Very Early Christmas Card

I'm not normally this organised, but I made this card for the CMLI Rudolph challenge. This month's theme is holly. It's a small card (just 4" square) when closed, which means it only needs one sheet of A4 cardstock.  I enjoyed making it. Great to get out my Martha Stewart holly edge punch, a post Christmas bargain which has not seen much use.

This is my favourite Santa stamp, but sadly it's not mine - I borrowed it last year and made a couple of extras.
happy crafting

Fancy die cut

I've been watching some tutorials on getting partial cuts with dies, and so of course I had to have a go.
This was my first effort.

And then I tried it with a fancier die

I love this die, and so pleased to discover it's the same shape as my label dies. 

In theory it's quite easy to do - just stick your die to the card with removable tape, and then run it through your die cutter with half the die/card  sticking out beyond the plates. The tricky bit comes next. With your die still attached to the card, run it through the cutter again (with the whole die between the plates this time), with a combination of plates and shims which is just enough to emboss the pattern, without cutting out the shape. Score where you want to fold the above and below the die cut shape.

happy crafting

The Cappuccino Days

I seem to have got locked into shades of brown and aqua recently.

I've been putting more of my new dies through their paces - I especially love this Spellbinder lattice die.

happy crafting

jx

Fairy Castle Card

I've been making a few of these lately. I've adapted a cascade to make a castle. Now I'm working on castles or forts for boys, and maybe Helm's Deep for Tolkien fans, but I think that's a bit ambitious.

Jx

back to crafting

                                                                         Back again now the work season has finished.
After a rather fallow period, I was desperate to get crafting - here are some of the things I've been making
First up, a box. I used my new large die ( great bargain from the Doncaster show) and a Marianne corner die

Thanks Margaret for help with the flower arrangement.

More new dies ( I've been very extravagant recently!)

happy crafting

cascade card comission

I've been quite busy making commissioned cards recently. Here are two of them

And a 21st card. I love these cascade cards

Bingo Challenge

Had a lovely time at the crop, even though I managed not to take much of the stuff I needed. I made progress with a 21st card a friend asked me to make.

Here's a card I made for RWS Use up your stash bingo challenge
I used a layout we learnt in class (RWS) and I used squares, stamping, a charm and a die. With apologies to Tracey for it being orange.

For the man's card I used a photoshop brush. I just re-coloured it and put it in a frame.