Rudolph Days

I'm here to share my first Christmas Cards of 2019, which is also my entry into this months Rudolph Days Challenge. I made my backgrounds using some Clarity card that I found in my cupboard and some Chipped Sapphire Distress ink blended all over the card. Then with a splatter brush and watered down gesso I splattered the backgrounds. I used a sentiment from Chocolate Baroque at the top of the card and then added my die cuts which were from a die that I found online and really very reasonable to buy. As it wasn't too large I was able to use up some of my gold mirri off cuts from the scrap box too.

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

Sue

Pixie's Snippets Playground

I've been rummaging through my scraps boxes again and made this card with what I found in there. The die cut lattice was cut out and coloured a couple of years ago and then abandoned as it didn't fit with what I was doing at the time. So when I found I all neglected I knew that I wanted to make something with it. I also found a piece of backing paper in another box that looked good behind it. I used an A5 white card base and some flowers that I inherited from my Mum's forgotten stash ( she stopped crafting last year and has passed most of her stash onto me). Smile was cut out using Sheena Douglas dies and coloured to match the trellis and the backing paper, again using scraps. I'm off now to see who's playing at Pixies Snippets Playground this week.

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

Sue

Another Album

I thought that I would show you another of the Albums that I made for Christmas, this one was using Graphic 45 Garden Goddess papers. I made two of these almost the same, one for my Sister and one for my sister-in-law. I must admit to having the bug for making these at the moment and have recently completed two more, but different styles. I used a corner rounder on the corners of the ephemera cards and I also made pockets in all of the pages with a pull out double spread for more photos to be added. The frames in the middle were made using the new Gemini foiler from Crafters Companion with acetate added so that a photo can just be slide underneath. This was all made using the Tonic memory book dies from both set 1 and set 2.

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

Sue

All Things Bright And Beautiful

This is a card that I started at Crafters Companion Craftaganza in November last year but didn't get around to finishing it. However the other day while moving some stuff around in my craft room I found it and decided to finish it for a friends Birthday. It's now been received so I can show it here and because it's nice and bright I shall pop along to the Stamping Sensations Challenge blog and join in there this month. I used the Spectrum Noir ink pads for the colour and the butterfly is from one of Crafters Companion's sets too, the foliage stamps are from Lavinia.

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

Sue

Dreams

Well I don't know where this week disappeared too, I can't believe that it's Saturday already. My card today is for the Butterfly Challenge which this time around is the letter K with the colours being Kobe, Kobi and Kelly Green along with Kraft Card, Kite and Knot it. My colour (which has all come from the scrap box) is Kobe and Kelly Green along with Knot it. I ordered the beautiful new dies that The Paper Boutique bought out recently, which this time was all about butterflies. So it would have been rude not to have tried one out for the challenge. I have also used a sentiment from Crafters Companion and added a knot in ribbon to match the colour.

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

Sue

Anniversary Cards

Today I though that I would show you the other two cards that I made using the Kanban dies and toppers set. The first is a card to my Husbands Nephew and his wife who are going to be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in a few days time. As they don't read this blog I know I'm safe posting this here now.

 This second card is for My daughter and Son-in-law who celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary on 1st March. The backing paper/card was also in the set so matches the background of the topper on this second card. Both of the cards are 8x8. As I said yesterday I don't normally buy kits, but I have to say that this one is quite beautiful.

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

Sue

Snippets Playground

The last couple of weeks my Mojo went for a walkabout and I found it very difficult to get motivated. However a little bit of snow and it came running back again (I'm glad to say). The other week on Create and Craft Kanban had some lovely looking dies, they came with a card kit as well. Normally I don't buy kits as they just stay sat in a box unused. But this weekend I decided to get one sheet out and make it up. This card was made using the smallest of the elements on the sheet, die cut using the die with the set, as are the top two layers of matting. I needed a background to put onto the card, so I went to one of my many boxes of printed papers (these have been either cut down or discarded after being printed for one reason or another) and found this which matches perfectly. I didn't even need to cut it to size, just pop it onto the top of a piece of silver mirri card. As I used a scrap or left over piece of backing paper it gives me a good excuse to pop over to Pixies Snippets Playground this week.

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

Sue