Tag Snowman

It's always right to play with any new toys that arrive in my craftroom and a much waited Simon Says Stamp parcel, the elves at the Post Office have been making cards again.

Anyway I love the Stitched Dress up tags die will be a welcome addition to scrapbooking as well as card making.

I made a scene using the Simon Says Stamp Hills and Slopes and the snow stamp from the Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful. The stripy paper is Echo Park Hello Winter.

Now my cute snowman is from Retro Christmas set and I love the signpost which I laid over the tag fits pretty well.

To make my icicle I used the MFT grass die and laid it upside down works a treat. Once finished I realised all the white at the top annoyed me so I added some sequins but if my head was in the right place I should of used the Bundle of Stitched Shapes and I probably could have got away with no sequins.

I a bit late this morning because we got up extra early to do the final shop before Christmas. Hubby parks me in the coffee shop with a coffee while he did the normal shop then gets me to chose some Christmas flowers, cheese etc. If we haven't got it now, we will go without.

Christmas Blog Hop

I'm a bit cross with my card, well not my card but taking pictures of my card. This time I've used a light and its lost all the dimension from layering and made my image look flat.

Since the card is very simple with a Spellbinder embossed direct to card the whole point of the card is how beautiful Mo's image of With The Baby is.
Problem is that I've sent this card before realising how it photo and I can't take another nor did I have time to make another.

Enough moaning Debby I do like the embossed spellbinder that will happen again and my favourite poinsettia dies and a bit of patterned paper. Love that I found the perfect sentiment stamp on a LOTV clear set.

So if you are on the Blog Hop you should have started with me and now I send you along the way to my team-mate and good friend JULIE  Opps I mean Lou who is also a team-mate and good friend.

If you get lost check out the Dream Team Blog where you will find the full blog hop run to help you find your way again.

Sketch

The crooked photographer is back and once again I should have schedule this post last week since I'm running late especially has the Everybody Art Challenge for a sketch is up already.

I cheated a bit, when don't I. I've used the cluster of Stars from Memory Box rather than one big star but I think it worked and gave me another chance to use the die with glitter card.

My most used die the Floral Oval from Spellbinder with the centre cut out and inside I made the scene using Falling Snow embossing folder that I finally found now all my cards are done. The houses and trees border is again from Memory Box and the corner is La La land die.

The papers are LOTV and of course my cute Giggling snowman is a Mo's image.

Hope you able to join us this week and I believe this is the last challenge before our Christmas Break, the challenge will be back on the 5th January 2016.

Snowbuddies

I coloured thise snowmen at the same time as the Santa and Reindeer cards I made last week for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, they come from the same stamp set.

I used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle dies and Echo Park Hello Winter. Finished of with some silver twine well its actually came from the wool department from a craft shop.

The snowflake is the Marianne one from Simon Says Stamps and the button is also a die from Impression Obession.

Just some fun flock and flowers soft for the hats and white pen for the buttons on the snowmen jackets.

We should be on the way home, hope I worked out how to put the heating on when we get there otherwise we are going cold and damp from all the heavy rain they are expecting.

Poinsettia

I did manage to make a Penny Black card inspired by Pinterest which was to use vellum and white embossing.  We all know that white on kraft looks striking.

So I used the Penny Black Poinsettia stamp with versamark and WOW white embossing powder. I make sure the heat gun has already heated up especially has I have the hairdryer type. As soon as the embossing powder melts I move swiftly to another part.

When cutting out I try to cut outside of the leaf because the embossed lines might lift if you cut it.

I cut out the square with the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Square and mat with white card. The Merry Christmas is cut twice from the Simon Says Stamp die.

Finished with some red pearls to make it really pop.

Embossed Spellbinders

 I saw a card on Pinterest which I don't think I saved, goodness knows why but they had embossed using an intricate die. I thought I would give it a go.

First find a busy enough die, I decided on the Majesty from Spellbinders but I cut it out first then used the fancy die to emboss.

I decided to add the Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia Parade to make the card a Christmas one along with Simon Says Stamp Christmas sentiment die.

It made a quick Christmas card about all I have time for at the moment.

Tags

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Let It Snow 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

TAG IT

We are showcasing Tim Holtz Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some 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

Things were going so well with my tag I used Kraft card and stamped the Holly from Tim Holtz Mini Holidays 3, I was going to colour the holly berries in red but decided to leave it till last in case it wouldn't work in the end I decided my tag was busy enough.

I then stamped the Merry Christmas in gold and embossed using Liquid Platinum embossing powder, using the snowflakes again from the same set this time I stamped with versamark and then using WOW opaque bright white embossing powder.

Meanwhile I had stamped my crazy bird on white card couple of times and using red and brown inkpads and Mini Round Blending tools coloured the bird in robin colours. I cut out the tail and body also the eyes and beak.

This is the point things started to go downhill, I couldn't find the Simon Says Stamps Be Joyful set it had falling snow stamp on it even if the set had been retired I would have kept it just for that stamp so instead I used Simon Says Stamps Falling Snow Stencil with Dreamweaver Glossy White Embossing Paste.  Now I had green snow! Ok so its a bit better than yellow snow.

 I mat and layered the tag with white and a Kraft shaped tag and then stamped a crazy bird so that the legs and the ends of the curls will show up after I layer my robins body. (There was no way I was cutting curls out and the dies are still on my wish list).

I decided my tag was too plain and added some faux stitching using a white pen and to finish a bit of Doodlebug twine.

Of course in hindsight there was a couple of things I could have done to avoid green snow first my holly could have been embossed with clear powder or what I wanted to do in the first place which was stamp my snow and using white embossing powder. Saying that I'm still impressed with my tag.

So now it's YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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Stars

Naughty me should have schedule this post yesterday because I'm running a bit late to post this card the same time as the Everybody Art Challenge.

We have a lovely challenge this week Star(s) and I love how my card has turned out.  The cute little baby angel is from Mo Digital Pencil and I knew I was going to add the Memory Box stars.

I used a Spellbinder decorative circle which fitted my image perfectly, the Simon Says Stamps Stitched Snowflake were on my desk but I've used the snowflakes part not the stitched bit.

The papers are Echo Park and the stars were cut out from glitter card.

Do pop over and check out the team, hope you can join us this week. Got to go Mr Blogger keeps asking me to log in again, but won't actually let me so fingers crossed this gets published.

Holly Mice

I think I may have sorted out well almost the crooked photos its still hit and miss but they are better now have to sort out the light especially dark, dank days.

Anyway back to the card its for the this years last challenge on Penny Black Saturday Challenge and  this month its Christmas well we have to, its only less than three weeks away.

My papers are Simple Stories left overs from last year but I haven't been able to cut into the pretty papers till now. I confess to a pre printed sentiment from Craftwork cards.

My Penny Black Mice are a wooden stamp called Holly Jolly Christmas but it is an old one and a favourite. To decorate I've used the Holly punch from Martha Stewart I would be lost without it.

The actual layout is last weeks Sketch Saturday but since today is Saturday its too late to enter but it really helped to get my card done this week.

Do pop over and check out the team also hope you able to join us this month.

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.
We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher
This week the challenge is

LET IT SNOW

We are showcasing Art Impressions Products this week. 

You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some 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

Ok you maybe saying this isn't the card on the challenge blog and you would be right, this is the first card I made for the challenge. This weeks challenge is Let it Snow can you work out whats wrong with this card, you guessed it NO SNOW. Luckily I used Holly Jolly from Art Impression and had stamped all the images and coloured them in so I could make a similar card with SNOW.

Plenty of Snow of this card, both cards I've used the SSS Bundle of Stitched Shapes and Stitched circles but Santa I used SSS Wavy Stitches Scallop Border die and SSS Merry and Bright with Christmas sentiments.

Now to my reindeer card this time I used the SSS Snow Border and the Falling Snow Stencil which I used to emboss my card. To make sure there is plenty of Snow this time I used SSS Maryann Snowflake

I used the same stamp set but this time I used the Happy Winter Christmas die, my papers are from Doodlebug for Santa and Lawn Fawn Lets Polka in the Dark.

So now it's YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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Music

Time for another challenge from Everybody Art Challenge this time to use some music and I used a Music stamp to make a background for my carol singer.
I coloured Charlie Carolling in traditional Christmas papers so it would work with the bits of Holly paper I had left.
My Scallop mat is from Avery Elle and everything was layered round it. Of course my Holly is Martha Stewart and the MFT Music Note die was also used to give it a reason for the music background.
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It looks like I have more or less enough Christmas cards just two very special ones to make and I then can just make them for fun now!

If you didn't know its the 1st of December and in previous years I have My Favourite Cards and My Favourite Christmas Cards posts and I plan to do the same this year. Eventually I will post the candy I have for each of them.

On Christmas Eve I will put up a post with My Favourite Five Christmas Cards 2015 with a Mr Linky to add your link to your post of your Favourite Christmas cards.

On the 30th December I will post My Five Favourite 2015 again with a Mr Linky to add your link to your post, now this time I'm quite happy for various crafts as long as they were made this year.

I'm also happy if you join a monthly favourite to add your link or even if you go over the five things.

Any question you can e-mail on debby4000craftystuff@hotmail.co.uk

Merry Purple

Some more "I really need quick Christmas cards) once again I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Snowflakes and their Merry and Bright die. This time in purple.

I even used the waste, well this way you can see the stitched marks.

Even more left over waste this time I didn't even bother to add the snowflakes inside but used some gems instead.
Lucky for me I didn't have to make a boys card, my DD had sneaked some of my boys cards away and offered me one. Just has well I did ache quite a bit. So I've now connected all the crochet squares and written the Christmas Cards that have to be posted aboard. Its a bit obvious that I need more cards.

Baby Christmas

I've kinda cheated for my Penny Black card today mainly because I haven't made one but I did have this cutie in my drafts. While she is a Mo digi image called Bearly Merry Christmas she is also a Penny Black stamp and I know I'm referring to her as a her she could easily be a he!

The papers are some I brought at the crop I go to each month, there's also a shop well. I also used a Craftwork Card printed sentiment. My Favourite Things crochet border not sure if its still available but I did buy two because its so perfect to join up.

Holly of course is my Martha Stewart punch not sure what I will do if that breaks! The mittens are a Memory Box die that I cut out of the patterned paper and then with white so I could have fluffy edges.

Hopefully Mr Blogger is going to behave and publish this post tomorrow (Saturday) while I'm off scrapbooking at an all day crop (maybe a bit of craft shopping too).

Sunday I have to make a birthday card for my Gt nephew seeing as its December next week and I had it in my head I had another week to go. Luckily the image is coloured and should be dried enough to be posted on Monday for Tuesday. Then I shall write my Christmas cards to double check whether I going to have a mad dash of CAS cards filling up my blog.

Merry Kraft

I'm now on panic mode and I need some Christmas cards in pretty quick time. The colours I've used on these cards was inspired by Lin my team-mate on Simon Says Stamps.
First of all I confess to separating some of the Stitched Snowflakes from Simon Says Stamp I pretty sure I've read it from someone else's blog. I've only done this for the three smaller ones.
The scallop borders was made using the Stitched Scallop Border from Lawn Fawn and I been playing already with the Merry and Bright die from Simon Says Stamps
The stamped Christmas sentiment is from the Happy Christmas stamp set.

It was only right to use the left over Kraft snowflakes and I believe the design may have been a previous week CAS(e) this sketch.
No cardmaking today packing my bag for the crop tomorrow and usually I'm shattered once its done so I have to rest but sitting resting means I can continue to crochet my squares together. Although I will only be able to do this if Mr Postman brings me some more cream wool.

 

December Kit

Once again I've made some quick cards using the Simon Says Stamp December kit. I saw the the little deer and bird and wondered how I could use the paper and not cover up her up. So I didn't and just added a touch of red round the mat and some of the diagonal stripes behind that.  Then added the Merry and Bright using a new die from Simon Says Stamp.

There was a little strip left which also had a deer on, I couldn't throw it away so I made that into a tag.

Another quick card this time I used two of the papers from the kit, cut the presents strip from one sheet and the Christmas ones from another piece. I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set that came with the kit and added some of self adhesive sequins that again came from the kit. Although there is a sticker with Do not open Until in the kit I used the one printed on one of the kit papers. A bit of Doodblebug twine job done and still have enough to make loads more cards.

I also made some quick tags using the stamp set, just stamped the parcel on little gift cards and quickly coloured parts of them in. Love the gifts of love sentiment perfect for little tags.

Branch or Leaves

Time for another challenge on Everybody Art Challenge this week is Branch or Leaves. I had previously coloured this Wee Stamps Snowman and I thought a branch was involved but I'm not sure the twig holding the lamp is enough.

So using the Memory Box Tree and Branch dies I kinda of made a tree which when I finished I added some Stickles for ice.

There was loads of tiny bits to layer though it was worth it. I also used the Memory Box Star dies to give the snowman somewhere to look but I cut these out of some glitter card. To finish I used the Martha Stewart Holly punch but I punched out two and cut one to make a three leaf Holly.

It was them my tree looked a bit bare so I coloured another robin and stuck him into the tree.

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Paper Piecing

I love this cute image from Saturated Canary that I brought recently in a bundle. The skirt of the dress is ideal if you are colouring with copics but I didn't much fancy it with it with pencils so I decided to paper piece it.

I should of got up and find the Christmas Doodlebug paper that has small pattern but was feeling far too lacy and decided to use this LOTV papers instead. After I made the card I found the holly paper that went with it but too late now.

The idea of using the image to hide the join was a card on Pinterest using one of those Prima Doll stamps you know the ones with no face. I managed to get over Tilda's without a mouth but I don't get the no faces at all. But the Saturday Canary are ideal to do this since they are quite tall images.

To decorate I just got my favourite Holly swirl from Cheery Lyn but I did chop it up. Then some Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia Parade which I love because of their size. The stitched wavy scallop die is also from Simon Says Stamp, original I just cut it out of white and then decided to cut it in the red and carefully fussy cut the border just above the faux stitching.

The sentiment added last but held my breath since everything was stuck down and I had to avoid the dress because of how it was 3d.

Yesterday I decided I need some really quick Christmas Cards by using Pinterest, they all ended in the bin apart from one. So I gave up and coloured some images instead.

Snow Umbrella

Looks like I'm going to have to sort out the lighting but I've almost got a square card. My Hedgies are from a Transparent set I think its Jolly Critters.

The papers are LOTV from last year or even the year before and I was inspired by one of the Sweet Sunday Sketch from a week or two ago.

The icicle border is from MFT and is actual a grass die. I decided to have Holly from Martha Stewart punch and snowflakes a die from Simon Says Stamp and yes I did us fun foam. The snow on the umbrella is funflock and flowersoft.

The plan today is to get my sewing machine out to attempt to take up the hem on a couple of pairs of jeans. Thats if I remember how to use it but I've told myself it my job for today before making cards.

Gifts for You

I'm very lucky to have received December's Card Kit from Simon says Stamp but Mr Mojo is away at the moment, I think he hates Christmas.

So I was looking at the papers and I was lucky to have two pieces of paper with Joy to the World on.

When I decided that I would actually like the Joy part to be on a patterned paper.

I decided to use the Simon Says Stamp Kinley Snowflake using one the contrasting card that came in the kit and the Stitched Star is from the Stitched Bundle of Shapes. The stars and sequin are both from the kit.

This time I use one of the stickers from the stickers set along with the stars. Two very quick 4 inch cards with now stamping required.

It seemed a shame to waste the scraps and since at the moment I've started to think of Christmas tags. So using the fabulous sentiment that comes with the kits stamp set, I managed to make four tags. The twine is from Doodlebug.

I was quite impressed with myself using up all the paper on the two sheets and after playing for just over an hour I managed another couple of cards but I save them for another day.