Sunday, 22 November 2009

No Christmas stamps or backing papers

Entering this card into Winter Wonderlands Challenge over here
The challenge was to make a card without using a Christmas stamp or backing papers .
I have cut the snow flakes and embossed the cards with the Cuttle Bug
Mounted them all onto Silver Mirri board then blue card stock all from my stash
Blue ribbon and merry Christmas tag added .
Made a nice change from stamping

Blue and Silver dancing snowmen

Making good use of this set of stamps and enterting into Lexi's Creations
Blue and silver challenge over here
The front of this 8 x8 card is Acetate, and i have dotted some silver snow flakes( Anita's ) onto it The ribbon along the top is silver with blue Let it snow lettering .
The background paper is from my stash .
The sentiment on the bottom front of the card is stamped in silver and the Happy Christmas inside stamped in blue .
Do hope this fits the Bill for Lexi's first ever blog challenge

Monday, 16 November 2009

Celebrations

Made this card for my brothers 50th birthday
The decoupage image is from Kanban , the happy birthday letters are done with shrink plastic and the banner is from GCF
I am entering this into Crafty Ann's Celebrate challenge over here

Christmas hug

Entering this wee cutie into the Cute Daisy May Touchy Touuchy Challenge here
I have made an Easel Card ,they are so nice to make.
I used a digi image, coloured with Promarkers, embossed the Nestie's shape added Red Stickles to the holly berries .
Sentiment is stamped and the large holly leaves are stamped and cut out with red gems for the berries . The holly on the base card is stamped , the backing paper on the front of the card is from the Forever Friends Christmas paper pad

Friday, 6 November 2009

Demo Cards

I can finally show what i have been working on this last week or two .
These cards were shown this am on Create and Craft .
The stamps are the new Deco- rate range from Dimensions Fourth in Barnsley .
Aly the owner ( and my amazing craft tutor ) has a few of us ladies make her demo cards for the show . and lucky me got all 5 shown ,
Its a real buzz to see them up there on the screen i can tell you
Ive been itching to post these but of course couldn't till after the screening .
I Will have to crack on now and get my Christmas cards finished , and what orders i have, started .
Some year i will be ahead of my self for Christmas . Certainly not this year lol.





Sunday, 11 October 2009

Just how many cards can you create from 1 set of stamps ?
That was a challenge set by my tutor at card class the other week .
The dancing snowmen stamps were supplied by Dimensions Fourth , in Barnsley where i craft every Saturday ., and are this months club stamps .
I managed 8 but these are the best of the bunch .
Will have to concentrate on Birthday cards now as i have 5 mens to do for November , and no inspiration for any of them lol.
Hope you are all well out in blog land and thank you all for taking the time to comment on my work , they are greatly appreciated




Sunday, 27 September 2009

Well the holidays are over and its back to some serious crafting for me.
This card was made at craft class yesterday . A new set of stamps from Dimensions Fourth and a new style of card for me too,
the flowers on the side spin as they slide up and down
I can see me doing quiet a few cards using the side step template
Also got some very new Snowmen stamps from Ali which im desperate to use, so watch this space .
Hope all you ladies out in blog land are well