Happy New Year

Good Evening everyone

I hope you all had a good Christmas, due to life and ill health I haven't been able to post for a while so im doing a mass upload of my Christmas cards so that I have a record of them.

Wishing you all a Happy and more importantly a Healthy New Year. 

Christmas Poinsettia's

Using up offcuts of acetate, i had some folded thin strips which i adhered between folded strips of white pearl cardstock - these were also offcuts from making card blanks.  Sentiment stamped with iced spruce distress ink using Lisa Horton stamps 'festive flurry sentiments'.  Tim holtz tattered poinsettia die used to cut more offcuts of acetate which were coloured with red alcohol inks. 

Version 2 - the holly was die cut from silver mirror card which was coloured with green alcohol inks  Cheerylynn holly die    Gold gems added for some bling.  I used lightly patterned papers for  my inserts which show through the acetate panels

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Christmas patchwork

Using Lisa Horton 'Diagonal square background' 'LHCCD073'  I die cut lots of little offcuts & scraps from various Christmas papers, green pearl card, red satin card and gold mirror card and paper pieced them together.

Ideal for batch making and very therapeutic to make.

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Nativity

Woodware 'rejoice' stamp set  I have stamped the image onto white vellum and coloured the back with alcohol markers.  Used DL nesting dies to make a frame and mounted onto a white card blank.  Touch of glitter glue added.

The same but different colourway

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Winter berries

aall&create stamps 'squiggles' #498, MFT christmas sentiment die, star die.   I stamped the berries with a green ombre ink pad and inked the edges with the same ink, matted onto a dark green pearl cardstock and then my white base card.  I then raided my scrap box and die cut the sentiment from red satin card and the star from white and gold mirri card and layered up.  Glitter then added to the berries to finish. 

Sadly the photos don't do the satin & mirror cards justice

This version is gold mirri for the sentiment, red satin for the star outline and gold glitter card for the stars body.

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Father Christmas

Using Katzelkraft stamps 'reindeer sleigh' 'SOLO144' , hunkydory snowfall acetate I stamped the image and watercoloured with my derwent inktense pencils and cut out.  I used an Ivory violet pearl cardstock for the base, frames and sentiment.  Using a Christmas paper pad from the works (called let it snow) for my inserts which also acted as the background showing through the snowfall acetate on the front. Sentiment is an old magazine freebie which i stamped with a blue ink so softer than black. 

Different colourways

Thank you all for popping by.  I look forward to getting back into blogland and seeing all your creations this year.  Happy Crafting for 2024! Emmax

 

Christmas Candles

Good Morning everyone

This card came about as i had vellum poinsettias and silver foliage left over from the cards i uploaded last Monday, i also had some textured cream offcuts from the cat cards i made which were just the right size to die cut into candles, so this card is completely made of leftovers😀 

A5 textured cream card blank.  I cut a piece of woodgrain paper to fit and inked the edged with walnut & black soot distress inks.  I die cut 3 candles and the extra dripping candle wax pieces, i used alcohol markers to ink up the flames in yellow & orange and added glitter glue over the top.  I gentle curved them and added to the base card with glue gel.  I then got arranging the silver foliage and 3 vellum poinsettia.  I added yellowy gems to the poinsettia centers to pick up on the yellow of the candle and a touch of glitter too.

Stamped sentiment die cut into a circle to finish. 

Just a close up.  I cut the bottom of 2 of the candles to that i could add them at different heights.

Items Used:

Tim Holtz bigz die - tattered poinsettia

Various foliage dies

Candle die

Sentiment stamp

Woodgrain paper - woodland Christmas pad from the works

White vellum

Silver mirror card

Textured cream card

Ranger diamond glitter glue

 Thank you all for popping by.  I hope you all have a good week. Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the following:

https://bastel-traum.blogspot.com/2021/10/106-weihnachten-christmas.html

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https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/10/pine-cones-and-poinsettias.html

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http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/10/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge_01303049939.html  - the candles and foliage were made from snippets and the sentiment stamped on a little offcut too

Christmas Floating Acetate card

Good Morning everyone

Some of you may remember the flower floating acetate cards i made (see here) Well i hated the mess using the cosmic shimmer aurora flakes made so i used up the whole tub at the time to save it going to the back of the cupboard and added it to double sided adhesive sheets with the idea of making Christmas versions of the cards and here they are...

6x6 acetate cardbase.   I cut the geese circle die from white linen cardstock & then die cut my aurora flakes background into a circle the same size, i attached the geese to the background and added this to the middle of my acetate front.  So that its all neat and tidy i added white die cut circles to the inside front & back and the outside back of the card so they all hide any glue and somewhere to write the greeting.  

I die cut a poinsettia from white vellum and foliage from silver mirror card which picks up on the silver in the background.  A bluey/greeny dazzle gem added to the middle of the poinsettia and computer printed sentiment to finish. 

Showing front on, you can really see the floating effect of the topper here

The flakes are amazingly shimmery which is very hard to pick up in the photos

and version 2

5x5 acetate base.  Dove scene cut in white and a smaller vellum poinsettia and foliage

This shows the background a bit better

Items Used:

Dove circle die

Lavinia Gaggle of geese 

Tim Holtz tattered poinsettia die

Spellbinders circle dies

CheeryLynn foliage dies

Cosmic Shimmer Aurora flakes 'lagoon'

White vellum

Hunkydory acetate

Silver mirror card

CraftUK ltd white linen card

Thank you all for stopping by and all your amazing comments on my dog project.  I hope you all have a good week, i can't believe we are heading into half way through October this week - scary!  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following with my goose card:

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2021/10/challenge-55-anything-goes-with.html

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http://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2021/10/challenge-176-ag-things-with-wings.html

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http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/10/week-645-embellish-it.html

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http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/10/pine-cones-and-poinsettias.html

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Poinsettias

Good Morning everyone, i hope you are having a good week.

Today is a couple of cards i made with this lovely Tim Holtz poinsettia die which i was given for my birthday, Ive teamed it up with some of my handmade backgrounds.

5.5x5.5 Kraft card base.  I die cut the poinsettia from a piece of kraft card and stamped my greeting in black.  I added foam tape to this panel and mounted onto a slightly larger piece of mirror card attached to my base.  I die cut a frame and attached over the top.  My mirror card is a piece of silver mirri coloured with pink and purple tim holtz alcohol inks. Lime green glitter dots added to the poinsettia centre

You can really see the colour here

 

White version with silver mirror card coloured with shades of blue alcohol inks.  Pink glitter glue highlights

Red and orange brushos with pixie powder background.

Items Used:

Tim Holtz die 'poinsettia peices' Sizzix 664212

Mama elephant frame die

Sentiment stamp

Tim Holtz alcohol inks - shades of blue, purple & pink

Brushos & Pixie powders

CraftUK ltd Kraft & white cardstock

Stickles glitter glue - gold, lime & fruit punch

Thank you all for stopping by once again, only a week to go now until the big day.  Stay safe.  Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the following:

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2020/12/anything-goes-christmas-winter-holiday.html

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http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/12/challenge-214-tis-season.html

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http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-bit-more-time-to-craft-challenge-130.html

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