Presents

A final Christmas card for this year!

I used a sheet of the paper from one of last years SSS kits, along with one of the stickers that was also in the kit. I added a stitched frame and some sequins. The white card was some of my large amount of white snippets so I'm having a quick visit to the Playground, where rumour had it mince pies are being served by Parsnip behind the bike shed (along with other Christmassy refreshments! hic!)

Pop out card!

I recently had to make a quick card for Roy's great-niece who was just about to be three when she came to our wedding. I had some perfect girly paper from a pad that I had won some time ago, with fairies, princesses and castles, which doesn't get used much as I have all boys!  One sheet of paper for the card front. Then I found some snippets of pale pink card to diecut the letters and number for the front of the card.

For the inside I found a larger snippet and used a SU die for the inside. In case you can't quite see it, it says Happy Birthday

I'm popping over to the Playground with this as snippets have been used. Wonder how the Christmas preparations are going there? 

Butterfly Dream

I have been having a bit of a clear out in the craft room now that I think I have made enough Christmas cards for this year. As a result I made this card - all from the snippets and UFO box!

The butterfly was left over from a birthday present I made last February, the embossed background was a piece I had embossed and never used, and the pink paper and diecut sentiment were snippets.
Obviously I am taking this over to the Playground as I haven't been there for quite a while and it also fits the theme of "Things with Wings" at Always use Rubber. I'm delighted to say I won the October prize there.

                                                      

"The Wedding", Rudolph Day and Happy Little Stampers

Well we were so lucky to have great weather last Saturday for our wedding. Yep, I've finally gone and done it!  Just a few phone photos for you as I haven't got the official ones yet.

Signing the Register 

With some of the grand kids. From L-R Dylan (Roy's great nephew) Declan (my eldest Grandson) Pollly (Roy's great niece) and Jack (my other grandson. Missing is Daisy - Polly's sister who didn't want her photo taken and ran away!

Pretending to cut the cake which was quite small but looks positively minute in the picture!

And now here's my card for Rudolph Day and also Happy Little Stampers Christmas challenge which is to use embossing. I'm also hopping over to the Playground as the red card was a snippet. The die is from Memory Box and the EF is a retired  SU one.

A New Home

My soon to be stepdaughter is about to complete on her new house (her own since splitting with her boyfriend) and she is really looking forward to it, so of course I had to make her a card.

I've cased this from an idea seen on Pinterest but I've no idea whose card it was, if it was yours please let me know so I can give you credit for it. I made the card blank from Pool Party, the backing paper is from a very old K&Co pad, the stamps and dies are all from Stampin Up. The house is coloured with Copics. I'm entering this into HLS Anything goes with Dies, and Pixies Playground where Miss Di is celebrating 250  challenges with some super prizes.

More Faux Vellum

After making this card I salvaged the bauble from th one where i had made a very inky smudge and mounted onto some glitter card from the snippets box, and onto a piece of backing paper in a taupe colour which was also a snippet. Yes I know they are large snippets but it is time i visited Miss Di again at the Playground.

Then I decided to do another one in blue, and used Pool Party and Lost Lagoon ink.

I cant decide whether I like the kraft or the blue best.

Cardz 4 Guyz

I am delighted to say that I am now a member of the Cardz 4 Guyz design team, and this is my first design team card for them. The challenge has been set by Caz and is "Congratulations" I put my thinking cap on and decided to go with passing the driving test.

I drew a large L on a piece of white card then tore it in half. The background and bottom sentiment was made  from a retired SU set Rev up the Fun, using the tire track stamp and one of the sentiments. The congrats stamp is anothe SU stamp from a card kit.I put a panel of grey card behind the L plate to make it stand out a bit more. Please pop over and see what the rest of the DT have done and why not join in as well. Just remember it must be a masculine card. I'm also entering it into the Playground as snippets were used.

Fast and Flighty!!

Cardz4 Guyz are asking for cards with a theme using the letter F.  Fish seemed to be the favourite option of the design team and I have to say that was the first thing I thought of.

Then I remembered the SU stamp set Need For Speed that I bought for the plane to make a card for my son who is in the RAF. It was time to get it inked up again.

I found some cloudy background paper from a 6 x6 pad, no idea what make it is, and a curly sentiment banner from my stash, and mounted that on a snippet of dark grey card. I stamped and coloured 3 planes and fussy cut them and mounted them with foam squares.  I'm taking this over to the Playground as well, need to see if Miss has got the paddling pool out!

Daisy card.

It's been a little while since I visited the Playground, so thought it was high time I visited to see what mischief my fellow playmates were getting up to.

Apart from the card blank this was made entirely out of snippets. The daisies are cut with a SU sizzix die and the leaves are a very old punch, make unknown . I thought the paper was so pretty it didn't need too much embellishment.

Black and White for Twofers

I hadn't realised it had been so long since I last blogged. I've not been feeling very creative just lately, partly because when it is hot and sunny my craft room is like an oven! Also the hard drive on my laptop failed so it had to go the PC doctor and I have been reloading stuff ever since. I;m hoping that he might be able to recover some of my files but he didn't seem too hopeful. Fortunately all my photos are on an external hard drive - phew!

A couple of weeks ago I entered the Twofers challenge for the first time, and was delighted to be picked in the top 3 with this card. This challenge has been running now for some time but  they never get very many entries despite the hard work of the girls running it. So please do think of encouraging them by joining in.

This time the theme is black and white and I am dashing in at the last minute with my entry. I had been playing with these new dies from Stampin' Up! with a view to making some wedding invitations(not in black!) but thought they would actually look good in black and white. So a sympathy card was made, I like to have one in my stash as when they they are neede they are usually needed in a hurry.

I'm also popping over to the Playground where Miss Di is back in control, as the black card was two snippets.
 

Use Designer Paper in a CAS way!

That is the challenge at Less is More this week. I hadn't really thought of anything to make when the postman arrived with my April Simon Says Kit, which lent itself perfectly to the challenge.

I used one of the stamps and some of the sequins. The paper is snippets from my scrap box so I'm also going over to the Playground to see what everyone is doing there this week.
 

Thank You Di!

I recently won a super die over at Pixies Snippets Playground and this is my first make using it.

 I used up a card blank that had been sitting on my desk since doing a SU workshop some months ago. So it was good to find a use for it at last! The papers are SU as well as is the butterfly stamp. Although it doesn't show up in the photo, the butterflies are very sparkly having had Wink of Stella liberally applied.

My LIM one layer card here has been made into two layers.

Although it doesn't look much different in the photo IRL I much prefer it!

Football birthday.

It's my youngest son's birthday on Friday and he is an enthusiastic football supporter so the choice of a football card was not difficult to make.

I cut the hexagons with the SU hexagon punch and embossed the white ones with a Swiss dots EF. I mounted them onto some "Chelsea" blue card, which I made by colouring white with a blue Copic  to get the right shade. Then I die cut the round shape which was quite difficult as it was quite thick. And of course it flattened the embossing! I edged the sentiment panel with a ruler and the same blue Copic. Lots of snippets used so I'm heading off to the Playground again.

Owl with Balloons!

It's Roy's birthday next weekend and usually I try to make him a card which relates to one of his interests, but I'm running out of ideas!  However he used to collect owls ( not real ones😄) so I thought I'd try a bit of punch art.

I love the owl punch - it's so versatile, so that together with the new balloon punch and matching stamp set formed the basis for my card. I glossy accented the balloons which is why they look a bit cloudy - they didn't photo well!

The good news is that he had a follow up appointment at the rehab unit this morning and they don't want to see him again, as he had made such good progress. There's still a lot of improvement needed but that will only happen over time and if he keeps doing his exercises.

I'm entering this into the Playground as it was made entirely from snippets apart from the card blank.

Less is More - Citrus

First of all I would like to say a warm welcome to my newest follower Karen and apologies for my lack of commenting - life is geting in the way!

 This week's challenge at Less is More is "Citrus". I chose to go with the colours rather than fruits as I'm not sure that I've got any citrusy stamps!

I used Stampin' Up!s  Awesomely Atistic stamp set and coloured it with a selection of Distress Inks and the new Distress crayons. As both the crayons and stamp set are NBUS items this is going to be my 2nd entry into Darnell's challenge. The yellow mat was out of the snippets box so I'm off to the Playground as well.
 

Box of Minions!

Having made a Minecraft box card back in November for my eldest grandson, I had to make another box card for his younger brother's birthday next month. And it had to be Minions as he is Minion crazy.

So using my trusty SU owl punch I set about making Minions. There are lots of instructions on Pinterest so I'm not going to repeat them here. The taller one ( no idea what his name is as I've not seen either of the films) was made with a 1" wide strip with the ends shaped with a round punch. I added some balloons on the back panel as a bit of variety. They needed some strings to finish off so I drew some in but they looked terrible. Baker's twine to the rescue! Much fiddling and glue all over my hands I finally got the twine to stick over my rubbishy drawn lines. It would have been so much easier if I had decided to do this before I had stuck the minions on, but hindsight is a wonderful thing! Google eyes added to the minions and a sentiment in a speech bubble and it was done. Lots of snippets used here so I'm popping over to the Playground where Sarn is in charge this week.

Watercolour Wings Birthday

I think I'm a bit like a London bus, nothing for ages then two come along! It's my friend's birthday on Valentine's Day and I always find it difficult to know what to get her. Toiletries are out as she has usually just given me some, and flowers are definitely out as her house always looks like a florists on her birthday!  So this year I decided to have a go at making a picture. When I visited my son last year my DIL had bought a picture which was a row of butterflies in a long white box frame, and at the time I said I could have made it!  I couldn't find a long box frame but instead bought an 8" x 8" one from Hobbycraft. 

My first attempt only had 4 butterflies but it looked too naked so decided on 6 . I was really rather pleased with it so hope she likes it! 

I'm going to take this over to the Playground as it used up quite a few snippets of white card, and also over to Mrs A's Butterfly challenge where she wants to see inks used.

Last of the Christmas Cards

It's been a while since I blogged - I blame all this Christmas preparation. The cakes are made, marzipanned and iced, mince pies made, decorations up, a ridiculous amount of shopping done, not a spare inch in the fridge! So time to blog the last of this years Christmas cards.

First off I made a one layer card for the LIM challenge last week but never got round to blogging it or entering the challenge. I used a Clarity stamp, stamped and embossed with white.

 So I adapted it as I wasn't too fond of it as an OLC and gave it a white base, much better I think.

Next up two stepper cards for my grandsons. The toppers were some old Kanban ones from my stash.

Two more cards for Roy's great-nieces, again using some old decoupage sheets and another Kanban topper.

Some tags for all the presents. I can't take credit for the design as they are shamelessly cased from HERE

Next I made seven cards all simiLar for members of the card group I belong to.

I have to say I think these were among my favourites for this year, alongside these ones.

And finally a card made using the Simon Says Stamp December kit. It arrived very late this month, not sure what the PO had been doing with it! The papers in it are gorgeous and I have a few more cards in mind, ready for next year!

Lots of snippets were used to make the tags, nativity cards and fireplacee cards so Im off to join in the festivities at the Playground where not only is ist Christmas but also Di's fourth anniversary and there are lots of prizes to be won.

So that's it from me till after the big day, all that's left is to wish all my readers and bloggy friends

 A Very Happy Christmas!