March Rudolph Days

How time flies. It is time again for the Rudolph Days Challenge. Maureen has a wonderful prize for the person who is chosen at random, all you need to do is to take part. One Christmas card made however you want, just pop across and join the fun. I decided to use this stamp by Sheena Douglas for my card this month, after stamping in black ink I then set then to one side to colour later. But the more I looked at them the more I like just the Black and White images, so in the end I decided to leave them as they were. I stamped directly onto a 6x6 card blank and added the Merry Christmas sentiment. Normally I try to get around to everyone's blog who takes part in the challenge. I love to see what you've all made. This month however I am going to be away from this morning 25th March through to the 1st April, so I apologise now as I know I'm going to be in a dead zone with no internet for the week. As always I made more than one for my stash.

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

Sue

New Baby

 My post today is a little bit photo heavy, but I wanted to show you this Album that I made from a recent Facebook Live class that I took with Clare Charvil from My Creative Spirit a couple of weeks ago. It was made for the newest member of the family, baby Kensa. Who was born to a cousin in Cornwall. I used papers that I printed off from a downloadable kit from Nitwits called Baby's First's. Clare's Facebook classes are great fun and easy to follow along too, this was from class 29 called The Eliza Double Album. I'm going to pop across to the River Of Creativity Challenge blog and join in this month. They are asking for Anything goes but NOT a card.

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

Sue

 

Hand Coloured

 The current challenge over on the Allsorts blog is Hand Coloured or Paper Pieced. As this card that has been made for our nephews Birthday next week has been hand coloured I thought I would pop across and join in the fun. The stamp used is one that I bought as a set recently from Crafty Individuals, I fell in love with the set as soon as I saw it and knew that I had a home for this particular pack of dogs. It was fun to stamp and colour, if only I had used my Stamp platform to stamp the sentiment instead of just using a stamping block it might have stamped better.

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

Sue

February Rudolph Days

Wow, where did February go to. It's the 25th already so that means it's time for another Rudolph Days Challenge. As always Maureen has a beautiful prize which some lucky person will be chosen at random to win. For my cards this month I have used left overs from 4 albums that I made before Christmas (3 of them were for Christmas presents) using the Graphic 45 collection Let It Snow. It was such a beautiful collection to work with and I saved all the pieces that I had left, some of them were quite large and I even had a couple of Ephemera cards left which I mixed with some smaller cut out toppers and borders. I managed to make 4 A5 cards and 4 A6 cards and I still have a little bit of the paper left, I might even manage to get a couple more cards out of it. As I have used left overs for these I thought I would pop over to the Snippets Playground this week and join in the fun there too, it's been a long time since I was last there. Everything except the card bases was made from off cuts of the collection.

 

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

Sue

 

CAS Card

It's been a long time since I made something to enter into a Challenge, with the exception of Rudolph Days. But the challenge this week over on the Allsorts blog is CAS with the option of Elegance. I didn't go for the elegance but did manage to make a CAS card using an A6 card base from my stash and a stamp and stencil from Lavinia Stamps and the sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque. I started by using one of my brushes and a stencil, the ink was what was left on the brush from a previous project, then I over stamped with one of the new Lavinia Stamps before adding Just A Note. I don't usually do CAS so this was quite a challenge for me not to carry on adding more and more to it.

 

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

Sue
 

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

Happy Birthday

Another year has come and gone and now we start a new one. At least we are not in lockdown this year, although we might as well be with all of the warnings they are giving us. Any way that is not why I'm here. This year I want to get my Mojo back and to start blogging more regularly, let's hope that I can keep it up. My first card for this year was made for my Crafting Friend who's celebrates her Birthday at the end of December. For her card I used Carnation Crafts Lots Of Love collection. I love the richness of the colours in this collection, so different to the other collections that have been coming out recently. I used a 7x7 card base along with one of the coloured card stock and matched it to the colour of the flowers. After matting with some white card and a backing paper from the collection I printed onto a sheet of white card and lined the die up so that the sentiment would be visible. The flowers have about four layers to them and the humming bird two. I'm pleased with how it turned out and am glad to say that my friend loved it.

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

Sue
 

Using A Die

 I subscribe to The Tattered Lace Magazine and have done since they started the subscriptions. Every month I receive the magazine and a Die along with papers to match. The die on this card was on the front of the November issue of the magazine and was just too nice not to use straight away. So I made three identical, very simple A6 cards and used two layers of the die cut images on the front. It just so happens that the Allsorts Challenge blog this week are asking that you use Die Cuts on your cards. So I am going to pop along and join in the fun.

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

Sue

October Rudolph Days

Wow what a year and its flying past so quickly too. Well it's the 25th of the month again and time for another Rudolph Days Challenge. Only one more to go this year. As normal Maureen has a wonderful prize for the person chosen at random but you have to be in it to win it. 

My cards this month were made with Carnation Craft's Dies and I will admit to casing the idea of popping a scene into the middle from someone on Facebook. Unfortunately I can't remember the ladies name and was unable to find it again to give her credit. But if it's you and you are reading this thank you for the great idea. I used Joanna Sheens CD of Thomas Kinkade, I'm sure that you'll agree that they go together so well. I really enjoyed building up the decoupage on these cards too. I made two of each of the designs this time but I'm sure that I'll be making more. Even if it's for next year rather than this one. I do hope that you can pop across and join in the fun this month at the Rudolph Days Challenge.

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

Sue

Embellish It

 Well it's been super busy around here the last couple of weeks. Between clearing Father-in-law's house, making the Orders of Service for the funeral and the Birthday cards that are needed to be made there is hardly time to draw breath. This is one card that I did make, for our Daughters Birthday last weekend. I used the Carnation Crafts Above the Clouds Collection and the beautiful Butterfly. I also used the gorgeous Flourished Floral to embellish the bottom of the stand which was a limited addition die from Carnation Crafts. The sentiment is from Robert Addams. I'm glad to say that she loved it. I'm going to join in the Challenge at Allsorts this week which is Embellish It and also CD Sunday which is Anything Goes.

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

Sue