Green and Pink Christmas

Not been around for a while... to be honest, I haven't really been in a cardmaking mood. But I seem to be back on track again.

Really enjoyed this one... to start I grabbed some Bazzill from the Doodlebug colour ranges. I stamped on the pink one using my Hero Arts Christmas stamps and my green Dew Drop.

I mounted a Penny Black Stickeroo onto the green bazzill and edged with some pink ink. The strip of pink and green is from the same Stickeroo sheet.

To finish I edged the whole card using green ink.

Christmas Cards- Using Laurie Sketches

OK so I had another play tonight with some more sketches over at http://laurieunger.blogspot.com/. I decided to make a couple more Christmas cards.

For this one I used last years Papermania Christmas papers for the base of the card, and then for the triangle piece, also for the middle layer of squares. The first and third square are cut from the white Bazzill Bling, edged with lilac and pink Dew Drops.

The snowflake is from the Basic Grey Christmas chipboard pack, I inked it using the Dew Drops and stuck to the top card. I then cut a circle of the Bazzill Bling and stamped a Hero Arts greeting onto it.

This one was made using the white Bazzill Bling as the base of the card. I cut two triangles out from the darker blue Bazzill Bling and stuck them down. I then layered a Penny Black Stickeroo onto some more white Bazzill Bling and layered that onto the card. I finished with some blue ink to the edges and a few snowflake stickers from the same stickeroo sheet.

Another Blue one!

I used the sketch from http://laurieunger.blogspot.com/ for this one... all materials are the same.

Penny Black Stickeroos, Bazzill Bling, Hero Arts stamps and Dew Drops... yummy

A Blue Christmas

I don't think I've EVER made a blue Christmas card, but there's a first time for everything. I'm actually quite pleased with the way this one has turned out.

The shimmery card is Bazill Bling in white, and then layered onto it is some lovely blue. The ribbon is actually from a really cheap Papermania Winter ribbon pack I bought ages ago.

The cute snowman is a Penny Black Stickeroo layered onto some white Bazzill Bling and edged with blue Dew Drop. I then added a few snowflakes from my Hero Arts 2007 stamp set.

A Basic Grey Christmas

Ah, that time of year is coming... and I have just made my first Christmas Card of the year, using my new Basic Grey papers!! The scan is slightly wonky, so apologies for that!!

The gorgeous paper is the Basic Grey 'Fruitcake' collection. I used both sides of it to make sure the first two layers co-ordinated! The tag was also from the same collection... I then thread some brown grosgrain through and stuck down with some eyelet brads.

I inked around the edge of the paper with my 'Coffee Bean' Dew Drop and used it along with one of the new Hero Arts 2007 Clear stamp set.

New Brads!

My friend Nicki from Cardmaking Friends bought me the most gorgeous brads back from her visit to the USA. She then challenged me to make a card using them... I have to say it wasn't much of a challenge as they are so gorgeous!!!


So this is what I came up with. As you can see the brads are to die for... they are quite large and material, from K and Co. I started by covering the card in some pink Bazzill Bling, layering a cut of white card and edging with my pink Dew Drop. I tied some lovely ric rac from a recent swap on the forum.

I attached the brad to a Making Memories bloom and a small Prima daisy. To finish I added 3 baby pink gems.

Letters

This challenge is from July on the Just Bex forum- Think of a word...maybe your name or initials..then either use wooden blanks from somewhere like http://www.woodenletters.co.uk/ or chipboard letters, maybe you can cut some out or robo them, you decide and then TART them up!!

I decided to make this for my daughter Ceara. I thought it would look lovely on her bedroom door!!!

I bought a large chipboard letter, this one measures 8" tall. I then covered it with a dotty sheet from my DCWV Nana's Kids stack. It looked rather bare still so I decided to ink around the edges with my pink Dew Drop.

I then added a large bloom, with Doodlebug rub-ons spelling my daughters name in the centre and some various pink and orange ribbons and ric-rac behind. I then added a few bright flowers and some sticky gems for the centres.