Here's Santa

I know that I whetted your appetites with the picture of the Santa Stamp and I have finally been able to make a card with it. So here he is in all his glory. I notice that he has a sackful of presents to hand out to everyone.

The Santa stamp is here!

Not too much giggling please. This is supposed to be serious!!

Senior Santa

Just so that you don't have to wait for the card, here's the Santa stamp.

Mrs. Santa

Not your conventional Christmas card I know but what fun. These stamps only arrived this morning and I had to make a sample straight away. Mr. Santa is on his way.



This card is super easy to make, All you do is stamp and colour the Mrs. Santa stamp. I used an oval shape but you could use an oblong one.
Cut a pice of holly glitter card and stick it to one side of the base card. Stick the image on top and add some blooms that have been enhanced with buttons and ribbon.
Use a pen to add dots at the corners and a metalic pen to edge the image card.

Sometimes you've just got to have fun.

How Chuffed am I?

To tell you the truth, megga chuffed. I've been named as site of the day by those lovely people, Jolly Nation. They're the ones that make those great papers that you can decoupage. They are the modern take on decoupage and I think that they are great.
So I'm going to gao around today with a head the size of a beach ball and an ego that's even bigger.

Love to you all.

Two Hydrangea and a Lovely Message

I seem to be on a roll lately and the cards are coming thick and fast. This is today's effort and I have to say that I am quite happy with it.

To make it:

1. I coloured the hydrangea stamps with the Art and Graphic Pens from Kuretake and I stamped it twice, colouring up between stamping. I then used the H2O water brush to move the paint a little and added some extra colour where I thought that the shadows should be.
2. I cut the images out and then got on with the rest of the card.
3. I cut a base card 10.5cm x 28cm. I scored this at the 14cm point to make a card 10.5cm x 14cm when folded.
4. I cut a piece of pink card and scored it and then cut it to fit over the join in the base card.
5. I stamped the message, which is from the Inspirational sayings plate, on a piece of card and cut it out to leavea a small border. I mounted this on to a piece of pink card. This was then stuck to the base card.
6. I stuck the hydrangea images slightly overlapping on to the card with a mixture of adhesive and foam pade. The adhesive was for the bottom hydrangea and the foam pads for the upper image.
7. I decorated the lower part of the card with a broken line of green. One of the greens that I had used on the stamp.

Jane

I've missed my trusty Kuretake Calligraphy pens lately as I've been making cards with stamps instead. I saw a card similar to this yeaserday so I thought that I would give it a go and this is what I came up with. Luckily, it combines stamps and pens.




To make this card I used:

1 base card 21cm x 10.5cm
1 piece of pink gingham ribbon
Mobe alphabet stamps, these are now on offer
heart Calligraphy pens from Kuretake
1 coral pink butterfly
I also used a brilliance ink pad to stamp out the letters.

You can click the product to be taken directly to them if you wish.


Basically I stamped the letters and then decorated them using the pens. I stuck a piece of ribbon along the bottom and here is a card that I hope my friend will love.

How to Take Three Hours to Make a Ten Minute Card

I put the following instructions on the forum the other day and they struck a chord with lots of the lovely crafters there, so I thought that I would pop them on the blog as well. See if you can recognise yourself.

Now it doesen’t really take three hours to make the actual card but first of all you have to:

1. Find the right paper. this is usually the last one that you pick out of the box.
2. Locate the stamp that you saw yesterday and could swear was on your craft table but turns up eventually under your daughter’s bed.
3. Unearth the Stazon and make sure that it’s still working as the lid looks suspiciously off.
4. Spend half an hour choosing the right colours to compliment the paper that you chose as it would be easy to match up with what you had.
5. Discover that your cutter is blunt and search for that replacement blade that you bought a couple of weeks ago and now is nowhere to be seen.
6. Ditto your scissors for cutting ribbon.
Now take an deep breath and make the card in ten minutes.

Does anyone know the feeling?
I didn’t count the time that it took me to photograph the card and put it on the blog. After I had found the camera, of course.
Happy crafting,
Yvonne

Christmas Notebook Holder

This is today's make. As you can see it's a Christmas piece again but I've chosen to use traditional Christmas colours rather than modern ones. This is just to prove to myself that I can do it.

This is actually a notbook holder rather than a card and I will take more photos and put instructions on as soon as I have the time.


Hope that you like it too.

Christmas Carol Singer

Well I decided that as it's November I had better get on with some more Christmas cards and here's the one that I made yesterday.

I used:

The carol singer stamp from the Variety sheet from I Brake For Stamps

I piece of Night Sky Glitter Card

I base card 10.5 cm x 15cm when folded

1 piece of navy blue saddle stitch ribbon

1 tag

Oval shape

3d foam pads

What I did:

I cut a piece of the night time glitter card to cover the top half of the card while still leaving a small border around the top. Stick to the base card.

Stamp the image onto the oval card and colour with shades of blue, yellow and a little red and brown.

Tie a knot in the ribbon and adhere it over the join between the glitter card and the base card.

Write a nessage on the tag and stick it to the card along with the image.

Now that's a fairly quick card.

Wholesale Available

Just a reminder that there is now a wholesale section on the Craft Fairy web site. There you'll find ribbons at approximately half the usual price. They are available in 50 and 100 yard reels.

Here's the link for all those budget conscious:



Wholesale

Enjoy the bargains.

A Beautiful Thank You Card

I feel very privileged to receive this card from Sarah, Aka Tiggertastic. She gave it to me at the Art Stamps Show in Newbury which she and her husband attended with the tickets that I gave out as blog candy.

I think that everyone will agree that it is well worth keeping as a very special card.

Bingo Edith, Belli Challenge #50

I've decided to make a card form this great stamp, Bing Edith. She's ben neglected for too long and she just had to come out of the box. I love her because she's so full of life that she makes you want to smile along with her. This is perfect for the Belli challenge#50





I used the sketch from the Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge to come up with the layout so I can't really claim that it was my idea, but there you go.

I used the Bingo Edith stamp from I Brake For Stamps and coloured her in with the Art and Graphic pens from Kuretake.
I hope that you like her too. If any of you want to make something using Bingo Edith I'll post it here on the blog.