Snow Globe Christmas Card

Hello again!

Here's a card I made with the new Snow Globe stamp from Darkroom Door:

The window gave me an opportunity to create a shaker card and use some of my sequin collection.  Here's a close up:

The reindeer and most of the stamps in the background inside the snow globe come from the Christmas Reindeer stamp set.

It was so easy to cut a window from this stamp, I can see myself creating a few more shaker cards in the near future. I'm not limited to Christmas themed cards - I'm thinking a terrarium or fishtank might be cute......

Thanks for stopping by!

 

MIchelle Lupton's Case me a Christmas Card Challenge

 It was lovely to get a message from Michelle Lupton asking me to once again be part of her annual challenge.

Michelle creates a card inspired by one of mine and vice versa. I love seeing all of her invited guests in the build up to Christmas.

This is the beautiful card of Michelle's I chose this year:

I loved these elements especially:

- ink blending (Michelle's is seamless!)

- stars/sparkle

- the strip of intense colour across the card with all of that gorgeous white space to emphasise it.

Here's my spin on it:

Instead of stamping and embossing the stars, I chose to stamp using Darkroom Door's Starry Night Background stamp and use a mist of water instead of ink. Because I used Distress Oxide for the ink blending, when I stamped with water it dissolved the ink and I was able to lift it off with an absorbent paper towel.

I found a scrap of holographic cardstock and cut the words (Simon Says Stamp die) and the strips, then added some adhesive gems for extra sparkle.

And because I can never stop at just one when I'm inspired, here are another couple of cards:

Here they are all together:

Thanks for looking, and don't forget to pop over to Michelle's blog to see which card of mine she cased and to follow all of her wonderful crafty happenings.

CASE me a Christmas Card Challenge

 The lovely Michelle Lupton has her annual challenge running again. 

This year she's hosting a bunch of cardmakers from around the globe, and our challenge is to case one of her creations from her blog.

Michelle's take on one of my cards can be found here. 

This is the beautiful card I chose. You'll find it here on Michelle's blog:

What I loved about it that made me want to case it:

• the colour scheme is awesome
• love the repetition of stripes of colour
• love the subtle glitter effect on the word JOY

Here's what I came up with:

I used Waffle Flower's Nesting Circles dies (there are heaps of circles in this set!), and the words are from an old Simon Says Stamp die set.

While I had everything I needed out, why make just one card when you can make five? Here we go:

The Merry Christmas stamp is MFT, the ink is Catherine Pooler's Skylight and I used Altenew's Transluscent Pearl embossing powder over the top of it for just a touch of sparkle.

The card above uses a Paper Rose Studio stamp set together with a Pinkfresh Studio die.

^The leaf dies and the stamp are from Paper Rose Studio.

...and last but not least, the deer head and the word 'merry' are Paper Rose Studio, and the Christmas die is an old Simon Says Stamp.

Michelle - thank you for once again including me in your annual challenge! A showcase of cardmaking talent from around the world is just what the soul needs after the year we've all had. Check out all of the amazing artists on Michelle's blog:

https://handmade-by-michelle.blogspot.com/

I love Michelle's blog - it is one of the most inspiring places on the internet.

Thanks for dropping in everyone!

A Challenge with Michelle Lupton

I was invited by the lovely Michelle Lupton to participate in her annual "Challenge me a Christmas Card," where she invites a guest to choose a theme and then we both create a card.

Seeing as it's Halloween today, I went with "Creepy Christmas." This gave me an opportunity to dust off some neglected but very much loved stamps from Stampotique to create this:

Stamps: Dwindled, Christmas Cubed by Daniel Torrente and Jill Penney, Web by Jo Capper-Sandon
Coloured with Copic markers. The Web stamp only covered half the card front so I have filled in the right hand side with a Copic Multiliner.

You can see Michelle's very creative take on the challenge here.

A huge thanks to Michelle for the challenge and chance to update this blog - six months is enough of a break I think!

Be Merry Christmas Card Set

Hi folks!

I'm back with another fun craft project and video for Craftie Cafe.

I made these using Lawn Fawn's Winter Big Scripty Words stamps and dies, and Ken Oliver Color Burst Powders. 

I love this Earth Tones set of powders - they have a spectacular and surprising mix of colour in each one. Check out Merlot:

Check out the video I made on You Tube.

Here's the list of Craftie Cafe products I used:

Lawn Fawn Winter Big Scripty Words dies

Lawn Fawn Winter Big Scripty Words stamps

Ken Oliver Color Burst Powder - Earth Tones set

Anti static pad

Thanks for stopping by today!

Christmas cards with a gift card pocket

Hiya!

The Craftie Cafe team will be showcasing Christmas project this month. Here's a couple of cards I made:

I used the Lawn Fawn Gift Card Pop Up die to create a pocket inside to hold a gift card:

As usual, I made a video of the process and you can find it here on YouTube.

Here's a list of the Craftie Cafe products I used:

Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid 12 x 12 Christmas Collection Pack

Wplus9 Be Merry Sentiments stamp set

Waffle Flower Wild & Free stamp set

Poppy Stamps Cute Fawn die

Lawn Fawn Gift Card Pop Up die

Distress Oxide: Peacock Feathers

Distress Oxide: Lucky Clover

Distress Oxide: Candied Apple

Thanks for watching! Don't forget to pop over and watch the video.

New Christmas Quote stamp from Darkroom Door

Darkroom Door have released another cute little quote stamp in time for Christmas crafting.

What a fun font! For my first sample, I have stamped this onto a gel printed background, then embossed with gold embossing powder:

 

You can see a little hint of the small Circles Stencil in the background there in blue:

 For my next project, I decided this stamp would be fabulous on a tag:

 and if you're making one, you'd might as well make many:

Here's how they came together:

Step 1
Scrape turquoise acrylic paint onto a gang of white tags using a palette knife or credit card. Leave lots of white space:

Step 2
Lightly sponge magenta acrylic paint through a stencil, concentrating on the white spaces left by the turquoise paint:

Step 3
Once this has dried well, separate the tags from each other and apply an antistatic pad, then stamp the quote using Embossing Ink. Emboss with gold embossing powder.

Step 4
Attach some coordinating lace trim under the quote. I used a sewing machine, but you could use glue, staples or a strong double sided tape.

Supplies list:

Darkroom Door We Wish You Quote stamp

Darkroom Door Circles small stencil

Gold embossing powder

Embossing ink

Thanks for looking. I hope you're having a wonderful day!

Dear Santa, I can explain!

Have you started your Christmas cards yet? I have kicked mine off with one of the new quote stamps from Darkroom Door.

I've used it on a couple of cards, but I can see it on scrapbook layouts, Christmas planners and notebooks.

Here are my cards - this first one has a sassy lady coloured with Distress inks and some script in the background:

On my second card, I stamped the quote onto some lined paper to give it the look of a letter:

 I used the new Fine Baubles set, embossed with copper embossing powder:

 Here's my supplies list:

Darkroom Door Dear Santa Quote stamp

Darkroom Door Just My Style stamp set

Darkroom Door Fine Baubles

Darkroom Door French Script Texture stamp

Distress Oxide ink: Iced Spruce

Distress Ink: Bundled Sage

Thanks for stopping by today!

Christmas Placecards with Chameleon Pens

Hi there crafty people! I have another project to share that I made using products from Craftie Cafe - a set of placecards:

 

Placecards are a nice touch for a celebratory/formal dinner,  and it's nice when the guests take their placecard home with them when they leave as a little memento of the evening.

I used Chameleon Pens to colour the names stamped with Lawn Fawn's Quin's ABC stamp set. I haven't used the Chameleon Pens in the traditional way - I have used the colourless blender to pick some colour up and apply it - much like a watercolour brush. 

Here's a close up :

Silver tinsel trim and some diamentes finish each placecard off.

I made a short video of the process and you can see that here on YouTube.

The list of products available from Craftie Cafe (and well worth checking out as most of these come with free postage!):

Lawn Fawn Quin's ABCs

Lawn Fawn Quin's Capital ABCs

Chameleon Pens Primary set

Chameleon Pens Colorless Blender

WPlus9 Stardust stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Stamped Background made with Little Stamps

Hello crafty friends!

Today I'm sharing a card and wrapping paper set I made using all those little stamps that come in sets that I never know what to do with:

The stamps are from Craftie Cafe - Waffle Flower Wild and Free and Lawn Fawn Happy Happy Happy.

Here's a close up:

It was so much fun working out which colour ink would go where. I have made a video to show some of the process - pop over to YouTube and watch it if you like.

Thanks for dropping in!

Gel Press® Gift Card Tags

I made a set of tags that hold gift cards - just what I need at this time of year for people who already have everything:

There's even a short video on YouTube for you to watch!

Thanks for stopping by!

Gel Press® Christmas Card Set

I made a set of Christmas cards as part of our November Video Frenzy:

You can see the video on the Gel Press You Tube channel, where you can find awesome videos from the rest of the creative team.

Thanks for dropping in today!

Another couple of Christmas Cards

I keep finding them!

KaiserCraft's North Pole range of papers:

Darkroom Door stamps with silver embossing powder sprinkled on for incomplete coverage:

Technique Tuesday stamps on embossed vellum:

Thanks for stopping by!

S'more Christmas Cards

Today I continue to share some Christmas cards I've made through the year.

This is a sticker, placed onto Jac paper, sprinkled with glitter then coloured with Copics:

Maggie Smith die, Darkroom Door stamps:

 Technique Tuesday stamps, Echo Park paper:

KaiserCraft stamp:

KaiserCraft (same set as the stamp on the card above)

PanPastels on Darkroom Door stamps:

This one was fun - my 10 year old made a bunch of these for her classmates:

Darkroom Door stamps - don't think I'll ever get tired of kraft:

Not long now - just a week to go until the big day......