Bright baubles then holly

 Hello lovely crafters. 

Today's card is for our latest challenge at Shopping our Stash. Where we encourage you to use your stash, dig out those stamps, papers and dies (and everything else) which we know you are hoarding and put them to use. 

Make mine a Tall one - a slimline card or mini slimline. Here we also call them DL.

For some reason slimline makes me think of Christmas cards and still on a mission to catch up with those here is what I made:

For this I chose a bauble stamp which was on of the first stamps I ever bought and still love. I stamped and embossed in gold and then painted in using Brushos. I've also had my Brushos for a while but not used them very recently. 

I went in with a gold gel pen to give a little more detail and then added the gold greeting. 

Finally I used a piece of purple card for the base which I may have had for 10 years!

Then I decided I didn't like that one too much and made another. 

I used my Honey Doo holly stamps, embossed in gold and then painted in with distress inks. I wanted to add splatters but wasn't brave enough/ran out of time. 

I finished with this lovely Penny Black greeting. Placed where the embossing wasn't quite perfect. 

The world needs more Joy, Peace, Love. 

From my stash, everything really, but especially a piece of gold sticky which I saved from the bin when I worked in an office (at least 5 years ago) and the green card which is a few years old. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day x

Pastel shades

 Hello lovely crafters. 

Here are my cards for the new Shopping our Stash challenge and I have not one, but two cards. 

Despite my best intentions, I have not kept up with making regular Christmas cards. So I decided that to make one for this challenge. 

The theme is The Power of Pastels - use the pastel colour pallette. 

Why not for a Christmas card?

However, while rummaging through my stack of paper and inky projects I found this:

The background is made by putting watercolour paper in an inked embossing folder. Spritz with water before running though a die cutting machine and all kinds of fun happens. I know I made lots when I tried this. Each one was different. I thought this pale blue was perfect for a pastel challenge. 

I didn't want to do too much to it or cover the pretty inking so just added some die cut leaves around the sentiment. 

I stuck down the blue panel and then trimmed top and bottom whereupon I found the card was in two pieces. I'd forgotten I'd made a top fold card so I'd just trimmed the join! No matter, I just put the front on a new card. Almost as good as when I cut right through the back of a card when cutting a front aperture. 

I still wanted to make a Christmas card and here it is. 

It's a mini slimline - bang on trend right now!

The tree is aqua and the backing paper is soft blue. 

I'm also skipping over to the Snippet's Playground as I hear there is a May Pole and I've always wanted to have a go. I'm sure everyone is in a right muddle and tied up in knots. 

I've used snippets for the sentiment and leaves on the 1st card and papers, tree and sentiment on the second card. 

In other news I posted a card which I must have made about 5 years ago. It always escaped when I had a clear out and finally it was just right. It was a snippets card too!

I'm also linking to Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the challenge is Mini Slimline. Coincidentally using a sentiment stamp I won in a previous challenge here!

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x