My Merry Card Corner: November 2017

Thursday, 30 November 2017

Outback Santa

Hello again,

Today brings us to the final day of the month long Holiday Card challenge over at Beccy's Place and today the challenge is to do what you love. I love the Aussie Santa I used on these cards and had another two printed out and ready to go, but decided not to make another card with Sydney City as the backdrop, this time I grabbed some white core card stock and got ripping to create layers of the Aussie bush as a backdrop blue sky the green of the Aussie bush and the red earth of the outback with a new Windmill die, a very familiar sight once you leave suburbia. Many windmills have the property name either painted or roughly cut from the vane others (I've seen lots) with Southern Cross on the vane.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 5x7" card blank 12.6x17.8cm
White card
Make it Crafty Aussie Santa digi stamp
Derwent pencils
Gray and black cardstock
Scraps of Christmas design paper
Kaisercraft Basecoat paper
DCWV white core card 'Neutrals'
Wink of Stella on Santa's beard
Clear embossing ink
Black embossing powder
Stamps:- MFT Gift tag Greetings and Stamp It Australia Christmas Wish
Adhesives:- Double sided tape, Double sided adhesive sheet, Foam dots

I would like to enter these cards in:-
Beccy's Place Month long holiday card Challenge
12 Months of Christmas Link-up Optional theme Star Struck
The Holly and the Ivy Challenge #20 Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge 361
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge extra Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers Anything goes with Dies
The Merry Christmas Challenge #45 Anything goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenge Anything goes 176

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Have a wonderful weekend...
Megan

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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Bond James Bond

Hello again,

So this month I had a big push to make a couple of 40th Birthday cards for my brother along with all the Christmas cards, after looking up some of the popular films, shows, toys and games of 1977 I settled on a suit card with a James Bond image for the first, James Bond The Spy who Loved me was first released in 1977 and can still be found in DVD format, which my parents gave him last weekend, a surprise for us that he intends on waiting to open his gifts and cards until his real birthday a few days before Christmas. Since he doesn't see my blog it is safe for me to share.

I was inspired by this card which I found on Pinterest but gave the card my own twist.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White Card blank 12.4x17.4
Black card stock
Patterned paper from Echo Park Style Essentials
Tiny James Bond sign from here
James Bond images are an old download from Papercraft Inspirations (no longer available)
Black bling from stash
Silver glitter card
Nesting circle die
Elizabeth Craft Happy Birthday die
Memory Box Parker Alphabet die
Buttons and Silver star brads
Signo White gel ink pen

I would like to enter this card in:-
Bizzy Becs Store Blog Challenge Anything goes
Love to Craft Challenge Blog
Seize the Birthday Monochrome
Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes

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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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Sunday, 26 November 2017

Aussie Wreath

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Well I’m still motoring through some more Christmas cards, today I am sharing a super quick card, I have used a pre-coloured digi from Beccy’s Place that you can find here called Aussie Wreath Set I printed the image out and decided to add the sentiment in under the wreath and came across the little bird stamp also. The little birds fitted perfectly across the wreath. Stamped the sentiment in two parts and the little birds in clear embossing ink before heat embossing in gold, I die cut the image with a nesting rectangle die and added it to a 5x7” card blank that I covered in some green Christmas paper.

Bonus it is completely flat for postage!

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 5x7” card blank 12.6x17.8cm

Green paper from old magazine

Beccy’s Place digi image Aussie Wreath Set

Clear embossing ink

Gold embossing powder

Sentiment stamp- Clearly Besotted

Birds with String of Stars- Magazine

Nesting rectangle die

I would like to enter this card in:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 361

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘W’ forWreath

Rudolph Day at Scrappy Mo’s

The Merry Christmas Challenge #44 Anything goes

Cards in Envy It's only Paper card

Crafting by Design Get Ready for Christmas November Anything goes

12 Months of Christmas Link up Optional Theme Star Struck

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Have a wonderful week...
Megan

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Friday, 24 November 2017

Sydney Santa Summer

Hello again,

Well I’m still making some more of my Christmas cards, as I haven’t made anywhere near enough, knowing that Mum had requested extra Aussie Christmas cards for our UK relatives I printed out four Aussie Santas from Make it Crafty on both plain paper and card, then paper pieced the singlet and shorts from my Christmas scrap bag before recreating the Sydney harbour I made on this card here using up more paper and card scraps to form the scene.

I used my spray inks to create the sky and water on separate pieces of card and watercolour paper the ocean turning a little greener than intended, but still looks ok.

These two cards were finished off with some 3D Crystalina Kindy glitz to the waves and the edge of the sand before I popped Santa up on foam to add dimension. Sentiment was added using clear embossing ink and some black embossing powder.

Here are the two Sydney Santa cards:-

What I used:-

White 5x7” card blank (12.6 x 17.8cm)

London Blue and Cut grass ink spray-Dylusions

White card

Make it Crafty Aussie Santa Digi

Sights of Sydney Die Ultimate Crafts

Scrap card and papers

Kaisercraft Base Coat papers

Wink of Stella Clear (added to Santa’s beard)

Derwent and Faber-Castell Pencils

Kindy Glitz 3D Crystalina

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, Double sided sheet, foam dots

Stamps- Magazine Freebies

WOW! Ebony embossing powder

Ranger Clear Embossing ink pad

I would like to enter these cards in:-

Southern Girls Challenge Lets get inky (inky sky and ocean)

Snippets Playground week numbers 307-308 Anything goes with Snippets

Crafts Galore Encore Anything goes

Beccy’s Place Month of Holiday cards ‘S’ Summer, Sydney and Santa

Crafting by Design Get ready for Christmas November edition

Daisy Chain Challenges- Christmas/winter

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Anything goes
Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge November- Optional Tag

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Anything goes
12 Months of Christmas Link up optional theme Star Struck

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Have a wonderful week

Megan

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Sunday, 19 November 2017

LPoCF #70 Beary Merry Christmas

Hello again,

Today brings us to another brand new challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends and as always the challenge is Anything Goes, so come along and join us with whatever you have been working on, we would love to see what you have been doing, we have two lovely sponsors this fortnight offering a lovely prize to two winners…

AMB Illustrations

Prize 2 Packs from the store

Crafty Girl Creations

Prize 2 Images

I was given a very cute little Winter Bear out feeding little birds from our sponsor AMB Illustrations called Merry Beary Bear, I knew what patterned papers I wanted to use and coloured the little bear in colours to suit, adding some Fairy Crystal glitter paint to the ground and some dotted around the little bear. I cut the 15cm square paper diagonally to cover the front of a 13cm square card blank with a small misalignment in one corner. I found some scrap card to die cut the flourish and poinsettia in my bits box, cutting the flourish up into three pieces to fan it out hiding the cuts behind the poinsettia which I made up and allowed to dry out before adding to the card. A tiny sentiment from a Kaisercraft set called ‘Home for Christmas’ to finish the card off.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 13cm square card blank

AMB Illustrations Merry Beary Bear

Faber-Castell Pencils

Papers from stash, Magazine freebies two different packs

Gold, red, green and yellow card scraps

MFT Flourish die small

Marianne Design die Poinsettia

CCD Cross Stitched Oval die

Glitter paint-Crystalina

Adhesives:- double sided tape, PVA glue and foam tape

Sentiment Kaisercraft ‘Home for Christmas’ clear stamp

I would like to enter this card in:-
Beccy's Place 30 Days of Christmas Challenge 'O' for Oval
CRAFT Challenge 442 Christmas-Anything goes
Merry Christmas Challenge Anything goes #43
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Optional-Use some blue
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra
12 Months of Christmas Link-up Optional theme Star Struck

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Have a wonderful week…

Megan

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Elephant Wishes

Hello again,

Hope you are all well, I'm still working my way through my Christmas cards, should probably count them to see how much further Ive got to go and maybe plan some batch makes, today my card features a super cute little Elephant from Digi Stamp Boutique called Christmas Edwin and Hetty

I found some card blanks online from South Australian company Blue Edge Crafts that are almost the same as the C7 card blank with the fold along the narrow side, nice for a change and they had super cheap deal on the new year calendar blanks, so a few extra card blanks for my stash, started my last pack of 50 last month…. Hope to pick some up at the craft show although sometimes cheaper bought online…

I dug through some of my patterned papers from magazines and found this non Christmas set that I think works well with the image. I added Kindy glitz to the elephants hat before die-cutting with a CCD set not realising that I had picked up the 3D version, so while the glitter sparkles, some parts appear less glossy than others.

Here is my card:-