Merry Chistmas

Well I think I'm about ready now, we're off to my daughters in-laws for dinner tomorrow then I have everyone coming to me on Boxing day. So once this is posted I'm off to sit down in front of the TV. This is similar to one I posted last month but the colourway if different. The flowers have been made using Heartfelt Creations dies and the sentiment is from Crafters Companion all put together with silver mirri card and white card stock onto a 8x8 card base. I shall take myself off to the Allsorts Challenge with this card as the current challenge is Seasonal Flowers for the next two weeks. All that left to be said is I hope that all my followers and visitors have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I look forward to seeing you all again in 2018.

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Sue

More 75th Birthday Cards

Today I thought that I would show you the two cards that I made for my friend, for Mother. For both of these cards I used Tattered Lace designs and Charisma dies. The first uses the free die off of the front of the Tattered Lace magazine from last month (Issue 48). This card follows one of the tutorials to a certain extent too. I started with a 8x8 card base and used green card stock for the matting, and printed off one of the pretty papers for the backing paper. I then printed the beautiful Fuchsia several times and cut them all out with the die. I cut a hexagon from green card and then cut in halve and done the same but smaller in white and layered these to make a basket. I drew some lines from my basket to the top of the backing paper to make it look like the basket was hanging. The sentiment that you can see was printed straight onto the backing paper and I added a bow to the top of the card too. Then it was just a case of layering up the fuchsias as though they were hanging from the basket.

The next card uses flowers and backing papers from the Magical Midnight Watercolours from Tattered Lace and My Craft Studio along with the Lotti Dotti Square from Tattered Lace. Again I printed the sentiment onto the backing card before cutting out with the die. Although you can't tell from the photo the flowers has 4-5 layers.

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Sue

75th Birthday

Wow the last week or so has just flown by and there is still so much to be done before the big day next week. Recently I was asked if I could make birthday cards for a friends mother who was turning 75 last weekend. When I say cards he wanted 5, one for wife, two for mother and 2 for Nan, his mother is also a friend so I also needed to do one from us too. Here is what I came up with for Wife. I used Heartfelt Creations flowers and leaves against a distress inked background. The sentiment is a Tonic die. Just a quick post from me today as there so much still to do.

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Sue

Seasons Greetings

I'm just popping in today with a card for the challenge over at Addicted to Stamps this week which is Seasons Greetings. This card uses a stamp from Clarity Stamps designed by the late Jayne Nesterenko. I stamped onto watercolour card and then used aqua pends to colour the image. I'm also going to enter this card into the following challenges.

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge, which is Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra, also Anything Goes

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Sue

Snowflakes And Pixies Snippets Playground

My card today covers a couple of challenges firstly the Allsorts Challenge where they are asking for Snowflakes on your cards. Then Pixies Snippets Playground where you must include scraps or snippets on your card  (I stamped and embossed Christmas onto a scrap piece of card) and then finally Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge which is anything goes with the option of sparkle. I used an embossing folder from Sheena Douglas to make this card, coloured the background with blue distress inks and then used silver gilding wax lightly over the top. Mounted it onto some silver mirri card and then a white card blank.

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Sue

Pixies Snippets Playground

With all of the cutting of papers for my last post, needless to say there was a lot of bits and pieces that have found their way into the scrap box. So it was only natural that I would would reach for them to make something for Pixies Snippets Playground this time around. Everything except the card base has come from leftover Graphic 45 papers from the seasons collection. The sentiment stamp was from a set by Crafters Companion.

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Sue

Results Of The Graphic 45 Workshop

You may remember me saying recently that I attended a Graphic 45 Workshop held by Clare Charvill (My Creative Spirit) in Kenilworth a couple of weekends ago. Well last weekend I finished the project that I started. We had a choice of projects that we had to pick from before the weekend and I chose to make the Seasons project. When we arrived and were given our projects, they came in a bag and looked like a jigsaw puzzle, it took all of Saturday to put the storage box and albums together. At this stage the storage box had papers on it but the Albums didn't.

Sunday arrived and we started to add the pages to the Album and to decorate them. I concentrated on getting one Album decorated rather than trying to rush and get them all done. Even so I still only got the front and middle pages finished and part of the back page.The rest were finished at home.

So far I've not added any photos to the Albums but I do plan to (maybe over Christmas).

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Sue

Winter Trees Or Flowers At Stamping Sensations

I was so lucky in October and my card was pick as the winner over on the Stamping Sensations Challenge blog, I won a lovey prize of  a £25.00 Voucher to spend at Stamp Addicts and also asked to be Guest Designer this month. The challenge is Winter Trees or Flowers and my card was made using stamps from Card-io. I stamped everything in black either with first or second generation stamping and then covered with a double sided sticky sheet and then sprinkled with iridescent glitter. I mounted onto some silver mirri card and an 8x8 white card blank. The design team over on the challenge blog have made some amazing cards for your inspiration this month do please pop over and take a look. The prize this month is a lovely bundle of goodies from Stix-2.

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

Sue