Tizzy Get Well

All the components on this card were printed from a Tumble Ted and Tizzy CD by Doolicraft, apart from the embossed Nesties circles.  The bear and 'hottie' were cut out and decoupaged. Cutting out decoupage is a thing which can be done on a lap tray in front of a nice warm fire - comforting in this very cold weather.

Thinking of You

I thought this elaborate die cut by Marianne only really needed a simple sentiment to make it into a card.  Background paper is by Artylicious and the flower was made from the pages of a paperback book which was falling to pieces. The layers of the flower were cut using a Nestabilities die and then coloured using distress inks and some Glimmerz paint - a brad was popped through the centre and the whole thing was scrunched up and left to dry.  The swirls under the flower were in the same set of dies as the main shape.

Christmas Cat

Well winter has officially reached the south west - we awoke to snow this morning but of course nothing like as much as there has been further north.  It all looks very pretty but causes such disruption and I opted to stay indoors.  What else to do but make a Christmas card - this is one of my favourite seasonal stamps which I received in a goody bag of unmounted stamps many years ago.  I've always found it very versatile because it can be a cat of various colours and is large enough to work on shrink plastic for a different look.  The background paper is from Papermania and is double sided which always causes me a dilemma of which side to use but decided on the option with a very large poinsettia.  It has been  edged with a gold pen and I didn't want to cover up too much of it so just added a die cut poinsettia.

Tabitha

I went to a workshop at the weekend and made this little rag doll.  I got the hair wrong to start with and had a play yesterday to see if I could do better and I think this is a better result than what I did originally. I enjoyed making her as it was something a bit different.

Card for a Friend

I made this card recently for a friend but couldn't post it until today which is her birthday and I know she has now seen it.  Stamps used were from the Vintage Vogue set by Stampin Up. I used a Martha Stewart punch, some dotted background paper which goes with the SU dotted ribbon - I added a little pearl slider and some pearls on the flowers.  The 'F' and some of the flowers were cut out and layered for a bit of dimension.

Bah Humbug challenge 46

This is the last Bah Humbug challenge for this current year and quite appropriately they have called it 'feeling the blues'.  I dithered between making two different cards and as I just couldn't decide I thought I would post both for this final week (until next year that is - goody).

This one uses the really cute penguin from Polkadoodles which appears in several forms on their various CDs and I also used a little matching border. As he is wearing a Santa hat I thought the Ho, Ho, Ho sentimet was good  here.

The second one is a twisted pyramage from a Popcorn the Bear CD with some snowflakes and Cuttlebug embossing.  Both cards are on blue backgrounds from my blue oddments box - yes most of them are colour coded!! (well sort of anyway).

Busy Time

I've not had anything much to post for a few days but haven't been idle.  I've been going through my stash of larger beads this time and sorting them out, finding that I have quite a few 'orphans' and have used some of them on handbag charms, luckily some of them were twin 'orphans' and could be made into earrings.  Here is  a selection of what I've been making.  All this activity has meant no time for stamping or making cards - if only one could acquire a few more hours in each day.