Christmas Card Club Challenge #4 - Icicles

Hi Crafters,

I'm posting my CCC card a day early as I have another DT card due tomorrow. 

Kate is our hostess this time and has chosen the theme of 'icicles'.

Recipe

Memory Box Die - Cute Cottage & Frosted Roof and Ledges

Sizzix Striplet Die - Stacked Words - Christmas

Paper Smooches Stitched Dies 

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean

Perfect Pearls Shimmer Mist

Crafts Too Embossing Folder

Black Brad

Glitter Card

I made my own sky background for this card. I used water colour paper and my distress inks and swooshed the wet paper through the inks on my craft mat, dried it a little with my heat gun and then sprayed the Perfect Pearls Shimmer spray, which is very shimmery in real life but a little shy here.

Dried the paper again, embossed the snow using the embossing folder, then ran a white ink pad carefully over the raised bumps and used clear embossing powder to further highlight them.

The cottage and words were cut from textured core'dinations cardstock and I sanded the cottage after running that though a wood-grain embossing folder. This card has lots of texture and lots of  shimmer too, hope you like it.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

That Craft Place - ATG
Creative Moments - #87 ATG / Wet / Dry Embossing
Crafty Catz - #312 CAS, No DP
Brown Sugar - #186 ATG
Creative Fingers - #103 ATG
Country View Challenge - Make your own background
Crafty Girlz - #12 ATG
The 12 MoC Link Up - #14 ATG / Winter Wonderland
CHNC Christmas Challenge - February Challenge

I have quite a few Christmas cards made already this year and am feeling rather pleased about that, looking forward to a 'no rush' approach to Christmas this year.

Enjoy your weekend and see you tomorrow,

Lorraine

xXx

LOTV Summer Special Challenge

Hi Crafters,

This is my entry for the Summer Special Challenge At Lili of the Valley.

 

Recipe

Image - Goalie Saves - LOTV Stamps

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Kraft card

Papers - LOTV Heartfelt - Up, Up & Away - 'Twas The Night 8 x 8 Paper Pads

Sentiment - LOTV Stamps

MFT Stitched Vertical Strips & Blueprint 14 Dies

Memory Box - Grand Happy Birthday Die (negative)

Football  and Button Brad

Bakers Twine

Metal Charm

 

I love this action figure stamp, just in mid save. This card is going to be for my Great Nephew who will be seven soon and plays for his local under 9's football team.

I made a sort of polaroid aperture with my MFT dies and put the image behind it, I thought it looked like a snap shot from a match, what d'ya think?

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Summer Challenge on Facebook - #1 Summer

Fussy & Fancy - #140 Fun in the Sun

One Crazy Stamper - ATG

Penny Black & More - Dies and Punches

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Buttons & Bows

Little Claire's Designs - #57 Outdoors

Crafty Cardmakers & More - #140 Stitching, faux or real

Papertake Weekly - ATG

Deep Ocean Challenge - #105 Add A Charm

 

Well it's been a lovely day here today, the sun has shone non-stop and all my washing is dry so I'm a happy bunny. Hope it's shining where you are too.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine



Wedding Anniversary Cards

Hi Crafters, hope you've had a lovely day.
Spring is here and lots of people organise their weddings for this time of year, that would explain why I've had lots of requests to make Wedding Anniversary cards too. Here are three that I made recently.....

 

The first one is an 8 x 8 card blank with gold satin cardstock and Centura Pearl in lemon which I embossed with two different Crafters Companion Embossalicious folders. I used a Martha Stewart Punch-around-the-page punch, Spellbinders Floral Ovals die and a La La Land corner die. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the ribbon was from my stash.

The second card uses a new Memory Box Die - Diamond Background, the Floral Ovals die again and Sue Wilsons Filigree 3D Bow die. I then placed WOC pearls at the cross points of the background.

Lastly this card was made entirely from the layers of the Spellbinders Elegant Labels 4 die using pearlescent cardstock in white and blue and then I inked through the die with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink. A satin bow and a faceted brad to finish.

Hope you like my offering tonight.

I'd like to enter in to the following challenges:

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes #15

TTCRD - Anything Goes

 

Thanks for stopping by and looking in, I really appreciate your comments.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Card 2014 #2

Hi Crafters,
True to my word I'm sticking to my resolution of making a Christmas card each week (so far) and here it is...

Card Recipe

Card - Craft UK scalloped square

Papers - Kaisercraft 'Be Merry Collection'

Stamps - Magnolia 'Winter Forest'

- Snowman from Ebay (sorry no name)

Sentiment - Dreamees stamp set

Large Snowflake - Memory box 'Bianca Snowflake'

Small snowflakes - Cheery Lynn

Brad and ribbon from stash

Promarkers

 

I'm entering this in to the challenges at:

ABC Christmas Challenge - 'A' is for Anything Christmas

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

 

It's very dull and drizzly outside the window today so I'm not going to look out anymore, just keep my head down and get on with an increasing list of commissions that, although I'm grateful for them, I just don't seem to be making headway with, lol.

 

Catch up with your blogs later,

 

Lorraine

 

 



Last Christmas Cards - I Promise

Hi Everyone,
       hope you all had a lovely festive time and are looking forward to 2014.
I'm sure that you are all Christmased out by now but I just wanted to share some last minute Christmas cards that I found the photo's of when tidying up my computer files.
These were really quick to make which was a bonus because I had quite a lot to do.

 

Good night all...

...Happy New Year !

 

Lorraine