Tea Bag Cards.

Time once more for the Christmas Club Card

to show our makes.

The theme is Tea Bag Fold/Origami

and set by my good friend Karen P.

who certainly knows how to challenge us!

I haven't done any tea bagging for ages

so out came my book by Kim Reygate

for some inspiration.

This card uses the triangle fold

and I have closely followed a design in the book by Kim

but adding just a few twists.

Patterned  paper was from Beautiful Crafts

2012 Christmas collection  free in their magazine.

I now have little red leaves to use up grr!

Sentiment uses Britannia  Word die

Other papers odds from stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Sister Act #83 Anything goes.

Cute card Thursday #347 Red and green.

Bearly Mine # Christmas cards.

Live and love Crafts #29 Favourite Christmas colour combination.

Crafty Calander # It's all about Christmas.

Crafty Hazelnuts challenge #203 Go green.



I couldn't  let it go at just one design though

so made another card!

This one uses the square fold .

I had this paper in my mind to use but couldn't cut

8 identical tea bag squares but I rather like

the random effect the white lines produced on the flower.

I used my own design on this card. 

Sentiment and snowflakes are Anita's outline stickers.

Paper from same book as above.

Silver card and ribbon form stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons #106 Christmas creation with ribbon. 

We Do Doobadoo#19 Christmas

Jo's Scrap Shack #66 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #120 anything goes.

Crafty Catz #255 Christmas is coming.

CRAFT #285 Christmas.

Squiggle Fly Challenge #145 Make a Christmas card.

Tear it up.

It's week 2 of my Butterfly Challenge.

The theme is to use 3 design papers

with your butterfly/flies.

 

Here is my inspiration card for you.

Nothing like I was intending to make!

I had a lovely surprise parcel arrive in the post.

These gorgeous  glittered butterflies were sent to me

by my blogging friend Maureen as she was

having a massive de stash and thought I might like them.

There was also some lovely little hessian bags in the parcel too.

Thankyou  Maureen. I will enjoy using the rest of

the butterflies up on future challenges.

As the butterflies were on my desk I decided to see

if I had any papers to match.

I had a pile on the floor waiting to go back  in the paper drawer

so I searched through those first and these 3 caught my eye.

The stripe paper had a tear down one side and I was about

to trim it down when I had a light bulb moment and decided

to leave as it was and to tear the other pieces up to match  .

So I did.!

The lace bits were in the box  with the  oddment of ribbon

 so I used those up  too.

The sentiment is a freebie from here .

 

Entering into the following challenges:

Incy Wincy Designs # Stripes.

Fan-Tastic Tuesday #61 Anything goes/twist add ribbon.

Top Tip Tuesday # 3 or more papers.

Scribble and Scrap #31  Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #150  use up your snippets (ribbon and lace bits).

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Little Miss Muffet# 98 Anything goes. 



Karate Boy.

I enjoyed my day at the NEC on Sunday.
Came back aching though.

Went  to the Osteopath yesterday who has pummelled,

stretched and twisted me back into shape but now I feel like I'm paying twice

for the goodies I bought! Lol.

 

This is a card for our eldest Grandson

 who has his  Birthday on the 24th December.

I'm trying to get everything done ahead of time!

He is very much into Karate

so when I saw this image on Mo's Digital Pencil

by 'Mo Manning 'back in the summer knew I had to buy it.

I used SU cardstock and a craft knife

to cut the centre step base .

Pleased to say I still have all my fingers and toes!!

I coloured the image using Promarkers

and part fussy cut him out.

Background was created using a textured card stock

and 'Imagination Crafts' Wall stencil with their

embossing mat through my Grand Calibur.

The brick wall was looking a bit plain until I got my

'Dovercraft' decorative chalks out and randomly

coloured some of the bricks in.

Now it looks like a proper brick wall.

All ready to be kicked down!!

Number and wording created using Britannia dies.

Son and Grandson don't read my blog so it is safe to show now.

 

Entering into the following challenges:

Love To Create #141 Anything goes.

Little Claire's #51 Shaped card theme.

My Craft Creations # Anything goes.

Ooh - La - La Creations #169 more than 1 fold.

Papertake Weekly # 2 or 4 legs.

Through The Craft Room Door #  Anything goes.

Crafting For All Seasons #90 Birthdays.

Creative Moments #55 Anything goes/celebration.

Imagination Crafts # Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #239 Something beginning with B (boy).



3 Cards, 3 Designs.

Really running late today.

This should have been posted this morning

but we had to go into town  and see about a Contract.

No,no not that kind!!

It's ok you can rest easy you don't need to be looking over your shoulder!

This was to renew our mobile contracts

which every year we have untold hassle with.

The very nice man in the shop assured us it would be

seamless this time.

If not there will be a not so very nice man on the phone

to head office demanding an explanation.

 

Anyway I digress from the matter in hand.

Namely 3 cards to showcase my

Butterfly Challenge #18.

Use 3 different design papers with your butterfly/s.

 

First up is this one made with a vintage style to it.

Blue and cream paper is by Melissa Frances 'Classic Elegance'

The dark blue and the pink lacy one from my stash but as they were

snippets I have no names on the back.

The flower is made using Spellbinders Rose Creations die.

Butterfly charm , broken chain, very old lace and pearls also from my stash.

Card design is based on one in Craft Stamper Feb 2013

by Elizabeth Borer called 'Elegance.

Stamp is by Kanban

The Cavendish ladies 'Day At The Races'

I have stamped directly onto the digi paper

which is by Raspberry Road from their  'Home Sweet Home Set.

Coloured with Promarkers very lightly as I wanted the pattern on the paper

to show through and give a sort of sepia look .

Die cut using Xcut 'Rectangle  Parenthis'.

Entering into the following challenges:

Make My Monday # Vintage.

Clear it Out Challenge # Metal.

Deep Ocean Challenge #90 Handmade flowers.

Fab 'n' Funky #236 Use 3 different embellishments( lace, pearls, handmade rose).

Vintage Utfordring #90 Use Lace. (Cream lace used  behind flower and charm).

My Time to Craft #265 Charmed I'm sure.
One Crazy Stamper # Anything goes.
Love To Create #140 Girly and lacy.

 

Second card

was inspired by a card in a magazine by Carolyne  Knott.

I have being wanting to make one of these envelope style  cards

for ages.

These 3 papers are all by Jennifer Ellory 2013

free in  quick cards magazine.

I have layere4d up using plain pink and green card stock.

envelope was created from a sheet of white card stock

and triangles cut away and folded over each other to create a pocket.

Tab  card pulls right out to add message on the back

and then pushes back inside.

Ribbon from my stash. 

 

Pansy picture , sentiment and butterfly topper
also from my stash and had been freebies at some time
in magazines.

Entering into the following challenges:

Squigglefly Challenge #144 Use patterned paper.

Fantastic Tuesday #60 anything goes/twist add one Butterfly.

Crafting By Designs # Anything goes.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #53 Anything goes with layers.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #149 Use up your snippets. (odds of ribbon).

 

Third Card

 which surprised me as being my favourite.

The colour combinations are really striking.

Burnt Siena card stock as my base.

Blue card stock cut into 3 panels

and matted using 3 different design  papers.

Top and bottom papers

'The Simply British Collection'

free in Homemade magazine.

Middle paper unknown

but another magazine freebie in my stash.

The picture is from the ' Florals and Flutters collection

free in making cards.

(This is why I never have to buy paper packs these freebies in magazines

and digi paper downloads keep me going. )

I fussy cut an extra butterfly and added blue spotty ribbon.

I hope I have inspired you to join in the challenge

which runs for the next 2 weeks.

 

Entering this card into the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Papertake Weekly # Anythin goes.

Sister Act #81 Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #118 Anything goes.





Poppies.

Take some cardboard, a little green felt,

black button, clip

and some left over red fleece and what do you get.

 

A nice red poppy.

I just cut a simple poppy shape from the cardboard

and red fleece and sandwiched the card in bewteen.

A plain  blanket stitch around the edge

using single sewing thread.

A leaf cut from the felt using a  leaf die and my Big Shot .

I actually made this last year  and one for Miss Di

which we wore to the NEC.

Forgot to take a picture and post till now!!

 

The back showing the safety clasp.

The leaf sewn on at  11 o'clock. Not many people know

that is how a poppy should be worn.

Especially TV presenters.

Here is this years poppy.

A knitted one this time which I will wear on my hat.

Entering into the following challenges:

Artful Times #67 Poppies.

Pixies Crafty Workshop #149 Use up your snippets. (fleece,felt,wool all scraps). 

Anything But A Card #41 Anything goes.

2 Creative Chicks # Sewing project no cards.

Crafting Musketeers #19 Anything but a card.





Christmas Ornament

It's time again for the midway reminder for the

Craft My Life Oct/Nov challenge.

 

The theme as usual is Anything goes.......but not cards.

 

I still had some of the goodies we were given

left over from the last challenge

which was sponsored by Woodware.

There was ribbon and cardboard baubles

plus a plaque in the pile and as Christmas is not

in the too far distant future  I decided

to make a Hanging Ornament  with them.

 

First though I needed to decorate the baubles.

I used a technique that I had learnt at a recent workshop

I had attended.

The cardboard shapes were coloured using Promarkers

then covered with Versamark  before being dipped in

Papermania holographic embossing powder  and heat set.

Once cooled down I laid a stencil over the top.

This one is by Imagination Crafts 'Wisteria '

and makes a pretty pattern when only using

a section of the design.

I stamped over with the versa mark and used

Cosmic shimmer ultra thick embossing crystals

in 'Bronze Lustre'.

Once heat set and allowed to cool the whole bauble was

covered in versa mark and dipped in clear gloss EP.

before being heat set again.

They now have a lovely glassy feel/shine to them.

Sentiment was cut with  a Britannia word die

ad heat embossed with the cosmic shimmer crystals.

I punched a row of holes long the bottom of the plaque

and threaded through with the ribbon and tied the baubles

on at different heights until I got the weights right

in order to hang straight. 

Entering into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion #238 Bright and sparkly.

Divas By Design # Anything goes.

Crafty Catz #253 Anything goes.

Dream Valley #94 Getting ready for Christmas.

Glitter and Sparkle #109 Anything but square.

Buckwells Crafty #2 Use ribbon.

Crafts Galore #11 Anything goes.

Jellypark Friends # Festive creations.

Sparkle 'n' sprinkle # Anything goes.

Imagination Crafts # Anything goes. (used an Imagination Crafts stencil).



Snowmen

Time once more at the Christmas Card Club

to show the cards we made for

the next theme chosen by Lorraine C.

'Snowmen'.

I had two old used cards in my stash

with snowmen on and as I liked them both

I have made 2 cards.

First up is this one re using an oblong card.

I cut the 2 end snowmen off and then fussy cut them out

and placed in front of the rest of them to make

a square card. To neaten it up I used  a frame

that I had die cut the centre from for

the scarecrow card.

Sentiment made using my Britannia word dies

and glued to the frame using PVA adhesive.

I attached Acetate to the front with brads

and then adhered to a piece of red card

which  I then matted onto a white base card.

I finished off with a bow made from a snippet of twine

I had left over in my stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #149 Use up your snippets (twine and frame).

Crafty Creations #275 Brads, buttons or bows.

Squigglefly Challenge #43 Use a frame.

Paper Minutes #345 Christmas and red.

My second card is again using an old oblong one.

This time I cut the Christmas trees off from either end

and used inside the card.

I have made another Gate fold card.

I love making these.



Card bases are made from silver and  navy pearlised card

and layered up alternately.

Sentiment is the negative of a Britannia word die

layered onto navy card .

I found some cute little snowmen embellishments

in my stash by Accessorize

which matched perfectly.

Entering into the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky #235 Christmas.

Simon Says Wednesday challenge # Anything goes.

Me and Mine # Beat the rush.

Crafty Hazelnuts Extra #. Christmas cards .