Make my Monday #109 - Colour Combo - Red, Green and White

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday #109 challenge, This challenge has been chosen by Silvi, and you need to use the colour combo - Red, Green and White.

Here's my card for this challenge,

I decided to use this gorgeous design by Alex Syberia.  Alex sent me her latest release, the 2019 Holiday release to play with and unfortunately with being ill, this is the first time, I've had to play.. Please pop over to Alex's store she has the most stunning designs and I am very honored that she chose me to colour/play with her designs! 

I coloured/painted the wreath with nuvo mousse and Arteza pens, I cut the sentiment Joy out of the middle of the wreath and mounted it to a die cut bauble,   and added a ribbon bow.  The background has been splattered with gold and white gold paints. And just a couple of sequins finishes the card...  This card reminds me of those posh (hand made ones) that you buy in a Hallmark store LOL.  I think this card is going to be me go to card for the season, as it's very easy to colour and mass produce LOL, and I need EASY haha

I've tried to take a close up of these so you can see the shimmer!

So other news, my face ache/sinus problems are still with me :( so I've just hopped on to Amazon and bought a facial steamer, with the hope it may clear my sinus problems, and on top of that its the start to the hay fever season (my grass allergy goes off the chart so I've been told :(  LOL  The good news I can get my glasses on again, but it hurts after a while, so I haven't been spending much time crafting or on social media as I can't see to type or see LOL.. The joys of getting older and needing glasses for reading and for distance.. And hopefully my blood sugar is back under control... Because when I go back to the doctors as I don't want to be told off again haha..

Anyway, hope you all have an amazing week, hope you have something crafty planned and thanks for popping in to see me! I do love that you are all still with me!

Hugs

XoX

Make My Monday #104 - With Whimsy Stamps

Hi all,

I'm back today with another post this time for the Make My Monday Challenge #104, This challenge has been chosen by the lovely Dawn, and it's to use shapes on your card, it can be Circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, etc...

I've gone with circles ...

I die cut a panel of pale blue/green card and I adhered the die cut circles to the panel, the mermaid tales have been coloured with Copics and fussy cut out so I could tuck them in under the circles, I wanted the circles to represent the bubbles created when the mermaids are diving under the water...if you get what I mean LOL...

The sentiment is from the same set too called Mermaid Dreams.  To finish the card I just added some droplets, sequins and rhinestones... and a wee drop of nuvo sparkle, well you have to have some glitter don't you...

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, and I do hope we have inspired you to take part!

Hugs

XoX

Happy Freezin Season

Hi guys...

Yes it's that time of the year to try to get a head start on making those Christmas cards...And I find it much easier to do these when it's the Winter Season here in Melbourne...we actually had Ice on the car here last week and went down to an over night low of 2 degrees...I know I should be used to the cold coming from the UK but I've grown accustomed to the warm weather now and anything below 20 degrees is cold LOL..

I received my MFT happy mail from Neha at Auzz Trinkets and Craft (the link is on the right if you wish to purchase these) last week and along with the Joyful bears I also ordered a couple of Christmas sets that I had my eye on... This card is made using the "Warm and Feathered Hugs" set.. with 7 Distress Inks blended plus White for the moon.. Distress inks are a little harder to blend than oxides, but they look so different...

I created the panel first by blending the following inks

Starting with Peacock feathers at the bottom and working upwards

broken china

blueprint sketch

wilted violet

chipped sapphire

dusty concord and finishing with

black soot at the top and around the edge.

I then punched a circle in some card and used that for the moon stencil and blended some 

picket fence. Splattered some White diluted Copic ink mixed with perfect pearls for my stars.

Next I die cut my snow banks and painted on some Nuvo Fresh snowfall glitter accents.

I worked out the placement of these before I stamped my trees on the panel with MFT Extreme black ink.  I dabbed on some of the white splatter and the nuvo glitter that was left on my palette on to the trees with a very hard paint brush.  

All that was left to do was to  stamp my sentiment before I attached the snow banks with one and two layers of foam tape!

I'm going to enter this into a couple of challenges

1. HLS July Christmas Challenge - + optional sparkle
2. Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #348 - Holiday  EDITED - I got Top Addict YAY
3. SSS - Monday Challenge - Make your own background
4. Sweet Stampin - June Challenge - Anything Goes and Optional: Non-Traditional Colours
5. The Sisterhood of Crafters - Any Occasion - Edited I got top 3 - YAY
6. Cute N Crafty Christmas challenge 15

Thanks for stopping by and I do hope you love this card...

Hugs

XoX