Green and Red Christmas

I'm not usually a fan of green and red for Christmas - it's just over done, but I decided that just a bit of red probably isn't too bad. I had this card base sitting around from when I taught that style a few weeks ago. I used marker pens to apply the ink to the stamp - that way I had the different colours on it. Quite a fun and easy card. Might make this style my bulk Christmas card this year for my customers.

Have a lovely week - it's back to school for most schools here in New Zealand - man this year is going so fast!

Christmas isnt Christmas without Rudolph's nose!

This must be one of my favourite stamps that Stampin' Up! have ever produced! It's part of a set called Holiday Lineup which we think will retire at the end of August. I enjoy colouring in this set -it's always a fun card! I just used Stampin' Markers to colour and added a drop of Chrystal Effects on the nose to make it 'glow'. Crumb Cake, Real Red and Whisper White were the colours I used for this, I thought the Crumb Cake would soften up the Real Red.

Hope you are enjoying my early Christmas card series - a few more still come.

See you tomorrow :)

Season's Greetings wreath card

This card was made using one of the stamps in the Apothecary Art stamp set from our current Autumn/Winter Mini. I stamped the wreath three times, once in Old Olive and twice in Real Red. I cut the red roses out and stuck them on the wreath. Some I stuck on dimensionals and some I didn't. The rest of the card is fairly straight forward. I thought it would be fun to use a non Christmas stamp set for a festive card.

Yesterday I spent the day in Hamilton at this year SENZ which is a paper crafting expo. I was SO exhausted but had a FABULOUS time. Got lots of cool ideas and of cause did a bit of retail therapy! hehe

Have a great weekend!

a classy Christmas card

Yesterday I had a fun day with a few friends crafting and I made 5 Christmas cards. This one is probably the EASIEST card of the day. I like how instead of square matting the layers I took all layers up to the very top. This not only adds some different but also strengthens the card as I used Very Vanilla as a card base which is not as strong as other colours - Whisper White is the same. Of cause I made the inside to match which again helps to keep the card standing.

Thanks for stopping by and come back for more Christmas cards over the next few days.

cute little chocolate box class on Crafters Anonymous

On Monday night we made this cute box. It's designed off the Cadbury 'Favourites' box but half the size. I used the Sweet Shop Specialty DSP from the Winter Mini as it's extra thick so perfect for this type of project.

Used the framelits for the tag and window.
To finish the top I made a paper bow out of DSP from the same pack, like Miranda would say 'SUCH FUN'!!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELLY xx

Today is my daughter Kelly's 15th birthday - my how quickly did those years go! She is into cake decorating so I had to something 'cakey' for her. I used the Doily DSP for the cupcake topper and for the case. I am not overly happy with this card - I had a mental block when it came to it. But it' a little bit cute and sparkly so you have gotta love that! lol

We took over a dozen kids ice skating yesterday and going back to the rink today for an ice hockey game, so I get to spend hours sitting at the rink again! - JOY! (not!)

Hope you Sunday is a good one xx

oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL! xx

gotta love a NINGA!!!!

Today my daughter shared her birthday party with her school friend Fred and he LOVES all things ninga's. SO I got out my "ninga bread man" cookie cutters and traced out one on to some DSP backing card. I then cut out the arm and wrapped him in 1cm (3/8") strips of Basic Black. Finished off with some eyes punched from the Owl Builder punch. Made the 'street sign' with Grunge Rock stamp set and set it all on some Well Worn DSP - that paper is so good for teen and masculine stuff! He loved the card which is good as it took over an hour to wrap the ninga up! hehe. Tomorrow I will show you the card I made my daughter.

See you then!