Happy New Year

I do so hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas.  We spent it with all our family and had a great time and now packing like crazy for next weeks move… a lot of sadness as I have loved this house with its space and garden. But we need to downsize  and have halved our belongings too,  furniture, clothes, everything really… quite cathartic and hope to never over fill my home again with stuff I never needed in the first place!!  We won’t be in our new home for another month because of unforseen circumstances so I won’t be doing any crafting either. I hope to be back on track by mid February so Happy New Year everyone and be happy,  safe and healthy…

Last Xmas cards…

I made some of these designs for friends and family, just a little  bit  different with two slits in the front of the card and using the Elegantly Eleanor from SU to hold the card together. Using the SU xmas papers, Real Red and Wild Wasabi as the main colours, I decoupaged the fir cones from Pines and Pointsettias and used Crystal effects to make them pop!

I also made one for my sister that I liked too which is quite similar but without the front cuts… I rolled some First Edition paper to make flowers too and added pearls to give some detail.

So I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and all the best for a great healthy and wealthy New Year.  2012 has got to be better than 2011 in my household!!  Fingers crossed…

We are moving house so this will probably be my last post for quite a while now as we are having to put most of our stuff into storage for a month before the move is finalised so by for now and take care everyone…

Xmas cards

Well, I only have a few more Christmas cards to show you, then that is it – promise!  I used quite a few punches, the Owl, Ornament, small circles and Lace Ribbon border punches, Real Red and Always Artichoke card and inks, First Edition papers, and Tags til Christmas stamp set;  a few pearls and a bit of smudging around the edges to finish it off…

Just for You

Good Morning – boy I wish I felt Christmassy – I have made loads of cards for friends and family but even putting up decs in the dining room yesterday didn’t fill me with ‘the feeling’ – maybe when I take Mum out shopping later it will do…

I made this card for my friends birthday, hope she likes it.  It was using all Stampin’ Up products -Very vanilla for the card and the flowers, Rich Razzleberry, Pear Pizzazz and Sahara Sand. The stamping is done with the French Foliage set and now can’t remember the sentimetn one, arrgh, my memory. I just love the wide ribbon and wish they did it in every colour way, and gold brad for the centre of the flower and an edge punch to give a bit more detail.  It was nice to do a birthday card after doing endless Christmas things… bye for now!

Polar Party

What a horrid day weather wise, rain and gale force winds, blah!  So more time for crafting, yeah! and since I am well behind on my Christmas cards this year I thought I would do quite a few using the new (to me) Polar Party – I love these penguins and trees from SU and have used Wild Wasabi and Cherry Cobbler for my main colours…

The seam binding is Cherry Cobbler and Pear Pizzazz though, and I cut out the penguins and put them on dimensionals to make them stand out a bit, a bit of glitter on the stars and snow (which doesn’t show up on the photo – been having problems with a bit of blurring every since my computer crashed, the photos aren’t anywhere near as sharp as they used to be! with having to use a new way for upload my photos). I used the blender pens from SU to paint the colours in for the trees and penguins to make it a bit softer and the dotty embossing foler for texture to the cards.

Only another 20 to do and I will have finished my Xmas cards, yeah!

Merry Christmas

Good morning and the sun is shining, yeah! Been dull and miserable here for days…  I am trying to make some cards double quick at the moment, something I can repeat easily but just not happening.  With moving before xmas (we hope but does not seem so likely at the moment!) I am trying to get organized with cards etc but this design took me longer to put together than I thought it would.

The wreath is the small scallop punch with the one inch punch for the centre, using the holly stamp from one of the new SU sets Pines and Pointsettas and the newsprint papers, the ‘merry’ is from the pennant parade set I think,  just two colours, Real Red and Old Olive, a bit of silver elastic (retired now) eh voila! I obviously need to get more organised to do them and my photos of late seem a bit blurred, sorry.  OK must get a wiggle on…

Pennant Parade

Good morning

Manic at my house with packing boxes to move and my craft room is half packed already, you wouldn’t want to see it, but then I am used to working in a mess!!  We haven’t got a date as a few things have become complicated (!) but still looking to move before Christmas…

So this is just a quickie and I was very inspired by Stamp with Heather – she has made some lovely things – and I haven’t much time  to really think about designing and blog hopping takes so much time away from what I really want to do which is stamp.  I love  the Pennant Parade set and have used Real  Red, Olive Green a a few of the neutrals for the versus etc, done a bit of decoupage, used sheer ribbon and the new SU Christmas papers and my fave Top Note die and think they have turned out OK, many thanks again to Heather.  The Tags Til Christmas set makes great tags of course and good to use as embellisments on your cards too.

Ok, I have to go pack more boxes, wish I wasn’t such a hoarder as this makes this job so much harder – stupid really to get so attached to ‘things’ and one day, I will learn my lesson.

Penguins

Good Afternoon

And I am trying to sort out some cards for Christmas and playing about with my new stamp set Polar Party from Stampin’ Up – so cute, just love the images and especially these penguins.  I have used Crumb Cake, Pool Party and Poppy Parade for the colours, snowflakes also from Serene Snowflakes, quite a few rhinestones and some Pool Party ruffled ribbon – might even use them for my card class next week…

Cloudy and dull out there so the light is not good in here today, looks like it is going to be like that all week – take care out there.

French Foliage

Good afternoon

Such a nice bright day today after a busy week at work. I managed to get a few jobs done in the garden this morning and sat here in my craft room in the lovely sunshine.

After our trip to Switzerland the other week and walking in the forests and mountains,  I wanted to make some cards with the autumnal colours in mind, and this is what I have come up with…

I have used Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede and Early Espresso for the colour and ribbon, using the French Foliage stamp set and a few other sentiments.

Right, must get on a tidy my desk up! Take care everyone…

Autumn in Switzerland…

Hello again… We had a great week away in the Swiss mountains, went for long walks and really just chilled, definately something hubby and I needed to do.   You can see the autumn colours in the photos but we also had snow (though the ones I have taken were mainly made by the snow canons as they pile up the snow ready for the coming skiing season).

We had a few snow ball fights and I got a bit wet, but some children were actually sledging, such fun to watch… 

But I thought I would just show you a few photos;  I am hoping to get some inspiration from the gorgeous colours that we saw, the autumn colours on the trees up the mountains was spectacular.

Right, must get a wiggle on and get some stamping done;  bags unpacked, four loads of washing blowing out on the line, and three birthday cards to make for the weekend!