Christmas cards.....

 Here are some more Christmas cards....I really love all the ones I've done with my new Cricut cartridge, although sometimes it can be fiddly to cut all the parts out and stick them together, the finished articles look really cute! The background paper is from Graphic 45 Nutcracker Sweet collection.

For this one I was trying to go for the keep it simple but I struggle where to stop hehe! The tree is from a set of trees I think it might be Creative Expressions not quite sure tho..... I stamped the Hero Arts greeting on acetate and drew on the baubles on the tree and coloured with distress stickles.

I bought some pre cut out trees and used them here. Coloured with silver paint, a kind of brass type paint that I swooshed a bit to get a pattern and then crackle paint. Background paper is Graphic 45 again and the greeting is from Craftwork cards.







This one is a lamp post stamp from Tim Holtz SA and the houses are from the Hobby Art scene it coastal set. Made them look snowy with paint and gesso and used a bit of picket fence distress stain and some more paint for the snow on the ground. Stamped the hero arts greeting with gold paint and put some glitter round the edge....

Get Well Soon

Here was a get well soon card I made for my dad........I brayed the background although in the end I kind of ended up going over the top of it really......I used a craft nib to colour in using distress ink and the stamps are hobby art mostly and I think the birds a Tim Holtz and the one that looks like a postage stamp was the free stamp with this month's Craft Stamper magazine........

 Here is a wedding card I made for my cousins wedding......I think it was distress strains in the background and some gesso and a spritz of purple dylusions.....then I cut out the flower using grunge paper and a spellbinder die and coloured it with distress ink and I drew the little stick people, die cut that also and lightly went over with spun sugar distress ink I think it was.... then I stamped on the congratulations which is from a Paper Artsy set and I used Staz On and glued down some ribbon and sprinkled some glitter on whilst the glue was still wet.

This was a birthday card for my dad......pastels in the background and then mostly Hobby Art scene its which I love.....and a bit of paint and micro beads around the edge of the card...

Bonjourno!

Check out these cards I made....

The top one is a Michael Powell image.....when I stamped it I thought it didn't come out very well but once I finished colouring it in I was really pleased.....using a plethora of Promarkers!

For the next one I used a new set of stamps....can't remember the company because I threw the packaging away d'oh! Plus the little boat is a Clarity stamp. I brayered the background....as usual forgetting to put in a moon......oh well I carried on anyway.....I stamped on the images in black archival and then I used a nib to colour in the trees a little further with distress inks......then I painted the red flowers.....it looks a lot more purple overall in real life......I really liked the effect of painting over the flowers that I've already used it again on a half finished card.....

And if that wasn't enough I baked a raspberry and blueberry crumble topped cake over the weekend too.......if only I could stay at home and do stuff like this all the time......!

Ooh what a crafty day.......just been crafting away whilst watching Barbara Gray demonstrating on C&C.....not doing the lesson but just being inspired. I bought myself a pack of pastels which takes me back to doing GCSE art hehe! Here is my first creation with them...lovely pink:) Then some stamping with black archival and I mounted it on some corrugated card that I stole from a parcel that arrived and a bit more stamping and some pastels on the far background too....

This was a card I made the other week.....using some ribbons and buttons that came free with a magazine.....and a Warren image from Craftwork cards coloured with Promarkers and some acrylic paint to create the background.....ooh and a swipe of distress stains around the edge.

Here are two more cards......first a brayering attempt.....I got the sky a bit too blue but I hand drew the scarecrow and field of corn which I was quite pleased with. The second was for my sister's 40th and I cut the numbers out of glitter card on the cricut, put it on an embossed background also on glitter card and then behind that I made an alcohol ink background on glossy card

Here are some of the recent cards I have made.....
I had a goody bag from Craftwork cards.....which I've started to make use of here.....I really like Warren the rabbit

Also recently I was inspired to buy a brayer.....I really love watching Barbara Gray demonstrate on the telly. It's taken a while to get used to but I was quite pleased with these two. Also I really like creating these scenic cards.....I bought a few sets of scenic stamps....and I finally got my hands on some Hobby Art Scene It's stamps which I absolutely love

 The one below I experimented using my brayer with distress inks and it worked really well; I used some white acrylic paint to create the clouds; and I don't know how I lived without them before but I got some cut n dry nibs and they are brilliant. I used them with my distress inks to add to extra shading and colour to the images

 Finally I was experimenting with various techniques and created the below card.....I stamped the robot man from Paper Artsy using silver paint on black card and it worked really well. Then in the background I stamped some mini scripts from Chocolate Baroque and then stamped and clear embossed to create a resist and used some distress inks over the top. Then used a few strokes of paint on the card itself to create a messy background.