No not one of mine(lol)! I recently saw a post from Miss Di using the Penny Black Materpieces made Simple toppers which inspired me to get some. The title of them is very apt as they do make simple cards that really are very nice.
I chose to use a pale blue card with a shimmery gold mat. Very simple. The hardest part was finding a rectangle die that was the same proportions - this was the best out of the many I've got - but is still not quite right. The sentiment was just stamped with gold ink., and I added some Wink of Stella to the snowy bits for a bit of sparkle.
Challenges:
NBUS - the topper
Snippets Playground - the mat
Well it's been quite a while since I posted anything! First of all we went on a cruise over Christmas, which was great even with Covid measures in place. Then after we got back had paperwork to do, dental visits, and setting up a new computer plus reformating the old one for Roy. Then I had to help son with his tax return, Today I have managed to make a card for two challenges - hooray!
It is fairly simple though. I heat embossed the Woodware stamp in gold then mounted it on gold mirri card.
Challenges:
Well this is the last Rudolph Day for this year. How did that happen? Let's hope that next year may be more normal!
I saw the die I have used on the Paper Rose website months ago but for some reason they no longer ship to England. I did contact them but got no reply. So I bought it from Simon Says Stamp in the USA! Of course having wanted it for so long, once I got it I didn't know what to with it! Eventually I came up with these two cards.
I'm also sharing at:
Pixies Playground - snippets were used!
The Holly and Ivy Challenge - Anything Goes
Only one more Rudolph Day this year after this one! Where has the year gone! This month there is an extra prize for paper piecing as a tribute to Kath of Plain and Simple who sadly died earlier this year.
No paper piecing from me though as I had made my cards in advance.
It's Rudolph Day time again and thankfully Maureen and family have recovered from their illnesses they had last month. I'm on a bit of a roll using up old stash, so you have not one but six cards from me this month.
Thank goodness it's a bit cooler her so I was able tospend a pleasnt afternoon making a card for Rudolph Day while Roy hosted the monthly meeting of the local branch of the British Model Soldier Society. he van no longer paint them as he is unable to manipulate the paintbrush with the arthritis in his hands, so every so often I get the job!!!! Here is a photo of one of the ones I am currently doing. The background is my SU grid paper showing centimetres.
Anyway onto more interesting things like cards. I have used a NBUS stamp that I bought last September and which has been sitting on my desk ever since.
I'm not sure where the month has gone but it's time for Rudolph Day again! Normally I have a card made well in advance but not this month! I have used a NBUS Woodware stamp that I won in the mega Christmas Draw at Pixies Crafty Playground. Thank you Di.
I originally made this card with the intention of entering it into both Rudolph Day and Cas Christmas challenge. But then found when I went to post it that I was too late, and I'm nearly too late for Rudolph as well. This short month has really caught me out!
Well here we are at the last Rudolph day of 2020 - how did that happen? Despite spending about half of it in lockdown it seems to have flown past. Let's hope next year will be better.
My card is just one of a batch of eight that I made using a kit from a magazine that must be about two years old and had been languishing at the bottom of a box.
It's Rudolph Day aagain over at ScrappyMo's. Only 3 more to go before the big day! Sorry didn't mean to frighten you!
I made this card following a sketch I found recently on another challenge site, but bythe time I'd finished them the challenge was long over. I thought it was a useful sketch for using up some patterned papers, especially these Nordic style ones, which I have found difficult to use as the colours don't seem right to me. A bit dull!
