More Christmas Cards.

Some of these I made to send myself and some were commissions.

It's getting super hard on line to track down whether images are copyrighted or not. I suppose I should say if I am claiming the artwork as my own, because I would happily credit an original artist if I could find out who it was....and as I only make one card with it, the lack of mass production and making money from it would probably influence how an original artist would feel about it perhaps?
I don't know though, I'd be pretty cross if my artwork was on line with no watermark and anyone could use it. Hopeful I have found images safe to use - I'm saying this because I couldn't track down where the Scrooge Silhouette was from, anywhere!

Die cut window and snowflakes. Hero Arts stamp background behind window. Fussy cut dog silhouettes. Blue pearls.

Hunkydory frames and papers. Die cut icicles. Hand drawn Church scanned and put into grey scale. Green pearls. The church is Trinity Methodist Church in Shifnal.

This was a special card for one of my bezzie's Mum's to give her daughter. They've just had a baby and the wall paper in the picture is the same as the paper in their nursery. Die cut window. Hero Arts stamped scene behind window. Greeting from Hunkydory. Bottle, chair, bear and box all stickers from the Royal Doll's House Sticker Book by Usbourne 2013.

These ginger bread/cookie toppers and papers were all freebies in a magazine and I've been saving them forever. The main ginger bread men were stamped and coloured with copics.

I've been loving the kraft card this Christmas. This was a combo of two stamp sets for the bunnies and the base of the snow globe. I used two circle die cutters to make the right size snow globe outline. Stamped bunnies coloured in with  polychromo pencils.

I promise this was appropriate wording for the sender/recipient! :) I printed out the Scrooge silhouette and masked off the writing, then cosmic shimmered the background and added some bling. I like the effect.

Sheena Douglass Stamps painted with watered-down distress inks. Snowy night sky made by flicking water onto a dark distress ink background.

Final card for the post. Just made me chuckle :)

New Much Love Collection

I've just uploaded onto Etsy and in the Facebook Group half of the new "Much Love" Collection! These four images are on sale and will be joined by the other half of the collection next week I hope :) They are all themed around Valentine's Day, Mothering Sunday, Aniversaries, etc.

 Puddles of Kitty Love

 

Geranium Love

 Purrfect Mum

 

Tail of Two Kitties

New Moo Cards have come! (Not sponsored)

I have needed some  new business cards for quite a while. I  wanted to just have my website and email address on them rather than the load of links I had on the last one. I'm really pleased with these!

I just used the four colour designs I made for my mugs and feel they are better at representing my current crafty status.

Cards are from Moo Cards. And  I usually wait until they have a great special offer before I order. This time it was a voucher for £10 off so I got my business cards done for less than a fiver! Suggest creating an account and doing the same? These are minicards, half the normal size of business cards, so cute! :)

Free Digis Up For Grabs! - New Crafty Addicts Challenge.

Hi! Just letting you know there is a new challenge live today on The Crafty Addicts Blog.

The theme is "Cute and Cuddly" and you can win three stamps from Knitty Kitty Digis. (from me! lol)

I've made this card as some Design Team inspiration using the "Christmas Cat Flap" digistamp available to buy on Etsy.

Coloured with Copics, Pink Stickles, Diecut Snowflakes and Icicles.

Knitty Kitty Teapot!

Hi! Just for your amusement, here is a picture of the first ever Knitty Kitty Teapot :)

We went to The Melting Pot in Bewdley last Saturday and had a brilliant morning painting ceramics. The ladies that help you are super kind and helpful and I'd like to give them a big thank you!!! Without them this would not have been possible.

Crafty Addicts Facebook January Challenge.

Am pleased to report I am now helping my friend Helen run a challenge blog called The Crafty Addicts!

Not only does it have two competitions per week on the blog, but an additional monthly challenge on Facebook.

This is the first Design Team I have been part of, and below is my first challenge inspiration card for the current Facebook Challenge. The theme is -  "Something With Wings" and I've used the stamp "Goth Fairy 2" by Morgan's Art World.

Wings and background are a combo of  Ranger Distress Daubers and Cosmic Mica Shimmer Mists. Additional bling with Stickles and Sequins. Fairy coloured with the computer and enhanced with Copics and white pen. Diecut greeting from Die'sire/Crafter's Companion.

The latest catnip toy designs.

Just a quick post with the latest designs so there is an "easy to refer to" guide when people are reordering :)
Catnip toys are £2 each and £1 to P&P however many you order. They contain real catnip so cannot be posted  internationally, sorry.

Elegant Sakura Maiden

New Blog Challenge today at The Crafty Addicts. I love this Moonflower image and have been itching to colour her in red and white.  She is called "Sakura Maiden". I'm very pleased Moonflower are sponsoring this challenge! As normal there is a theme of "Anything goes" but also "Elegance" if you fancy having a go and winning prizes.

It's lovely to make an oriental card, I have soooo much oriental themed craft stash but never a chance to use any of it! It's all lovely stuff but unfortunately in the heart of Shropshire, doesn't ever seem to sell. Never mind, chance to use it anyway! :D

Image coloured with copics and the backing papers all came from the oriental department of my craft item hoard! :D Added gem bling, stickles glitter and appliqué fan.

Christmas Card Workshop, back in November!

This might seem like a very late post, but honestly there is a reason. Although I would love to show you what we made that day, on the day - I can't if the cards might be received by people that might see them in advance. Now we are safely past Christmas, I can assume most have been seen and I am free to post!

We actually made 12 cards on the day, so here are a few of them. Most of them had room to add extra personalisation after, so these are the cards as I used them, rather than made them originally.

Distress Inks masked background with flicked water to make snow effect. Die cut sleigh and trees. Stamped fairy lights with added bling. 3D foam mounted greeting.

Cuttlebug embossing folder snowflake background. Die cut snowmen. Spotty ribbon and tiny bling.

Artemio Type F Pinguins with Sledge Wooden Stamp. (not sure if that's just a typo, or really Pinguins with an I?) Coloured with Polychromo pencils. HA greeting stamp. Stamped snowflakes in white. Mounted on Kraft Card.

Die cut sleigh, icicles and birch trees. Distress ink sky background with water flicked on to make snow. Joy wood paper as background.

Die cut snowflake frame and landscape scene. Sky using a white correcter pen on blue paper. Embossed background with added bling. 3D foam mounted greeting.

Snowflakes die cut from top layer. 3D foam mounted onto white card blank. Same die cut snowflakes from red card set inside the snowflake shaped gaps. Add bling and stamped sentiment.

Pulling Down The Tree Card

I'm just sorting out my Christmas Card photos so I can pop them all in a blog post but I thought I would feature this one in it's own post. It's a card I made using the "Pulling Down The Christmas Tree" Digistamp.

I coloured it with copics and added quite a lot of stickles glitter glue! The snowflakes were diecut waste from another card and I am always looking for an excuse to use the pom pom ribbon!

I'd also like to give you advance warning that if you would like to win three of my digistamps (of your choosing) I am sponsoring a card challenge at The Crafty Addicts Blog starting on the 3rd Feb. And hopefully by then, all the new images for Valentine's Day and Mother's Day will be listed on Etsy too!