Thursday, 29 December 2011

Sick Bunnie

I can't believe that tomorrow is Friday and that my 2 weeks off work is almost up already.  I had thought that I'd maybe get a chance to get my card stash restocked, but I've been too busy!

I think I've only had ink on this Lilli of the Valley stamp once before ... coloured him with promarkers; popped my bunny and the grapes up on dimensionals and added clear gloss to the grapes too.  I've also rediscovered my Sakura jelly roll starbust pen (which I used to colour the spoon) and I love and I've no idea why I ever neglected it!

Oh, by the way Paper Smooches have a blog hop on at the minute with peeks of their new release!

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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Gorjuss in Blue!

Just a quickie post ... I'm taking advantage of a horrible, cold, windy and rainy day to do a bit of painting, so I'm getting this card uploaded in my 'tea break'!

I've been shopping at some of the crafty sales (oops!), but I've also resolved to use my stash more, so I was determined to get a flower and this un-loved swirl die in my card.

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Monday, 26 December 2011

Fave Xmas Five

Well, that's the Big Day over and done with for another year.  We had a lovely time down in Mum's and spent all afternoon playing with my wee niece ... my nephew was glued to his new PlayStation!  Ruby had a ripping good time too...

Anyway, Debbie is asking us to show our 5 favourite Christmas cards made this year - my choice is more limited than usual as I made less variety than in previous years and bought very little Christmas stash, but here they are ...

Catered Crop also want to see your favourite holiday project .... this one is my favourite of all, made for my sister.
I discovered and fell in love with Paper Smooches stamps and Baker's Twine this year!



Of course I bought this Lilli of the Valley stamp 'cause I thought it looked like wee Ruby!  


I love my High Hopes stamps too... 






I like the simplicity of this one... 





And finally, this one combines a cute High Hopes stamp with a lovely sentiment font from Paper Smooches
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Saturday, 24 December 2011

Happy Christmas

Wowee can you believe it's Christmas Eve already!  No white Christmas for us this year (...not that I'm complaining as it seems like no time since all the snow we had last year!)
Just a quickie post as we still have to give poor Ruby her Christmas bath, haven't mentioned it to her yet as she'll scarper to the bottom of the garden given half a chance!
Anyway, hope you all have a fab Christmas and that Santa is good to you!
Here's a wee pic of my crazy neighbour's houses ... there's a bit of a competition every year between them to get more and more lights!!

Card details: image from The Cats Pyjamas; Paper Smooches sentiment; clear gloss and glitter added to highlights on plane; misc DPs from scraps stash; coloured with promarkers.


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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Whale Thanks

Ohh I'm going to have to go shopping soon, I don't have a single snippet of brown paper left ... I had to colour some white with copics for this ... and my markers are also conspiring against me again as my brown ran out just as I was finishing this!

I chalked my sky but it's really a fluke that the image panel fits in so nicely with the BG!  I'm sure I couldn't have done this intentionally!  I also added some sparkle to the water but it doesn't really show up in the photo.

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Definitely my LAST Christmas card!

Ha.  You knew my 'last' Christmas card wasn't actually going to be my last one!  I'd forgotten to make one for our 'Friday night' buddies who we get together with for a wee drinkie and a natter every week.  AND I've just realised we haven't got Ruby a pressie for under the Christmas tree.  Oops! It would never do to leave the doggy out!

Stamp TV's Free for All Friday challenge this week is to CASE Giovana from their DT ... I chose this card and changed my snowmen and embossed the BG instead of stamping.

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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

SPARKS Triplet bunnies

Oh it was nice to make a card today just for the fun of it with no pressure of a Christmas deadline!
This one's for the current Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge.  I took inspiration from the photo for my colours, the googley eyes and for the same image x 3.

When I'd finished I wished I'd had the patterned bunnies looking in the direction of the other one, so I made another card just for the craic!

It was also good to get some little scraps of my hoarded Basic Grey papers used up (I think these use bits from 'Lime Rickey' and 'Cupcake')  I also used the tiniest leftover scraps to pop their feet up on dimensionals.  Waste not, want not!

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Finished!

Hooray, that's me finished with Christmas cards for the year ... I think!  There's always one I've forgotten about!
Couldn't get a decent pic of this card, its been such a dark overcast day.  Though its turned quite mild again, apparently our weather at the minute is more suited to April!  My daffodils are all confused and are already popping up!

Added silver border peel offs and then some clear gloss and glitter to Ruby's party hat and to the ribbon on the pressie.  The sparkly turquoise snowflake was a candy win ages ago.  Coloured with copics - I used a pale grey to add some shading to my doggy, but it doesn't really show up in the photo.
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Sunday, 18 December 2011

Almost there...!

I'm almost finished my Christmas cards, hurrah, just another one or two and that's me!  And I'm off work now until next year (doesn't it sound great when you say it like that LOL!) so I've plenty of time to get the last few finished.

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Greg's Christmas card

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ETA: I won at Cards for Men - 5 digis from Stamping Boutique!

I carried on with my 'snow family' theme with Greg's Christmas card and used my wee Lili of the Valley puppy along with my Paper Smooches snowdudes. Though I think the scale is slightly wrong and we ended up with a gigantic Ruby! (or else a very little me!)
It also ended up a bit pinker than it should have (how come I can't do a 'girlie' card when I'm trying to!!) but never mind, he loved it anyway!
Don't forget our Christmas challenge over at Dream Valley is ongoing until 7 Jan and there's LOADS of fabby prizes to be won.


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Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Mum's Christmas card

Wowee, it's blowing an absolute gale outside today!  A bit of the Bank opposite my work fell off on top of a parked car earlier!  Thankfully no-one was in it at the time!

Anyway, I enjoyed making the snow-family card for my sister last week so much that I thought I'd make one for Mum with our immediate family.  I've put all their names on in case they don't recognise themselves ... though my uncle has no excuse as he's the only one with a moustache IRL!
I had originally thought of adding the 4 dogs in the 'family' but I ran out of room!


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Gift voucher holder

This is a wee gift holder for part of my brother's Christmas pressie.  Don't you think my Paper Smooches gnome its the perfect image for a gardening voucher!  Kept it nice and simple (i.e. I'm really pushed for time LOL!)
Coloured him with promarkers and decoupaged his beard after embossing it. His nose and a cloud are popped up on dimensionals and I added some sparkle to the his 'santa' hat.



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Sunday, 11 December 2011

Xmas card #20

Same stamp, different sketch!
I added clear gloss and glitter to the ribbon on the pressie and his party hat, but it doesn't really show in the pic.
I also have a wee silver sentiment in the bottom corner, but it's kinda lost in the fancy DP, so I might peel it off and mount it up instead.


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Xmas card #19

I've had a lovely Christmassy day today ... got my tree up and it looks lovely, even if I do say so myself!!
I also managed to get another couple of Christmas cards made, I can't believe I've made so few this year - I think I had more than this made by July last year!
Anyway, I got some more ink on my wee Lily of the Valley doggy ... and yes, Brenda, I did get totally suckered into buying this 'cause I thought it was maybe what Ruby looked like as a puppy!  (We got her from a shelter and she'd already passed the cute puppy stage)

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Dream Valley Challenge #22

It's our last challenge of the year at Dream Valley, and its a good 'un if like me you've still cards to make for
Christmas!
As usual you can make anything you like, just as long as it's Christmassy (max 3 entries each)
Pop over to Dream Valley to upload your entry and see all the fab DT creations - we've some newbies joining our wee team so I can't wait to see what they've made!  Ohh, and did I mention there's LOADS of prizes to be won?!
This is our last challenge of 2011 - thanks for playing along with us all year, hope to see you on 8 Jan for a new one!
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Saturday, 10 December 2011

Baby Butterflies!

Did I mention how far behind I am in my cardmaking?!  I'm still trying to get the cards made that I give as 'pressies' at Christmas, never mind finish my Chrissy cards!  Eek!

This one uses an oldie Penny Black stamp which I haven't used for aaaaages, and the sentiment is actually a silver peel off though it looks black here!
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Monday, 5 December 2011

My sister's snow family!

ETA: I won at One Stop Craft - $10 Gift Cert from Digi Doodles
It's another Brrr chilly day today ... we'd a flurry of snow last night and the weather men nearly went into melt-down today, they were so excited!  Maybe it's just that they're just all desperate to make some snowmen?

I had such a laugh making this card for my sister and her family with my Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes ... hopefully they'll all recognise themselves!  I added loads of sparkle and gems, clear gloss to the snow-mum's lipstick, and some wee snowballs to the bottom (I won these ages ago in some candy and I love them 'too' much ... I can hardly bring myself to use them!)  The blue sky is stamped with wee snowflakes, but doesn't really show up in the pic.  Coloured with promarkers.

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Sunday, 4 December 2011

Snow Monkey

Ohhh BRRRR it's a cold one today.  We'd a wee flurry of sleet this morning and of course the weathermen are getting excitable!  Ah well, at least it got me in Christmas card mode ... I made 8 versions of this card today for a wee order, so there was a bit of a production line going on my kitchen table.  Don't think I've ever made so many cards in one sitting!  (Image from High Hopes, sentiment from Paper Smooches)

Update on last night's movie ... I was expecting The Way to be a murder/mystery (they usually are when Greg picks them LOL!) but it turned out to be a really lovely film and a bit of a tear jerker ... I had to do the secret 'no I'm not crying' wipe of the eyes a couple of times!

  • Simon Says Stamp ... anything goes
  • Paper Sundaes #98 - sundae topping choice - I used red, stitching and die cuts (my snowflake)
  • Sweet Stampin - is it snowing
  • Divas by Design #16 - anything goes
  • Sketch from Midnight Madness #132 ...  I've just noticed that I scribbled the sketch down wrong and there should have been a different coloured panel down the side so I don't think I can enter it aarrrggghhh!
  • Colour Create #85 - red, white and green with optional snowflakes
  • Bling it on December challenge - Christmas
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Saturday, 3 December 2011

SPARKY Snowdudes

Just a quickie post tonight .... movie night again, and tonight it's The Way (Greg's choice - I've no idea what it's about!)
This wee card was inspired by the photo inspiration at Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge, though I forgot to add a splash of yellow somewhere!  I've embossed a couple of lines at the top of the white sentiment panel, but I don't think it shows on my pic.
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