Christmas Tree

Hi all

Well it's been a long time since I posted anything. Since we lost Basil my mojo had disappeared as he would always be in my craft room with me. But I decided that it was time to knuckle down and make some Christmas cards, which to my surprise I have enjoyed creating.
I have been wanting to get a tattoo in memory of Basil for quite a while and when we went away for a  few days the other week  for our wedding anniversary I found a great tattoo shop in Weymouth and they turned my idea into a design. I will post a pic of it at the end of this post.
We are also going to have our first grandchild early next year so I have been busy crocheting a baby blanket which I have now completed and included a picture of that too.

So on to my card created using a Tree mask and Polar white texture paste which I sprinkled with Pixie powders while still wet. 

 I was rather pleased with the way it turned out. The texture paste has a sparkle to it. I hope you can see it in the picture.

Below is a the pic of my tattoo - just a day after it was done. I love it. 

 This is the blanket I crocheted. The wool is super chunky and very soft great for the new baby. 

 I am also 3/4 of the way through creating a throw for myself - I will post a picture once completed but I have started on another baby blanket now -so mine may go on the back burner for a while.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by. 
I have entered this card in the following challenges:
crafting from the heart #221 ATG
CHNC challenge 404 ATG

Red snowflakes

Hi all

 Well I have so much stuff in my craft box waiting to be used it was overflowing -and to be honest I couldn't remember what I had in there. 
I found a piece of acetate that I had previously spread red glitter paste through a snowflake mask, (who says you cannot  have red snowflakes , right !!) so I decided to make a Christmas card out of it. 
I also found some lovely snowy glitter card that that I popped behind the acetate. I had bought SW Twinkle Star frame die but again had never used it. I placed this over the top of the acetate added a sentiment and matted and layered it. To complete the card I added CS pearl glue to each of the star sections on the background die and then three berry red ones on the frame

It was so hard to photograph so that you could see the sparkle but it looks lovely in real life. 

I hope everyone is keeping well - I have a medical issues at the moment and tests to be had - so I should know the results in a few weeks and then it will be next steps

Thanks for popping by I really do appreciate it, and if you wish to leave a comment that would be fantastic.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

christmas at sweet stampin challenge April

the holly and ivy christmas challenge#26 ATG

crafty hazelnuts christmas challenge #380

Winter Wishes

Morning Bloggers

Thank you for popping by I have a Christmas card  for today's post.

I have used  CE Aqua and white cardstock.
I used put some CS Polar White sparkle texture paste on my craft mat and mixed a little of peacock feathers ink, to give it just a hint of blue/aqua.
Then I spread this over a snowflake mask onto a piece of acetate.
The aqua frame was then popped over the acetate and then foam mounted  over a piece of white card to give a floating look to it. I  pierced all the way around with a piercing ruler, which was then matted on to another piece of white card. I hope you can see the snowflakes !!
This was then matted on to another piece of aqua card and finally on to my white card 7x7

 I used the Heartfelt Creations poinsettia stamp and embossed in white on to white velum which I then cut out with the matching die and finished off with an aqua pearl in the centre of each flower..

 The sentiment is from Tattered Lace which I cut twice once in the aqua and then in the white and dropped shadowed it.
Thank you for popping by I hope you like it.,

I am entering this card in  the following challenges:
MAWTT my favourite things
crafting-with-dragonflies - let it snow
BSCB-172 No Patterned Paper
Creative fingers - anything goes
simplypapercraftsforalloccassions - anything goes
crafting-with-friends.challenge 10 anything goes

Christmas Bauble

Morning all

Just a quick post today as I need to catch up on the house work (boo-hoo).
A simple Christmas card in white and blue.

 I used the CS Polar White texture paste through a polka dot mask  - I hope you can see the sparkle from the texture paste in the close up pics.
I then used the Spellbinders 2013 Heirloom Ornament die and cut the largest one in blue card and the next size down from a spare piece of acetate that I had used the caught in crystal technique on.

The stamp is one from Do Crafts which I then embossed with some glittery embossing powder.
I hung the ornament with some silver sparkle twine from my craft stash

Have a great week xx

I am entering this card in the below challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C310
Allsort Challenge - Week 335 - Christmas
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
CHNC challenge 253: it's time to sing