Admiring the Star

I have scheduled this post to show you one of my favourite cards. The card is made using a pre-coloured Sassy Cheryl illustration called - Admiring the Star - which is available at Paper Creator. I printed him out several times and then decoupaged him with foam pads onto a snowy background, dangling the star over the front of the card on a piece of acetate, and adding tiny crystals from Meiflower, to the centres of some of the snowflakes. The sentiment is die-cut.

I love the simplicity of the design which is why it is one of my favourites, and it was so quick and easy to put together too.

Thanks for dropping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Ultimate kit part 2

Following on from Sundays post, here are a couple more cards made with the Joy ultimate kit.

This time around I made up the ready to print easel card that's included in the kit and a square card using the topper sheet.

I made an easel card base from white linen card to fit the ready to print kit, made up the card adding the decoupage layers provided to the snowman and finished off by adding a couple of ready made bows and some punched snowflakes

For this card I used a 6 inch square scalloped card base and printed out a paper and topper sheet from the kit. I cut a piece of the paper to fit the card front, rounding the corners before sticking on, then cut out the scalloped topper leaving a white border all around, which I glittered. I die cut a scalloped circle from the remainder of the paper and then used circle dies to cut out the snowman image and the centre from the scalloped circle to make a frame. I added the scalloped topper to the card front with foam pads and then layered up the image and scalloped frame again with foam pads, finishing off with an organza bow with diamante ribbon slider and punched snowflakes.

Joy Ultimate kit - Paper Creator

Lifestyle circle dies 

Sizzix framelits scallop circles die

X cut palm punch snow crystal - large and medium

Organza ribbon, ready made gingham bows, diamante ribbon slider and stick on gems - Meiflower

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Ho Ho Ho

Today I have a quick Christmas card to show you using a Sassy Cheryl illustration called Better Not Pout Santa. I used the alphabet set that came with the December Magic Digital Scrap Kit from Crazy 4 Monograms for the HO HO HO's

Santa's head has been decoupaged and decorated with glamour dust and a small pompom and is attached to the card with an Action Wobble spring which means that if you give him a little nudge or when you move the card around his head wobbles about.

Image- Better not pout santa - Sassy Cheryl at Paper Creator

Papers - Peppermint Patty digital scrap kit - Just So Scrappy

Alphabet - December Magic digital scrap kit - Crazy 4 Monograms

Action wobble spring - Woodware - Grafton Crafts

Grosgrain ribbon and pearls - Meiflower

Thanks for popping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Rosebud tree and tag cards

This is the third of the three Christmas tree card samples I made for Meiflower, (another of the ones that was printed while the yellow ink nozzle was blocked, so yet again the colours aren't quite right, ) this time using her Satin ribbon rosebud trios. 

The papers and tree came from a Nitwits kit and the tree decoration was actually inspired by a Nitwits tree graphic in a different kit (it's amazing how something can suddenly fire up the imagination). After decoupaging the tree, I decorated it with little groups of rosebuds, bows and punched holly leaves, then dotted crystals around the tree in groups of three. 

Papers and tree - Heart of Christmas - Nitwit Collections

Rosebud trios, gems and silver ready made bows - Meiflower

X-cut holly punch

Talking about where inspiration comes from - when I was adding the tag to the card above I suddenly thought to myself - that would make a nice shaped card base -so after doing a head clean on the printer and playing around in Photoshop to enlarge the tag to the right size and make some decoupage layers for the toppers, I  made these two cards, which are the proper colours that the card above should be.

Card base and toppers - Heart of Christmas - Nitwit collections

Ribbon and Diamante and pearl ribbon slider - Meiflower

Side view to show decoupaged toppers.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugs,

Colette xx

Cascade cards

Here's a couple of  cards I have put together using the new Paper Creator Cascade card kits. They are soooo easy to put together but give you something a bit different from the usual card shapes, each kit comes with layers for decoupage and a matching envelope.

For the Halloween card I added the word Boo! - in die-cut letters - to the front of the cascade section and attached a bat to a strip of acetate so that it looks like it's flying out of the card.

Paper Creator Halloween concertina card kit

Bat - Halloween Hooligans - Nitwits

Die cut Letters - Lifestyle Splendid Alphabet

Charm - stash

Ribbon - Meiflower

With the cupcake concertina, I added a punched border to the back and front of the card, lots of glitter to the cupcake icing, a flower from a Nitwits kit, and ribbon and a cupcake charm from Meiflower.

There are more cascade designs available over at Paper Creator, you can find them all HERE

Thanks for popping by and taking a look,

hugs,

Colette xx

Christmas Countdown!

Don't worry I'm not that sad, it's still a bit too far away to be counting down, although I don't want to worry you or anything but there are only 94 days to go - hehe!.

My card today is one of the fabulous new Christmas Countdown Stepper cards from Paper Creator,  it's part of the latest Mega Bundle, which is on offer at the moment, so you get 10 Countdown stepper kits for only £5. Each kit comes with a matching box and envelope and I did print out the matching box for this card, but forgot to put it together, duh! (I only realised when I was loading the photo up to the blog).

Christmas Countdown Stepper - Christmas Tree kit - Paper Creator

Snowflakes - Martha Stewart Snowflake border punch - I cut between the snowflakes

Gingham bow, Aurora Borealis and 2mm coloured gems (decorating the tree) - Meiflower

Hope you have a lovely weekend and it's not too cold or too wet where you are,

thanks for dropping in,

hugs,

Colette xx

Eskimoes and Hampers

Today I have a couple of Crafty Devils sample cards to show. The first one uses a Hobby House topper feauturing Mo Mannings Eskimoes the second is die cut decoupage from the Papermania - At Christmas collection.

Image - Hobby House toppers - Eskimo Kisses (image cut from die cut topper)

Paper - At Christmas A5 paper pack

Aperture - Marianne Craftables CR1240

Snowflakes - Marianne Creatables LR0125

Cuttlebug embossing folder - Snowflakes

Tonic geared punch - Dotty Border

Small square diamante ribbon slider and ribbon - Crafty Devils

Image and papers - At Christmas A4 decoupage pack - Festive Treats

Marianne Creatables LR0122 Poinsettia

Spellbinders A2 curved borders #1

Red, Gold and green card

Thanks for dropping by,

hugs,

Colette xx