Making Spirits Bright

Hi! I'm back with this simple card, I'm not too sure about it but thought I'd share it anyway. I wanted to use up some patterned papers so I used this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch. Instead of a flower I used this little penguin, he's actually part of a little group of penguins but I masked around him to make him star of the show :-) I'm entering this into this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge of Christmas (I'm over the moon - I won the last challenge and now have some spends for their lovely shop!! So exciting! Hee hee!) Also, it's for this weeks Merry Monday challenge of A Bird and the AAA Cards challenge of Blue Christmas. Thanks for looking, I hope you like it!

Supplies;
Paper - Echo Park Winter Wishes
Stamps - Stampavie Penguin Pile & Simon Says Stamp Lots of Stars
Cardstock - Stampin' Up Night of Navy
Sentiment - Paper Smooches Joyful Greetings
Other - white embossing powder, Copics & Silver Stickles

Neutral Christmas card set

Hiya! Warning, this is a pretty long post! I've made another set of Christmas cards, 3 this time, and for a few different challenges.

Firstly is my own challenge. I've watched Kristina Werners holiday card series for the last 3 or 4 years and every year I've said I'll make a card inspired by every day - only just managed day 1! Haha! Though that's one better than previous years :-) It's fairly easy to see how I cased this card though instead of grey I used beige, instead of silver I used platinum and instead of the embossed background I used this beautiful patterned paper (hopefully in the close up you can see the shine on this paper) It's from this gorgeous pad from Buttons for Brains - love it!

This second card is using this weeks CAS(E) this Sketch. When I was making the previous card, I didn't know whether the gold or platinum embossing would go best so I made both using this gorgeous sentiment die and 2 layers of powder. Then I stamped and embossed the snowflakes and half the sentiment in the same gold.

Then for my 3rd card I used the other half of the gold sentiment this weeks Merry Monday challenge of neutral colours, snowflakes and dry embossing. All 3 of these cards are for this weeks Muse challenge which was to make 3 cards using die cuts, cream and a single sheet of paper - this is where I bent the rules, I only use 6x6 paper and only had one of each sheet so I made all 3 cards using papers from the same collection, I hope that's ok! Thanks for looking and making it to the end! :-)

Supplies;
1st -
Papers - First Edition 'Gilded Winter'
Sentiment die - Simon Says Stamp 'Merry Christmas'
Card stock - Stampin' Up 'Sahara Sand'
Embossing powder - Wow! 'Metallic Platinum'
Other - Simon Says Stamp 'Moonshine' sequins, vellum & natural silver twine
2nd -
Papers - First Edition 'Gilded Winter'
Dies - Simon Says Stamp 'Merry Christmas' & MFT 'Snowflakes Splendor'
Stamps - MFT 'Snowflake Splendor'
Sentiment - Simon Says Stamp 'Christmas'
Card stock - Stampin' Up 'Crumb Cake'
Other - Simon Says Stamp 'Moonshine' sequins, 
Embossing powder - Wow! 'Metallic Rich Gold Pale'
3rd -
Papers - First Edition 'Gilded Winter'
Dies - Simon Says Stamp 'Merry Christmas' & Memory Box 'Country Landscape'
Sentiment - Simon Says Stamp 'Christmas'
Embossing powder - Wow! 'Metallic Rich Gold Pale'
Card stock - Stampin' Up 'Sahara Sand'
Other - Simon Says Stamp 'Moonshine' sequins ' snowflake embossing folder

Christmas jumper cards!!

Hi! Excuse the blogging break, just been super busy with making 90 wedding invitations and being a mummy - all good stuff! :-) I'm back to share these cards with this Christmas jumper stamp set from Stimson Says Stamp - I love these stamps!! Totally up my street! I'm planning on using up a lot of my christmas patterned paper stash with these, and these are the first 2 of many!

The first one is using this weeks Sketch Saturday sketch along with this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge of Kraft card and the current Merry Monday challenge of Non traditional colours. I thought the blue & gold from this Bo Bunny pad was an interesting option.

The second is also for the Simon Says Stamp and Merry Monday challenges but this one is using the current Wanna Sketch? sketch. I hope you like them! Thanks for looking!

Supplies;
First card - 
Papers - Bo Bunny 'Snow Day'
Stamp - Simon Says Stamp 'Ugly Sweater'
Sentiment - Simon Says Stamp 'Holiday Labels'
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Crumb Cake' & 'Baja Breeze'
Stencil - Simon Says Stamp 'Falling Snow'
Die - MFT 'Let it Snowflake'
Other - white ink & natural twine
Second card -
Papers - Bo Bunny 'Snow Day'
Stamp - Simon Says Stamp 'Ugly Sweater'
Sentiment - Simon Says Stamp 'Holiday Labels'
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Crumb Cake' & 'Crushed Curry'
Embossing - Cuttlebug folder 'Snowflakes'
Other - white ink & white embossing powder

Snowflake card

Hi! Me again! I'm here with a Christmas card today to add to my woefully small stash of them, best get cracking! I've used some gorgeous glittery paper and gems from the Winter Woodland collection available at Buttons for Brains. I almost didn't use this paper as I like it so much - only a sentence that would make sense to a crafter! ;-)
I've used the new MFT sketch along with this weeks Merry Monday challenge of Spots and/or stripes, and also the current AAA Cards supply list challenge of vellum, glitter, a stamp, a holiday and kraft. I stamped these gorgeous MFT snowflakes onto vellum with glittery powder to give them a floaty look, it's hard to photo but really pretty in real life. I also used the same embossing powder for the sentiment and the spotty vellum panel under it. I hope you like it, thanks for looking :-)

Supplies;
Paper - Dovecraft 'Winter Woodland'
Stamps - My Favourite Things 'Snowflake Splendor' & Mama Elephant 'Basic Borders'
Dies - My Favourite Things 'Snowflake Splendor'
Sentiment - My Favourite Things 'Stitched Stockings'
Cardstock - Neenah 'Desert Storm'
Other - clear gems & Wow! embossing powder 'Sparkling Snow'

Sparkly pink christmas card

Hi! I'm back with a card I've made using some of the gorgeous new Gilded Winter papers from Buttons for Brains - they're beautiful!! I've also used one of the wood veneers from the Winter Woodland collection, normally not a pairing I'd use but I flipped the veneer over to the plain side, smooshed it in VersaMark ink and covered it with embossing powder to match the papers. Then a generous helping of gems & pearls to make a girlie Christmas wreath :-) All this was inspired by the current Festive Friday challenge photo, and the layout is this weeks CAS(E) this Sketch. I've also used the top line (Sparkle, Patterned Paper & Embossing) of this weeks Merry Monday challenge. Thanks for stopping by :-)

Supplies;
Paper - First Edition 'Gilded Winter'
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Pink Pirouette' & Neenah 'Desert Storm'
Wood veneer - Dovecraft 'Winter Woodland wooden shapes'
Sentiment - Simon Says Stamp 'Small Folded Banners'
Embossing powder - Wow! 'Metallic Platinum'
Other - adhesive pearls, pink gems & natural twine

Celebrate!

Hiya! Happy Saturday! I'm back with a quick post to show this card I've made. It's for this weeks CASology challenge of Rainbow, I love using rainbow colours on cards! It's also for this weeks Merry Monday Birthday challenge and the Simon Says challenge of Anything Goes. I love that they have a summer challenge for kids, I can't wait for Elsie to enter them! :-) Jamie's already said he's going to lose his computer desk in my craft room to her! Hee hee! He's right!
I made this card by first stamping out all the candle images then cutting the sentiment straight into it. I then cut the sentiment out 6 more times and layered the letters up. I hope you like it! Have lovely day, I'll be back later this weekend with a card for Buttons for Brains.

Supplies;
Stamp - Papertrey Ink 'Wishes come true'
Die - MFT 'Celebratory Greetings'
Inks - Stampin' Up 'Rich Razzleberry', 'Cherry Cobbler', 'Real Red', 'Calypso Coral', 'Pumpkin Pie', 'Crushed Curry', 'Daffodil Delight', 'Pear Pizzazz', 'Garden Green', 'Island Indigo', 'Pacific Point', 'Baja Breeze', 'Wisteria Wonder', 'Perfect Plum' & 'Elegant Eggplant'. (Phew!)

5th Birthday card

Hi again! I'm back with this card I've made for my nieces birthday. It's not until December but I had to go with the idea when it struck. She's going to be 5 (or number 5 as she tells us!) and her fave colours are pink and purple so hopefully she'll like it. I've made it using this weeks Retro Sketches sketch, Merry Monday Birthday challenge, Seize the Birthday Anything Goes and also this weeks Addicted to CAS which is Celebrate. Thanks for looking!

Supplies;
Cardstock - Hobbycraft
Sentiment - Paper Smooches 'Sentiment Sampler'
Dies - Papertrey Ink 'By the Numbers', 'Suffix Style' & 'Hello Sunshine'. Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Journalling card' (stars), Simon Says Stamp 'Holiday Shapes' & Nestabilities 'Circles' & 'Squares'.

Christmas Flowers!

Hello! I hope you're enjoying the start of a long weekend (if you're in the UK). I'm back again today with another card. There's a few floral challenges about, one of which is a Christmas one so I thought I'd break out this Poinsettia die I haven't used in a while. I inked up the veins of the petals using the die itself and the matching ink to the cardstock. There's also some gold mist on the cream panel, hopefully it shows in the photo. I've used this weeks Merry Monday theme of Flowers along with this weeks Wanna Sketch? and Just Add Inks Colour theme challenge. I'm also going to enter in the current CASology challenge and Paper Players challenges, both of which are Flower/s. Phew, that's a lot of challenges! I hope you like it though, thanks for visiting! Have a great weekend!

Supplies;
Die - Spellbinders 'Poinsettia'
Paper - Simple Stories 'Handmade Holiday'
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Baked Brown Suagr', 'Cherry Cobbler', 'Garden Green' & 'Naturals White'
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Cherry Cobbler', 'Garden Green' & Delicata 'Golden Glitz' 
Sentiment - Papertrey Ink 'Framed Out #8'
Other - Heidi Swapp Colour Shine mist 'Gold Lame' & gold glitter dot

'Tis the Season

Hiya! When I said on my last post I was starting 2014 Christmas cards, I didn't actually mean I was going to be making them all now! But then I was inspired by a couple of challenges and I've made this card. I saw this weeks Less is More challenge of Round and Round and imagined a circle within a circle, nothing else was coming though. Then today I saw the new Merry Monday challenge of Mistletoe and 'ding!' ;-) I've used this weeks Dynamic Duos colours again, although this time with Real Red as my second colour. Thanks for looking!

Supplies;
Dies - Circle Nestabilities & CC Designs 'Mistletoe'
Cardstock - Stampin' Up 'Real Red', 'Garden Green' & 'Naturals White'
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Real Red' & 'Garden Green'
Sentiment - Papertrey Ink 'Think Big Favourites #21'
Other - Natural twine & adhesive pearls