Quick Card,Quick Post!

I've been wondering what I could make in the way of quick,bulk make cards to fill up my box quickly and to stop me panicking that I haven't made nearly enough cards yet!
This image is by Meljens Designs,it's called Starry Holly and was a freebie from some time back.
Dead simple to colour with the copics,just added a little fake stitching around the edge to compliment the fab ones in the design,matted it onto red mirror card,stamped the greeting,added the image at a jaunty angle and Bob's your Uncle! The greeting is from the Christmas Sentiments set by Woodware and is available along with the mirror card from "Scrapbook Sisters".

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:-
Scrappy Frogs, Merry Christmas,
Ellephantastic 20,Red and green,
Crafty Catz 60,Christmas,
Fairytale Challenge,White,
Sew Many Challenges 34,Digi red and green,
Digi Doodles 35,Red and green,
Crafty Creations 95,Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

What's Cooking?

My friend's son has just been given an apprenticeship as a chef and asked if I could make her a card to give to him.

I hand cut the tunic and used Woodware's Christmas Dinner clear stamps for the emblem on the front and also the knife, fork and spoon on the insert,the stamp set has a great selection of festive food too. I doctored some peel-offs for the greeting and used some flat backed gems for the buttons.
I'd like to thank the lovely Mina for the blog candy papers that she sent me as the DP included was just perfect for this card.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

Allsorts 80,Monochrome,

Stamp Simply 167,Use black,

Hodge Podge Shop 4,Anything goes,

Sassy Studio 48,Monochrome,

Critter Challenge 41,Food.

I made a few other cards yesterday so at least I know I've got something to show you in the week.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Here We Go Again

Sorry,I haven't had any spare time to make any cards for a few days so tonight's card is another of the Forever Friends cards that I made last weekend,very similar and using other papers from the same range of papers.

This time I used some of those gorgeous,juicy looking Dew Drops coloured with Copics for the holly berries.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:-

Christmas Stampin 72,Anything goes,

Crafty Sentiments 45,Christmas,

ABC Christmas,X is for Xmas,

Crafty Creations 95,Christmas is coming,

FBC24,Christmas,

Simon Says,Let it snow,

If you fancy another Let It Snow challenge,check out Scrapbook Sisters for this week's challenge!

That's me for tonight,I promise not to show you another Forever Friends card for a while.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Let It Snow! Week 12

I do hope that this week's Card Challenge at Scrapbook Sister's doesn't sound like an invitation for the real McCoy as this week's theme is "Let It Snow"

Now,this wasn't my original card,the first was a shaker card using one of Gayle's Digi's but unfortunately I completely bodged it at the last minute, 3d glaze on my last piece of acetate resulting in a Snow storm in the dining room as I lost the plot and and emptied snowy white glitter everywhere in a strop! Not a good move,I'm sure I'll be finding traces of snow for the rest of the year!

I resorted to using Karen's set of Forever Friends stamps again,not that I minded as I love using the Copics to colour that fur, think this is my best so far! I've used the "Santa's On His Way" paper pack yet again,teaming it up with some layers of holographic Mirri card.

I did a bit of paper piecing using some remnants from the drawer,added some red Stickles to the berries and used a Fiskars snowflake punch and a Cuttlebug Die to cut and emboss the large snowflake.

The greeting was stamped using a silver ink pad and a stamp from my stash.

Another Christmas card knocked of the list. Why not make one for your box and enter this week's challenge at the same time!

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Forever Friends Part 4

I've not been feeling too well for a couple of days so haven't done much in the way of crafting,Feeling much better today though thank goodness.
Just a quick post for today though as I've lots of ironing to catch up on. Thought I'd share another of the cards made using the Forever friends set of stamps,and Santa's on his way paper pack. There were still more of both of these items when I was in Scrapbook Sisters at the end of last week.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

Dotties World,Anything goes Red,
Crafty Pad 98,Red and Green,
Scrappy Frogs,Merry Christmas,
C4C64,Circles,
SCFC30,Circles,
PRC25,Favourite things,(one of mine is definitely cup cakes)
I also made another similar card to this but as I haven't posted much for a few days,I'm going to save it for tomorrow. If you're interested, there's more cards using this lovely set of stamps on posts made last week.
Thanks for calling by,
Julie.x
P.S. If you fancy making a card,this week's theme at Scrapbook Sisters is "Christmas Tree"

Southern Girls Challenge 6

It's my last Challenge as Guest Designer :( and this weeks Southern Girls challenge is"Your Favourite Colour" Now,I don't really have a favourite colour as such but when I look back over my blog there seems to be a bit of a pattern with most of my cards,I love to use PINK! So when I saw this fabulous image by one of this weeks sponsors "Make it Crafty" I knew that Pink was definitely the way to go! The Mushroom House spoke to me,whispered in my ear ,"Make me into an Easel card" so that is exactly what I did! I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed making this card,I coloured the Digi image using Copics,added a generous sprinkling of glitter to the spots and edges then when it had dried added some more sparkle with a few dobs of stickles.

Then I went a little bit Cricut crazy,cutting grass in different lengths from thin white card stock , then,with the press of a button the grass then came out topped with flowers! I had so much fun with this! then I pressed another button and the grass came out taller! WOW! I'm definitely going to do this again! I coloured the grass and flowers using a selection of Copics.
I used my trusty Plantin Schoolbook cartridge for this,one day I shall buy a different cartridge but for the moment I am still enjoying playing with just this.

From another copy of this printed digi I coloured up just the steps from the house,these I used to create a path up to the house,the last I mounted onto foam pads acting as the stop for the easel. I created a flower also using the Cricut and a pearly button. I'm afraid I can't remember who the design paper at the base is by,these were leftovers from my Scrapbooking class.(This is a scheduled post as I'm at class at the moment!)

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-

FBC23,Show off your style,

MTTC115,Window fun

PTT21,Easel Cards,

OSAAT39,Favourite colours,

CES12,Think pink,

Secret Crafter 109,Sparkle and shine,

FFF39,make your own flowers,

Fairytale Challenge,Anything goes,

Stamp Something Challenge,Digi Day,

CCT138,Anything goes.

This is my second post for today so please scroll down for my for previous post.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x

Scrapbook Sisters Challenge 11

Wow what a fantastic number of entries there were over at Scrapbook Sisters Card Challenge last week,some amazing cards too! The challenge this week is "The Christmas Tree",another lovely one to help us all tick another card off the "need to make" list.
The Christmas tree stamp was a present from my lovely Sister - In-Law, I love it, though I'm afraid I have no idea who the stamp is by. I stamped it using Momento Bamboo Leaves,green ink pad,it was so easy to colour,just a few flicks of green with the Copics, and some Stickles over the coloured yellow star. I decided to paper piece the pot. I also stamped the tree onto the backing paper then with some clever placing of the scalloped circle the image on the die cut circle met up with that on the paper.

The red scalloped strip was cut using Cricut Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.The greeting is from Woodware's "Christmas Sentiments" I so love the little Papermania Dew drops,they are easy to colour and match to your project. The papers are from the scrummie A5 paper pack, Forever Friend's "Santa's On His Way".
That's it from me for now,I really hope that you take part in Scrapbook Sister's Week 11 Card Challenge,
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x
P.S. If anyone can help me with the origins of the stamp I'd be grateful.x