Christmas Cards

Time for some Christmas Cards ...  I saw that Jo and Leslie were make Fancy Fold Christmas cards over at Christmas Kickstart challenge #95.   I have this cute folder triangle tree card, that folds flat into an envelope.

My folded card design

Some more fun with toilet paper rolls, quick and easy to make and now I have three more cards made.... an idea came that I could dangle the baubles from a large sentiment stamp I have...... I'm join in the fun at Rudolph Days Challenge for February.

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have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Couple of cards featuring the Gof7 technique - Inked embossing

 

Boy!!! do I get sidetracked from finishing a couple of cards that have been on my desk for weeks... so seeing as there's only 2 days left of February I made myself sit still and put them together.

The Group of Seven Cardmakers played with adding ink to dry embossed images

I found these orangish backgrounds in my stash and embossed them.

My first card used a 3D embossing folder and white ink blended over the embossing.

For my second card I used a regular EF and orange ink blended over...  I added darker orange to the left side and topped the right with some white to lighten it

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Have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

This is why I've been distracted...

Embossed Silhouette

Some fun playing with blended background and embossing folders today.   Group of Seven Cardmaker technique this month is

Dry Embossed Highlights over Ink Blending

Well I had an idea to use this technique to create a silhouette effect and chose this Cuttlebug Bird Call Embossing folder, but after creating the blended background with Distress Oxide inks I stupidly put the card in the folder back to front and resulted with a de-bossing image... well I figured whatever I'll try and brayer some weather wood DO over the whole and this is the result - it got messy in spots so I painted over the bird so it would stand out...

Then I repeated the process but used Distress Inks for a brighter colour effect and tried to mask off some area - half successfully....  but it worked

After weeks and heat wave temperatures the weather finally broke and Lows have been gathering off the coast, no cyclones have formed but we have been inundated with rain - 940mm (abt 36in) in the last 8 days, mostly in the last 5 days, so mix that with high tides and there has been flooding along the rivers in town, plus we have a large water storage dam which is being fed from catchment areas and that is currently having planned water releases to alleviate some flooding... we're ok but our yard has seen a lot of water - this pic was Friday with 30cm (12in) deep.

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keep safe - there are some awful disasters occurring around the world.

cheers Robyn

Card Chain Challenge January reveal

Here's my January Card Chain Challenge card I sent to Pat in USA

I used the colour palette - walnut, lavender and jade and my love of flowers

This is a Penny Black stamp - Gentle Whispers, stamped with antique linen Distress Ink and coloured with pencils

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Cheers Robyn