twas the night before....

As Christmas is fast approaching and having already got one present in the bag, last week I decided to get going with Christmas cards - last year I left it too late and had to do quick printed cards, so out came the bag of recycled Xmas card toppers........

My favourite out of this bunch is the girly girl one, wasn't supposed to turn out like this, I was aiming for silver but found the two embossed squares and knew I had to use them.

teddy bear love

 

simple stacker card onto 5x5 backing paper and left space for a sentiment.

splut-splut

goes the engine as it fires up.

Plane topper came from a (shop) birthday card Andrew received, love the bronze colouring on it.
Darker backing paper is from Hot Off The Press - Soft Nostalgia collection
Lighter backing paper from one of the Nitwits collections
Stamp from Papermania's urban range

Stamped first with a black pigment ink, then over stamped with encore's bronze ink to give it a slightly smudged look, (also rubbed the bronze ink round the paper edges) embellished with peel offs, small metallic studs, a couple of teeny tiny bronze gems, string dipped in cold tea and a green button.

Love the result.

Have entered this card into:

vintage elusions - men & machines/anything goes
crafty mess - distressed/aged

in for a penny....

.... in for a pound.
Following hot on the heels of my first challenge attempt, I decided to have another go......

A cute Chrsitmas card.

Using some of last years chrismas stash from various magazines, and Baby's 1st Christmas digistamp from digistampboutique, coloured in with promarkers - my first attempt at a 'normal' skin tone.

have entered this card in the following challenges:

digi stampboutique - september
fetch-a-sketch 33

Sewing Punk

Playing around doing a steampunkish style card, loved getting messy with the stamps and glue. the backing paper came from Debbi Moore habedashery cd, Clock stamp from PaperMania's Urban range, butterfly stamp from The Loving Life Collection and the Armillary Sphere from KayCee Crafts.
The sewing machine image was from the Graphics Fairy.Embellished with a few metal washers and a hook which made a good question mark.

Having a play with CSS layouts and making my own banners/background so bear with me over the next few days, as I change my mind many, many times.

first ever go at a challenge!

Whilst tidying up 'The Land of Blog' to make it more me friendly ie the Monica in me was straining to be unleashed and bring ORDER to the chaos also known as a completely okay layout and design blog.....

I came across the nutcrafters challenge and decided to have a go.....

(yet more use of ........)

So here goes -

 I've had the Fae image from simplysumara for a little while but hadn't used it and thought it would beperfect for the 'Glitter and Gems' challenge. The backing paper came from Debbi Moores 'Evergreen'cd. The image was glued flat apart from the wings were I used a raised sticky pad under and scrunched up abit to make a more contoured feel. Added a frayed black ribbon, some gems and silver glitter.

My favourite bit of the card is how the glitter makes the wings look even more dimensional - the photo doesn't really pick that up though.

 

entered in nutcrafters  -  Glitter and Gems challenge