18.10.2018

Get Cracking On Christmas October 2018

 

 

Hey there, finally getting a chance to play along with this month’s Get Cracking On Christmas Challenge.  In case you’re new to the idea, it was dreamed up by my crafty pals Jenn Shurkus, Chari Moss and Cheiron Brandon as a way to save the last minute rush of making Christmas cards.  Throughout the year we’ve been sharing a Christmas card idea every third Thursday of the month and this time I’ve gathered some scrummy supplies and made not one but 2 cards!

 

Both start with a red card base onto which I stamped the Plaid Background Stamp from Concord and 9th in black ink.  I love Buffalo plaid so this is one of my favourite combos and I’ve used it before HERE.  On the first card I die cut some foliage pieces using the Tim Holtz Holiday Greens dies and the took the sentiment dies from the Season of Cheer collection from Concord and 9th.which I die cut from wood-effect paper from Seven Hills Crafts.  I bundled the die cuts together and added them to the card with a glue dot and finished it off with rustic twine bow and a touch of Distress Stickles here and there.

 

The second card uses some dies from Avery Elle and Newtons Nook.  I used Wonky Frames in both the Square and Circle designs and created my frames.  I backed the square frame with glitter paper and adhered it to the card base.  The bow was created using the new Wonky 3D Bow dies from Avery Elle and the stag head is from Splendid Stags by Newtons Nook.  I heat embossed the sentiment from Quirky Christmas from Avery Elle in white to finish.

Thanks for stopping by.

15.10.2018

Avery Elle … Quirky Christmas

Hey there, I’m over on the Avery Elle Blog today  with a collection of cards I created using a fun set that I designed for Avery Elle called Quirky Christmas.  This set of 4 cards were whipped up in no time using just a few supplies and go to show that you can create very different looks using just one stamp set and some essential dies.  Each card starts with a 4 bar sized white base with a simple, festive colour palette and a few enamel dot embellishments to finish.  I gathered a few fabulous Avery Elle dies, Cherry Pigment Ink and New Moon Dye Ink.  I picked a fresh, green card stock from my stash to complement the red for a traditional Christmas feel.  However, ANY colour scheme would work equally well!

I laid all five of the tree stamps from the set onto my MISTI stamping tool and inked them all up together using Cherry pigment ink.  I stamped 3 times to get a good, even coverage.  I then ran them through my Gemini Junior die cutting machine and die cut them all at one – what a time saver! The supplies for each card are listed under the photos.

Quirky Christmas Stamp Set

Quirky Christmas Elle-ments

Cherry Pigment Ink

New Moon Dye Ink

Focal Point Stripes Elle-ments

Quirky Christmas Stamp Set

Quirky Christmas Elle-ments

Cherry Pigment Ink

New Moon Dye Ink

Wonky Circles Frames Elle-ments

Quirky Christmas Stamp Set

Quirky Christmas Elle-ments

Cherry Pigment Ink

New Moon Dye Ink

Wonky Squares Frames Elle-ments

Quirky Christmas Stamp Set

Quirky Christmas Elle-ments

Cherry Pigment Ink

New Moon Dye Ink

Wonky 3D Bow Elle-ments

And here’s a look at all 4 cards together.  I plan to create sets like these in different colours for my holiday cards this year – I might actually get a few sent out too!!!

 Thanks so much for stopping by x

17.09.2018

Hello –  I’m over on the Avery Elle Blog today with a card created with the Peaceful Pines stamps and dies.  This is a great set for whipping up a simple yet elegant card in no time at all which is what we all need at this time of year!

I stared with a 4-bar sized card base in red and used the rectangle die from Focal Point Stripes to cut an aperture on the front.  I glued a white piece of card behind this and then stamped the pine branches in Jungle pigment ink.

Next I die cut the word Merry 3 times from the piece of card I cut from the card base, stacked them up and spritzed them with a little shimmer spray.

To finish I dug out my red and gold Stickles glitter glue and ran a gold edge around the window (totally stolen from Julie Ebersole!!) and some red dots to the berries.

Supplies:

Peaceful Pines Stamp Set

Peaceful Pines Elle-ments

Focal Point Stripes Elle-ments 

https://glittermesilly.com/2018/09/5432/