Thursday, 12 December 2024

Mama Elephant Reindeer and Decorate the Tree Christmas card


 Hello everyone and I hope you are well and happy.

Well, the year has whooshed by and we have come to the final challenge of the year at ABC Christmas Challenges.


This time the themes are 

Y for Your favourite colours
and/or 
Z for Zoo animals

I love traditional colours at Christmas so I went for mostly red and green.


I used a couple of Mama Elephant stamp and die sets - Reindeer and Decorate the Tree. After stamping and die-cutting the elements, I coloured them very simply with Copic markers and arranged them on the card. I found the mat in my leftovers box and can't remember which die was used to cut it. I must finally get around to organising my dies next year!!!


To finish off I added a silver star to the top of the tree and added some gloss pen to the light strings.

We have a ton of inspiration for you over on the ABC Christmas Challenge blog and it would be lovely to see your festive cards in the gallery.


I'd like to play along at

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #93 - if it Christmassy, link it up.

The Cutie Pie Challenge #201 - cute Christmas

Christmas with the Cuties #88 - cute and Christmas

Peace on Earth Challenge #77 - - anything Christmas goes

Dragonfly Dreams December Challenge - Christmas

Colourful Options December - use the colours red green and gold


I'd like to thank you all for visiting my blog over the past year and send only good wishes for a very Happy Christmas and a healthy 2025. Of course, a bit of world peace wouldn't go amiss as well!

Love and hugs,

Carol x

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Kristina Werner and Lisa Horton monochrome balloon birthday card


Hello everyone and welcome to the year's final challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.

 

We all need lots of birthday cards throughout the year so this is a good time to add to your stash for 2025. I came up with this monochrome card with a larger format of 5.75 by 8.25 inches.


I started off with a mat made with a Lisa Horton Bubble Rectangle die which I cut from teal card. I added 3 balloons stamped and die-cut from an old Crafter's Companion stamp and die set called Balloon Sentiments.

The birthday sentiment was made with my new Kristina Werner Happy Birthday Word stamps and dies and I added this along the bottom of the mat and put the sub sentiment on the balloon ties.





My talented DT mates have lots of inspiration for you over on the ATSM blog and it would be great if you could join us this time.

I'd like to play along at






Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs
Carol x

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

John Next Door Christmas Card

 



Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

This time we have our Christmas theme


I came up with this card 


I found it so hard to get a good photo this time, but the small picture at the top shows the real colour of the blue mirror card - it is lighter than the subsequent photo shows.

I used my new John Next Door Circle Snowflake Frame dies, so this came together quickly. The banner die is from another JND set, and I made a layer for it by cutting the die in the mirror card, then cutting it in half along the length and adhering it to the back of the white one.

As always, the fabulous DT has lots of inspiration for you over on the ATSM blog and you can join us over there with your Christmas makes.

I'd like to play along at







Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs
Carol x





Friday, 15 November 2024

Penny Black and bear Christmas Card


 Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenges.



For our penultimate challenge of the year, we have 2 themes to use from

W for Watercolour 
and 
X for Xylophone with this great inspiration photo to spark your creativity




I went for Watercolour and came up with this card



This cute image has been in my collection for many years. It was originally on a wooden block and, in a fit of trying to be better organised, I removed all such stamps from their blocks thinking I would remember what they were called. Hahaha.... - I should have known better! I now have a bunch of orphaned stamps that I can't part with but rarely use, so I decided to give this one an outing.

I used my Zig Watercolour pens to colour the image and placed it behind my NBUS Penny Black All-in-One Hexagon die which dry embosses a lovely border. The sentiment is from Spellbinders.



I'd like to play along at

NBUS Challenge for November

Can You Handle the Pressure - - warm drinks

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - anything goes

Daisychain Challenge #91 Christmas/winter

Craft Rocket Challenge #120 - Christmas/winter

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Carol x








Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Spellbinders Sweet Blooms Border Rocker Christmas card

 


Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More



This time we want to see you make your mark with any colouring medium you choose and I came up with this card


I found the foiled flower image in my snippets box where it had been placed because some of the foiling had gone wrong. They reminded me of a Christmas Lily so I coloured them with Zig watercolour markers and cut out the best section with a die from the MFT Stitched Arch Stax dies. Because of the shape, I decided to make a circular rocking card with circle dies. The sentiment is from the Clearly Besotted Most Wonderful stamp set.



I'd like to play along at

I forgot to take a photo of the foiled snippet so I deserve to be given lines 😟





Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Carol x



Tuesday, 29 October 2024

My Favorite Things Our Story birthday card

 


Hello everyone and welcome to the new Die Cuts/stencils challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.


My Granddaughter, Alice, will be 8 next month (how did that happen!!!), and as she loves all things books and reading, I made this card for her.


I wanted to create a scene similar to her home so I began by die-cutting the floor using the Penny Black wooden floor dies and coloured them by swiping a couple of ink cubes across and placing it at the bottom of the card base. Next, I stamped the rug from the My Favorite Things Merry Christmoose stamp set and coloured it with Copic markers. I then stamped over the rug with the girl in the armchair from the MFT Our Story stamp and die set. I die-cut the chair and fussy-cut the rug before colouring it all in. Next, I had fun stamping, colouring and die-cutting all the other elements before arranging them on the card and stamping the sentiment.



The final touch was to colour the dog in the same colours as the family dog, Caspar, who can often be found in this position as Alice reads stories to him.

The Design Team have some great inspiration for you over on the ATSM Blog and it would be great if you joined us this time.

I'd like to play along at





Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x









Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Lawn Fawn and Lizzie Annie Halloween treat bag

 


Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.


We are looking for any occasion this time and as Halloween is coming up, I made a treat bag for my Grandaughter.





I cut the bag with a Lawn Fawn die and used the handle cut-out piece to make a closure for the bag.
The pumpkin images and sentiment are from an old Lizzie Annie Stamp set and I fussy cut them to add to the panel.

I'd like to play along at





What occasion are you making something for at present? We'd love you to join us at ATSM, and the challenge runs for 2 weeks.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x


LinkWithin

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...