Christmas Blues

Today I would like to share a Christmas card I made using some clarity stamps:

 

I used the two holly stamps from Clarity in two different sizes, I stamped them with Adirondak denim ink.  The sentiment is by papermania and is also stamped in the denim ink.  I coloured the holly leaves using my distress markers mixed with water on my craft mat and applied with a paint brush - I used tumbled glass, stormy sky and a little chipped sapphire.

I mounted the panel up onto silver shiny card (which the camera did have some issues with!) and then mounted onto a white DL card blank.

I used quickie glue on the holly berries and on some of the leaves and sprinkled with glamour dust.

I was having quite a few issues with taking these photos, they were all coming out blurry and the colours aren't showing up great, so if anyone has any good tips they would be very much appreciated!  I'm using a reasonably decent camera (12MP) and have tried different locations and standing my cards at differnt angles etc but the photos don't seem to come out true to life :-( 

 

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

 

Pan Pastel UK - Challenge 46 is Frosty and Bright, all the details can be found on their blog HERE

 

CAS-ual Fridays - Challenge number 79 this time for a fortnight is winter blues, all the details can be found on their blog HERE

 

Thanks for visiting!

 

Claire x

 

 

Christmas Baubles

Here is another card I made today using the same bauble stamp from Indigo Blu:

 

I masked down the left side of a cream piece of card and stamped the bauble stamp in black versafine.  I coloured the baubles using distress markers in crushed olive and fired brick.  I then used an xcut border punch along the bottom of the card and also along a piece of red card, I mounted the whole card up and added some red organza ribbon.  Finally I added the sentiment, which is a hobbycraft stamp, with a small red gem for the 'i' of Christmas.  The whole card was then mounted up onto a kraft card blank.

 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

 

Addicted to stamps and more - its clean and simple challenge number 4 and this time anything goes, all the details can be found HERE

 

Artful Times - the girls at Artful Times are having a nice and easy anything goes challenge this time round on the run up to Christmas, all the details can be found on their blog HERE

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

Claire x

 

 

 

 

Blue with a dash of silver

It's the second ever monthly challenge over on the splodge away blog - the theme this time is silver and blue.  All the details for the challenge can be found HERE

So here is my card entry for the challenge:

 

I used my splodge mat and splodge away card to create the background using my brayer and an andirondak inkpad in denim.  I stamped the bauble stamp by indigo blu using black versafine, I stamped it again onto a second piece of card and cut the baubles out and rounded them using the end of a pen.  I layered the rounded baubles onto the main image using foam pads.  I them stamped the sentiment which is from papermania/do crafts.  I mounted the card front onto black card and tied some blue ribbon to the right hand side before mounting it onto my card blank.  Finally I added some quickie glue and glamour dust to the snowflakes and baubles for that little touch of Christmassy bling!

 

So there you go, I hope you like it - it certainly brightened up my day what with all this rain!

 

Thanks for looking,

Claire x

Sunday Stamper

Well I've been neglecting my blog for a couple of weeks now - the truth is I just haven't been in the mood for crafting, don't know why but I guess that's how it is sometimes!  Anyhow I thought I'd give Hels Sunday Stamper a go this week - the theme she's chosen is Autumn/Fall.  All the details can be found HERE  This week her blog is sponsored by the Simon Says Stamp Blog - which can be found HERE

 

So here is the card I created today:

I used my new splodge away mat to create a brayered background using distress inks in mustard seed, spiced marmalade, rusty hinge and vintage photo.  All the stamps are from the same set by inkylicious.  I do think that I got a bit carried away with the birds - I think I should have just used the 'V' shaped birds instead of both types but never mind, they're in there now!

 

Thanks for popping by!

 

Claire x

Christmas Postcard

I went to the Great Northern Papercraft Extravaganza on Saturday with my Mum and had a great day!!  I bought lots of goodies and amongst them was this gorgeous stamp from stampendous:

 

I used theva card from clarity and my brand new splodge mat to create the brayered background using stormy sky distress ink.  I flicked water over it to create a snowy sky type look.

I stamped the postcard stamp in versafine onto the background and another piece of white card.

I cut around the holly and oval that was stamped on the white card and coloured it using stormy sky distress marker and water mixed on my splodge mat, the holly was coloured using distress markers also in crushed olive and peeled paint.

I mounted the cut out image using foam pads and added perfect pearls and glamour dust.

To finish I added the little red gems to the centres of the holly leaves.

 

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

 

Sunday Stamper - Week 226 - this week Hels has chosen snow/snowflakes as her theme, all the details can be found here

 

SplodgeAway First Monthly Challenge - the theme for the first monthly challenge is sparkle/gems, hopefully you can see all the sparkly snow in my photos!  If not I can assure you it is there!  All the challenge details can be found over on the SplodgeAway blog here

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Claire x

 

Engagement Card

My sister in law got engaged the other day so I have combined making her a congratulations card with the current sketch challenge over at Try Stampin' On Tuesday, here is the sketch for this weeks challenge:

You can find all the challenge details HERE.  And here is my take on the sketch:

I matted a A5 card blank with cream pearlescent card, then cut the banner strips from some papermania paper, the ribbon is also from the same papermania collection.  The sentiment is stamped in black versafine and is from the confetti collection by papermania.  To finish off I added the three little gems in the bottom right corner.

 

Hopefully she will like it!

 

Claire x

Blog Candy!

Hi All,

 

Over at the Craft Barn Blog they have an amazing selection of goodies they are giving away to celebrate gaining 1160 followers! 

 

Check out their blog HERE for details of how to enter!!

 

I hope everyone is having a lovely sunny Saturday!

 

Claire