You are Tutu Sweet! Birthday card

It's New Years Eve and what better way to bring in the New Year than with a birthday card for a little sweetie who's birthday falls on that all important '1st Day of the Year'. How much more important could you be. Favourite colour 'purple'

Coloured with Copics, added glue pen to the skirt in squiggles

then poured glitter over in pink but alas in the photo it looks more

red so you will just have to believe me when I say its 

a lovely hot pink glitter. It looks better IRL than here. Anyhooo I added glitter

to the headband as well. To add to the card itself I cut two layers of the stitched

die cut, the original with the Copic coloured (Mo's Digital Pencil) image

and another larger for under this. I then chose a couple of purple Copics and

blended them around the edge of the circle only going in far enough to be covered

by the top layer.

I used the sentiment from a Penny Black set with other images

drawn by Mo but in stamp form. Finished off with a couple of

rows of stars die cut from silver glitter paper.

Challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - #458 Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge #150 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope to see you again soon.

'Tis the Season to be Jolly

This next card was my start into next years Christmas cards. I ordered the stamp and it cameo late for this years cards and its so cute I thought I would get started colouring. If you know Stamping Bella you will recognise this as one of hers. The little chickie laying on the ground is a stamp on its own and you can stamp anywhere. 

I die cut the tag then stamped and coloured with Copics finishing off

the christmas lights with Wink of Stella.

Love them, so cute and easy to colour.

Trying to decide if I want to add anything else, plenty of time to

decide on that later. Cant believe I have actually started on my next years

cards, but there's a first time for everything.

Next up, I found in my box of pre -cut die cuts a pile of pieces

for

this stunning looking Christmas snowflake/decoration. They are cut from

glitter paper, cardstock and foam.

This photo is a bit blurry, its hard to get the camera to focus with all

the glitter.

But they are extremely pretty and I had a lot of fun putting them

all together.

The die used is from Reverse Confetti

As you can see here they give you ideas on how to

layer the pieces. I ended up cutting lots of pieces and found it

could be rather a pain as the little pieces are what really make

these look good but they are only one offs so thats lots

of times through the machine. 

I found it easier to to add sparkle by adding gems. I have made these full size and

 added a full size on back. I will add to a card for christmas with removable tape next year

 so its a card but also a gift. Three made and hopefully I will get more made as they

would make lovely gifts I think.

Now to end my post a couple of photos of some trees out front that have just seeded, its only for a few days before the berries come in.  The wild birds love it and I woke to my son telling me about the noise of hundreds of them raiding the trees. Of course as soon as I went out the door to take a photo they flew off in all directions so I only caught a few cheeky ones

Today there is no white fluff left at all. They will be back as soon as the berries come in and the trees will heave with their colour and noise.  Aren't they beautiful.

Challenges :

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Make It Sparkle

Christmas Decoration

Crafty Creations Challenges #331 Any Holiday

Tis the Season to be Jolly

Work It Wednesday November 2016 Dies

Christmas Decorations

Stamps & Fun = Creativity #291 Christmas Project

Christmas Baubles

Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 260 & 261

Christmas Baubles -no pages were

harmed in the making of these baubles but lots of snippets

were used up, I cant believe how much we

do hoard.

Thank you so much for coming to look and I hope you come again soon.

Three Very Easy Christmas Cards

Todays post shows you three very simple cards that I ended up doing lots of.

 The baubles are from a stamp set from Annabelle's Stamps and they are really pretty and I haven't used them anywhere near enough. They aren't available anymore, sorry.

I coloured the Christmas baubles with copics, fussy cut them out.

Added them with dimensional foam and drew the line

on with silver pen.

I used blue Distress Ink on the 'Seasons Greetings'

sentiment.

Very simple card.

Next up is a card with lots of white, white card and white sparkle

paper for the snowflakes and silver mirror cardstock for

the sentiment.

I added the die cut snowflakes with glue then once dry I trimmed

off with scissors.

Very pretty and simple card. The Seasons Greetings sentiment 

was added first. these are rather large die cut snowflakes

but they look quite good here.

Another card that has turned out well and once done the first

time was good for producing in bulk.

Next up is this Santa and reindeer that I bought last year too late

to use for Christmas then and had coloured and fussy cut

but they were waiting for inspiration.

Then it hit me. Used a patterned page with Christmas words

cut to the size of the card.

Added Santa and the reindeer with dimensional foam.

Added a bit of Kindy Glitz to Santa and all done. So easy

and I loved them. They all went off with the others and I have to confess

that no family or friends got Christmas cards this year. I was not organised

enough with trying to reach my goal for the Caring Hearts Card Drive 

and moving mum and dad into the nursing home. So family will just have

to wait till next year, they will survive and friends will get a card after Christmas

just so they know I care. I think any card is better than no card.

Challenges:

Glitter 'N; Sparkle Challenge Blog #219 Xmas with Glitter

Seasons Greetings White Sparkle Snowflakes

Crafting When WE Can Challenge #134 Its Christmas

Seasons Greetings Christmas Baubles

613 Avenue Create Challenge #192 Anything Goes with Optional twist Holiday Happiness

Santa and Rudolph card

A Gem of A Challenge #184 Anything  Christmas Goes

Seasons Greetings with Christmas Baubles

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #74 X is for XXX X-mas

Was so hoping to get a snarky card done will just have to wait till 2017

for this year will settle on Santa and Rudolph.

Alphabet Challenge 'U' for Use Something Red

Santa and Rudolph

CAS-ual Fridays #163 Christmas

Seasons Greetings White and Sparkle white snowflakes

Simon Says Monday Challenge Let There Be Snow

Seasons Greetings Snowflake card

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #224 CAS

Seasons Greetings baubles

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

And Those Christmas Cards Keep Rolling On.......Some Glitter and some Foiling

For those of you who are interested Vera has posted the latest on the Caring Hearts Card Drive. You will never guess how many cards they collected..........over 64,000 , thats triple what they collected last year. That is unbelievable, isn't it. One lady sent 1,000 cards just from her. I cant believe this wonderful community. Anyway if you interested in more information I have provided the link at Vera's name above.

Some more of my Christmas card collection

 

This cards made using another of Mo's Digital Pencil images.

A cute little baby in a Santa hat sitting with teddy. Coloured with Copics.

Finished off with some Kindy Glitz (love this stuff but hate how it can 

warp the card stock). Felt it needed a little something so I added a strip of

Washi Tape with circles and stars

then overlaid the coloured image slightly. This cute little image

comes with the sweet sentiment so I used that but had already coloured

and attached to the card front before I thought of Foiling (ahh well

next time). Finished it off with a die cut snowflake from white glitter paper.

Next is my bit of fun card.

I was playing around with foiling, I have some different colours to

use and of course I bought rainbow colour. I had watched a clip on

YouTube for the Minc and the Reactive Mist. It was one of those

things I bought then wondered why after as I went on line to

see ways to use it and found it was rather limited. Spray thin lines

or thicker mmmm wasn't doing it for me. Then I saw

another product being painted on and left to dry and thought

why not this mist.

Cheap brush, disposable little container. You only need the smallest

amount and I just brushed on roughly. I did about 20 tags - white, black and

kraft. I left it all to dry well and used paper sleeves to put the tag through the minc

so I wouldn't ruin the plastic sleeves. I made sure to really let the solution dry well

before adding the foil.

You are better off doing rough strokes, I filled some areas too well

so the foil was very solid and I preferred the patchy look.

I decided to make this a special penguin card. Base is black with white dots

representing the galaxy. The tag foil looks like a wave, a magic wave bringing

in Santa's helper on his multicoloured surfboard. Finished off with a Stamplorations

'Merry Christmas' and a red Christmas ribbon.

Its different and bright and I love it.

Challenges :

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges #331 Glitter and Sparkle

have a beard merry christmas

Work It Wednesday Simon Says November Dies

Merry Christmas Penguin card

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge #282 Tag, You're It!

Merry Christmas Penguin

Come and Get It Challenges : Christmas

Have a Beary Merry Christmas

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #137 Christmas

Merry Christmas Penguin

 C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #394 - Christmas

Have a Beary Merry Christmas

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.