xmas tree

A Simple card using the Baroque Christmas tree stamp form Indigo Blu and the starry corner stamp from Clarity.

Simply stamped in Bottle Green adirondak, mounted on some green card, the fancy corners of the base card are the edges of the Christmas tree and I have just added a few red gems.

That was short and sweet,

Santa in the sky

Oh  I haven't had a good day today no mojo.  I finally get around to being able to  play with inks and stuff and mjo decides to go for a wander hope he's back by tomorrow I have some commisions I need to make but want to do the Christmas ones first.

Anyhoo this is a 20 x 20 card base .
The background was brayered with the Hydrangea Big & Juicy inkpad and of course the splodge mat.  The topper was done with the same inkpad but further into the darker area.  I left a moon and I then sprayed with water finely and rolled over with paper towel to make it "starry".  Today's blog post The buildings are a stamp I got from Inkylicious a few years ago it can be a bit temperamental - methinks I could do with getting some of that clingy stuff to give it a bit of padding as it is not very tall but quite long.

The Santa is a beloved Clarity stamp but only has two reindeer so I inked up the stamp and then masked off the topper and just stamped 2 reindeer then I re inked and added the full stamp behind so that it looks continuous.

Both layers are mounted on some complimentary purplish card from my stash and the sentiment is a Clarity stamp.

Hark

This card was inspired by Maria Simms at the last Clarity workshop i attended in October.

The background of the topper was brayered I think it was either stone wash, denim or a mix of the two using a splodgemat.
I stamped the front image and masked it then repeated the process until I had all 3 angels stamped. I coloured the dresses with promarkers, added glitter to trumpets and wings with a glue pen and glitter.  I have a little cluster of stars on a stamp and another star stamp that is also small . I randomly stamped these with versamark and embossed with kaleidoscope  powder from Stampendous.

Mounted the whole lot on some blue mirri - stamped the sentiment in Denim and embossed in clear.
the whole lot was then mounted onto some very fine glitter card then more mirri and finally onto a 20 x 20 card./

That's it - I am up to date.

I have several commissions to do but I am every hopeful that I will be back to making cards and doing all things inky tomorrow and hopefully will find the time to blog.

See you soon and thanks for visiting xx

Joy at Xmas

Splodge mat
Clarity stamps - Joy framer, Robin and tree
Candi dots
Navy and white card stock
silver ribbon
pro markers for Robin
Weathered wood distress
Denim Adirondak
Brayer.

I have left the tag blank as I have lots of little strips in white with different family sentiments to add on the card whilst I am at my fairs. So it may just say Merry Christmas Mum & Dad or to a special couple etc etc.

Catching up well aren't I? one more to post which will follow.

wedding card 2

Clarity church - I love this stamp embossed in gold.
two spellbinder ovals one white one gold mirri
creative expressions embossing folder.
The words and letters are a right old mix of stamps.  The W & D are from a set of nice letters ( can't remember who made them but the small letters are not much kop).  The rest are from dimension stamps the ones that come with the large rounded letters and have no first letter.

Just a note:
I stamped the words onto a piece of pearl card and embossed in gold.  I then embossed with the folder twice to leave the background behind the words plain.

wedding card

This was a commission

Gold Mirri and cream pearl card.

creative expressions embossing folder
Splendid circles spellbinders dies
spellbinders blossom flower
marianne dies poinsetta die used for the leaves and some gold ribbon.

couple of gold gems for some bling.

I have a couple more to post which will follow shortly

nik naks

  
 

 


 


Hello everyone - it is absolutely yonks since I last posted a blog.

I have been extremely busy working on a secret project and making little niknaks for my craft stall.  I made quite a lot but then sold them at the Oswaldtwhistle show so I spent most of last week and this afternoon making more stock.  This is a selection of the ones that are now all sold.
My next show is at the Last Drop Hotel near Bolton this Sunday and then I will be again at the Winter Gardens Blackpool on 1st & 2nd December.

I have one or two cards that I can post and I will put them up in separate posts.

The candles have been decorated with dry decals and gems.  the Little handbags are made from nice scrapbook paper/card . The crackers  are empty but include a snap for people to fill them or use as gift wrapping.  the green photo frame was made in a similar manner to the one I have previously posted and the blue one was covered in Gesso then bubbled up with the heat gun.  I also added some frontage enamel and shabby blue embossing powder.