Bah Humbug Challenge 4

The challenge this week at Bah Humbug is 'an oldie but a goldie' - to either use a favourite item which you use a lot or something which was perhaps once a favourite but has been neglected so really plenty of scope this week - thanks ladies.  This card is made using a set of Tim Holtz stamps which I bought the year before last because I liked them so much and I really cannot believe that they didn't get used at all for cards this Christmas just gone. I suppose it is yet another sign that I have way too many stamps!!  The reindeer was stamped with black soot distress ink and clear embossed; the snowflakes were stamped with versamark and also clear embossed; trees were stamped using pine needles DI.  I then sponged the card with Adirondack denim ink.  I resisted the urge add a greeting as I think this image really speaks for itself.

Blossom

Whenever I make cards I always seem to end up with left over bits and pieces on my desk and I really am making an effort to use them up as I go along.  This time I had a  random die cut which I'd made when I got the die just to try it out and a few circles cut from old book pages which had been coloured (why do I always make too many?) so I scrunched these up and made another flower.  Although there were also oddments of papers and card lying around nothing was the right colour so I went through my stash and took out a new sheet of backing paper (Artylicious), found some matching cardstock which I embossed and touched with some glimmer paint.  I then stamped the wording and assembled the card - now of course I have the remnants of card and paper left from this one. I really don't think my work space will ever be clear - never mind - I'm sure I read somewhere about tidy people not being creative!!

Daisies

This card uses a Penny Black stamp coloured with Copics, cut out and mounted onto a Cuttlebug daisies embossed panel.  Background paper is from Papermania., some ribbon and a die cut buckle have been added and a computer sentiment.

Flower Card

A flower card this morning using Marianne dies and a stamp by Wendy House.  Background paper is from Artylicious and some stamped and punched butterflies were added (Stampin Up).  A fairly quick and easy card once I'd managed to persuade the larger die cut out of the die without damaging it!!

Bah Humbug Challenge 3

When I saw the challenge this week at Bah Humbug I thought 'easy' - not so because I discovered that I am more or less 'crackerly challenged'.  I searched through stamps, digi images and several CDs before I eventually came across this image on the Joanna Sheen Messy Rabbit Christmas CD.  I reduced the size of the image and printed it several times so that I could cut out elements to make a decoupage topper.  Background paper is from the same CD; sentiment is a Crafts Too embossing folder on Core-dinations card and sanded with an emery board; I've also used a Cuttlebug embossing folder, a Marianne fancy corner die and added a flower which was amongst the items in the prize  received from the lovely ladies at Bah Humbug for taking part in every challenge last year.

House Mouse

I actually only own one House Mouse stamp which I've had for many years and of course they are very popular nowadays having made a bit of a comeback.  This one is delivering an armful of jelly beans and he has been coloured with Copics, popped onto Nellies dies.  Background paper is from Papermania and the embossed daisies were done using a free embossing folder which came with the current Creativity magazine.  Flowers were printed from a Polkadoodles CD and have been lying in my bits box for a while so needed using up.  The sentiment was stamped using stamps from Imagine That and they are designed to fit onto the Tim Holtz die cut ticket strip.

Wine Buffs Again

Here is another Wine Buffs card as I always try to utilise all my paper or card when printing images and did this one at the same time as the first one.  Background paper is from Hot off the Press from a pad I've had for a long time, image cut with Nestabilities and layered onto a textured background.  Grapes and vine leaves from the same set of buttons which I've also had ages - really trying to use up some of my stash and trying even harder not to buy anything else (that is not so successful though)!!