12 designers, my turn...

Hello again! 

Its my turn as the 2nd (sporadic) designer for 12 Designers of Christmas, over on the store blog! 

I've made some simple but beautiful white Christmas cards. 

Pop over and take a look and remember there are prizes to be win for those that comment! 

nothing quite like black & white...

I've not suddenly turned into a card maker.  

This one was part of the Journal Journey's feature I did for the October edition of Scrap365. The journal and the cards are finally home. I'll share more pictures soon so you can see the journal should you not have a copy of the magazine. 

Until next time, thanks for stopping by! 

a christmas quickie

I am not a Christmassy kinda gal, not at all, I'm more bah-humbug.  

I hate Christmas shopping. 

I like present buying, but not at the same time a million other people are dithering over what to get Aunty Mable & Great Grandpa George.  Make your mind up BEFORE you leave the house people.

I also DO NOT make Christmas cards. 

I know lots of us crafty folks appreciate what goes into handmade items, but in all honesty they are hours I will not get back, and when our house is still upside down as the loft conversion is under way, I have more things to be getting on with. 

But yes, these are Christmas cards you see before you. 

Christmas Quickies.

I've made these for the ukscrappers home page as Mary-Anne likes to have a Christmas gallery on the homepage for December, and I said I would join in. 

Yes - I did groan at myself afterwards, wondering what the heck I was going to make. 

I know this is a stupid busy time of year all round, so I thought how about some quick, bright Christmas cards.  These took minutes to make (once I had decided what to make....)

I've used acrylic ink, scraped out across the card for that artistically modern background (did you spot that...artistically modern..oh yeah). If you use pearlescent inks it make it feel more festive.

I should also add at this point - use good quality cards that will take the ink. I get mine from Inspire Me Papers, or you could make them out of watercolour paper or similar.

Let the ink dry thoroughly while you put the kettle on. 

Once you have your cup of whatever you fancy, stamp away. Mine are done with archival ink, which you must heat set afterwards especially on the pearlescent ink.

Bobs your Uncle, a Christmas Quickie! 

*Festival*

You saw the sneak peeks, now here they are in full, my designs for the the SBK Club Festival kit which is now available for purchase.

In addition to the kit I’ve used a couple of buttons from my stash and some SBK “Fusion Patch" flowers. The flowers are just a fabulous quality – really thick paper, which meant they didn’t tear when I used them. I hate think paper flowers, I just don’t have the patience for them. Maybe I’m just too rough!

You can find more designs by the design team here.

365 #217 combined..

That's to say combined with WOYWW, thereby killing several birds with one stone. So here is my desk today. Note that it must be tidy (for me anyway) as I can see and easily get to what I am using.

The results of what's on my desk... I'm making Jamie's Thank You cards, finally. I've used October Afternoon stamps, bazzill cardstock, thread, distress ink and a punch. Sounded so simple but they are taking me ages with all those holes and stitching to do. I was just going to add a button to the top, but no, I had to stitch. Still, I always get a nice feeling when I'm done.

365 #213

Off we went, in the pouring rain to pick up a package from the post office. My new moo cards, and as the wrapper say - I was very excited. I just love these little cards which I have had printed for a new venture I'm going to try. More about that another time though as there are still things that need to be in place first.

A couple of cards...

A very quick post of a couple of cards I finished yesterday - thanks to my lovely new lamp! It made such a difference when doing such subtle colouring.

As always - thanks for looking!

Choose...

Number three of the three Sugar Nellie stamps, "Choose". Another lovely image. I thought I'd share the final one with you as you have left me so many lovely comments.

Again I have used distress inks and inktense pencils to colour the image. I now have to choose one of the cards to send to my friends little girls for their birthday...Or will I end up making another one. Not sure I'm ready to part with these just yet.

Sugar Nellie Cards

For ages I have flicked through magazines like Craft Stamper and admired some of the stamps that are out there, and on Monday I spotted some new Leanne Ellis designs for Sugar Nellie. I couldn't hold out any longer, I ordered three and they arrived today. Whilst the kids were happily playing (which is a minor miracle the mood Rosie has been in today) I set to work and so far have made two cards with them.

Stamps used on these cards are "Wish" and "A Little Hug". Wish has been coloured using just distress ink and a little added sparkle to the wings and word, and on A Little Hug I've used distress inks and inktense pencils. I thought that with the simplicity of the illustrations muted tones would work well.

I wasn't going to make my Christmas cards this year, but if they produce a Christmas line like this I may well change my mind on that.

As always, thanks for looking.

Another couple of cards

Sorry, but I just couldn't help myself! Variations on a theme but I thought I'd share all the same. Both were made using Basic Grey papers, the one on the right from the die cut tags you used to get. I never use them, but now I have.

365 #142

I seem to have a small card making bug at the moment. Maybe it's because I wrote a list down of all the upcoming birthdays. As you know from the last couple of posts that I've been flicking through the pages of card trends again, and one thing I love is the machine stitching on some of them. Something I have admired on peoples LO's for ages. Well, at Christmas Chris got me a mini stitch - the subject of today's photo. I dusted off the box and had a play. I think I need more practice... but here is a card I have made using it.

I've not been very brave, only stitched around the edge of the patterned paper, which I didn't make too big a pigs ear of. The paper is October afternoon, and I've used some KI Memories glitter lace cardstock and Kaiser gems to embellish it. Nice and simple. Just like me...

Smile

I'm supposed to be having a big housework day today, but got distracted again and made a quick card. Design for this one is again lifted from Card Trends.

It was so quick and easy to make and I'm really please with the end result, sadly the photograph isn't so great. The coloured cardstock and patterned paper have all come from the May scrapagogo kit. So, supplies used here are Inspire me paper card blank; Bazzill & AC cardstock; PP - pink paislee and MME; AC "Smile" flair (which mean I have finally used one from the flair mountain!).

365 #141

Finally a little bit of something crafty from me today. I've made this card, design lifted from Card Trends, for a member of the family who is just starting to sit her exams. I have to say exams as I'm not sure what they are anymore, but I'm going to say GCSE's and keep my fingers crossed that's right. She's 16 anyway, so that set...LOL.

Supplies used: Snow white card blank - Inspire me papers (love these cards); PP - BasicGrey Recess; thread; Distress ink; Flowers - petaloo (from scrapagogo May kit) ; Mini alphas - My little shoe box.

The inchie bug

After finishing off my first set of inchies yesterday, and having the need to make my Father-in-laws birthday card, I came up with this. The tree stamp is by crafty individuals and I knew I wanted to use it, so out came the distress inks and I turned it into a set of inchies. Each inchie has been mounted on foam and then all backed onto black cardstock and mounted on a pale grey card.

TFL!

365 #86

There is a strange car sitting on my drive today as my car was collected for some recall work to be done. I'm missing my car, but at least it will come back nice and clean.

365 #75

Bit of a dull domestic day today, so I thought I'd share two cards with you. The photo was taken today, but the cards were made yesterday. I hope that's allowed!

I've used card stock and patterned paper from the March scrapagogo kit, stamps, watermark pad and ribbons.

TFL!

Baby girl card

Life has been complicated this last week or so, so as a distraction you may have noticed that I've been catching up on my card making. Today's card is another Tilda card for someone who has recently had a baby girl. I did try to scan it but with the button flowers it made it hard to get a good image.

For this one, I've used the same method to colour Tilda with a little bit of sparkle on her heart and wings. Basic Grey Eva paper and a BG rub on and buttons.

I hope you like it and thank you for looking. I'll be back with my usual photo's soon.

More Tilda...

Another birthday card, for yet another little girl whose birthday it is this weekend. This time I have used Basic Grey papers from the Sugared range. Lovely earthy greens and pales pinks. Tilda herself has also got a small splash of glitter on the spots of one of her patches for which I used a Sakura clear glitter gelly roll pen.

Birthday card

My first Tilda, and the first card I've made since doing a huge pile at Christmas. This is for the little girl of a friend of ours whose 4th birthday is next month. I thought it would be a good excuse to have a go at one of the lovely Tilda stamps.

I've used Basic Grey Eva papers, purple ribbon from an Angel Crafts kit and a Tim Holtz ticket. To colour I have used whispers pens for the flesh tones and then Derwent Inktense pencils for hair and clothes. I think she's turned out rather well. I enjoyed it so much I've ordered more Inktense pencils to complete the set.

Thanks for looking!