April Rudolph Days

Nearly the end of April already and time again for the Rudolph Days Challenge. I was lucky enough to go to a Craft Show at Farnbough at the end of February, before social distancing began. I saw the die and stamp that I have used for this card on a very similar card on one of the stalls there. The die is from Precious Marieke and called Winter Flowers and the Stamp was from Nellie Snellen stamps called Deer In The Forest. I started by cutting out my frames 4 in silver mirri card and 4 in gold mirri card I then cut out 8 pieces of white card the same size as the frame. Then using a stamp press I stamped with black ink all 8 pieces the same. I then took some double sided sticky sheets and again cut them to the same size as the frames and stuck one side to the stamped image. I then removed the other side of the double sided sticky sheet and placed the frame over the top then covered the whole topper in irridescent clear glitter, this then gives the whole scene a frosty/misty look. To finish I used an A5 white card base and a sentiment die from Sue Wilson. They were really quite easy to make. As normal Maureen has got a wonderful prize for one lucky person to be picked at random. So do go and take a look at the inspiration for you this month and even join in with the fun, you can start your stash for this coming December or add to one you have already started.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which always appreciated.
Take care and stay safe everyone
Sue

Cake, Cupcakes And Sweets At Allsorts

My card today is for the Allsorts Challenge, which this week is Cake, Cupcakes and Sweets. I found this lovely image on The Makey Bakey Mice CD from Crafters Companion. I printed the topper onto some glossy photo card and the backing paper onto super smooth paper. After cutting the backing paper to size it was stuck onto a 6x6 card base with some ribbon wrapped around the middle. With the small piece of ribbon that was left over I tied a knot and stuck it onto the ribbon. I added the topper with a little glue gel to lift it slightly, made the sentiment on the PC and colour matched to the image. Then I punched some small flowers from a piece of the left over backing sheet and a Tonic punch and inked with a matching ink pad, before adding some pearls to the centres and some small leaves from a Nelli Snellen punch.

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

Sue

Rudolph Days

Wow the months are certainly whizzing by, I can't believe that we are almost at the end of August already. My cards below are made for the Rudolph Days challenge using some Lili Of The Valley stamps. These were a gift from a friend who had visited a Car Boot sale, saw these and bought them for me. There are about 20 stamps in all, many never used. About half of the stamps are Christmas stamps, so they were the perfect choice to use this month.

I've used small square card bases for the cards and backing papers from  Crafters Companion snowman CD for the top 3 cards. The stamped images were coloured with pencils.

 I used a spellbinders die to cut the images, then drew around the same die and cut out by hand for the matting. All of the sentiments are made using Lili Of The Valley stamps from my stash and these are also mounted on a spellbinders shape.

For this bottom card I used a sheet of paper from a Bebunni  paper pad also by Crafters Companion. I also cut this image out using a Nellie Snellen die. The small poinsettia flowers are made using a Marianne die set.

As I made 2 cards using each image I have another 8 cards to add to my stash.

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

Sue