Thursday, 3 December 2009

Santa Emma


Hmmmmmm remember the other day when I posted a card with image from C.C. Designs at All That Scraps and I said it had been an expensive trip well this was what tempted me - digital stamp Santa Emma. I just think she is so cute in her Santa suit.

The sketch I've used is this week's challenge at Mojo Monday - every week the sketches there are just so fantastic - I love them.

Additional materials:
  • Black card and black glitter card
  • nestie circles
  • Promarkers
  • sentiment stamp (?)
  • sparkly stars and gems from stash
  • ultra fine glitter
Of course having bought Santa Emma it would have been a crime not to get the parcels for her to sit on wouldn't it? To create this image I sized both Santa Emma and the parcels in Serif before printing the parcels on to dotty patterned paper. Emma and the bows were printed on to white card and then coloured using Promarkers.


Additional materials:
  • red card
  • organza ribbon (coloured using Promarkers), gems and ultrafine glitter from stash.
  • tags cut using Cuttlebug die
  • edges scored using Scor-pal
Additional Challenges:
Have a fantastic weekend everyone - I'm going on a Christmas shopping weekend - yikes think it may be rather busy in Manchester. Not to worry maybe the free bar in the evening will help me to cope.

See you on Monday for The Pink Elephant challenge and thank you so much everyone who has joined in this week showing off their 'favourite colouring medium'. I've been seeing some truly amazing cards. Thank you so much.

Ann xxx
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Christmas rose..

Not so much a Christmas card today, but certainly a card that would be good to send out in the winter months as it features the beautiful Christmas Rose - Helleboris Niger. The image is from the Favourite flowers stamp range by Joanna Sheen.

Additional materials used:
  • green card and patterned papers from stash
  • lace threaded with organza ribbon
  • Cuttlebug swiss dots folder with dots sanded to give a more distressed look
  • gold border and sentiment peel offs from stash
  • Promarkers
Challenge
Now off to make Christmas cards on mass - heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!!!
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Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Messy Rabbit

Ah - another Messy Rabbit card - isn't he just so cute? This is the same base card as I used for a new home card I made a little while ago. It's very easy to do and lent itself perfectly to the Messy Rabbit Wreath stamp by Joanna Sheen.

I designed the door using Serif and printed the door base and extra panels on to Ice Gold card. I used my Scor-pal to score the edges of the door and panels to give a realistic effect. The panels were also mounted on gold mirri for a touch of oomph.


I made tiny letters (using Serif again - love playing around with this programme) and cut the letter box so that the letters could be slotted inside. Linda Hill, the very talented artist who created Messy lives in Derbyshire so it seemed fitting that Messy also lives in that area!



I have quite a few Christmas cards to make and as I have some ready made wreathes that came in a kit from way back I may use them in a production line this week. Watch this space!

My card is for the challenges at :
For those who read my post yesterday about the squeeking envelope it was a House Mouse stamp - so cute! One mouse pretending to be a Christmas tree and the other teeny weeny mice are dressed as presents. Not sure what I'm going to do with it, but hopefully inspiration will strike and it better be soon!
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Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Another blue Christmas...

I seem to be using blue a lot this week - Laura will not be happy!

Talking of Laura she has ordered a House Mouse stamp for me that she wants me to make her Christmas cards with. I've no idea which stamp she has chosen, but a package arrived today that looks the right shape and squeeks when shaken so I can't wait to see what it is. She has said it's a tricky one to use so it's to be hope my mojo comes back!

My card for today has one of my all time favourite Pollycraft images on. It's the one I saw being used on friend's blogs last year and first led me to Pollycraft. Even though I have loads of Pollycraft images now I still love this one.

Additional materials:
  • DCWV snowflake paper
  • dark pearlescent card and plain blue paper
  • silver peel offs for sentiment, borders, corner and trims on clothes
  • gems and glitter from stash
  • Promarkers for colouring + Sakura stardust pen to get spikes on hair and clear stardust for detail on branch
Challenges:
Thank you for looking and taking the time to leave such great comments.

Sheesh done it again - clicked post before scheduling - oh just pretend it's Wednesday!!

Ann xxx
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Monday, 30 November 2009

Bah humbug...

I don't really mean that - I love Christmas, but having decided to stay in yesterday and get on with those desperately needed cards why oh why did my inspiration go on walkabout.

By the end of the day I had made only one card - how bad is that? Having said that my recent craze on trying out different soup recipes did take some time up and then there was a bit more craft room sorting to do, but even so!

Anyway the card I did make is another card using that gorgeous Swiss Pixies Nora image by C. C. Designs. I really like the clean lines of these stamps and digis. Oh my - having just popped over there to get the link I've spotted the cutest stamp in the new December range - uh oh - isn't Sugarplums Santa just wow? Very tempting!

Additional materials:
  • Blue pearlescent paper and silver mirri board
  • blue snowflake paper by DCWV
  • Swiss dots cuttlebug folder
  • silver snowflake bradlet, gem brad and silver sentiment peel off from stash
  • X-cut snowflake punch
Challenges:
Have a great day everyone.

Whoops was supposed to be scheduling this and clicked post by accident - ah well it's been one of those sort of days!!!
Ann xxx
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Pink Elephant Day...

I really can't believe Monday is here again and we have a new challenge at The Pink Elephant.

This week is a colour theme and wow it's a super easy one...

Use your favourite colouring medium - how fun is that? For my card I used Promarkers - since buying the new colour range I just can't stop using these pens. I just love them.

I decided to make an acetate card and this may be the last one I ever do as it was just so hard to take a photo of. Some of the shots had a reflection of me on complete with camera - some had the windows etc - oh it was so tricky. I must try to find out how the experts manage as this card is really quite nice in real life (honest) and yet the photo does not do it justice at all.

The image I've used is Swiss Pixies Nora by C.C. Designs and oh my do they do some gorgeous stamps? I hadn't heard of them until my friend Irene won a challenge in the Summer and received a couple of beautiful stamps. Check out her cards here and here. Aren't they just fabulous?

Each month at C. C. Designs there are new designs and the great thing is you can get the images in both rubber and digi versions. I love my rubber, but for us over here in England it can take a long time for stamps to travel over the pond and the postage makes them more expensive too. Buying the digi version solves both those problems.

The fancy border on my card and 'snow' sentiment are all rub ons which were very kindly sent to me as part of some lovely blog candy from Fab at Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge. Thank you again Fab - I love these rub ons.

Have a great day everyone and hope you are able to join in our challenge at The Pink Elephant this week.

Ann xxx
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