Penguin Moment

My second Christmas card of the day... that's enough for me. Sorry girls, Rudolph Day can have two contributions and LIKE IT!!!

Materials:

Background paper was part of a prize from Card Making & Papercraft

Christmas Tree and Penguins, Whipper Snapper Designs

Jingle and mittens from Jolee's Embellishments

Button, flower and ribbons, from local Craft Shop

YAY...It's RUDOLPH day!

And you'll be pleased to know that I HAVE made an offering for today. Yes, yes, yes I know I'm supposed to make at least five Christmas cards today, but cut me a bit of slack will you, it is only 12 o'clock and I have already made three cards today so NER!

This is my FIRST christmas card offering today and I'm really pleased with it.

Lots of different elements to this card. Please see materials below:

Materials:
Christmas Tree stamps, Unknown (a stamped image swap from Linda)
Snowman from Whipper Snapper Designs 2008
'Twas the night before Christmas... puchased from Ebay, no details
Christmas blue polkadot ribbon, a freebie from a craft magazine
Christmas background paper, a gift from Sarn
Button purchased from local craft shop
Glitter

Christmas Challenge

This is Poya (one of Toread's friends).

I made this card for the August Christmas Card challenge set by Julie. The challenge was that you should make a Christmas card, with glitter and some of our precious ribbon, but NO Christmas Trees anywhere on the card. Poya was such a cutie sitting in the centre of his little Holly Wreath so I knew he had to be part of my design. I cut out the decoupage image and then mounted Poya onto Gold Mirri card to which I added some red ribbon and then mounted the gold onto Red Mirri card. Then I stuck the layers onto the red cardstock which had already been stamped with a gold leaf in the background. I then stamped the large Inkadinkadoo 'Merry Christmas' stamp which I stamped in black and then added a layer of glitter over the top of all the lettering and then added the flowers in coordinating colours with buttons in the centre.

Happy Christmas Everyone...

I know... I know. It's not Christmas yet (it's Easter), but following on from previous messages about Rudolph Day (being the 25th of each month), I thought I would get in an early Christmas card.

I've been going through some old Christmas cards this morning and I found this image and fell in love with the photo so I just had to use it before I just 'filed' it again and forgot all about it. I know it isn't Rudolph Day yet but hey, a girl can be early just once in a while and at least this means I can get away with just making four or five on the 25th! I also know that black can be quite sombre sometimes but I thought this particular image needed just black and white in the background - no colour. Hope you like it?

Cute Christmas

What Christmas would be complete without a Penny Black Christmas card...? Here's one I made for someone last year, which I have decided to re-create and use again. I used watercolours for most of the card but coloured his hat in with a Marvy le Plume pen in Maroon, to give it a bit more richness and I then added glitter to the 'white furry' bits. Jingle Bells embellishments as before.

Jingle Bells

Same Whipper Snapper penguin (thanks Ju) different design. Cut the penguins out and decoupaged them onto plain white cardstock and then added some glitter as before. The stripey background paper also came from CM&P and I added the PaperMania flower and a little 'X' in the middle. Added some red velvet ribbon and the 'Jingle' and mittens, which I purchased from my local craft shop (they were in a bargain bucket!).

Christmas Everyday...

This little Whipper Snapper penguin is one of a selection of images Step-Mummy Julie sent me which I watercoloured and added some glitter to. The background paper was part of my prize from CM&P from the article me and Sarn sent in about our inspiration jars, and I mounted it onto white cardstock. Added some ribbon and the Penny Black wording. Et voila! (I made two of these but the other version is a pink snowflake background with the penguin wearing blue and has a pink dotted ribbon!)

Apologies...

It's been a busy week and I have to apologise for not posting any new messages during that time. I've been avoiding going online so that I could get my christmas cards done and I have to say I'm very proud of myself as I have made February's target of six!!!

I basically made three designs and made two of each, and I will do the same next month (sorry... this month, I keep forgetting that today is the 1st of March!!!

I will post my three designs shortly but I wanted to apologise for not being around first.

Two days to go before Allocation Day and the tension is starting to show. I can't wait until it's all over on Monday and we finally get to find out which school Lianne will be going to (ubless we go to appeal of course, which we will do if she doesn't get ANY of her three choices, but we'll see on Monday). Watch this space!

Anyway, I'll get my cards on now. Thanks for your patience...
Fae xxx

Rudolph Day

I was viewing various blogs earlier this evening, just browsing one crafting blog and following links to another etc, and I came across a blog called 'A little Card by Me'. She had the most fab idea.

Starting in January, on the 25th day of each month (Rudolph Day) you make 5 Christmas cards. All going well and according to plan, by 25th November you will have made 55 Christmas cards!!! Sorted!

I am definitely going to do this as it's always such a mad rush to make sure that everyone of my friends gets one and those that don't (and get shop bought ones) are usually extremely disappointed. Anyway, I thought I'd share that with you as it seemed like such a good idea. From tomorrow... 5 christmas cards will be made. Promise! In fact, I'll make six for the next five months so that I can catch up with those I missed in January. We'll see how long this little fad lasts shall we...?