Winter Wonderland Embossing

Just a reminder that our embossing theme will be running until the 22nd April. Here is a little embosed tag I made to go with the blog candy. If you have not entered then dont forget there is still loads of time. I've loved visiting the entries so far which are stunning.
Have a great Sunday x
Janet

Combined Christmas Challenges

Over on Susie and Vikkis challenge the theme this week is blue and silver - not usually a colour combo I use but I thought I'd give it a go. Over at Bah Humbug the theme is Tags - different ways to use tags on your Christmas projects. Over at Winter Wonderland the theme is embossing so an easy combinition of challenges :0)
here we have cardstock by Kanban, Silver holly paper by papermania, a little white card run through the swiss dots embossing folder and a chipboard Blonde Moments tree triple embossed with blue glass embossing powder, stamped into with the BM tree and a little perfect pearls silver added to define the stamp image. Added a large ribbon as the colour worked so well and finished off with a see ds sentiment stamp.
Don't forget my blog candy still plenty of time to join in! You can find it here

Winter Wonderland - This weeks its Embossing!

This weeks theme was chosen by our fabbie team mate Avril who would like to see Embossing on your project - any sort of embossing so go with whatever you like to do best!


Heat embossing is one of my favourite techniques - there is such a thrill about watching the powder melt and become something beautiful right before your eyes . This is a fab stamp and works really well with embossing. I picked it up at a second hand sale a couple of years ago and it has been used every year since! Ive gone for a gold on black look - then matted onto gold card then onto a card blank which has been covered with vellum, with gold swirls on it. The card blank is by papermania and is a black scalloped edge one. Ive edged the vellum in gold ink before attaching it to the card using black and gold organza ribbon.

Our challenge is sponsored this week by Card Mad Fairy

who is offering 3 digi images to the lucky randomly chosen winner Brilliant!

We are having a change of challenge day over at Winter Wonderland so this challenge runs until the 22nd April then we launch the new challenge on Friday the 23rd - so heaps of time for you to play this time.

Dont forget my blog candy! Just enter one week of the WW challenge and follow the other requests and it could be won by you!

Have a great day x Janet

Christmas Reindeer

Over at Susie and Vikkis Christmas challenge. We have been asked to produce a card with a reindeer on. This was the perfect excuse to make a card using the techniques in last Decembers Craft stamper with Kate Cranes fab alcohol ink tutorial. Ive made the card full size but used exactly the same techniques.
Stream and Purple twilight alcohol inks, I improvised with a swirl stamp from stampin up, then of course the gorgeous Tim Holtz prancing reindeer. Some stickles for glitter and a bit of Matt and layering and its done. I love the colour blending technique which is called Monoprinting - the results are different each time.
So there is my Reindeer card - I hope to join in this challenge more now Ive found it!
If you are a Christmas Lover then check out my blog candy above.
Happy Friay x Janet

Winter Wonderland says Happy Easter!

We feel Christmassy every week over on Winter Wonderland but this week we have had a visit from the Easter Bunny too! This week is the last sketch from the lovely Pascale before she moves on to pastures new. You can find the sketch here
Just to keep Easter in mind we would like to see Bunnies somewhere on your card too. Check out the DTs cool ways of using non-Christmassy stamps in a gorgeous Christmassy way! Check out the Dts blogs from the links at WW as most have managed to combine their DT card to other challenges too - I would also like to enter this into Magical crafts
which has a theme of cute creatures. One stitch at a time which has a theme of anything goes and Charisma Cards which is a theme of magical animals.
So onto my card - Ive used a High Hopes Bunny stamp - Not Christmassy at all but it did go really well with the Forever Friends Christmas greeting of Hugs and Kisses! The papers are by papermania, holly punched and then red stones added for the berries. The red spotty ribbon was re-cycled from a box of chocs! Image coloured with promarkers then edges distressed by TH distress inks.
This was fun to do so I hope you will join in this week for a chance to win $15 worth of Whimsey stamps vouchers - fabulous!
Check out the post above this too for a chance to win some blog candy!
Happy Easter Winter Wonderlanders xx

Winter Wonderland - a sketch with santa

At Winter Wonderland this week we have a brilliant sketch designed by the fabulous Pascale you can find it here.
She has also requested we have Santa somewhere on the card. Ive used dovecraft papers and card from stash for the majority of the card. Ive used adirondack inks for the main image - trees are an un known polymer stamp and the flying santa and sleigh is by Anitas. Ive added some stickles to the trees for a bit of glitzy snow too. The gorgeous sentiment is by Magnolia - I love it so you will possibly see it lots over the coming months LOL.
The challenge is being sponsored by the Fabulous Christine Dark otherwise known as Sketching stamper. Check her blog out here for some brilliant digi images - the prize is 3 of the winners choosing so a great prize to win. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with this week x Happy Sunday x Janet

A quick play

With a cute Forever friends stamp my pal Emma gave me last weekend - coloured with promarkers and cut out with nesties. The sentiment is also from forever friends and papers from papermania. Just a quickie but my Christmas card pile is growing!
Have a great day x Janet