Christmas Card Club Challenge #14

Hi Crafters,
Those weeks are flying by and already it is time to post my entry for our little Christmas Card Club. This week Maureen has chosen the lovely Christmas theme of ' Angels'.

I won some digital images from Eureka Stamps and this beautiful angel was one of them. I have coloured her with my Promarkers/ Flexmarkers and glittered up her wings, halo and trim. The background paper is from a Nitwit collection and I dry embossed the mat she is layered on and heat embossed the sentiment.  I have used my go-to Cheery Lynn Snowflake die again, scattering them around her.

I'm entering in to the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Sketch #91

 CHNC - Let's Get Sentimental #183

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes #18

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes #21

TTCRD - Anything Goes

I Love Promarkers - Embossing #225

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes #237

Sister Act - Anything Goes #63

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes #41
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes #78

 

I hope you enjoyed my little glimpse of Christmas today, after all it is only 178 days away !!

Check out the other members and their creations - list in the tab at the top of the blog.

See you all soon and 'Happy Crafting !'

 

Lorraine

 



Graphic 45 - Couture

Hi Crafters,
I haven't had much time to blog lately but I thought I would pop in quickly tonight and share a card that I made a week or two ago. It's a different style for me but I wanted to use these beautiful Graphic 45 papers that I had won in a competition.

A friend of mine was turning fifty and I thought it needed a special sort of card. I edged everything with black soot DI and matted on black card to make it stand out. The flowers are Prima and the Guipure lace is from Wild Orchid Crafts ( I've been hoarding it) Can you see the black rosette trim, it's not very clear in the photo but it is gorgeous IRL. It was the first outing for the X Cut rosette die too and I thought it made a great addition to the design. I decided to make it into an interactive card so the two tag tops you can see peeking out can be slid out from their pockets and they each have a message to the recipient on the back.
Hope you are having a good evening and not too much rain and thunder where you are. We have had two very heavy, torrential rain falls today.
See you soon,

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club Challenge #13

Hi Crafters,
It's been a while since I last blogged I'm afraid and already two weeks has passed bringing it round to another CCC challenge. This time Carol has chosen the theme of Penguins.

This little digi stamp comes from Bugaboo Stamps and was part of a prize that I won in a challenge, isn't he/she just so cute! I have used non-traditional Christmas colours for a change and coloured the image with Promarkers and Flexmarkers to match. The doily is an X-cut die cut from white glitter card but that seems to have turned in to a grey colour on my photo - IRL it's very sparkly. The background paper is from a Nitwits collection called 'Snow folk too'.
As this is a scheduled post I will be adding the challenge entries on Sunday or Monday.
Please check out the other blogs in the CCC challenge for some great inspiration for your Christmas cards (list of blogs in the above tab).
Hope you have a great week,

Lorraine

Christmas Card Club Challenge #12 ~ Nativity

Hi Crafters,
Hope you are well and getting plenty of crafting done.
Life has been a bit hectic here for the past fortnight and so my post for the Christmas Card Club is a couple of days late. Our challenge was set by Sue J. and was a great theme - Nativity - however, having searched through my stash of stamps and digi's I could not find anything to fit the bill, I have Christmas trees, Santa's, Snowmen, Snowflakes and all manner of Christmas goodies but not ...a Nativity scene. Then after seeing some of the great inspirational cards from the other members of our group I had a light bulb moment and remembered the extensive range of cut files that they have at the Silhouette Cameo store. I tend to overlook my Cameo and it's versatility. The fact is that it sits at the back of my table and tends to be partially covered in all manner of things as I rummage through boxes and drawers looking for things that I know I have somewhere but can't quite remember exactly where. ( Am I the only one who does this?....please say I'm not). It also has to be pulled forward from the wall to allow room for the cutting mat to freely go back and forth so this means clearing a space for that too. I'm in desperate need of a re-org in my craftroom I think and it is well overdue. Over the years I have collected quite a lot of crafty goodies and my room is bursting at the seams so I think it's time so ask Hubby for some more shelves.
Sorry, waffle over and on to the card....

The scene was cut from black cardstock and 3D on top of a night sky scene made using Distress Inks. I added some tiny gems for stars. The words were also cut using my Cameo and the glitter snowflakes are a mix of Marianne Designs  and Cheery Lynn dies.

I'm entering in to the following challenges:

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Winter Wonderland - No Red or Green

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes #233

Completely Christmas - Anything Goes #14

CHNC Challenge Extra - Anything Goes Christmas

 

Thanks for stopping by today, as always the links to the other members blogs are in the page tab at the top of my blog, go and see what they have been up to.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

Stampendous - Fresh Bloom

Hi Crafters,
Hope the sun is shining on you today and if not I hope these cards will bring a little sunshine in to your craft room, lol.

In real life the yellow is a little more subtle than this picture shows, it is Crafters Companion Centura Pearl cardstock in lemon and not 'full on in your face' sunburst yellow but this is how it came out I'm afraid and no amount of tweaking would correct it without upsetting the rest of the colours :/
The backing paper was created using distress inks and water on my craft mat, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry and Shaded Lilac. I used the paper to stamp my flowers on and then embossed with white embossing powder. The stamp is a Stampendous grey rubber stamp called 'Fresh Bloom', I have had it for ages and not used it, heaven knows why coz it's a beautiful, large stamp which can be used in so many ways. The borders are made with a couple of Martha Stewart punches, the sentiment comes from Inkylicious and the pearls are from Meiflower.
While I had the stamp out and some of the backing paper left I made another card only this time I used an Anniversary sentiment.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes #233
Sister Act - Anything Goes

 

I will be round later for some commenting on your blogs so TTFN.

 

Lorraine

  

Baby Carriage

Hi Crafters,
Here is the other baby card I promised to share with you, a day late but then what is a day amongst friends?

As you can see I used the lovely Marianne Designs Baby Carriage die and some Spellbinders circle and scalloped circle dies. The gingham ribbon and bows are from Mei Flower.

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

TTCRD - Anything Goes
Divas By Design - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Embossing (wet or dry)
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes #95
Sister Act - Anything Goes #58
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes #37
 

 



 Well I'd like to wish you all a dry and sunny Spring Bank Holiday week if you are in the UK but it has been torrential rain here today, I hope it hasn't settled in for the whole week.

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

P.S. Sorry about the different coloured text in this post, I have no clue what is happening, every time I try to make it all the same colour it reverts back to this, so I've given up I'm afraid :/

Baby Suit

Hi Crafters,
Hope you are enjoying the Holiday Weekend and getting plenty of crafting done.
We have had another new arrival in our family and I'd like to share with you one of the cards that I made. I got the idea from that wonderful place - Pinterest. I drew my own template after seeing these three cards on Susanne Hansen's blog.

I cut the shape from plain cardstock and used the 'Up, Up and Away' papers by First Edition to make the top layer. Then I stamped the sentiments with a Clearly Besotted stamp set 'Baby Love' on to the banner and punched out the oval plaque with Stampin 'Up punches. The buttons and enamel dots are from my stash and the faux stitching was drawn using a green glaze pen by Sakura. I think it turned out really cute.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Scribble & Scrap - Anything Goes #19

TTCRD - Anything Goes

Sister Act - Anything Goes #58

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes #37

Brown Sugar - Anything Goes #95

Diva's By Design - Anything Goes

 

Bye for now but will be back tomorrow to show the other baby card I made for my Mum to give to the new parents.

 

Lorraine