The Alley Way Stamps

There is a brand new stamp site having a grand opening that i hope you will join me in supporting, i would display the badge on the side bart but cant remmeber how to do it!!!!

So please follow the below

http://www.thealleywaystamps.blogspot.com/p/shop.html:

'Thank you' cards

Well the presents have been opened and its time to think about saying thank-you to everyone for the lovely gifts that my family and i received.

For these thank-you cards i used white card and die cut the shape out of the face of the card, placing the card onto a spare peice of scrap i used a distress ink pad and attempted to distress the card going outwards from the die cut space.

For the inside of the cards i used a stamp which i stamped using brown momento ink.  I used brown momento ink to stamp the adorable little mouse from some stamps that i recieved free on a craft magazine that i subscribe to.

I coloured the mouse using pro-markers, and placed him on the card using pads, and finished the card off by glueing 2 small material flowers with silicone glue.

 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-166.html

http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-50-anything-goes-team-gem.html
http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/anything-goes.html

My last christmas card! (I hope!)

I have finally made my very last christmas card, it is going to go to my very best friend Paula.  I used my new present that i bought for myself - my distresser!  I think it will take me a bit of getting used too, but i gave it a good attempt i feel.

I also used a sketch for the layout which i do not often do, i am quite pleased as to how it worked out.  With this card i am entering the following challenges:
 http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-186-17th-december-sponsored-by.html
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-129mega-christmas-challenge.html
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/challenge-93anything-goes.html
http://scrapbooksisters.blogspot.com/2011/12/card-challenge-66.html
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/pile-it-on-49-december-month-long.html

Christmas gifts for Neighbours and Work collegues

Well i have had a busy weekend with my girls childminders christmas party on Saturday, and i borrowed my dear friend Paula's Ultimate pro! I spent my Sunday making cards for my neighbours and for the girls that I work with in the office.  I decided to take inspiration from the docrafts web site tip for quick cards although they were not very quick in my opinion!

I worked out that I needed to make 5 cards for work and 4 for my neighbours (or was it 5?).   I decided to make these from some of the really thick card stock in a deep red (perfect for Christmas cards etc) that I seemed to have an abundance of left over from Christmas crafting.  I then needed to do some envelopes but as the card stock that I had used for the cards was so thick, I decided to make the envelopes with approx 5mm depth.  You can just see the envoloboxes in the background. 

To go with the cards that I made, for my work mates I made some not so seasonal tiffin (crushed rich teas mixed with melted butter, sugar, cocoa powder and golden syrup, topped with a layer of chocolate) the reason this was not so seasonal is that I forgot to add a handful of cranberries! For my neighbours I always feel like making the effort at Christmas time,  so for the last 2 years I have trussed my kids in their winter woolies and taken them with me to knock on the neighbours doors to give them a seasonal treat.  This year I made some shortbread biscuits and mixed some cranberries in for the seasonal effect (I didn’t forget this time!), and used a star shaped cutter.  As I am more experienced in my crafting this year I strayed from the polythene bag and made cartons. 

At this point I did not realize quite how long this was going to take me!  I have to say by the end of the day my 7 year old daughter was a dab hand at making boxes, and even used a bit of my thick red card to make herself a box for herself! (for her jewelry apparently but it is still on my dining table covered in all of the other cartons she made from my scrap card!).

I made these boxes from pearlised card, once all the cards and envelopes had been done, I cut the Tiffin, bagged it up with the biscuits and put them into boxes finished off with a co-ordinated silver ribbon.

I am going to look for some challenges that I can enter my card into, and go delivering the neighbours parcels tonight. And then i will be tackling the huge pile of ironing that built up while i was completing my gifts!

The days end result:

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-129mega-christmas-challenge.html


 

Husbands christmas card

I am down to my very last few christmas cards now and i am making a mental note that i should make my personal cards for close friends and family members first and not leave them to the end!  Sometimes i prefer the cards that i have made in haste when under pressure of a deadline as it prevents me from being indecisive! 

I made this card with my husband constantly wandering past me as i sat on my front room carpet surrounded by my usual spread of essential craft products.  Luckily for me he never looks at what i am doing when i am crafting!

I used a pro-marker tutorial to shade my Kenny K image skin and hair (i will add the link here later for the tutorial as it is on my laptop favourites - found it:-http://scrapbooksisters.blogspot.com/2011/12/card-challenge-64.html).  I was unsure of the initial line of colour and i think i will miss this off in future, plus the ink from my printer smudges when i use my pro-markers on it! Grrrr!!!!!

To my image:

I love Kenny K images, as i love colouring them in!  My new years resolution is to complete my collection of pro-marker and learn to use them better.  There are so many great tutorials out there!

I used glossy accents on her boots and took a picture because i wanted to point out that the colour changed when i added the glossy accents and made the boots more of an orange colour than a red colour.

It also doesn't seem to show up on the picture above but i added some tiny gems to the tim holtz die cut that i used.  I was thinking of putting pearls to give the mistletoe look but felt that this may not look quite right as it is not mistletoe dies that i used!

I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:  http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-129mega-christmas-challenge.html
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com
http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/
http://trulymadlycraftychallenges.blogspot.com/
http://mimchallegeblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/mmm-week-28.html
http://hookedoncraftchallenges.blogspot.com/
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/
http://scrapbooksisters.blogspot.com/2011/12/card-challenge-64.html

http://bizzybecsstore.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-challenge.html



Wedding card

A wedding card for a wedding my Dad is going too.

New Job card

A work collegue left work this week and I made a quick card with a simple design that i have not used before but one that i found looked quite effective.

This photo was taken on my newly laid carpet, before the kids ruin it!

Sassy Christmas Challenge #9 - Photo Inspiration

For my latest card i decided to enter the Sassy Studio Designs latest monthly challenge, the challenge required a Sassy Studio image, with a photo for inspiration:

 

I used some black and white and silver paper that i bought home from my trip to Florida, with some red ribbon. 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Sassy Studio monthly challenge:  http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com/2011/12/sassy-christmas-challenge-9-photo.html 

• Week 129–Mega Christmas challenge: http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/