Acetate covered Christmas Village

The challenge this week from Bah Humbug is to use 'Acetate' on our creations.
I simply love to see acetate that has been through the Cuttlebug so have added an overlay, attached with a snowflake brad,  using the Snowflakes embossing folder with added colour splodges. The acetate has slipped on the scanner but it means you can see it more clearly than if it was directly over the scene, which it is in real life. The scene was stamped and coloured using Lyra crayons for a change, stamps a mixture from Art Impressions and Scene its plus the snowflake and message from Glenda. Another one for the box.

Cuttlebugged Christmas Village

I created this card using Glimmer Mists for the background, stamping with Black Stazon using Glenda's stamps (I love this stamp) then placing the whole card thru the Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder to give a nice raised effect. I added a little of Sue Smith's Plaid papers from her cd to the visible edge of the main dark blue card, and mounted the white card onto this. The glitter I added does not, of course, show up well on the scan but it is there I promise.

Stampboard and Acrylic Snowmen

The lovely Glenda is running a competition to win some of her new stamps with the topic being to use Stampboard with Elusive Images stamps. I, like Glenda, love using stampboard. I coloured first using inks sponged and blended together, then stamped the lovely snowman from Glenda's new Christmas collection in Midnight Blue Stazon, and coloured him slightly using Sakura pens. I edged the board with silver Pentouch then clear embossed the whole piece making the embossing go all bubbly to indicate the snow. The main card was printed using Artylicious Seasons Greetings cd, starry night paper and the sentiment also from the cd and covered with a snowflake acetate wrap from Michele Marsden. Then I stamped onto an acrylic piece from Joanna Sheen, using the same stamps and some little Glenda swirly stamps too. Coloured in the same way and colours I then clear and white embossed on the back of the acrylic. I attached with a snowflake eyelet the acetate to the card front then fastened blue ribbon fibre to dangle the acrylic piece. I finally attached the stampboard, a coordinating insert and even a snowman 'handmade by me' name tag on the back. Sorry about the light reflecting on the acetate caused by the scan.

Whew finished now!

Swirls and Flourishes

Here is another card made using Glenda's wonderful new stamps. The background card is spritzed and sprayed with Glimmer Mists and Starburst Stains then overstamped in Midnight Blue Stazon using the swirl and flourish stamps. I took some blue holographic card and oversprayed with white Webbing Spray then attached the stamped image of the star. This too was layered on silver holographic card with webbing spray and colour tinted with inks to match the background. I just added the stamped sentiment on the same sprayed card. I have used this for my own challenge of 'Swirls and Flourishes' this week.

Happy Birdday Arch

Here is my 'Blue' and 'For the Birds' challenge cards, the first for Arty Girlz and the second for Gothic Arches. I created the background using the new Garden of Romance MCS cd then overstamped in Midnight Blue Stazon the birds and flowers from one of Glenda's sets. I added a tiny gold edge with Pentouch gold marker and added the sentiments then layered the arch onto a pale blue card.

Blue Moo

Whilst using Glenda's stamps I decided to make a 'Blue Moo' for Created By Hand challenge this week. The background is again from MCS Garden of Romance simply overstamped in blue Stazon. I really am not keen on these tiny creations but each to their own I guess.

Three Wise Men

This is my version of Lynn's TV card from earlier this week. This wonderful new Christmas stamp from Glenda was stamped in black Stazon onto acetate with a few added green ferns from the candle stamp. The back was covered with glue and gold and blue leaf flakes added. I printed out a pale blue background paper from the Artylicious Seasons Greetings cd and attached the image after cutting round the hems, with gold brads to the white square card which was preprinted with best wishes. The gold leafing shows up wonderfully in real life and is shot with blue and orange hues.

Another Village Scene

Whilst I was making the last card I thought I may as well use the same stamp, from Glenda, to make another similar one, this time a 4 x 4 for the 4 x 4 Friday 'Spray and Splash' challenge. I sprayed and spritzed the Glimmer mists to create the background then stamped with Midnight Blue Stazon. Next I ran the whole image through the snow dots Cuttlebug Embossing folder to get the raised effect. I added some extra direct to paper sponged inks and a touch of glitter then raised on foam onto a white card. I had previously sponged the edges with blue inks.

Winter Village Scene

Here is my entry for Glenda's Christmas card competition, you can find the details on her website. Using various shades of blue I created the background with Glimmer mists spritzed and sprayed onto white card. I then overstamped the village image from Glenda's new Christmas stamps in midnight blue Stazon. I matted this onto silver mirri card and rounded the corners. I stamped the lovely swirl stamp and embossed with Cosmic shimmer silver embossing powder onto the pale blue card. I covered a piece of stampboard with silver embossing powder then overstamped the stars and edged with silver pentouch pen. I added an eyelet and silver cord and raised the stampboard on foam tape to give dimension for the embellishment. As always the Glimmer mists do not show up too well on the scan sorry, but they do glimmer in real life.

Artfully Asian

I just love Oriental themes so was delighted to see 'Artfully Asian' as the challenge at My Time to Craft this week. First, I added some torn Glenda paper to an orange card and overlayed this with some orange pearlescent paper and some orange sticky ribbondown the edge. I attached a small orange square with fans which was from a QVC kit. I then created the orange background for the stamp using Stardust Stains in a couple of orangey colours then stamped over it in black Stazon the Creative Expressions wonderful Geisha stamp. I added some clear lantern and fan stickers and attached this lovely orange fan, from Lakeland, with a gold brad. I finished off with lots of little orange and gold Stickles glitter dots on the flowers, sleeves and fans. I also used this card for my own Monotone Rainbow challenge this week.

Happy Birdday

My challenge this week over at http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ is Birds and is also the challenge from Crazy Amigo so I made my card for both. The background is Cuttlebug embossed, chalked and cut with fancy scissors and layered onto a yellow card. The birds were stamped, layered on foam and also coloured with chalks. I love the sentiment Happy Birdday - stamps from Glenda.

Dotty Distressed Tilda

A couple of challenges covered here for DCM 'Distressed' and Tilda and Friends 'Dotty'. The wonderful pink and black paper is from Glenda, layered onto a torn card then edged with Tattered Rose Distress inks. The sticky ribbon is from an Oriental set and the main Tilda image stamped and coloured in Cosmic Shimmers and chalks, the edges again distressed using the same inks. I added the pink dotty ribbon, the dots on the dress and the sentiments with black notes for embellishment.