We Three Kings

I've been busy making Christmas Cards and this is one of my best efforts (I think) using  Clarity Stamps with the theme We Three Kings. I am entering the Allsorts Challenge for the first time as their theme this month is anything inspired by a Christmas song or carol.

Vintage Christmas

Hi, I thought this would fit with the Ladybug Crafts Christmas/Winter Challenge which I am entering and also Country View Challenge for December Bah, Humbug

Vintage Christmas

I thought I would have a go at making a card for the November Crafts To Challenge You Vintage Christmas theme. The first twist is monochrome so I've gone for a sepia/brown and cream shades.  The background has been created using a snowflake stencil and stained walnut distress ink, I've roughed up the edges and matted onto some brown card.  The topper shows some children who are possibly from the 1940s era dancing round a Christmas tree.

Christmas Sprig

Christmas is suddenly creeping nearer and I must get on with making some Christmas cards so thought I would get in the mood with an early entry for the Clarity Stamp November Challenge, Christmas theme.  I've used the Christmas Sprig stamp and the remountable christmas decoration set.which I bought last year. To make the background I stamped the sprig into the corners using Versamark and then brayered over with Cranberry Aderondack ink.  On a separate piece of smaller card I lightly brayered cranberry and bottle for the background and stamped the sprig with black Archival ink, added some green and red with Promarkers and a bit of sparkle with a gelli pen. I'm quite pleased with the overall effect although the background colour looks deeper in real life but overall I think looks very Christmassy, hope you agree.

Chocolate Orange

Here is my entry for the Indigo Blu November Challenge number 9 with the theme of Chocolate Orange. Items used are the large bubble stamp, vintage photo, tea dye and walnut stain distress inks for the background matted onto some dark brown and lighter shade of brown card.  The verse is stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa and heat embossed with clear powder. The flowers were stamped with Rich Cocoa and Aderondack Ginger and heat embossed and then distress ink applied with a water brush in a mixture of shades including rusty hinge, spiced marmalade, vintage photo and tea dye then covered in glossy accents. Finally I cut some florishes from brown card.

Winter Sport

I'm entering this card  for the Clarity Stamp October Challenge. The theme of the challenge is winter. I used a piece of A5 Clarity coated card and created the sky using a brayer and stonewash Adirondack ink over one of the moon/sun masks (which I bought from the Clarity stand at the Stamp Magic show in Doncaster) and some cotton wool soaked in Versamark ink for wispy clouds. The trees and snowflakes are from a set of small Christmas stamps, the waymarker from the remountable waymarker set, the skiers are from the Sport set and the words from the letterbox kit. I also bought the new set of boxes for the letters at Doncaster. I've just used stonewash and denim for all the stamping. The main picture is matted onto another piece of Clarity card stamped with the snowflake. Finally I drew a border round the scene and background with a China Blue Promarker.

Catching Up

Its been a while since I had time to write anything on my blog but I haven't been idle on the card making front although holidays and tidying up the garden have slowed me down.  Here are a couple of birthday cards I made in September.

First a card I made for my husband's 65th birthday.  He is a keen photographer and loves taking photos in our garden of any wildlife. Butterflies were a favorite this summer so I used a photo he was particularly proud of for the central image on his birthday card.  For the background I used the foliage, birds, cat and squirrel stamps from the Clarity bird table set and the letter box kit. I was very pleased with the finished card.

 Secondly a card for my grandson's 6th birthday.  He is Super Hero mad so when I found this spider man image at a show I had to use it to build a card around.  The background is made using shades of blue and a brick wall stamp which looks very effective.  My grandson was impressed and says I am the best card maker ever, and I'm happy with that even if he is biased!!!