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Here I am with my last Christmas card post for this year, timed to wish you a very Happy Christmas.
This is another card made for a special crafty friend. I love making these wreaths of die cut leaves, they take quite a bit of time, but the end result is so satisfying.
I started with my DP which is from a 12 x 12 Christmas pad. I then stamped the sentiment which is a gorgeous Quietfire stamp and embossed it with clear EP before die cutting the circle. My many die cut leaves included Doo Hickey mistletoe and fir branches, Impression Obsession mixed leaves and pine branches, punched ivy and holly leaves using different colours of green card. The Marianne poinsettias are cut and embossed using burgundy velvet paper which shows up nicely in this pic.
The pearls on the mistletoe are finished off with a little pale gold Treasure Gold wax to soften the impact of the white against the darker colours.
Whatever you are doing today, I hope you have a really wonderful day. Thank you for your visits to my blog and for taking the time to comment on my work, your encouragement means a lot.
Elaine x
This is a card I really enjoyed making this year for a special friend. I can blog it now as I know it has arrived safely.
My aim was to go for the shabby chic look and my main focus was the Poppy Stamps Grand Madison window die. After cutting this I painted it using a baby wipe to get a deliberately uneven coating. The image behind is a Websters Pages 6 x 6 paper and the little dangling heart a Memory Box die. I mounted the window onto a suitably shabby Kaisercraft Christmas 12 x 12 paper. I decorated with more die cuts - the sentiment tag and mistletoe are Doo Hickey dies, the fir leaf is from the Tim Holtz Bigz Tattered Pinecone die. I loved this sentiment which is a Lindsay Mason clear stamp that only cost just over £1.
I finished off with red paper roses, some artifical berries, a ribbon and wooden laser cut snowflakes and hearts.
Well just one more day to get my preparation for Christmas finished. I am still need to get my fresh evergreens in from the windswept garden and do some cooking, but I am on the home straight now!
I hope you and yours are all safe for Christmas following the wild weather of the last 24 hours.
Elaine x
Well a couple more cards for me to post.
This was a quick design, using some ready made die cut glitter trees and an Imagination Crafts sentiment stamp.
This next design uses a Penny Black clear snowflake stamp embossed in white and ink shaded and the same sentiment.
Well I have finished all my outside commitments with family and friends now for Christmas. We have a very quiet Christmas day on our own planned - just what I need - now I just need to get everything finished off for our own stress free celebrations in the next couple of days. That includes finishing our veg shopping, getting our evergreens up and our Christmas tree in place - better late than never and cooking some delicious things!
Hope your own plans are coming together.
Elaine
I made these leaf prints a year or even more ago after seeing an article in Craft Stamper magazine written by Jo Capper Sandon.
I used fir branches from the garden as a mask and oversprayed with Glimmer Mist which you can just see shimmer in the pic. To be honest I wasn't that impressed with what I had done at the time, but when I spotted the sheets again this year an idea for these cards started to form.
I added die cut snowflakes using a Marianne set, which I have to say is a little annoying as there are no holes to poke out the die cuts, which involved fiddling with blu tack to pull them out! I finished off with a Waltzing Mouse sentiment and some gems.
I am back to work today after a busy weekend of Christmas prep. Only three days to go before I finish until 7th Jnauary! Hooray!
Have a good week
Elaine x
Two more Christmas cards from me, they are quite different styles.
Firstly, a die cut snowflake using a gorgeous Memory Box die.
I cut the snowflake out of the Designer Paper which is from a lovely K & Co pad. I recut the snowflake in cream card and inserted it into the gap, matting the panel onto chocolate brown card. I added some thin string and the sentiment which is a Waltzing Mouse one.
My second card is just a one layer card. This is a Penny Black cling stamp and unusual for me as I rarely do cute! This was the first ever image I coloured with my big set of Prisma colour pencils when they arrived. I made it early in the year and then I think my good intentions to get ahead with my Christmas cards went to pot!
I hope your Christmas preparations are going well. I have finished buying my gifts now and am well on the way with my wrapping. I am hoping for once in my life I won't feel run ragged on Christmas Eve trying to get everything finished off!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Elaine x
Well I am motoring along with my Christmas cards now, sticking with some pretty basic designs to be honest. The curse of being a card maker is that feeling that far too many people now expect a hand made card and I find it hard to let them down. Thank heavens for stamping and die cutting is all I can say!
This little batch is a 4 x 4 design. I die cut the bauble using an Impression Obsession die, stamped with a Chocolate Baroque clear tree stamp and then inked with several different Adirondach dye inks to add the glow effect. The pine branches are from an Artifact set from The Stamp Bug and the sentiment is from Waltzing Mouse.
Today is the day I have set aside for blitzing my big food cupboard ahead of the Christmas cooking. It's a big old fashioned cupboard, so if I am not back soon, maybe I am lost in Narnia!
Have a good weekend!
Elaine x
It was a special birthday of a special friend recently and this is the card I made her.
I started with her favourite colour purple and used a couple of DPs from My Mind's Eye and Papermania as some of the layers. The stamp is one from a Quietfire set, I love their calligraphy style stamps they are so beautiful and this sentiment is perfect. I used Spellbinder Fleur de Lis Squares and a Doo Hickey flower corner dies as part of the design and the finishing touch were some Petaloo velvet flowers and leaves in shades of purple and mauve.
Thanks for popping by.
Elaine x
