January Rudolph Days

Today see's the start of another Year of Rudolph Days over on Scrappymo's blog. This is a great challenge which runs from the 25th of each month until the end of the month and Maureen always has a wonderful Christmas Themed gift for the winner that is chosen at random. It's also a good way to kick start you Christmas cards, I tend to make a small batch each month so I don't have to rush nearer to December. Anyway onto my cards for this month. I've used a mixture of Carnation Crafts and Tattered Lace for my cards. The larger lacy die and base is from Carnation Crafts, while the Polar Bear and Penguins are from Tattered Lace. I also used a Tattered Lace USB with some Christmas scenes on for the background and Creative Expressions for the sentiments. I do hope that you can join in the fun on at Rudolph Days.

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

Sue

October Rudolph Days

Wow, I can't believe that it's nearly the end of October already and time for the Rudolph Days Challenge. There's only one more now before Christmas. I have a selection of cards made using the Creative Expressions Papercuts Christmas Dies. I've used various backing with these cards, the top one is wrapping paper bought at Lidl, the second is Glitter card and the last one is Wall paper from The Range. All of the sentiments were made using dies from The Papercraft Boutique.

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

Sue

July Rudolph Days

Due to Maureen's recent visit to the UK July's Rudolph Days challenge is running a little late, from today until 7th August. So if anyone thought that they had missed the July challenge you still have time to take part. My cards this time have been made using the new Paper Cuts dies from Creative Expressions (I fell in love with the dies as soon as I saw them). I've cut them out in just plain white card but teamed them up with some wallpaper (yes you have read that right WALLPAPER) that I found while on a recent visit to The Range. They have it in several different colours and it on the expensive side, but hey they don't charge for samples, so I had samples in all of the colours they had in the store. I even managed to find some card in one of my drawers that matched the wallpaper so I used this for matting.

 I feel another visit to The Range in coming up soon.

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

Sue

Allsorts Challenge

This week the challenge over at the Allsorts Challenge blog is Let's Make A Start On Christmas. This is something that I have been doing since the beginning of the year, but there is still room for more. For my card I have used stamps and dies from Sue Wilson by Creative Expressions, which I bought at Ally Pally in September. I stamped onto some white card stock with Memento ink and then cut out and coloured the images using pro markers. Next I cut a square of white card and stamped a branch onto the card using Gathered Twigs distress inks. I then mounted onto some red and green card stock and finally onto a 7x7 white card base, then mounted the flowers and holly with glue gel. Finally I added the Merry Christmas which was a Crafters Companion die from the Traditional Christmas collection.

I am also entering this into the Perfectly Created Chaos challenge which at the moment is Anything Goes.

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

Sue xx

Rudolph Days Challenge

Wow the 25th of the month sure came around fast this time. I made my entry into the Rudolph Days Challenge at the end of last week, as I knew that today would be hectic. Not only do we have our Grandson for the day, but tomorrow we are up and off at stupid o'clock as we are going to Canada for a holiday. Still most of the bags are packed now just that last few bits to be added. For my card this time I have again gone for snowmen and this lovely stamp I picked up last September at Ally Pally on the Creative Expressions stand for just £3.00 (wood mounted). If I remember correctly it was originally  by Jayne Nesterenko. I stamped on to watercolour card and embossed with black embossing powder before using Aqua markers to colour them. I finished off by going around the outside with blue distress inks.

 As normal for this challenge I made a batch of 4, so my stash is growing every month. I normally like to get around and look at what everyone has made, my apologies for not being able to do that this month.

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

Sue

Lemon And Lime At Lavinia

Last weekend I paid a visit to the Creative Expressions show at Ally Pally, I had a great time and bought lots of new crafting goodies. But when I got home I had to have a bit of tidy up in my Craft Room before I could put anything away. Among my buys were these wonderful hares from Lavinia so when I got my stamps out this morning to make a card for this months challenge, I knew these were what I was going to use. The challenge this month is Lemon and Lime (I think mine is a bit more lime than lemon) and for this I used Distress inks in Lemonade and Shabby Shutters, with darker greens for the foliage. I finished by adding a sentiment from Chocolate Baroque. Now that my room is clearer I hope to have some more cards to share with you this week.

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

Sue

Craft A Scene - Ships In The Night

It's week three over on the Craft A Scene blog and our theme this month is Ships In The Night. For this card I've used stamps from Creative Expressions for the main image (the Ship) and also the map background, I also used the sea stamp from Stampscapes. I stamped onto some glossy card stock and coloured the picture using Adirondack ink pads, making the moon by placing a punched circle onto the card before starting. I've using a 6x6 white card base and silver mirri card for the matting.

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

Sue