Forest Friends

Good afternoon and Happy Halloween hope the weather is treating you better than us! It's cold and rainy here so not sure of the kids will be going trick or treating. Mollie and I have had a crafty afternoon to make up for it!

 

She was sent some gorgeous craft sets by my BFF and she's had great fun getting messy with them

 

 

She started with painting sun catchers and is now doing some glitter art!

 

Whilst she was busy with that I have been adding to my Christmas cards with a stamp I've had for a while and never used!

It is perfect for a design Team Call I'm applying for over at Stamping Smiles Design Team Challenges

 

In order to apply I have used their Tic-Tac-Toe

 

 

Using Forest friends, Leaves and Twine

 

 

These little pals are from Crafter's Companion Mulberry Wood stamp collection. This set is called Giving. I have colored them with my Spectrum Noir makers and added glossy accents to the fairy lights in the bigger moose's antlers.

 

I then matted a white card blank with green card. The design paper is from Lili of the Valley's Krafty Christmas 8x8 paper pad, I wound twine around the right hand side of this before placing fixing this in place on my card.

 

I matted the image with the same green card and affixed this in place. The holly and berries were die cuts and I glued these and the Lili of the Valley tag over the cross of the twine.

As well as apply to Stamping Smiles Designs I am entering this card in the following challenges
 

 52 Christmas card Throwdown - Pick a previous Theme - Fairy Lights
Allsorts Challenge - Christmas
 

Mollie's Enchanted Wishes

Good afternoon! We have had a wonderful weekend spent travelling up to the Upper Peninsula and going on scenic drives to see all the gorgeous fall colors. There were some stunning views including the Mackinac bridge which is the 5th longest suspension bridge in the World!!!

 

The fall colors are a reminder that winter is just around the corner and soon we'll have all the lovely snow back!!

Talking of snow leads me onto my latest card design. As everyone who know me is aware Mollie is a Frozen fanatic and so are lots of her friends. She has become a pen friend with a gorgeous little girl who she went to nursery with back in England so I decided I would make her a card to send instead of a letter.

 

What better stamps to use than Craftin Desert Diva's Enchanted Wishes collection.

 

 

These adorable little characters were a delight to color with my Spectrum Noir Markers. I also added crystal glitter to Elsa's dress although it doesn't show too well on the camera image.

 

I did color up the whole cast:

 

 

but then decided there were too many for the card so the guys will be used on another make - aren't they all just adorable!!!

 

Once colored I fussy cut them out and shaped them so that they wouldn't be flat on the card. I chose a snowflake patterned paper, some mirror card which has an iridescent finish and some blue card to mat onto my card blank.  

I used the same mirror card to die cut the snowflakes and fixed blue sparkly gems in the center of each of these.

I used Collal glue gel to adhere my characters to the card this helps maintain the shaping of them - especially as this card is going to be in the hands of international postal services!

Once everything was placed on the card I positioned the sentiment stamp which is from the same stamp set.

 

Thanks for stopping by xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snow Fairy

Good afternoon! Well after the snow at the weekend we are back up to warm temperatures again!

 

There is a new release over at Julia Spiri Digital Stamps as always the stamps are gorgeous. They are called The Winter Collection

 

I have loved coloring up the adorable Snow Fairy and had the perfect papers to go with her.

 

 

I have photographed her in the sunshine to try and capture the sparkle on her!

I have colored her with my Spectrum Noir Markers then added crystal glitter to the edges of her coat, dress and headband. I have then used chameleon glitter on all the snowflakes and Wink of Stella on her wings.

I found some gorgeous aqua mirror card in my stash so used this and the gorgeous Lili of the Valley paper to mat my card. I used more of the mirror card to mat the image and my sentiment onto. The sentiment is also from Lili of the Valley.

I colored some white snowflake buttons to match in with the color scheme and added this around little Miss Snow. 

 

She is available to buy today so why not add her to your collection and join our challenge with her.

Pop over to Julia's Facebook group for more inspiration by the rest of the Design Team and to see the other newly released stamps from the collection

 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

 

 

Witching Hour Tess

Good morning! It's less than a week to Halloween, I've bought the candy, Mollie wants to dress as a rainbow fairy and it looks as though we won't have snow this year!

 

I posted the delightful Tess from  Jiggery Makery last week and I'm back with her again - This time as a more traditional witch.

 

 

I have colored her in with my Spectrum Noir Markers and digitally added bats flying along with her. I then color tinted the edges of the card with distress ink and mounted her onto orange paper. I used a white card blank and added some Authentique Halloween design paper.

 

After fixing my image to the card I added some orange hotfix gems to match in with her flame colored hair!

 

You can buy Tess over at Jiggery Makery's Etsy store along with her other pin-up pals.

 

Why not check out our Facebook page for further inspiration from my teamies and I

 

 

Snowflakes

Good afternoon, well it's coming to the end of a fab week and we are forecast our first frost tonight brrr!

 

I am sharing a cute little Christmas card with you today

 

 

This was so easy to make and looks so effective. I started with a 6x8in piece of snow white centura pearl card. I scored this at 4inches and folded in half. I then cut 3.5 inches from the front.

The die is a snowflake edge'ables by Crafter's Companion. I opened up what was left of my card and laid the die along the score line and cut and embossed it. Once eased out of the die it gives the effect as in the photo.

 

I then cut some snow flecked acetate and cut to 6x4 inches gluing this inside the top edge of the front of the card. I then cut a strip of the centura card and glued this to the bottom edge of the acetate.

I used the fabulous stamps Snowflake Trio and Winter Butterflies from So Suzy Stamps  and stamped them onto the acetate using stayzon ink.