Miss Mouser-Kins

Heather of Faerie Song Art Stamps has made an offer it is hard to refuse over on the Paper Craft Planet FSAS group.  Everyone who enters a creation based on the sketch this week wins a FSAS stamp of their choice - yes get a stamp just for entering!!!  How good is that?  The winner gets to choose another stamp as their prize too.  You'll have to get your skates on if you want to enter though, as the challenge closes at the end of today, 31 December.

I was so thrilled last month to win two of the PCP FSAS challenges and for my second prize I chose this delightful stamp from the Mouser-Kins set.  They have only been available as a whole sheet previously, but Heather is putting them up for sale as individual stamps in the very near future.  Isn't this one such a darling image? 

For this challenge entry, I decided to use these brown and pink papers I had in my stash and coloured the image with ProMarkers to match the papers.  I added clear Spica glitter pen to her wings to give them a little magical sparkle, which shows up quite nicely in the photo.  The lacy ribbon was punched with one of my new Martha Stewart deep border punches, I am so impressed with this new punch I have to say. 

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and I hope you have a great New Year's Eve wherever you are spending it and I would like to wish you all

A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR in 2010 

I look forward to welcoming you back here in the new year.

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wynneth

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Queen Kat Designs Wednesday Blog Hop

The weekly Queen Kat Designs Wednesday Blog Hop is happening today, why not pop over and join in the hop to see the many amazing creations posted for your inspiration by the DT.

Here is my creation for this week's hop and it can also be seen on the Whimsical Ink Sorority Blog, where you will also find a full list of links for the hop.

It's best to join the hop here and just follow the links to find your way around the hop, you wouldn't want to miss any of the awesome creations would you ? !  Have fun !

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wynneth
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A Gift to me !

Today I don't have a project created by myself to share with you.  I wanted to show you the beautiful gifts my daughter created for me as my Christmas gift from her. 

She has only been making jewellery since June this year and is self-taught.  I think she is really doing well and I am so proud of her. 

I love all the beautiful beads she's used and the bookmark couldn't be more appropriate as I recently joined the Design Team for Queen Kat Designs stamps and work with their adorable Mermaid stamps on my creations. 

I hope to have a project to share with you tomorrow, thanks for dropping by today.

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wynneth

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She's a Star

Today I bring you the lovely Star Mermaid from Queen Kat Designs stamps.  I coloured her with ProMarkers and added touches of Spica glitter pens and also some Glamour Dust on her mask and top. The star-embossed background (perfect for this image!) was created with an embossing folder in my Cuttlebug, I then wound some silver crochet thread around this layer to look like rays of starlight falling from the top left. The image was cut out using a nestabilities oval die and mounted on to a layer of blue metallic card cut out with a scalloped oval die. The various blue flowers were in my stash and I added fronds cut from shades of blue card with a Martha Stewart punch. Finally, I added tiny blue pearls in the centres of the flowers and three more at the bottom right of the card.

A refreshing change from all the Christmas cards and projects we have been creating over the past few weeks I think!

Thanks for visiting, hope to welcome you back again real soon.

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wynneth

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Just one more Tree Bauble!

I know that the Christmas festivities are all but over now, but I have just one last tree bauble to share with you.  This was my second entry for the Craftbubble Let's Get Stamping weekly challenge for the week before Christmas.   I created this one by using the 'waste' cut from the centres of the Holly Mermaid bauble.  Adding some scalloped ovals cut from foiled vellum using a nestabilities die.  The tree stamp is by Papermania and was stamped with green chalk ink and cut out with a plain oval nestie.  Silver crochet cotton was attched to the top through small punched holes to make a loop for hanging on the tree.

I had hoped to have some new projects to share with you today, but crafting time has been hard to find during the Holidays and I am a little behind in getting my new creations completed!

Thanks for visiting and I will be sharing some new creations with you over the coming days.

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wynneth

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Holly Christmas Mermaid Bauble

I hope that your Christmas Day was very special and that you are now spending a relaxing Boxing Day, probably like me you are using up the leftover food from the big celebration meal yesterday!  Traditionally my family have a very relaxed day today, watching any films we received as gifts, starting on the boxes of chocolates and generally doing whatever we feel like doing! 

Whilst we are probably all really fed up with christmas cards and themed projects by now, I just have one more to share with you today.  For the Let's Get Stamping weekly challenge for 19 December over on Craftbubble, we were asked to create a tree bauble, including stamping somewhere on our project.  I decided to use the adorable Holly Christmas Mermaid from Queen Kat Designs stamps, colouring her in shades of blue.

This first picture was taken fairly close up so that you can see the detail on the beautiful Holly.

I coloured her with ProMarkers and added a little Spica glitter pen in clear, blue and black on various parts of the image. I used Spellbinder nestabilities labels six set of dies, with the two largest sizes nested inside each other to create a frame and I cut three frames from silver cardstock. I joined the three frames at the sides to create a triangular 3D bauble, then used a smaller die to cut out two of the images of Holly before I coloured them in. I then used silver crochet thread to create a tassle for the bottom and encased a single thread between the two images, before sticking them together, to suspend the image in the centre of the bauble. I then added more of the same thread to the tops of the three frames to create the hanger for attaching to the tree. Finally, I added small snowflakes to embellish the frames. The central image hangs freely and swings around in any slight movement of air.

This second picture was taken from a slightly different angle to show the 3D aspects of the bauble more clearly.
Thank you so much for visiting to view my creation today, I hope you enjoyed your stay! I'd love to read your comment if you care to leave one.

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wynneth

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A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

I would just like to wish all my Followers and Visitors to my Blog A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, your support has been wonderful throughout 2009 and I love posting up pictures of my creations and the methods I've used in producing them.  All your comments are so fantastic and I do love reading them all and visiting your own blogs to catch up with all you have been doing. 

I hope you have a Wonderful Christmas and that Peace Prosperity and Good Health will be yours in 2010.

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wynneth

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Tilly Mermaid

I hope that by now you have all your christmas preparations sorted and are ready to sit back, relax and enjoy the festive season!  I think most of us enjoy creating cards of any type, but sometimes we can get a little bored with christmas themed cards!!

This little beauty is called Tilly Mermaid and she is produced by Queen Kat Designs.  I am very proud to be a member of the wonderful group of crafters who make up the Design Team for QKD.  I have a regular wednesday slot on the QKD Whimsical Ink Sorority Blog and post up one of my creations every week as part of the weekly QKD blog hops.  I created the Tilly card for the hop on 9 December.  I thought I'd post it up on my blog in case any of you lovely visitors had missed it on the WIS blog!

The lovely DP is from the 'Pocketful of Posies' pad by DCWV and I just love the gorgeous rich colours of the papers.  The smaller rectangular layer was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder before having a length of fancy thread wrapped around it.  The image of Tilly Mermaid was coloured with ProMarkers and a little Spica glitter pen added.  It was then cut out with a round nestabilities die and layered on blue card cut out with an inverted scallop circle die.

A simple but effective layout I think with all the attention drawn to the lovely image and the scrumptious papers.

Thanks for stopping by and for leaving comments, I love to read them.

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wynneth

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Whimsical Ink Sorority Blog

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I have a special creation for Queen Kat Designs posted on the Whimsical Ink Sorority Blog today, showcasing Holly Christmas Mermaid stamp - why not pop over and take a look, we'd love to see ya there!  It would be great if you have chance to leave me a comment too.
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wynneth
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40th Cupcake

I'd like to share with you the card I made for my daughter's recent 40th birthday. 

It isn't easy to see in the photograph, but the numbers are attached to a piece of acetate so that they wobble around when the card is moved adding extra interest.  I am not sure who the manufacturer of this stamp is, as I stamped it up at my local Art Shop when we had a 'play day' in november.  If anyone can tell me who the stamp is by, please leave me a comment and let me know!

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and added Spica glitter pen to the sprinkles on top of the cake.  The layers were cut using labels 6 nestabilities dies.  The ribbon is from my stash and the DP is from the 'Sultry' pad by Basic Grey.  The sentiment is from a set by Papermania. 
My daughter loved the card which made me very happy !

Thanks for stopping by today, I know this is a busy time of year for everyone and I appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog.  Leave me a comment if you wish, I love reading them all.

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wynneth

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The Bride and Groom

Here's another wedding card I created using Whiff of Joy stamps.  This time I used 'Willow Sitting Bride', 'Oakley as Groom' and 'Rose Swing' .

I coloured all the images with ProMarkers then cut out the rose swing with an oval nestabilities die for the background.  Willow and Oakley were then added on top with Willow lifted slightly on foam pads.  I added some clear Spica glitter pen all over Willow's veil and dress to give them a little shimmer, sadly this doesn't show up too well on the photograph.

The scalloped left hand edge was cut with a Martha Stewart border punch and this layer was placed over a small length of white lace.  The flowers were from my stash and also the silver coloured cherub charm which I attached on a length of silver coloured chain to the large flower.  The green layer was cut using a scalloped oval nestie and placed to suggest the happy couple are standing on grass.

I hope you've enjoyed viewing my creation today, I found it a refreshing change to make a card which wasn't christmas themed as I have been making so many in recent weeks.

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wynneth

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Wedding Cake

I'm taking a break from christmas cards with my creation today.  This lovely wedding cake stamp is from Whiff of Joy stamps.   I think this is a lovely simple yet elegant stamp which can be used in many ways.

I coloured the flowers and the bride and groom with ProMarkers then applied Glamour Dust to the layers of the cake using a Quickie glue pen.  I then mounted the stamped layer on to a scrap of pink patterned paper I had in my stash, and again on to a piece of cream card.  In daylight, the background paper is the same shade of green as the pen I used on the leaves, however in the photograph is looks a few shades darker, but at least the glittery cake shows. 

I finished the image by added Glossy Accents to the flowers then looped white organza ribbon three times around the base layer.  In the centre I tied the ribbon into a double bow attaching a lucky horseshoe with the final knot.  The three white paper roses just add a final finishing touch.  

Thank you for visiting my blog, hope to see you here again soon :o)

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wynneth

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Let's Get Stamping

This card could be a christmas card, or maybe a winter birthday card.  It is my entry for this week's challenge on the Let's get stamping group over on Craftbubble. 

With a sketch to work to, this week we are asked to use the colours brown and orange in our creations.  I always find it difficult to get a good photograph of a dark coloured card, without flash it is way too dark and with flash there is always some light reflection. 

This is one of the older Magnolia Tilda stamps and I found her lurking at the bottom of my box of ready stamped images.  She looks lovely and cosy in her warm sweater, hat, scarf and mittens. 

I coloured her with ProMarkers and used the papers I received in a lovely package of crafty goodies from a pal.  The image was cut out with a nestabilities round die and mounted on to a layer of metallic brown card cut out with a petite scallop round nestie.  Finally, I added some orange card candy and a sentiment which I think could work for christmas, birthday or just about any other occasion.

Thanks for visiting and viewing my work.

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wynneth

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Sugar Nellie Candy Win!

I just had to share with you the fact that this wonderful parcel of Sugar Nellie Stamps dropped through my letterbox a couple of days ago!  I won them on the Sugar Nellie blog 12 days of Christmas event and they arrived wrapped in the lovely tartan paper you can just see behind the stamps.  I am so excited as these are the first Diane Duda stamps I have in my stash.   Thank you so much for the chance to win this delicious Candy Sugar Nellie!

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wynneth

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Christmas Tree Cookie

Just a quick post today as I still have so many things to get done over the next few days.

This cute little Whiff of Joy Henry Mouse image was part of some blog Candy I won recently.  Isn't he just scrumptious?  Looks like he's really enjoying his huge tree shaped cookie!

I embossed the base card with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, coloured the image with ProMarkers, cut this out with a deckle edge rectangle nestabilities die and mounted it on to a layer of red mirror card cut with a slightly larger die.  The flowers were punched out with a Quickkutz Squeeze and the fronds with a Martha Stewart punch.

A very simple card, but I love this cute image :o)

Thanks for dropping by, for your support and all the lovely comments :o)

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wynneth

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Pink Snowie

Just a few more days to go until the Festive Season will be in full swing!  I don't know about you, but I still have a few more gifts to buy and lots to wrap.  Our tree should be going up tomorrow together with other decorations, my Dad arrived to stay for the Holidays, so Christmas is definitely close now!

Today I'm sharing with you one of my final christmas cards created for this year.  This is the real cute snowman from Magnolia which is new this year.  I had someone in mind when I created this card and I know they love pink, so Snowie is wearing a pink scarf and hat!

I cut the aperture in the base card with a deckle edge rectangle nestabilities die and stamped the image of christmas sentiments from Crafty Individuals so that it shows through the aperture when the card is closed.  I coloured the image with ProMarkers and added Glamour Dust to his/her hat and star and some Spica glitter pen in yellow to the lantern and clear on other areas.  The sentiment is from the Hobby House set I've used so many times this year.

I hope you enjoyed viewing my card today and that you will drop by again real soon, I do appreciate your support and love reading all the comments left for me.

hugs

wynneth

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Snow Fight

I do love this Magnolia stamp, it is such a sweet image and to me feels very old fashioned and vintage.  I also love this background paper, the green and blue combination is so effective and with the snowflakes on the paper, it fits perfectly with snowballing tilda. 

I coloured the image with Polychromos pencils, blended with a little Sansodor.  I added some Diamond Stickles to the snowballs and Tilda's wings.  This is a very simple layout, no complicated layers or fancy embellishments.  I just added a length of white organza ribbon, wound around the card and tied in a double bow at the front. 

It's actually quite refreshing to create such a simple card for a change!

Thanks for stopping by my blog, I appreciate your support and would like to welcome you back to see what I have to share with you tomorrow.

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wynneth

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Christmas Presents

I wonder what is inside these two gift boxes?  Will they be under someone's tree in a few days time? 
For this card I used this lovely accessory stamp from Magnolia.  Although they are the perfect size to sit one of the magnolia character stamps on, I thought they looked quite cute on their own and matched perfectly to this paper I had in my stash.

I coloured them with ProMarkers and used a gold Spica glitter pen on the seals and ribbons.  I then cut the image out with a deckle edge rectangle nestabilities die.  I felt the white of the card on to which I'd stamped the images was too stark a contrast, so decided to add a little Antique Linen distress ink around the edges of the layer.  I found the little round sentiment in my box of Christmas bits and bobs and distressed this with more of the Antique Linen ink.  This narrow gold foil ribbon was in my bit box too and it was the perfect finishing touch for the card, added to give the appearance of a ribbon wrapped box.
Thanks for dropping by my blog today, please come back any time I love to see you :o)

hugs

wynneth

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Winter Wednesday Hop

Just a reminder that today's Queen Kat Designs Wednesday Hop is all happening today, why not hop over to the QKD blog and join in the fun, I have a creation for you to see on the WIS blog, you will find it if you follow the hop list!

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wynneth

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Frostie the Snowman

This gorgeously cute snowman image was sent to me by a crafting pal (and I am sorry but I don't know what brand this stamp is) I've been told by my crafting pal Annie he's by Penny Black - thanks Annie :o).  I couldn't resist his cute little face and had to get him coloured in and on to a card as fast as I could!  The background paper was a magazine freebie.  I used ProMarkers to colour the image and cut it out using a circle nestabilities die.  I then cut two layers with a scalloped circle nestabilities one from green metallic card and a slightly larger one from silver card and layered them all up.  I added Glossy Accents dusted with Glamour Dust to the bobble and cuff of his hat.  Then wrapped some narrow green organza ribbon a few times around the card and tied it in a bow, adding a silver colour metal snowflake charm before tying the final knot.  I hope you've enjoyed visiting today, please come back soon !

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wynneth

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Don't Be Blue this Christmas!

The delightful Grace from Pollycraft's Christmas Pixies series of stamps was my choice again for a special card for another great crafting pal.  Grace is such a sweetie isn't she?  This particular pal is a great fan of all things Blue, so the colours to use on her card was a 'no brainer'. 

The background paper was a magazine freebie and was the perfect shade of blue to match the ProMarker colours I used to colour Grace.  I cut her out with a plain oval nestabilities die after colouring her.  I added some Glossy Accents dusted with Glamour Dust to her hat trim and wings and they are very sparkly in reality, but the light was so poor today when I took the photograph that it came out quite dark and the sparkle doesn't show up too well. 

After adding the stamped image, I wrapped some silver lame crochet cotton around the base layer, criss-crossing it in the centre.  Finally I added two layered up white flowers over the centre crossover and I didn't add a sentiment to the front of the card as I liked the simple layout with nothing else added. 

My pal should have already received this card so I hope it doesn't spoil her surprise if she sees this on my blog before the actual card arrives!

I do appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog and thank you for your support.  Do come back again tomorrow to see what I have created for you to share.

hugs

wynneth

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Purple-icious Christmas!

Many of us are often heard singing "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" at this time of year.  I have a great crafting pal who would be changing the 'white' to purple as she is such a fan of the colour purple that she has lots of it all over her house, even purple fairy lights!  So, the card I made specially to send to her for Christmas just had to be coloured in shades of purple! 

I decided to use this sweet stamp from Pollycraft - she is one of their Christmas Pixies and her name is Grace.  I felt she looks as though she is also a purple fan.  I coloured her with my ProMarkers, adding touches of Spica glitter pen and Glossy Accents, dusted with Glamour Dust, on her hat trim and wings.

This is another easel card (I do love making these) and the background paper is from an Artylicious CD, printed on to white pearlised paper.  I wrapped a length of narrow purple ribbon around the bottom half of the front of the card and secured a silver colourd snowflake charm  to the ribbon with a knot.  Inside the card I added a scalloped oval layer cut using a nestabilities die which provides an area on which to add a personal message.  For the 'stop' to hold the easel I used this vintage theme merry christmas round greeting stamp from Magnolia, sponging on a little purple chalk ink to tie it in to the colour scheme.

I hope that my pal will have already received this card before it is published here on my blog and if not, I hope she doesn't see it here first thus spoiling the surprise for her!  I scheduled it in for later this week, so I should be safe!

Thanks for stopping by - hope to see you again soon :o)

hugs

wynneth

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Candy Cane Tilda

I used up more of the pretty Candy Cane paper I bought at my local art shop for this card.  This sweet Magnolia Tilda sitting on Sleigh image was sent to me recently by a very kind crafting pal. 

I managed to match the colours of my ProMarkers to the shades of green and red on the papers then added some winter lace stickles to the bobble and trim on her hat and her muff.  A little Spica glitter pen gives the snowflakes in the background some sparkle and I used Polar White Flowersoft on the ground to simulate the snow that Tilda's little sleigh is riding on.

I wrapped a length of red organza ribbon around the base layer and tied it in a bow at the front righthand side.  Finally, i added the image layer which I matted on to a piece of green striped paper which co-ordinates with the candy cane paper.  Another very simple layout but with such a busy image and background paper it works perfectly.

Thanks for stopping by to visit today, please drop by again sometime soon !

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wynneth

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Three Windows on Christmas

A really quick and easy card for you to see today.  Making use of my Cuttlebug and nestabilities cirle and petite scalloped circle dies.

I started with a plain red C6 card and using the petite scalloped circle die, I cut three apertures down the centre of the front of the card.  I then cut out 3 plain circles, very slightly smaller than the apertures in the base card, from white card.  On these white diecuts I stamped the holy sprig part only from a stamp from my Hobby House set of christmas sentiments.  I then coloured these with my ProMarkers and glued them to the inside of the card, potitioned so that they show through the apertures exactly and varying the angles for extra interest. 

Next, I wrapped a length of red organza ribbon around the front of the card and tied it in a bow in the centre.  Finally, I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Hobby House set direct to the base card using a Tuxedo Black Memento ink pad.  A very quick and easy card but very effective and ideal for when you need to make a lot of cards in very little time!

Thanks for visiting, I love reading comments so feel free to leave me your thoughts on this card and the techniques used to create it.

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wynneth

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Christmas Angel

For the card I am sharing with you today I used another sweet image from hAnglar & stAnglar.  I coloured her with shades of aqua and cream ProMarkers with Stickles applied to her wings and touches of Spica glitter pen added to a few areas.

The background snowflake stamps are from the Whiff of Joy Winter kit, stamped with aqua chalk ink applied randomly to the base card.  I then added an aqua coloured card layer on the lefthand side, which I first embossed in a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The flowers are from my stash and I added a small silver coloured christmas tree charm attached with some aqua coloured silky cord which I bought from Hobbycraft recently.

Thanks for visiting, hope to see you back again real soon !

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                                                         wynneth

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Simply Green Tilda

For my card today I followed the principle that 'less is more' and decided on a really simple and uncluttered layout.  The background paper is from an Elusive Images CD which I printed on to very smooth paper using a colour laser printer.  This sweet windswept Tilda is from Magnolia and I used shades of green ProMarkers to colour her and added a little Stickles and Glamour Dust to the bobble and trim of her hat and boots and just Glamour Dust to her wings.  Spica glitter pen in clear was added to the the snowflakes and swirls, which twinkle beautifully in reality, but the light was really bad today and sadly the photograph doesn't show up the sparkle at all.  I then added a few strands of silver lurex crochet cotton, wrapped around the second green layer.  Finally I added the image with was cut out with a nestabilities scalloped round die. 

Tilda looks as though she is on her way to a Winter Picnic and I'm sure she will have great fun.

Thanks for visiting - hope to see you again soon!

hugs

wynneth

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Whimsical Wednesday Hop!

Don't forgot to pop over to the Queen Kat Designs (QKD) blog and join in this week's Wednesday Blog Hop. The DT always have some amazing creations to share with you, so be prepared to be inspired!

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wynneth
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12 Days of Christmas - Festive Food

I hope you've been joining in with the fun over on the Queen Kat Designs blog for the past few days, celebrating 12 Days of Christmas.  With a new festive tag or card from one of the Design Team showcased every day.  My own card is being showcased today, day 6, so why not hop over there to see what the DT have been creating to share with you. 

I also have a card to share with you today here on my own blog.  I have recently been challenging myself to create christmas cards using non-christmas themed stamps.  For my card I chose this stamp of a barrel of apples from Queen Kat Designs.  Wouldn't you just love finding one of these delicious shiny red apples at the bottom of your christmas stocking and sinking your teeth into it til the juice runs down your chin?  Or how about nibbling on one of these sweet gingerbread men with a cup of hot chocolate....mmmm..... 
I used paper piecing on the barrel, stamping it on white card and again on a piece of christmas paper.  I then threaded red ribbon around the barrel to make it look more festive.  The apples were coloured with ProMarkers with Glossy accents added over the top to give them a luscious sheen.  I then cut out the image with a round nestabilities die and mounted this on to a layer of green card cut with a scalloped circle die.  Finally I added a double bow tied with red cord to the top to finish it off.  The gingerbread men were punched out using a Quickkutz Squeeze and decorated with Spica glitter pens.  The merry christmas ribbon was from my stash.  Background paper is from a pad by Papermania called Joyeux Noel.  The green layer was randomly stamped with lighter green chalk ink with a "seasons greetings" text and the tiny snowflakes are actually the 'waste' from a border punch I used on another card!  Finally I doodled some faux stitching around the edge of the white circle to add to the rustic feel.
I hope you've enjoyed viewing my card today, I hope you'll call back again as I have more creations to share with you over the next few days.  I do love reading comments, so if you care to leave me one I would be so happy!

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wynneth

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This cosily dressed little chap is one of the cute character stamps from hAnglar & stAnglar.  I coloured him with ProMarkers and used Glossy Accents sprinkled with Glamour Dust on his hat bobble and cuffs of his mittens.  The red/white base layer and white/green layer of card are from the Forever Friends A4 'Gift Wrapped' pad of double-sided card.  The horizontal strip is made from more of the doubled-sided card.  I used the striped side outwards on the top half, cut with my Fiskars Threading Water border punch, and the plain side cut with a snowflake border punch, on the bottom.  To finish this off I added a strip of ecru cotton lace across the middle so that the little chap had somewhere to sit.  
I added these flowers from my stash, which were already distressed, plus some leaf fronds punched out of red and green card with a Martha Stewart punch.  The Merry Christmas ticket sentiment is a stamp from Magnolia and was stamped with Versamark ink then heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  The metal photo holder was from my stash and I attached it with a matching brad.

Teddy's Gift

I just fell in love with this sweet Candy Cane paper when I found it in the 10p bargain box of 12x12 papers at my local art shop!  I created this card for last week's Let's Get Stamping challenge over on Craftbubble.  With a sketch to follow the added twist was to include stripes and dots, so my lovely paper fitted the bill exactly.  The teddy image is (I think) from Lilli of the Valley - it was a stamped image one of my crafting pals sent to me recently and I think he's such a cute chap with his robbin friend bringing him a small gift.  I punched the flowers from a scrap of red card and added smaller flowers in the centres punched from a scrap of the matching green striped paper I used as the layer under the main image.  I also added small clear gems in the centres of the small flowers to finish them off.  I coloured the image with ProMarkers and added small touches of Spica glitter pens, then cut it out with a nestabilities lable 6 die.  On the bobble and trim of his hat I used Glossy Accents dusted with Glamour Dust and applied stickles to represent snow on the 'ground'.  Two green dots of Card Candy completed the main image layer.  I finally added the sentiment and attached a wodden Candy Cane button which I had coloured with ProMarkers. 
Thank you for visiting today, I hope you've enjoyed popping by today and that you will return to view my work again in the future.

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wynneth

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Poinsettia Ornament

Today's card was inspired by this lovely Magnolia stamp.  Tilda is wrapped up warm and cosy in her red hooded coat and green boots and gloves, which I feel sure are fur lined.  In my imagination, she is carrying her basket of poinsettia flowers home to help decorate ready for Christmas.  I coloured the image using ProMarkers, adding a touch of green Spica glitter pen to the buttons on her coat.  I used Glossy Accents dusted with Glamour Dust on the trim of her hood to give them a little extra dimension and depth.  I cut out the image using nestabilities labels 6 and cut a larger layer out of red card to go underneath the image.  I also embossed the red layer with my Cuttlebug snow embossing folder, although this doesn't really show up on the photograph.  The round sentiment is from magnolia which I stamped up with Brilliance ink in red.  I stamped the Magnolia poinsettia image twice, coloured with ProMarkers and cut out.  I then added them to the card, together with fronds cut from a scrap of green card using a Martha Steward punch.  I created the background layer by taking strips of double sided card and using a border embossing punch with a snowflake design.  I then layered up all the strips to cover the front of the card.  It is the first time I've tried this technique and I am so pleased with the result that I shall probably use it again soon!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog to view my creations, I really appreciate your support.

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wynneth

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Santa Baby!

I just adore this image, which I think is by Penny Black, but as it was a stamped image a crafting pal sent to me, I am not sure about this.  Isn't she just delicious!  Her pampered pink pooch is soooo.... cute!  I haven't often used pink and pale blue for christmas cards, but these papers which were magazine freebies inspired me to go with this colour combo for this card.  She just has to be a pink girly though doesn't she?  I'm sure that Santa will be putting all the things she wishes for under her tree this year!

I coloured her with ProMarkers and added a little bling with Spica glitter pens and Glossy Accents dusted with Glamour Dust on the hats, boots, bag and skirt.  This gorgeous sparkly wooden snowflake was among the goodies I picked up on my trip to Hobbycraft in Bristol recently.  I just added a pink gem to centre to finish it off.  I am so wishing I'd bought more than one packet of them now!  Finally I added three dots of Card Candy in this delicious pale pink. 

Thanks for stopping by here today, I hope you've enjoyed viewing my creation, leave me a comment if you wish, I love to read them.  Do come back again soon, I try to post on my blog every day if possible and I appreciate your support.

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wynneth

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It's Wednesday so it must be time for the weekly QKD WIS blog hop!

Over on the Queen Kat Designs Whimsical Ink Sorority here there is great excitement as today brand new mermaid stamps are being released.  Maigan Lynn has excelled herself yet again with these new beauties and I can't wait to get creating with the stamps.  Do pop over to the QKD blog and join in the wednesday hop to see all the inspiring creations the DT have been busy preparing for you.

For my own creation today, I decided to use one of the QKD stamps I already own and created a card using these adorable Magic Flamingos.  I coloured the image with ProMarkers, cut out the image with a nestabilities oval die then mounted the image layer on to various die cut shapes.  The ribbon was from my stash and I punched the flowers from a scrap of the paper I used as the base layer, which is from the DCWV Pocket Full of Posies pad.  I hope you've enjoyed viewing this, now hurry on over to the blog to join in the fun and hop along with the DT.   Don't forget there are special offers on shipping in the QKD store for a short time, saving you money and even giving you the chance to get hold of free stamps on orders over a certain value.  Here are the full details for your information.
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Thank you for stopping by my blog today, I love reading the comments left by visitors, so if you have time, please tell me what you think of my creations or anything else you care to chat about!

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wynneth

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Just a Note

A group of girlfriends and I get together to have a meal a few times a year and we always meet up just before Christmas for a meal and to exchange cards and small gifts.  This year I decided to make all the gifts I am giving to the girls.  I created a box for each of them made from two sheets of 12x12 double sided paper and inside I have put one of these 'post-it' holders.  The mini magnolia stamps I bought at the NEC in November are just the perfect size to fit these little note holders and I decided to use the sitting tilda and coloured her with ProMarkers.  I then cut the image out using a scalloped oval nestabilities die used in my Cuttlebug.  The sentiment was stamped using part of the 'just a note to say...' stamp from a Hobby Art sheet of clear stamps.  The ribbon on the holders was from my stash and to finish the front off I punched out some large flowers from yellow card and small flowers in pink and layered them up.  Finally, I added a small clear gem in the centre of each flower. I hope the girls will like them and find them useful to store their 'post-it' notes in.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and I hope you've enjoyed viewing my creations, please come again it's lovely to have you visit :o)

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wynneth

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Faerie Merry Christmas

This card is my entry for the Faerie Song Art Stamps challenge #21 over on Paper Craft Planet. Whilst the challenge doesn't actually call for a christmas project, the sketch with it's large snowflake element really does suggest this is likely to fit a christmas theme.  For the image, I used a small part of a much larger Faerie Song Art stamp, which isn't actually a christmas image, but I think she fits in well with the colours I used on her hair and the leaves and berries in her hair.  Coloured with ProMarkers and touches of Spica glitter pen, I cut the image out with an inverted scallop nestabilities die and layered this on to a circle of silver card cut with a petite scallop round nestie.  The aqua horizontal layer was created with a Martha Stewart border punch and the snowflakes were cut with a die from a spellbinders frame die set.  The Merry Christmas sentiment is from a set by Papermania.  The large snowflake under the main image was in the blog Candy I won recently from NG Cards.

I hope you enjoyed viewing my creation, please stop by again, I love sharing my work with you and I get great pleasure from reading your comments.

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wynneth

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Mini Tilda Christmas

Although this mini magnolia tilda stamp isn't specifically a christmas image, I thought that with her sweet red and green dress she looks quite at home sitting on this holly swirl from Serendipity Stamps.  This is a small 4"x4" card which is just the right proportions for this tiny beauty.  The snowflake in the background is a stamp from the 2009 Whiff of Joy Winter Kit, stamped using red Brilliance ink direct to the base card.  I added touches of red Spica glitter pen to the snowflake on the sentiment and the holly 'berries' on the swirl and a black added to the swirl. 

Just a short post today as I am working hard to complete enough christmas cards in time to get them posted out! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I appreciate your support.

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wynneth

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Candy Time

Jacque is offering truly fabulous Magnolia Candy on her blog in celebration of her joining the Just Magnolia Challenge Blog DT  you'll have to hurry though as it closes on 3 December.
Lillemore has lovely Christmas Candy to give away to a lucky winner to be drawn on 11 December, so drop by her blog to enter and view her inspirational creations!

Jayne has yummy Candy on offer over on her blog Serendipity you have until 27 December to enter and the winner will be drawn on 31 December.

Looks like Reindeer!

This adorable little chap is taking really great care of his Reindeer pal, it's so handy that he has a parcel to stand on so he can hold the bag of oats up high enough! This image is one of the Belles 'n' Whistles new Christmas stamps by the artist Elisabeth Bell. For the layout I used a sketch from the Let's Get Stamping weekly challenge over on Craftbubble from a few weeks ago. I coloured the image with ProMarkers, adding Spica glitter pen to the bells on the Reindeer's harness and on the holly berries. Glossy Accents dusted with Glamour dust give the trim and bobble of his hat and the bow on the present added sparkle. The background paper is from my stash, the flowers were punched out using a Quickkutz Squeeze and the poinsettia die which my crafting pal Annie let me have a play with recently. The fronds were cut using a Martha Stewart punch and I added some gold Card Candy to the centre of each flower to finish them off, and three more in green at the bottom right. I cut the image out using a nestabilities labels 1 die and mounted this on some red mirror card cut with a slightly larger size of the same die.

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Wynneth

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Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa is Coming to Town

I had forgotten just how much I love this Sugar Nellie Santa stamp, he was lurking at the bottom of my christmas stamp box since last year.  I dug him out and created this card to add to my (slowly increasing) stock of Christmas cards I need to make.  I coloured him with ProMarkers and added a little Spica glitter pen to his lantern so that it looks as though it is lit.   I used Glossy Accents dusted with Glamour Dust on the trim of his hat, coat and beard to give maximum shimmer.  The background paper is from the Papermania Deck the Halls pad and I love the little green spiral lines on some of the stripes.  The red layers were embossed with a snowflake embossing folder and my trusty Cuttlebug.  The sentiment is by Magnolia and the little bow is made from some of the silky cord ribbon I bought at hobbycraft last week (wish I'd bought more as it is really nice to work with!)  I added some green Card Candy as a finishing touch on the top and bottom panels.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, please leave me a comment if you wish, I love reading them.

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wynneth

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Tatsu & Cho

Queen Kat Designs have a fabulous blog hop running today, why not pop over and take part in the fun and be inspired by all the creations of the DT.  The hops normally run on Wednesdays, but as this Wednesday is the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA, the hop is running a day earlier. 

Although I am not yet completely up and running well enough to be a part of the hop, I have been busy creating with these totally awesome stamps from QKD.  I decided to make something a little different with this image called Tatsu & Cho.  I created a shadow box card to showcase this little beauty, although it is difficult to photograph it in a way that shows the three-dimensional properties of the card.  I've added two pictures taken from different angles to try and show this a little more clearly. 

Her background is made from a piece of shimmering irridescent paper, which I embossed with the snowstorm Cuttlebug embossing folder as I think it looks like bubbles in water.  I coloured her with ProMarkers and added some Spica glitter pen on her eyes, pendant and hair clip.  The aperture in the front of the card was cut with a scalloped oval nestabilities die and I then used the same size die and one slightly larger, to create a frame for the front of the apperture.  I used the Martha Stewart frond punch to create some 'seaweed' from green card and stuck this just behind the apperture to frame the image inside.  I also punched some fronds from the green irridescent paper and then some shell shapes and flowers from a different colour paper.  Small pearls in blue and cream on the flowers and shells and clear gems on her pendant, hair slide and navel just added the finishing touch to the front of this shadow box card. 

I hope you have enjoyed viewing my creation today, why not hop on over to the QKD blog to see what other members of the DT have created for you. You can also find the stamps I have used in my project in the QKD store if you'd like to get your hands on these delightful mermaids.   There are so many gorgeous stamps to choose from, you may be like me and want them all!  There are free stamps on offer until the end of november so even more reason to hurry over to the store.

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For every 2 stamp sets you order you get 1 separate stamp for free! The more you order the more free stamps you'll receive.

Thanks for visiting my blog, if you've enjoyed it, please leave me a comment I love to read them all :o)

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wynneth

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Christmas Choccies

This adorable mini snowman stamp by Magnolia, which I bought at the NEC recently, is just the perfect size to add to the tags on top of these little bags of choccies I've made for the Christmas table.  I put the glassine bags through my Cuttlebug with a snowflake embossing folder.  I cut out scalloped ovals from blue and red card using a nestabilities die and, again, embossed these with the same snowflake embossing folder used for the bags.  This size bag holds three of the minty or orange chocolates perfectly and makes a great party favour.

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wynneth

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Oriental Pair

I'm having another break from posting up Christmas cards and showing you these two oriental creations today.  I made the ATC first, using the stamp which came free with the Craft Stamper magazine the month before last. I love anything oriental and I was so happy to see this stamp on the mag. I stamped it first on white card, then again on shrink paper using Stazon Ink. I then used distress inks to colour the backgrounds, keeping the centre of the image lighter. I matted the image stamped on card onto a piece of gold card and used a heat gun to shrink the other image. I ran a Krylon gold pen around the edges of the shrunken image to finish it off. Using some thin gold ribbon from my stash, I wrapped it around the ATC three times, securing the shrunken image with a bow. The paper came from an oriental themed kit I bought quite a long time ago, it is very rich red, which unfortunately doesn't show too well on the photo.  Three pearl gems added to the bottom, finished off the whole thing. For the card, I followed the same procedure, but stamped the image onto a square of Stampboard which I mounted onto a piece of the background paper, then onto gold card, the shrunken image is finished exactly the same as on the ATC.

Thanks for stopping by to view my blog today.

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wynneth

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Snowball Fight !

Whilst searching through my stamps looking for images to use on my Christmas cards, I came across this lovely Magnolia Tilda which I have had for some time.  She is one of the older Magnolia stamps and I love the very simple lines and minimal fuss of the image.  I've paired her up with the 'Fir in Snow' Magnolia stamp I recently bought from Crafts u Love and I think the two stamps work well together.  Tilda has her pile of snowballs ready for a fight, I wonder who she is getting ready to throw them at!

I coloured the images with ProMarkers, adding lots of stickles for sparkle and snowy effects.  Rather than an easel card with a solid front panel, I decided to attach the two images to give a more interesting profile.  The background papers were printed on to white pearlised paper, using one of the patterns from the Season's Greetings CD from Artilicious.  I used a silver snowflake brad as the 'stop' for the easel and added the Merry Christmas greeting from the Hobby Art Christmas sentiment set to finish off the inside. 

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wynneth

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Getting a little Distressed!

Now that my lovely pal Kathy has made her challenge ATC from the kit I gave her, I can reveal my original here ;o) I started with an ATC sized stretched canvas which I coated roughly with Gesso. I used various distress inks and gold ink pads to add colour. I then added bits of gauze in shades of orange and brown and piece of gloriously shimmery mesh in shades of blues and greens, all secured with glittery Mod Podge. I covered a slide mount with some lovely paper in browns and creams and behind this I attached a vintage photo on acetate. I again brushed the frame with the Mod Podge and finally sprayed a coat of Crafters' Companion Spray and Sparkle in Gold on to it. I attached the lock and key with lengths of silver coloured chain and jump rings and added 3 of these lovely bronze coloured leaves that I found in my stash while sorting it out. These give the piece a nice 'dangly' element. I dragged walnut stain distress ink and then gold ink over the buttons to distress them a little, then I was just about done!

This is the ATC I made from the previous challenge kit that Kathy sent to me.  Once again, I used distress inks to both stamp the brown swirl on the background and to distress the background and frame.  I cut out the frame on my Cuttlebug using a nestabilities frame die, distressed it with walnut stain ink, added some gold ink round the edges and finally sprayed it with CC's Spray and Sparkle in gold.  The corner embelishment is the only extra that I added to the kit and I found it in the bottom of my button box.  There is a small horizonal strip of craft card which I embossed with a border embossing folder from Cuttlebug, which I then dragged the walnut stain ink pad over to highlight the embossing.  Sadly it isn't really visible under the ribbon loops, but at least I know it's there!