Mrs Peter Xmas

This challenge at creative knockouts is  Time to be merry with an image from Mirtillamente and I chose this image to  use mrs peter xmas

I decided to make a shaped card and this is a triple balcony card (found on Pinterest JanB cards ) was a bit fiddly cutting out the little card and backing papers but worth it to me as I quite like doing shaped cards As we don't have a white Christmas in NZ  thought I would dream of a pink one and I know my little granddaughter will love it. I used pink card for my base card. The backing paper I have used, was just one little square that I found on Pinteress that I liked so I cut and pasted a whole lot of them on a word document and printed it off with a few extras to put in my stash, I haven't got a whole lot of pink copics so I put dot's and stripes on some of the parcels  I printed off the image and it was too tiny for the height of the card so then I did a much bigger one, The image I have adhered to the card with foam tape, I have adhered the image on the three tiers just makes the card a bit more stable. The Merry Christmas sentiment that came with this image I have have printed onto card and adhered to the inside of the card

Martini girls

 The theme this week at creative knockouts is thankful with an image from pattiescreations the image I am using is martini girls

I am not sure what this fold is called but it was simple to do 

                              

The front view 

The backing paper was adhered to the card, the side strips white card the front panel was a plain colour that was  lightly embossed

                                                                                                                                                                    The back view the card is the same only with a white panel so it can be written on the backing paper was smaller because It was all I had left

Then it was time to put it together I coloured my image with copics distress inked the edges and adhered to the patterned backing paper, I added a strip of plain card to the bottom of the girls dresses ( the colouring was a bit uneven) added a birthday sentiment I cut the flower white and was going to give them a purple edge, then I remembered I had bought the grandkids some metallic felt  pens I was quite pleased with how they turned out so they are now mine, but I will share .I  then spritzed the die cut with water and scrunched them up to dry I die cut some leaves put mogpodge on them and left them to dry. the next day I adhered them to the card there is also small sparkly gems in each of the corners and some water gems on the flower and leaves

The Thankful part.... Friends

New crafting buddy

 We recently adopted a cat well she adopted us first, she was a cat that had wandered looking for her home and she made it next door. Gucci is her name ??? the neighbor's decided they would keep her but she was going to the vets to be micro chipped and desexed turned out she already was and she was 3 years old, we thought she was just a kitten The original owners said that they were happy to let Gucci stay with the neighbors. When the neighbor's went away for 3 weeks, I was feeding the cats  Gucci would wait for me on my deck when it was feed time, then she started to come inside but still go next door for her feeds, then she came back over to ours, it got to the stage that she was here all the time so after the neighbors got back she still stayed here. So we decided we had to adopt her She is now a cats weight  and she is just gorgeous. She now has a cat door to come and go, has a  choice of 4 beds to sleep on and has toys to play with, We are now waiting for a water fountain thing for her to drink from, as at the moment she gets on the basin in the bathroom and we have to turn the tap on for her to have a drink. She likes to follow the sun and when I was in my craft room she came in got onto my table promptly walked all around and over my laptop, has been known to sit down on it so I cant do anything and too bad if my hands are under her she then found a spot  and lay down when I went to get a bit of paper that was near her and she put her paw on it as much to say don't disturb me so I didn't, 

She completely run's our household and us but we don't mind 😻

cheerful snowman

 My computer got sick so I have been out of action for a while and I have to say I was going into withdrawals But it is back now.

I missed this card being published 

The image to be used was cheerful Santa from the paper shelter was meant to have a favorite embellishment but I forgot that 

Not too sure what this fold is called but have posted more photos The base card was folded in half and then one side cut from top top bottom papers from my endless stash then a second card was made  one end of the card and the paper was cut on the cuttle bug the bottom of the card is adhered to base card The image I decided to put him in a snow globe,a digi stamp, I adhered the snow globe with foam dots to stand the card p you sit the cut out end on to the folded out part of the card

Here are the rest of the photo's

close up of the globe

standing up

inside of card

Our challenge this time at creative knockouts is Embossing, any type of embossing with a image from sheepski designs and I am using, augie a delightful looking bear

I printed him off large as I wanted him to be the main element of the card I coloured him with copics and pinched a couple eyes out of my husbands fishing fly tying box they looked much better than googly eyes.

I embossed the card with a ezy cut folder but they don't name them.I lightly swiped a rusty hinge embossed ink over it,

I then cut a line in the card just enough for augie to slide in,then it was adhered to white base card So when you open the card you don't see the split just looks so much neater.

The  fold on the card didn't look right so I put a tartan ribbon on it then the gold braided ribbon on top. The sentiment was done on the computer and inside the card I put "Just checking in to see how you are doing"

 This challenge at  creative knockouts this time is outside fun 

Using this image from Patties Creations rub-a-dub-puppies 

I also used the boy from jans digi stamps a boy and his dog 

The backing paper was from a stack pack adhered to white base card, 

Then a tag in the middle with white and maroon card 

The two images I put together in a word document image coloured with copics distress inked the edges then adhered to blue card 

Two light blue brads in the corners

The sentiments were done on the computer, adhered with foam dots  

Christmas in July

 This week at creative knockouts the theme is Christmas in July. The image I had to work with is this lovely one from polkadoodles called Hot Chocolate. 

I thought it was a bit early for christmas cards but  a couple of my grandchildren are already counting down the weeks so maybe it"s not too early

I coloured the image with copics and then covered it with cellophane,the cup and spoon look white but I coloured them in a very light blue along the edges just to give them a bit of depth, I cut the hole in the red card and made a wreath to go around the circle using a leaf punch (there were a few) then I cut some holes with the hole punch to make the berries and used a black roller tip pen to put the dots on them the bells are a die cut..I coloured them with copics as well The lolly backing paper was from a magical stack,I adhered it to the white base card then the main image was adhered to that.I put the image and sentiment on an angle just because it didn't look right to me stuck in the middle The sentiment is a ribbon

So I guess this is the start of my christmas cards