Oh Christmas Tree

Good Morning everyone

Today is a couple of Christmas cards using alcohol ink coloured mirror card and a glitter texture paste stencilled background which is very hard to capture in the photos😀

White linen card base.  I took a piece of white card and lavinia pods stencil with stamperia artic ice texture paste and put to one side to dry.  On gold mirror card i added various green alcohol inks.  Once both were dry i cut the icy background to fit my base card and added little piece of green mirror card behind top and bottom and adhered to base.  I die cut a wonky stitched square from green mirror card and a larger white linen card, i mounted both on the card front, along with another little offcut of of the green to the top to just help break up all the white.   I die cut a little tree from white and added to the green square.

Stamped sentiment die cut into a stitched circle adhered to the top left corner.  Green glitter dots to embellish to finish.

I think you can just make out the icy stencilled background, it really does sparkle in the light

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and version 2, blue & purple alcohol inks onto silver mirror card.  I used a snowflake stencil and added the arctic ice direct to the card front.  Once dry i added a white die cut square and smaller square die cut from the blue inked silver mirror card. I added thin slivers of the blue mirror top and bottom. Stamped sentiment added with foam tape, i used a hole punch on off cuts of the mirror card to make little faux gems to finish.

I think you can just make out the snowflakes in the background and how the light really plays on the alcohol inked mirror card

Items Used:

Tree die - very old magazine freebie

Wonky stitched square dies

Stitched circle die

Tim Holt alcohol inks in blues and greens

Stamperia artic ice texture paste

Lavinia stencil 'pods'

Funky Fossil stencil ' snowflakes'

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

LOTV sentiment stamp

CraftUK ltd white linen cardstock

Ranger stickles - lime

Thank you all for stopping by.  Emmax

Id love to enter my first card in the following:

https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-68-trees-trees-trees.html

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https://52cct.blogspot.com/2022/11/november-stash-challenge-dt-call.html

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http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2022/11/one-word-prompt-shine.html - My mirror card is shiny as well as the icy texture paste background

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https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2022/11/anything-christmas-or-winter.html

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Relax male card

Good Morning all, i hope you all had a good weekend.

Its time for a new challenge over at cardz4guyz, the theme for the next fortnight is:

RELAX

Searching through my stash i found this lovely image in an old LOTV art pad.  I picked out the colours in the image of grey & blue.

A5 white cardbase.   I found in my stash cardstock in a dark blue and grey for matting and layering and a few papers to co-ordinate too.  I first die cut the image into an oval, layered onto bigger ovals of blue and grey.  Onto the base card i layered up the papers, of setting the blue foliage ones.  I added the topper with foam pads.

I then die lots of little leaves from the same papers picking up on the branches in the image.  I arranged them around the topper.  I found a scrap of card in yellow/peach and die cut lots of little birds.  I went with that colour for the birds to stand out against the dark colours and also it picks up on the images skin tone.  

I then die cut the sentiment in white and blue, added the blue as a drop shadow and added to the bottom of the cardfront.  Left over leaves and birds to finish. 

Close up of the topper, this shows the colours a bit better.  

Items Used:

LOTV art pad

Spellbinder oval dies

Memory box bird dies

Small leaf dies

Papers - rustic atmosphere - poundland

Paper - Blackberry lane - wild rose studio

Paper - Papermania Parisienne blue - docrafts

If you fancy joining in with this brilliant theme or just seeing what everyone comes up with,  then please do hop over to cardz4guyz

I hope you all have a good week. Thank you for stopping by.  Emmax

New Baby Niece

Good Morning Everyone.

Last week with all that cold weather my 4th little niece was born, she picked a cold week to arrive.  So i kept in the warm and made some cards for her. 

Baby Bottle shaped card.  I first cut the bottle shape from white linen card, keeping the card spine to the left.  I then cut a smaller layer and die cut an oval into it,  then dry embossed with the swiss dots.  Added red gingham card behind the aperture and added the layer onto the front with 3d foam tape.  I then added an oval frame and my die cut giraffe. Id wrapped cotton twine around the neck. Computer printed sentiment die cut into a small tag and added with more twine and a co-ordinating button. 

For the second card i dug out my old fabulous stork stamp.  Ive stamped him onto white card and simply watercoloured in lilac and touches of yellow for his beak & feet. I then cut him out.  Stamped sentiment and die cut with pierced delight spellbinders die

6x6 white linen cardblank, matted and layered with a lilac pattern paper die cut into a wonky stitched square, matted onto die cut white square and onto lilac pearl card.  Pearls to finish.

And a card for the new big sister, i found this lovely image of two little girls in an old LOTV art pad.  Computer printed sentiment, and then ive just matted the image onto purple card to pick up the colours in the topper. 

I also made this tag for the new big sister to add to a little gift.  Elephant die cut into grey pearl card, yellow gingham circle, tag cut in white and grey pearl card and die cut alpha's. 

While i was at it i made a few more bottle cards for the box

Yellow gingham one

and blue and grey polka dot ones, all same details as the first one. 

Items used:

Tattered lace giraffe & elephant dies

Tattered lace square dies

Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Spellbinders oval dies

Spellbinders 'Pierced delight - S2-143'

Memory box cross stitch rectangles

Anna marie polka dot & gingham cardstock

Justrite stamps 'special delivery'

LOTV art pad 'Just for Girls''

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all enjoy the rest of the week. Emma 

Happy New Year!

 Good Morning all and welcome to 2018.  May it be a Happy & Healthy Year for you all.  

I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas.  We had a lovely time.  

To kick start the year im sharing this summery card i made for a friend.  Hopefully the warmth of sunshine arrived as she opened it.  Using those wonderful house mouse images.

I first printed the house mouse image off from the cd-rom, it was a little too pastel for me so i added some extra colour using coloured pencils on the flowers only.  I cut out extra mice and decoupaged them. 

A5 white card blank.  Patterned paper which i then dry embossed, matted onto gold glitter card and wrapped with pink chiffon.  I made up some daisies using white pearl card and yellow card.  Stamped LOTV centre.

Close up, i added glitter glue to the daisy centres.  After die cutting them i used a ball tool to indent along the centre of each petal. 

and below i did a matching chocolate bar wrapper as a little gift. 

I first wrapped the chocolate with paper, stamped the sentiment and die cut into an oval, matted onto gold glitter card.  6 little daisies to frame.  These daisies were rather time consuming to make but was rather pleased with them. 

Items used:

Joanna Sheen House Mouse CD-Rom

Papermania paper pad - Elements pigments

Derwent Inktense pencils

Spellbinders M-bossibilities EL-005

Heartfelt Aster die set

Daisy die set

LOTV sentiment stamp

Thank you for stopping by, thank you for all of your visits and comments over the last year, I look forward to seeing you all again this year.  Emma

So Wishing you all 

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Floral Birthday Stepper cards

Good Morning everyone

So today i am sharing a set of floral birthday stepper cards, made using LOTV art pad images and hand made flowers. 

Ive used happy birthday printed cardstock on them all from Ann-Marie, I also decoupaged the images and added glossy accents to the vases and touches of glitter glue.

Little primroses to go with the primroses in the little vases, made using yellow cardstock and orange ink pad, yellow gem centres. 

Hellobore made with a simple die cut flower, i rounded the petals on a foam mat and added green stamens, dots using a coloured pen.  

This is using the same flower die i used for the hellobore but ive shaped it slightly differently, white stamens to pick up on the peonie in the image. 

These sweet peas i had left over from making a project last year, knew they would come in handy one day, made using sizzix susans garden sweet pea die set.  Link at the bottom if you would like to see the sweetpea project i made before

And last but not lease butterflies, i also used a chocolate pearl embossed cardstock on this one, which matched the basket in the image well.  

Items used:

Presscut stepper card die

LOTV art pad images

Sizzix butterfly dies 659971

Sizzix flower dies (primrose) 658602

Sizzix susans garden sweetpea die set

Spellbinders romantic vines

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Thank you for stopping by and all your recent comments.  Emma 

Im a Gingerbread Man!

Good Morning all, wow thank you for all the amazing comments and support in the first week of my blog, i really do appreciate you taking the time.  

 So today is this set of gingerbread cards, i made the gingerbread men for our family crackers last year and mum saved them, so i thought would ideal to use up this gorgeous paper pad with them.

Paper pad is 'Believe' by Authentique.   So first i die cut the papers into the scalloped edged shape using the matting part of a sizzix flip it set, 3 sized circles and a strip of contrast paper to hide the join.  LOTV christmas sentiment stamp. Ginger pearlised card from payper box.  I hand cut the gingerbread man, decorated him with paper shapes and viva enamel drops. 

Thank you for looking at these fun cards.  Wishing you all a good day. Emma