Christmas Through the Window

"Through The Window" is the theme of the last challenge at  "polkadoodle" for this year. I still needed to create something for 2 individuals in my life and this window creation is one of them.  

Close up

This one is before I put curtains on

The picture bellow is what is behind the window.

(I used digi images to create the scene)

This way it can be seen more clearly. 

To make my Christmas window I used a template from MCS and used digital images to decorate the template.

digital images are from - Polka Doodles cd roms ( Jingle Jangle Christmas and Magical Winter part one)

other digital images:

sleigh and blue backing paper - digikit "forest sleigh rides" Agnesingap Designs

Christmas tree, branch, ribbon and poinsettia  - digikit "Christmas Fancies" design by Mediterranka

the Moon - digikit by Pliscrap

the hanging ornament - digikit "Christmas Punch Add On" by Sweet Digiscraps Designs

red dotty backing paper - digikit "First snowfall minikit" by Wishing Well Creations

non digi items - satin ribbon and lace for the curtains  from my stash.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

**Michaela **

Quick Christmas Card.....

....is the theme this week at polkadoodle challenge blog so I decided to have a go. 

To make this card I used Polka Doodles cd rom "Magical Winter part one" - for the digi-image of the girl, fence with the sign and the birdie. I did not do any colouring with promarkers this time. These images already come beautifully coloured but there is also a choice of plain digi-stamps on the cd rom and you can colour with mediums of your choice yourself if you feel like it.. The sentiment "Snowflakes are Winter's Kisses" are from another Polka Doodles cd rom called "Jingle Jangle Christmas". I created the personalised bauble in MS Word.
The red backing paper with snowflakes  was a leftover which I used to wrap a mini present last week. This backing paper is from digi-kit called "First Snow Fall" from Wishing Well Creations. The black dotty paper was another left over from the time when I made a card with owls. And the the black layer of paper for matting and layering was another used leftover.  And the punch I used is called "Leafy Lace".

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**Michaela **

Hello Darling!...

...... All your Christmases have come at once !!

The inspiration for this card came from the picture lower down which  is an inspirational picture for one of "Sassy Studio Designs" monthly challenges. For that challenge you have to use one of their digi-images to enter.  I have this beautiful "SDS" image called "Steampunk Josephine" which was a fantastic freebie and decided to make my husband's Christmas card with it.  

                                   Inspired by this 

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Elements used:

For the base of the card I used white card and punched around with lace trim punch. Then I glittered the edges with black glitter. For the next layer I used my husband's favourite, which is a silver mirror card. The next red layer is a thin paper colored around the edges with a red promarker. The next layer up with the circles  is a backing paper which is from "sweetdigiscraps" which I recoloured. I also added a few other elements to this backing paper from a freebie download by "creationsbyrachaelb" -(Holiday Cheer)"which is the part of my left side of the card (the light paper with red and green) and I also used the same download to create the circles behind my images. The other add on to make this backing paper I created the red stripes and put part of the recolored backing paper over it. When I printed the backing paper out I was not happy with the colour red because none of my promarkers in red came even close to it and I like it matching, so I recolored every red bit of the backing paper with a red promarker. The "Steampunk Josephine" image was printed out and colored with promarkers. The group of digi-presents are from a download from "paperdreamsofmine".They come plain and I added some doodles with a black pen and colored with promarkers. The sentiment is from  "whenthescraphitsthefun". The snowflakes at the bottom of the sentiment and underneath the roses (the second layer) are a part of a digi-image from "scribblesbysandy" which I printed out and cut out. The layer underneath the roses is from a silhoutte punch 3.8 cm by xcut I used silver mirror card again. The roses and metal corners are from "wild orchid crafts". Ribbons, big gemstones and mini gemstones are from my stash.

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**Michaela**

Magical Time of the Year

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Elements used:

I created the scene using digital images from - Polka Doodles cd roms (Magical Winter part one and part two) and green-white backing paper from Sunday of Seasons cd rom.

The bottom layer is a heavy burgundy card. The next layer is a thin paper which I coloured with a promarker to fit my color scheme. The green-white layer is a paper printed out from a cd rom and I placed metal corners on that layer. The main picture scene I created in MS Word from separate images from 2 cd roms. I loved all the images so much and could not settle only on one or two that is why I created the whole scene. Once I was happy how the scene looked I printed this scene on a photo paper 5 times in the same size. Then cut out all 5 pieces around the edges but to achieve the step layered look I had to take each individual piece turn it face down  and  measure it from the edge inwards and apply the same measurement to all 4 sides by that  I formed a rectangle inside my piece and I cut it out with a craft knife. I kept the outside bit of each piece and got rid off the middle bits I cut out. With the second, third and fourth piece I increased the measurement from the edges so that way I could achieve the stepped layered look. The bottom layer of the picture is the only layer that does not need cutting. I used mini double sided sticky pads to stick all the layers together. It gave it a bit of a height and made the stepped look pop. To frame the assembled layers I used my burgundy card and cut a rectangle out of the card which was about 1.5 cm larger in size on each side than the top layer of the layered picture and then again I went from the edge inwards to cut it out with a craft knife. I was left with a frame and applied brown promarker to darken the frame a bit. I positioned double sided tape around the edges of the frame and applied glitter (jade). Then I glued the frame on the top of the layered picture and it framed it nicely. Then the whole structure was glued to my base with a glue gel. I added red roses, metal corners and punched out  butterflies which I layered and I used tonic punches to make the green mini flowers in the middle of the butterflies.

"On the Third Day of Christmas "

This is my favourite Christmas decoration entry !

I absolutely adore my Christmas stocking. I bought it about 10 years ago. It was my first Christmas decoration bought as a married woman, that year we did not even have a Christmas tree because we just moved our house and there was no time to put any decorations up because we were unpacking all the stuff and settling down in our new house where we are still to this day and my adorable stocking is still with us every Christmas.

Thank you very much for visiting!

All comments are very much appreciated!

**Michaela **

Christmas/deer

Let It Snow

The background paper with the Moon and the snowy scene is from a digikit, I took it in MS WORD and added digi snowflakes to it to make it more snowy and I also added the “Merry Christmas” words which are from another digikit and that tree you see on its own . I printed it out twice  with one layer smaller so it could sit on the top of it. Then I used another digi-kit for the grouped trees, they come separate. I grouped them together and printed and cut them out. To make them shiny I used clear embossing powder on them.

I also glittered one of the grouped trees with crystal glitter.Then I used another digikit for my cute little deer. I printed and cut him out and used clear embossing powder to make him shiny as well. I also used another glitter colour (jade) and outlined the tree with it which is on its own next to the little deer. Then I used tons of jade glitter around the edges of each layer. To make the glitter stick I used double sided tape. I also used a layer of black thin paper between the pink background paper and the glittered edge.  My punched snowflakes with  gemstones and Merry Christmas sticker finished of the card.

Elements used:

Trees - digikit - Christmas Heart by Jess Gordon

Deer - digikit - Winter Wishes by Bea Creations

Backing paper with the moon-digikit-Santa is Coming by Bea Creations

Christmas Time words - digikit -Christmas Gift by Collab Girls Creations

snowflakes - tonic mini punch

Merry Christmas - Anita's Glitteration Stickers white
Gemstones - Papermania
Glittered edges with - colour jade
Glittered trees with crystal  and jade glitters

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All comments are very much appreciated!

**Michaela **

Too cool for Christmas....NOT!

Card for a Teenager!

Elements I used:

The digi-stamp of the boy called "Casper too cool for Christmas" is a free download from "Pollycraft" . (Thank you) which I coloured with promarkers. The background is another freebie from by "scribblesbysandy" and I distressed it with Tim Holtz's  "shabby shutters" distress ink. The little ticket above Casper's head is from whenthescraphitsthefun and so is the circle sentiment at the top middle. The circle sentiment lower left is  from "scrappyfairy". I used Tonic punches to make the snowflakes where I put a gem in the middle and glittered. The rest of the snowflakes I made myself using the background as an inspiration and glittered. The baubles hanging on my handmade glittered snowflake were also handmade by myself but I have no idea where I downloaded the digi-stamps of the baubles from but full credit for the  to the artist. I colored them with promakers and glittered. I used metal wire and wrapped it around one of my glue bottles to achieve a circle shape for hanging my baubles. For the base of the card I used a "lace trim" punch. Ribbons are from my stash.

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All Comments are appreciated very much!
*** Michaela ***

Christmas/Winter/Kids/Sparkle card

Before I started making  this Christmas card I wish I'd thought of something easier and not something that involves a craft knife and glittering with 6 different glitter colours but I am very happy how it turned out. I picked digi- images from my freebie downloads and from Polka Doodles cd roms "Sunday of Seasons" (the trees)  and the little cutie owl is from "Jingle Jangle" cd rom. I created the JOY word with stars attached to it using MS WORD. The sentiment was a free downlad from "whenthescrapshitthefun". Glitter colours used - [jade,dark green,copper,crimson,turquoise,and diamond sparkles(angel whispers)]

  This is my card.

Below are  close ups of my glittering.

Thank you for visiting
All comments very much appreciated
* Michaela *

Christmas/Winter/Kids/Sparkle card

To make this card come together I followed a sketch by Lisa Smith for Willow Sketchie  Challenge.

For this one I  used tons of glitter to make this card sparkle to the maximum.  

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I used digital papercrafting CD roms ( Jingle Jangle Christmas and Magical Winter-part one) from Polka 

Doodles. I made the base of the card with the help of "lace trim punch". I also used tonic big and small snowflake punches. Glitter used - Crimson and Hunkydory's Diamond Sparkles (angel whispers).

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Christmas - "Holly" digi-stamp

Not that long ago I was one of the blog hop winners and won a set of Christmas digi-stamps. I was over the Moon on the way to Jupiter with my winning and when I came back down to Earth I decided to use one of the digi-stamps in making of this card. I am now talking about the main image on my card - the digi-stamp is called "Holly" from mamidoodles.com. She is gorgeous, isn't she? It was a pleasure using the image. Thank you.

To make this card I used

digi-stamps - Main Image - "Holly" from mamidoodles.com  which I colored with promarkers 

                   - Poinsettias - from birdscards.com which I cut out and  colored with promarkers 

                   - baubles - digi-stamps which I cut out and coloured with promarkers, do not know the artist but full credit to them

backing papers - from a kit  by Jess Gordon

from my stash - roses, METAL CORNERS, JADE color GLITTER - used it to frame the card

stacked butterfly - punch

green rose in the middle of the butterfly - made by myself from a punch

distress ink pad - shabby shutters from Tim Holtz range

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All comments much appreciated.

                      

Polka Doodles: Week 42 Challenge - Halloween Giveaways

 For this polkadoodle.blogspot.com Challenge I used the digi-images provided on polkadoodle.blogspot.com, you can use images from Polka Doodles "Sundays of Seasons" cd rom for this challenge instead but if you do not own this cd rom, the rule is to use the digi-images provided.

I own and love the cd rom but I love the images provided by the blog as well and decided to use them, they are really lovely. Thank you very much

To make this card I used all the digi-images provided for this challenge. Some of them I used twice. I resized it in MS Word and layered it with other digi-images from various artists. I printed out the witch, cut her out with scissors and coloured her with promarkers and glued on with glue gel for a bit of a dimension. The glittered leaf - the leaf is from "Sunday of Seasons" cd-rom, I printed it out and coloured it with a black promarker. Then I glittered it with copper coloured glitter. For matting and layering I used black paper from stash, the orange one was coloured with promarkers. 

backing paper  with the Moon - recolored and texture changed - beacreationsblogspot.com

skull - manipulated image - Sorry,forgot the artist, full credit to the artist

orange paper and leaves - digikit Sweet Peaches by MCreation & Saskia

pin - vintage florals kit by Shabby Princess

dragonflies -  recoloured - digikit dragonfly dreams by Numbbumm.blogspot.com

black lace and stitches recoloured - digikit Refreshing Autumn by Akizo Designs

dirt lines- recoloured - digikit kitschy hearts by Akizo Designs

sign under the big glittered leave - recolored - digikit fruit of fall by butterflydsign.blogspot.com

spider web backing paper - download from scrapbookalphabetblogspot.com

matting and layering, orange one - used a promarker, black one from stash

There are  2 other elements which I can not find at the moment but full credit to the artists

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Halloween

Halloween is just around the corner and for this occasion I decided to make my first Halloween card. I did not make it too scary, imagine scaring some poor little soul! It also reminds me to buy lots of  sweets for the special day and  some for myself of course. My day would not be complete without it. 

To make this Halloween card come together I used digi-freebies  downloaded from various blogs (creepiecutestamps,bearywishes,madiscraps,leighspapercreationdigitalstamps,stampersbest,karenlewisdesignz.com,scrapbookalphabet) and there is also another digi-stamp but I can not rememeber where I downloaded it from, full credit to all talented artists. 

matting and layering - light card from stash 

coloured with promarkers
flowers - made them myself
glue - glue gel

Polka Doodles: Week 40 Challenge - Handmade Flowers & Blog Candy!

For this challenge I decided to use another Polka Doodles cd-rom "Back to Nature" and have my first go at making flowers of some kind.

Below is the card I am entering for:
Polka Doodles Week 40 Challenge - Handmade Flowers & Blog Candy!
http://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/


I am also entering this card into following challenges:

Zoo or Animal Challenge -http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/ #

Rein's BIRD Challenge-http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/    #
                - Sponsored by the- The Ribbon Reel  #
Seeing Spots - http://christmasstampin.blogspot.com/ #
Challenge#11 "Flowers,Flowers,Flowers"
http://emeraldfaeries.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge11-flowers-flowers-flowers.html #
Ch #35, " We love animals - http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com #  
Challenge 77 -ANIMALS - http://robynsfetishchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ # 
Free and Easy -http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.com/ #

To create the flowers I used Tonic mini paper punch "flower head" and the larger one is from Tonic "Petal Pairs". After I punched out a shape ( light cardstock ) I lifted the petals up and shaped them the way I found appealing to my eye. I used glue gel to glue 3 layers together. Glue gel seems to give flowers even more strength. Mini flowers are really tiny and very fiddly to make but well worth it. Mini flowers fit nicely into larger ones.


In the making of this A5 card were also involved:


As I mentioned above I used "Back to Nature" cd rom. I printed out the owls and decoupaged them. Adorable, aren't they? I also printed out the tree branches with leaves and flowers in the top left corner and cut everything out with scissors. The black dotty paper is from "Sundae of Seasons" cd-rom but I had to recolour it because it was not available in black. I also embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it a shine. I also made a use of heart mini punch,lace trim border punch and "Tonic Boot Punch Regular - Crossing Hearts". The swirl is from "Anita's Glitterations Stickers". The gold layer is lightly brushed self adhesive sheet. Gems are from "Papermania". The card was finished with my handmade flowers.

Magical Winter - Easel Card

To make this 8x8 inch card I used images from Polka Doodles (Magical Winter part one and Magical Winter part two cd-roms )

 There are beautiful (backing papers, toppers, coloured images, digi-stamps you can colour yourself and more on both cd-roms. 

For making this easel card I also used:
burgundy card, x-cut border punch - lace trim, tonic mini punch - snowflake, 
papermania gemstones, silver mirror card, hougie board to make concertina shape, glue gel, 

Birthday Card for my 1 year old nephew

One of my nephews is going to be 1 year old in November. I can not believe it. It was like yesterday when he was born.  I decided to make a birthday card for him. 

For the front of the card I used backing papers from beautiful (Harvest Spice Kit ) . The Bear image was a free digi-stamp from http://maybritshobbyblogg.blogspot.com/ 

Front of the card

I used "Microsoft Word" and played with some of my downloaded freebies to create the rest of 3 pages of the card. 

As you have probably guessed I used bear digi-stamps from May Brit's Blog again. I LOVE THEM. "Bear on the Cresent Moon" is from http://bodilsscrappeverden.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-free-digi-stamp_25.html and comes as a freebie as well

Other elements are from freebie kit on http://digital-scrapbooking-japan.blogspot.com/ 

Backing Paper is from " Harvest Spice freebie kit again "
To colour all digi-stamps I used promarkers.

Opened card - left side

Opened card - right side

Back of the card

MY FIRST EVER POST

Ingredients:

 Polka Doodles CD roms ( Jingle Jangle Christmas and Sundae of Seasons ).