Christmas

My last Christmas card for my mama.

I Embosssed the background using the Couture Creations "Early Songbird" folder. I stamped the  "LeBlanche" Santa stamp onto card  and the edges were smudged with the same colour ink.I  cut out three circles using the Big Shot and Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Scolloped circles. Ribbon and bling were placed on the card to pretty it up and again a quick and easy but lovely finished result.

Simplicity

Simplicity...sometimes is beautiful, and is quick if you need a card ready for an occasion. Here are a couple of really quick and easy cards that I have made to try and simplify things for myself. Not too sure that is something I enjoy as I love to layer , ink and stamp.

 Three little squares were cut out, stamped with a matching colour and laid onto ribbon and ricrack ribbon. The inside of the card had three same sized squares stamped and placed in a row inside using puff squares to give it a bit of interest. Really quick and easy, but pretty I think.

This little card I made using the Cricut and overlaid the large flower ( circle) with fancy cut leaves and petals to give a very pretty effect. A couple of little flowers were cut out with a punch and a bit of bling was added to these and the main area...voila! a card made in about 10 minutes!

An engagement Card

This was a pretty fun card to make...a bit fiddly and as I am still getting to know my way around the Cricut it took a wee while to sort it all out. I wanted to make something pretty for a lovely young couple who have just got engaged ( Logan and Brooke) and incorporate their initials somehow into the card.

 Firstly I embossed silver card.(Just love this embossing folder by Couture Creations called "Lovingly Baroque" as it is so detailed). As the embossing folder was not wide enough, I used it twice and joined it in the middle, of which I covered the join with some bling.
The Cricut cartridge I used was Damask Decor which has an amazing range of beautiful filigree type motives such as this one. You can cut lots of the pieces out in different colours, however I wanted to stick to a simple number of the two, lilac and black to get a more "punchy" effect. The black piece is cut out as the background which is a selection on the Cricut and then the lavender was cut out as the overlay. A little bit of bling was added to lift the whole design and then I cut out the letters of the couple and used ink and pearl ex to lift the design (a little hard to see in the photo) A sentiment was stamped to the bottom of the card.

For Adele

I made this card for a friend who was celebrating a big birthday

It is pretty simple but looks really nice when finished. Firstly stamp your main piece of card with your desired stamp. I used Tim Holtz, Papillion and placed the butterflies down the side ( which is the bottom of the card) and then selected a few other places on the right side ( top of the card). In between I used a french script , masking the butterflies as I went to prevent the script covering them. I placed a piece of  card "wire" mesh under the main pictrue, which is one of the butterflies from the same stamp set. This is stamped on a separate piece of card and placed under another piece of  pretty card which has a circle cut out of it to place the butterfly in the centre. I  rubbed ink around the inner of the circle and the outside edges. This was placed on a piece of mulberry paper and all adhered down.

On the inside of the card I used another piece of the pretty paper  and a sentiment placed on the piece of card left over from the front of the card. I wanted to do something a bit different so I stamped the butterflies on card, coloured them with Myungo crayons ( wet) and then attached them to ribbon so that they cascade down the card when you open it. A little bit of bling was adhered to the centre of each butterfly

Every possibility begins with.....

Every possibility begins with
I love this technique that I used in the pink card a few days ago. Here is another go using the same techniques of inks and water and again inspired by a feature in the October Craft Stamper Magazine  by Kate Crane. Firstly This time I used Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire & Broken China,  The bottom and top edges were stamped with an lacy floral stamp byTim Holtz Visual Artistry stamp in archive black ink. I stamped the main image "Sweet Pea" stamp onto the card and another copy of the image onto another piece of card and fussy cut the main piece out. I coloured the image using Mungyo Water colour crayons and by painting the colour onto the desired areas.  I stamped the larger circles using the rim of the Distress Stain (Picket fence) lid.The main image was placed over the stamped image using puff dots to raise it up. The little purple was glued on and the dragon flies were coloured using Distress alcohol inks.

Christmas

I am frantically trying to finish my Christmas cards, so that my friends and family get them this side of Christmas. I have found that I have just run out of time again this year. I really must start in October!
The first one was using a Tim Holtz die, which is pretty easy to get a great card with. I added a few embellishments to add a bit of sparkle and a sentiment.The shapes on the top card were cut out with the Cricut and embosssed.

The next one was using an embossing folder .I added some sparkle to the tree. I Placed a ribbon around the trunk and cut another wee tree out of scraps, placing the flowers and leaves underneath the tree and placed to the side. A Stampin Up sentiment was stamped at the bottom

The third card was  using a variation of the same and placing one or two snow flakes on top . The deer is a Stampin up stamp from the Reindeer Print set. I cut the shapes out on the Cricut and embossed the bottom piece with another embossing template. Bling was added to the snowdrp and the reindeer antlers. Blue ink was smiudged around the background shape and the snowflake and sentiment pieces to make a lovely fresh looking card. A little bit different to the traditional colours