New Little Claire Challenge Blog

Little Claire will be starting up a monthly challenge blog on the 5th February and to celebrate they are giving away some fabulous candy. I am already such a huge fan of Little Claire as the quality of their stamps gives such a great stamped impression. In fact belonging to their club means I already own two of the stamp sets in the candy but if I was lucky enough to win I could pass them onto my sister who is also a card maker and scrap booker. I'll also take this opportunity to share with you a card I made using their November Club Stamp "A Little Bird told Me"

 

Items: Little Claire Stamp Set "A Little Bird Told Me", Paper Cellar Cream Raffia Lace, ProMarkers, Cream card from my stash, Raffia and Memento black inkpad.

PS: I need a rest now...that's two posts in one day.

Happy New Year...

 ...yes I know I'm a little late but it's taken me a while to get back into routine since the Christmas festivities and visiting family and friends.
This will just be  a quick post tonight but I wanted to share a few of my Christmas cards I made and I'm patting myself on the back because despite having to chase around after my nearly walking little boy I managed to make all my cards (all 48 of them!!).

Hubby said it was cruel to dress Elliot up but I think you'll agree he sure does make my cards look cute.

I came up with a fab way to make the snowflakes look extra pretty, I made my own sparkly textured paper by mixing Aqua Glass paints, PVA glue, tissues and glitter and then punching the out with a lovely Martha Stewart punch and adding a gem or a pearl in the middle. The effect is real pretty.

So very tired

And yet so very happy as I've just got back home from my very first visit to the Birmingham NEC Hobbycraft show. I had a fab day and have a lot of new goodies to play with. So hopefully I'll have some more cards to share with you very soon.

Age Cards

I was just looking back through my pictures of cards I have made so far this year and remembered that I had made these back in January for a run of 'Special' birthdays among my friends and family, being special birthdays I wanted the age to be the prominent feature. My way of doing this is to print the mirror image of the number (created as word art on Microsoft Word) on the reverse of my card stock and then cut out, this way you won't get any printed lines showing on the front (although I do sometimes print on the front and then cut around leaving a white border which gives a nice effect) and then mat and layer each time carefully cutting the numbers out by hand.

 Items: Glitter self adhesive card from Hobbycraft, card used is Bazzill Bling and a matstack from DCWV, stamps from sets by Daisy & Dandelion, Personal Impressions and Inkandinkado, black striped vellum from stash, Sakura Metallic Pens, Stickles and brads and flowers from Papermania.

It's my first

...altered item. Thanks to the challenge over at the Stampman Challenge Blog I have attempted to alter something. I chose a glass jar (so if it went wrong I hadn't wasted any money!!) and have turned it into a modern Halloween lantern (not so messy as pumpkin and you don't get to use glitter on a pumpkin).

I made the mottled purple colour by layering tissue paper on purple glass paint and then giving a top coat of PVA glue mixed with purple glitter. Next I stamped a black jewelled flourish pattern all over with Stazon and glittered the little jewelled dots on the pattern with orange glitter. Lastly I added some ribbon and flowers and then the sparkly critters. I am pretty pleased with the result, although I wish I could have affixed the bats and spiders somehow else as the wire shows up too much for my liking.  Let me know what you think.

 

Items: Glass Jar, Purple Aqua glass paint, white tissue paper, PVA glue, Purple and Orange glitter (Craft Planet), Papermania Orange Ribbon, Wire, Halloween Accessories Digi image set from All That Scraps, Papermania Orange flowers, Jewell Flourish Stamp set from Inkadinkado, Black Stazon, Orange card

Sorry the photos aren't better quality but it was very difficult to capture the over all look when the candle was lit and the lights were out.