White Christmas

Good Morning

Today I would like to share with you a couple of White Christmas cards. Now this was quite difficult for me as with Christmas I usually throw lots of  colour at it.

This is an A6 landscape card blank.

The white card was embossed with a cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder to cover 3/4 of the card.

Then using my score board we wmbossed three straight lines (only two show up in the photo).

Then we wrapped some spotty organza ribbon around the card and knotted it.

The embossed card was matted onto Silver card.

This was them matted onto the card front.

A silver peel off greeting and there you have a simple yet stylish card.

This card was made using a 6x6" card blank in a mushroom colour.

The white pearl card was embossed using a bauble embossing folder.

This was then gently inked with Pumice Stone distress ink.

The Snowman was stamped in Pumice Stone onto the same pearl card stock.

The image was then die cut using nesties Labels 4 die.

This was also gently inked with Pumice Stone.

A fabby silky crush ribbon bow, and there you have it!

Sounds easy, and it was until I got to the bow! 

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

A Wedding Card

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Today I would like to share with you a card I made on a workshop last week at The Stamp Pad in Saddleworth. The workshop Title was weddings.

This card was made with a 6x6" card blank. 

We then used a white Kanban card with Silver foiling on and matted this onto silver mirri card.

We then Die cut a silver heeart and then another smaller heart rfom the patterned card.

The silver heart was then embossed with the Swiss Dots folder.

Some gorgeous silky organza ribbon was then wrapped arounf the layers before they were stuck onto the card front.

A bow was added with a blingy gem.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Another Man Card

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Today I would like to share with you another card I made for those troublesome men in our lives :)

This is an A6 card. 

The backing card is the same colour as the card but has been embossed with a 'honeycomb' folder.

A strip of stripy paper was matted onto blue paper.

The some plain blue paper was stuck horizontally accross the card.

The 3D Peel off was then put onto some paptterned paper. 

The stamped sentiment was on a piece of paper which had been cut like a banner. 

Some accent peel offs finish the card off.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

Patterned Paper

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Today I would like to share with you a couple of cards I made at a recent workshop at The Stamp Pad, in Saddleworth. I don;t know about you but I seem to have far to much patterned paper. You know how you buy a set and you love 80% of the papers and use them then you are left with the other 20% which you are not that keen on, or they are the wrong shade, just not quite right!

On this first card we used some patterned paper for the background and then stamped the mannequin image onto cream cardstock. We then stamped the image onto patterned cardstock a further three times. From these images we then cut out the dress and stuck it onto the cream cardstock. The we cut out just the skirt down to the bottom ruffle ad then again to the top ruffle. This then allowed ut to layer the dress up and give it dimension. The same patterned paper from the background was cut for a border and a flourish stamp added to it.

For this second card, we used shade of the same colour and then inked all the edges to bring the card together. Here we used a couple of nesties and die cut flourishes. The panel across the middle was cream carkstock which had been embossed with an embossing folder and then inked with the same green distress ink to tie the whole card together.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my creations.

Gill

A Notelet Box

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Today I would like to share with you a fabby little box which I made last saturday at The Stamp Pad with the talented Carol W. The box was made from some fabby brown Kraft card. The piece on the top of the box was embossed with an embossing folder and then ,atted onto black card stock. The box was made from just one sheet of A4 card stock.

Inside we made a smaller embossed piece and again mounted this onto black card stock. to go inside the lid of the box. I the base of the box we used a piece of A4 card, cut lengthways, then embossed. This was then scored to strenghten it and alo to provide dividers between the notelets and give an area to put a small pen or pencil, paperclips etc.

For the wrap around the notelets we again used the same card stock and embossed this using the same embossing folder. To attach it together and cover the join, we die cut the panel on the front from a Sizzix framelits die, here. The notelets were made from A4 cream linen card stock at 3.5" square. The toppers are just squares of Graphic 45 Kraft collection paper, matted onto black card stock.

I really enjoyed this workshop, it tested my brain :) and made me do things that I may not have done otherwise.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill

Christmas Fair Goodies

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Today I want to share with your a couple of goodies I have made for a Christmas Fair I am attending on 25th November 2012. The fair is to raise funds for Francis House Children's Hospice which is a hospice for children with life limiting illnesses. It is such a worthwhile cause and they bring so much joy to these children.

I have made some 'Snowman Poop'.

The red card was embossed using the cuttlebug snowflakes folder, Then cut to size (i found that for the normal sizes of Tic-Tac's 10.5 cm x 7cm was about the best size. The snowman image was printed from a free Whimsey Doodles template.

 Inside is the little rhyme which you can also print off from this site. A length of ribbon approx 9" long stuck along the middle ties the project together. These are great for children of all shapes and sizes (my hubby has already 'borrowed' some of my packets !

For the 'Grinch Pills' I have used the same idea. This time I have used green card stock but again I have embossed it with the cuttlebug snowflake folder.

 The verse and picture on the front I got from here . The verse reads:- Feeling kinda grouchy! Holiday spirit can't be found! Just try these 'Grinch Pills' They're the best medicine around. Whether eating a whole handful or munching one or two,These tasty little 'Pills' take the 'Grinch' right out of you!

So sorry that the photos are not the best, my camera is playing up.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill

A Monochrome Christmas

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Today I would like to share with you a card which may end up being 'my' card this Christmas! I was playing with a Bauble Tree embossing folder by Couture Creations. I put through different colours and weights of card through my Big Shot using this folder.

To make this card I used a 5x7" card blank. The tree was embossed onto Pearl card. I then used my Quickie Glue Pen to highlight certain areas of the embossing and covered with Crystal Glamour dust. I then used a corner punch which nibbles a bit out of the corner (like a set of lips). This was matted onto black mirri card which also had the same corner punch used on it. I then put 4 small black gems on the card, one in each corner and then added a black greeting peel off.

The embossing folder, quickie glue pen, glamour dust, card and gems were all bought from The Stamp Pad, Saddleworth.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I appreciate all comments you may have on my cards.

Gill