Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and Friends

 I'm very excited to say Michelle Lupton from 'Handmade by Michelle'
 a prolific and wonderful card maker also from good old Oz
has a card Challenge at Christmas time and she invited me to participate.

Michelle makes the most amazing cards that I spend my time pinning for future reference
many featuring my favourite Hero Art background stamps.
I am over the moon that she asked me to participate so lets get on to the card:

This post is all about the 'Christmas Critters'
 and I had so many to pick from but I decided to go with this one today.
This particular one is a digital image and I just love that big toothy grin.

I have coloured with Copics and added a bit of white glitter

stickles, the image actually comes in the photo from and is from

SheepSki Designs

I have also added a strip of glitter ribbon on the side and the 'jingle all the

way' sentiment is from 'stamplorations' and cut from pink mirror card and

set up a bit with adhesive foam.

So now you have checked out my Christmas Critter its time to head over to

Michelle's blog and see what else is going on.

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

The Flower Challenge #14 CAS

It's time for a new challenge at The Flower Challenge and as you can see it's CAS. That interprets as Clean And Simple.

I wanted to make a small set of cards to give a friend so I decided to go CAS and made this to give away. Its really hard to see on these but I used a Papertrey Impression Plate (just visible on the card with the yellow flowers) that gives a slight worn look to the front of the card. Love the look and sorry it didnt show up in the photos.

The panel in the whole of the stamp and I cant tell you the name as I pulled the rubber off the wood block and me being me didn't make note, but its one of those timeless stamps that looks just like stamps available now.  Very simple Copic colouring.

Cut a piece of coloured foam to go under each panel to match the main flower, glued it down.

Die cut the white flower and cut it in half, glued the two halves together then

glued against the foam as though under the foam panel.

Finished off with the silver mirror card die cut 'thanks' from

Penny Black. Glued in place.

How simple are these, yet so pretty and eye catching.

Now its your turn to make a CAS card and join us at The Flower Challenge.

Looking for more inspiration? Go to the blog and check out what all the Design Team have been up to, each will have a link from their card to their blog with further information.

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

Challenges:

Penny Black and More November : Flower Power

Thanks Card

Simply Create Too Challenge #133 CAS

Thanks Card

Simply Papercraft Challenge 52 Anything Goes

Thank you card

Five Christmas Cards One Post

 Four cards are the same style just different coloured snowflakes. 

This first card is my pride and joy in this post. I love how it turned out. 

A tag on kraft card stock using all the little stamps in a stamp set from MFT, coloured 

with pencils and highlighted with a bit of white pencil.

Used a stitched tag die (sorry cant think of where from,

 and the 'Joyeux Noel' from Stamplorations.

I added a piece of string to the hole I poked through the top of the tag.

Then attached the 'Joyeux Noel' with glue.

The pattern paper comes from a pad of Christmas papers and has a gloss to it

with lots of xxxxxxx across it.

The rest of these cards are all the same. I have used a white card base.

Cut a Wonky Stitched square out of each then added

a large snowflake that I have doubled up so that when they spin

they are the same back and front.

I have attached this photo because I wanted to show you here where I have actually cut out a white snowflake, added VersaMark ink then Gold Embossing power and heat embossed, front and back twice to achieve this wonderful smooth look on this snowflake. This was the snowflake used for the Merry Christmas card.

I have attached with some fine silver thread I had on hand.

I also had some fine pink foil which was a bit fiddly as it was so

fine but it worked out in the end.

The sentiments were all cut from mirror card in different colours.

This last snowflake was cut from white fine glitter paper and was

another that was fiddly to put together but looks brilliant

finished.

The photos don't do justice to these cards but I have to say I was very please with then

end results. I have had the snowflake dies (there are three in the set) for so long I cant

remember the brand sorry. If anyone can remind me I will update the post.

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

Challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Joyeux Noel tag on Card

Watercooler  Wednesday Challenge #142 All About Christmas

Merry Christmas

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #368 Theme Christmas

Joyeux Noel tag on card base

Through The Purple Haze Challenge #136 Untraditional Christmas Colours

Joyeux Noel tag on card base

Crafting by Designs: Get Ready for Christmas October Edition

Merry Christmas Card

A Christmas Card in Non Traditional Colours

I cant believe how late it is. I left my run very late today. Just as I was ready to hit the craft room, my son approached me with a mending job on some work pants he wanted to wear tomorrow (of course) so I was late into my room and now its just short of 11.30pm and I need to be up at 5.30am and on my way to babysit so will just post with minimum chatter -yes I know I still managed to chatter didn't I, lol.

Coloured my sweet little elf from MFT with Copics and finished off with silver and gold gel pen and a bit of glitter glue.

Just love the sparkle and depth to hat, cuffs and star. Drew on the lines on the tree with glue pen

and added glitter then added some gems.

A bit of glitter washi for the side to finish the card off perfectly and a 'cheers' sentiment

from one of those paper sentiment sets we all get and hold onto just in case....

Love my elf in blue and purple.

Challenges:

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #262 :Gifts

Stamp Ink Paper Challenge #122 Washi

Watercooler Wednesday #142 All about Christmas

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

A Couple of Halloween Cards

I have to admit I'm not really into making Halloween cards as Halloween isn't something that we celebrate big time over here. It's only in the last 10 years or so that people have been getting their kids dressed up and even that is rather hit or miss. I would say probably the kids in their late teen's and early 20's are enjoying dressing up and having parties. And very young children are now being taken around just within their street to neighbours they know dressed up.

Cards are not exchanged as far as I know so even though I made Halloween cards I didnt have any sentiments other than the ones I used last year 'Trick or Treat' Smell my Feet' which didnt work with these cards so I looked at other sentiments I had that could work as well and I really liked how these turned out.

My cards are fairly plain, I have seen some of the most amazing cards with brilliant backgrounds and scenes but I have settled for pretty CAS. These stamps are from a set I bought on line for $5.00- cool hey. They all come as separate parts you stamp and build a body.

So here we have a Zombie with a bit of leakage, a glowing pumpkin

and a bodiless cat saying 'hi'.  Fab sentiment 'Let's get together' for

Halloween or any occasion and finished off with this brilliant Washi tape.

My next card I decided to use three Characters from the set. Just love Frankenstein 

and stamped him and the Zombie and the pumpkin and then The Vampire -ooops

he looks like he is tangled in the pumpkin and that glow is shining right up his bum.

Must be getting pretty hot, probably why he looks the way he does or it could be because

Frankenstein has his fingers stuck right in his face, probably up his nose. too graphic? Sorry!!

All coloured with Copics. This one is finished off with some glitter ribbon on the side

and a few sequins in the Halloween colours and a perfect sentiment

"We're all quite Mad You'll fit right in".

Again perfect for Halloween or just some other occasion.

Challenges:

All sorts Challenge Blog #438 Halloween

We're all quite mad here!

A Gem of A Challenge #205 Spots or Strips or Halloween 

Lets get together

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #95 Zis for Zombies

I think the second card  picture & sentiment suits

 your challenge perfectly

'We're all quite mad

You'll fit

right in'

Addicted to Stamps and More #264 Clean and Simple

Lets Get Together Card

Crafting By Designs : Its Halloween!

'We're All quite Mad Card

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge #325 TheWalking Dead

Lets Get Together Card

Thank you so Much for Coming to Visit

Started On My Christmas Cards

Four Christmas cards each made the same way. First I used a piece of acetate that I cut an oval shape from the centre of with my Scan 'n' Cut. I then placed this where I wanted to do my blending and used the Clarity brushes so I get a nice light blending. I love using these brushes and find them very easy to use. I have one foreach colour and have wrapped a piece of coloured washi tape around the top area of each so I can see clearly what colour they are for.

I do clean then when I am finished with them, not totally but as much as possible on a baby wipe just brushing away excess ink to keep them so they are for light colouring.

I have done light blue for two.

A lavender.

And a pink. For the lavender and pink I cut pink coloured metallic 

cardstock and for the blue silver cardstock.

So easy and pretty with the die cut sentiments from  Stamplorations.

Challenges:

Stamplorations Never-ending Anything Goes Challenge

Crafting From the Heart #179 Anything Goes

Merry Christmas Lavender colour

HLS October Christmas

Merry Christmas Lavender colour

I think I hit the twist on the head with my die cut too :)

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