Christmas Card Club Challenge - #19 Poinsettia

 Hi Crafters,

Our theme this week is Poinsettias, here is my card for the Christmas Card Club.

Recipe

A simple card using a Craft Creations Decoupage Sheet and some foiled paper and gold mirri card from my stash. The sentiment is a Sue Wilson die.

Short and sweet post today.

Hope you have a great Sunday

Lorraine

xXx

Heat Embossing

 Hi Crafters,

I won the challenge at Christmas Craft Creations a few weeks ago and was so pleased to be asked to join them as a Guest Designer for the month of June.

Their theme this month is

HEAT EMBOSSING

I thought I would use the prize that I won on that challenge to create my card as it was a lovely set of Christmas stamps and dies.

I have tried a CAS design this time.

Here it is again but tilted towards the light to hopefully show up all of the gold heat embossed details.

Everything has been heat embossed, the lovely poinsettia outline stamp, then I stamped again and used the dies to cut out the poinsettia layers. These have been coloured using Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Little Red Wagon - #605 Make It CAS

Aud Sentiments - #276 ATG + Sentiment

Alphabet Challenge - E is for Easy, Simple Card

My Time To Craft - #458 Floral

CHNC Every Saturday - #545 ATG Christmas

Thank you for visiting, I will be sharing my second card as Guest Designer using these lovely stamps and dies in a couple of weeks time, hope to see you again.

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas ATC Swap

 Hi Crafters,

I hope you have enjoyed the Christmas period as safely as you can. It was a quiet one for us and didn't feel much like Christmas at all but now with 2021 looming and a higher rate of infection than in the first wave we must all continue to do our part in keeping this dreadful disease at bay.

I have been spending time tidying and organising my craft room - it had turned into a disaster zone after the busy lead up to Christmas with all my card making but now I am pleased to say that I can see the worktops and all the draws and shelves are arranged neatly. It feels so much calmer and easier to create when I can find what I need without having to rummage for it :)

I'd like to share a set of Christmas ATC's that I had made for the Christmas swap at Charmed Cards & Crafts. I used my Distress Oxide inks to create the background, then adhered die cut snowflakes cut from glitter card. The candle, poinsettia and holly dies are all cut from 'smooshed' distress oxide backgrounds using Marianne Design dies which I have heat embossed to create some texture and detail. The sentiment stamp is from a Penny Black set called 'Carolling Penguins' which I have heat embossed with gold EP and then cut into sections to fit the ATC. I added Art Glitter and glitter gems to the centres of the poinsettia.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Celebrate

Make My Monday - #138 Create Your Own Background in an Inky Way

Double D Challenge - Poinsettia

Little Red Wagon - #581 Merry Christmas

Crimbo Crackers -#222 ATG

CHNC Every Saturday - #522 ATG Christmas

Country View Challenge - Anything Christmas

It was very cold here this morning but it has brightened up now and I'm feeling quite industrious so I'm off to get started on some Thank You cards and Birthday cards for early January. I'm hoping to pop round some of your blogs later too, see you then.

Lorraine

xXx 

2nd Christmas Card for this year

Hi Crafters,

I'm keeping my promise to create a Christmas card a week, so far!

Here it is....

Made using a fabulous Craft Creations decoupage sheet, some different sized punches and a Joy Crafts Pine Branches Die - 6002/0770

I've added lots of Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Jewels to our cute little bears fur trimmed hat.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - #462 ATG

Cute Card Thursday - #616 Embellish

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - ATG Christmas/Holiday Related

ABC Christmas Challenge - B is for Bingo (Lots of layers,Christmas Sentiment,Glitter)

I hope you have a lovely weekend,

see you again soon.

Lorraine 

xXx

Christmas Club Challenge #13 Christmas Flowers

Hi Crafters,

The weather has started to warm up here at last and the days are very pleasant but I'm here today to share some Christmas cards for our fortnightly Christmas Card Challenge.

This time Kate asked us to use Christmas Flowers so here are my makes with a running theme of Poinsettias.

This is a digital download with plenty of fussy cutting needed on those flowers.

I've used an Art Sheet image from LOTV and added a glittered wooden sentiment on this card.

I lightly inked the embossing to bring out the wording on this Christmas embossing folder.

And finally an easel card featuring this gorgeous image from a Hunkydory pad.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

to be added

Please take a peek at the other ladies Christmas makes in the group, you can find the links to their blogs under the 'CCC' tab in my sidebar.

Have a lovely Sunday!

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #5 Poinsettia

Hi Crafters,

It's Sunday again, these weeks are flying by and it's time to share my card for the Christmas Club.

This week our theme is Poinsettia and I have used a digital download from Wendy Carr for my card design.

I've added some Holly die cuts between the layers, highlighted parts with glitter and pearls and 3D'd the poinsettia.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

(to be added)

Hope you have a lovely Sunday!

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #8 Poinsettia/Christmas Greenery

Hi Crafters,

Two weeks have passed by so quickly and I'm here again to share my cards for the Christmas Card Club.

Mary has given us Poinsettias or Christmas Greenery for our theme.

I've created two very different cards this time.

The top one is using a Craft Creations decoupage sheet and some beautiful tartan paper.

The second card uses a Christmas embossing folder from Apple Blossom and TH Tattered Poinsettia Die cut and embossed using pearlescent card which really makes the embossing stand out. I finished off the poinsettia with a Creative Expressions Dazzler.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

CHNC Every Saturday - #381 ATG
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #463 Christmas
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #80 ATG

Take a peek at the other ladies cards in our group by clicking on the links in the tab at the top of my blog. They always have some fabulous Christmas inspiration on their blogs.

I hope you've had a great weekend, the weather has been a little brighter which always helps.

See you soon,

Lorraine

xXx

For Mum...

Hi Crafters,

This was the Christmas card that I made for my mum this year, she loves poinsettias and has quite green fingers when keeping them successfully from one year to the next.

I thought I'd make an easel card to show off this lovely Craft Creations decoupage image.

I layered the tartan paper from Craft Sensations on to glitter card for a beautiful sparkling border and used metallic gold card for the rest of the mats and to cut my Britannia Die sentiment. Grossgrain ribbon from stash.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Allsorts Challenge - #447/8 Seasonal Flowers

Crafty Creations - #357 ATG

Fussy & Fancy - #202 Christmas

Bye for now,

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge - #9 Poinsettias or Christmas Angels

Hi Crafters,

The theme for our Christmas challenge this fortnight was chosen my Mary this time and she has given us a nice and easy one of 'Poinsettias or Christmas Angels'

As you can see I went with the Poinsettia option.

My card is a day early as usual so please pop back tomorrow for links to the other teamies cards.

Recipe

Creative Expressions Embossing Folder and Ivy Die

Memory Box 'Merry Christmas' Die

Paper Poinsettias and Stamens

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Fab & Funky - #302 Bright Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - #423 No Patterned Papers
Creative Fingers - #108 ATG

Well that's all from me for now, see you tomorrow.

Lorraine
xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #25 - Anything Goes

Hi Crafters,

Well who would believe that we are at the end of another year of challenges at our friendly little Christmas Card Club?

This year has flown by quicker than ever before but as my Mum says the older you get the quicker time passes and she is certainly right on that one.

So back to the challenge and Zoe has been kind to us and chosen an Anything Goes theme.

Recipe

Paper - Berry Merry by Jennifer Ellory

Spellbinders A2 Curved Borders One Die Set

(both the die cuts and the negative parts)

Gem String

Paper Poinsettia

Brad

LOTV Curvy Christmas Sentiment Stamp

Challenges I'd like to enter:
The Ribbon Girl - ATG Card Challenge
Come & Get It - Merry Christmas ATG
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #23 ATG
Crafting From The Heart - #89 ATG
Crafty Creations - #304 Happy Holiday
Fussy & Fancy - #154 Happy Holidays
Crafty Friends - #20 Christmas

As you may know I always post my creation a day earlier than the rest of the team as I have other DT commitments for tomorrow so please join the other ladies tomorrow with their beautiful Christmas creations.

The Christmas Card Club will be back in the New Year on January 10th so that just leaves me to wish you all a Happy Festive Holiday!

Lorraine 

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #5 Poinsettia - Any colour you like.

Hi Crafters,
Can you believe it is the 1st March already?! well it is and it's also another Christmas Challenge at the CCC. This time it was Margaret's turn to choose the theme and she has come up with a lovely challenge of 'Poinsettia' in any colour you like. I decided on cream and gold for my theme and here it is...

Recipe

Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia Die

Crafters Companion Christmas Village Die

Dew Drop Brilliance Ink - Galaxy Gold

Brittania Dies - 'Merry Christmas'

Joanna Sheen's Ivy Flourish Die

Glitter Card

Gold Mirri

Gems

 

This was a very simple card to put together, once the Christmas Village was cut, embossed and inked it was just a case of layering it on to the glitter card and mirri card. Then layering up the poinsettia in the top corner, job done! Hope you like my festive offering today? Do check out the other ladies blogs (list in tab at top of page) for their gorgeous makes too, I read somewhere the other day that it was only 42 weeks to Christmas so we had better crack on with the card making :)

 

Challenges

ABC Christmas Challenge - D is for Die-cuts

Cute Card Thursday - #362 Fancy Corners

Crafty Catz - #268 Dies and Punches

Completely Christmas - #52 ATG + Add some Texture

Brown Sugar - #135 ATG

Sister Act - #95 ATG

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #69 ATG + Embossing

CHNC Challenge Every Saturday - #218 Cut It Up

 

I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday and wish you all well, see you soon,

 

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club Challenge #10

Hi Crafters,
Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday morning!
I'm here today to share my CCC challenge card. This time the theme is 'Poinsettias' and was set by our lovely member Karen B. Here is what I came up with...

Card recipe

6 x 6 scalloped card blank

Papers - Dovecrafts Back to Basics Vintage Christmas

& Raspberry Road Christmas collection

Poinsettia - Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia Die

Sentiment - Waltzingmouse Stamps

Bronze metal corners & filigree flower - Stash

Pearls - Meiflower

 

Challenges

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie Free For All #89

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - Bows

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes Challenge #10

My Mum's Craft Shop - Lots of Layers #17

CHNC Patterned Paper - May challenge

CHNC Challenge Extra - Christmas

CHNC Challenge 175 - Something beginning with 'B' (Blooms)

The Ribbon Girl - Flowers

 

Please go and check out the other ladies Christmas creations, their links are in the tab at the top of my blog. They are certain to give you lots of beautiful inspiration for your own Christmas makes.

 

Hope the weather stays fine, there are a lot of fetes and events going on today and tomorrow and it's a shame when the weather lets them down.

Have a great holiday weekend!

 

See you soon,

Lorraine