More Festive Flurry with Frosted Finishes Embellishments.

Here's a similar card to yesterdays, but in a different colourway with different embossing.

Colour combo is Gold and White

 Festive Flurry  and Greetings of the season stamp sets used with Encore Gold ink pad.

Stylish Stripes Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

Frosted Finishes Embellishment for snowflake centre.

Another CAS card.

(If you needed to post this card, you could substitute the centrepiece with 

either a gold brad or a Basic Rhinestone and it would still look good.)

Wonderful Wreath

Here's a card that I made using another one of those stamps that I wasn't sure of -

now that I have used it , I know that I made the right choice.

Colour combo is Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and White.

Stamp is Wonderful Wreath - inked in Garden Green , then fussy cut out.

A small piece of Red Glimmer paper is glued behind the wreath, then this is stuck onto 

a sheet of paper from the Season of Style DSP stack.

in turn glued onto a mat of Cherry Cobbler card stock on a White base card.

Cherry Cobbler 1" Stitched Edge Grosgrain ribbon carries the greeting

from the Greetings of the Season stamp set. 

Basic Rhinestones coloured with a Stampin' Write Marker pen to match.

On a roll!!

Yes folk - I think that I am on a roll with my Christmas card production !

Here's another card that I made with Chris last week - love it!!

Colour Combo is Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler and White.

The mittens are cut with a punch which is sadly retired - I couldn't bear to part with it

as these mittens are so cute!! The embossing folder is Stylish Stripes

and the sentiment is from Greetings of the Season stampset.

Snow scene

Came across a snow scene whilst browsing Pinterest this morning, and was keen to have a go,

especially as there was a tutorial on how to do it

HERE 

This is my effort

I am quite pleased with this!!

Colour combo is Island Indigo, Black and White.

Stamp set Lovely as a Tree

and sentiment from Greetings of the Season.

What do you think??

Stampin' Up! UK Creative Tour Swaps

This evening I am off to Leeds to attend the Stampin' Up! UK Creative Tour event in Leeds.

I am going with my SU mummy Julie and really looking forward to it.

There will be other Demonstrators there and it's so good to get together, 

there will be plenty of fun to be had!

Here is a sample of the swaps that I made.

Cardstock:  Bermuda Bay, White, Brushed Silver

Winter Frost Designer Series Paper Stack

Stamp sets : Greetings of the Season. Snowflake Soiree

Silver and Turqoise Embossing Powder

Ornament Keepsakes Framelits Dies

Inkpads:  Versamark, Bermuda Bay

I'll post some more tomorrow.

Bird Builder Punch Christmas wreath

I do like to utilise my stamps and punches and so love to use an item for something

other than it's original purpose.

I received a swap a couple of years ago of a wreath made out of the wing 

of the Bird Builder punch, so I thought I would give it a try with up to date papers and colours.

The colour combo is Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wassabi and White.

the stamp in the centre is from Snowflake Soiree

The sentiment is from greetings of the Season.

The papers are from the Seasons of Style DSP Paper Stack in the Autumn Winter Catalogue.

Once again I have used the fabulous Frosted Finishes Embellishments

for the centre of the snowflake.

Another Christmas card using non-Christmas stamps

This is what I made yesterday

Colour combo is Real Red, Old Olive and White.

Stamp set is Daydream Medallions - stamped and then cut using

the matching  Floral Frames Framelits.

A knot-less bow made from Real Red 1/4"" Grosgrain ribbon tied with white Bakers Twine.

Sentiment from Greetings of the Season. 

Greetings of the Season

Chris has been over today to spend a few hours crafting with me.

This is the Christmas card that I made.

Colour Combo is Gumball Green and Cherry Cobbler on Very Vanilla card

Sentiment from Greetings of the Season stamp set.

Papers are from the last Autumn Winter Catalogue - Festival of Prints DSP stack

(the new A/W Catalogue launches 1st September)

Red Glimmer Paper Bauble die cut with the Holiday Ornament framelits

Gumball Green 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon

All producta Stampi' Up!

And another non Christmas stamp Christmas card.

Here's the second of three cards that I made at Chris's yesterday

making a Christmas card with a non Christmas stamp.

A very quick and easy card to make -

Colour combo is Night of Navy, Soft Sky and White.

I used Delicate Doilies stamp set, inked the images in Versamark 

and then heat embossed them with White embossing powder.

I then inkdusted over the paper with Night of navy and Soft Sky ink.

I then buffed up the card with a paper towel,

which took off the excess ink and made the white pop out.

The Sentiment is from Greetings of the Season stamp set and I inked

one of the doily images up with Soft Sky.

Simple white grosgrain ribbon, fastened with a knot completes the card.

Love it!!

3 quick cards

Well I am way behind with my Christmas cards, so I am concentrating on the ones that have to be posted.

Because of the price of stamps, I am having to make all my cards for posting flat - 

so they can't have ribbons and bows and jewels so I try to make them just as pretty,

usually by sprinkling with Dazzling Diamonds or shimmer spritzing them!

Here are three I have just finished.

As it has been so foggy and dark today I am afraid that the photos aren't very good

and you can't see the glitter on them - never mind, the recipients will!

Products used (all Stampin'Up) :-

The backround paper used is Snow festival DSP.

Stamp sets are Delightful Decorations and Greetings of the Season.

Riding Hood Red card stock and ink, plus Whisper White card stock.

Dazzling diamonds Glitter.

White on White

Today I have tried a white on white card and am quite pleased with the result.

Colour combo - white with a smidge of Silver

Sentiment from Greetings of the Season,

Northern Flurry Embossing Folder

Dazzling Diamond Glitter

(All products Stampin' UP)

Can you guess who this card is for??

Rosemary's Card

Here's another card made by one of my Tuesday Crafting ladies - Rosemary.

She chose to make this card having been inspired by another card that

I received as a swap at Quarterly Training - this one by Barb Pyner from Canada no less!

(All products are Stampin' Up unless otherwise stated)

Colour Combo is Gumball Green, Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler.

Stamp sets Ornament Keepsakes and Greetings of the Season.

Framelets Holiday Ornaments Die used to cut out bauble.

1" circle punch for centre of bauble.

Be of Good Cheer DSP cut with Decorative Label Punch.

Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder

Cherry Cobbler bakers Twine.

Basic Pearl.

The finished card was spritzed with Champagne Mist Shimmer.

Northern Flurry

Here's a CAS Christmas card that I really love.

Colour combo Baja Breeze and Whisper White.

I dry embossed the Whisper White layer in the Northern Flurry Embossing folder.

I then used Baja Breeze chalk on top of the embossing to make the snowflakes pop out.

The sentiment is from the Greetings of the Season stamp set stamped in Baja Breexe.

This  is then layered on top of a mat of Baja Breeze, on top of a White base card.

Et voila - clean and simple - but so effective!.