Ho Ho Ho

I haven't done much card making for challenges recently, partly due to the fact that I have been doing quite a bit of sewing and partly because I really don't get on with this new version of Blogger! I have had quite a lot of commision cards to make, but I don't often put those on my blog.

This one is my DT card for the challenge at Christmas Craft Creations, where the theme is to make a shaped card. I saw this little chap in the store on the Silhouette site when I was looking for something else and thought he was kinda cute. Once cut out he looked rather flat and so I added some shading the different parts of him, to give him a little more appeal! There was a gap at the top left of the card base which I thought was the perfect place for a 'Ho Ho Ho' so I made those and cut them with my Portrait. The joy of making sentiments using an electronic cutter, is that you can choose the font you think looks most suitable. I usually try to weld the letters together so that adhering them to the card is a much more simple process!

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

 Make My Monday -Christmas in September

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Goes

I hope that everyone is staying safe; these are such strange times. Take care everyone!

 

Shaped card!

Here is a little scottie dog cut with my Silhouette. I got the file from somewhere on the Internet and then somehow managed to convert it to a Silhouette file, more by luck than judgement. I don't think it's absolutely perfect but I'm gradually getting used to understanding more about the machine!

The coat was made with die cuts.

Paper Players have the challenge for a shaped card this time! I think this fits the bill!

PS Missed the deadline... what a plonker!

Elephant

The challenge over at CAS on Sunday is for a shaped card.

I decided to try to make a card from an elephant cut file which I bought from Silhouette. I enlarged it, copied it,  flipped one of them and then welded to two shapes together. His ear was a complete cut out shape and not quite knowing how to eradicate one part of the ear shape I merely discarded that and drew another so that it would just flap and remain attached on the front edge.

He's stamped with a Crafty Individuals crackle stamp in Memento London Fog and then dusted with Weathered Wood Distress Ink. I've sort of obliterated his toes with my watermark, but I made them from tiny punched half circles. His eye is made from die-cut detritus.

Another recipe at LIM

The recipe at "Less is More" this week is to make a shaped card, ie not a square or rectangle!

Here I made a Onesie from an A5 card blank. I used a circle Nestie for the neck and an oval Nestie for the leg holes, decorated with the scalloped versions of each die. A few buttons and a simple bow and it was done.

Here is a card which could be used for a variety of purposes... I may add a sentiment later, but it's decidedly for something which involves a Church service!
The crosses are from some Spellbinder dies and the card shape was cut with a Sizzix die.

These next two are simple but have NO WHITE SPACE whatever, however this one is totally grey space and the last one is totally blue, but I'm not sure if they count  as CAS, but they are shaped and I thought you might like to see them anyway!!
A few snips to another A5 card blank and an elephant appeared. I stamped him with a crackle stamp which I clear embossed  before swiping the whole card with Memento London Fog ink. All he needed were toes, eyes and an ear and he was done.
This one is also for the One Layer challenge at Crazy4 Challenges

The last one is another incarnation of the whale I posted last week, this one has some emboss resist circles on it  and my grandson's name, applied at the end this time and not inked over as in the previous one! 

Yesterday I spent the day at the Ageas Bowl (formerly the Rose Bowl) watching Hampshire playing cricket. It was the perfect weather for cricket, clear skies and beautiful warm sunshine all day. The fact that we were sitting with friends made it even better.

Our son and his wife will be coming this weekend and we will be going for a Wine dinner at a superb hotel in the New Forest. They are both doctors and have just passed their final GP exams so it will be a superb way to celebrate.

Have a great weekend and do join us in our challenge!