Snowflakes

 I brought the Lawn Fawn Snowflake background die but went back to the old favourite large Snowflake die from Simon Says Stamp for the main snowflake. I doubled layered the main centre snowflake to help it stand out. Then one smaller glitter snowflake and tiny one in a matching colour.

The sentiment is from The Greetery to finish off. Next week is November so I must check to see how many more there is to make. It may slow on the card making the next couple days, had my covid booster yesterday and woken up to a sore arm.

Skating Shoes

 The sleigh and skates are from Spellbinder but the background is a Sizzix embossing folder and the sentiment is from The Greetery. 

I really think I need to get out all my finished Christmas cards to see how many I’ve done. I make approximately 100 some get discarded because I don’t think they are good enough. 

Winter Panels

 Weeks ago there was a sketch from Freshly Made Sketch which inspired these cards although it was week later. I cut strips out of card and edged together the different colours then use an embossing fold in this case it was a Sizzix snowflakes one. 

Then I cut them to size and using a grass die cut out the sparkling icicle border. The pink cards had a stamped large snowflake from MFT and the blue one had an old Simon says Stamp snowflake die. Sentiment from The Greetery which has become this years Christmas sentiment. 

I got quite a few cards made with these strips it’s got to a point I need to count out how many I’ve done. 

Cone Flowers

 A bit of change from Christmas cards needed a card for my sister’s birthday. Now I have the large cone flowers from Honey Bee but these ones from Concord and 9th are smaller and I can fit more onto the card.

I must admit I cased a card on Pinterest since I don’t seemed to have an original idea in my head at the moment. Admittedly I didn’t have the exact background die but any pretty one would do, or the sentiment die but the on from Creative Expression works just as well. Finally my bees have glitter wings for a bit of sparkle.

Stencil Bauble

  Finally the last of my Sweet Poppy Stencil, this one a bit more tricky to do since I wanted the holly green and red for the berries.

With the use of a few post it notes I sort of managed it. The stag is a Lavinda stamp and the sentiment is The Greetery.  

If anyone sees me adding pearls to stencil snowflakes stop me! 

Snow Globe Bunnies

 Two cards one with the bunnies masked and one I’ve just stamped. I thought it would be more obvious. I do prefer myself the masked pair which is on your left if you can’t work it out.

Gone off withe pearls on the snowflakes too but can’t take them off now. The sentiment is from a Woodware one that came with an image but I reckon it’s going to be my favourite this Christmas. 

Need to get down to making more Christmas cards but I’ve a few family cards to make before I can get back to them.

Stencil Snow Globe

 I’ve had a couple of weeks away from the craft room but I’ve started to get back in the swing. Previously before my holiday I made a few Christmas cards using the metal stencils I brought from Poppy Stencils at Sandown.

It took some practice to even my blending I’m a bit heavy handed but got there in the end. They do make huge card not normal for me even 6inch square seemed large to me recently.  The stamped in the middle is a Lavinia one. Word of warning I made a few of these slightly different but still the same technique.

Blue Birthday Parcels

 I haven’t had time to load my Christmas makes yet so I leave you with the blue version of the Pretty Pink Posh parcels. I made it for my brothers birthday, unfortunately it arrived late. I had written the wrong postcode.

We’ve had a quiet August so far but suddenly it got very busy so not sure how much crafting will be done although I plan to do some today.

Pair of Floral Cards

 I need two cards for birthdays on the same day again inspired by Pinterest for card and colour combo.

The leaves die is a Simon Says Stamp die it was the only decent size one that would work with the stitched flowers from MFT. Took ages to stick them on a piece of matching card stock but worth it in he end.

I finally used the stamp and dies Birthday sentiment from The Greetery I got the Christmas ones as well but got them too late for Christmas.

Now the weather as cooled down a bit I got back in the craft room and made 8 Christmas CAS cards.

For Mum

 There are lots of stitched flowers on Pinterest and although they are different sets I used the MFT with the same colour combo. Still working to get a clean foil image the reason for a flower to cover a corner of the B in birthday.

Got out my old nestabilities from Spellbinders to make the oval shape. The colours look a lot prettier in real life.

Game Controller (Blue)

 I made a green game controller card now I’ve made a blue one, only difference is I brought the headphones die which I think finishes the card off.

I’m still not brilliant at blending but getting better but I’m never happy when I splatter ink so I used an old Stamping Up stamp.

The main dies are MFT and the sentiment Creative Impressions.

For August I making Christmas cards, although I don’t have a single idea inside my head.

Wedding Card

 It made a nice change to make a wedding card and though I’m not keen on headless people once you get passed that it looks ok.

The background was made with Forever Fern from Stamping Up, which was similar leaves in their invitation. 

The Bride and Groom dies are MFT and I love that it comes with a swirl to fit inside the dress, just helps to finish the dress.

 The sentiment is theirs two but embossed on Vellum and wrapped around the card. It helped that I made all details on apiece of card then stuck that to an actual folded card.

The actual Wedding turned out to be a beautiful day and all went well.

Pretty Pink Parcels

 I finally got round to using the Pretty Pink Posh parcel dies, I missed them the first time round. So I cased a card from A blog called Wanda that I found on Pinterest

They came out for Christmas last year so I’m looking forward to using them this year. The birthday sentiment is MFT in matching colours.

Hope everyone survived the heat, hiding out for the last few days, my joints certainly not liking the heat. Maybe I’ll get round to some card making now.

Bouquet of Flowers

 I have to say how impressed with myself since I made the bouquet wrap it’s a circle folded over did it stop me from buying a proper die no it didn’t.

The flowers are my MFT ones cut from various colour code but I also had the stencil to colour the centres not sure that worked when I did it but love how the white flower turned out. The sentiment is also MFT.

Birthday Rememberance

 This is another card I made a few weeks back, you see I made two cards for my Dad and chose the one I liked best. This is the other card using an old Stampin Up stamp set but I think it would work for a man’s card too.

The green wooden card is again a Stampin Up large stamp, stamped using the matching green ink pad.  The stripy paper was Washi tape which I stuck to white card then cut it, simply don’t like the fact it’s see through.

Wedding card almost finished waiting for glue to dry before attaching sentiment band. 

Birthday Candles

 I found this die in my MFT box and realise I never used them. So I cut them out with some MFT papers I have and yellow card for the flames but added a bit of orange ink to make them look lit.

The double stitched frame is again is MFT come to think of it so is the sentiment.

So I’ve been missing since we went to Weymouth for a week, we were so lucky with the weather, one wet day and one cloudy day. We found some lovely restaurants and cafes also lovely ice cream which we visited often. 

While there we got a call to say our new two seater suite was in so the house is in a complete mess while we get our old suite picked up and carpet cleaned. Maybe doing our bedroom carpet wasn’t such a great idea but someone split orange juice.  

Need to get back to card making asap have a wedding this month plus a really busy birthday month.

Game Controller (Green)

 Another card I made that’s sitting in my drafts till it’s been delivered. I picked up the game controller dies from MFT at Sandown and the Birthday sentiment die is unbranded but I think it could be Penny Black.

The background I made myself after watching a reel on Instagram, you use circle punches or dies of different sizes and use it as a stencil. I then used some old Stampin Up stamps. 

It was while making this card MFT opened the vault and re-released some dies including a headphone die so I had to get it.

Sailing

 I needed a card for my Dad’s Birthday that I leave at the crematorium, so I pulled out an old boat Stampin Up stamp. I was inspired by a card on Pinterest which used a paint brush ark stamp in different colours thinking I had that stamp set. Oh no I didn’t but I found this stamp and thought I could use it a similar way.

I stamped the boat a couple times on another piece of white card so I could cut and layer the sails. Finally the sentiment is MFT and backed the image panel with Kraft card it is the same size all the way round still a dodgy photographer.

Tool Time

 I think the receivers have now had their card and it’s safe to post now. I also made a red version. The tools and the background are both from MFT. I used silver card for the metal parts but found glue hated the shiny surface so used red double sided tape to stick the parts together.

The birthday sentiment is a Simon says Stamp it’s constantly in used especially for mens cards which swirly curly sentiments don’t work.

Extremely late at posting but we got up and went supermarket shopping before it’s gets mega busy, we didn’t need much so didn’t take too long but put me out sync. I wanted to make a card for my Dad to take to the Remembrance room at the crematorium for his birthday. So now all my June birthdays have been made so I will be thinking of  July Birthdays, majority of which are girl/women cards so shouldn’t be as difficult.

Anniversary Butterflies

 I was inspired by a card on instagram so I decided these MFT butterflies stamp and dies would work for the white embossing on vellum and cutting pretty pastel card to place behind the vellum. 

The base of the card was using Sunny Studio background die and the Hero Arts Daisy stencil. I embossed with the stencil, I did think about giving the flower centres a touch of colour but glad I didn’t it would look too much.

Since I needed a couple of Anniversary cards I found some anniversary stamps and embossed on matching card in white.

I spent yesterday working out how to use the Spellbinders Glimmer hot foil system, I did watch a couple of you tube videos but I’m so pleased with the results. I’ve ordered some sentiment dies so I can spend some time making sentiment strips.