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!

                     

House Mouse Halloween card

Hi there and happy Saturday!  I have a House Mouse card today:

I printed the image, sentiment and background paper from the House Mouse triple cd (I think!).

I stitched around the edges with my sewing machine, added some ribbon and some green  STAMPIN UP DEAR DOTS - job done!

challenges:

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

trimmies craft challenge. -766-halloween-anything-goes.

house mouse-challenge. -anything-goes-or use purple and orange

allsorts challenge - A/G or tradional Christmas colours

Penny's challenges. A/G use paper

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

Pammie's inky pinkies challenges - A/G

thanks for visiting!

                                                                         

Stampin Up! Beautiful Gallery DSP

Here is my first card using Stampin Up! Beautiful Gallery DSP:

After mounting the beautiful image (which is one of many in that pack) onto gold foil sheet I used some Metallic texture RUB-ONS to create  foil/embossed splatters. The greeting was from the very handy Greetings for all mix & match Ephemera pack. The lovely domed brads are the streaked-dots and that's it a very quick and simple get well card to hopefully brighten someone's day!

I would like to enter the following challenges:

as you like it challenge favourite-square-or-not-and-why? this is very easy for me as I always make square cards as it makes the card seem more equal. There also seems more space on a square card to embellish it (with everything but the kitchen sink usually in my case!! 😂).

word art Wednesday. anything-goes. 

crafters cafe blog challenge. A/G optional floral

allsorts challenge - traditional Christmas colours or A/G

Pammie's inky pinkies challenges. - A/G

Pennys challenges. - A/G

creative inspirations.- autumn or something spooky - if my card isn't autumnal enough please delete me!

lil patch of crafty friends - A/G 

thanks for stopping by!

Here are a list of the products that I used: