Star Gazing

First of all I want to apologise for not doing Favourite Five this year, its been a hard year struggling with even wanting to make cards, must do better next year.

I like to say this is my final Christmas Card but I nearly didn't have enough this year, so I will continue making them I rather have too many and this little mice was already coloured up and waiting.

The papers are last years Doodlebug and I'm using an old Memory Box landscape die along with their stars. Favourite sentiment from Simon Says Stamp and so are the rectangle, circle and banners. Not forgetting the flower soft and funflock mixture for the little chaps hat.

I would like to take this moment and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a toast to absent family and friends.

Make it Sparkle

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Gift It Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

We would like to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous 2017!

We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher

This week the challenge is

Make It Sparkle 

This week we are showcasing Hero Arts Products.  You don't have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

I make sure well in advance that I have new showcasing products for Simon Says Stamp but its obvious many of you love the same things I do because there Hero Art Coffee Mugs Tags are out of stock. But you could still use a coffee cup stamp or die with a decorative stamp to make the same effect.

I use the Hero Art stamp onto red card with Versamark and used Enchanted Gold Embossing powder.
I stamped the mug on red card for the top and bottom and white card for cream topping. I didn't buy the dies so I had to fussy cut but I always use a Distress Pen Pumice Stone round the edges to hide my rubbish cutting out.

I see you love the Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia but I did use the sentiments from this set because it made stamping the sentiment easier when you can stamp with different colours and not have mask any off.

I used a Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles for my sentiment and used the Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia Parade die. The pearls and gold ribbon I found in my stash but the papers are Echo Park I Love Winter.

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting 

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leftovers

Everybody Art Challenge are on their Christmas Break but I do have a card made with leftovers. These papers were all that was left of this pack so I made use of them. The sentiment my favourite this year.

Fun Foam Snowflake Simon say Stamp and the coloured one Lawn Fawn and that was it just wished I made loads of these. Must do better next year maybe try to join some Christmas challenges but didn't I say that last year!

Winter

Gosh I'm really late, I had planned to schedule yesterday, but best laid plans and all that. As you can see it didn't happen.

But I'm here now and this is my Mid Month card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, have a horrible feeling that this is the first time this year I've used this cute Penny Black stamp.

The papers are some Stampin Up papers that I've had for ages and I fancied a change from red and green or purple. The snowflakes could be Lawn Fawn since I've had a tidy and many of snowflakes have been put away.

I was going to stamp the sentiment directly to paper but instead I've fishtail banner hiding the cock up behind it! I really must remember to stamp before adding to the main card.

The dots of snowflakes are Liquid Pearls and the snow under his feet I used a Wink of Stella to help it glisten.

Igloo

I made this card the other week and when I realised I wasn't going to be well enough to card make I knew it would work for this months Mo's Dream Blog Hop.

The cute image is called Igloo and I purposely used it knowing it was easy to colour. The large word die is from Simon Says Stamp as is the sentiment. The tiny snowflakes are Lawn Fawn since they have been living on my desk these last few weeks.

The paper is Echo Park and I used my Fun Flock and Flowersoft mixture for the trims on the Eskimo's clothes.

Now you should have arrived from my lovely team-mate Gaynor and you need to Hop Skip and Jump over to another lovely team-mate Daria.

If you get total lost check out the Dream Team Blog where you will find the whole Blog Hop Run.

A couple of Hedgies

My poor blog is suffering, a sad reflection that I'm struggling with Card Making. Tiredness and missing mojo is having an effect.

But I did manage a couple of really quick Penny Black Christmas Cards. This Hedgie stamp doesn't have many parts to layer. So I used a Simon Say Stamp Stiched die and a Nestabilities to make the red mat round it.

Stitched Rectangle die for the Doodlebug Christmas paper from last year or maybe the year before. Foam Snowflakes which I think I used the the Lawn Fawn ones simply because they were on hand.

Favourite sentiment from Simon Says Stamp and the stitched fishtail banner from Simon too just fits the sentiment.

This time I used a Stitched Square die with the odd strips to make my patterned squares but used a cutter for the mats, the square dies all seemed far too big.

I've now given up making Christmas cards, there's one on my craft desk to finish and thats it.

  

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Ice Inspiration

and the lovely Jenn Shurkus has made us this gorgeous mood board to give us some inspiration!  

This week we are showcasing My Favorite Things Products.  You don't have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

If you need inspiration for Christmas cards look no farther than the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Inspiration Board. I saw Ice and My Favourite Things and decided it was time to use Snow Capped Mountains die and their Mountain Range die.

I also used Simon Says Stamp Hills and Slopes and yes that is the Simon Says Stamps Christmas Toys sentiment.

Then I used my favourite technique that works so well with My Favourite Thing Pure Innocence, Paper Pieceing. I've used the Ice Skater apologies that its out of stock but this technique works well with most Pure Innocence stamps. The papers are Doodlebug Polar Pals, do love the nontraditional colours.

Back to my craftroom I'm short of Christmas cards, luckily these will be hand delivered so they can be as lumpy as I want.

Snowflake Tag

I needed to make a tag for the Everybody Art Challenge, I rarely make tags unless forced so I decided to make one to match the Christmas paper I've brought.

My wrapping is silver foil with white snowflakes so that was my inspiration and it doesn't look much but I did make ten of them.

I found the largest die of a snowflake I owe which is the Simon Says Stamp Funky Snowflake which is three inches wide. I then used a stitched circle die which in my case was Simon says Stamp and cut two for each Snowflake and sandwiched the Snowflake in between.

I then gathered all my snowflake dies together, yes it quite obvious I really don't need anymore! Out of them all I found one that fitted into my circle, another Simon Says Stamp Snowflake called Maryanne. A sticky back gem and a bit of silver thread to finish. Although making a hole into one the snowflake branch was a bit tricky so I made a slit with a sharp craft knife, my ten snowflakes turned into nine.

Here'e the reverse to show there is plenty of room to write on.

Finally my two very busy weekends have ended with a visit to BIL with my two adult children in tow. Feeling a bit fatigue and fragile but still have some Christmas card to make and few other things to sort out.

Skating Hedgies

Scary but this is the last challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge, well this year anyway.  Our last challenge of the year is Winter/Christmas.

I've used my skating Hedgies, they fairly new so haven't been used enough but do feel if you made a school report about my cards it would say Could do Better. Luckily my Hedgies are cute and so is the Doodblebug paper.

I added a fence before layering my Hedgies, does make it tricky to match with my base image since most of it is hidden but got there in the end.

Snowflakes are Simon Says Stamps Stitched Snowflakes and the sentiment is a very old one its a clear one whose packaging as long since disappeared. The punches are Stampin Up ones still going strong.

Can you believe I haven't made a card at all this week, crashed and burned after my busy long weekend which was expected hope to get in there next week at some point once I get over this weekend another busy one.

Clean and Simple

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Christmas To Die For Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher

This week the challenge is

Anything Goes

This week we are showcasing Concord & 9th Products.  You don't have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

When choosing products for our DT card I always try to get something that I know I would use again. This Mistletoe die from Concord and 9th I knew would be a good addition to my craft room.

 Initially my first thought was to colour the die cut which would be very unusual for me to do. Time was against me and I went for the striking red and white that also looked elegant too.

I actually cut twice and cut some 3D Foam to fit the slim and wasn't that brilliant matching up but it did look more natural. My mistletoe berries I used Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls since there was quite a few berries.

Although there is bow on the main die you get a separate bow which you could cut out in a different colour but since only red would suit my card and it would disappeared into the red backing card I made it in white.

All that was left was a fabulous sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Christmas Toys and it had to be stamped in Versamark and WOW White embossing powder. I did use a dust buddy first before stamping it helps the white powder not sticking where it shouldn't.

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting 

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I in the middle of two busy weekends, last weekend started on Friday to the Historic Docks Victorian Christmas Fair, Saturday I had a crop, Sunday I took it easy and on Monday I went to the Making of Harry Potter in the Snow. I'm having a week of card making and taking it easy ready for the another busy weekend and then life turns to normal till Christmas I hope.

Packaging

The new challenge on Everybody Art Challenge is for packaging wasn't quite sure what that meant but I hunted down for my Sizzix Matchbox die and made three boxes.

Found some gold ribbon to hold them together. Rather than a gold bow I found my Creative Expression Ivy die to cut out Ivy so it could drape over the sides. In a different green I used a Holly die, I think possibly my holly could be Paper Smooches, its not Memory Box because the ones I have, have faux stitching.
To finish I some red berries pearls.

I was really pleased how it turned but its tiny and rather than put a present in the boxes it would be ideal to hang on the tree.

Believe

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Christmas Critters Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Christmas To Die For

Use any die cut on your creation and if you don't have one you can use a punch instead. The main thing is to make something for Christmas and have fun!

We would also like to wish all of our friends in the United States a Very Happy Thanksgiving. We hope you have a lovely time with your family and friends.

This week we are showcasing our very own  Simon's Exclusive Products.  You don't have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

I've worked out my settings on my camera is wrong or I've reduced the pixels too low because when I make the cards large they're all fuzzy. This is my busy time at the moment and I've got to get well in advanced with my DT cards along with my Christmas Cards, with that in mind and with the help of Simon Says Stamp dies I made some Clean and Simple cards.

It just so happens I have the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Believe die and stamp Set, this set will work all the year round, in fact its coming with me on Saturday to the Scrapbooking Crop I go to. I have the perfect picture for the die. I used the Simon Says Stamp Aubrey and the tiny snowflakes are Simon Says Stamp Stitched Snowflakes

I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Rectangles, this set get so much use.

I originally used Memory Box Star of Wonder but since we are showcasing Simon says Stamp made the others using snowflakes. I cut the stars and snowflakes out of silver foil card and I stamped the sentiment using  a grey inkpad.

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting 

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Winter Fairy

Its sketch time this week at Everybody Art Challenge, I had to move the image mat slightly to work with the image.

The papers are some old Penny Black ones and I've used some dies which are slightly larger than nestablities to make my background circle. It just so happened the snowflake border arrived in my my craftroom along with the replacement of my Stitched Banners, the missing ones have never been found.

You know I love this sentiment from Simon Says Stamp and the glitter swirl is using glitter card and a Penny Black die. There was no point adding much more because the you wouldn't see the pretty snowflakes on the patterned card.

Flippin' heck I forget to say that my image is Winter Fairy Halla from Mo Manning

Christmas Tags

I failed miserably at the beginning of the month with the Anything BUT a card for this months Penny Black Saturday Challenge. It's still a bit of cop out but for the mid month reminder I've made some tags!!!

I first cut out the tags using Simon Says Stamp Dressed Tags die till I was bored. I actually used a stamp a ma jig to stamp the Penny Black Snowflake and Holly because I wanted to stamp part of the image and leave enough space to write on. I stamped using a green inkpad and used my Polyochromos to colour in circular motion because the inkpad wasn't the right type to use sandsador and paper stubs.

Here's a link to a card with the stamp in its entirety and here is a link to a card I made that inspired my tags.

That is pretty much it, just added some red gingham ribbon and 15 tags done. I've made these for the Christmas Fair at Queen Elizabeth Nursing Home next week.

The staff really make this special not only for visitors but the residents love the party atmosphere. Although the funds raised goes to charity my sister is having a stall and the money raised will be for residents activities. My sister is a volunteer helper so more residents can join in the activities so she knows how much a few more pounds to their small budget would be gratefully received.

Tim Holtz Treeline

I've busy of late but not with making cards, yes we have been Christmas Shopping and we are almost done. This is because in a weeks time I have so many things going on we know I will suffer after its all done.

So in between time I've been trying to keep up with DT cards and making Christmas Cards. It just so happens that I go my hands on Tim Holtz Tree Line die  and make a few quick cards. Well it would be quick if I didn't decide on using the snow falling stamp on the Be Joyful and  WOW white embossing powder.

Once the snow was done it was fairly easy to put them together add my favourite sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Christmas Toys. Using fun foam I cut out the Aubrey Snowflake and the using the blue card cut out one of the Stitched Snowflakes.

I made about 6 of these, that is usually my limit, wonder what I can do next that will be as quick.

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Thanks/Thanksgiving Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Christmas Critters

This week we are showcasing Stampendous Products.  You don't have to use them for the challenge but if you have them we would love to see them used.

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

  

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I'm stalking the postman, my Simon Says Stamp parcel with the Stitched Banners I've brought to replace the ones I've lost are in it and I so wanted to use them for this card whats the betting it will come today.

So today Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge are showcasing Stampendous and how could I resist this Wonderous Christmas Kitten.

I used the Simon Say Stamp Stitched Squares to give my Kitten a frame to put his paws on. The papers are Doodlebug Here comes Christmas. I've used the Simon Says Stamp Wavy Scallop Border to give interest and hide my join of my two papers.

Using the green paper I stamped the holly of the kitten to paper piece the leaves on the hat and I used Memory Box Stitched Holly Leaves.

Instead of using my favourite Christmas Sentiment in a Stitched Banner I used the Simon Says Stamp Winter Snow die with fun foam and the wishes are from Christmas stamp set. To finish I used some glitter on the hat and pom pom.

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting 

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