Those naughty mice

 Hello lovely crafters. 
Here is another one of my Christmas cards. Most of them are safely in the post now though who knows when they will arrive. 

The mice are Card-io stamps which I am really enjoying. 

I'd like to enter this into the Allsorts Challenge - Let it Snow.  My little mice are very happy playing in the snow. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day and stay warm x

Snippet catch up

 Hello lovely crafters. 

I hope everyone is warm and looking on the bright side. We've had a little snow which is very unusual here in December. 

I started this crafting session (which lasted 3 days) by thinking I'd make a quick card with an odd piece of pretty red inked card. Inspired to use a star die, I fished them out and found lots more stars in the bag already cut out so hence several more cards. All the stars used here were pre-cut. Who knows why I had that many?

Greeting from the same red card and white leafy boughs from snippets. I was sure I had a little red bow and found it in my exploding ribbon box. 

I wanted something just behind the star. I tried partial embossing but that went wrong and resulted in the creation of a new snippet. 

Finally I inked Versamark through a starry stencil and dusted on some Perfect Pearls. It's very subtle but just what I wanted. 

Mark II. A white and silver star with Perfect Pearls on the star and in the background. 

Mark III I was pleased to find that I had a bow die and could use more of the red scrap. 

Top tip, don't lean over your concertina file looking for scraps of green paper while holding a die. You'll drop the die and have to go through the whole file looking for it. 🙄

Think I've done well but still can't quite throw it away 🤷

I'm skipping over to the Snippet's Playground to admire the Christmas lights and see what mischief is about. As well as the stars and red scrap, I've used white snippets for all the branches and part of a shiny green envelope. That is why we save them...

Oh, Christmas Tree

 Hello lovely crafters

A quick post to show this card which was made on watercolour paper. The image stamped with distress ink and then again with water. I nearly rejected in as it wasn't perfect but never leave a card behind. The all count at this stage in December. I'm not sure what I was thinking, probably that it was too blobby in the middle. 

I love the sky, I hope you do. 

I'm linking this to Stamping Sensations Must use stamping, Anything Stamped with the option of Winter Wonderland. 

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Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Green boughs

 Hello lovely crafters.

How are your Christmas cards going? Our new challenge at Shopping our Stash might help with inspiration. Challenge #485 - Holly and Ivy - Use Christmas plants and greenery (trees, boughs, poinsettia, mistletoe). 

Here's my card.

I blended some blue ink over some water colour paper for a bright sky. Then I used a stamping tool to stamp the branches one at a time. Inking first with green and brown, stamping and then spritzing the stamp with water and stamping again. Adding a little water means you get a bit of pooling and spreading of ink. 

Then of course, a bit of glitter. It is edible glitter, no microplastics here!

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. 

Green bauble

 Hello lovely crafters

I've just realised that this is the last day of November. It certainly looks like November outside, grey and murky but with some gorgeous Autumn colour. 

Luckily the sun is always shining where I'm going!

I've made this card entirely from snippets so I'm off to the playground. Where the challenge is (almost) always - Anything goes with Snippets. 

The green is from a left over Gelli plate print. I die cut the bauble and then, after gluing it to the print, I cut round it. I die cut the square green frame and added a few stamped boughs behind. 

I managed to make gold splatters with a drop of liquid pearls and some water to dilute it. Then just a gold bow to finish. 

There didn't seem to be any room for a greeting so I'll add that on the inside. 

I just need a few more Christmas cards and now I have the green square from the inside to use up in a similar way. Who has finished their Christmas stack? 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Twinkly lights

 Hello lovely crafters!

I'm sure I'm not alone in finding Christmas a bit of a trial at times. However I do love all the lights and decorations. I find it quite distracting to drive around in December seeing houses lit up with fairy lights. 

I chose lights for this new challenge at Shopping our Stash. 

# 484Shine Bright Like a Diamond  - Bling it up and/or use something which gives light (candle, light bulb, sun) 

From my stash I've used a Leane Creatif stamp set for lights and leaves, Giotto glitter pens for the lights (gift I've hardly used, naughty) and gold Liquid Pearls. Woodware greeting. 

Then right at the end I went in with a small blending brush and a little yellow ink to add a glow. I could have ruined it but I was gentle and it worked ( I think). 

Hop over and see what my teammates have come up with this time and join in with our challenge. It's perfect for Christmas if you need a few more cards. 

I'm also taking this over to Stamping Sensations where the theme this month is Christmas Celebrations.

 

And also We Love Stamping where the theme is also Christmas. Thank you Brenda for pointing that out. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Golden snowflake

 Hello lovely crafters

While searching for inspiration today I found some papers I'd forgotten I had. I know every single one of you reading this will identify with that (for papers also read - stamps, dies, inks, stencils, pens, ribbon, gems, glue, paint and I could go on).

And that is the point of the Shopping our Stash challenge. Let's use what we have!

This week we are asking you to use: SOS #483 - Buttons and bows and...

'Little things mean a lot! Dig deep into your stash and create with old-school favourites like eyelets, brads, ribbons and/or buttons.'

The first thing I found was this snowflake. Previously die cut and then embossed in gold. I added some of the rediscovered papers, gold ribbon, a button and some gold thread. A simple old favourite greeting and it's done. 

I don't often use papers to create with, preferring to start blank and create with ink so it begs the question, why did (do) I buy them? Answers on a postcard...

Lets see what you've been hoarding. Join in our challenge which runs for the next two weeks. Come and see what the rest of the team was inspired to create. 

I'm also hopping over to the Snippets Playground for a run around and maybe a sneaky drink in the treehouse. 

Everything I've used here is snippets or stash. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x