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!

 

Challenges:

 

The Holly and The Ivy Challenge

Time Out Challenges

Trees for Twofer

The Twofer challenge this month is Trees. I have lots of tree stamps in my stash so this should be easy - wrong! If I used a pine tree I couldn't see past a Christmas card . If I used any other sort of tree both designs turned out much the same.  My mojo has defintely taken a bit of a long hike. 

In the end I used one of the trees from a HLS set Christmas Joy. I stamped thtree three times with Versamark and heat embossed in red sparkle on a piece of alcohol inked card. Of course I forgot to use talc on it so embossing powder stuck everywhere!  I brushed most of it off but couldn't get inside the trees so made a feature of it by adding some more, and then some stickles.

 

For my second card I stamped the tree -minus its trunk onto some scraps of patterned paper and paper pieced them round a circle, which looked slightly messy so the sentiment got added to a diecut circle.

And here they both are together.

I'm still not really happy with them. Who would have thought this challenge would be so tricky!

Trees and Leaves

I can't believe how fast this month is going, here we are over half way through September already, and it's time for another challenge at Cardz for Guyz. There's lots of autumn themed challenges around and this one is noe exception, as we want to see trees and or leaves on your card.

When I was sorting out my box of pre stamped part made bits I came across this topper that I had foiled.

I used , copper gold, green and red foil . In real life it is very pretty. I mounted it on copper and then gold mirri card, which looks a bit like tortoiseshell in the photo!

I took this one to try to show the shine.

There's a whole heap of inspiration on the challenge blog, so why not pop over and have a look.

I'm also entering the challenges at:
Crafty Cardmakers
Crafting Happiness
Allsorts

Trees at Cardz 4 Guyz

Tuesday again and time for a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz. Joan has chosen "Trees" as our theme.

I decided to use a NBUS stamp and die set from SU called Thoughtful Branches.  I added glossy accents to the apples but it doesn't show up very well in the photo, I think the sentiment is a Penny Black one.  I look forward to seeing what you all make, and don't forget to check out the super makes from the rest of the team.