Jingle Bells

This card is my last contribution as a member of the Design Team at Christmas Craft Creations. I have been actively participating in many Design teams, consistently now, for ten plus years or so  and  thought that I would have a complete break for a while. I thought that maybe I would have  a little more time to join in with selective challenges which get my creative juices flowing. I shall look forward to joining in with the challenges at CCC as a participant in future!

The theme this time is to use the colours Blue and Silver!

All of my cards are simple in style and this one involved merely die cutting and dry embossing.

The jingle bell dies are from Memory Box. I use an embossing tool on the back of them once cut, to give the impression of roundness and add them using dimensional pads, so as to retain some of the shape, even when mailing! The cord they are on is from a thread die, also from Memory Box which also came with a needle die, but I haven't used that half as much!

The embossing on the backdrop is from a Couture Creations EF.

The sentiment is from a fab die from Stamplorations. This was stacked and also mounted with dimensional pads.

I am looking forward to some spring weather soon, we seem to have had an inordinate amount of rain of late!

Take care and stay safe everyone!

Merry Christmas

Here is a little card made for the challenge at CAS Christmas where the theme this time is Cats and or Dogs

I don't have an abundance of Christmas Cats or dog stamps, although of course they could be put into a Christmas setting, but I actually fancied a festive one. I found a Penny Black image for Twelve Drummers drumming, where a hound was bashing away at a drum kit, ears flapping madly, but I fancied a bolder image somehow. I came across a set of Avery Elle cats and dogs which I don't actually remember using before, and decided to do a little masking in order to give this little chap a Santa hat! I popped a piece of sticky tape on the stamp over the top of the dog's head before inking, so that when stamped, I would be able to draw the hat in the gap! I coloured him with Promarkers and then cut around him before popping him on dimensional pads atop the (SIZZIX) dry embossed square.

Looking at the picture now, I realise that I intended adding some Fun Flock to the hat band and pom pom, I may do that now!

I still can't add pictures to my Blog using Chrome. Goodness knows what has happened, but at least I can use an alternative browser (Edge) to get them uploaded. I don't use Edge often as my touchpad won't scroll in that browser, and the spell check is set to US instead of UK, so all sorts of wavy lines appear on correct UK spellings . If I were more techy, I suppose I could sort it all out, but I guess as long as I have a way which works, that's all that matters.

Numbers of  Covid infections are dropping rapidly in the UK so maybe there is light ahead.

Stay safe everyone!

Christmas 24 -Cute animals

Will you be my Valentine?

Today us Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone has a lovely day!

A penguin may seem an unlikely character for a Valentine greeting, but there's a bit of a story to this one. I have a friend who asked me to make a Valentine card for his wife and he specifically requested a penguin.   It seems that last month, for her birthday, he bought a jolly looking card for her with penguins on, failing to notice that it was in fact a Christmas card!!! Needless to say his wife noticed it immediately and he was simply amused by his mistake. Now, wishing to keep the penguin theme going, he gave me this request! Funnily enough only yesterday, his wife put a memory on Facebook of seeing the penguins at Philip Island in Australia, so it was quite topical as far as that was concerned too.

This little chap is a cut file from Silhouette, with an added punched heart, and a computer generated sentiment in what I think is All Things Pink font.

I popped him onto dimensional pads for a little interest!

Addicted to CAS Hearts

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge 

Inkspirational  Hearts

I am SO disappointed by the result of the impeachment trial in the US... just how so many Republican senators could vote to acquit after such damning evidence is beyond my comprehension. Let's hope justice comes by some other method!

 

With Love Valentine

I have just been playing around for ages trying to upload the photo of this card, but I kept getting a message saying that the Server failed to Upload. I looked online for a remedy and it seems that there has been this issue many times before. The first one that caught my eye was to use a different browser, so as this seemed the simplest of solutions to try, I went for it and thankfully it worked. I changed from Chrome to Edge.
On to the card. This is a really cute image from Bugaboo Stamps of which I am really fond. It's simply coloured with alcohol markers.

The sentiment is from Sugar Pea Designs and the stamped lines from SU Gorgeous Grunge.

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

The Word Cue from CASology

The  LOVE Theme from CAS on Friday

The Hearts Challenge from Inkspirational

Craft Rocket - LOVE