a Krafty Santa!

I REALLY love the look of Kraft card with black and white so when I Googled Stached Santa I found Amy O'Neill's card HERE I just HAD to CASE it - I love this Santa's super duper mustache and using our mustache die to cut him out. Then I wondered how our Blendie's would go directly on to the Kraft card and was really impressed at the depth of colour so below is another card doing just that. I used our white chalk pen for the white on the card. :)

Steampunk!

Tomorrow we are lucky to have a great 'Party Time' training put on by Stampin' Up! for us New Zealand demos. So part of what we are supposed to do is make a name badge (for a competition) and share a sample for a display board. So I decided to go Steampunk! Everything on these two samples are 100% Stampin' Up! - I just used lots of punches and dies and the two different styles of metalic card stock we have - both the brushed and unbrushed ones. I used the Encore gold and silver inkpads along with black stazon and clear embossing powder to set them. I'm really pleased how they came out with the buttons, paperclips and buttons too. 

Holiday Home Collection

One of my favourite stamp sets in the Holiday catalogue is the Holiday Home set. I have had a wee play and came up with a few samples. Above is two Christmas ones, I decided not to put a sentiment on the first one, a card doesn't NEED a sentiment everytime, I think it's pretty obvious what the card is about. I used a 3 masks to achieve the layered effect, then coloured them in with Blendabilities. The second one I just used the blendies again but to add bits of colour. 

I LOVE using Kraft - this is more 'flecky' than Crumb Cake card stock and goes so well with black and white. I used both the white gel pen and the chalk board marker. 

This one I used a brayer to get the colour on the background and Blendies for the house. The moon was created with a punched hole and a bit of sponging. You can see how much fun this set it to use! Love it!