Kraftin Kimmie Krismas

Sorry for the title - feeling a bit mad right now! 

I followed Kraftin Kimmie when I first started card making and I still pop over to her blog to see what is happening in her world.  I noticed the sketch challenge she had posted on her stamp company blog last Saturday and decided I wanted to play. 

Here is my card using the cute little Kraftin Kimmie shepherd with some papers and a chipboard sentiment that came free with a magazine.  The button was picked for my Mum's button box (I pulled out quite a few different ones - mostly quite old and some a little brittle!)

Thanks for looking in today.

VLVOct2013 Week5

Hi this is another catch up Christmas card using this months VLV sketches.  The sketch for week 5 was an interesting one and I started with Poinsettias but my images were far too big for the circles so I used snowflakes and changed my design completely.  I used the stamp sets from Verve called Christmas is in the Air and a small one  called Frosty Flakes.  The sentiment is from another company but I can't remember who.

 

I used an embossing folder on the background paper that I have had in my collection for ages.  The ink colours are Memento Paris Dusk and Teal Zeal.  All the snowflakes were embossed with a clear glittery powder - most of which blew all over me!  Some Mermaid Stickles has been added to the centres of the teal snowflakes.  Thanks once again for checking my cards out.

VLVOct2013 Week 4

I am trying to catch up on some Christmas Cards.  I have been making odd ones for MFP challenges but I have not kept up with my 13 a month for CCC13.    I therefore decided to use the last two VLV sketches for October for Christmas cards.

My week 4 ones sticks very closely to the sketch and uses Verve Holly Jolly ornament stamps with a sentiment from Verve Glad Tidings.  There are 4 red gems on the card but none of them sparkle here and number 4 fades into the paper!

 

Hope your Christmas cards and projects are coming along fine.

Friends of Speedy TV Challenge 88 - Frame It!

Frame It!  That is what we are challenged with this week at FOSTV. 

I wasn't sure how to tackle this challenge but I found this pink piece in my stash which I decided would frame an image.  I then decided to cut a frame for my sentiment too. The image is from Holly Jolly Greetings and the sentiment is from Poinsettia Blooms.  Please head over to the FOSTV challenge page and check out challenge 88 - we would love to see your creations.

Another Christmas card for CCC13 but I could not keep to all pink!

High Hopes, One Layer Wednesday and CCC13

This is a cute and quick one.  Don't you just love this camel from High Hopes? I stamped him in Memento Peanut Brittle along with a sentiment from Kraftin Kimmie and then gave him a quick and rough colour wash and added some regal stickles to his "shaggy bits" as he is worshipping the king!

I had three challenges in my head
CCC13 for August - monochrome
One Layer Wednesday - 1 ink, 1 stamp, 1 sentiment and 1 layer
High Hopes 183 - make it sparkle

Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of the week.

CCC13 - August Monochrome Cards

The month is flying by and those of you who dropped into my blog yesterday know that I have only just finished my CCC13 cards for June.  August needed to be short and sweet so here are my quick cards for August.  Stamps used are from Marks Finest Papers and snowflakes were cut with the Cricut. They do all have glitter on them but doesn't show too well.  The colours were chosen because of this weeks Jugs challenge.

CCC13 for June

Yes you are reading the title correctly these are my rather late cards for the CCC13 monthly challenge for June.  Having made these I now know why I never did my quilt!  I did get CCC13 for July done but wanted to do this challenge following the theme.  Here are my quilt style cards - not very fancy but they are done.

The first six fit with this weeks FOSTV theme of sentiment only.

The second set of 7 cards are also for the High Hopes red and green challenge.

I will be back tomorrow with the August cards which are mega simple as I have little crafting time right now. I hope you have a good week.



Friends of Speedy TV Challenge 86 – Sentiment Only

This week's challenge at Friends of Speedy TV (FOSTV86) is to make a Sentiment Only card. I decided to add to my Christmas card collection (CCC13) so I went with the August CCC13 theme of monochrome. I used some pearlescent card and the polished stone technique with alcohol inks onto it.  4 brads in the corners and some sticky ribbon were my embellishments. The sentiment is from the newly released set called Joyous Season and having stamped it I went over it with a glitter pen.

We would love you to play along with our challenge this week so please check out challenge 86 at FOSTV.  Have a great week.
Janine

CCC13 - Christmas in July - Rocker Cards

Yesterday in the Marks Finest Papers Christmas in July everyone made cute little rocker cards.  As I still had to make my 13 cards for CCC13 for July I set about them today.  Half were coloured with Copics and the other half with Prismacolor pencils.  I am not good at repeating a design but today I made them all roughly the same. I used the Poinsettia set for both the image and the sentiment.

Here is the group shot and yes I did use a variety of blues for the card bases.

Here is one of the cards

 

These rocker cards are something a little different so I am glad I gave them a try.

Inchie Christmas - CCC13 for May

I pulled out my Christmas inchies from Inkadinkado this month to give them an airing and used them for my CCC13 collection for May.

I needed them to be straightforward as I still seem to be busy and with MFP blog hop on the horizon I have lots of cards to do for that too.

I also plan to make another bookmark for this week's FOSTV challenge - please do join in that one.

I made two sets each with 7 cards.

The first set are 4" cards (top photo - 3 are at the back) and the others are 5" (next two photos)

 

I took a couple of closer photos and here they are

Thank you for stopping in - please come again.

Feb Christmas Cards

I have just managed to get my 13 cards done for the month of February.  They are a real mixed bag.   Some include pieces from my class at MCC on stamping techniques and clearly show some better than others.  Other cards include images I coloured and needed to get onto finished cards.  I am going to put them in one long post with a caption on each one.

Resist Technique with sentiment rather too bold
 - image stamp from Chocolate Baroque.

Resist Technique rather lost in the inks
 - same Chocolate Baroque image

Resist Technique - as I hoped using Chocolate Baroque image

 

Resist Batique Technique - colour applied
 - another Chocolate Baroque image

MFP stamps onto ink stained card (distress and glimmer mists)

MFP stamps onto ink stained card - masked Poinsettia

 

MFP images apart from branch

MFP Ornament and various pine stamps

MFP Ornament and various pine stamps

Using a mask and the VLVFeb2013 Week4 sketch

Simple card using early Kraftin Kimmie image

Another simple card with same Kraftin Kimmie image

Another resist card using Chocolate Baroque stamp.

Thanks for looking through them all.

Janine

High Hopes Winter Spirit

My card for today combines 3 challenges - High Hopes challenge to use ribbon (number 161), the Ribbon Carousel challenge for January with a theme of Winter Spirit and my CCC13 challenge to make Christmas cards each month - this one will count towards February!

This uses one of my older High Hopes images, but right in the winter spirit - a snowman going skating. 

My snowman ended up a little lopsided, a little like most of the snowmen seen around here a week or so ago.  He was cut out with a Spellbinders die.  The snowflake is cut with my Cricut and then has some sparkly varnish applied - not that you can see the sparkle in the photo.
The image was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and Zest. 

Thank you for looking and leaving sweet comments.

 

 

 

Winter Spirit

High Hopes and Ribbon Carousel recently ran a joint blog hop and there were some great cards and lovely ribbons on display.  I discovered that Ribbon Carousel have a monthly challenge and this card is going to be entered into that challenge.  Now when I think of winter I think of a few things - hot drinks on cold days being one of them.  Rather than set this cute little guy up against a snowy background I wanted to incorporate him into another aspect of winter - winter foliage!

The image is an early one from Kraftin Kimmie (Oliver is his name) and I have used Spellbinders dies, a circle punch and some ribbon with him.

I do have one more wintry card to post and that is also for the High Hopes challenge.  Next post coming soon.

Penny Black Bonanza

I have several cards to share today so words will be lacking in favour of photos.  My cards all go back to my first love in stamps - Penny Black.

My first three cards all use the theme of Love is in the Air with the 2 cute mice in the Christmas stockings.  I am entering them in the Penny Black and More challenge for January.  They will also be part of my CCC13 total.

My three other cards are below. 

This first one is for the Penny Black Blues Challenge for the month of January at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge site.

 

 This one was just for fun

 

This last one is for the One Layer Wednesday challenge to use doodling on your card.  Now I am not a confident doodler so I just did a frame.

I have used Prismacolor pencils and Zest for all the colouring on these cards with ribbon from my stash.  Papers were all grabbed from my Christmas drawer and are either Papermania or freebies. 

I hope if you have snow you are able to get out and enjoy it, or alternatively can snuggle up in the warm.

Winter Butterflies

OK I started out with a very simple card in my head but ended up with this card - not that it is overly complicated but it wasn't where I was originally going!

The last sketch this month for VLV is a clean and simple one.  I wanted to use the sentiment shown - one of my favourite ones and a replacement for the snow that has now been washed away!  The rest of the card just sort of happened once I started playing with the distress inks.  Karen at Word Art Wednesday has been encouraging me to play along.  I haven't used a scripture but it is family friendly so I think it counts for their anything goes challenge.  This card is also one of my CCC13 cards.

I have made several Christmas cards today so I will be sharing the rest later in the week. 

Thanks for looking.

Christmas Card in January

OK so some of you have had enough of Christmas but we have snow on the ground so a Christmas card seems appropriate.  I have challenged myself to do a baker's dozen every month this year as part of CCC13 so this is one of my January ones.  I have a few to go yet!

The card uses this week's JUGS colours (see below) and also a sketch from week 3 of this months Viva La Verve (VLVJan2013).  I used the double embossing technique shared on Jugs last week for my background panel.



The sentiment stamp is from one of my old SeeDs cut with Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles.  I was going to give them to the charity shop but I think the sentiments will stay put!

Thank you for your well wishes - I am feeling less "grotty" today.

Janine

FOSTV56 - Creative Use of Ribbon

Hi - hope you all enjoyed the new sets and blog hop last week.  Sorry I have been quiet since then - sore throat, congested sinuses and a cough have made creating take a back seat. 

I made this card, before I felt poorly thank goodness, using a technique shared on the JUGS website last year in November.  The link was to a clip on you tube so you can check it out if you want to give this a try - I had to watch it a couple of times! 

I didn't have time to do it for the challenge in November but thought it would be good for the FOSTV56 challenge and also it is another Christmas card for CCC13.  I used the sentiment from New Pines and it is also included in the set Joy, Joy, Joy.  The holly decoration is with a punch.

You can show us any creative use for ribbon this week (check my team mates for ideas) and you stand a chance to win a cute MFP Easter set called Blessings.  We would love to see what you create - just put a link on the FOSTV page challenge 56 when it goes up.




Have a good week and hope you can get creative with ribbon.

OLW - Enjoy the beauty

One Layer Wednesday challenge from last week is to make a card that represents what you do on a snowy day. 
Now where I live in the UK we don't get many snowy days but what I do love to do if I get the chance is appreciate the quietness and the beauty.  When we were in MN with friends for Christmas 2010 I got to do exactly that  - this was a gorgeous day by the St Croix River.

My card whilst not with the same intensity of blue sky, and with the addition of some deer is a little reminder of that time.  The image is from Hero Arts and the sentiment from Marks Finest Papers.

I hope you can stop and take the time to enjoy the beauty of something today.  God bless.

Christmas Eve - FOSTV52

Hello and Happy Christmas to all of you and your families.

Today we have another FOSTV challenge and if you find a few spare minutes over the festive period then we would love you to play along.  Our challenge is to make a card or project that shows the Cracked Glass technique - you can find a tutorial here.

I should have used less embossing powder on my first card, which I have described as Broken Ice.  I first used some sparkly powder and then 3 layers of UTEE which is too much so it cracked a lot, had to be re-heated but still cracked too much!  The stamp set I have used for the image is called Ice and Snow - this is also the set one person will win as part of this challenge.

My second card uses one layer of UTEE and then some fine embossing powder - two or three layers.  I prefer this one and the vintage look it has.

Thanks for checking in today and enjoy some family time over Christmas.  God bless.

Janine

OCC Winter Blessings

If you are looking for the MFP Blog Hop please skip down to the post below - Happy Hopping!

The challenge at Our Creative Corner is Silver and Purple Christmas this week.  I used alcohol inks, Spellbinders dies, my Cricut, some ribbon, some gems and a sentiment from Marks Finest Papers on this card.  It has been hand delivered today.  You cannot see the lovely alcohol ink effect so well in this photo but it is quite pretty in real life.

Thank you so much for looking, and even more for leaving a sweet comment.