52 CCT Theme Challenge

This week's challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is to make a Christmas or winter card with the theme of candles or lanterns.



I have chosen a digi from Fred She Said called 'Christmas Poinsettia Lantern'. It comes with this text:

"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." John 8:12.

I sponged the background and stamped it with Gorgeous Grunge in Sahara Sand. The digi was coloured with Polychromos pencils (a pre-Christmas present!) and fussy-cut. I stuck it to the background and used a sponge dauber to create the glow effect.

I do hope that you will join us with your lanterns and candles! Happy crafting! April x

Beach Penguin

We have just come back from a lovely holiday in Norfolk. I have really missed my card-making though. Even if you take crafting stuff with you (which I didn't) it's not the same as being surrounded by all your stash is it? I was getting really fidgety at the end of the week looking at lovely blogs.

Here is a holiday penguin. He is a digi from Bugaboo that I have coloured with Promarkers. I've added some beachy coloured sequins and a bow made from linen thread.

I would like to enter this little guy in the following challenges:

Catch the Bug - July Bingo (circle on card, border, three layers - but also a Bugaboo image and some blingy sequins!)
Cards in Envy - Just Beachy
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 186
Bunny Zoe's Challenge Blog - Summer Breeze

52 CCT Theme Challenge

Our theme challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown will be very popular, I think!

 

We are spoiled for choice for cute snowmen in both the stamping and digi worlds. I have chosen a very cute digi - Winter Friends (From the Heart Stamps). I love how the snowman is holding the bird in his twiggy hands! I coloured it with Promarkers and then set about creating a suitably frosty-looking background. I used a Sheena Douglass embossing folder - Curly Swirly (great name!) I sponged the surface with ink and sprayed it with a pearlescent spray. I then added a Marianne snowflake die-cut and liberally applied Cosmic Shimmer everywhere. A few snowflake sequins and a thick Baker's Twine bow were the final finishing touches.

We can't wait to see your snowmen at 52 CCT! Happy crafting, April x

Two Fishies

Here's a couple of fish for the 'When Nature Calls' challenge at Cards in Envy. I made the blotchy sea background on watercolour paper with plenty of splodges from my Tim Holtz Distress Stains (Tumbled Glass and Crushed Olive). There are additional stamped ink blots using Gorgeous Grunge and a Mama Elephant inkpad (Fresh Mint) and the whole thing has been sprayed with a pearlescent spray.

The fish are digi stamps that I have coloured with Promarkers. They are from Free Vintage Digi Stamps. I have added a tangle of linen thread and some gold sequins. Here's a close-up!

I am also sending these guys over to Di at Pixie's Snippets Playground to join my camel. Hope you all have a lovely crafty week, April x 

A Valentine Card

Here is a Valentine card that I'm entering in the I (heart) card sketches w/a twist no. 96 challenge. The cute owl is a From the Heart digi stamp called Owl Love - perfect for my owl obsessed daughter! I have coloured the stamp with pencils and sponged the background. The handmade embellishment included in the sketch is a clear epoxy heart sticker with Cherry Cobbler cardstock. I have used a Basic Grey card as my base and added some patterned paper from a magazine and a strip of washi tape. Happy Friday! April x