Oh Christmas Tree!

 Hello and thank you so much for visiting me!  I have a Christmas card today and it is the first one I have made this year.  The time has gone by so quickly  I can hardly believe its December next month.

I used a clear stamp set called O Christmas Tree by Creative Expressions.  I bought it in an online sale very cheaply recently and I love it!  It cried out for snippets of left over patterned paper and fussy cutting.  I stamped the trees and pots in Nocturne Versafine Clair on leftover pieces of patterned paper - the starry paper is Lily of the Valley - I treasure my pads of their paper and keep every snippet as they only do digital paper now.  The pots I am not sure which paper pad the snippets are from.  The tree stumps are stamped on snippets of white card and stamped with Distress Oxide - I think I used Frayed Burlap. When they were all stamped, I fussy cut them out and glued them onto a white panel then used my Misti to stamp the stars and sentiment in the correct places, I used Versafine Clair Glamorous. Everything is from the same stamp set. Then I got my quickie glue pen and glitter and added oodles of sparkle to the whole card - well it is a  Christmas card!  The panel was then added to a card base.  I was going to make a coloured card base but changed my mind and went with white.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets

Darnell's NBUS Challenge - Never Before Used Schtuff

Time Out Challenges - Quick - I can't believe how quickly December and Christmas have come around!

Thank you again for visiting me.

Take care and stay safe!  Hugs Christine xxx

Orange Flowers!

 Hello and thank you for visiting me!  A bright and cheerful card today.

The flower and butterfly stamps are from Sentimentally Yours and were stamped in black Versafine Clair and embossed with clear powder.  The butterfly is stamped on a snippet of card as well as the panel then glued on top of the stamped image.  The colouring is done with Sentimentally Yours Watercolour brush pens and the die which looks like wood along with the 'Hi', are from a set by Waffle Flower called Message Boards.  They were cut from snippets of card.  I added lots of stickles for sparkle.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixies's Snippets playground - Use Snippets.

Darnell's NBUS Challenge - Never Before Used Schtuff - Mine are the flower, butterfly and  Message Board die set.

The Flower Challenge - Circle/Circles - There are circles in my flowers.

We Love Chocolate Baroque - Anything Goes.

Make my Monday Challenge - Orange as dominant colour.

Well, it looks like the Covid numbers are going up here in the UK.  Not good at all!  They are not as high here in the Bournemouth area as in some other parts of the country but are the highest in the South.  Hopefully they will remain under control.  I am still staying firmly indoors and staying safe!  Although I am off to have a flu jab tomorrow and had  to go to the dentist earlier in the week but apart from that not going anywhere.  

Anyway, please look after yourselves - take care and stay safe!  Hugs Christine xxx

Who's For A Cocktail?

Hello and thank you so much for visiting me! I think at the moment we could all do with a little tipple the way things are going with the virus!  Here is a card I made for a friend's 60th birthday earlier in the year.

I began by making the background by blending Distress Oxides and added a bit of stamping too.  The glasses and contents were all cut with snippets of white card from a die set by Sue Wilson.  The '60' is from a die set from The Works and I cannot remember the make of the Cheers die.  I embossed my inked 'drinks' with a folder called Waterfall by Couture Creations and added Stickles glitter glue for sparkle.  I think the effect looks like bubbles.  

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Everything except the base card and large panel are snippets.

Darnell's NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff - mine is the cocktail die set.

Time Out Challenges - Inspired by words.

I am very behind with commenting on your lovely blogs again, I am so sorry!  I am pretty slow at most things - I haven't made one Christmas card yet and I am decorating wooden advent calendars for my two Granddaughters - you guessed it, I haven't started those either!  I need the energy or a normal person instead of an ME/CFS sufferer!  Sorry. I shouldn't moan!  

Anyway, I am loving the darker evenings, they are so cosy!  I am a real autumn/winter/lover.  Curled up on the sofa, under a blanket watching tv with a cuppa - lovely!  I know how to party!

Thank you again for visiting me.  Take care and stay safe.  Hugs Christine xxx 

All Hearts!

 A really quick post again as I have a few minutes to catch a very important post!  Its to celebrate Allsorts Challenge Blog birthday!   The theme is 'I Love' .  So my husband's anniversary card from earlier this year is perfect!  I love my husband, I love hearts and I love the Clarity stamps I used to make it!

The stamps are so fun and I stamped them on Clarity design paper which I glued to card to make thicker, then embossed with clear powder and cut out with Clarity heart dies.  The background is a Sue Wilson embossing folder and the sentiment is HobbyArt.

Would like to enter the following challenges:

Allsorts - 'I Love'

Pixies Snippet's Playground - Use Snippets - mine are the sentiment and the smaller hearts.

Have to go to catch challenge.  Thank you so much for visiting me.  Take care and stay safe.

Hugs Chris xxxxxxx

50th Flower!

 Hello and thank you for visiting me.  This is a very quick post as I am not feeling too good today and want to enter Pixies's Snippets Playground which ends in the morning.

All stamps are Aall and Create, inks are Oxides and Versafine Claire.  The '50' is a die set from the works.  I used snippets for the flower, leaf and sentiment.  Lots of fussy cutting and doodled edge.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixies Snippets Playground - Use Snippets.

Darnell's NBUS Challenge - Never Before Used Schtuff. Mine is the Flower.

Thank you again for visiting me, I am off to bed now.  Take care and stay safe!  Christine xxx

Be Happy Always!

Hello and thank you so much for visiting me!  My card today has a very important sentiment - be happy always!

The background is a Uniko background stamp inked with various shades of pink Distress Oxides stamped on a piece of white card.  On a snippet of white card I stamped the flower image, again Uniko, coloured with Promarkers then added different colours of Stickles.  When dry, I glued to panel then to pink card base.  The sentiment which is from Pinkfresh Studio and is taken from a large background stamp, has been stamped on another snippet of white card.  Finally, I added the three black gems.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixies's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets.

Penny Black and More - Say it With Flowers.

Time Out Challenges - Photo Challenge.

Darnell's NBUS Challenge - Never Before Used Schtuff - Mine is the background stamp and the sentiment stamp.

Thank you again for visiting me.  I had a nice week this week as it was my birthday on Wednesday.  I had a really lovely day with cakes, the odd tipple and lots of gorgeous cards and pressies! 

Take care of yourselves and stay safe!  Hugs Christine xxx

Twofer Butterflies!

Hello and welcome to my blog, thank you so much for visiting me.  My cards today are for Darnell's fabulous Twofer Challenge.  

I used Darkroom Door Butterfly Garden border stamp for both my cards.

For the first card I used a left over piece of inked card and stamped the border stamp on it with black Versafine Clair.  I backed it with black card then attached it to a pink card base which I made myself.  The sentiment is from Hobbyart and stamped on another snippet of pre inked card which I edged with ink and popped up on double sided foam tape.

For the second card I stamped and clear embossed the border stamp on white card and used a Clarity die to cut it into circles.  I coloured the images in with Sentimentally Yours watercolour pens.  I popped a piece of black card through a Sheena Douglas embossing folder and added to a white card blank then glued the circles, stones, glitter and sentiment (cut from snippets) to the embossed mat and it was done.

I like the Twofer Challenge as it makes you think how to use your stamps in different ways, thank you Darnell!

I would also like to enter the following challenges too!

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets.

Darnell's NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff.

People are going out a lot more, especially with the new rules regarding wearing face masks here in England.  I, however, am still not going out!  I am waiting to see how thing go.  Luckily I have very good and kind neighbours to help.

Take care and stay safe.  Christine xxxxxx