Sugar Nellie Stamps

I was testing out my Copic Pens with this card - only used grey to shade the bear and a pale lilac (I think) for the girl's outfit.  Then I used glitter glue (Stickles - Star Dust) over her hat and around the card.

Calendar

I did this with a tag book from the Everything's a Pound shop (at the NEC) - split it up to get 4 calendar backgrounds.  I used Distress Stain on the tag, a torn up book page with Distress Stain on too, used the stamp from Craft Stamper magazine and used a dyed ribbon to finish.

Notepads

Now that I can get pictures again, I have quite a bit to catch up on!  These are the other 2 notepads I did for stocking fillers at Christmas - the one on the right is done with Clarity Stamps.  For that one I used coloured inks to stamp with on each page (for all the others I stamped in black).

Tim Holtz stamps

This is the other stamp in the set...  For some reason I couldn't get pictures on to my website for the last few weeks, but it seems to have sorted itself out now.  

Tim Holtz stamps

Tim Holtz stamps.... I bought these at NEC in November quite cheaply.  I really like this kind of stamp, even though you may not be able to use it that often.  The paper is one I made at Jo Capper-Sandon's workshop last year; laid leaves on the paper then sprayed it.  You can tell I liked this one so much I decided not to use it until now.  I then laid it on black paper and on a white card. 

 

Another Christmas thing....

One more example of things I have made for Christmas.... I found a pack of Mountboard on sale in a local stationery shop (I tend to only see it in vast quantities - this was just A4 sheets, much easier to deal with) and I just stamped on it and coloured it in with Copic markers.  I added the ribbon at the top and the bell was free with Crafts Beautiful magazine - just need some wire for it (which I got free with another magazine!) Then I put some card over the back to make it tidy.

I am very unlikely to post until after Christmas now, so wish you all a Happy Christmas and a great New Year.

Christmas things - not cards this time....

I bought the pads in a stationery shop (for 59p each) and decided to stamp them to be stocking fillers - I used different stamps (did about 5 or 6 pages of each one) and then coloured in one stamp to top it with.  I hope the people who get them like them - they might get quite a few bits I've made this year.