Christmas Cards

Here is my first batch of Christmas Cards fro this year.  Most of the papers are Maja Design.... and I will be getting some of these in stock! They are absolutely divine and with the thick quality of these papers, distressing the edges is a breeze :-) Keep an eye out in store as they should be available in the next week or two :-)  Flowers are also available instore at www.acraftersheaven.com.au

Penny Black Royal Mail Christmas card

Good evening. Thanks for stopping by.  Tonight I have a Christmas card to show you... inking up my stamps for a change rather than using a digi!  This image is "Royal Mail" by Penny Black. The paper is from a christmas Kaiser Craft pad.  The tree die cut was a freebie on a card magazine.  The reindeer and flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts... I have used Stampendous Frantage Glass Glitter on the antlers.  I have used sparkly Fluff for the snow on the mail box.

I would like to enter in to the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Show us sparkly/glittery image

Bearly Mine Challenge: anything goes

Creatalicious Challenges: Christmas

Allsorts: Bring on the bling

Copic colours used are:

R 00, 24, 27, 29, 59, 20

B 000, 91, 93, 97

E 000, 00, 11

N 4, 6

Y 38

G09

 100

Penny Black Wishes for Kisses Christmas swing card

Good morning! a swing card today, using Penny Black's "wishes for kisses".  DP is by K&Co called Holly Vine Printed embossed. Flowers are from Wild orchid Crafts.  I have scattered some rhinestones around the flowers, added a handmade hat pin.  The ribbon is from my LSS Arnolds, and the adhesive rhinestone is by Queen & Co.  The swing part is cut using spellbinders labels four and the image is cut using spellbinders Gold Labels Four.

copics used:

N 1, 4, 6

E 000, 00, 42

B 000, 14, 91, 95, 97

G 09

YG 03, 97

R 00, 11, 20, 24, 27

YR 12

Flower soft was added to the scarf for added texture.

Thanks for stopping by, Take care XOX Tania

A christmas verse swing card

Hi there (again!)  I have gone with something a little bit different here by just using a sentiment and no image. The beautiful verse is by Verses Rubber stamps called "Magic of holidays" and I have silver embossed it.  I have used no DP here, instead using a cuttlebug embossing folder on white card - swiss dots. I have matted it with  purple glitter cardstock.  Now, one problem I encountered here is that the cuttlebug folders do not emboss a 15cm square card... so what I had to do for the inside was to emboss two pieces of card and hide the join under the ribbon! No one ever knows (unless you're a crafter lol)  I bought a new spellbinders die called elegant labels which I just had to use here... it does overhang the card a little, but still manages to fit in my boxes I make.  I glued the die cut to the glitter paper and handcut around the base... I guess you could use JAC paper in the same way and sprinkle the cut out parts with glitter too!  The flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts sprinkled with loads of glitter and I made the angel charm myself.  The little crystal and ribbon is from my LSS Arnolds Scrapbooking at Rothwell.

Here's my tip.... glitter paper is expensive and doesn't tend to glue anything to the top very well.  what I do is cut the matting (glitter) piece, then cut the centre out (so it looks like a frame)  the back of the glitter card glues perfectly to your base card, then you can stick you white  piece directly onto the actual card as well (I usually cut the frame about 1.5cm wide around... my top card goes over the top of the glitter paper to give a clean edge, but you can still stick the top piece directly onto the base card through the window section).  this way you can use the inside of the glitter window for things like snowflakes or butterflies etc. You could even "pop" up the top card onto some foam dots for dimension!

Wild Orchid Crafts is asking to see blue or purple, so would like to enter a second card into their challenge

Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe XOX Tania

Penny Johnson 'Shhh' christmas card

Hello! Another Christmas card here... this time using a Penny Johnson image called "Shhh". The paper came out of my stash, so I cant tell you the name, and the glitter card I picked up from the craft expo a couple of months ago.  So sorry, but there isnt really much I can tell you about this card... think of it as eye candy LOL!!!!  The flowers are WOC of course.... and I made the hat pin myself.  ribbon is also from my stash.

TIP: I buy a lot of white or cream flowers so I dont have to store so many different coloured flowers and hit them with glimmer mist to suit the colour card.  I usually spray my lighter colour, then I unscrew the bottle and dab my darker colour on the edges...  If you do this while the lighter colour is still wet, your darker colour will be dragged into the lighter part a little and blend nicely.

Copic colours used:

R 27, 29, 89

G 09, 99

YG 03

Y 38

E 000, 00, 21, 29, 34, 42

100

N 1, 4, 6

B 12, 28, 93, 99

I would like to enter this card into the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge who would like to see spooled items

Thanks for stopping by, Stay Safe XOX Tania

Penny Black Here comes Christmas

Good morning, thanks for stopping by.  Here is another christmas card I have done up this week, and I must admit, it is probably my favourite card I have done in a LONG time!  I think the colours are pretty, and I just love this image... which is of course a Penny Black stamp called Here comes Christmas.  The DP is by Anna Griffin.  Flowers are of course Wild Orchid Crafts, and I have made the hat pin myself and added some dangle snowflakes to the end of it.  I have also scattered around some diamonte buttons amoungst the flowers, which I just love and have been doing to my cards since I saw what a finishing touch it makes.  I left the crystals in the button for this card, but I also have some claw set rhinestone buttons where I pulled the rhinestone out of its claw and glued them on... Let me tell you, the sparkle is divine!!!  The swing part is cut using spellbinders labels four die and the image is cut using spellbinder Gold Labels four die

Copic colours used were:

R 24, 27, 59

RV 95 (cheeks)

100

N 1, 4, 6

E 21, 25, 30, 34, 50, 53

YR 12 (moon)

B 000, 12, 28, 93

 I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge: Christmas in July

Wild Orchid Crafts Challenge: Blue or purple

Ribbon Girls: Blue and White

Thanks for stopping by. Stay Safe XOX Tania

Lili of the Valley Little Trumpet

Hi there thanks for dropping by.  Long time since I have posted a card... I have been making loads, I promise..  I just haven't had time to upload them :-(   I have made a few christmas cards for a lady at the craft market I go to, so be warned... over the next couple of days, you are going to be inundated with all things Christmas!!! 

Its been a long time since I have pulled out my LOTV stamps, so I thought I would ink this cutie up.  Her name is Little Trumpet, and I have done a swing style card.  This style card is super easy to make but is really effective!

I have used Making Memories paper called Je tÁdore... not really a christmas paper, but the music notes fitted well with the trumpeting!  Flowers are of course Wild Orchid Crafts and made the little angel charm myself.  The die is labels one by spellbinders.

Copic colours used:

R 20, 81, 85

RV 95, 99

YG 03

E 000, 00, 01, 25, 30, 34, 53

Y 18, 35, 38

B 000 for shading

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:
Lili's Little Fairies Challenge: Christmas in July

Creative Inspirations Challenge: Bingo (Ribbon, stamped image and flowers)

Bearly Mine Challenge: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by. Stay Safe XOX Tania

No spooled items for the Southern Girls Challenge... a Christmas card

Good morning! well its challenge time over at the Southern Girls Challenge and this fortnight, the challenge is to not use and spooled items (thats ribbons, twine or cotton) on your projects.  WOW that's a hard ask for me, as I love big bows and gorgeous ribbons .... but I have come up with this Christmas card I hope you like :-).  We have fabulous sponsors this fortnight and I have showcased dies from Marianne design.  I am in envy of the winner of that prize, as I those gorgeous snowflakes would've been perfect for this card LOL!!!!!  Anyway, enough of me sobbing, I have used the following Marianne Design dies:

LR0184 (baubles)

 LR0178 (sleigh) 

and LR0176 (trees)

I dont have the reindeer that matches the sleigh, so have used a Sizzix one, but there is definitely a Marianne Design Reindeer die!

 I also used the snowflake punch outs from a Martha Stewart edger.

It's a shaker box card, and I have stuck thick card from officeworks between two pieces of acetate so the beads, glitter and silver snowflakes don't get caught among the die cuts.  The silver snowflakes are just tiny bead spacers that people use for jewellery... quite cheap, but effective all the same!  The backing DP is a digi paper from Pink Gem designs.  I have cut three baubles, two the right side of glitter paper (which will get folded in half with the glitter side in the centre), one with the glitter paper flipped over to the wrong side.  Take the two baubles folded in half and place them side by side, and then stick the third bauble over them... the baubles will align perfectly!  then you have a three dimensional bauble :-)  For the third bauble (the one on the top) you can back this prior to cutting with some JAC paper or run it through a sticker maker so it sticks down without the mess of glue.

so pop on over to the Southern Girls Challenge, and show us your creations!

advent christmas countdown desk top calendar using my zutter

Hello thanks for dropping by. Nice easy post, just wanted to share another of my calenders- this time a countdown calendar similar to my advent calendar I did in August. See the paper on the flip cards??? I won it over at Bevs site (I felt like I won lotto!!).  The prize was donated by the super talented Mindy from Stampin Mindy.  She sells her digi paper on etsy and for my free set, I chose country Christmas... but I am going to buy more because they are so divine!  I have done some cards, but haven't taken pics of them, so will try and get them uploaded :-)

 So.... I think I have sorted to storage problem.  Yes, I have deleted some duplicate pics I had in picasa, but didn't want to delete them as they would delete them from my blog.....so.... I have downloaded google drive (a link on top  of my picasa albums) I sync'd it to my other albums- gives me 5GB of free storage so we'll see how that works- will probably still have to play around a little....BUT if you have an easier way PLEASE let me know (especially for those who have had blogs for a couple of years with lots of pics)

 Thanks for stopping by, Stay safe XOX Tania

delicious doodles red cardinal- southern girls xmas challenge time

Good morning! Well its a new challenge over at Southern Girls Challenge, and this fortnight we want to see Christmas projects.... easy peasy!!! Christmas will be here in no time, so why not take the opportunity to get those chrissy cards done and have the chance to win some awesome digis from Delicious Doodles- like this little cutie I have used for my card today.  She is called Red Cardinal, and colours up beautifully.

I have used a couple of different dies for this card- spellbinders ornate square die,

frostyville border die from memory box, Tim Holtz tattered florals die (for the red flower), and magnolia dookhickey christmas tree die. The holly paper is from a VERY OLD sheet- has no printing on the back so dont know the maker :0( I have used roses and hip rosebuds form WOC. I have glued three black pearls in the centre of the Tim Holtz flowers and glued some rhinestones onto bead caps that I flattened a bit.  The sparkly ribbon was from a gift years ago that I hoarded LOL!!

I would like to enter in to the following challenges:

Whimsy Inspires: Traditional christmas colouring

Papertake weekly: Anything Goes with a christmas option

Anything Goes Challenge: Anything goes

Bearly Mine Challenges: Anything goes

Crafts and me Challenges: Red

Creative craft Challenges: Special Occassion- not birthday

Creative Inspirations: Red for remembrance day

Fussy and fancy Friday challenge: Pearls (the centre of the red flower) and flowers

One stitch at a time: Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, Stay safe XOX Tania

Penny Black Christmas Usher

Good evening! Thought I would make a start on chrissy cards, and I had this penny Black image coloured up a long time ago (pre-copics!!! coloured with my prisma colour pencils).  The papers are from a simple stories pad called Handmade Holiday.  The tree is cut from a magnolia die and the bauble is cut from a Martha Stewart punch (cut three baubles and one piece of JAC paper... fold the coloured baubles in half and stick two to the JAC paper, then the third gets stuck in the centre of the two others)  I have decorated the tree with some sparkle fibres. The image is  cut out with a spellbinders nestie Labels ten.

you can see from the pic below that I have layered the skirt part- stamp three images, cut the skirt out on two of them, colour up and use some paper toll adhesive to add the dimension.  I have then added some micro beads to the edge of the skirt.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

Creative Inspriations: Christmas in September

Creative Craft Challenges2: Anything goes

Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner

Thanks for stopping by. Stay safe XOX Tania.

Elisabeth Bell's Happy Mail christmas card

Good morning! Here is another beautiful Belles n Whistles stamp, this one is called "Happy Mail".  Get in quick- they are closing down and currently have 35% off stock!! I have coloured her with copics.  All paper here (except the red cardstock) is from a Simple Stories pad called "Handmade Holidays" which I got from Michelles Card and craft store at Narangba.  The poinsettia I made ages ago using my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and some black pearls for the centre.  The rhinestone are from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Elisabeth Bell's World Challenge: Christmas without a christmas image

Creative Card Crew: Christmas

Crafts and Me Challenge: Use a flower

 

Thanks for stopping by. Stay Safe XOX Tania.

Christmas in..... August with LOTV... an advent calendar with a twist

 Good evening, Thanks for stopping by.  I seem to have a love affair with chipboard, and am always trying out new things... this advent calendar takes the cake!  I have made this box from scratch using plain chipboard, hot glue and brown framer's tape.  Each drawer is a little fold up box .  I made four towers of six drawers, separated each of them with a triangular cone like thingy (a piece of chipboard scored into three equal sections, and stuck together with tape) and decorated to the max.  I then made the top by laying the drawer base onto chipboard, tracing around the base, adding 2cm to the front part and cutting out a topper.  I then made my flip top calendar, and acetate cone with pearl fabric paint, and a plitherer of adornments :0)

 These are the things I have used to create this advent calendar:

Images I have used are from Lili of the Valley: Angelic Lute and Christmas Bears Sledge... you can get them here.

Flowers adn pearl brads are from Wild Orchid Crafts. You can get them here.

lots and lots of diamond dust!!!

lots and lots of chipboard!!

the numbers are handcut, and the wording "days until Christmas" is computer generated

 I have used punches by Martha Stewart, spellbinders nestabilities (Fancy Tags Four??), cuttlebug die for the snowflakes

Hat pins I make myself

Kaisercraft sparklets in Cameo colour

Liquid pearls around the drawers

some lace from  my ever growing stash

little decorative head pins, pearls and rhinestone rondelles for the handles

Drawers are big enough to hold up to four little christmas chocolates/treats :0)

 

I would like to enter this in the LOTV ideas to inspire challenge : anything but a card.... I have used two (older but wonderful) images

Thankyou for taking the time to stop by, please fell free to leave some love... I try and reply to all messages and visit your blog too :0) Stay Safe XOX Tania

 

flip top calendar christmas and every day

HI! Here are a couple more calendars...the black and white one is probably my favourite :0) The bottom picture is a close up of the flowers and hat pins I make- The hat pins are available from my ebay sets of four for $4. I just added a big bow and stuck the flower to it- they look amazing on cards as well. Any who, Thanks for stopping by XOX Tania

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN CALENDAR

Good morning! phew, I finally got this finished! I spent most of last evening and this morning on this gorgeous flip top christmas countdown calendar. I'm loving my zutter at the moment, and I am so pleased that I work well with a craft knife, because boy oh boy it has had a workout the last week! all of this calendar is hand cut- except for the sleigh and the tag- both cut with a spellbinders die. The tag has about four layer to stiffen it, and the sleigh I cut 6 of- two paper, 2x acetate and 2x JAC paper, then I glued an acetate base into it- for the the lollies of course LOL!!!!! Flowers are from wild orchid crafts and the ribbon is from craft queen lots of glitter and bling, snowflakes from little hand punches from the cheap shop. The gorgeous paper is from nitwits called giggles and grins too.

Now...if anyone has links to cuttlebug, sizzix, marianne creatables, or any other die manufacturing company can you please put in a request for me???? I would like a plain set of number dies that are bulky and large- say about 2.5" high but affordable too! is that too much to ask LOL???? To acheive these numbers I printed a nitwits print, then using the word art on my computer at (I think) size 36-40 I printed over that, then hand cut them with my knife........yep and I have the callouses on my fingers to prove it too LOL!!!!!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

simon says stamp challenge "sparkle and bling"

crafty creationschallenges: "create a crafty decoration"

sparkles forum challenges: "something that sparkles"

Anything goes challenge: "die cuts punches or both"

papertake weekly: "anything goes- optional to add something punched"

NOW LISTED ON EBAY

Thanks for dropping by XOX Tania

3D bauble christmas cards

 Good evening! I just want to share with you a few christmas cards I did tonight.  I had another milestone today- I purchased my first digital papers from nitwits - They were really friendly guiding me on how to download and use their products....pop over and have a look - they have some really neat patterned papers etc! I have used their snow folk for my blue snowflake card above.  The baubles I have used martha stewarts ornaments punch taht was lent to me by my good freind Deb.... and stuck them together as demonstrated by Jess at kinderstampo I am going to try my luck with these cuties on ebay- see how they go?? sentiments are penny black "a wonderful christmas" and from the Kaisercraft set "christmas sentiments" (I know I'm using this set to death, but I love it and the sizes of the sentiments are perfect for 10x15cm cards!) hope you like them- really quick christmas card ideas XOX Tania.

christmas tri fold card

Good evening! Tonight I have done another tri fold card this time for christmas.  I'm using my new Marianne dies and they are devine! I found that if I run them through my machine with greaseproof paper (waxed) the cardstock popped out much easier.  IThe snow is sparkly fluff, and stickles to decorate too! Ribbon is from American Crafts, papers are 3 bugs in a rug- let it snow, and Kaiser- wish upon "twinkle". the sentiment is from a kaiser craft set "christmas sentiments". 

I am entering this card into The Sweet Shop's sketch and Simon Says stamp Challenge of multifold cards- pop over and have a look at everyones awesome creations

Thanks for stopping by XOX Tania