Christmas in January

 Here, at last, are a couple of the Christmas cards I made this year.  I had stamped a variety of images a while ago but only got around to colouring them with my new markers in time for Christmas.  I simply matted the images onto either gold or silver paper and mounted them onto pearlised card stock. Oh! and added a touch of glitter, well you've got to have a little sparkle haven't you 

 

Christmas Panic

I'm beginning to get in to Christmas panic mode!  As ever, I'm behind with my preparations and although I have been busy stamping images and colouring them with my new promarkers (they ARE lovely), I only got around to making them into Christmas cards yesterday.  This photo shows just a few of the ones I finished but there were about 40 altogether.  This coming week is the last week of term and it's very busy at school, I think we have a concert every day but if I get chance I will upload some more pictures so you can see the images more clearly.

Workshop makes

I had a great day out at the Hobbycraft show at the NEC at the end of last month and I managed to book myself in to a couple of workshops while I was there. The first one I did was with Stephanie Weightman of Create and Craft TV fame where we made this pink rose stepper card. I love the image and it really is a quick and easy make, just assembling the pieces in the right order. The other workshop was with Lisa B where we made this beautiful tag using masking techniques and distress inks. The stamped image is embossed and painted and then some glitter for added bling. I'm going to mount the tag onto a card I think and add some ribbon.

Happy Birthday!

Another birthday card, this one destined for the postbox for a friend of mine. Again I watercoloured a stamoped image and layered it onto Bazzil cardstock, with a little more imagination this time I think, adding diamonds and squares into the mix. A touch of glitter and a ribbon to finish off.

Cheeky Girl

Oops! been nearly a month since I last blogged :S well on this blog anyway; I have been blogging on www.4thhestonlejog.blogspot.com
Anyhow, here is a cheeky little lady! I watercoloured the stamped image and layered her onto orange and yellow bazzil cardstock and attached the tag to the card with a brad. Backed onto a pretty plaid paper and a stamped message added to the bottom. Oh and a dash of glitter to add some bling :O)

Christmas in February ?!

No, I've not gone mad, not just yet anyway. Tomorrow I am going down to Southampton to attend a Stampin Up scrapbook workshop, I can't wait (I'm a bit excited can you tell ?!). As I was getting my bag ready with my glues and paper trimmer etc I realised that I hadn't blogged the cards that I made at the last workshop of Amanda's I went to, which is the christmas before last! Like tomorrows it was an all day workshop and we made several Christmas cards, two of which you can see here. Included in the price of the workshop was the stamp set that we used to make the cards, in this case Snowflakes; and Amanda showed us several techiniques to use them and produce the most beautiful cards. All the items used were Stampin Up products from the card and papers to the ribbon accents and glitter. In the bottom card the snowflake disk is suspended on thread in the aperture so that it spins.
I had such a great time that day, spending quality crafting time with likeminded friends I can't wait for tomorrow. A whole day scrapping and I get to make and bring home 25 pages ready for my photos and a scrapbook to put them in. I'll gradually post the results here over the next few days.

Monochrome Moggy

Well, ALMOST monchrome. The backing paper has a touch of pink which I echoed in my colouring of the image.

Goosed!

A miserable grey afternoon and I needed some brightening up. This paper was just perfect for the job that fresh colour just reminds me that spring is on the way. I watercoloured the stamped image as is my want of late and mounted it onto gold card. I also decoupaged some matching flowers onto the background paper just to give the finished card some more dimension and added just a touch of sparkle.

Bear Hugs

My last piece of orange spotty paper :O( I teamed it with a cheery teddybear this time and a whole bunch of balloons! Watercolours again, pencils this time and a spot of glitterglue to give those balloons some sparkle.

Lilac flowers and Butterflies

I have a bit of a thing about dresses at the moment I think. This was a kit card so all the embellishments came together. The flowers are decoupaged to add some depth and I added some glitter to lift the dress a little. I like the use of paper doily type paper as a background, I think I may exploit that a little more another time.

Monochromed Elegance

I don't often visit Black and White but I thought these images looked great on the black card. I did however add some highlights in the form of some border peel-offs and strips of holographic card. The image itself is decoupaged and highlighted with some glitterglue. I do love a spot of cutting out!