Another of my quick Christmas cards using a LOTV die cut!
I would like to enter this for Party time Tuesday- red and green Christmas
Oh Christmas tree
die cut
Christmas craziness!!
I’ve been completely manic with last minute Christmas makes and haven’t had time to blog them. I’ve got about 13 cards ready to blog!! Now I’m not at work I’m going to try and catch up with the blogging!
Here is the first quick and flat card!!
I went for square Kraft card for my quick cards. I used a pearlescent green dew drop ink to colour the edges and background of the die cut. The die cut is from Lili of the Valley. Papers from stash. Here is the inside!
I would like to enter this to
Charisma Cardz challenge- last minute Christmas makes
Creative Card Crew- ’tis the season
Pretty in pink
A friend is about to have an operation so this is for her.
I used a LOTV die cut and distressed the background and added perfect pearls (doing the same to the edges of my card and layers). The background paper is Nitwits (as is the card inside) teamed with a flourish paper I made.
Used a lovely pink ribbon which I added glimmer mist and pearlescent paint to. I absolutely love the embellishment- very vintage. I used textured card underneath and a MS flower punch to make the border.
This is the paper and frame I used inside from Nitwits Beraly Mine
This is the whole thing.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Lili of the Valley- anything but Christmas
Do you stack up challenge- ribbon
Victorine stamps- ribbons
Southern girls challenge- ribbon
Craft your days away- buttons or bows
House of Gilli- flourishes
Christmas post
Another Christmas card and another cute LOTV die cut. I made and printed the papers, used lots of stickles and glimmer misted my snowflakes.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Lili of the valley- anything goes
Rainbow Lady’s Challenge blog- cards for men
4 Crafty Chicks- snowflakes
Charisma Cardz challenge- snowflakes
Totally Papercrafts challenge- Christmas
Our Craft Lounge- cute critters
Folding, folding, folding
Yep it’s my first attempt at a tri-fold card. Many thanks to the Top Tip Tuesday team for the great tutorial and inspiring DT cards. I’m really happy with this card as I managed to use lots of freebies from my stash so it was inexpensive but doesn’t look it!
I’ve used a Lili of the Valley die cut with lots of added stickles and also glossy accents on the robins and poinsettas. The flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts and I added stickles
TIP: It is easier to put stickles on your craft mat and catch the edges of the petals in it rather than applying the stickles direct (I find I use less this way too!)
The robbins, holly leaves, pressies and trees are all chipboards from a Forever Friends set free with a magazine and the papers were also magazine freebies.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Top Tip Tuesday- more than one fold
Wags ‘n’ whiskers- Christmas themed
Winter Wonderland- what a cutie
Phindy’s Place challenge- Christmas
The Crafty Pad- traditional Christmas colours red, green and gold
Everybody art challenge- Christmas card
Shopping our stash- Christmas or Winter
Shabby Christmas
I thought I’d try a bit of shabby chic for a male Christmas card.
I used distress ink on the outside of the card. I dry embossed the blue card with snowflakes and used distress ink to highlight them and distressed the edges with scissors. I used some snowflake and swirl paper I made on computer, added distress ink and used some ribbon coloured with distress ink.
I added distress ink to the snowflakes and to the die cut and then distressed the die cut LOTV image with scissors.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Stamps & fun creativity- Winter
Stamps R Us- masculine
Cards for men- it’s nearly Christmas
I did it creations- Christmas/ Winter
Keep calm and eat a cupcake.
I used this wonderful inspiration picture for this card.
This gave me tons of ideas and I came up with this card.
I used the colour picker on Craft Artist to match my paper colours to the inspiration picture and used ideas from it for the papers.
The central paper is stripes to match the tablecolth and I made it and added the frames and sentiment in Craft Artist. I used a LOTV die cut and recoloured it with Promarkers to match the inspiration photo colours. I used tattered rose distress ink inside the frames and around the die cut. I coloured clear gems with Promarker for the cake cherries.
The ribbon paper with cupcakes was made on the computer. The next layer down was made to look like petal wallpaper like the wall in the picture. The background paper was also made on computer and features cupcakes. I coloured some more gems for the backing paper to add some zing!
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
Make It Monday
The Paper Shelter- anything goes
More Than Favors- anything goes
Charisma Cardz- anything goes
Challenge up your life- inspiration photo (see top of post)
Alphabet challenge- T is for Tea
I love to stamp- sketch for you to try
Vintage Christmas
Once again I’ve pushed myself out of my comfort zone. I’m not one for traditional Christmas cards and traditional Christmas colours.
I used a LOTV die cut with added stickles and stamped my LOTV sentiment in red with yellow chalk on the background to make it look a bit aged. Card and papers from stash (papers free with magazines) Bow and stars also from stash. I punched the gold card with star punches.
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
Christmas Blog Challenge- vintage Christmas
Moving Along With the Times- Vintage
Christmas Inspirations- die cuts or punches
Party Time Tuesdays- anything goes
It’s a bit like Narnia
This LOTV die cut makes me think of Narnia becuase there is a postbox in the middle of the woods! I thought of using it when I saw some lovely tree inspiration photos for challenges. I used a great sketch but had to flip the embellishments so I didn’t cover the best bits of my background layer! I used distress ink around the edges of the card.
The tree paper was from stash and the snowflake paper was from the Snowman selection. I also used black card from stash.
I used my LOTV let it snow sentiment stamped in blue with added stickles and pearls. I punched two black snowflakes, added silver ink over the top, cut them up and stuck them to the back of the sentiment.
My snowflake embellishments were punches from blue glitter paper and black paper with added silver ink effect. I stuck them together and on two of them added a blue snowflake gem and to the third I added a bead that looks like a snowball with glossy accents and added some pearls.
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
Paperplay challenges- use black
Top Tip Tuesday- layer it up
A gem of a challenge sketch
Do You Stack Up- inspiration photo
When the red red robin comes bob bob bobbing along!
Another Christmas card which is robintastic!!
I made the snowflake background paper for the lowest layer using Craft Artist and colour matched them to the colours for the Crafy Chick challenge.
The other papers.,tag and robin were all freebies with a magazine. I used a light green gem brad to attch the tag to the card.
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
4 Crafty Chicks Colour combo
Daring Cardmakers sponsored by Ribbon Reel- a little bird told us.
Winter Wonderland Challenge- Robin red breast