Merry Christmas

As I was glancing through my list of challenges which I like to enter I spotted the one from 

Christmas 24 which is 

I love this concept and like to make them whenever I think about it!

This one was made completely with dies. I stacked two layers for the wreath, before twinkling with a little Glamour Dust. The sentiment was about 4 or 5 layers, which I left un-twinkled so as to stand out from its backdrop.

The frame was made by dry embossing a square, stitched die on the card front. You can scarcely see them but there are some tiny, tiny gems on the sentiment, at the ends of the swirls. 

Stay safe everyone!

 

Joy

Following my knee surgery on Friday last, I am hobbling around, but it's not too painful thankfully. I didn't enjoy changing the dressings however, as there was some sticky stuff rather close to the incision site and  my skin hurt more than the joint when I was removing it. Loads of surgical spirit was needed! Thanks to everyone for your good wishes.

This card is for the challenge at CAS Christmas

It's funny but if I get an idea into my head I really have to go for it and after wanting to do something like this, I realised that I didn't have a 'joy' die which was either the right style or dimensions for what I had in mind. So I made this on my Silhouette. I cut out two and stacked them before embossing with a layer of Gold Twinkle embossing powder then a layer of UTEE. It's mounted on dimensional pads.

The die cut wreath is a stack of three cuts twinkled with Glamour Dust. A simple de-bossed frame finished it off!

Smile

If you read my blog last week or thereabouts you may  recollect that I stamped and coloured a chicken and then promptly lost her. Rather than spend hours looking, I made another and hoped that the original would turn up.. well here she is! She was quite happily sitting on a pile of 'stuff' on the window ledge! I though she would be perfect for this sentiment.. she does make me smile.The smile die is from Mama Elephant and the rest is computer generated. The chicken is of course from Penny Black.

CASology Smile

AAA Cards - One Third

Crazy for CAS - Animal (I guess that a chicken is part of the animal kingdom!)

Stacked die-cuts

The challenge at Just us Girls this week is to use stacked die-cuts. I love this technique as it gives definition and dimension without too much bulk (thinking of postage costs).

For this background I used Aqua Tint inks and water, over-stamped with little spots and stars  (Lavinia stamps) embossed in silver.

The butterfly is also stacked, using a base layer taken from the inked card.

The SMILE die is from Mama Elephant, cut from three layers of card.
It's also another submission to the Butterfly challenge at Addicted to CAS