Frosty and sparkly(ish)

Hello lovely people,

Whooosh!  That's the weekend flying by again!  We spent a lovely Saturday with my 2 sister-in-laws, 3 nephews and 1 niece, and then on Sunday I was busy crafting items for my very first Craft Fayre in just 5 days time!  It's been fun creating some non-card projects and of course I will share all of them with you in due course!

In the meantime, I have a card to share with you using some gorgeous goodies from The Ribbon Girl (see list at the end of my post for all the details). 

Despite all the pretty flowers and beaded bits, this somehow still ended up more CAS than I had envisaged, but I tried adding more and it didn't work for me so it is what it is!

These papers are such gorgeous frosty colours and I just knew they would work well with the chipboard tree...although I did have to hunt high and low for where I had 'safely' stashed the tree after I bought it - lol!

I've stacked up a few circular die cut frames to give a little height and layered a stitched die cut circle inside.

I dabbed white acrylic paint onto the tree and star, and then added sparkle to the stars on the tree and over the flowers using a Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen.  I've got a clear Wink of Stella pen but I think the SN pen seems a bit more sparkly...although both are very camera shy - lol!

I hope you all have good weeks, whether you are working or otherwise occupied or just doing nothing!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

The Ribbon Girl products;
Craft and You 'Frozen' 6x6 paper pad
Scrapiniec chipboard Christmas trees
White cherry blossom
White sweetheart blossoms
Miniature white blossoms
White beaded cherry
White seam binding
Ivory button twine
Wooden star buttons

Other products;

Other flowers: from stash

Dies: Circle STAX, Inside/outside stitched circle STAX - MFT Die-namics

Sentiment tag: Christmas sentiments tags - LOTV

Christmas penguins

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday and our theme this time is...

ANYTHING GOES

Well, that's made it easy for you hasn't it?!
We are sponsored by Bugaboo and they kindly let us use some images, so I thought I'd crack on with Christmas card number 2!
This was going to be a CAS design but as you can see, I went a bit off piste!
I have stamped the corners of the base layer of DP with a swirly design and added some sparkle to the flowers and the image with Glamour Dust.

I fell in love with this cute penguin trio as soon as I saw them and before anyone wonders why the feet aren't orange... have you seen penguin feet?!  In pictures they are almost always orange but in real life they are almost always black... so I went with black!

Card recipe;

Image: Winter penguin trio - Bugaboo

DP: Vintage frost basics - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Seam binding/twine: The Ribbon Girl

Swirl stamp: very old set - maybe Basic Grey?

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat but no longer available

Copic colours;
Penguins: W6/7/9 & W00/0/1
Beaks: YR30/31/Y21
Feet: W8/10/100
Blue bits: B91/93/95 (&B97 on ear muffs)
Brown on scarf: E43/44/47
Snow: W00/0/1

I hope you will pop over to Top Tip Tuesday and check out the wonderful creations from the rest of the team and the fantastic shaker card tutorial from Deneen.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Challenges I am playing along with;

1.  Sweet Stampin' (Christmas in August)
2.  A Gem of a Challenge (stitching)
3.  As You Like It (fave 2 embellies - flowers because they look so pretty and there are so many lovely types, and twine because I like the slightly rustic feel to it and it looks great on it's own, tied round ribbon or for tying on tags)
4.  Winter Wonderland (anything goes for Christmas)

Christmas Angel

Hello lovely people,

I apologise for my erratic posting at present - I did posts 3 days in a row at the end of last week and then...silence!  I have to admit that I have been rather enjoying the sunshine and spending less time in my craft room than usual :-)

I did pop in for long enough to create something for our new challenge at Totally Gorjuss where we have the theme of...

Christmas in July!

If you are a regular visitor you will know this is my second Christmas card this year so I shall now consider myself well ahead of the game and not touch my Christmas stuff until December... yeah, that's a good plan!

We are sponsored by the totally wonderful Saturated Canary this week so I am sharing a card using one of the fab Christmas images.

I had another play with my Frantage and got a lighter sprinkling this time round - this stuff is seriously gorgeous!  I am going to need more colours...
I also kept the colour palette really limited as I love the frosty look for Christmas cards.  I added a little Glossy Accents to the baubles but, as usual, it doesn't show up in the photos.
Here's a closer look anyway at this sweet angel;

Card recipe;

Image: Christmas Angel from Saturated Canary

DP: Maja Designs Vintage Spring Basics

Swirly edges: Spellbinders Nestabilities Timeless Rectangles (cut up into bits)

Frantage: Stampendous shabby white

Snowflakes: Quickutz die

Pearls: from The Hobby House

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/000/00/51 & R30

Hair: E41/42/43

Blue bits: B0000/000/00 & blender

Grey bits: T0/1/2 & blender

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges;
1.  Saturated Canary (glamour and glitz)
2.  A Little Bit Crafty (die-ing for it)
3.  Papertake Weekly (die-ing for a punch)
4.  Divas by Design (anything goes)
5.  The Ribbon Girl (blue and white)

For more Christmas inspiration pop over to Totally Gorjuss and see what my teamies have created.  And don't forget that if you join in our challenge you could win a prize from Saturated Canary :-)

I think it is set to rain tomorrow so maybe I will actually get some more crafting done!  Not that I am going so far as to request rain for this purpose of course - that would be madness!

Thanks for visiting,

Hugs,
Kat xx