Have A Cozy Birthday

 Hello.

How do you go back to crafting when your heart is broken?

My brother died suddenly a couple of weeks ago, and I'm finding it hard to focus on anything.

Here is a card that was on my desk ready for posting.

This little, cozy room was created just from die cuts

Challenge

Seize The Birthday

Anything Goes Birthday with a CAS Topping

• mft couch potato / potted plants / fundamental furnishings
• take a seat / decor & more

Sending A Truck Load Of Happiness

Hello.

Today I'm joining a special challenge collaboration. Color Hues are celebrating their 2nd Birthday with a navy/lime combo and are being joined by their sister challenge, Seize the Birthday.

I've used this cute spellbinders set, with the truck and gift box. It's a bit fiddly sticking some of those tiny pieces together, but definitely worth it. The truck was then popped up with foam tape and the sentiment added. Simple!

Challenges

Color Hues

Navy & Lime

Seize the Birthday

spellbinders die set - holiday haul / sending you
mft stax rectangle dies

The Cutest Reindeer Of All

Hello.

Today I'm sharing some Reindeer with you.

I watched THIS cool video from Jennifer McGuire and Lila, about making cards with small die cuts, and just had to give it a go. I don't have any silhouette dies, so I struggled to find something that might work, eventually coming across this reindeer. It's a bit big, but I think I got away with it.

• die cut lots of reindeer from snippets of design paper and white card
• layer the reindeer with the design paper on top (I used 2 layers of card and 1 of dp)
• stick the reindeer onto a card panel, leaving space for your sentiment (because my reindeer were so big, I ended up adding the sentiment with foam tape)
• trim off the reindeer pieces around the edge of the panel.
• attach panel to card base, add sentiment

I recommend watching Jennifer's video. This was just a simple version of her technique, she also shows how you can die-cut in plain colours and stamp a design on top. Plus other variations.

Challenges

Inkspirational

• hero arts - reindeer set
• mini snowflake from wplus9, stamped in distress ink salvaged patina
• various snippets of christmas dp

A Winter's Tale

Hello.

Vellum, is the challenge at Less Is More this fortnight. Hmm... it's not something I use often, so I went off down a Pinterest rabbit hole - and ended up none the wiser ;o)

In the end I opted for a very simple, vellum overlay, very pretty IRL, but a bit of a bugger to photograph!

This is one of those cards where a stamping platform really comes into it's own. It allows you to make sure that you're images line up perfectly.

• die cut 2 panels. 1 in white card, 1 in Vellum
• stamp both with Versamark ink and white heat emboss
• colour the image on the white card (I used Zig watercolours for that soft effect)
• stamp a sentiment
• line up both panels onto your card base, punch a hole through the layers and add a brad

 The Vellum panel pivots on the brad to reveal the soft, watercoloured image below.

Challenge

Less Is More

One main image with lots of clean space
Minimal layers
Minimal embellies

Quick and easy

• woodware stamp - a winter's tale
• wow white embossing powder
• zig clean color real brush markers
• brad