another white on white

I thought this was going to be a quick post but it has taken longer to try and get a picture of the card thank it did to make it and it still doesn't show detail very well. I did manage to keep it clean even though I had been doing some messy stuff right before.

Old But Goodie - CAS Christmas - the embossing folder is over six months,think I got it last Christmas

Try It On Tuesday - White On White
Sweet Stampin Christmas - white on white
Ali-Craft - white on white
Inspirational challenges - white on white

The Big Guy

Well I wasted last night and most of this afternoon playing about with stencils and embossing pastes, what I discovered was 1) it's not as easy as it looks and 2) one make of embossing paste takes on colour from the colour card is on as it dries, as I wanted sparkly white a sort of bluey/green wasn't quite what I was looking for, the winner by a long chalk was the Poppy Stencil glossy white, scattered glamour dust on it while it was wet and got just the effect I wanted, now I just need to work out some kind of card design! Got fed up of trying so decided to do something else , haven't used  my stampendous Santa this year so giving him an airing or rather think he's in a frantage blizzard, this is the kind of card I like making so it came together fairly quickly except I tried talking on the phone at the same time and spilt frantage ep everywhere!

Make it Monday - anything goes
Make My Monday - Santa - The Big Guy


 

Wintry Snowbird

Here he is again, this little bird just makes me smile when I stamp it, so fluffy and cute ! Used up some DP that I think was a freebie from a magazine, doily, die cut music and snowflakes, enjoyed making this one ,the only thing I had a problem with was putting snow on the branches and berries, I had a tube of some snow stuff but it had dried up, tried frantage but was impossible to keep it in place, after much rooting about finally found a pot of flock, goodness knows how old that is which is maybe why it hasn't worked too well, looked ok when I did it but when the glue dried it seemed to have absorbed the flock, gave it another layer but its still not the effect I wanted, must find something else to use.

Fashionable Stamping - Shabby Chic Christmas
4Craftychicks4craftychicks.blogspot.co.uk  - snowflakes
The Artistic Stamper - Christmas
The Crafting Café - Winter blues
A Creative Romance - Winter Blues
Crafts2challenge You - vintage Christmas - twist Polychromatic

Flittered

Struggled to get a decent scan of this card , the gold snowflakes looked black and I have had to mess about with the tone to get anything like the colours, did try a photo but that was even worse.  Doing a last minute entry into Fashionable Stamping's challenge not to use ink to stamp with.  The baubles are stamped with flitterglu and flakes, I've finally mastered using it after being given a personal demo by Kay at Port Sunlight. I have used ink to stamp the sentiment but think I can get away with that?

Fashionable stamping - anything but ink

Snowbird

I had lusted after this little bird stamp last year but resisted it but have given in this year and got it, I think its a Chickadee really but it makes a nice fluffy Robin too.  The DPs are Joycraft except for the music, I seem to have a theme going for bits of torn music paper this year.

Make it Monday - Anything goes
The Crazy Challenge - vintage
Vintage Stamping -traditional Christmas
Addicted to Stamps - punches and dies

All is calm

This is a one layer card I made with the free stamps from Creative Stamping, bit of masking for the hill and the moon , trees stamped in green and second generation stamped as well ,sky and moon coloured with pan pastels, love how quick they are to use, snow courtesy of Frantage chunky white EP.

Craft A Scene - Trees
My Time to Craft - one layer or less
C.R.A.F.T challenge - Christmas

Poppies for remembrance

This is a card I made for a friends Birthday tomorrow, thought it was an appropriate post for today. I used some of my precious 7 dots studio papers which are really only meant for stroking and the Inkylicious poppy stamp. I'm busy making Christmas cards in between still coughing my self sick !

Merry and Bright

I was determined I wasn't buying more Christmas stamps this year other than the snowman but guess what ? I couldn't resist the Sizzix stamps and dies in the holiday joy set. I have the deer in the big dies but always think its too big for a card, these are scaled down more to card making size. Bit of Joy craft DP and a couple of pieces of torn paper,bit of ribbon and the frantage chunky white EP for snow. The sentiment stamp is a freebie from Creative Stamping, they have a lovely set of stamps on the latest magazine.

Fashionable Stamping - make a card
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Make it Monday - anything goes

Hallow'een

still struggling with the cough and chest problem so very little craft stuff the last couple of weeks. Today the Doctor put me on antibiotics so hope they kick in soon, fed up of feeling ill all the time !  Had a friend over today and it was so nice to have someone to craft with for a change.  Most of the challenges the last couple of weeks seemed to have been hallow'een or Autumn and while I do like them I don't usually make much in those themes as they never seem to be of any use for anything! I only have a couple of hallow'een stamps so not much to play with, however tonight  I have just made a couple of ATCs .

Wickedwednesdaysatcs - creepy Halloween
Try it on Tuesday - Halloween
Lunagirl moonbeams -witchery

whoops!

Don't know why but I thought I had another week to do something for Fashionable stamping challenge, where does the time go? So this is a very hurried card for the challenge to use masks or stencils. Used crafters workshop trees with stormy sky distress ink for the background and Hobby Arts stamps for the moose? and robin. Quick and cheerful card ,another one in box. Last year I had made most of my Christmas cards by now, don't seem to be able to get going this year

Fashionable stamping - use a mask or stencil
C.R.A.F.T challenge - Christmas

all at sea

I've got the most horrendous cold or rather sore throat and cough and would have liked nothing better than to have stopped in bed all day but as I couldn't sleep for coughing I've just been half heartedly messing about with stuff.  The stamped image in the centre in another of my new stamps from Inkilicious, loving these collage images of theirs. Background is cover a card  stamp from impression obsession and the quadrant and anchor are Kanban. , The white dots at the top were texture paste through a stencil. now I didn't know you shouldn't heat it so I did and it blew up into bubbles which burst, quite fascinating but not what I meant to do but being in a gung ho mood thought I'd just leave them.Bit of holey stuff and frontage embossing powders in marine and white, bit of crackle on the quadrant and anchor. Fits a few challenges I hope
Simon Says Stamp - Nautical
Try It On Tuesday - Texture
Make My Monday - texture
The Male Room - Transport or travel

New snowman

I cased this card from one that the lovely Lindsay Mason had at GNP  , don't usually do this but I really liked her card, this is not a patch on hers but I enjoyed making it .Lindsay had used one of her steampunk snowmen ,this is my "this years" one from L.O.V , well you have to have a new snowman every year don't you?. I used her technique of colouring the snowman and then painting with glue'n'seal before doing the background with distress inks, it's not as patchy as it looks on here though. The "snow" is frantage chunky white which will, I'm sure, be appearing a lot more before Christmas .  Not for anything in particular , a "just because I wanted to" card.

 

Personal challenge!

At the GNP and on several internet sites lately I have been seeing a lot of white on white cards, now as a totally mucky pup stamper it's way outside my comfort zone but having accumulated a number of scenic dies I was temped to have a go this afternoon and I must say I'm pleased with the result! It was hard to keep my fingers off the ink pads as it's second nature to always ink the edges of everything.  I did try to scan it but as my scanner glass has blobs of glossy accents and glitter etc that was not a success( I did try to clean it but the glossy accents has been on so long it don't want to shift)so had to mess about with the camera, this is the best of a poor lot. Putting it on a few challenges

Crafts4eternity -  clean and simple
Crafts too challenge you - Christmas festivities - create a scene
Keep it simple - All is white

Elegant Ladies

Love these flonzcraft ladies, got the stamps a few weeks ago but just got round to playing with them,the shoe stamps and the style stamp are old  Hero arts. Paper pieced the dresses and the red shoes.Wore dresses like this in the 1950's but don't think I ever looked as elegant as these two!
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Make it Monday-  - elegant ladies
Vintage Stamping - feminine beauty  

Autumn Birds

Playing with some new stamps at got at GNP last Saturday, Vintage Birds and the leaves are from Inkylicious, love their stamps and they are such good prices, I was happy to see AliCrafts there too, always lots of tempting things on their stand. Less exhibitors once again, the hall seemed very empty but I still managed to come home with a heap of stuff!

I've almost missed all the Autumn challenges, although I love the autumn colours whenever I make autumn cards they seem to languish in my box and never seem to be appropriate for anyone, however this one is destined for a friend who's birthday is next week so hopefully she will like it (she doesn't look on my blog so it's ok to show it now)

Our Daily Bread Designs - Fall Leaves
Get Inky Challenge - fall colours
Make It Monday - anything goes
Eclectic Ellapu  -celebrate autumn
Its All About The Vintage - Autumn harvest


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