Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Polkadoodles Pickles Balloon Birthday Card

Good afternoon and a happy new year to you.  A bit later posting today as I have spent this morning taking down all of the Christmas decorations.  This weekend was the first opportunity we had and as long as they were down before twelfth night I was okay with that.

It's the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar and a nice easy theme for you to start the year:

'ANYTHING GOES'

For my card I have used:

Pickles Balloon from Polkadoodles.  This is a pre-coloured image.

The background is inked with distress oxides.

The white eyelet border had been cut using one of the dies from the Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Rectangle die set.

The DP is from my stash.

 

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Polkadoodles

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months 'Anything Goes' challenge and also check out the gorgeous cards from the other DT members using images from this months sponsor Polkadoodles.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  See you soon. x

Bold Tidings Joy to the World Snowman Christmas Card

 Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  Here in the UK today snow has arrived.  In my family they joke that I only have to look at ice and snow and I fall over and true to form I slipped over on the ice yesterday so today I'm nursing a grazed knee and a few aches and pains but luckily nothing major.

I have been doing bit of batch card making so I have four cards to share today with the same design only different colours

For these cards I have used:

• Tim Holtz Bold Tidings #2 by Stampers Anonymous CMS419 stamped on black card and heat embossed in white.  I masked out the O from joy and replaced it with the snowman from the My Favorite Things Christmas Cuteness stamp set
• The backgrounds are ink blended using Distress Oxides and then I have stamped snowflakes on it which were then heat embossed in silver.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  I'll see you soon.

All Dressed Up Christmas Penguins Christmas Card - Crafty Calendar December Challenge

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  It's the first Saturday in December so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.

The theme this month is

'CHRISTMAS'

For my card I have used:

• Christmas Penguins digital stamp from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.
• The background is ink blended distress oxides in Cracked Pistachio and Salvaged Patina and then I stencilled some snowflakes over it using Distress Sparkle Texture Paste.
• The red striped background is Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink through the MFT Diagonal Stripes stencil.

For this challenge we are sponsored by:

All Dressed Up

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months Christmas challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog,  see you soon x

Stampers Anonymous Snow Globe Christmas Cards

Good morning to you and happy December.  I have a couple of Christmas cards to share today.  I love snow globe stamps and dies and todays card uses one of my favourites which is from a stamp set by Stampers Anonymous.

There are two cards using the two different snow globe designs from the stamp set in slightly different shades of blue and one of the backgrounds is using distress snowfall texture paste through a stencil and the other using distress sparkle texture paste....can you tell the difference?

For this card I have used:

• Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous CMS472 Festive Print stamp set stamped with Distress Archival Ink and then over stamped with versamark ink, heat embossed with Ranger sticky embossing powder and then covered with rock candy glitter.
• The Merry Christmas sentiment is from the same stamp set and heat embossed in white.
• The backgrounds are Grey Distressed Woodgrain cardstock.  One of them has been stencilled with Distress Snowflake Texture Paste and the other with Distress Sparkle Texture Paste and then coloured with a combination of distress mica spays and distress inks.  One of the pastes holds the ink colour and the other you can lift the ink from it with a damp kitchen roll.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  I'll be back tomorrow with a card for our new challenge over at Crafty Calendar

See you soon x

Crafty Calendar November Challenge - Polkadoodles Little Gift Theo Christmas Card

Good afternoon.  I hope you are keeping safe and well.  A little bit later posting today due to spending this morning at the Creative Craft show at the NEC Birmingham.   Nice to see a couple of new suppliers there so I made a beeline to the new Spellbinders stall, met Yana Smakula who was doing some demos for them and picked up a few goodies.

It's the first Saturday in the month and we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.  The theme this month is ANYTHING GOES.  It's November so I feel it's okay to start sharing Christmas cards.

For my card I have used:

Little Gift Theo from Polkadoodles coloured with copics.

The background is Distress Mica Sprays

and stars stencilled using Distress texture paste and rock candy glitter.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Polkadoodles

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months anything goes challenge and check out the gorgeous cards from the other DT members using images from this months sponsor Polkadoodles.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog,

See you soon as I have a few Christmas cards to share in the coming weeks.

Cheerleader Ellie from Paper Nest Dolls Birthday Card

 Good morning to you.  I hope you are safe and well.  Not a Halloween card.....Encouraged by the Halloween stencil I created in Cricut Design Space (card was posted a couple of weeks ago - Halloween ghost stencil) I set myself the task of creating a confetti/ticker tape stencil but this time not just a one stencil, I wanted it to be a layering stencil.  I ended up creating a four layer stencil and I don't think it turned out too badly.

For this card I have used:

• A four layer confetti/ticker tape stencil created using Cricut Design Space,  Each layer was cut out of Mylar and then I ink blended through them onto white card.  I have used a different ink colour for each stencil layer and I think it worked out okay.
• The digi stamp is Cheerleader Ellie from Paper Nest Dolls coloured with copics.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Sizzix Edison Pumpkin Halloween Card

Good morning I hope you are keeping safe and well.   I'm still sharing Halloween cards and this is another card where I have used an under used/neglected embossing folder that I have sitting in my stash.

For this card I have used:

• Cuttlebug Jack o' lanterns embossing folder.  Embossed onto white card and then ink blended around the edges with Carved Pumpkin distress ink.
• The pumpkin has been created using the Sizzix 666382 Edison colorise thinlit die set by Tim Holtz.
• DP is from the Tim Holtz 8"x8" Halloween Kraft Paper pack.
• Trick or Treat has been cut into the DP using the Sizzix 665995 Bold Text Halloween thinlit die set by Tim Holtz.

 

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Solar Paste Ghosts Halloween Card

Good morning.  I hope you are keeping safe and well.

A few weeks ago I posted a card that I made using a stencil that I created using Cricut Design Space and I love it so much that I have another card to share with you today using it.

For my card I have used:

• Ghost stencil created in Cricut Design space and cut from Doeflex sheet.
• Simon Hurley Solar pastes through the stencil in Overheated, Royal Flush and Crocodile Tears.
• The DP is from the Tim Holtz Halloween Kraft Paper Pack.
• The sentiment is an unmounted red rubber stamp from a set called Halloween Trinkets by Kraftin' Kimmie which was stamped onto white card and then has been heat embossed in black.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Stampers Anonymous Unravelled Mummy Halloween Card.

 Good morning.  I hope you are keeping safe and well.  With the intention of using items in my stash that have been forgotten about or neglected I have an embossing folder that I have had for quite a while so I thought I would use it for todays card.

For my card I have used:

• The stamped mummy and pumpkin candy bucket are from the Stampers Anonymous CMS452 Tim Holtz Unravelled stamp set and have been coloured with copics.
• The sentiment is from the same stamp set and has been heat embossed in white.
• The background was created using the Cuttlebug Spiderweb Frame embossing folder and then I have ink blended the embossing with Black Soot distress ink.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Black and White Stampers Anonymous Tiny Frights Halloween Card

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  I have a card to share today and as you can see I'm still in Halloween card mode at the moment, I really need to move to Christmas card mode soon.....

For this card I have used:

A selection of images from the Stampers Anonymous CMS468 Tim Holtz Tiny Frights stamp set.  Stamped with Versamark ink onto black card and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I was going to colour the images with pencils but I liked the black and white effect so I decided to leave them like that.

The sentiment is from the same stamp set and just a few white pearls to finish

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x