Snowy Street

Hi All,

Another Christmassy card for you today.  I've been making a good start on them this year.  Although I'll need to pick up the pace if this year carries on going so fast.

I printed the papers and topper from the Debbi Moore Victorian Christmas CD-ROM.  The topper was originally a full A4 sheet so I used my printer properties to reduce the size by 75%.  This is the first time I've done it this way and it worked a treat.  The red cardstock is Cor'dinations.  I also used Cor'dinations for the holly border and corners.  These were cut using Spellbinders Holly Accents .  I raised the border with foam pads to hold up my easel card.

Finally I used my Quickie Glue Pen to add dots of glitter all over the topper.  The glitter was from My Craft Studio.  I hope you can see it from the photo.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

1.  The Crazy Challenge - #124 Christmas in July
2.  Crafty Sentiments Designs - Christmas in July
3.  The Pink Elephant - TPE156 Christmas in July
4.  Divas by Design - #43 Christmas in July
5.  Hooked On Craft - #22 Christmas in July

Has anyone else started their Christmas crafting?  How are you getting on?  I've resisted putting on my favourite Jim Reeves CD so far but it might be time to get him singing "White Christmas" soon!

Happy crafting,
Rachel x

First Christmas Card of 2012

Yes, you read right!  I've started my Christmas crafting very early this year.  Well, early for me.  Last year I was still sticking things together on Christmas Eve!  Although I did have a half finished kitchen in my living room where I craft!


Enough of my babbling and on to the card itself...

I've started with a 8" scalloped card this year.  I used Nigel May's A-May-Zing Craft Into Christmas CD-ROM to print the backing paper, ribbon border, topper and sentiment.  Nigel produced the CD in conjunction with Crafter's Companion and it really is a must have for your Christmas projects.  I printed off about 10 sheets and then remembered that I had only looked at the first CD!  Brilliant!

I covered my card blank with the blue snowflake paper and then cut around the scallops with a craft knife on a glass cutting mat.  I added my ribbon border with a tape runner and then trimmed the edges.  The topper is mounted on a piece of Cor'dinations cardstock that I cut with a square die and my Grand Calibur.  You can't really tell from the photo but I have also decoupaged my snowman with foam pads.  My sentiment is mounted onto the same green Cor'dinations cardstock.

The snowflakes came from Spellbinders Create-A-Flake Three, Create-A-Flake Four and 2012 Snowflake Pendant.  I added glitter with my Quickie Glue pen and used MCS ultra fine glitter. 

I'm not sure that this photo really shows up the glitter but I added a little to each snowflake.  To finish off I added some faux stitching around the edge of the scallops with a black fine liner pen.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

1.  Charisma Card Challenges #25 - Anything Goes
2.  Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes

3.  Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #192 – Christmas
4.  Tammy's Scrapin Corner #16 - Anything Goes

Happy Christmas crafting,

Rachel

Fab'n'Funky Challenge #114 - Easter

A lovely range of entries for our Honour Your Mum challenge last week.  Very girly and cute.  Check out the Fab'n'Funky Challenges blog to see if you are our lucky winner. 

Now that the chocoholics' favourite holiday is almost here, we have chosen to celebrate with a seasonal challenge...

EASTER

Our brilliant sponsor for this challenge is Joanna Sheen and the winner will recieve a £10 voucher for her website.  Woo! 

This is my Easter inspired card...

When I saw this image for the first time, I instantly fell in love with it.  Tweety Pie is just so cute and I love the look on Sylvester's face.  I printed the image from the Crafting with Looney Tunes CD-ROM, which I bought from Create and Craft last year. 

I took a 5" square card blank and cut two squares, one purple and one yellow and offset them on the card with double sided sticky tape and large foam pads.  The American seambinding was coloured using my Cyan Promarker.  I added a strip of super sticky tape to the edge of the yellow card and folded the ribbon into it to attach. 

The image was attached using foam pads to give dimension.  I cut the sentiment shape using Spellbinders Ribbon Banners.  I used a Quickie Glue Pen to glitter the edges with My Craft Studio Ultra Fine Glitter.  The sentiment is from the Daisy and Dandelion "Some Bunny Loves You" stamp set. 

Happy crafting,
Rachel x

Love at Christmas

Confession time - my name is Rachel and I'm addicted to glitter!  The images on the Debbi Moore Art Deco Magical Christmas just call out for glitter and to make Debbi proud I added two different types to this card!  I put down ultra sticky tape (the red one) and then rubbed in ultra fine gold glitter.  I think I would probably use a narrower tape next time though.  The image was printed from the CD-ROM onto Super Smooth Decopage paper and then glittered using Diamond Sparkles and a quickie glue pen.  I mounted it onto a piece of gold paper to tie in the glittery frame.  Very simple card but with glittery impact!