Red, White and Blue at IAAS

 Good morning. Here is the next challenge at IAAS and it is to show red, white and blue.

My Card

 

This is a 7"x5" red card base.I used a die set from Crafts Too  Background Collection called Apollo. I used Prim Poppy from Memory Box and the sentiment dies is from Sue Wilson. Why not pop over to the blog and see what the rest of the DT have made?

Take care and have a good day.

 

Make it Red for the Christmas Card Club

Good morning.  I'm here with my cards for our friendly little Christmas Card Challenge group. As usual I'm a day early. The idea is to make our cards mainly red, so very traditional this time.

Card # 1

 

Recipe

Red base card made from cardstock I bought at the NEC

embossing folder - Falling Snow Sue Wilson

snowflake border - The Works

image - Hunkydory Little Book of Christmas Poems

Card # 2

 

 Recipe

Red card as above

image - Greeting Card Factory

e/f - Snowflake Lattice Sue Wilson

snowflake edge die - unknown

scalloped circle die - Spellbinders

twiggy leaves - Sue Wilson 

Card # 3

 

Recipe

A6 white base card

red card - as above

e/f - Crafts Too 

snowflake die - The Works

 

Three simple but very different cards and all meeting the brief - and building up my stash. We do have the option of going for "Anything Goes" but I like to challenge myself to fulfill the brief - and I find I procrastinate too much with anything goes and so find it more difficult.

Anyway, I hope you haven't been washed away or blown away with this awful weather.  Thoughts and prayers are with anyone experiencing difficulties and especially those  in Texas.

Take care and enjoy your weekend.

The Holly and the Ivy for Christmas Card Club

Good morning.  Time for our little club to make another card in our quest to making our lives simpler by making our Christmas cards all year round.  I am a day early posting this card because I have a another DT card due tomorrow and I don't like to post twice on the same day.

I usually try to make more than one card so that my stash mounts up but I have had a nasty flu-type virus for the last two weeks and I am still unwell so only one card today.

Our host is Elizabeth and she wants to see Holly and/or Ivy.  My image shows both.

My Card

Recipe

image - from my digital stash

Notched square corner dies - Crafts Too

green card - from stash

pearls - Tonic Nuvo Drops

I really like the CAS effect of this  card so decided that less is more and here it is.

If you want to check out the rest of CCC cards you will find their blogs on my sidebar.

Take care and enjoy your weekend.

 

Non Traditional Colours for Christmas Card Club

Good morning to you all.  First of all I must apologise to my friends in the Christmas Card Club for being a day late. I 've had a busy week with my family here and also four DT cards to produce! Anyway I am here finally.

Card #1

 

Card # 2

 

These two cards are very simple 6" square cards using images from the Hunkdory Little Book of  of Festive Poetry.  I am determined to us this as much as possible.

Card # 3

 

 Recipe 

Decided to make a rocker card for a change.

Papers and topper are from The Paper Boutique "A Whisper of Winter".  I love this set and the muted colours are perfect for Sylvie's challenge.

round dies - Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Decorative Circles

stitch hole round die - Presscut from Crafts Too

Tonic Nuvo drops

Card # 4 For Rachel

This final card is for Rachels' reindeer challenge which I missed when I was on holiday back in June.  Sorry it has taken so long but I got there eventually!

Recipe

6" square base card 

papers and topper as before

reindeer die - magazine freebie

shimmer gems - Hobbycraft

When I saw this topper with the reindeer I knew it would be perfect for Rachel's challenge.

Well that's it for now.  Hope you all had a great weekend and feel refreshed and ready to start the new week.

Take care.

Fuzzy Wuzzy Christmas at Winter Wonderland

Good morning and thanks for visiting me today. The theme for our challenge at Winter Wonderland  is "Fuzzy Wuzzy Christmas" and has been chosen by Deanne. This month we would like you to create something that is furry, frizzy, fluffy, puffy or fuzzy wuzzy!! Think furry animals, fluffy hats or mitts, puffy coats, frizzy beards (like Santa's!!) That gives you a wide scope so I'm sure you will be able to create something for the challenge. Our sponsor is Sheepski Designs and Andrea is offering the winner three digi images of their choice.

My Card

Using sponsor's image Snowboardin'

Recipe
6" square white base card - Rymans
teal pearlescent card - Jellybean Crafts
Falling Snow e/f- Sue Wilson
notched corner square dies - Crafts Too
Promarkers to colour
digi paper from stash - unknown

This is such a fun image and I love the expression on the snowman's face.  He looks as if he is really enjoying the experience. I added pink glitter to the cap and mitts to finish it off.  After I had taken the picture I decided to add a sentiment in the corner of the topper but didn't get round to taking another picture.

Please pop over to the blog and see what the rest of Santa's Helpers have come up with for the challenge and maybe you will feel inspired to join us. Remember that we are a Christmas challenge!

Take care.

Happy Anniversary

Good morning. Another quick post and another quick card.  I had to make this in a hurry so I could catch the postman.  He always collects anything I have  for posting.  Great guy!!

My Card

Recipe

6" square base card

 Heart trellis e/f -  Crafts Too

large heart die - Hobbycraft Intricut dies

Small heart die - Nellie Snellen

butterfly die - Spellbinders

Yet another simple card.  One of these days my mojo will return but he's certainly taking a long time about it.   Occasionally I come up with something reasonable but for the last year or so that has been a very infrequent occurrence. Ah well, I'll just keep on keeping on as they say.

Take care.

Stitching - Real or Faux

Good morning  friends.  I hope you have been enjoying your weekend so far. The theme for the  One Stitch At A Time challenge today is "Anything Goes with Stitching - Real or Faux".

(Please scroll down if you are looking for my CCC card.)

My Card

Recipe

6 " square base card

backing paper - freebie from "Create With TLC"

Umbrella and raindrops - Spellbinders

Double stitched circle dies - Crafts Too (Presscut)

green paper - LOTV

faux stching - white gel pen

Sentiment - computer generated

Image - "Splash" from Stitchy Stamps

Promarkers to colour

Glossy accents on the rain puddle

Please pop across to the blog and check out the cards from the rest of the DT.  Perhaps it will inspire you to join  in the challenge.  There is the chance you could win $10 to spend in the store.

Take care and enjoy the rest of the Bank Holiday weekend.

Christmas Card Club Challenge - #11 - Recipe

Good morning.  Time again for another CCC card.  Boy these two weeks come round so quickly, but at least my stock of cards is rising so there will be no panic in early December.  This time it was Zoe's choice and she asked us to use a recipe - 3 brads, a button, ribbon and one other accessory/embellishment.  I have never made a card from a recipe and initially it all sounded very busy but I think I have done it, although I'm not totally happy.  I think I should have done better. Ah well, too late was the cry!  It's done, for better or worse.

If you would like to see what the rest of the girls gave done with the recipe you can find their details on my sidebar.

My Card

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My card is 6" x 6". I used SB Dainty Dots embossing folder on the top white card and a Crafts Too snowflake folder on the red card stock. The snowflake strip across the middle is Papermania "Home For Christmas." I just love this set of papers. The topper is LOTV (what else?) and I added some glitter to the hat, scarf and mittens. The three snowflake brads are from my extremely old stash!!!! The red striped ribbon for the bow is more old stuff. I found some red, cerise, lemon, green and royal blue in a cupboard upstairs and it's lovely. It was still in the bag from shop. Don't know how it got up there I'm sure. I threaded some narrow red ribbon through a flower button and popped that onto the bow. The final part of the recipe "one other embellishment" is the snowflake in the corner. It is a Marianne Creatables and it was in my drawer already made up with it's pearly centre. Finally I added the sentiment from Little Claire Designs and matted it onto SB Lacy Circles.

Yesterday I decided to spend some more time in the garden since it was a gorgeous day.  Unfortunately it was just too hot and even though I was wearing a hat and  sunblock I had to come in after an hour. I went out again in the early evening to finish what I started - much more sensible!  Quite a few aches and pains this morning though - definitely getting old!

Well I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend whatever you are doing.

Christmas Card Club Challenge - Origami/Teabag fold

Good afternoon everybody.  Well I slipped up today because I forgot all about today being challenge day!  I guess all the sun and heat must have fried my brain!  Lol!  I have never done teabag folding so I went onto the internet this morning to learn how to do the folding and I also downloaded a sheet of tiles.  However, I realised that for the Christmas tree I decided to make I didn't  actually need tiles, I could have just cut patterned paper into squares.  The tiles are needed if you make a snowflake or star apparently so that you get a pretty picture.  Oh well, you live and learn.  Perhaps I'll try that next.

My Card

I saw a picture of a teabag folded tree that I liked but couldn't find a tutorial, but it was easy enough to just stick the folded tiles into position.  I did actually trim a little bit off a couple of the folded tiles in order for them to fit neatly together.  I'm not sure whether that is really allowed but the first one I made without trimming just looked very uneven and wonky, so I took a bit of license here in order for it to look okay.

My card is 6 x 6 inches and as the tree is fairly large and takes up quite a chunk of the card  I decided to keep it very simple. I used a Crafts-Too snowflake embossing folder for the background and then just added a few red pearls. I have some very tiny peel off greetings which have been there for years so I popped the greeting onto the pot. Et voila, c'est fini!

Yesterday evening the weather broke well and truly here.  We attended an open air trad jazz concert at a National Trust property near here with a couple of friends.  Having had three weeks or so of glorious weather you might have thought it would hold. Oh no! The concert was due to start at 7pm but in fact it actually started early - and the heavens opened!  Boy did it toss it down! It was such a shame because it was one of those events where you could dress up or be casual, and you took a picnic and wine etc.  There was a group of four couples next to us who had really gone to town and were celebrating a wedding anniversary. They were in full evening dress and their table was beautiful. They ended up pouring water out of the food plates and dishes and the poor cake suffered terribly. Unfortunately because of the torrential rain people started leaving quite early which was a shame for the performers.

But come on - we are Brits and we don't let a bit (a lot!!) of water put us off.  Up went the umbrellas and the people danced on in the rain. There was also an exhibition of Charleston and lots of us got up to learn the steps and do a dance. John, Sue and I had great fun but Maurice was a bit too proud to make a fool of himself I think!  Couldn't use umbrellas for that because of the hand movements so we got absolutely soaked but had so much fun!! Unfortunately the exhibition dancers couldn't do too much because their stage was in the open and was too slick with rain and it would have been rather unsafe.

Today the weather is again glorious.  Fairly typical eh?

Well enjoy the rest of the day and have fun, whatever you are doing.

Love and hugs from Christine xx