CD Sunday - We Are Sailing

Here I am with my next scheduled post. You've had two weeks since the last CD Sunday challenge and hopefully now that Christmas is over you'll all be ready for a new one. This week it was my turn to choose and I've gone with We Are Sailing. So I want to see your cards with ships or boats or even rafts. For my card I've used By The Water's Edge form Card Creations Plus. I started with an 8x8 card base, and printed my topper (decoupage of course) and the backing paper. I mounted the backing paper onto some silver mirri card, and also the topper after I had cut it out. The decoupage was put together using glue gel. Before putting the topper onto the card I placed some twine around two of the corners. I finished by adding Birthday which was cut out using the Plantin School Book cricut cartridge. I hope you'll pop over to the blog and take a look at the wonderful cards the rest of the DT have made for your inspiration, and I will be picking the top three when I return from my trip in mid January.

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

Sue

Craft A Scene - Week 3

I'm back again with my second scheduled post toady, this time with my Craft A Scene hat on. We are still asking for your Winter Scenes, with the option of making a tri shutter card (details over on the blog). For this card I made my background first by blending Tumbled Glass and Chipped Sapphire distress ink over the page. Then I stamped with versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder. The stamps used were all from Sheena Douglas, and the Little Bit Scenic range, apart from the sentiment which is from Chocolate Baroque. Do pop over to the blog and see what the DT have made for your inspiration this week.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - The Three D's......

... DL, Die Cuts and Decoupage. It's time again for another new challenge over on the CD Sunday challenge blog,  and this time chosen by Carol. For me this is the first of a batch of scheduled posts, as for the next month I shall be in Florida, today getting ready to board a Cruise ship. For the next week we'll be Island hopping in the Caribbean, followed by a week in Orlando. This is for a Family reunion, the family of my Daughters fiancee. There will be 100 plus people on the cruise and 40 plus people over Christmas. On the 29th December everyone departs for their various homes, and hubby and I have decided to stay on and enjoy the winter sun returning on the 16th January. Anyway back to the card, this week I've used Messy Rabbit's Christmas from Joanna Sheen. I printed my backing paper straight onto the card and folded for the DL. Next I cut out and added my decoupage which was put together with glue gel. My die cut is Happy Christmas, which is a Robert Addams die. I'd forgotten I had this disc until I was looking for decoupage to fit onto a DL card, it's worth visiting some of the older discs from time to time. I do hope you'll pop over to the blog and take a look at all the great cards the DT has put together for your inspiration this week.

I hope to keep in touch while we are away, Internet permitting. Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Snowy Village

Just a quick post today, as I'm rushing around trying (but not succeeding) to get a mountain of things done. I made this card using a digital image from Delicious Doodles , a beautiful snowy black and white sketch which I just had to colour. I used a mixture of inktense and aqua pencils to colour it in, before adding loads of glitter to make it sparkle. I used an 8x8 card base, some red card for matting and I embossed the backing paper in an embossalicious folder from Crafter Companion. I then blended Peeled Paint distress ink over the top, but it doesn't look very green in this photo. I put the topper on with some foam pads, made the sentiment on the PC and added a Poinsettia made with a Marianne die. Delicious Doodles have got some wonderful Digi stamps, if you've not seen them before it's worth taking a look.

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

Sue

Snowflake Swirl

I think I have just about finished my Christmas cards now, and they are all written out ready to be posted. I needed to get them all finished this week, as we are going away for Christmas, I'm hoping to blog while I'm away Internet permitting off course. This is one of the cards that I made, by blending Tumbled Glass and Chipped Sapphire distress inks onto some white card. Then I used the snowflake swirl stamp from Chocolate Baroque around the outside of the card with versamark and embossed with a white sparkly embossing powder. I then stamps a sentiment also by Chocolate Baroque in the centre. I finished them by adding some tiny blue gems in the centres of the snowflakes.

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

Sue

Inspired By .....

Eileen's Crafty Zone. I love Eileen's work, and have been lucky enough to attend a couple of her workshops. The card that I'm showing you today was inspired by Eileen and what I have learnt at her workshop. I had great fun making this yesterday, splatting (Eileen style) and getting inky, blending and stencilling. The stamp is Tim Holtz, which came with a set of dies which made cutting out the snowman so much easier. The ladies attending Eileen's workshop this coming weekend will be make a card using this stamp (this is where the inspiration came from) do pop over and take a look at Eileen's blog, her work is amazing.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations - Winter Wonderland
Creative Inspirations - Contemporary Colours
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Free and Easy
My Craft Creations - Anything Goes

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

Sue

December Quintiles

I've been up for what seems like hours already this morning, were having a new boiler fitted. So I needed to be up ready for when the plumber arrive nice and early. I know it's only 9.10 a.m. at the moment, but it's not what I consider early and they're not here yet. Anyway enough moaning about that and onto the reason I'm here. This morning I wanted to share my December Quintiles with you (I've made them both the same so I'm only showing one). Those who follow regularly will know that on the Chocolate Baroque group, there are a few of us who make these little 5x5 tiles and swap them every month. December's is the last before we move onto something new next year. I stamped with versamark and then embossed with white embossing power to start with, them blended distress inks in Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky's across the card. I then stamped the scene stamp onto some card with Midnight blue Stazon, then cut around the outside and mounted it onto the tile. I added some gems to the centres of the snowflakes. After swapping two tiles every month, I've now got a beautiful collection of 22 tiles and another two to come. I have given some thoughts to what I'm going to do with them all and have decided to place them all in a scrapbook, they're far too good to leave tucked away somewhere.

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

Sue

A Bit Late - November Quintiles

I've just posted my December Quintiles ready to be swapped later this month, when I remembered that I had not shared my November tiles with you. I was a bit stumped to start with, but after thinking about it for a little while this is what I came up with. I coloured my night sky with a deep blue (I can't remember which), then stamped and embossed the tree's with black sparkle embossing powder. Then with the top of a stamp from the Wistreia Lane set from Chocolate Baroque, first with versamark ink, then I added embossing powder. With the smaller flower head I again stamped with versamark and a different embossing powder. I made both of the quintiles the same so I've only posted the one here.

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

Sue

Craft A Scene - Winter Scene

I'm back again for the second time today, this time with my Craft A Scene hat on. As it's the first of the month it's time for a new challenge. We had lots of gorgeous card to look at last month. This month we are asking for your Winter Scene's also with the option of making it a Tri Shutter card. The information for this will be on the blog. For my card I used stamps from Hobby Art, I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and then added the colour using watercolour pencils. Mounted the scene onto some silver mirri card and then stamped the sentiment with versamark and embossed with silver embossing powder. The rest of the DT have made some beautiful scenes for your inspiration this month, I hope you can pop over to the blog and take a look.

I'm also going to enter this into the following challenges:

Ladybug Crafts - Christmas/Winter
Stamping Sensations - Free and Easy
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
 Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

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

Sue

CD Sunday - Home Sweet Home

This week has flown by so fast, I can't believe that it's Sunday again already and the first of December at that. Which also means that it's time for a new challenge over on the CD Sunday Blog. This week it's Beryl's turn to choose the theme, and it's Home Sweet Home. For me that meant that it was the perfect excuse to get out Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade project book (I also had an order for a card where I know that the recipient of this card is as nuts about Thomas Kinkade as I am). I started with an 8x8 card base and then used silver mirri card for the matting. I cut out my layers of decoupage and glittered each layer before putting it together with glue gel. The poinsettia is a Marianne die which I cut out one of each sized layer in a pearlised white card, and one in silver. and the sentiment was made on the PC. Do pop over to the blog and take a look at the gorgeous cards my fellow teamies have made for your inspiration.

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

Sue