A Christmas Card!

 

 

Well the month has a 'D' in it which must mean Christmas Card time. How did that happen!!

I like need  50 cards asap. Anyone got some spare they can let me have?

I actually made this one back in November (or I would  be at minus 1) for a card swap and it should be safely in Canada by now. The swap called for these colours  (two blues and a plumb) to be used which I found very hard to put together but finally came up with the card below.  My new toys that I bought at the NEC this year are Embossing powders and a corner punch.  Can you tell!!

The stamps are by  Stampscapes and worked well with the powder. Kept it fairly simple as the colours are so strong.



 

 

 

Entering into the following challenges:

 

Dream Vally: Non - Traditional Christmas.

Stamp Your Life:  Anything Goes.

Hooked on Craft: Card or layout for Christmas.

Great Impressions: Anything Goes.

Catch The Bug: Anything Goes.

Wags and Whiskers: Christmas.

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes.

Lexi's Creations: Christmas.

Crafty Boots: Anything Goes.

Whoopsidaisy Challenge: Christmas Cards.

 



 

 

 

 

Pipkin.

Well my access to the Internet has not vastly improved this week so now that  I am connected I had better type very fast!  When they built our houses in our close the designers decided it would be very pleasing to not have any lamposts  spoiling the view or BT,or Electricty cables  running overhead so everything was buried below ground. Now some 30 yrs later the wiring is brittle and also waterlogged as our village is built over  some 40 odd springs (which is why the Romans built a settlement a few miles away). Every time someone has their lines go faulty and the engineers  go down the underground hole to fix them they invariably break another wire in fixing the first one  or have to pump the water out before work commences. It does mean that we play cat and mouse with the phone and internet when the weather is particulary wet.

 

Anyway here is one of the projects I have been busy on. This is an Elf on the Shelf that I have made for my Son's chlidren. We had a text earltier this evening to say he is already getting up to tricks and planning to cause mayhem when they wake up in the morning!.

A slightly different design (I make my own pattern up)  to the one that I made for 'Sweet Cheeks'  last year (who is also in situ and planning some more mischief so we are told). I already have a pre order for another for next year along with two more advent calendars. Pipkin has been made with left overs from the material used on last years calendars and his bell is from one of the cat collars that my cats used to wear.  Hair is a snippet of fur fabric and his boots from a scrap of black felt.  Face has been painted using my Jo Sonja

matt acrylics, oh and his cheeks are a  spot of my lipstick that he helped himself to!! 

Not sure what the Roolz are that he is busy writing up  but I did catch him sliding down the bannisters a couple of times before he went up 'North'

 

Would like to enter him into the following:

Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Crafty Snippets #48.

Shopping Our Stash: Odds and ends to use up (listed as above).

Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes.

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes.

 



 

 

 



You can't take it with you!

The Internet has been up and down all week with  the bad winds. Hopefully I can stay on long enough to be able to post this and get round everyones blogs. This item is rather appropriate at the moment as I'm stlill coughing (coffin) like mad and haven't been to bed in over a week as everytime I lay down I go into a coughing frenzy! Actually it has been quite comfy sitting up in an armchair especially as 'The Doc' has been covering me up like a parrot each night!

Anyway onto the post details. I entered a tag swap last month and didn't really think anything was amiss  when my return tag did not show up as I had received a plausable excuse for it being late. The swap owner then emailed me to say that my partner was a known flaker as she had flaked on her too  (and someone else) with a swap the month before. As I was missing a tag' Tee very kindly offered to send me a replacement (the tags are making up a set of 12 ,one for each month of 2012). The swap that Tee was missing was to alter a little coffin box and fill with goodies. I have now heard from Tee that she has received her coffin so here it is. 

 

 

 

Now not having a coffin shaped box was not going to put me off so having been told the rough size of 6" x 3" I set to with cardboard ,glue, paper serviettes, material and black paint and got started. The original swap had been for halloween but as this was now long gone I  decided to put googly eyes on the inside of the lid just to keep an eye on things!



 The inside was lined with black satin and I attached the lid(after much debating) with ribbon hinges and ties. The lid is decorated with handmade roses and buffed with a little Inka Gold(I love this stuff).I then stitched lace and ribbon around the outside edge.

The inside is filled with beads,shinny baubles, trinkets, stick pins , more roses and even  some butterflies, so who says "You can't take it with you" !!!!





 

Everything has come from my stash so I'm popping over to

Pixies crafty workshop: Use your snippets #47

Also the following challenges:

Craft your  Passion: Scraps.

Make it Monday:  Papercrafts.

Oldie But a Goodie: Anything but Christmas.

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything but a card.

Anthing but a Card: A stitch in time.

 

 

 

 



Everythings Rosy.

I  recently entered an Australian swap which was to send two pink cards to your partner. This is the second of the cards. The first card is down below (no pun intended) in the last post. These cards are now with my partner so I can showcase them. 

 

The backing paper is called Rasberry Road and I have adhered it to pink card stock.

Whilst having a rummage in my stash I found this rose that I had made for 'The Wedding' which had been a  reject due to being the wrong colour. However it matched this paper perfectly so I just had to use it. The flower had originally been made using the Spellbinders

Rose Creations die .

  



I felt the card needed no other embellishments, not even a sentiment so I left it at that.

Would like to enter the following challenges:
Simply Create Too. Use your stash.(Used handmade rose from my stash)
Crafty Catz: Anything Goes.
Craft Your Passion: Clean and Simple.
Technique Tuesday: Punched Elements. (Die cut  Rose).
Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes.
Dream Valley: Anything Goes.
Make it Monday Party: Paper Crafts.
Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Use your snippets (rose made from snippets of craft card).

In The Pink.

This is  a card that I made for a recent swap. The swap required two pink cards you can see the second card up above  where I will be posting it shortly. I wanted to make a shabby chic style card with stitching. The stamp is a favourite of mine by 'Crafty Individuals'. I have layered up various backing papers by glueing to cardboard and then distressing the edges and hand stitiching a border. My blogging friend Sherry will be so proud of me as I managed to leave all the threads dangling!!! The butterfly is made with a punch that I snuck from Fluff (but had to give it back) so don't know who it is by. This is one of the last in my stash.



 

The flower is made using my Spellbinders Rose Creations die but instead of sculpting the petals I have left them flat. (When you cut with this die you get left with the centres from the petals which I keep in a lttle tin.) Here I have layered up with snippets of different backing papers  and instead of using a brad for the centre have used one of the circles from the plain petals to cover up the hole. A spot of glossy accents on top  and you have home made candi!

 

Would like  to entering into the following challenges.

 

PanPastel: Make anEmbellishment.

Pixie's Crafty workshop:  Use your snippets (snippets +snippets snippets)

Whoopsiedaisy Challenge: Pastel colours.

Make it Monday Party:  Any paper crafts. 

Crafty Card Makers: More than one punch and/or die cut (used butterfly & flower dies)

Penny's Paper - crafty: Lots of layers.

Flutterby Wednesday: Open with Butterfly or Fairy.

Hotshot Craft: Butterflies.

Stampin for theWeekend: All stitched up.

One Crazy Stamper: Anything Goes.

Sweet Stampin: Anything Goes.

 



 

 

Big Bloomers.

Of the Flower variety. Now what were you  thinking!!

Fluff asked me some time ago to make her some dinner plate size flowers for her new craft room walls. They are now in situ so I can show you. Colours asked for were pink, cream and mauve so I have alternated them around on each flower.  The large petals are made from coloured craft stock with matching petals of gradiating size in tissue paper and edged with satin ribbon which has been frilled.

 

The centres are made from half a polystyrene ball each. I have then pinned and glued over 100 small 1" flower shapes (punched from tissue paper, with 4 layers each) into the ball completly covering it. The pink flower above has a die cut butterfly adhered to a petal and the one below has two smaller ones made from  shrink plastic .  Photos are the best I could get with the light available. They look better in real life.

 

Would like to enter into  the following:

Crazy 4 challenges: Anything but a card.

Hiding in My Craft Room: 3 favourite colours (pink, cream, mauve).

Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Crafty snippets of shrink plastic and cardstock on the butterflies).

The Crafty Pad Designs: Anything goes.

Handmade Harbour: Handmade Mondays.

Make it Monday Party: Paper craft creations.

Flutterby Wednesday: Open with butterfly or fairy.

Simply Create: Link up your digital or paper creations.

Crafty Catz: Add texture to your project.

 



 



A Snappet.

 

Isn't it always the  way. You wait ages for a bus and then two come along together!!

I had to post this straight away as it follows on from the post below.  So I finished the book album at 2am but still needed two Birthday cards PDQ.  I was sitting at my craft desk staring at the blank wall trying desperately to get inspiration (only it wasn't a blank wall it has my oil paintings that 'The Doc' had hung up for me) when suddenly eureka  I had a light bulb moment! Why not take a photo of one of my pictures, scan it into the computer, resize it, twiddle around with it and make Dad's card. So I did and here it is PDQ!!



 

 

Backing paper and ribbon from my stash. Picture from stash on wall!

 

Card for Mum was a quick one too as I had all the elements cut out on my desk  already

and just had to decoupage it together.

 

Would like to enter this card into the following:

 

Pixie's Crafty Workshop: Snippets #44

Pile it On: For the Birthday Boy.

Lexi's Creations: Special Birthday.

Penny's Paper-crafty: Birthdays

Creative Inspitations: Lets celebrate.

Simply Create: Anything goes.

Crafty Catz:  Male card.

Totally Gorjuss: Things with wings.