Winter sports

I don't know what I have been doing all day ! I had intended making a load of Christmas cards, everything is stamped and cut out, just need assembling but have I done them ? have I heck, just messed about looking at blogs and craft sites, watched Country File, Strictly and Antique Road show and just generally wasted time.
Finally made this card for Winter Wonderland challenge which is Winter Sports, I,m not too happy with it but at least its something I,ve done. I downloaded the picture from the net, I think its from Ahomeandheart.blogspot but will have to go back and check that. (now I,ve just gone and posted it on the wrong challenge and I don't know how to take it off, think its time I went to bed !)

Steampunk ?

Although I love steampunk I find it very hard to actually do anything with the images. Finally found this background on the internet(clockwork atomics), the lightbulb image is G45 and the figure is Lost Coast(I think) she looks a bit as though she stuck her finger in the light socket and I like her odd stockings !Cog from alterations die. Now I,m off to do something simple like Christmas cards.Nearly forgot to say this is for Theme Thursday Steampunk challenge.

Three Kings

Had a busy day trying to sort out the spare room which has ended up as a dumping ground for everything that doesn't have a home , filled three bags with surplus craft bits and pieces which will go to one of the childrens groups in the village, either the school, Brownies, Beavers or Youth Club, I just take it all to the local Post Office and our lovely Post Office Owner passes it on to who ever wants it, however much I try to get rid of it just never seems to get any less, I have enough paper and cardstock to start my own shop and as for stamps, well the less said the better !  Anyhow tonight I have only managed to make this tag, very simple using just a couple of Crafty Individuals Stamps.  Tuesday Taggers challenge is for Silver/Gold and Purple and Tag You're It Is Simple Stamping so I manage to fit it to two challenges.  Tag You're It is a proper swap so I have to make another two tags the same so I can send them off for the swap, I got three more lovely tags from their last swap, I do like getting these little works of art in the post !

Bingo!

Louise at Kardkrazy has a challenge for Bingo this week.  I messed about for ages with a small bingo stamp and was getting nowhere fast but while I was looking for some paper to cover the tag well,  BINGO!  found this paper . The two ladies are a stamp that my sister sent me for my birthday and I hadn't got round to using it yet, they look so sad I guess they didn't win tonight ! 

Haute Couture

I am finally managing to bring myself to actually use some of my G45 papers, I have spent so long stroking and admiring them its a wonder they aren't worn out.  I know they are so "last year " but I haven't seen anything else to beat them as yet. I haven't even managed to start on the Steampunk ones yet and I will have to wait until next year now to cut into Alice in Halloween !  Gingersnap have a challenge for Haute Couture and I love anything to do with fashion ( on paper only !) I also see this weeks is Sewing Notions which is also a favourite thing for me, will have to get going on that one, make a change from Christmas cards.

We Three Kings Of Orient Are .............

I,m into simple cards at the moment and they don't come a lot simpler than this one. Background is gold embossed Impression-obsession stamp, the kings and the wording are Butterfly Kisses. I,m entering this on Winter Wonderland which is Sing a Christmas carol and also for the Stampman which is anything goes Christmas , not often I manage to do one card for two challenges, now my friend Carol has told me off for putting myself down so I am not going to apologise for wonky lines etc ! lol .........

Front & Back Tag

Spent most of this afternoon making this front and back tag . I'm quite happy with the front of the tag but the back got a bit of a mess.  After I stamped the wording on the back I thought it was too " in your face " so I tried to lighten it up with a white pen and then some glitter, it didn't work out how I wanted and then when I stamped and embossed the white snow flakes the embossing powder stuck everywhere I didn't want it, it was fun making it and quite a challenge from Kard Krazy Louise ! I wanted these to appear on the blog side by side but can't work ot how to do it.

Oriental ?

Tuesday Taggers challenge this week is A Taste Of The Orient, I don't have much in way of oriental stamps(although somewhere is a whole packet of oriental papers that I can't find ! ) but this triple embossed stamped panel has been in my bits and pieces pile for ever ! I don't even know who's stamp I used, its certainly not mine, its on mountboard so was always too heavy to put on a card. I had a lightbulb moment and decided to put in on the front of a notebook, just a plain white notepad ,covered with red card and some bits of decorative paper and ribbon, the metal thingy was in  another box of odds and ends. It might have been better it I had stuck it together a bit straighter but it can sit at the side of the computer for me to write all the stuff down that is usually on scraps of paper which immediately get lost . Going off to watch Pillars Of The Earth after I post this. 

Dashers here again !

Had a busy afternoon making Christmas cards, I am not posting the ones I made as I have done something I don't usually do and cased a Stampin Up make and take card someone gave me. I didn't have the Stampin Up stamps so used some similar ones I had but other than that it was a straight copy of someone elses card that I really liked. Anyhow tonight I made this for Creative Sketches, Stampin Up dasher stamp again ( think he is going to be used a lot this year !) and Cosmo Cricket papers.

Dasher

Love this little reindeer stamp from Stampin Up, I need to put some stickles on his antlers but did not want to get stickles all over the scanner bed,last time I did that had to get some thinners  as it had set solid along with some glossy accents and took some getting off. Card is for Creative Sketches which is a sketch and a holiday theme.I have flipped the sketch a bit but think I got the basics of it.

Ophelia

A very quick tag for Tag You're It which this week asks for scallops, I,ve managed to miss the last two of their challenges and am running late with this one, not much time for crafting at the moment, seem to have a hundred and one other things I have to do instead.  The stamp is an unmounted one I have had for years, I think it is a Stampsmith one, flourishy bits are Hero Arts. having said I have no time I have to say I spent ages last night messing about trying to do the Extreme Masking, made four tags and did not like how any of them worked out, chucked them all in the bin and will try again another day !

Paris France

Haven't used these stamps for ages. The Lady,the dog , plant and words are all from an old Non Sequitur plate, the background swirly stamp is Impression-Obsessions. The picture of the Eiffel Tower is a freebie from the Graphic Fairy. Made this for Lets Ink It Up challenge which is Make A Scene. This card is not as wonky as it looks on here , the black is not part of the card, just a piece of card I put behind it to scan it, maybe I should have cropped it a bit !

Card for a man

Stampman fortnightly challenge is for a card for a man, I never seem to have any cards ready made when I need one for a man but I do actually quite enjoy making them. This is a simple card using my Artistic Outpost steampunk stamps. sentiment circle is Personal Impressions, the dark card is brown although it does look black one here. I keep saying I am not going to be making any more cards from now on unless they are Christmas cards but here I am again ! plus I,m half way through another one for a different challenge. I don't seem to have the knack of making a card that fits more than one challenge!

Christmas Easel card

I could not seem to get a decent photo of this card even though I took them outside in beautiful sunshine this afternoon, you can see the sunshine on the bottom picture but it was still very cold !  I got this little robin on a branch stamp at Port Sunlight , its by Great Impressions, the flourish is Hero Arts. I seem to have a thing about this colour combo at the moment although cream and brown is not really very Christmassy. Its the first time I have used the polar white flower soft for snow and I don't know that I like it very much, think I will stick to the glamour dust glitter in future. This is for Lots to Do challenge which is a shaped or easel card.

Winter2

I,m a bit disappointed at how this card turned out after I spent ages faffing about with it . I saw some really beautiful cards made with  this stamp at Port Sunlight show but nothing seemed to work out how I wanted it to do tonight, will have to play some more with it and try and improve !  When I was at the Stampin Up class the other week I finally learned how to use a rollagraph properly ( do straight lines !!! ) so I was quite pleased when I managed to cover the whole card front without making a mess of it.  I was thinking of taking the rubber off the rollers as I didn't seem to be able to do much with them, the only thing that stopped me doing it was that I do not have a big enought acrylic block to use them on. Now I might have another go at using them as I do have some nice ones, mostly from Imagination Crafts , thats where the stamp is from also.  I'm putting this on Theme Thursday as their challenge this week is "Winter".