Rudolph Day October

It's that time of the month again! October Rudolph Day is here,only one more before the Big Day, Not sure where this year has gone! Here's my card.

 

I used a NBUS die which I think probably came from a magazine, but I'm not sure,I've used it as if it is a sprig of mistletoe but the leaves don't look like mistletoe to me, so you'll have to imagine they do! I coloured the leaves with Copics the added aome white Nuvo drops to the berries with a little bit of a sparkly stickles as well. Then I wasn't sure what to do with it and tried several ideas, none of which I really liked. Eventually I thought about embossing folders and had a rummage through looking for something Christmassy. This one popped out and again I think from a magazine and definitely another NBUS item. I was quite pleased with the finished result - don't know why I don't use embossing folders more often.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge

NBUS Challenge

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge 

Camping at 50!

My middle son recently bought a van which he is slowly converting to a camper van so they can have weekends away without spending on hotels. It was also his 50th birthday last month so I made him a hopefully suitable card.

 

The background was printed from  Craft Artist Daisy Trail Pin Up Chic collection. The image is from Dr Digi coloured with Copics and fussy cut. I used a speed limit sign for his age.

 

Challenges: 

CD Sunday Plus Challenge 

Kokeshi Doll

It's Roy's great niece's 12th birthday soon. For the last few years she has been very into unicorns but I'm running out of ideas for unicorn cards now, so asked her Mum what her current obsession was. Apparently it is still unicorns but also all things Japanese and Korean! So when I saw this Spellbinders die set of Kokeshi Dolls I had to buy it. It was a bit fiddly to put together but also quite fun.

 

I use a Globeland stencil for the backgound with Distress Inks,and of course it was perfect for using up a lot of snippets. 

Of  course I made things more difficult for me by only having about six square inches to work on, see my desk below!

Challenges:

 Snippets Playground

 Allsorts Challenge

Creative Crafters 

September Rudolph Day

Well I've been MIA again and completely missed last month's Rudolph Day, but I have managed a card for this month!

I managed to go on a cruise to Iceland in July, which had been on our list of to do cruises, which was enjoyable but a bit strange being on my own. I think it hit me more though when I got back and couldn't find much motivation to do anything. Fortunately the Art Society had an exhibition in August so as I'm treasurer I had to get off my backside and do things! I've only just finished sorting all the sales and accounts out so now have a bit of time to try and get back to creating!

 

Anyway here's my card, nothing very exciting though. I used a Penny Black Masterpiece made simple from the Winter Dreams collection and added a pale blue sparkly frame. The sentiment is a very old peel off.

July Rudolph Day

I am delighted to say that I have been asked to be a guest designer at Rudolph Days Challenge this month. 

For my card I have used the last of the toppers that I made on Craft Artist.  

As I had printed out more than one sheet I spent some time fussy cutting the snowman out and decoupaging him. Although it doesn't show up in the photo, he has been liberally "winked"!

Do come and join in the fun, I'm looking forward to seeing all your creations!

June Rudolph Day

This is just going to be a short post as a) I'm a bit busy and b) my room is like a sauna! I have used another of the toppers I created last year in Craft Artist.

 

 

Although it doesn't show very well the snowflakes have all been done with Wink of Stella for a bit of sparkle. The mat is Pool Party. Some of the others I matted with navy card. Alogether I made six of this design.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day.
 

Golfing Unicorn!!!

I made this card last year for Roy's great-niece's birthday. She has been unicorn mad for a few years now and I've made her one or two items in the past. You can see them  here and here. She's also a keen golfer. 

Not surprisingly there are no stamps, digital or otherwise that I could find that would fulfill this criteria. So I turned to AI and asked it to create a "golfing unicorn" After a few tweaks this is what I ended up with. I'm really hoping her likes will have changed by the time it's her birthday this year. Meanwhile I have been waiting for a suitable challenge to enter it in, and this week The Paper Shelter has just the thing!

 

Rudolph Day- May

While Roy was ill last year and time was taken up with hospital visits I realised that I wasn't going to have much time to spend making Christmas cards. So I went for a very easy option of designing some card toppers in Craft Artist and printed a lot out.

However events overtook me and no cards were made and very few sent out. So I am left  with a fair few sheets of toppers.

Time to start to use some of them up. If I start now I might have used them all by Christmas! 

This was the first design. As there are two to a page I was able to cut them both out at the same time using two Crealies square dies. Mounted them both onto a piece of red card and then onto a white card blank. So two down and only another six of this design to go!

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Snippets Win - A Year ago!

I can't believe it's over a year ago that I won this stamp at the Snippets Playground and made this card which has been sitting in my drafts ever since!

Time for the world to see it!

 

As far as I can recall, because it is a long time ago, I smudged some inks over a piece of white card, indigo blue, pool party and crushed curry, then randomly stamped the words on top. Then stamped the flower three times after stamping off first. I stamped the flower again on a piece of scrap card fussy cut it out and placed it over the centre flower. The square was matted onto another snippet of pool party card and a strip of crushed curry card went underneath it. The stamp is from Aall & Create.

 

Challenges:

Snippets Playground

My Time to craft

Seize the birthday

Z Fold Card in Blues

My card making skills are decidely rusty after my break! It took me two days to make this card! I needed a birthday card for Roy's niece and although I have a few ready made ones, none seemed quite right.

Then I decided to make a Z fold card and it is years since I made one. It took forever to find a paper to go with the flowery pieces which came out of the snippets drawer. Eventually I found a 6x6 piece which was only just big enough to cut all the required pieces out of. The butterflies were cut from the Gummiapian die included in the Easter calendar. I painted them with H2Os, again not used in ages. I picked three colours and randomly dropped them onto the diecuts.  They are quite sparkly in real life. A sentiment and some dots completed it. 

 

Challenges:

Snippets playground

Make My Monday

Rudolph Day April 2025

I'm still not doing much in the way of crafting or painting, but decided I really wanted to enter the Rudolph Day Challenge, even though I feel guilty at not doing something on my 3 page to do list! Maybe I'll add this to it then I can cross it off as being done!

When Christmas card making came to an abrupt stop last year I had various bits prepped ready to make into cards. This was some decoupage from my very old stash that I had made up so it was ready to go. 

I added some red mirri card and cut the sentiment from the same card. Instead of placing the image in the centre as I usually do, I offset it.

 

Challenges: 

Rudolph Day

Rudolph Day March 2025

I'm still working through my stash but it does seem to be bottomless! For this card I used an A5 card blank, not a size I use very often.

 

 

The paper is a magazine freebie from a few years ago. While I was looking through one of my boxes I found some sticker sheets from an old Simon Says monthly kit. A few of those added and a red mat and hey presto another card made.

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day 

The Neglected Stuff

Big Birthday Wishes

I've got two male birthdays in April so I made two cards using the same die. The first one used the letters cut from a snippet of red cardstock. Sorry - I forgot to photo the snippets as I wasn't sure what I was going to make. The cards sort of evolved as I went along! I mounted them onto a piece of 6 x 6 paper, the dots were very usful for lining up the letters! It looked a bit plain so I printed off some embellishments from Craft Artist and cut them out.

 

The second card used the negative of the die cut. Again mounted onto some 6x6 paper. I had to cut the A out twice as I lost the tiny middle.

 

Challenges:

Snippets Playground- 2 red card snippets, onr for the die and one for the mat.

Seize the Birthday

Darts for Grandson

Apparently my youngest grandson has found a new interest - darts! His birthday list consisted of all dart related items. So of course that became my theme for his card.  I used an aperture card from my stash and printed off a piece od paper that vaguely looked like a dart board. The image is from Dr Digi and was coloured with Copics then fussy cut.

 

The dartboard stamp is from a magazine freebie. It hasn't stamped terrible well on the linen card, but I'm sure there will be no objections especially as there's a cheque inside!

 

Challenges:

NBUS - dartboard stamp and digital stamp.

Back for Rudolph Day

I thought Rudolph Day was maybe a good time to return to blogging.

 As some of you already know my beloved Roy died unexpectedly just before Christmas. I say unexpectedl, as although he had been unwell for a couple of months there had been no indication that I would lose him and in fact he died of sepsis. The last few months have been difficult but I'm very slowly adjusting, so think it's time to start taking up some of my hobbies again, which have all been on hold for six months.

I haven't actually started crafting again yet but I do have some cards saved in drafts that I made last year. So here is my offering for this month's Rudolph Day.

 

This was a very old Kanban topper mounted onto a piece of 6x6 paper from my stash and finished with a bit of ribbon from Stampin Up.

Taking a break

Those of you who follow my blog will have noticed the lack of posts. Roy, once again deteriorated and had another stay in hospital, this time with sepsis. He’s home now  but not at all well. I’m just waiting for an emergency care package to be put in place, which the hospital should have done . Meanwhile absolutely no time to craft. In fact I haven’t even written the cards that were already made. 

Hopefully I’ll be back sometime next year.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Rudolph Day October

I've just noticed that I published last month's Rudolph Day card as October when it should have been September -  now corrected!

Roy's troubles certainly weren't over last month as he then went on to have 12 days in hospital -  his difficulty walking was apparently caused by cellulitis, but also had to have more blood transfusions as the anaemia kept returning. We're waiting now for the results of another test but at least he's home and enjoying the stair lift! 

So as you can guess I have done very little crafting, fortunately I still had these two cards made in advance. Wonder if I was being psychic?

Another two cards made using up some old decoupage. I've mounted them onto an embossed background which has removed the need for a sentiment. 

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Peace on Earth Challenge

Rudolph Day September

A really quick post from me this month for Rudolph Day.I completely missed last month. Life got really hectic then and hasn't stopped yet. Roy had to have emergency blood and iron transfusions plus lots of investigations to find out why he was so anaemic, then was diagnosed with heart failure because of the anaemia. I've lost count of the number of visits to the hospital and he's not out of the woods yet. He's having difficulty walking anywhere and needs a lot of help, so crfting time is non existent.

Fortunately I had got  ahead of myself so had a card ready for this month, Nothing very difficult just a large and old Kanban topper.

Sing Happy Birthday

It was my son's partner's birthday last month. I wanted to make her a card that was a bit personal and as she is a singer I thought this stamp set from Visisble Image fitted the bill perfectly.

I found a pretty gelliplate background that I had made some time previously and stamped directly on it. I enhanced the colour on the dress with Copics Some black glitter strips round the edge finished it off. I'm pleased to say she loved it!

 

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and more.

NBUS

Rudolph Day July

I'm still on my "use up old stuff" mission. This month I've used up some very old decoupage. I'm not sure where it came from, but probably Create and Craft.

 I mounted it onto an embossed panel and then onto red cardstock. As the embossing said Merry Christmas there was no need to find a sentiment.

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Daring Cardmakers

The Holly and Ivy Challenge

52 CC Throwdown