With Love at Christmas

Hello and happy Sunday!

I was recently inspired (as I always am!) by the fabulous Jules-always with a heart blog in making today's card for 2 reasons - 1: is that she has been making stunning Christmas cards using Etsy images and 2: because it's got hearts on it!! 💕

The image is called Watercolour vintage Christmas window (sorry I can't link it directly as it's against Stampin Up rules if you are a demonstrator) but you should  be able to find it from that description.

The background paper is from the Art studio, I also used a stitched square die and twine. My sentiment is computer generated. I also added a tiny bit of glitter to the hot air balloon heart!

The brads are Stampin up adhesive-backed-metallic-gems

I love all of the images in this set and have made lot's more Christmas cards which I will share soon.

Challenges:

CD Sunday challenge - A/G using cd or digi image

allsorts challenge. A/G or Christmas cards

word art Wednesday. -anything-goes

thanks for visiting!

                                                                      

Another Whisper of Winter!

Today's card is made using the same papers as my last post:

I used:

The Paper Boutique 'A Whisper of Winter' paper pad for the image and background paper.

Corner punch

Stitched square dies

gems and ribbon

twine, star die

Challenges:

creative inspirations November-challenge-wrapped-up-in-winter -This theme can mean various things ... think winter clothing / Christmas wrapping or simply make something celebrating the season of Winter or Christmas! (I chose celebrating the season)

paper funday challenges - A/G with optional twist of merry and bright

Pennys challenges - A/G

Pammies inky pinkies challenges. - A/G

thanks for stopping by!

                    

A Whisper of Winter

I'm back with another Christmas card today:

I used:

The paper boutique 'A Whisper of Winter' paper pad for the image and background paper.

Marianne Craftables die

gems, ribbon and my sewing machine - I tried a new stitch on my sewing machine and I quite like it!!! It reminds me of the edging of vintage table cloths!

Challenges:

Christmas kick start challenge. - just add antlers

Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge -anything-goes

lil patch of crafty friends - A/G

crafters cafe blog challenge. -anything-goes-optional-Christmas

Hopefully I will be back soon as I've got to get my skates on with a craft fayre coming up!

                  

House Mouse Christmas card

I have made a House Mouse card today:

The image and sentient are from the House Mouse decoupage cd (I think!).

I added lots of Glossy accents and glitter. The background paper is from the Art studio paper pad mounted onto some silver card. The punches that I used for the sentiment are old SU.

Challenges:

Polkadoodles -anything-goes

lil patch of crafty friends - A/G

Pammies inky pinkies challenges - A/G

House mouse-challenge A/G-or-any-holiday

CD Sunday challenge - A/G using cd or digi image

digi choosday. - A/G

allsorts challenge. - autumn colours or A/G

trimmies craft challenge - Christmas

crafters cafe blog challenge. -anything-goes-optional-christmas.

as you like it challenge. -favourite-critter-and-why? I do love Penny Black hedgies but I also love these cute House Mouse critters because they are always up to mischief and lots of fun - although I DO NOT love mice in real life!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

                        

Downton Abbey card

Here is a card that I made using the Crafters Companion Downton Abbey cd:

The image, sentiment and background paper is printed from the cd and I mounted it onto some craft card. I used some circle dies to cut a ring of rose gold glitter paper and the flowers were punched from a very old Stampin Up punch.

The brads are  Stampin Up adhesive backed metallic gems.

Challenges:

Polkadoodles - A/G

digi choosday - A/G

cd Sunday challenge- A/G using cd or digi image

allsorts challenge.- autumn colours or A/G

Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge -anything-goes-

Pammies inky pinkies challenges. - A/G

word art Wednesday. - A/G

thanks for visiting!

                                                                      

Stampin Up Peaceful Garden Christmas Card

Today's card is made using the beautiful STAMPIN UP PEACEFUL GARDEN DSP again:

I also used the TRADTIONAL LABELS BUNDLE again for the 'Merry' (which I heat embossed with silver embossing powder) and the labels dies. The 'Christmas' die is from a retired set called Peaceful Season which I fussy cut around the edges to create another layer.

You may notice that my sewing machine stitch around the edges is incredibly straight and I honestly thought my wonky stitching was saved due to this little magnetic gadget that attaches to my sewing machine:

The only problem being that it can't be adjusted any further in because it buts up to the edge of the foot of the sewing machine. So I have straight sewing edges just not close enough to the edges of the paper, but I suppose you can't win them all!! Back to the drawing board of practicing sewing straight lines! - edited to say that I have sewn another card using this gadget and matted another layer so that the stitching is closer to my image - Yay! problem solved 😊

challenges:

As I used a couple of snippets of paper (the glitter card is retired SU):

I would like to enter Pixies snippets playground. where you must use a snippet of paper/card

allsorts challenge - autumn colours or A/G

word art Wednesday. - A/G

Rudolph days October challenge - A/G

as you like it challenge -favourite-ribbon-or-twine-and-why.? even though I have used both ribbon and twine on my card I much prefer ribbon as it seems more elegant. Also to me it looks better on female cards which I tend to make more of.

thanks for visiting!

                          

I used:

Stampin Up Traditional labels bundle

For today's card I have used the beautiful Stampin Up PEACEFUL GARDEN DSP and the TRADITIONAL LABELS BUNDLE to create my card:

challenges:

as you like it challenge - favourite-ribbon-or-twine-and-why? I much prefer ribbon to twine as it seems more elegant! Also I think twine looks better on male cards and because I mainly make female cards I use ribbon more often.

trimmies craft challenge. -halloween-anything-goes.

lil patch of crafty friends. - A/G

stamping sensations - autumn or A/G

we love stamping - autumn or A/G

 thanks for visiting!