For the fifth day of Christmas countdown

Another snowy card.  But don't you just love the little character, he is from lily of the valley, I really love their stamps.  I have stamped him and coloured him in using a blender brush and my ink pads, this gives a really subtle look.  To get the snowball effect I have used a 'mask' with my versamark pad.  Removed the mask and sprinkled a sparkly embossing powder over the top, this gives a wonderful wintry effect.  The card and papers are from stamping up and the punches used were from Martha Stewart, all put together on a Kraft coloured background.  Thank you for joining me, see you again tomorrow X x.

For the fourth day of Christmas countdown

With all this talk of snow I think today's card is quite appropriate!  I have made it for a couple who love Christmas and above all penguins, this is Percy Penguin and his little friend. 
The burst out star was an idea found in a magazine, I have adapted it and cut it out of plain blue vellum, I then put it through a dotty embossing folder to give it the snowflake look. 
Do be careful when embossing vellum, to prevent it from cutting the patten through my vellum I put a sheet of kitcken towel underneath my vellum sheet in the 'sandwhich'. 

Percy the penguin was a preprinted shrink plastic novelty sheet found under children's crafting.  I think my friends are going to love this, I hope you do too. 
Thank you for popping by, see you tomorrow X x

For the third day of Christmas countdown

Hello,

I really think that this retired stamp set,'summer fun', lends its self to the famous Christmas carol... I saw three ships come sailing in.  The background stamp for the scallop circle is the large medallion stamp, so really useful.  I really like the festive colours of this card and hope you do too.  Thank you for dropping by.  See you again tomorrow, this is really so much fun, posting each day! X x

The second day of Christmas countdown

Hi, I know I said yesterday I was going to post a card, but I thought you might like to see the bag in the box too.  These were all made using the Season of Joy stamp set, such a vesatile set - the flowers and swirls can be used for any time of the year.  So remember a stamp set is not just for Christmas!  Have a lovely day tomorrow, thank you for stopping by X x

For the first day of Christmas countdown...

Hello... long time no blogging :)  But I do hope that will change.  I took this photo of my rose in the frost, isn't it beautiful.  I really wanted to share it with you.

... And now for some cards.  I thought it would be a novel way to see out the end of the year by bringing to you a card for each of the twelve days of Christmas.  I do hope you like them as I have been so busy creating them.

So here is the first one.  I have used stampin up's Dasher as a black silhouette on a lovely background that was created using the inkdusters, I've not quite got to grips with the brayer yet!

Thank you for stopping by and hope to see you tomorrow X x

Sewing Roll

I just had to show you what one of my lovely ladies - Ann D has made.  Ann is a brilliant seamstress and has done very well in the local WI competitions this summer.  Here are pictures of the fantastic sewing roll that she has made and decorated with our 'sew lovely' stamp set.  I just think that it is a beautiful alternative way to stamp.  Well done and thank you for sharing your super project with us Ann X

Mini Bottle Bag

Sorry it has been so long since my last post,the month of July was so busy and now it has disappeared, I cannot believe how  quickly time is flying away.    I thought you might like to see the mini bottle bag and card completed during our last class.  The bag uses just one 12 x 12 sheet of DSP paper and will be so handy for a variety of bottle type presents.  I found the inspiration whilst blog hopping, thanks to Jill Coleman.  We have decorated the bag using a wonderful vine die that I just had to have!   The little left overs were used to decorate the tag.All the flowers were made stamping the build a blossom petals and then punching them out using the specially designed blossom petals punch.  Colours used were from the 'in colour' collection.  The embossing folder used for the card was the lovely vintage wallpaper.

Thank you for having a read, more pretty posts to follow, enjoy the sunshine X x