Lovely as an Oak tree

I'm using one of my favourite sets, Lovely as a tree by Stampin Up, the backing card I scored with my new Hougie board, so easy to use scoring every centimeter. the corners are from the winter set of cuttlebug, the sentiment was computer generated, this card is for the following challenges:-

Our creative corner where special attention had to be given to corners.
One stop craft challenge where I used the sketch they gave us.
Cup cake craft challenge where they asked for One for the Boys, a card suitable for a male.
Magical crafts fortnightly challenge, they also asked for a card for a man.

New Home

I had good fund making this card, firstly I made the sky backing paper in Paint Shop Pro, and then I had a play with a new die cut I have just bought which is part of the 'Winter' set, this was cut out in all different colour cards and stuck together including the smoke! I am entering this for the
Onestopcraft challenge where they asked us to make our own designer paper, also for
Funwithshapesandmore challenge which needed to have hand made background paper. and also the
Craftalious challenge which asked for a NEW card, so mine is a new home card. And finally
Sirstampalot challenge was for 'Punch It' well my house and tree ware stamped out

Christmas silhouettes

A really good challenge at Bah! Humbug this week, it was to make a Christmas card with silhouettes, my silhouettes are from a free font, I cut them out with my Creative Memories cutter dont have a nestabilities circle (yet) and mounted onto a scallopped nestie, all three of the sentitments are computer generated, the corner cuts are made with cuttlebug vintage set.

Thank you with flowers

I just love embossed flowers, I was blog hopping last week and came across a blog which gave me this idea, sorry I cant link you to the blog, but this is what I came up with and it fits the following 2 challenges. Just us girls challenge which was asking for dry embossing, and also Flutterbywednesday which wanted a creation with a butterfly, angel or fairy on it.
My flowers were punched out and the centres were a die snowflake cut down with a spot of stickes in the centre, the leaves were made with a leaf punch kindly lent me by Anne, the corners are one of the Prova vintage die cuts. The sentiment was computer generated and done in green to match the leaves.

Card from scraps

I had fun making this, its for the challenge at Die cut dreams, using my flower die cut and lots of embossing folders, the sentitment was computer generated.

Piano keyboard card

Can't believe it had been and month since my last posting, but holiday have to be taken :)

This card is for the challenge at cupcakecraftchallenges, they wanted a black, grey and white card plus one colour, and for the challenge at Magical crafts also asking for black and white and one colour. I made the surround from a photograph of a piano keyboard in Paint Shop Pro, and the image is raised on foam pads, the balloon is raised also and coloured with gold glitter glue. The sentiment was computer generated.

Thinking about you

2 challenges caught my eye this week, so I have made a card to cover both of them

The first one was Dare U2 digistamp they were asking for flowers

The second one was Daring cardmakers they wanted us to use die cuts, all my flowers are made from dyecuts, the centres have a black gem, the sentiment was computer generated, and I also used Martha Stewarts punch for the border, the stems were drawn freehand, so not the best :)

Nature Challenge

There is a Nature challenge at Pink Elephant this week, so I knew the stamp I was going to use... one from the Stampin Up Lovely as a Tree, I didnt use the whole stamp just 2 trees, coloured these with my whisper pens back them with browm card, the sentiment was computer generated and again backed with brown card as was the 70... I used some string to get some texture across the middle of the card. The paper I used was from the Papermania Earth tones pad.
Jose

Christmas peel-offs

Back from my travels, had a lovely time away and even met up with Sue in Sydney, and she with her husband Ian showed us around which was so very kind of them, and then entertained us for lunch at their house.
Bah! Humbug! are asking us to use peel-offs this week, we also have to say what we think, do we love them, hate them or feel indifferent about them.... Well I think like a lot of others I used them when I first started making cards, but never use them now, but I did have a few odds and ends around.
I used my cuttlebug Christmas scene cut it out into a circle and stuck my peel-off Christmas greeting under it, mounted it onto yellowy/gold card... and also used some snowflake peel-offs on the white card which I embossed partly with swiss dots.

Jose

Holly card

Last posting for a while as I need a holiday, and going looking for sunshine.

This card is for the challenge at Bah Humbug, you see I'm trying to make my Christmas cards in good time this year! the challenge this week was for 'holly' my holly was from a tiny punch I have, yes a quick card.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Black fantasy tree

I started by mounting my base card with some pretty green paper Jo gave me ages ago when we first met, and yes I have only just got around to using it, and yes, using my fabulous Penny Black fantasy tree again, this time I have embossed it with black embossing powder onto yellow card and backed it with black card, taken the corners out of the yellow card with my ticket punch, I dont have any yellow brads to punched out tiny circles from the yellow card for the corners. My sentiment was computer generated. I finished off the card with 3 black jewels and some black swirls. This covers the challenge for Mondays colour challenge at Stamp TV where had to use sage green, yellow, black and white, and also the challenge at Raisethebarchallenge where we had to use old designer paper.
Thank you for looking..

Fantasy Tree Sparkle

I used the lovely Penny Black Fantasy Tree stamp again, this time stamped onto white card, dotted it with glue and then glitter, also spots of glitter around the edge of the sentiment, the base card was embossed with clutterbug swirl embossing folder, the sentiment was computer generated and a fancy corner was put in top right corner and this qualified me to enter the One Stop Craft Challenge I am really trying to keep up with my New Years resolution of 4 Christmas cards a month, and as Im away for 4+ weeks soon I am trying to get ahead of my self a bit.