Auroa Wings-TTPH

Good morning lovely people.... I must apologise for my lack of blogging lately but I have been majorly busy making commission cards some of which I hope to share, and like most crafters  I'm trying to make Christmas cards and its just not happening ... One step forward, ninety five back lol and we seem to be racing towards November arggggghhhh scary or what?!?......Here endith today's mini rant .....

Now onto today's DT make for TTPH, the theme is Snowflakes/Stars. We're sponsored this week by Aurora Wings Who have some truly beautiful images to chose from.... I have used the stunning "Christmas Floral", it is so detailed and really did test my colouring skills, but it was such fun to colour....

I used my clear wink of Stella pen, (my best purchase in a long time, looks beautiful without the aftermath of the devils dust, which is the name for glitter in my house). I wanted to make this image the star of the show so to speak so I kept the design relatively simple...

I matted the holly paper onto red card stock and also made a frame for the picture out of the same card stock. I edged the frame with that wink of stella pen again and added a cream bow and snowflake to finish....

Card Recipe

Pro-Markers Burgundy, Berry, Red

Satin, Ivory, Blush 

Holly, Pine

Pear Green, Moss, Olive, Heatwave

Spellbinders Labels
Ribbons/Pearls from stash

 I am playing along at:
Crafty Ribbons ~ Christmas Past with Ribbons (Weekly)
Christmas Stamping All Year ~ Anything Goes (Weekly)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas ~ Forgotten/Never used (Weekly) Stamp & Sentiment
Anything Goes with A Twist ~ Shimmer and Sparkle (Weekly)
Sister Act ~ Anything Goes (Weekly)
Polkadoodles  ~ Christmas Fun (Fortnightly)
Aurora Wings ~ Heartfelt


Please pop over to TTPH and see all the DT makes and join in.... Please drop by again soon and as always thanks for visiting...

Christmas Soldier ~ Cute As A Button DT

Good morning all....Ohhh!!!! what a week I'm having, everything I touch seems to break, fall or disappear lol.... Lets hope next week bestows on me better luck as I have lots of baking to do for our Macmillian week at work...

Anyway, I digress....

 I'm just sharing a card that may inspire you to enter our challenge this month at  "Cute As A Button".....  He is called the "Christmas Soldier" and he's rather cute....

For this one, I made an easel card out of a pre-made card, coloured with my Promarkers I then mounted red music paper onto Kraft card and cut three strips of green paper and mounted them onto the music paper....I mounted the image onto the card and on this occasion I used pre-made poinsettias and a felt holly swirl....I used Glossy Accents on the Candy Cane to make it look shiny and a green "Wink of Stella" glitter pen on the poinsettias and the leaf on his hat...

Christmas Soldier

Card Recipe:

Promarkers:

Skin ~ Soft Peach, Oatmeal, Blush

Uniform ~ Burgundy' Berry, Red

Holly/Leaf ~ Pine, Holly

Boots/Key ~ Ice Grey  2,3,4,

Papers, Swirls and Poinsettia from stash

I've been inspired to join in at:

Krafting Kimmie ~ Anything Goes (Weekly)

613 Avenue Create ~ Anything Goes (Weekly)

ABC Christmas ~ Something Festive (Fortnightly)

Crafting from the Heart ~ Anything Goes (Weekly)

Suzy Bee ~ Anything Goes (Weekly)

Love to Scrap ~ Anything Goes (Fortnightly)

Thanks as always for popping by to my blog, and have a great week.....

Hello.......Well you've managed to find me so can I thank you so very much for taking the time to stop by and join me on my new adventures... Firstly here on my new blog, where I hope we can chat, have a coffee and share inspiration.. Secondly and most excitedly I have been asked to join the DT for TTPH Challenge Blog (Through The Purple Haze) from August, so I'll have competition news and inspiration for you too.

So to the first card I would love to share with you is using LOTV image Christmas Bunnies in a Stocking. I know, I know a Christmas Card in July but I am really trying to be organised, yeah like that'll last... The paper was from a magazine freebie,matted onto Kraft card stock. I used distressed ink on the edges of the paper, the stamped image, the rose and the sentiment, which was created on the PC. The Stars are created by using the memory-box die precious-stars. This is such a handy die to have, I quite often use the star or the bow part on their own as separate embellishments... ... I coloured the image with Promarkers...

Christmas Cutie

Card Recipe

Promarkers used

Stocking - Burgundy, Berry Red, Red

Bunnies- Ice grey 3,2,1

Hats - Bright Green, Leaf Green/Oasis, Frosted Jade

Distressed Ink Tim Holtz Tea dye

Red and green gems and small rose from stash.