Shabby Angel...

Hello again...

Well here I go again... I was kept busy colouring images while the power was out for the day so here's the second card I made today.

The lovely ladies over at ABC Christmas would like to see something magical on our cards this fortnight, elves, angels or a magical sentiment were a few suggestions. I have used some of my vintage style papers too.

I have used a Saturated Canary image which was one of the first digi stamps I ever bought.


Here's my card:-

What I used:-
White 14cm square card blank
Kaisercraft 'Christmas Collections' paper pad
Kaisercraft 'Christmas' paper pad
White Core card (generic pad) Big W for those in Australia
Kraft card 
Pink Petticoat Sentiment
Brown ink pad
Sage ink pad
gold paper from scraps
black paper from scraps
Fiskars scallop border punch
Scissors, Stanley knife, steel ruler, cutting mat
MFT Pierced Oval Die
MFT Fancy flourish (medium sized)
MFT Sentiment strips
Memory box Musical Interlude
Pearls
Saturated Canary image Christmas Angel
Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils
Core-dinations Sand-it tool
Adhesives P.V.A. Glue, double-sided tape


I would like to enter this card in:-
ABC Christmas Challenge- M is for Magical
12 Months of Christmas June- Home for the Holidays Vintage (always an angel on top of our Christmas tree
Rudolph Day- Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge extra- Anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge- Anything goes with patterned papers
Crimbo Crackers #83-Vintage
Hiding in my Craftroom #205- Any Holiday
Crafting by Design- Get ready for Christmas- Anything goes 2nd entry
Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #265- Christmas

Thank you for looking in...
Have a great weekend
Megan

p.s. Thank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I really appreciate them!

Seven months to go...

Hello again....

Well I have been busy over the last week colouring some lovely digi stamps while watching some t.v., I was lucky enough to win some digi stamps from the lovely ladies over at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' in last months competition. Thank you to the ladies and sponsor for being so very generous.

Today I have used cute little set of Christmas Mice from Di's Digi Stamps who you can find here. 

The papers are from 'Home for Christmas' by Pebbles and a basic page from Echo Park Paper Co. aptly named 6x6" paper pad "Dots" Essential Collection.

Here's my card:

What I used:-
White 14cm Square Card blank
Echo Park- 'Dots' Design paper
Pebbles-'Home for Christmas' Design paper
Di Digi Stamp- Merry Mice
MFT- Pierced Circle Die
MFT- Pierced Fishtail Die
Memory box Beloved Snowflake die
Red Glitzee- Glitter glue
Fairy Krystal- Glitter paint on snowflakes and as snow
Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils
Fiskars corner rounder
Adhesives- PVA glue and double sided tape
Printed sentiment


I would like to enter this card in:-
Christmas at Sweet Stampin'- Cute Christmas
Crimbo Crackers- #81 Anything Christmas goes
Sparkle Creation Christmas- #25 Anything Christmas goes
Hiding in my craftroom- #200 Any holiday
Completely Christmas- #64 Candle or Lantern- Lantern has candles inside!!
12 Months of Christmas Link-up- #5 Christmas Critters
Di's Digi Stamps- use two or more designer papers
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas 230- use something die cut or punched
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra-May Anything Christmas Goes
Christmas Stampin' all year long- #46-Sketch- I have mirrored the sketch

Thank you for looking in...
Have a good one...
Megan

p.s. Thank you to all the lovely ladies who take time to leave comments on my cards. I appreciate them all ;-)

Joy

Hello again…

Today I am sharing my latest make for the current Case-ing Christmas Challenge; this week Daen’ys was the designer of the case card, which I have to admit although I came up with multiple ideas I had trouble getting it to look just right, I ended up taking my inspiration from the layout with a little tweak, Daen’ys colour palette and using birds as my focus.

I have used a background stamp for the first time, even managing to pattern match to complete the length of the card despite the length of my acrylic block! The birds were cut out of white coral textured paper, deep red hand-made wood textured paper and pale blue card which I added texture to with my Swiss dot embossing folder, rather than running through my machine I pressed firmly down over the bird a few times. Unfortunately both the coral and wood textured papers were squashed flat whilst die cutting :-(

Using up the left over printed background and a few more scraps I also created another gift tag, turning the Madeleine Bird into a robin.

What I used for my Card:-

White Card blank 10.5cm x 15cm

Kraft Card ‘Weave’ texture

Frost White Colorbox ink pad

Kaisercraft ‘Morocco’ background stamp

Memory box die ‘Madeleine Bird’

Blue, Red and white scraps of paper and glitter card

Ranger Liquid Pearls ‘Silver Pearl’

MFT- Pierced Fishtail

Sentiment from Pink Petticoat 

For tag:-

Leftover card from above project

Fiskars Corner Rounder

Brown paper and red glitter scraps 

Scrap of paper lace (self-adhesive)

Scrap red ribbon

Hole punch

Ranger Liquid Pearls ‘Ruby Red’

Twine

I would like to enter this card in:-

Case-ing Christmas #19

Holly Jolly – Clean and Simple

Sparkle Creations- No Patterned Paper

Crimbo Crackers #80- Die Cuts

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Extra-May Anything goes

ABC Christmas- J is for Joy

Paper Creator- #38-May theme- Animals
Polkadoodles Challenge Week-19- Things with wings

Thank you for looking in...

have a good one...

Megan

p.s. Thank you for all the lovely comments you have been leaving me, I appreciate them all!

Tiddly Ink

Hello again...

Here's a not so little card I have made for two of the current Christmas Challenge blogs, Crimbo Crackers requests no patterned paper and over at Christmas Card Challenges this week is Anything goes.

My card  is a 5x7" white card blank which I picked up at craft online as a set of 50, kraft paper, printed sentiment from Pink Petticoat, a strip of washi tape and a Tiddly inks digi stamp 'Christmas Pixie' I also have this as a clear stamp from a magazine but alas it has never seen ink as I never seem to get a complete image, but I am getting better.

I am entering this card into:

Crimbo Crackers- No Printed paper

Christmas card Challenges- Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra- Always Christmas March

Thank you for looking in

have a good one

Megan

Bird Brain Christmas

Hello again...

This week I have another new Christmas card to share with you.

I have taken my inspiration from the layout of DaenY's wonderful card below 

I have altered the central shape on my card and dry embossed the oval with a snowflake folder which I raised up on foam pads, I stuck to safe Christmas colours of green and red washi tape which I stuck first on my cutting mat and used a Stanley knife to make the curved edges. I have coloured the digi image with pencils and fussy cut it, coloured the three flat backed embellishments with Sharpie's  (the red one looks better than the green ones), I finished off with the sentiment which came with the image.

What I used: White card-stock and card blank, oval dies-Poppy-crafts, Darice snowflake embossing folder, Flat backed 'plastic domes for craft' (according to the packet), Sharpies, washi tape, Cuttlebug, Digi image Birdbrain the Chick-Christmas Spirit From the Heart Stamps

Challenges I am entering this card to:

Case-ing Christmas Challenge 9#

Crimbo Crackers- Make me laugh

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge-218 Cut it Up

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra- All Christmas Cards

Merry Monday- Use Red and Green

Thanks for looking in...

have a good one

Megan