A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

Just to say have a Happy Christmas, keep safe and warm and have a wonderful New Year or Hogmanay wherever you are.
I will be back in the New Year.
Many thanks for all your lovely comments and encouragement over the last couple of years.
Love and hugs to all xx

Colour Challenge DT card

Here is my DT card for Crafty Ann's Colour Challenge to use any colours except red and green. I took the lovely digi image of the daffodils (you can find it on Ann's web site) and popped it into MCS Die Cut Studio, changed the colours added the graduation then printed and pyramaged it adding a couple of scalloped layers in similar colours. The background papers are also from Ann's website so I added a couple of different coloured torn papers and just added the epoxy stickers for embellishment.

You could win some of Ann's lovely images and papers if you enter her challenge this week so go ahead - give it a go and enjoy the challenge.

A Proud Highland Stag

This is the fourth project from the workshop created in exactly the same way as the previous card - only this time I added much more gold glitter which of course is not too visible on the scan.  I added a few white highlights for shading too.

Bambrugh Castle

 Here is another of the projects made on Sheena's workshop on Sunday.
Very different this one as we used furniture polish!!! yes really.
The image was stamped and embossed on heat resistant acetate then the back covered in the clear furniture polish.  (this technique can be done using  other sticky products but furniture polish is sooo much cheaper) We then added splodges of mica polished pigments - and I really mean splodges  no order whatsoever and I added a little glitter too, then placed a tissue over the top.  When dry the polish had allowed the tissue to attach itself in a nice crumpled way giving this effect. After adding a few white highlights with a white opaque pen it was then simply mounted on gold mirri card on a black card. Hope you like it. Sadly we don't have this clear polish up here so I will have to get some when down in England over the holidays.

Second workshop project

A nice messy work of art here. The background is actually on a white card swirled with Distress inks then overstamped with water on the stamps to remove colour instead of add it. The trees were then overstamped with Black Archival inks over the top of the faded image and highlighted with white pen and Cosmic Shimmer glitter glues. The moon was created in the same way and again highlighted with white and sparkles. The whole background was then sprayed with water adding droplets then removing with a soft towel to get the snowy effects. The swirl was stamped and embossed with silver then the edges rubbed with Black Soot Distress ink to create the vingette look. This still needs matting and layering to make a complete card. I love the effects created this way.

Notebook Cover

Here is my first creation from Sheena's workshop yesterday which is actually a notebook cover.

Stamped with Sheena's Christmas stamps using Distress inks and some Stickles glitter glues this is a simple way to give a nice little gift to someone without spending too much cash. A little bit of scenemaking happened here too.

MICA POWDERS

Here is my card for my challenge this week - to use MICA POWDERS on your card. The cards used are from a DCWV stack. I overstamped trees and leaves with Perfect Medium then swirled with various shades of Mica powders. I stamped the Clarity deer stamp onto stampboard again with perfect medium and covered with Micas - I added a little shading to the large deer's back (which actually looks good in life but not so good on the scan sorry). The cards were cut with corner edger scissors and mounted onto a green card. I added the sticker from a kit, again on mica-ed card with a couple of gold photo corners.

Winter Wonderland

Hurrah you say - yes the final two fat book pages done for a Winter Wonderland swap and also for Stamp Something's 'Winter Wonderland' challenge this week. I really enjoyed playing with these using the Cuttlebug folders, sprays and also some overinking on these two as well as the stamping and colouring of the scenic stamps. That's it for fat books for this year.

Sorry more of the same

Guess you may be bored by now but just two more after these. All created using similar components and oversprayed with glitters.

More fat book pages

A couple more pages using Hobby Art stamps, Cosmic Shimmer sprays, Crafter's Companion sprays and Cuttlebug folders. Epoxy stickers and glitter stickers for embellishment.

WINTER WONDERLAND FAT BOOK PAGES

A couple of fat book pages for a swap on my forum here. The main coloured chipboard bases were first run through the Cuttlebug embossing folders then oversprayed with Cosmic Shimmer and Crafter's Companion glitter sprays. The images were stamped and coloured with Promarkers and watercolours then also oversprayed. I added a couple of epoxy stickers for the final embellishment.

A Touchy Feely challenge

Here is my DT card for Crafty Ann's challenge this week - 'Touchy Feely' - with lots of texture. Ann's lovely squirrel digi image was printed and embossed with the new wonderful Meltdust after changing the colour on the computer to sepia. I printed the frame (also Ann's digi image) after changing the colour to orange, cut out the aperture and inserted the squirrel. I added acetate flower and leaf peeloffs and decoupaged them, then coloured the frame flowers using Copic Markers (my new additions from the NEC). I added lots of Stickles glitter glues - sorry you can't really see them very well on the scan for extra texture.

Do pop to Ann's blog and enter her challenge - you don't have to use her digi images - and you may win a prize.

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS CARD CHALLENGE

Here is the card I made for my challenge this week which was to use A CHRISTMAS CAROL with a twist - on a black background. My card is very plain and simple 'Away in a Manger' - stamped using the circular JUST RITE message and a Clarity stamp of the Manger scene both stamped in black and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Lava Black embossing powder which has a slight red tinge.

I simply mounted onto silver mirri card, cut the edges with corner scissors and added a black ribbon bow. I did not think it needed anything else.