Merry Christmas - Snow Village

This card proves that good things happen to crafting items that wait.  I received this lovely image  (PSX-K1603) in a swap last year.  I coloured it then and added white glitter to all the snow areas.  I must have ran out of time as I found it in my stash and now was able to make a quick cards this year.   The background paper is from a magazine giveaway.  I have layered the image onto red and gold card.  The Merry Christmas sticker is from the Sticker Store.

Have a wonderful day.

Snow Globe Dasher

Tuesday morning already. 

I have two card to share with you today.

I have started both cards with my reliable pre-scored white cards from Blue Edge Crafts.

I added to my first card a lovely embossing that a friend has sent to me.  I added bling to some of the snowflakes and used a Stampin Up greeting.  Next I decided to stamp another Stampin Up Dasher and punch him out with a circle punch so that I could create a snow globe.  I have seen a few snow globes around the place so had to have a try.  I went over Dasher with Shimmer Paint with a touch of blue ink then covered the circle with Dimensional Magic.  I cut the brown base free hand and inked the edges with versa mark.  I am really happy with finish of this card.

Second card, I ran a piece of Stampin Up Old Olive through my Swiss Dots embossing folder and added to the front of the card.   Topped the card with a torn piece of Stampin Up Jolly Holiday design paper.  Stamped the greeting on the strip of white board and edged it with gold card that has been put through a border punch.  Used my fun Stampin Up Dasher stamp and added a gold strip sticker for a collar.

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Well today has a touch of sadness for me as yet another person around my age has passed away due to Cancer.  Nasty thing!  This lovely lady was only 47 yo and we were on the same Administrative Office TAFE course straight after school.  Of course we went our separate ways but we happen to end up with our families in this lovely Gordonvale area.  Sally was always a happy and positive person with a twinkle in her eyes -  a pleasure to know.  But life in the last few years did not deal her a nice hand.  She was returning home from a school athletics day a few years ago and somehow did not see the approaching train.  Sadly, the family lost a son that day and the other son is now in a wheelchair with learning difficulties.  However, the family went on, thanks hugely to the community support from their little town.  Sally went on to have two more children a boy and a girl.  Then, Sally, was diagnosed with cancer and although she put up a huge and brave battle she lost the fight last Tuesday 9th November.  Her funeral is today.

So my thoughts today are with her family and all the friends that have helped them through their very rough times.

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Dasher the Reindeer

Morning all.....it's Friday again.....boy it comes around fast.  This weekend however, I am staying at home.  What a novelty. :-)  Planning on doing lots of gardening as the weeds are growing really well at the moment.  Plants need a good watering too.

On to my cards.  I used my new Stampin Up Dasher stamp again.....he is so much fun.  Both of these cards started with a white gloss BE card.  Then a layer of this fantastic Allison Ellis design paper.  It is so silvery and shiny and I just love holly leaves for Christmas.  I cut out a scalloped edge circle with my Spellbinders in navy blue card.  Stamped Dasher on to white card and then punched the majority of him out with a circle punch.  When I use a stamp I use the entire image.....never think to use only part.  My friend had told me she had seen this on the net somewhere so I had to have a try.  I really like how Dasher looks in the circle.  I then added shimmer paint.  To the top Dasher a red nose and tadah you have Rudolf....finished with a red bow.  The second card, I added leftover sticker circles to the edge of the scallop.  Stamped the lovely Stampin Up greeting and rounded two corners to make it look like a tab.

Wishing you all a happy and fun filled weekend.  

Catch up with you on Monday.

Christmas Baubles

Morning everyone,  as you can see I am in a Christmas faze at the moment.  :-)

This lovely layout came from Robyn who owns My Scrap & Chatz Room Ph 40652074 in Silkwood.

I have used lots of Stampin Up products on this one...they certainly make life so much easier when putting a card together.  (Maybe I should start selling lol)  However, I did start we a white gloss BE card.  Then I used layers of Stampin Up design paper Jolly Holiday and card Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler.  My friend Ruth stamped up the Christmas Bauble from the Contempo Christmas set and went over the top of them with Shimmer Paint.  So in real life all these baubles have a nice shine/shimmer to them.  The baubles were punched out with the Stampin Up Ornament punch.

I finished the card with some of my ribbon that matched beautifully and bits of bling.

Again I have done this fun and easy banner.  Just cut a length of matching card about 2cm wide.  Stamp your greeting in the centre then fold on each side of the greeting then fold again about 1cm away from the first fold.  This makes the greeting pop up.  Then cut a triangle out of each end at the length that you would like your banner.  Easy but very effective.

Dasher turned into Rudolf

Morning everyone, well we are back.  Townsville was wonderful but we are both very exhausted.  My daughter from all the touch footy and me from all the driving.  The team played wonderfully well but alas other teams played better than them.  Saturday was one win, one draw and one loss.....so tried everything. :-)  Sunday only one game which was a loss.  There is always next year.

Returned yesterday to hubby with a handful of info that he had dug up on the weekend about our family holiday.  So when I unpacked I sat down with my cuppa tea to read it all.  Put my cuppa tea next to the open laptop and accidently bumped my cup when placing it on the bench which meant about 1/2 teaspoon of tea landed on the mousepad section of the laptop.  Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!  Of course now it is not working properly.  I have just driven all the way into town to get the computer experts to look at it and fingers and everything crossed it will work again without too much cost.

Now for my card.  I bought myself the new Dasher Stamp for Stampin Up.  I so love his antlers.  Although, I have changed him for this card as he is now Rudolf with his bright red shiny nose.  I started with my white BE card and then used the new Holly Jolly Christmas Design paper from Stampin Up.  Had to have a try of the Stampin Up embossing folder too...it embosses so lovely and deep, I used Stampin Old Olive for this. Cut out a banner to stamp Merry Christmas on.  The ink here and the layer behind Rudolf is Stampin Cherry Cobbler....such a lovely rich red colour.

I will try and catch up with everyone during this week.  First I must catch up on the washing though.  Happy Monday everyone.

Aquamarker Giveaway

Hi everyone just had to share this Giveaway and some wonderful new digi images.  Ruth over at Passion for Stamps has three new Christmas images.  Below are two cards she has created with her new creations.  I hope you don't mind me sharing Ruth....I just thought they were so stunning.  If you want to see more of Ruth's beautiful cards be sure to visit her Passion for Cards blog.

Oh.....you want to know about the Aquamarker giveaway....that is over at Ruth's blog too.  Just click here for the post.

Flashback Friday 4.0

A blog I follow created by Linby (Craft Linby) has been posting about this challenge and I thought it would be fun to enter.  It is called Flashback Friday and the idea of the challenge is to go in search through your blog posts to find a creation that suits the challenge.  So yes, you and everyone gets to revisit old creations.  This challenge asks for your first ever Christmas card that you blogged about.  Well I had these three cards in my original post which you can find here back at 20th November, 2008.  Actually, seeing these cards again inspires me to dig out my holly embossing folder for another play.

Yes, there are prize up for grabs on this challenge too.  I think it runs an entire month. One thing you must remember though you can't link to your original post you must repost your creations.