as I won't pop it on my blog until after their birthday.

In florida I also purchased 22 stencils, I know it's a ridiculous amount but in my defence all i bought were reduced ( ok almost all lol) this one I discovered in the decorating section in Michaels, not somewhere I would have looked but a good friend from Bristol playday had used a stencil and we discovered that Michaels sold them so we went on the hunt lol. And in case the suspense is killing you.....yes i bought that one as well lol.

Not much else to say except this is a simple card but for a teenage boy it fits the bill and for the first time in ages he actually thanked me too lol.

Ingredient
Image: "whats up Dude" from Kraftin Kimmie Stamps
Sentiment: "happy birthday" from MFT
Stencil: "distressed stars" folk art by Plaid
Ink: "blueprint sketch" oxide ink
Card: "navy" from Limetree Crafts

Making Cards - Best Friends

As soon as I saw the stamps from Making cards I knew the card I wanted to make and who it was going to be for, of course it has still taken about four weeks maybe more to actually get made but at least it has been used lol.

Fairly simple card as I wanted the image to be the star of the show and hopefully that was achieved.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment : "making cards magazine"
Dies : A2 stitched rectangles from MFT
Card : "raspberry" lime tree crafts

Copics
Skin - E13,11,00, 000
Hair - E30, 31, 34, 35, 57, 59
Dresses - RV69, 19, 17, N9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3
Wine - R01

Silhouette Cards a la Jennifer McGuire Version 1

Quite a while ago Jennifer McGuire showed a technique where she used outline stamps to create silhouettes and I was intrigued. I thought about making the cards when I saw the video but other more urgent makes got in the way so it has taken over six months to get around to this and I am disappointed in myself as it is such a quick, easy and effective design to replicate.

I blended the inks before stamping the images, in hindsight I should have stamped them first like JM did but I thought it looked more work lol. Once I stamped the images in versa fine I waited until the ink was dry then coloured with a sharpie, it took three coats over the inks and its not perfect but it still looks good.

I will definitely be doing this again, in fact I might try it with images that aren't flowers lol.

Ingredients
Image: "take good care" Clearly Besotted
Sentiment: "sweet little sentiments" Clearly Besotted
Inks: "wilted violet" and "picked raspberry" distress oxides
Dies: A2 stitched rectangle stax from MFT
Card: "purple" Limetree

Pugtastic Christmas

Ok so I know its January but I have three more christmas cards to show you and then I am done until December, well I hope I am lol.

These last three cards are all very similar and thats what happens you get close to the big day.

Ingredients
Image: "christmas pug" Digistamp Boutique
Sentiment: "boozy santa" Wild Rose Studio
Dies: A2 stax set 2 from MFT
Card: "red" Limetrevee crafts

Copics
Ground - W3, 1
Antlers - E84, 81
Scarf - R39, 37
Dog - E30, 31, 34, 35, 57, 59
Stars - Y15, 13

Boozy Santa

I think before I order any more stamps I need to learn how to measure, I had no idea of the size of this stamp until it arrived and its huge lol. My normal A2 was a no go so I had to bust out my square cards, thank goodness I had a stash of them.

The sentiments on this set have been used on every card since it arrived, I wish I had bought it earlier as they are fab and the perfect size too, which is odd as I didn't have a clue what size they were until they arrived lol.

Ingredients
Image: "boozy santa" Wild Rose Studio
Sentiment: as above
Card: "real red" stampin Up and Green from Limetree
Dies: Crealies XXL Square stitched


Copics
Skin - E11, 00, 000, 93
Hair - N2, 0
Red - R59, 29, 24
Yellow - Y38, 15, 13
Green - G29, 17, 16, 14
Black - T8, 6, 5

Hooray Panda

Sometimes bam you get an idea and the card almost makes itself, this happened here. I was trying to use "NBUS" or Never before used schtuff as coined by the lovely Darnell and had it all laid out on my desk and next thing I know a made card lol.

I know it should have been a shaker card but it looked more for a boy and i'm not sure they would like a card filled with sequins. Need to find something like sequin stars or similar.

Ingredients
Image: "spring short stack" Stampendous
Card: "navy" Limetree Crafts
Dies: "hooray shaker" from Clearly Besotted and Blueprints 15 from MFT
Paper: "avocado soup" Jellybean soup.

Creative Stamping Music No2 - Mixed Tapes

I just had to use this image from the magazine, it reminded me of my youth and the"mixed tapes" we gave our crushes and friends, yes my dear friends I grew up in the era of taping top of the pops on a sunday night, buying 12 inch discs for the pretty pictures and rats tails. For those of you not lucky enough to be a teenager in the eighties in the UK I will elaborate on the phenomenon that was rats tails, you let a small portion of your hair at the back be longer than the rest, your hair needed to be cropped to the neck otherwise it just looked like your hairdresser missed a bit lol. You cultivated the growth of said piece of hair and if you were able to you plaited it or put tiny little elastic bands in it. Mine grew to a fine length of over seven inches before it got the chop, I did miss it when it was gone but by then the next fad had appeared, although for the life of me I am at a loss to remember what it was, probably too traumatic to want to recall lol.

Anyway you didn't come here for an eighties history or her story lesson so on with the card, as you an probably see it was fairly easy, I matched the colours of the tapes to the papers, cut the paper to match the angle of the stripes and bish, bash, bosh its done.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiments: "creative stamper issue 31"
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jellybean soup
Card: "blue canvas" Limetree Crafts
Dies: Blueprints 15 from MFT


Copics
Yellow - Y17, 15, 13
Blue - B39, 37, 34
Green - YG97, 95, 93, 01
Grey/Black - N9, 7, 5, 4, 2