Thursday 18 December 2008

Glittered Christmas Stocking


The photograph really doesn't show this card in all of it's sparkly glory. I stamped the Christmas Stocking from Wild Rhodes onto acetate and glittered the back, then mounted it onto two layered panels cut with my new Nestabilities. This then went onto a darker panel which I embossed with a small Cuttlebug folder and layered with some nbrown satin ribbon and some copper card edged with Threading Water again. Some more foiled sentiments from Craftwork Cards complete the card.

Simple Snowflake Christmas Card



This could hardly be easier. Onto a square white base card I stuck a panel of lovely shimmery paper, which I had edged with a Threading Water border punch. Then I just added snowflakes cut from glitter and mirri card and embossed with the Cuttlebug, with the addition of an iridescent gemstone in the centre. A circle sentiment from Craftwork Cards finished the card off. I've made quite a few of these, all on the same theme but each one slightly different. Here's another one:





Sunday 7 December 2008

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The reason I haven't posted in a while is that I've been spending a lot of time making Christmas cards, the special sort of family ones that you don't want the recipient to see until it's time for them to receive them. Due to various reasons, I lost some of my available time for finishing these cards, so it's been a real push to get them all done in time. However, now that the family cards are all finished, I realise that I might be a little short on other cards, and - whisper this - I might have to actually buy some cards this year.

Anyway, I can at last begin to post some of my Christmas cards for 2008, and I hope you like them.


I adore the Penny Black 12 Days of Christmas stamp set, and so far I haven't got past day one!!
I stamped the image onto a circle cut with my Nestabilities, then coloured it with Prismacolor pencils. Layered with more Nestability circles and backed with papers from DCWV and Basic Grey.

Here's another made with the same stamp and using paper from Pink Petticoat: