Christmas cards

Had a lovely visit with a friend today.... been quite a while since we got together to stamp and make cards.....   so it was nice to sit afterwards and make a couple of Christmas cards for my stash.

I'm joining challenges at

Just Us Girls #835 - Die week

Just Add Ink #791 - Christmas in July

CAS Christmas August challenge - Santa's Sleigh

Darnell's Weekly IDEAS prompt - Week 2 - "D" = Die Cuts

First card is just all Die Cuts...  a swirly background from my stash backed with pine leaves greenery and hung with a sparkly ornament and sentiment to finish.

Second card I stamped a silhouette Santa sleigh on to a starry night patterned paper, then again on a die cut yellow moon which is easy to position over the first stamping... to create a scene inked up a couple of fir trees and positioned them on a snowy slope and finished with a stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day,   Cheers Robyn

Thinking of You and Christmas ...

Hi and thanks for popping over to my blog...  busy week again and we have a visitor staying too, so life is in a jumble...  but I did find time yesterday to make a few cards... lots of bits from my stash again and patterned papers.

My first card is for the Just Us Girls challenge #834 - CASE a DT week... (Copy And Selectively Edit or C0py And Share Everything) --   so that is what I did  --- totally copied Ina's lovely die cut corner card.  As it was, I had the same die cut panel already in my stash, so it was nice and easy to find some pretty coloured background for the die cut and then decided to attach it to a matching blue card and finish off with a lighter die cut sentiment and a few gems.  AND I see I am toooo late to join in the challenge :-(

And now for my Christmas cards this week... I've made a Twofer - so easy to die cut two Santa Sleighs and decorate them for a cards using different background patterned papers and die cut sentiment. I'm joining the challenges at:

    CAS Christmas August challenge - Santa's sleigh

    Just Add Ink challenge #791 - Just Add Christmas in July

....which reminds me - my crochet group did enjoy their Christmas in July morning tea last Tuesday - lots of fun, food and friendship, not much crochet.

Mannny months ago I bought this cool card book with lots of floral preprinted cards and envelopes ... again it was forgotten... but I've had my colouring pencils out and have nearly completed two cards... I do find colouring with whatever medium I use,  quite relaxing.  

So I'm inspired to share with Darnell's Weekly IDEAS prompt...  week 1 "I" = Ink/Colour mediums.

Cheers and have a wonderful day, Robyn

Three cards from me this week....

 .... and where is this month going????  So much happening all at once, so I am pleased I sat down at my desk with a couple of challenges in mind.

Firstly the CAS Christmas July challenge... is for Snowmen  --  which for some of us is tricky with only having seen snow twice in my lifetime and never at Christmas.  I created a little snow scene for my stamped snowman and added some falling snow with my white paint pen.

 

Next a card for Darnell's Weekly IDEAS prompt... week 3 is "E" = Embossing.  I brayered ink from a  Kaleidacolor ink pad over an embossed panel and added some die cut leaves and sentiment.

My last card is also a Christmas card being inspired by the colours at Jingle Belles - Unicorn Holiday  - Christmas colour palette... to use 3 or more colours - I think I've used all the colours   ....   And also joining again at Christmas Kickstart challenge #112 - Grace Us with your Presents

I went for an easy card - simply cut some patterned papers into present shapes and added a contrasting die cut ribbon bow and finished with a die cut sentiment.
 

Thanks for stopping by my blog.... have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

Three cards to share this week

 Hi there today... start of a new week and three cards to share with you.

My first is a 'flat' card - stamped directly onto a card and watercoloured with Distress Inks (carefully so it doesn't seep thru to the other side) and then I added some detail with coloured pencils.  --- And joining in the Jingle Bells challenge - Flat Feliz Navidad

And as it's another Bird card - from the 12 days of Christmas set I have and never used till this week - I am joining in with CAS Christmas June challenge - Birds, so glad they're back !!

AND so I'm also joining in the NBUS Challenge #87

My second card is a 'SNOWY' one --  a bit of masking and 'Inking Direct to the Card' to create snow hills ...  stamped on some trees and a little deer - see his gorgeous red bow and added lots of snowflakes with my white paint pen.

And I'm sharing this one with Christmas Kickstart challenge  #111 - Snow Day

Also Group of Cardmaker technique this month - Direct to Paper Inking

And another one over at Double 'D' - Add a Bow

Lastly a Birthday card featuring a Die Cut Butterfly

Quite simple to make - cutting a card front with a couple curves to show off lovely pattern paper positioned underneath - gold embossed the curved edge and the sentiment and finished off with a butterfly die cut from gold card and a few gems

Joining in the challenge at Just Us Girls challenge #826 - Use a Die Week

And it's also Week 2 with Darnells IDEAS prompt - D = Dies/Die cuts

I've had such a good time making card this week and being inspired by all the challenges

Thanks so much for stopping by my clog, have an awesome day

Cheers Robyn

Three Christmas Cards

 So happy to see 

CAS Christmas challenge is back and running again after 3 years... it's always great to have a prompt to make cards for my Christmas stash.  For their June challenge the theme is Bird.  So I've had a rather lovely day stamping and watercolouring a pair of doves and die cut another ...

Also joining in the June challenge over at Triple B - Birds, Butterflies and Blooms

And the cute Mood Board at Peace on Earth challenge #112 had me looking at my House Mouse stamps and this one was already stamped waiting for me to watercolour - perfect  ...   so now I have 3 more cards for my stash

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a lovely day, cheers Robyn

Wishing You a Very Happy Christmas

 How's life at your place.... hope you're finding more time than me to make cards... I have finally finished a couple, the first is for the 

CAS Christmas challenge for September - Sparkle and/or Shine

Shiny Silver and Gold embossing and lots of sparkle on the bauble..

• Stamped and silver embossed the image from IndigoBlu magazine  and then also the sentiment from the set using gold embossing
• Watercoloured the stars and bauble with Distress Inks and painted the stars and snowflakes with a silvery Perfect Pearls Mist.  I added glitter glue to the bauble
• Finished the card with a red border 

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Happy also to say at last I have finished my hexagon blanket... 2022 Vibrant Vintage CAL using yarn from my stash.

And there's been lots of time in the garden as Spring has arrived and so has the beautiful weather, lovely mornings to get out and tidy up the garden and with mango season there are lots of dead flowers and stalks that blanket the lawns.

And we've had a busy household with 3 lots of visitors including my mum (she's 91 and we haven't seen each other for 4 years)... We had a wonderful time and I had her crocheting too

 

Merry Christmas

Sadly yesterday I put my mum on a plane to home -- we had a wonderful time together and she enjoyed a break from the winter cold.... we did lots of chatting, crochet, crosswords, watched tv serials she can't access and we even took her to a rugby game, where are home town Cowboys had a great win.  Family is so precious.

So today I've been able to enjoy the quiet and get to my desk and hopefully I'm not too late to join in the CAS Christmas August challenge - Pine

• Used some die cuts to create a little candle scene... 
• Die cut pine sprigs from green card - Winter Wonderland Entwined Holly & Yuletide sentiment from Crafters Companion    and  Sizzix Winter Woodland
• Die cut the candles from red and yellow card - Memory Box Three Candle Circle
• Stamped and gold embossed sentiment Crafter Choice Christmas Dreams, on to a white card square panel
• Arranged and attached all elements to the panel
• Layered the panel onto a green border and attached to a red card

Thanks for stopping by my blog,  have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn