My Merry Card Corner

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Ombre in Pinks

Hello again,

Well, the last day of 2024 has arrived and here I am with a new Christmas card to start off my new stash of cards for Christmas 2025. I only just managed to get my skates on to join in with the last months challenge with the lovely ladies at Group of Seven, this time I have managed to get going and making my card early this month using the design element of Ombre.

I have used three of my Distress Oxide inks on plain cardstock starting in the middle with Picked Raspberry ink allowing the edges to soften as I move away from the centre, adding Spun Sugar ink to one end and blending over the top of the softened edge of picked raspberry, finally I opted for using Seedless Preserves starting at the edge of the card and working inwards to the softened edge of picked raspberry, ending up with variations from light to dark from the top down.

I have used Darkroom Door stamp set 'Brushed Christmas Vol.1' tree and star stamp which are heat embossed in Wow! Superfine Silver glitter powder adding a sentiment from LOTV 'Large Christmas Greetings' in White embossing powder. Adding a doodled border around the piece before adhering to the card base. The embossing ink was drying quickly in the heat, and we are expecting a cool change in a couple of days, before another return to mid 30C's

Here is my card:

What I used:

White 12.6x17.8cm card blank
White cardstock
Distress Oxide inks Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves
Darkroom Door Brushed Christmas Vol.1
LOTV Large Christmas
Clear embossing ink
Embossing powders White and silver glitter

Black fine line pen

I would like to enter this card in:
Gallery at Group of Seven Design Element Ombre

Rudolph Day Anything Christmas goes
We Love Stamping optional 'Winter' playing Anything goes
Creatalicious Challenge #284 Anything goes optional Christmas or New Year
Peace on Earth Challenge #78 Anything Christmas goes

Thank you for looking in...

Wishing you and yours A Happy, Safe and Healthy 2025

Megan

Friday, 27 December 2024

Flower Power

Hello again,

In my effort to join in some of the techniques shown over with the lovely ladies at Group of Seven, I have made a mostly white on white card for technique of Textured backgrounds using die cuts. I have used a floral die cut which had a variety of sized flowers glued them down to the card front and added triple cut sentiment dies inside a golden frame.

What I used:

White cardstock

Mystery dark pink cardstock

12.6x 17.8cm card blank

Cheery Lynn Shasta Daisy strip die

MFT Happy birthday sentiment die

Butterfly die (mystery brand- let me know if you recognise it)

Gold glitter card stock

Stitched rectangle dies

Clear crystal flat backed gems

I am adding this card to

Group of Seven Gallery Textured background with die cuts

A Cut above December anything goes

Allsorts Challenge Blog optional Use your dies

NBUS Challenge 69 I am not sure how long this flower die has been in my stash! First outing, it even left some of the colour from the metal die behind (Cheery Lynn purple)

I hope you are all recovering after the holidays, we woke to an early morning storm which has started a bushfire from a lightning strike a couple of hours away.... the middle of a heat wave and high winds make storms more dangerous to the Aussie bush.

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week

Megan

Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Merry Christmas

Hello again,

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, I hope you all have a wonderful time spent with family and friends and some delicious food... I will be back online after Christmas hopefully before New years...

Well Christmas is upon us, after lunch today I am starting to make the dessert for tomorrow... we are expecting summer highs of 27C tomorrow and getting warmer as the weekend approaches.

I need to print off some gift tags today as I have run out and so has the local store, I made this card for a friend who is travelling to see his parents for Christmas at the beach... the top seems to lean a little forward and perhaps the sentiment should have been placed down one side...