Happy Christmas

Well I'm almost finished now, just the housework to do and tidy the craft room if there's time. I just wanted to wish all of my followers and visitors a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you for all of the wonderful comments that you have left over the past year, I really do appreciate them.

Sue

Pixie's Snippets Playground

Whoa, where has this week disappeared too? Christmas Day is rushing up too fast, I need it to slow down a little please. I still have so much to do before the big day arrives. I did find time to make this Birthday card to enter into Pixie's Snippets Playground, using some new dies from Tattered Lace. There was a CD which came with the dies , so I printed off one of the backgrounds and placed onto an A5 black card which I had gone around the edges with some blue and gold gilding wax. Next I cut out of some scraps of black card that were in the box, the Steampunk owl and cogs. Again I went over them with the same gilding waxes to give them a shine before popping them onto the card. The Happy Birthday stamp is from Chocolate Baroque from one of many sets that I have. This is now winging it's way to someone who's birthday is between Christmas Day and the New Year. No time for sitting around, must get on with some more Christmas prep.

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

Sue

Not A Christmas Card

I've finished my Christmas card makes for this year, so when I saw the current challenge over on the Butterfly Challenge blog this month, which is All Kinds Of Fairies, Elves, Gnomes and Pixies, I thought I would make something and join in. I've not taken part in this challenge before, I can't think why not, because I love butterflies and make quite a few cards featuring them. Anyway this morning after Hubby took our grandson off to visit his Great Granddad I got the inks and stamps out and made this card. All of the stamps I've used are from Lavinia and the background has been created using good old Distress Inks. Time to clear everything up now before they come home and want to know where lunch is.

I would also like to enter this card into the Fashionable Stamping Challenge, which at the moment is Anything Goes.

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

Sue

Pixie's Snippets Playground

Wow, where has the last week gone to, it's just flown by. I had cards to post but not enough time to post them. After the rushing around during the week I spent yesterday making 12 gift boxes. Earlier this year I bought a gift box die from Tattered Lace with the intention of making these boxes for Christmas day. I've made 6 green and 6 red and then alternated the colours for the matting (also cut out of the box dies). All of the gold embellishments and gold matting were cut from scraps from my box (I was able to use up loads of the silly little bits around the top of the box, the bits I just can't bear to throw away) and then backed the parcel and bauble dies with the off cuts from the main boxes. The images are all from Joanna Sheen's Hollypondhill CD, I took the images into MCS and re-sized them to fit. Now the only thing left to do now is to fill them. And of course enter them into the challenge over at Pixies Snippets Playground.

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

Sue

Pixie's Snippets Playground

I didn't think that I would have time to make anything for Pixies Snippets Playground this week, but I finished the washing earlier than I expected (still have the ironing to tackle yet) so I had a quick rummage in the box and soon found a piece of black card and a piece of white linen card. I knew that I had this die handy so set about making this quick and easy card. I cut out the die with the black card and with the white I blended some distress inks in orange hues, trying to recapture the warmth of last week. I drew around the outside of the die and cut around the inside of the pencil line to fit the background behind the die, this was mounted onto a 6x6 card base. The stamp comes from Chocolate Baroque and the Die from Lavinia Stamps.

 Below is a group photo of all but one of us on the family holiday, eight of us from the UK and twelve from Canada. This was Tulum Mexico.

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

Sue

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Christmas

Wow, what a shock to my system this cold weather is, I've been sunning myself in 25c or above in Mexico for the last week. We arrived home yesterday morning with the announcement on the plane that "the good news was the sun was shinning the bad news was it was -1c". I have finished the washing and had to post this card now so that I would be in time to take part in the Allsorts Challenge which closes tomorrow. I've used Tattered Lace Charisma Robin Redbreast for this card along with some Christmas Tree tuck ins and Holly dies cut in gold mirri card, also from Tattered lace. The backing papers are from My Craft Studio from one of the Christmas CD's

Just a quick post for now as I have dinner to cook, something I've not had to do for over a week.
Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue