It's time for Christmas cards again!

Well last year I was pretty well organised with my cards but behind on the Christmas cake and pudding front.  This year it's the other way around so maybe next year I'll have everything covered .....who'll spot the flying pigs first!!  Anyway this year I bought a Christmas pudding stamp but thought it would look nice stamped on different papers and then put together in a patchwork style.  I'm quite pleased with the overall effect.  I used glossy accents on the holly leaves and then some large red gems for the berries.

Hope you like it too!

Supplies

 

Imagination Crafts clear stamp

Promarkers

Glossy Accents

Big Crystal Stickers gems

Assorted Xmas papers from stash

 

I have entered this card in the following challenges:-

 

Paper Creators Crafts -  All About Christmas
52 Christmas Card Throwdown - November Embellishment Challenge
Jingle Belles Rock - Christmas Feast

Two really useful "Male" cards!

Hi folks!  This is the first time I've put anything on my blog since September but I have been busy - honestly!!  Anyway, I made these cards at our local crafting session and thought they were really useful to keep in my box.  The template was courtesy of Scrappycath Designs and can be found on: www.scrappycath.blogspot.com.

I used a computer generated message on my folded card and then mounted the suit onto it but it can be made up in several different ways.

I hope you like them and thanks for looking.

A special card for a special Mum!

I bought this beautiful die at a recent craft fair and saw some of the stunning cards created using it.  I found a wonderful old photo of my mum taken as a very young girl and decided to photocopy it and include it in a card.  The above card is the end result!  The die is the Marianne Creatables LR0236 and I used the outer die on the fold of some pearlescent card to create the backing card.  I used the lacy die twice in a contrasting pearlescent cream card and attached them to the base card.  I then used the third die in the set to cut out the photo and attached it to the centre of the top part of the card.  I used a computer generated message to attach to the bottom part of the card and then finished the whole card off with a flower and some foliage plus a little butterfly from a Stampin' Up die.  I hope you and my mum like this card.  Thanks for looking!

I thought I would try something a little different and, although I'm my worst critic, I feel reasonably pleased with this one!  The brown cardstock I used for the base card was a little too thick, but I coaxed it through the Grand Caliber eventually.  The large scalloped circle was covered with some card from my stash and the dark blue paper and sentiment came from a recent Joanna Sheen order.  The RyderCole digi image was coloured with Promarkers and then cut out.  Hope you like it!

This is a commissioned anniversary card which was a pleasure to make and I hope it is liked.  60 years of marriage is seriously impressive!  I printed the message first and then cut the card to fit a large square card with a silver backing card.  The bottom half was embossed using a swirl design and  I embossed two lines around the top half edges using my score board.  The ribbon was added with a taped bow and a diamond type gem from my stash.  The couple's names were printed before using a Nellie Snellen heart die around them.  Silver backing card and a few minute diamond gems finished them off. 

Durham Young Musicians' cards

Every year I find myself making nine identical cards for the Durham Young Musicians Summer Festival.  Each card goes to a winner and two runners-up in three categories and encloses a small monetary prize!  It is getting very difficult to come up with new ideas, but this year I used a couple of stamps from a Debbi Moore collection and de-bossed a rectangle die to form a frame.  Simple, quick but quite effective - I hope.  No doubt the money was taken out and the card disposed of lol!

A card for the local Junior School netball team

I produced this card for the Junior School where I used to work.  The Year 6 members of the netball team will all be moving up to Senior School in September and their teacher wanted to thank them and wish them well for the future.  I found the  image on the internet and the rest was straightforward - just as well since I needed to do 9 of them quickly!!  I hope the girls like them....