Owl Christmas

Hi

I have made an owl Christmas card today

The owls were stamped and coloured

The green wiggly line was die cut using a wave die and I cut off the other side with scissors

I used some previously cut small embellishments to decorate the 'tree'

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed

I am liking this card with

Christmas Card Throwdown

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Christmas with the Cuties

Christmas animals

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Crimbo Crackers

anything Christmas goes

&

Simon Wednesday

anything goes

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

Pink Gift Tag

Hi

I have made a pretty gift tag today

I die cut the tag and covered it with patterned paper, it wasn't quite big enough to cover the whole thing so I used washi tape over the end

I added a washi tape stripe

The trees and rectangle are die cut and I tied some twine in a bow

I am linking this tag with

Just Add Ink

love the pink tree

&

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

anything goes as long as it's Christmas

optional theme: use some twine or ribbon

&

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

anything goes include patterned paper

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

Doughnut

Hello

I had to make a card involving my favourite food.  Oh what to choose...

I stamped, coloured and cut out the doughnut

The heart panel is die cut (another die from a bundle)

I stamped the sentiment from the same set as the doughnut

The background sprinkles I made from small dots of nuvo drops in multi colours

I am linking this card with

Alphabet Challenge

H is for hungry - favourite food

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CAS Colours and Sketches

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Unicorn Challenge Blog

food and/or drink

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Tuesday Throwdown

Favourite embellishment -

Nuvo drops of course

&

Little Red Wagon

backgrounds

thanks for looking

Dawn

xxx

White Washed Flowers

Hello and welcome to a special blog

I have joined the design team at Cardz 4 Galz

which is very exciting

So this is my first team blog

and the theme is

'Stamp on Kraft'

I haven't done very much of this before as I have found that, while the stamp itself looks fine, colouring onto a dark background makes the colours dull. 

So I was looking around on pinterest for inspiration and I found this technique called 'whitewash technique'. 

Which solves this problem because you stamp the image and fill it with white ink or paint so when it is dry you can colour as if you are colouring onto white

So here is my card

These flowers are stamped, heat embossed with white embossing powder and painted with white (the online tutorials used special paint brushes/pens but I don't have anything like that so I used some ready mixed paint from Hobbycraft and watered it down a little) and painted it on with a paintbrush.

They were coloured as normal after the paint had dried and I added nuvo drop dots to the center

I used the same technique for the leaves but I didn't heat emboss them

The sentiment is stamped using distress ink as I found that these inks stamp the best on kraft

I also had some thin kraft offcuts which I curled and glued on just for fun

So quite a lucky find and a good technique to use on dark card

Would you like to see my practice flower? you know you do

What a beauty!!

So have a look at Cardz 4 Galz

and make your own card to enter

and don't forget to check out my team mates cards and leave them a nice comment

buy for now

Dawn

xxx

Monochrome Man Card

Hi

I have made a monochrome man card today

Background -

Stencilled stars

Washi tape down the center

Embossed piece of black card (with a manly pattern)

The main picture and sentiment are stamped

I am linking this card with

Cardz 4 Guyz

no patterned paper

&

The Male Room

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Shopping Our Stash

black and white

&

Simon Wednesday Challenge

reach for the stars

&

Sunday Stamps

see you soon

Dawn

xxx

Ducklings Swimming

Hi

I have stamped some cute ducklings

I die cut the water and marked just below where I was going to glue it and stamped the ducklings along this mark and coloured them.  The water is then stuck in it's proper place and therefore covering the bottom of the ducklings making them look like they are swimming.

The sentiment is stamped

I am linking this card with

Cupcake Inspirations

&

CASology

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Daring Cardmakers

&

Time Out Challenges

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

Update

Thank you CASology

Flowers in oval

Hello

I have made a bunch of flowers today

Frame

Die cut the ovals and glue them to some glitter card

Glue the top down with glue and the bottom with 3d glue pads

Flowers

Make the flowers by die cutting and pressing the middle with a round tipped tool (I used a nail polish dotting tool) onto something soft eg polystyrene so the edges bend forward

Add nuvo drops to the center and leave to dry

Stems and leaves

Die cut a selection and arrange them inside the frame allowing them to overlap

Assemble

Glue the flowers onto the tops of the stems

I am linking this card with

AAA Cards

&

Daisy Chain Challenges

no design paper

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Pammie's Inky Pinkies

anything goes

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

Fireworks

Hi

I have got some new stamps and I had to try them out

I used the colours from CAS colours and sketches and covered the page with fireworks

I die cut a banner/ribbon from it, stamped and heat embossed a sentiment and stuck it back with 3d glue pads

I am linking this card with

CAS Colours and Sketches

&

Tha Paper Players

&

Watercooler Wednesday

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

Dragon Belly Treat Box

Hello again

I have been building today

Meet Dennis the Dragon

Here he is from behind

and from the side

I made him using an SVG file from My Scrap Chick I used the file for a penguin and used my cricut to cut it in green and made the wings, feet, tail and fringe from various die cutters that I had

I filled his treat belly with a bath bomb as I had no chocolate (I wonder who ate it all)

and tied him together with some twine

He has come out rather cute

I am linking him with

Always Fun Challenges

anything but a card

&

Little Red Wagon

fantasy

thanks for looking

Dawn

xxx

Dancing Santa

Hi again

I have made a santa card

This is my favourite santa stamp, he is dancing a jig and is very happy.  So I stamped, coloured and die cut him out

I die cut two silver glitter stars and embossed the background in red

I used washi tape for the sentiment

I am linking this card with

Christmas Card Throwdown

&

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

anything goes as long as it's Christmas

optional theme: use a die cut or punch

&

CAS Colours and Sketches

&

Simon Wednesday

for a child

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

Santa's Sleigh

Hello

I am back making Christmas cards

The sleigh was die cut out of metallic gold card

I used the cricut to write the sentiment in black and metallic blue

Then dotted peach and green nuvo drops around

I am linking this card with

AAA Cards

&

Colour Throwdown

&

ABC Christmas Challenge

N - No Fuss

thanks for looking

Dawn

xxx

Whale in the Water

Hello crafters

Today I have made a whale card

I used two pieces of blue card, cut them with a wave die cutter and overlapped them, slipping in the whale who I made with two oval die cutters and a googly eye

The water spray I made using a corner die, just a decorative one, but I removed the square outer and put it upside down on the whale and used the cut outs as water drops, decorating them all with white gel pen

The sentiment is die cut

I am linking this card with

Paper Craft Crew

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The Paper Players

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Papercraft Business Challenges

ocean/water

&

CAS on Sunday

ANYTHING BUT WHITE

In other words, white/vanilla should NOT be the predominant colour on your card, 

though you can still use small amounts

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

Bunch of Flowers

Hello

I have made a bunch of flowers today

Make flowers

Die cut even numbers of the petals and glue them together

Add gems to the center

Die cut the vase and arrange them on a die cut rectangle

Here they are closer

The sentiment is washi tape

Background

Emboss red card with polka dots

Mount the flowers onto blue

Glue twine around the edge and put a gem in the corners to hide the joins

I am linking this card with

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

&

Cupcake Inspirations

&

Tuesday Throwdown

polka dots

&

Always Fun

"Mood Board Inspiration"

I used the colours red, white and blue

Thanks for looking

Dawn

xxx

Three Snowmen

Hello again

I seem to be making a lot of Christmas cards at the moment

here is another one

The snowmen are stamped, coloured and I added 3d enamel effects to their hats and scarfs

The stripy frame was made by inking an embossing folder before putting in the card and die cutting outside and inside

The sentiment is stamped and heat embossed

Three gems were added to the corner

I am linking this card with

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge

anything goes as long as it's Christmas

optional theme: use some red

&

Pearly Sparkles Challenge

Three of A Kind
(Use three of the same thing on your project)

&

The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up

Challenge #67

 Optional Twist: FLIP-A-COIN

FLIP	HEADS	TAILS
1	Make a card with 3 layers or less	Make a card with 4 or more layers
2	Make a rectangular or square card	Use a fancy fold technique
3	Add dots to your card	Add stripes to your card
4	Add lace or ribbon to your card	Add gems or pearls to your card
5	Add a frame to your card	Use faux or real stitching on your card

I had-

heads - 3 or less layers

heads - rectangle or square card

tails - stripes

tails - gems

heads - frame

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Christmas Crafts All Year Round

This month the challenge is to create something "cool" for Christmas or for the Winter holidays ! Think snow, frost, ice, freezing, icicles...

bye for now

Dawn

xxx

UPDATE

thank you 12 months of Christmas blog

I look forward to recieving them

White Pine Needles

Hi again

I have been working with white today

I used my Christmas tree branch die cutter

I cut some in normal white card, some in a shiny white card and two out of white foam

I glued normal white card onto the foam ones

The sentiment was stamped, heat embossed and die cut

I arranged (randomly) with the sentiment in the center

Here is a close up of the center where you can see the 3d

I am linking this card with

Christmas Card Throwdown

black is authorized only for the sentiment

&

Freshly Made Sketches

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Shopping Our Stash

Christmas in July

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Merry Little Christmas Challenge

July anything Christmas goes

thanks for looking

Dawn

xxx

Two Toned Flowers

Hello

I have been stencilling two toned flowers

I stencilled the flowers by running the blue ink around the outside of the stencil and the purple in the center, then I drew a black outline still using the stencil

I did the leaves in a similar way but only used green, I drew on the veins after with the same black pen

The sentiment is stamped and heat embossed

I am linking this card with

CAS Colours and Sketches

&

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge

&

Southern Girls Challenge

anything goes

&

Watercooler Wednesday

 bye for now

Dawn

xxx