Winter Post skaters

I love this card of Christine's and so have made one very similar. Thank you so much Christine for the inspiration - your work is beautiful! All Stampin' Up! products used here except for the punched out branches - they are punched with a Martha Stewart punch and Prisma pencils were used for the shading. The ovals were cut out with my Nestabilities.

I used Riding Hood Red, Kraft and black for the colours and Craft White to stamp the snowflakes on the layers.

This is most certainly a contrast to my last card but I am enjoying the variety!

Snowmen

Here is today's effort again using a couple of the MME papers! I have a real hang up about using too many patterns together and so I am not so sure I like this card but it looks better now I have layered the upper patterned paper with plain card. I am happy enough with it to show it on here!

The card and ribbon are from Stampin' Up! and I have used Nesties and a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I have no idea where the snowman came from - just an unmounted in my stash!

Tomorrow I start moving some of my stamping goodies into their new home - how good that will be!!

Naive Santa

Well here you go Leigh!! I have used some of my MME papers!! This little naive Santa stamp is one that my friend Nancy from the US sent me and I coloured him in with Copic markers.

I sponged all the edges with Distress ink and finished it all off with a BIG bow LOL!! I was going to use Flower Soft for the white parts on Santa but decided I would lose too much of the outline so just went over them with the SU white gel pen. The wording comes from a Papermania clear stamp set.

Father Christmas

I am home after my days away - home to the relentless heat so I wilt every day. Subsequently no stamping has been done but here is a card I had half finished on the retreat weekend.

Thank you Leigh for the image - not sure even who makes it but it is a perfect stamp to stamp in vintage colours. I had bought some lovely papers when away so picked these with my favourite purple shade on them!!

The carpet layer is putting the carpets in the bedrooms today - just a grey colour so nothing exciting about them but I was thinking of the practicality of them. So then I can start moving some of my stamping stash etc into my craft room drawers and cupboards.

A Christmas Case!

I often look at this blog because America makes lots of cards using House Mouse stamps. If you scroll down the page, you will see the card I have CASED. Both Leigh and I think it is a beautiful card and one a little different to the traditional Christmas card. So using what I have in my stash, this is my version!

The picket fence and leaves are Martha Stewart punches, the house stamps are Martha Stewart, the scallop edge punch is Stampin' Up! as is the gold embossed tree from the Season of Joy set.

The wording is from a Papermania clear stamp set.

Tomorrow I am off to stay with my Mum for a few days and also to go to my grandson's birthday party. He especially wanted to talk to me yesterday to ask me if I was coming LOL!! How could I not go - even if it is a six hour drive to get there!

The new house is progressing well. Things like the sink, wash basins, towel rails etc were going in today so not long now before we can move in. I can start filling up my craft cupboards and drawers now if I want to!

Christmas Tree

I wanted to use some of the goodies that I have bought lately!! Such beautiful papers - they are from the Papermania range as are the stamps.

I had to search for my collection of inkpads to find a green colour to suit the paper and found this one which matches so well. The velvet ribbon is beautiful as is the Martha Stewart Border Punch I bought.

It is so nice to read that it is raining in so many dry parts of the State. We have had nothing here yet though it is cloudy and a big tease!!

My week away was wonderful - Kim's stamp retreat was a lot of fun and then my stay with Bethel just went too fast. We did cram a lot into our time together and managed to test out a few different Frappes and an Infusion on our shopping outings LOL. Must say I like them too!!

House Mouse and Friend!

This is the cutest little image called A Carrot Between Friends. I have made the card to send overseas so it does not have a lot of embellishments on it. That makes it easier to post with no fear of something being broken on the way.

I have the biggest stash of patterned paper so am trying to use some up. This paper came from a 6 by 6 paper pad in all sorts of retro colours and designs. Copics have been used to colour the image and I have put on faux brads.

No more posting now until I come home from a week away - firstly to a stamp camp on the weekend and then a few days with Bethel. I look forward to the break away and when I come home, our new house will be all painted - something to look forward to seeing!