Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Sunday 25 February 2024

New Rudolph Day

Hello and welcome to Rudolph Day! I'm delighted that Helen Nile has taken up the mantle now that Maureen has 'retired' so that the Rudolph Day challenge can continue.

My card this month is a Woodware stamp coloured with Copics and cut out with a scalloped die which I think is a Crealie one. Image and sentiment both on scraps of white card. I mounted it onto a scrap of dark blue card and embossed the card blank with the Stampin Up falling snow embossing folder.

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Saturday 17 February 2024

Snowy

I'm still in Christmas card mode!  Two Snowy cards for you today! I do love this cute snowman.


The paper was a freebie from a magazine absolutely ages ago! The second one is also using up some of the peeloffs from my stash. The pile doesn't seem to go down though!
 
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Wednesday 31 January 2024

House Mouse For Rudolph Day

I'm just managing to squeeze into the last Rudolph Day challenge by the skin of my teeth. Sadly Maureen has decided to close the blog due to health issues. Thank you Maureen for keeping it going for so long and all the best for your "challenge retirement".

I decided to use a House Mouse stamp that hasn't seen a lot of ink since I bought it.

The paper was a freebie from years ago but I thought it went well with the stamp. I edged it with some even older peel off borders. I'm on aa bit of a mission to use up some of my stash.
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Thursday 18 January 2024

Silhouette Snowy Forest

Have you missed me? Not sure where all the time has gone , but it is nearly a month since I blogged, crafted or painted anything. 
It might be January but Christmas cards are still being made!  Maybe I won't have to make so many in a rush later this year.

I used a very old stamp for this one, it must have been one of my very early stamp purchases and I have no idea what the make is, as I removed it from its wooden block!  That has made it much easier to get coverage as I can use the Misti. I added some snowflakes in the top corner as it looked a bit naked!
 
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Thursday 14 December 2023

Snow Family

I'm waaaay behind with blogging my cards but life has got in the way again! After getting back from our cruise I became treasurer of The Fleet Art Society just as they were due to hold their winter exhibition. The hand over took a while as the guy showing me went over everything a number of times! Then the exhibition was on for five days and I had christmas presents to buy, cards to write, cakes to bake! 

So here are two snow family cards, which have also used up some of my stash of 6x6 papers,


I do like this stamp, I should use it more often!
 
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Sunday 26 November 2023

Papercuts for Rudolph Day

Can you believe it's the last Rudolph Day of 2023? Not sure where this year has gone. My cards this time are a little different for me.
I saw this pack of designs from Katy Sue advertised and I thought I would have a go at them. The first one I did was the HOHOHO one so it is a bit raggedy! A new blade in the craft knife helped with the others though. I had to wait for Amazon to send some as I can't buy blades locally only the knife! I've still got another four to make, but they will be for next year. If you've been wondering where I've been between last month's Rudolph Day and this one I was off on another cruise. This time to warmer climes even though it wasn't very sunny.








Thursday 26 October 2023

Father Christmas for Rudolph Day

Well here we are at the penultimate Rudolph day for 2023! Unbelievable!!! I have used a NBUS stamp which came free last year, I think,with a magazine.


It is a Raymond Briggs Father Christmas and quite a large stamp, I coloured him with Promarkers and drew the border round the edge. The paper is out of my stash and was originally in a Simon Says Stamp kit.
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Wednesday 27 September 2023

Rudolph Day - September

I bought this stamp last year but hadn't used it. All the cards I had seen using it were so pretty I decided to show it some love and ink. The first six attempts went in the bin! I was using markers to colour the stamp but it either didn't stamp properly or was too dark. Spritzing it with water was also a disaster. Eventually I turned to Youtube for some hints.

 
So this one was inked with Distress Inks then some painting added on top. I used some Hot Press Watercolour paper which is why it is creamy. I wasn't convinced that the stamp was stamping properly so I made a second card using just one colour.

 
 
Brown didn't seem very Christmassy so I added a liberal amount of gold stickles and a gold mat. I've since watched another video so I'll have another try with it before I decide that Brushstroke stamps are not for me!
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Friday 25 August 2023

Rudolph Day August 2023

Only three more Rudolph Days to go!!!!! Time to get a bit of a move on with the cards!

I used another of the stamps from the Paper Artsy set, One I hadn't used before.  Instead of using a mat I drew the borders using the same red Promarker that I had used to colour his hat. I might make some more of these as it was fairly quick to do.
 
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Monday 26 June 2023

Rudolph Day - June 2023

I recently treated myself to some dies from Gummiapan, and rather than let them languish on my desk I decided to use them for this month's Ruolph Day card.
That has to be some sort of record for me!


I used a mini slimline card, bought after receiving one from Miss Di last Christmas!  The two reindeer were cut fom a small snippet of white card and coloured with Promarkers, The background paper is also a snippet from a few years ago,The reindeer were adhered using foam pads, which were a bit fiddly as the deer are so small.

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Wednesday 31 May 2023

Rudolph Day - May 2023

A very last minute entry from me this month for Rudolph Day! We only got back on Friday from a two week cruise round the Baltic. Since then I seem to have been up to my eyes in all sorts. Fortunately I had a card made sometime ago.

I do like these selfie stamps! It is coloured with Copics and mounted on an embossed card blank and a strip of silver glitter ribbon added.
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Wednesday 26 April 2023

Rudolph Day - April

As you can see I am still using up old stash! Unfortunately the pile never seems to get any less! In fact I'm sure it grows overnight.

 This month for Rudolph Day I have used up some stickers, another aperture card and some paper from,  I think, an old Making Cards magazine. There's not much else I can say about it.
 
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Sunday 26 March 2023

Rudolph Day March

I'm still using some of the very old decoupage I have in my stash. I found this small Christmas rose quite difficult to use. Eventually I found some Christmassy paper that worked with it.

I then used one of the aperture cards I have also had in my stash for ages, Some red ribbon and a sentiment completed the card.
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Monday 27 February 2023

Rudolph Day February

I made this card for Rudolph Day earlier in the month as I knew I was going to be busy. Then I nearly forgot to do the post!

I have been going through some of my very old stash and came acoss this decoupage and the aperture cards. I think the decoupage was from Kanban. The wo together with some gold ribbon and a gold stampes sentiment finished it off.

Thursday 26 January 2023

Rudolph Day January 2023

Welcome to the first Rudolph Day of 2023! It's the place to join in if you want to get ahead with your Christmas cards. I have had this Memory Box die sitting on my desk for months - unused!  The paper was also sitting there waiting to be put away - there's less of it to go away now!

I cut the die out twice, once in red and once in green. To be honest I didn't really like either of them,but decided to  go with red, with just a bit of green for the sentiment panel. Since photographing it I have liberally applied red Wink of Stella to the leaves to brighten it up a bit.

I made a second card with the paper and just a strip of red card for the sentiment. I have to confess I like this one better. I think the die might well end up in my 'for sale' box.
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Sunday 11 December 2022

Carol Singers

Well hopefully third time lucky doing this post. I had the photo saved in drafts but when I came to write the post yesterday the picture was blank. I tried adding it again and that showed up blank as well.


I have uaed a very old stamp that I bought from Create and Craft after it was demonstrated by the lovely Jayne Nestorenko who is no longer with us.I coloured it with Zig watercolour markers.

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Sunday 27 November 2022

Ho HO HO Santa

Today I have another card using the cute Santa from Uniko to show. The big day is coming up fast, so hope you’ve got your stash of cards ready.



For the background I found this piece of pretty Christmas tree paper. The banner he is standing on is a snippet from another paper. 

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Color Hues - red and green
Snippets Challenge- snippets used, banner and card for Santa

Friday 25 November 2022

Rudolph Day - November

Well here we are at the last Rudolph Day of the year. I can't believe how fast it has come round. I'm also happy to say that although I still have some Christmas cards to blog,I have made enough for this year!

Back in October when I guest designed for Darnell at NBUS I used some freebie stamps which featured the Twelve Days of Christmas. Here are some more from the set.



 
All were coloured with Copics.
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