Bell Mask

Hi All

How is everyone are you ready for Christmas? 
Here is another Christmas card to share with you today.

 Using a bell mask I brushed various shades of green  oxide inks through the aperture. I stamped one of Phill Martin's verses in the centre of it. Then cut one of Sue Wilson dies and added Phill's paper pad behind it. 

I complete it by using green PVA as pearl with glitter sprinkled over them while still wet to add a bit of sparkle.

Its my daughters birthday today I cannot believe she is 27. We all went for a lovely Chinese on Saturday to celebrate, and she has gone to be pampered at a spa today. 

If I do not blog again before Christmas have a wonderful Christmas and peaceful New Year. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
alphabet challenge- S for season greeting
the holly and ivy #42 ATG
crafty hazelnuts christmas challenge 416 - ATG

For Mother's Day

Hi Fellow Crafters

I hope you are all  keeping safe and warm in this cold weather we are experiencing in the UK at the moment.
I spent the whole day in my craft room yesterday. It was so nice to have the day to myself and I made this card for my mother in law. 

I choose a yellow and a soft pearlised white card in the hope that spring will soon be here.

I made the yellow card by using a smoothie and CS Lemon Meringue colour cloud on a piece of white card. I then used clear embossing powder over the top. I did this twice to create a lovely gloss finish. I hope you can see the shine on the flowers. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

just us girls challenge 429-photo-week

crafting from the heart ~196 ATG

dragonfly dreams - flowers

crafty friends challenge- #78 springtime

Festive Circle

Hi all

Another card made with Lime tree crafts white topaz card.  This time I masked off the center of the card with a die cut circle. Then randomly stamped the festive fir-cones stamps from Card-io around the edge in a variety of colours. Then I removed the circle and stamped the sentiment from Phil Martin scribbled Christmas verses.

 I wasn't quite sure what to mount the card on to - so as I looked around my craft room I found some glitter tape/ribbon. I glued this around the sides of my card blank and then popped the topaz card over this. I really like this glitter tape it adds a bit of bling without going over the top. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
CCC #24
Addicted to CAS #123 Leaves
Polkadoodle - ATG
The merry christmas challenge # 40 ATG

Another card using Pixie Powders

 Hi All

I cannot seem to stop using Pixie Powders at the moment they are so versatile. I was only having a play with them (as you do) as I had some new colours and this is the card I  created from it.

I started by die cutting an old SP Vintage Lace border die out twice. I placed the two borders behind a strip of  coconut white Foundations card and mounted this on to a larger piece of embossed card. 

For the focal element I used SW Maggie die and backed it with a piece of the Pixie Powders background. The sentiment is stamped  on to one of SW inner dies from her Melbourne die set with  one of Phil Martin's from his chalkboard range.

Again I Pixied some vellum and once it was dry I  die cut it with SW Camellia dies and popped a pearl in the centre of each flower.  I cut SW tree from her Family Tree die and then snipped into the branches up to create the foliage behind the flowers.

I was so excited on Monday and Tuesday as Julia Watts was on Hochanda and she had asked for people to send in cards that they had made using SW stained glass collection. I sent in two of the humming bird and they were both shown. I must admit it gave me such a buzz to see my cards on TV.
I did blog one of them you can find it here stained-glass-window-humming-bird
I need to take a picture of the other one then I will blog it. Julia has popped them in her gallery on her blog too. All the examples she received were lovely.

I hope you all  have had a chance to enjoy the weather I hope it doesn't rain too much this weekend.

Have a great week.

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

pixies crafty workshop #283 & 284

seize the birthday - AG

lemon shortbread- # 42 AG

crafting from the heart # 160 AG

crafting-with-friends #44 AG

Have a Great Christmas

Hi  Bloggers
How is everyone, one of my last Christmas Cards for a while.
I have used quite a lot of Pixie Powders recently and I must admit I do like using them. I used just one of the colours for this card the midnight blue.

 I started by cutting SW bold snowflake die into white card to make a lovely background. I matted this piece over a the card I had already coloured with the CS Pixie Powder. ( I hope you can see the shine in the pics)
Next I created an oval frame from sky blue card to go over this background. I mounted this on to a piece of dark blue card.

 I used the fall away 'waste' which is the actual snowflake around the edge of the oval frame, and popped pearls in the centre.
I mounted all this on to a piece of white card, which was edged with the Twinkles border die from Tattered Lace.
The sentiment is one of Phil Martins.

Thanks for stopping
I have entered this card in the following challenges:
christmas cards all year round
crafty hazelnuts christmas challenge extra - January
moving along with the times - something in the air

Snow Globe Penguins

Hi Crafty Friends 

Here is today's card, the penguins from Hobby Art -Poles apart stamp set.. a wonderful set.

 Aren't these penguins so cute...
I started by stamping the image in Watering can Archival ink which I embossed with clear embossing powder. I coloured the image with my promarkers. I have a snow globe mask which I placed over my image and embossed. I then hand cut the snow globe out.I masked off the penguins and created a snowy scene by using two different sizes of polkda dot masks. I inked through them with tumbled glass disagree ink.
For the sentiment I used one of Phil Martins stamps and curved it to fit into the bottom of the snow globe. I heat embossed in clear then coloured over with ink which makes it pop.
For the background I embossed a piece of white card with a snowflake mask then added versamark to the embossed snowflakes which I covered with clear embossing powder. I think you can see the shine in the photos.
I then created a frame from dark blue card.




Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
I have entered this card in the following challenges
all sorts feature a creature
crafting from the heart ~challenge 35
craft your passion ~ anything goes ch 338