Christmas Wishes

Hello fellow crafters
Just a quickie to hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and hope that you all have a happy new year too.

Hugs

Three's Company

Hi guys and girls

Just adding the last three cards to my blog. These are using the same images that I used before on my previous posts of the past few days, just coloured a slightly different way, using different colours and mediums, so it should give you an idea of how versatile they are.

I know that some people don't like digi stamps but I love them because a) they're easy to store, b) they can be resized so whether you're making a 4 x 4 card or an 8 x 8 card, you can adjust the digi to fill the space as little or as much as you like and c) you'll get a perfect print every time, the amount of stamped images I have had to decoupage or simply through away because the stamp hasn't been inked up enough is more than I can count.

Nevertheless, saying that I still like to get my wood and clear stamps and my ink out now and again just so that I can get a little messy.

Anyway, here are the latest pictures for you to view.
Hope you like them?

Thanks for stopping  by today, hope the weather is as mild and glorious where you are as it is here today. That winter sun is so beautiful and it really is much warmer today than it has been in weeks.

Only three more sleeps until the big day, hope you all get what you want from the big red guy.

Hugs xxx

Grey and Pink Christmas

My third card today is a grey and pink theme.  I decided to do something less traditional, i.e. NOT red and green as I was getting really bored of colouring everything red and green. So I took this Cuddle Buddly digi stamp and coloured it entirely in shades of grey and pink.  The background paper is also pink and black and is from Craftwork Cards.

Again, this card is for one of Jane's Niece's so I didn't want them to be the same. 

This is another really simple card.  There were just too many orders to get too creative with else it would have been soooooo time consuming that I decided to keep them all really simple instead, but I think they are all still really cute and look so much better in real life.  The photographs just aren't doing them much justice.

Here's a close up view of the same card. As before, I have really taken the close up image so that a) you can see the way I have coloured the image and b) you can see the detail and quality in the digi stamp. 

 

They have so much detail and I just love them so much. Can't praise them highly enough.

This image was coloured with my Copics, Promarkers and Derwent watercolour pencils. So many mediums used here. Can't decided between my Copics and my ProMarkers as to which I prefer to use, although I must say that I love the really thin brush end of the Copic pens, as you can really get into the smaller details of the stamps with it and you don't have to put too much pressure on the brush end to get a decent coverage.

 

Hope you like it and thanks again for stopping by xx

Huge Present

This next card was also requested by Jane, for her niece, in fact, most of the cards I am posting today were for Jane.

She wanted to give a handmade card to her Niece as she didn't like any of the shop bought ones.

The image is a Cuddly Buddly image again and this time I coloured it with my ProMarker pens coupled with my Derwent colour pencils.

Yes... Santa did come early for me this year. He bought my Derwent pencils and a certain hubby has let me have them early... bless him. Probably got fed up with hearing me go on and on and on about them and gave in just to shut me up if the truth be told.

Here's a close up of the image again so that you can see the amazing detail that the artist has put into it. Despite this her digis are amazing reasonable. Which is also a very good thing as I love using digi stamps now. I can't remember a time I last stamped, which is a shame, because I love stamping too, maybe I'll get back into it after Christmas when I can get my stash supply back into my kitchen. Hopefully this year, I will be able to get my garage emptied so that I can finally have a proper craft room.

Anyway, that's card number 2.
Hope you like it and thanks again, for stopping by.

Hugs xxx

Christmas Couple

Hi girls and guys

I have been really busy this past month, with loads of orders for Christmas card and various other cards. I have picked out a few of my favourites and will be uploading them shortly for you to view.

I hope that this last week run up to Christmas isn't too stressful for you and hope that you are all feeling a little bit (if not... a lot) of Christmas cheer.

Here's my first card that I want to share.

My friend Jane asked me to make a nice card for her mum and dad so I decided to use one of these gorgeous 'Cuddly Buddly' Digi Stamps. So well drawn and so, so cute.







I coloured the image with my Copics and my new Derwent Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils after printing the image on my computer. Here's a close up of the image so that you can see the colouring a bit better and see the image more closely. Isn't it lovely?

Hope Jane's mum and dad like the card. My poor parents and family members got... please don't hate me... SHOP BOUGHT CARDS this year as I had way to many orders to cope with them and my family too. Sorry Mum, love you xx

Anyway, that's card number 1. Watch this space, there's more. Thanks for visiting my blog today and I hope to see you again soon.

Dominic's Dinosaur

Jane at work asked me to make this card for her Nephew, Dominic. Apparently he's a big fan of the T-rex from Toy Story, so I googled free colouring pages of this dinosaur and coloured him in with my Promarker pens, then cut him out and mounted him onto yellow card, I then added a round red sun and added some slightly purple grass. Why purple you ask??? Well, when the sun sets, it does look a little bit purple...don't you think? Anyway, I wanted to steer clear of the usual BLUE for boys colour scheme and thought this green dinosaur on the unusual background did the trick nicely.

Jane was well happy with it anyway, and that's all that counts really. Hope you like it too?
Thanks for stopping by.

Lili's Flowers

Hi guys and girls
Here's another really simple and quick card I made for Elaine's birthday. Just some really simple background paper, a Lili of the Valley image, that I coloured with my beloved Promarker pens and I mounted that onto red card and then I added some paper roses. Et voila!

Hope you like it?
Thanks for stopping by.

Mum's Birthday

Hello again
Here's the upload I promised.

This is a card I made for a friend at work, Jane. It was her mother's birthday and she wanted an 8" by 8" card so I had quite a bit of space to fill.

The background paper is from a bumper pack from Craftword Cards and so was the greeting attachment. The ribbons were from my stash (god knows where I got them as I now have three rather large bags full of ribbons) and I cannot for the life of me, remember where the image was from either (sorry). I coloured the image with my promarkers and cut the letters out by hand before running them through a Cuttlebug folder on my BigShot. I then mounted the image and added some card candi.

Fingers Crossed

Hi girls and fellow crafters
Well, it's been a long time since I last updated my blog and although my health has been pretty naff of late, I have still managed to make the odd card so watch this space as I upload them over the next few days.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been in touch by text, email, blog and by my Facebook page, to wish me better and to let you know that I am indeed, feeling much better than I have done in such a long time... so fingers crossed, all is okay now and I can move on with my life.So, I am back and fighting fit.

Just one more thing before I sign off, thank you for staying with me, and for your wonderful, kind and caring patience. It is appreciated more than you will ever know.

Little Message

Hello fellow crafters
Just wanted to write a quick note of explanation for my absence as I have noticed that it has been over a month since I have been online.

For those of you who know about my stroke in July, I have since been having MRI and CT scans galore and so many blood tests, I feel like a pin cushion. I have also had ECGs and an Echocardiogram. I know most of the nurses at the hospital by name and this week I have had cold and flu symptoms, which manifested themselves into a full blown cold.  So, as you can imagine, the last thing I have felt like doing is making cards or crafting. I just wanted to say, thank you for being loyal followers and thank you for your lovely messages.

I'll be back soon, I promise x