Bauble Christmas

Another Christmas card thats in my drafts this time I used some Bauble dies from Simon Says Stamp with Glitter card.

The frame is another Simon Says Stamp but not sure its still available, I know its a bit tricky to make sure the bit of white on the R and A shows. I have to put a bit of acetate behind so I can stick them into their places. Since I did this card at a crop before Christmas I didn't bring any with me, so I had to use a plastic wrapper of some gems I had.

Bit of patterned paper and plain card stock to bring a bit more colour to a majority white card.

Last week was very busy, add a return of motion sickness for a day, no cards were made during the week but I did manage some DT work over the weekend. Just need to load them to the PC.

Crochet wise, the shawl I made with some Lion Brand Mandala didn't quite turn out how I wanted but I will get round to photo that. The Beach huts are still a WIP having to change my rice bags to stone pebbles but I have nearly all the stone bags stitched but an urgent project as interrupted crocheting.

Rudolph

I still have some Christmas cards in my drafts to post, this one of them using the Simon Says Stamp
Picture Box Deer Die and using the same layout as the cards I made a couple of years ago, I also used it last year for the Picture Book Santa die.

I think the papers are Merry and Bright from MFT for the card above and Pink and Main Frosty paper for the card below. I've used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circle die for the circle frames and the Stitched Rectangles for the main mat.

My Snowflakes are Simon Says Stamp Stitched Snowflakes and their Snowflake Border die. The sentiment is Simon Says Stamp Holiday Strip Messages and the snowflake centres are Doodlebug Glitter Sprinkles.

Winter Fox

My very good friend and team-mate made a fabulous shaker card using this fabulous Winter Fox image and she cut out  round part of the fox, I thought this was a brilliant idea.

So much so I had to do the same didn't actually make a shaker card, I used this Simon Says Stamp Winter Frames but I had to put a bit of acetate behind the word Christmas so I could add the bit of waste to make them look full letters.

The Christmas patterned paper was in my Christmas papers no idea where it came from and the little poinsettia was using Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia parade. I made blue snowy sky using Oxides and Snowflake stamp, a little bit of red twine and its done.

A bit of luck Mr Blogger will behave and post this schedule post. I shall be doing the last shop with Hubby, once that's done if we don't have it, we do without.

Family of Deer

I need huge amounts of inspiration for my Christmas cards this year, thank goodness for Pinterest. This card is based on the card below but I did it my way.

 First of all I didn't have a single stag deer but the family one from Memory Box so I carefully cut the stag. I didn't want to fiddle with ink and masking off so I found some snowy paper. I think this could be papers from LOTV. My stars are Memory Box cut out of glitter card and I cut the snowdrift using either slopes and hills from Simon Says Stamp or the MFT ones can't remember now.

                                                             

I couldn't throw the other part of the deer family so I made a similar card  using the same the dies. A bit of a confession the sentiments are peel offs on a fishtail banner from Simon Says Stamp.

Santa

Look whats been hiding in my drafts its Santa although the layout is based on this card I made a couple of years ago.

I've used the Picture Book Santa from Simon Says Stamp, its the first time using him and I need to work out the beard and hat. Now looking at it I think it work better if I cut the hat brim away from his beard.

I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle and their Wavy Scallop border dies and some Doodlebug Milk and Cookies paper. Both the sentiments came from SSS's Christmas Message Strips and finally some fun foam Stitched Snowflakes.

Last week, travelling upset my neck and shoulder and this week I've gone down with a heavy cold and sore throat just what I need. Worse still I haven't been able to crochet, any loose fibres make my throat worse so after a day annoying hubby all day I found something to do.

My daughter remembers me finishing the hand quilting part of this stocking when she was 10 she is now in her thirties. You are suppose to put the matching one to the back but my Sister who showed me what to do said to do them separately and put a plain backing that way you have two.

 Well this stocking has been waiting to be backed for 23years. Mainly because I had hoped my sister would do it for me but she wouldn't since she know I am quite capable which has you can see I am. So now I'm hand quilting the other one and luckily it doesn't make my throat worse and Hubby can sigh with relief.

Merry Christmouse

There was a bit more white snow at the bottom of this card but my sentiment went wrong so I chopped it off.

I've misplace my Simon Says Stamps slopes and hills so I've used MFT ones instead. I do think Mo Manning's Merry Christmouse is so cute. My mixture of flowersoft and funflock came out to finish off his hat.

The Memory box stars were cut using some glitter card and the holly is a Simon Says Stamp with some red pearls for berries.

Oxides Trees

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Ok this looked so much better in my head, still love my Oxides Trees I used the Simon says Stamp Christmas Trees dies and various green Oxides. I'm pretty lazy so I stamped the inkpad on a craft sheet and misted and splatter my paper in the colours. When I was happy I left them to dry and any white places I blended some more oxides on the patches.

I also used the Evergreen Circle  and the Stitched Squares from Simon Says Stamp but I also cute the Everegreen Circle on a piece of oxide out of the oxide paper I had made and carefully trimmed off the trees.

I finally used We R Memory Keepers Fuseable paper if I had know my camera would make the white even more creamy I perhaps would have used a cream card instead of white but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I place some double sided tape on some card and cut the Holy Stars from Simon Says Stamp die making sure the tape is the right side up. Once cut I added some glitter.

Sentiment is using the Christmas Strip Messages from Simon Says Stamp at least I did a good job of matching the colour of the background paper just wish I could remember what inkpad I used!

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Take Three

Sorry for being such a rubbish blogger but feeling a bit normal now and hopefully have more time to blog etc. More assembly line cards this time I've use one piece of 6inch patterned paper.

I cut out the Simon Says Stamp Alexis Snowflake die and the MFT Stitched Mod Rectangle both at the same time. You don't have to use these exactly but a decent size snowflake die and if you don't mind not having the faux stitching a corner punch.

Rather than waste the Snowflake I used the Mod Rectangle die and then used an old cuttlebug snow falling folder, here's a couple that are available today. A piece of silver twine to make a bit of interest.

There was enough pattern paper to make my Memory Box Mittens other makes are available. I also used the embossing folder and the My Favourite Things scallop border die with some glitter card.  I have to confess to make really quick sentiments I used some very old peel offs they are Woodware Francoise Read tiny ones.

No snowy pictures here just windy and wet.

My Way

You are probably cheesed of my assembly line Christmas cards but I'm pretty much made my cards now just need to find the time to write up a post for them.

When I received my Evergreen Circle from Simon Says Stamp, I noticed the trees were very close to the Memory Box Alpine Trees  so I had to use them. The stars are Memory Box Star of Wonder they are a bit smaller than the Simon Says Stamps Holy Stars.

The centre mat is made using MFT Stitched Mod Rectangle and the sentiment was one sitting on my desk I think it could be LOTV.

Got the Wreath

I finally got round to photo the card that I've used one of Mo's new images this one is called Got the Wreath. At the time of colouring I had packed my Christmas paper ready for the crop so I had to use non Christmassy paper but I don't think it turned out too bad.

The decorative circles are Spellbinders and you can just make out the teeny scallop border down one side which I think is a MFT die.

My Martha Stewart Holly punch is still holding on but its now hating certain types of papers. The tiny gems is from a chap on e bay that I buy in bulk but this was a bit of try out because they are 2mm which you can see are really tiny but work a treat on the wreath.

I've been away to visit Hubby's brother but the journey seems to have set thing off in neck and shoulders so I've had to rest, haven't even been able to crochet but seem to be on the mend now and managed a few rows.

Teapot Pudding

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I've been looking for a decent Christmas Pudding Tea Cosy crochet pattern, so Christmas Pudding Tea Pots are very much in my mind which would explain the my tag.

I made the teapot first using My Favourite Thing Tea Party die cutting the teapot first in scrap of brown card. Then I used My Favourite Things Stitched Cloud Edges, well one of the dies with white, once cut I then cut the teapot die again and basically stuck the white on top of the brown.

I was pleased with my teapot and it got my approval to make into a tag for this weeks challenge. So I got out the Simon Says Stamp Large Tag die and cut a tag out of some MFT Merry and Bright plaid pattern paper.

The sentiment was already stamped out and matted on red using Simon Says Stamp Christmas Toys stamp set. The fishtail ends were made using a square punch.

It just so happened that I had the Simon Says Stamp Holly Collage die had landed in my craft room and I used the die to make my holly and berries.

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Waste Diecember

Funny enough I love how this card turned out, I've actually used Simon Says Stamp Evergreen Circle die to make a moon.

To make my background I used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles on a bit dark blue card stock.
Then I used the Simon says Stamp Slopes and Hills dies, laid it out and then used the Stitched Rectangle to cut it out and then placed on the dark blue card.

The green patterned paper is some Doodlebug scraps that was left over from another card. The main white mat was cut using Simon Says Stamp Bundle of Shapes dies. Finally my Simon Says Stamp Retro Deer which I dotted it with a white pen and when that was dry, dotted it with a black pen.

The sentiment is Simon Says Stamp Winter Snow die and the wishes was from Simon Says Stamp Best Hugs stamp set.

DieCember

Its DieCember over on Simon Says Stamp and I was over the moon to receive Evergreen Circle die its made assembly line Christmas card so easy.

So to start with a made a shaker card cos I know people love them. First of I cut my mats using Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles and at the same time cut the Evergreen circle. A little tip using the Evergreen die use the hole at the top of the die when you are cutting the rectangle mat that way you tree's are pointing skyward!

I used Lucy Things Falling Snow but I noticed it's now out of stock but I've linked to page with lots to choose from.

Before I put it all together I stamped my sentiment using Simon Says Stamp Holiday Message Strips.
with a Silver Pigment Inkpad and WOW Silver Pearl Embossing Powder. The card is straight I just a wonky photographer.

This card is the same as above but I've used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Snowflakes and some Silver Glitter Card.

Navity

Its been Cyber Week at Simon Says Stamp  with some exclusive stamps and deals and I was lucky to be sent Joy to the World stamp set.

I made a sky and sandy background using Oxides along with the trees. I cut the background with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Oval die and the trees I used Simon Says Stamp Christmas Trees.

I stamped, coloured and layer the all the stamp images to make my scene, they are so dinky and cute but I lost the sheep a couple of times.

I was going to use Simon Says Stamp Stacked Stars die for another card but changed my mind but decided to use the waste stars for my card and to finish one of the Simon Says Stamp Holy Stars cut out of glitter card.

Today is the release of a batch of new dies just love the new snowflakes and penguins and loads of lush glitter card.

Giggling Snowman

I've worked out why my cards are wonky, well 0.5 wonky but none of my photo editing programs can deal with it so I guess I'm going to have to put up with it and stop moaning about it.

So lets get onto my card using the cute Giggling Snowman from Mo Manning. I've the colouring simple and I dotted the scarf with a white pen saves trying colour round them. I fussy cut a border round him since I knew he was going onto patterned paper and this would make he show up a bit.

I used my favourite Spellbinders Floral Oval along with Simon says Stamp Slops and Hills, the trees are Memory Box and the snow embossing fold is from Taylors Expression.

Snowflakes and sentiment both from Simon Says Stamp and the red paper is Doodlebug.

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Christmas Card Assembly

Now again my daughter as the need to go to Hobbycraft and she now rings me to see if I want to go. Lets be honest am I really going to say no. I don't usually buy much mainly glue, fun foam etc but I saw this lonely packet of wooden stag heads and I knew the the Newton Nook word stamp was winging it way from the US.

In the end I couldn't wait and brought it from a UK shop and the other one can go into a prize for later next month if I ever get my act together.

The papers are some leftover from LOTV paper packs, the holly is a Martha Stewart punch that is still just about working. The frame is made with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle dies. I broke one the stag antlers didn't realise they were so delicate. A bit disappointed that the cards don't fit normal post slot.

Not to worry suddenly remembered I already had the Newton Nook Stag Head die which of course works perfectly through the normal post slot.

I found some wood looking patterned paper to cut the heads out and this time I used MFT Scallop frame die and my favourite sentiment from last year to finish of with a flat bow.

Frost

Now if there was ever a Mo Manning image that should have a matching die it would be this one well at least that was what I was thinking when I was fussy cutting Frost out.

I made the frame using Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles and the Kaiser snowflake paper back the frame. The ombre paper on the front was with the Kaiser pack which is funny because when I first started card making many years ago you could get paper like this in all colours.

I used glitter card for the Believe and the snowflakes which are Simon says Stamp and Lawn Fawn ones. You could put some acetate between the frame and make a shaker card.

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Chill

Its nice to have a break from assembly line Christmas Cards and use some of my favourite Mo Manning images. This little cutie is called Chill and I used my favourite make of papers Doodlebug.

The scallop border is Lawn Fawn and the frame round my image is MFT. The snowflakes are Simon Says Stamp along with teeny tiny ones from Lawn Fawn.

To finish a bit of ribbon and I can fit into normal post bow. The fluffy edges on her hat and coat is a mixture of flower soft and fun flock. Her icy breath is some glossy accents and a lot of glitter.

Furry Friends

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I'm working a few weeks in advance in order to free up some time for assembly Christmas Cards so apologise for any sold outs on Simon Says Stamp.

So to start my cute furry friend is obviously Ornamental Newton Stamp and I also have the die which I have used but to be honest I could have easily just stamped on the white. But it will be useful if I decide to use him again and put him on patterned paper.

Now I love non traditional colours and this pattern paper pad from Pink and Main called Frosty was crying out my name. I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Oval to cut out the centre but you easily used any shape.

I think I brought the Believe die and Stamp set early this year too late for my Christmas cards, so I'm loving using it on everything! The sentiments are brilliant used it on a Scrapbook layout as well this year.

The Stitched Fishtail Sentiment Strips are MFT, I actually cut this out first then stamped the sentiment using the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform. I do have a Misti but I only have a tiny workspace that I have to clear to open the side/top but the stamp platform the front comes off and I can stamp using the space I actually work on no clearing up the mess I make. To be honest what sold it to me was a Scrapbooking telling me I can use it on 12 or 8 inch cardstock!

Right back to the card my Bauble is another Simon Says Stamp die called Lulu and I used their Pine Needles die well I had some already cut from my Christmas Card assembly line.

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