5 Gold Rings!

  Good evening Lovelies! Well it's certainly been cold today! Beautiful sunshine though! Have you got your decs up yet? We're doing ours tomorrow hopefully, hubby is off work until Thursday so he can get up in that loft! 

Tonight I have made a little tag for the SplodgeAway challenge, http://www.splodgeaway.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/3rd-splodgeaway-monthly-challenge-12.html the theme is 12 days of Christmas, now I struggled with this as I didn't have anything I could think of to use, then I thought of 5 go-ld ringgggggs la la la la lol jump rings sitting in a bag for a long time not getting used!

So I used craft card and cut a tag 3.5 x 5.5 inch and rounded corners and punched a hole, I inked the edges using my SplodgeAway mat and vintage photo DI and heat dried then stamped with a music stamp with walnut stain DI all over to create a background and lightly brushed with irredescent mica powder to create a subtle shimmer, I then mixed 2 greens of distress stains and some maimeri texture paste together and using part of the Holly SplodgeAway mask, just before it was completely dry I added some red gems for berries, randomly stuck on the jump rings added the sentiment and a lovely velvet ribbon and gold bells, voila! Thank you for taking a look today xx 

Zoe Challenge #11, traditional christmas colours!

  Hello Lovelies, I can't believe it's nearly Christmas again! And Twinchie time again of course! So here we are with a whopping 7 yes 7 samples lol! Do ya think I like em? Hahaha! So as you can see its traditional Christmas colours, no shortage if ideas for this one! 

So onto my samples, my first one I embossed using Fran-tage then added green fragments while still molten, the baubles are from Dylusions set which I colours with pro markers and decoupaged! 

Second I used Dylusions stencil/mask to crate border with red DI. Stamped mistletoe in green added liquid pearls, very simple!

Number 3 is some paper from stash and die cut holly with felt added buttons from stash!

Inked with DI stamped with another Dylusions stamp and added glitter glue to berries and white gel pen for some faux stitching and highlights!

Just a very old stamp I've never used had it years, I coloured with a metallic pen and Whisper brush markers!

I created this one with texture paste through a bit of mask and sprinkled mica flakes onto it, not my favourite I have to say but thought I'd add it anyway!

So my last one which I really like, I stamped poinsettia three times coloured with Spectrum Noirs and layered up added some gold glitter to centre, using red ink I randomly stamped the pointsettia and used water brush to colour it slightly off the dark green card and added a sentiment, pointsettia is from Creative Ex set!

I hope you like my twinchies, I really enjoy making them! I hope you will join in they are such fun! You can join in using this link http://twinchie-twinchiehotmaillive.blogspot.co.uk/ give it a visit and look what our wonderfully talented other DT members have produced, you won't be disappointed! Thank you x

Zoe Challenge #6 "Frosty Winter"

  Good morning Lovelies! Well another month has past! And another new challenge over on The Cupboard Trilogy I do hope you will join in? The theme is: Frosty winter! So wer'e looking for projects in icey shades: blues, lilacs, pinks, greys etc!

So onto my DT sample, 8x8 white base, I layered with white card I embossed with a swirly snowflake M-Bossability, next layer I clear heat embossed using a swirly Justrite background stamp then inked over with lilac DI from the spring set, I used Spellbinders for all the die cutting the fancy lattice I extended and ran through twice, the baubles I used the same technique as the second background whilst still in the die, added the extras and voila! I hope you like it? I really am pleased with how this turned out, this is going to be my Mums Christmas card!

Please visit the blog to see all the other wonderful DT samples and get inspired to join in, just click here : http://thecupboardtrilogychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

My second card is also 8x8 I pierced the first white layer then a navy blue layer then embossed using Spellbinder M-Bossabiliy folder, more navy then the topper was various DI splodged onto craft mat and spritzed with water, then the paper swooshed through it, the stamps are all fro Indigoblu, the flakes at the top I did using their fabulous FlitterGlu and winter gilding flakes, some old brads I've had years just to finish off! This card I'm entering into http://www.emmascardsuk.com/p/emmas-crafty-challenge.html

Santa!

  Good evening Lovelies! Hope everyone is well, warm and dry?

Tonight I've made a card to enter into these challenges; 

http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://www.dccfriendschallenges.net/2012/12/challenge-5-christmas-time-bumper-prize.html

So here's a very simple card, 6x6 scalloped edge white card, I matted with white paper I'd inked with festive berries DI then embossed the next layer with spellbinders M-Bossability the topper is the fabulous vintage Santa by Visible Image, I think he's lovely his beard is amazing! I stamped him with Walnut stain DI and just added a bit of the FB DI to his hat using a cotton bud, i masked him and stamped using iced spruce DI the crackle background by Indigoblu and inked around with the FB DI again, then i glittered the hair and beard with a quickie glue pen, added a bow and some bling! Thank you for visiting! Xxx 

Autumn tag!

  Good evening Lovelies! From a very cold South East Kent coast, but a lovely day, just freezing! Lucky compared to a lot of you though! Hope your all keeping warm and dry?

So here's a tag I've made I'm entering into http://www.dccfriendschallenges.net/ the theme is Autumn!

So I started with pan pastels in autumnal colours all over a piece of paper and sealed with cheap hairspray, then stamped with leaves from a lovely stamp set by Justrite, and cut them out, then using versamark I stamped randomly a few of the words from the set, then swiped over with autumnal colours pan pastels then sealed with hair spray, the printed paper is from stampin up which I tore and pan pasteled, the cobweb spider and leaves on the right hand side are by Dylusions which I highlighted with white gel pen and little blobs of glitter glue on web to create a dewy effect, the sentiment is also from the Justrite stamp set. I hope you like it? Thank you for visiting xxx 

Two for the men!

  Good evening Lovelies, there's no let up in the weather so far , it's been raining all day today it's now windy too! However not as bad as a lot of places!

So tonight I've made two male cards for two challenges my first I'm entering into http://craftymesschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ and the second is also for craftymess! The theme is a Country! Ladybug is monochromatic!

Both cards are on 6x6 craft card base, my first card I have used cream card and aged mahogany DI, the stamps are from Creative Expressions the background I used a script stamp and postcard then embossed and inked to create lots of texture, the rosette is by Tim Holtz!

My second card I used the map background from Indigoblu in chipped sapphire DI the inked edges, the topper is Portabello road stamps which I masked and stamped with crackle background also Indigoblu, I coloured with Spectrum noirs, I have to say my colouring in is not great! Thank you for visiting xxx 

Brrrrrrr!

Good evening Lovelies! Looks like some of you will be having some more awful weather, hope you are all managing to keep warm and safe?

Tonight's card is one of a batch I've made! A very quick and simple card, just takes a long time to dry! I'm entering this card into http://panpasteluk.blogspot.co.uk/ the theme is Frosty and bright!

5x5 white base matted with navy card, the top layer I have stamped using Visible image Christmas Eve poem stamp with Versamark, I then swiped over with pan pastels then sprayed with cheap hairspray to seal, the snowflakes I've created using a Dylusions mask with iridescent texture paste, then while still wet added some gems for a bit of bling, left over night to dry! Voila! Hope you like it? Thank you so much for taking the time to visit xxx