Good morning. I hope this finds everybody well.
Our first challenge of 2023 for the Christmas Card Club is to use embossing.
My Card
I used Sue Wilson's merry Christmas die and Falling Snow embossing folder also from Sue Wilson. Unfortunately the embossing isn't showing up too well in the photo. The tree die is from Stampin' Up.
Take care.
Good afternoon. It's the first of the month and time for the final challenge this year at MAWTT.
My Card
I have used an old Lili of the Valley image from the Art Pads and stamped the sentiment. I also used Sue Wilson's Noble Pierced Rectangles and embossing folder all mounted onto a 5" x 7" white card base. I do wish LOTV would bring back Art Pads - they are far more useful to me than the current printed images. Another flat based card for posting - although with all the postal strikes who knows if our cards will get to their recipients at all? We'll just have to keep everything crossed.
Take care.
Good morning. It's time for another card for our club and this time I chose the theme which is to show a fancy fold card.
My Card 1
I have made a bridge card but put a full sheet of acetate at the front give it strength which then made it into more of a diorama card. When folded down it measures 8" x 6". I used paper pad from The Works called "Snowy Christmas" which I bought last year.
Card 2
I thought I was going to be unable to post because on Thursday my computer was attacked by a virus which added a trojan and has completed wiped out my computer!! I cannot even open it. Luckily I still have my very old Windows 7 computer from when I upgraded to Windows 10 with a new computer. John has set it up again for me this morning so I can use Blogger, gmail etc at least. He has removed the hard disc from my machine and has been working on it for the past couple of days but it appears to be kaput. Sadly I have not saved the last couple of years work to my external hard disc so I have lost all my photos, pictures, digi images etc. Please, please do be sure to save your work on a regular basis to an external source. Luckily all my documents were saved elsewhere - initially I was in a real panic because I am secretary of our WI and have masses of stuff on my computer!!
Hope you are well and having a better time than me!!😀😄
Love and hugs
Christine
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.
Time once again for our Christmas Card Club to show our cards and the theme is "Let it Snow" chosen by Rachel. These two weeks pass so quickly.
I hope this finds you all well.
My Card
I printed an image from my Card Factory Deluxe programme and put it into
the inside of a 6" square base card. I then die cut a square aperture from the
front using SB Classic Squares Large and added some Snowstorm Acetate from my stash. I added red poinsettias in the corners
with leaves from the Leaf Flourish Strip, which I think is a Britannia die. I stamped the snowflakes around the borders from Hero Arts
"Fluttering Snowflakes" with Versamark and embossed with WOW Opaque
Bright White embossing powder. The "Let It Snow" wording I found in my box of die cuts and I have a feeling it is from Brittania
dies too.
Card #2
Good morning and hope this finds you well. Our challenge at IAAS this time is "Things With Wings". That gives a very wide spectrum - fairies, angels, birds, butterflies, bees etc etc etc. I chose the theme this time and for my card I used butterflies.
My Card
I was going through my stash and found quite a lot of Hunkydory which I have had for a long time. When I saw this, from the Flutterbye Collection, it was perfect. The images were so lovely I didn't want to detract from them so I just added a couple of pearls to the front and a Sue Wilson sentiment to the inside.
My sister lives alone and throughout the last two years of lockdowns I sent her a card every week, with only one or two exceptions.She appreciated them so much so I still sent her a card every few weeks. This is the one she received on Saturday.
Why not pop over to the blog and check out the cards from my team mates?
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Good morning and it's time once again for another card for our little club. Sylvie chose the theme of cats/dogs this time.
My Card
This is a 5" x 7" red base card matted with cardstock embossed with a Sue Wilson folder. The cute image of the kitten in the Christmas tree is from my Greeting Card Factory Deluxe and matted with a red oval. The sentiment die is also Sue Wilson. Hope you have been enjoying the lovely spring weather, although I understand it is not the same around the country unfortunately. Ah well, that's Britain for you!
Take care and enjoy the rest of the Easter long weekend.
Good morning and it's time for a new challenge at the 12 Months of Christmas LinkUp. We are an Anything Goes challenge but it must be a card and it must Christmas or winter celebration. However, every month we add a twist to our challenge and this month the twist is "Things that fly". If you want to follow the optional twist you still have lots of choice - think Angels, Christmas Fairies, Winter Birds or Santa's Flying Reindeer. Our challenge is unique because you can win something just by entering the challenge. Pop across to the blog and check it out.
My Card
This a 6" square base card matted with navy cardstock and I added some Stickles for snow. The Santa and reindeer die is from Sue Wilson and the house and trees die is Memory Box, as are the navy blue trees. I added lots of glitter to give a snowy appearance.
I am on a mission to use some older dies. We seem to focus on all the latest ones and forget there are some fabulous ones in our stash.
Take care and enjoy your day.
Good morning. It's time for challenge #4 for our little Christmas Card Club and ValeryAnn has chosen the theme of Penguins.
My Card
A very simple card using an old Pink Gem image. I mounted the image onto some toning blue card and added it to a 6" square base card. The Sue Wilson sentiment die was cut from a piece of scrap card from my box and I have to say it was a perfect match.
I hope you didn't suffer too badly during Storm Eunice. I had to go to the funeral of my friend's husband otherwise I would never have ventured out. The winds had died down a little by lunchtime so the 12 mile drive was little hairy but nothing compared to my journey home which was a nightmare. We could hear and see the winds getting worse during the service and the lights started flickering so I wasn't looking forward to my home run. I came round the first of a double bend and luckily and managed to stop in time and not plough into the tree which had come down and was blocking the road. I was able to get round it, with some difficulty, by driving up the bank at the other side. And that was just the start! Three more trees down plus countless huge branches.
I made it home and then was unable to get up the lane to our house - two trees had come down and blocked the lane totally. I left the car at the bottom and walked up to the house- and just past the house, luckily, two enormous trees had come down. John came out with his chain saw and spent the next couple of hours clearing the lane so I could get my car home. Friday morning he went out and cleared the other trees enough for people to walk past ( from our house upwards it is a bridleway only so no cars allowed ) but John wanted to clear it enough to allow walkers, mountain bikers and horse riders to get through. It was a lot of hard work - but as my beloved late sister would have said "There's always a bonus!" In a couple of years when the wood has seasoned we will have masses of wood for our two log burners.
Today will definitely be a day of rest for John!
Hope your all safe and well.
Take care.
Good morning. Here at the 12 Months of Christmas LinkUp it is our first challenge of the year.
We have some changes this year. We will no longer have sponsors but Lisa will continue to make a Christmas paper each month which will be the prize for those crafters who link up two Christmas cards that month. There will also be a prize for one random person who links a card to the challenge.
My Card
Twist Guidelines:
Other than being a Christmas card, your overall theme can be ANYTHING GOES or you can follow the optional theme of ADDING ONE OR MORE HEARTS to your card.
This is another 5"x7" white base card. The backing paper is DDDoodles Crumpled Chrome. The main die is a Gemini die cut from silver card stock. The sentiment die is from Sue Wilson which is cut from the same backing paper. It disappeared into the background so I matted it onto a piece of white card and just cut around the sentiment.
Take care and have a good day.
It's unbelievable how quickly these two weeks pass. It's time for another challenge and this time it is to use poinsettias on our cards.
My Card
Like my card last time this again is slightly smaller than A5. I used the frame from John Next Door's "Jane's Tree". The poinsettias and ivy leaves are also from JND. the sentiment die and the embossed centre are from Creative Expressions. It came together very quickly but looks fine although difficult to photograph because of the silver mirror card.
I hope those of you in the UK have enjoyed the few last days of summer we had. Yesterday it rained quite a lot here but I don't mind- it helps to keep my well and water butts topped up. However today was again warm and sunny but I think that might be the last of summer.
Take care and enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Good morning and here is another card for the Christmas Card Club. The theme this time is "Lots of Layers" and it was chosen by Lorrraine.
My Card
My card is almost, but not quite, an A5 card but I chopped a bit off the side for symmetry. As you can see there are certainly plenty of layers .
I used matte and mirror silver card stock, from Crafter's Companion, which makes it very difficult to photograph but at least it doesn't look black which sometimes happens.
Dies used: John Next Door - Frame from Calling Angels and snowflakes are Baroque Snowflakes.
Presscut- Notched Rectangles
Sue Wilson - Let it Snow die.
The weather has been quite autumnal for the last few days. I do hope you are all well and enjoying life.
Take care.
Good morning, and it's time to show our cards for the Christmas Card Club. The theme, chosen by Mrs A aka ValeryAnne, is Christmas candles.
Card #1
This is an A6 card made from sage green Limetree Crafts cardstock. The backing paper is from a digi pack I got from The Lovely Studio and is called Snowberries. The candle die is Crafters Companion together with some very old Spellbinders.
Card #3
This is another A6 card using another digi image from my stash. I computer generated the Sentiment.
Hope this finds everybody well.
Take care.
Hello and I hope this finds you all okay. Well here we are at the end of the year and who would have thought that almost nine months have passed and we are still in some kind of lockdown - some of us more than others. Fortunately we are in Tier 2 but it still won't make a great deal of difference to us we will just continue as we have been doing and only going out for shopping . If it helps prevent the spread of teh virus I'm all for it!
Time for another card at MAWTT and Wendy has chosen the theme of holidays, either summer or winter.
My Card
This is a six inch square base card made from Ryman's card stock. I printed the image on to a large piece of white card to make one layer of image and sentiment. The image is from Ruth Moorehead and so cute. My brother and sisters and I used to love sledging when the snow came and we lived on a bit of a hill so it was ideal. The sentiment is from Sue Wilson. A few gems finished it making it nice and flat for posting.
Why not take a look at the blog and see what my team mates have come up with?
Enjoy your day.
Good morning. Another fortnight has gone by so it is time to show my card for Kate's theme of Santa. I really love these vintage Santa's so that is what I have gone with.
My Card
This is a 5" x 7" kraft base card and uses an image from my Greeting Card Factory. It was matted onto kraft and green card before mounting onto the base card. The sentiment is from Sue Wilson and the trees are Finlay's Trees from John Next Door.
I'm sorry for such a quick post but I hope it finds you all well.
Take care.
Good morning. It's time for a new challenge at Winter Wonderland. The theme is Penguins and our sponsor is Twinkle Lane Designs
My Card
This is a 5" x 7"green card from Card Craft UK and used in landscape. I matted a scrap of striped paper onto some burgundy card stock. The sponsor's image is Playful Penguins and coloured with Promarkers.
The sentiment die is from Sue Wilson and I matted it onto some white card to allow it stand out against the busy striped background. The trees are John Next Door Finlay's Trees.
I hope you can find time to pop over to the blog and check out the cards from the rest of the DT and maybe you will decide to join in the challenge. Please remember,however, that we are a Christmas/Winter blog only.
Take care and enjoy your day.
Good day to you all. I hope it finds you well. We have some sunshine here in Oxfordshire which is rather pleasant since it has been like winter lately and been lighting the wood burners.
We had some fun this time around with a Tic Tac Toe grid, chosen by DT member Jane. Ifollowed the left vertical column and used up some Hunkydory scraps I found in my box to make this card that I will be sending to my sister.
My Card
5 x 7" ivory card base
Hunkydory paper
bird die - The Works
sentiment die - Sue Wilson
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We had fun this time with the tic toe grid so please pop over to the blog and check out he DT makes and perhaps join in with us.
Take care.
