Another Set of Christmas Cards

Today has been another lovely day weather wise. I had my grandsons today so am knackered. :-) 

Todays cards are some more Christmas cards I made whilst I was up in  Appleby.  These were made from a topper sheet of Party Paws from Crafters Companion. The cards are small 3 inch cards which have been embossed using the Swiss dots embossing folder and the toppers then matted onto adorable scorable from Hunkydory. 

Thanks for reading

Cally 

Time for a Challenge

Today I suddenly remembered that it was my nephew and niece's wedding anniversary in 2 days and I hadn't made them a card so off to my craft room I went. Looking on Blog loving decided that I would follow the sketch over on Feeling Sketchy here. 

Here is the sketch

..and here is my interpretation of it.

The image is from Little Claire Designs Dachshund Days. Have used spellbinders essential circles and scalloped circles. The greeting stamp is from Lily of the Valley and the ribbon, backing card and paper are all from my stash.

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Cally 

Nieces Birthday and present

I have just returned from a lovely meal out with some ex work colleagues. Feeling very stuffed and fat at the moment!!!

Yesterday was one of my great nieces, birthdays and here is the card & gift that I made her.

The image from the card comes from the free gift from last months Making Cards Magazine. Cut the topper out and matted and layered it, added some ribbon and gems. Cute card.

Here is the present I made her. The wooden letter was painted using acrylic paint, some gems were added and flowers made from the Stampin Up Petite Petals punch. Stamped from patterned papers and then had glaze added. Little tag cut and name computer generated matted on to it, and tied using matching ribbon. 

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Cally 

Nephew's Birthday

Today my future daughter in law and I ran in the Muddy Fun Run for Cancer Research UK. Now for those that know me know I have an aversion to mud :-) However I put my OCD away and managed to do the race which involved  obstacles and mud!! Great fun we had and definitely signing up again for next year. Sneaky plug but you can still donate here :-). 

Here we are nice and clean before the race.

This is who I ran for, my Mum, Dad and Grandad all passed away from cancer. Ron, my brother in law and Paul, a good friend are both still fighting.

This is us afterwards - a little dirty :-)  

Yesterday was one of my great nephew's birthday and here is the card that I made for him. I used an image from the free gift from Making Cards Magazine. Such cute dinosaur pictures. 

Last lot of cards I have for you today are some more Christmas cards. This time I have used images from Little Claire. These are so cute and make some lovely cards.

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Cally 

Clair's Workshop 29th June

Had Clair's workshop on Thursday. First one I have been too in quite a few weeks. I think I have missed at least 4.

This week we made a box card. First time I have every made one and I quite enjoyed it. The whole box and attachments were made from Lawn Fawn stamps which can all be purchased from Clair & Sharni's shop. 

Coloured all the images in with sharpie pens.

I am also showing you another bunch of Christmas cards that I made using Docrafts Pippin Wood images. 8 very similar but different cards :-) 

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Cally 

Linda's Craft Workshop

Last Thursday I went to Linda's Workshop and we made 5 cards - yes 5 - all really pretty cards as well. 

For the first 2 we made the coloured backgrounds using the Tim Holtz distress oxide inks which were really nice to use. We then sprinkled water drops on and dabbed it with paper towel. The first card we used it as a background and for the second one we cut a die out with it. Shall be having a go at this again.

This card was very easy to do, a tri folded card with a daisy punch and stamp from Stampin up. Simple but very effective. 

This is another different fold card. Again quite easy to do and very effective. Used the daisy stamp and punch again.

I think this is my favourite card of the all. The flowers were stamp with embossing ink and then white embossing powder onto vellum. They were then coloured and cut out. The backing is embossed and then the card was cut using an edge die. Could have done with my sentiment being a bit further to the right.

Cally

Another Christmas card

Today hubby and I went to the cinema to see Pirates of the Caribbean - The revenge of Salazar, which was excellent. I do love a bit of Captain Jack.

The card I have to show today was a project that Kim bought with her to Appleby Manga. At first I tried to avoid it as it looked complicated but once I had started it was quite easy to do and I enjoyed doing it. 

The spindles are all cut individually. The scenery behind the window was done with distress inks and tree stamps. I thought it looked really good.   

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