CD Sunday - Think Of A Number

This week the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Think Of A Number, and my number is 2013. I was half way through making my 2013 Calender when I saw what the challenge was, so it was the ideal thing to enter this week. For the calender months I've used Denis Lewin's Four Seasons CD, picking 3 images to use from each of the seasons. Then for the cover I've used Craft Artist 2 and a background from one of the sets which I then covered with fireworks, next I placed one of each of the pictures I've used for the calendar on to the front and used one of the distressed edges on the pictures to make the pictures softer. I apologise for the poor quality of the photo, but the natural lighting is terrible today.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and all of your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - All About Birthdays

I didn't think that I would get this made in time, but I think I've caught it, just. Over at the CD Sunday blog this week it's All About Birthdays, and just after New Year it's my nephews, wife's 40th, so this card is for her. I've used Joanna Sheen's Josephine Wall Project Book for this one, starting with an 8x8 white card base. the decoupage is mounted onto gold mirri card and put together using glue gel. The matching backing paper is also mounted onto gold mirri card, and I've made a ribbon rosette with some lime green ribbon (it looks paler in the photo) and placed across the middle. The die cut corner is a Marianne die, and the 40 today was cut using the Plantin cartridge and the Cricut. I decided not to add the Happy Birthday to the outside and have left it for the insert.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Seasons Greetings

Just time to post one last Christmas card, and this one is to wish all of you out there in blogland a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope that those of you in the UK keep warm and dry over over the festive period and are not effected by the floods, and to anyone outside of the UK I hope that you are not suffering the adverse weather conditions that we seem to be getting here at the moment.

Thank you to everyone who has stopped by in the last year and taken the time to leave comments, I really appreciate it.

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2013.

Sue

Santa

I think I'll just manage to enter this card into the My Time To Craft challenge this week, with not a lot of time to spare. I thought I had finished making Christmas cards, but was asked if I had time to make a Santa card for a friend for her Son. I've used Joanna Sheen's Giordano Christmas CD, which has some lovely Santa images on, including this one, which has been decoupaged. The backing paper is also from the CD, and the sentiment was made using the PC. I've used green mirri card to mount all of this onto and an 8x8 white card base. I have finished by using 2 trees cut from a Marianne die.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

It's been a good two months since I last took part in the Craft A Scene challenge, but this month I've managed to make a Winter Scene to join in. I think this must be almost the last Christmas card that I've had to make, and it's for my lovely Mum. I've stamped onto glossy card, using stamps from Chocolate Baroque, the church from the Sunburst Scenes and the trees from the Terrific Treescapes, the stags both the small and the large are from Indigo Blu, and lastly I used the branch and thistle from the Little Bit Scenic Range by Sheena Douglas, available from Crafters Companion. I've used a range of blue ink pads all from Ranger, some Adirondack and some Distress to colour the scene just adding a little promarker in browns for the Stag and the Church with some green for the evergreen tree and bushes beside it. I finished the scene by adding the snow which was achieved by using a Sakura jelly roll pen in white, and added lots of stars to give the feeling of it being bright and frosty.I mounted the image onto some matt silver mirri card, the backing paper is from the Seasons Greetings CD by Artylicious, available from Chocolate Baroque, this was also mounted onto matt silver mirri card. It was all popped onto an 8x8 navy blue card base.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Teddy Bears

This Weeks challenge over at the CD Sunday blog is Teddy Bears. And this week I very nearly didn't do a Christmas card, but as I had another to make and there were some lovely images on the new Best of La Pashe CD, so I'm afraid that Christmas it is. A quick run down of the card is Topper from La Pashe, backing paper is from Bearly Mine and was a free sheet to download, sentiment is computer generated, the ribbon from my stash and die cuts from Marianne and Crealies. All of this was put together on an 8x8 card white base with gold mirri card for the matting.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Christmas Rose

This weeks Challenge over at My Time To Craft is Non Traditional Colours, and at In The Pink it's Gonna Be A Pink Christmas, I think that this card will fit both of those challenges. The stamp is the Christmas Rose Script set from Chocolate Baroque, stamped out three times with Memento black onyx, and coloured using water colour pencils. I cut into two of the images so that I could decoupage them. The background was made by blending spun sugar and seedless preserves distress inks and then over stamping with the small flower from the set using the seedless preserves. The sentiment has been stamped using the seedless preserves and all of this was mounted onto some holographic silver mirri card. The wide ribbon I've used was some that I've had in my stash for a while, and is the type that has wire in it.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Back in October, when I was running around like a headless chicken, I saw a card on a blog, and knew that I wanted to make something similar. The blog in question is "Mir'acle Art Inspirations" and is owned by the very talented Miranda (do go and look at her beautiful work). There was only one problem the stamp that Miranda had used, I didn't have. Luckily for me a couple of weeks ago they were on offer at Chocolate Baroque, so I popped them in my basket straight away. I'd like to thank Miranda for the Inspiration for this card.

This card started off as an 8x8 white card base, and the backing paper was made using Sprinkys spray inks, that were sprayed onto my glass cutting mat and then the card dropped on top of the wet ink. Once dry I've stamped onto it with a holly background stamp also available from Chocolate Baroque, and using a snowflake and swirl stencil from Imagination Crafts I stippled through it with White Gesso, finally I went around the edges of the card with peeled paint distress ink. The background was then mounted onto some gold mirri card and then some green card, before sticking to the Green card I placed some red ribbon from my stash across the middle. Next I stamped out the Poinsettia 4 times, and after colouring them in with Aqua pencils, I cut out three of the layers, missing a little out each time so that I could decoupage it together. Again I used the peeled paint distress ink around the edge of the card, before sticking it onto some more gold mirri card. Finally I added a sentiment, this time one from Indigo Blu, again edged with peeled paint distress ink.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges
Ladybug Crafts - Christmas and/or Winter
Artistic Inspirations Crafts - Anything Goes

Sue

CD Sunday - Frosty Days

Today's card is another that I have been asked to make for someone, and it's just right for the challenge at CD Sunday this week, which is Frosty Days. The card started with an 8x8 card base, and Joanna Sheen's Giodano Christmas CD. I printed the backing paper (which has this lovely holly wreath already printed onto it) and mounted it onto some matt silver mirri card. Next I printed the topper from the decoupage section of the CD, and put together using glue gel. It was mounted onto first some blue mirri card and than some more of the matt silver. The sentiment is computer generated and then passed through my foiling machine. As this is for a child I have not put any embellishments onto this card.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Huge Blog Candy From Craft Individuals

The Crafty Individuals Blog has some amazing Candy up for grabs at the moment, worth £150. Take a look a the picture below, or better still follow the link and take a look at their blog. I shall keep my fingers crossed, after all someone has to win it, don't they.

Sue

CD Sunday - Oh Christmas Tree

This week the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Oh Christmas Tree, and this is the last of the batch that I needed to make for MIL. This one will go to our Nephew who is a single parent, bringing up two very boisterous boys on his own, I have to say that he is doing a great job as well. I started with an 8x8 cream card base and Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade project book and CD. I printed off the backing paper and mounted it onto some gold textured card that I had in the cupboard, next I printed off the decoupage, and mounted the base onto some more of the same gold card. I put the decoupage together using glue gel, adding glitter to the pieces that were going to be on the top. The sentiment was generated on the PC and the colour changed to match the card. I've finished with a small poinsettia from a Marianne die and the leaves were from a crealies die.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue