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Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Creative Inspirations - Your Favourite!

Good Evening!

This week's challenge at CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS is Your Favourite!

All you need to do is include / use one of your favourite crafting items and state what it is. Please remember to tell us what that is though!
This week's prize is from HEY LITTLE MAGPIE and is a £20 VOUCHER!

My favourite thing on today's card are the Maja Design Papers! Alongside this though I have to admit that LOTV Stamps and the festive season of Christmas are also favourite's of mine.

Apologies for the lack of photo skills, I am still trying to get to grips with my new camera!

INGREDIENTS -

LOTV Stamp

Penny Black Sentiment Stamp

Maja Design Paper

Flowers from The Ribbon Girl & Wild Orchid Crafts

Snowflake Button, Cheesecloth & Ribbons from The Ribbon Girl

Decorative Pins from MMCS

Nestabilities & Paper Doily

Silver Shimmer Dome Stickers by Papermania

Collall All Purpose Glue, Twinklets, Frantage & Ranger Glossy Accents

Tim Holtz Paper Distressing Tool

INKS USED -

Archival Ink - Watering Can

Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black

Copic Ciao Markers - C1, C3, C5, E00, E21, E31, E33, R11, R20, R81, RV95, Y11,Y17, BG93, BG96 & W1

Thanks for popping by,

HAPPY CRAFTING!

XXX

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - White on White!

Good Evening!

This month's challenge over at PBSC is 'White on White!' Naturally whenever I see this theme I always want to make a Christmas card, so I have! I have to admit though that I'm not overly keen on the finished result ... but hey ho.

INGREDIENTS -

Penny Black Stamp

Tim Holtz Texture Fades

Silver & White Sprinkles by Doodlebug

INKS USED -

Archival Ink - Watering Can

Thanks for popping by,

HAPPY CRAFTING!

XXX

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Papertake Weekly - Words Words Words!

Good Evening!

I am back earlier than expected this year with a Christmas card for you all! Today's card is for the new challenge over at PAPERTAKE WEEKLY of Words Words Words!

Typically the only chance I had to photograph this card was on a cloudy day, so apologies for the poor photo quality.

INGREDIENTS -

Penny Black Stamp

Doodlebug Sequins - Lily White

Ranger Glossy Accents

Tim Holtz Paper Distressing Tool

INKS USED -

Archival Ink - Jet Black

Thanks for popping by,

HAPPY CRAFTING!

XXX

Saturday, 27 December 2014

Totally Gorjuss - Celebrate!

Good Morning!

Today's card is for the new challenge over at TOTALLY GORJUSS of Celebrate! I have used my favourite PB stamps for C&S Christmas Cards, I can see it getting used a lot in the future.

This is my final Christmas Card of 2014, I hope you have enjoyed seeing them all in one place here on this blog. I will most likely continue to make them throughout 2015 seeing as I like Christmas so much! So please don't forget to stop by every so often.

INGREDIENTS -

Carolling Tree Stamp by Penny Black

Holographic Silver Stars from my stash

Collall All Purpose Glue & Ranger Glossy Accents

Tim Holtz Distressing Tool

INKS USED -

Archival Ink - Watering Can

Thanks for popping by,

HAPPY CRAFTING!

XXX

Thursday, 25 December 2014

My Favourite 5 Christmas Cards!

Good Morning!

Today I wanted to share with you my favourite Christmas Cards of 2014! Each year I like to select my Top 5, I hope you like them as much as I do.

First up is a card I made for my challenge blog, Creative Inspirations.

I have used this super cute Digi by Mel Jens Designs which I fell in love with as soon as I saw it. I decided to use the same colour palette in the papers that I used in the image, creating a rather non traditional Christmas card. I like the card so much that I couldn't bear to part with it this year!

Next up is a card using a sweet LOTV image. Most of you may know that I am a super fan of LOTV character stamps, but this sweet design using Robins caught my eye. I have also used some lovely Christmas papers by one of my favourite brands Maja Design.

This next card is rather different to my usual style, it's very Clean & Simple. I bought this PB stamp earlier in the year and to me it's one of those designs that doesn't need anything else with it, expect for a few sparkly embellies for a finishing touch! Not only does the card have a Classy look but it was super quick to make which when you need to make a batch, is just what you want!

This year I haven't made as many cards using the Tim Holtz inky style as I have done previously, which is a personal shame. However I did manage to make this one which certainly catches your eye!

Finally is a card using one of my all time favourite colour schemes for Christmas cards, white on white! Even though they are a pain to photograph, they do look lovely. I have used an older Magnolia stamp on this card, when it comes to Magnolia I have to admit that the older designs are favourites!

Well I hope you have enjoyed having a look at my top picks, why not share your own?

Thanks for stopping by,

HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!

XXX

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

It's Christmas Time Santa!

Good Morning!

For my first card as part of the Sugar Nellie DT I have used one of their new pre - coloured Toppers. I will admit to you now that this wasn't my original plan, I had hoped to colour something but due to lack of time I had to use a topper, however that isn't a bad thing because as you can see they are super cute!

INGREDIENTS -

The Hobby House Sugar Nellie Toppers 'Jolly Christmas'

First Edition Paper

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Paper Doily, Pop Out Sentiment & Cheesecloth

Red Sprinkles by Doodlebug

Large Silver Glitter Stickers by Papermania

Collall All Purpose Glue & Ranger Glossy Accents

Thanks for popping by,

HAPPY CRAFTING!

XXX

Monday, 22 December 2014

Totally Gorjuss - Love at Christmas!

Good Morning!

We have a new challenge over at TOTALLY GORJUSS this week of Love at Christmas! I have used one of the cute House Mouse stamps I chose for my prize a few weeks ago over at the HM Challenge. They arrived a few days ago and I couldn't wait to use this design.