Cute Christmas Card

I don't normally like cute images that much, but I liked this one; bought it at Donnington Park (a Crafter's Companion stamp).  Again, this was easy to do - I used a Crafty Individual's backing paper, and my 2 snowflakes were covered in a silver glitter embossing powder.

 

Christmas Card

Using a Stampability stamp.  I bought this reduced after last Christmas - I thought it would be good to use because there isn't a lot of colouring to do on it....  I used Spellbinders to cut out the middle bits and used some papers from last Christmas (or the one before?).  It's also quite a good way of using the paper up - it looks nice but I found it quite tricky to use on smaller cards.  This is on a Kanban card I got from Create and Craft some while ago.

Clarity Stamps card - using Pan Pastels

This was a first attempt at using Pan Pastels.  I bought them in red, dark blue and purple (choosing my favourite colours - trust me to like those colours instead of pastel blues etc!).  I stamped the Clarity Stamp with Flitterglu, then added the gold leaf.  Then I rubbed the Pan Pastels on top.  I was really pleased with this so decided to do nothing else to it at all; just mounted it and placed it on a silver card.  I must say that it is worth having a few practices first with Flitterglu and Pan Pastels.  Not all my attempts turned out as well as this one.  You also need a really cheap hairspray - just spray it in the air and run the stamped card through it (before laying it up!). 

 

 

 

Box made up - eventually

This is a box I made from Jo Capper-Sandon's workshop.  I bought the box from the Craft Barn and decided to use one picture on the lid... and I cut up the other picture to use inside.  I layered it up with pink paper and a printed paper, but I didn't think it looked right.  I left it for a while, then eventually decided to use a Ranger Acrylic Paint dabber (in Shell Pink) on the top.  Yes, it would have been easier to do it first... but I did manage to cover the paper while avoiding the stamped image. 

Kanban stamps candle.  I at last found out how to do this... it sounds so easy.... and it was!  This was the first one I did and I'm going to give it away as a present.

You do need to find the right kind of candle though.  I did buy a pack with 5 candles for a pound - which sounds great but they were cream coloured.  That would still have been fine, but I found that the wax melted and left a slightly different colour underneath.... I won't be giving those away! 

Crafty Individuals clock.  I made this in a workshop in the Craft Barn earlier this summer (you will see others on the Crafty Individuals site) - quite a bit of work and it's still unfinished (that's down to me, I'm afraid - it still needs a few bits adding to the roof and the hanging weights put on it).  Had great fun doing it though - we used TAP paper to put the stamps on to it.  Jean Hardy also tried stamping on to mulberry paper - it looks great, and I have tons of that laying around.  I must admit that although it looks nice, I think if I did it again I'd only use one kind of paper at the back.

This one was a quick make - I used a stamp from Lili of the Valley. 

This is a postcard I made after Jo Capper- Sandon's workshop.  I added the bow to her hair and stamped a saying on it (from the dylusions range).