Happy christmas

 my first play with the clarity stamps Wee Christmas friends stamps...looks like I need more practice!

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happy Birthday

 

made using carnation crafts dies....

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christmas Door

 

I love these Katy Sue decoupage sets they really are fun to make and the door opens to see the greeting....

thanks for popping by today its been a weird week with power cuts and horrible dull dark days but never mind heating on and doing the cosy in thing....

Happy Birthday

 for my cat loving friend...we used to be neighbours back in the day and our cats would eat at each others houses and I would often find her cats curled up Infront of my log burner at night.. the cat flap was just too easy for them to pop in....

this on is made with Elizabeth craft dies and yes they were a real faff to make!

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Gnome Birthday

 

another of the Katy Sue stand up cards for one of my friends children....it will get taken to pieces in no time at all...

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week 45......White and Gold

 I thought I would try a die I bought in the sale from Anna Griffin

sorry about the photo but white and mirri are just awful to get a good photo

this is one of those 3D cards and it took me ages to get right and the embossing deep enough to show but not split the card...oh the joys of crafting.

It folds down flat to fit in an A5 envelope but I think its a giver not a poster....

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Merry Christmas

 

Just love Kraft card for Christmas…and the ephemera from the polkadoodles Christmas cottages collection are just perfect with it…

What a hooley it’s blowing again today hope you all survived the gales and storms

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Festive Christmas house…

 I am just loving these shaped cards from the Polkadoodles Christmas at the Cottage collection

They are so easy to..print out and the cut on my scan and cut…a bit of a learning curve as they are PNG files and I have had to go back to a very old program Craft Artist to be able to change the size…as I wanted to make matching gift tags …finally worked it out ..turn off internet and reinstall the program and run off line and it works okay….

I then had to print a matching A 4 background to use on the inside…I decided to glue together before cutting the shaped card out and it made the card stand up better as well as making the inside nice and neat so now I have cracked it many more will follow…

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Week 44 …Christmas lights

 

Made using a carnation crafts die from last year that I found during a rummage in my craft room after one of my shelves fell off the wall…too much weight my dearest said and spent the day putting up the shelf with extra brackets for support,bless him his knees are suffering tonight!

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Birthday Wishes

 one of those pesky masculine cards...

made using Katy Sue Designs decoupage and just perfect for my cousin who seems to spend a lot of time in his man shed

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just Because

 a pretty card 

made using Alex Siberia stencils and dies....

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Week 43…meowy Christmas

 

Made using Stamperia images ….

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happy Birthday

 

having fin with Simon Hurleys darling dog set of dies....

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Christmas picket fence cards

 

Just loving making these decoupage picket fence cards from Katy Sue Designs adding lots of sparkle and fluffy stuff for snow

It’s a glorious sunny morning after the rain so the washing is out blowing in the wind and the rest of the day is going to be crafting

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Travelling home for christmas

 

This is a rub on from spellbinders I have had for some time and I thought it would frame well in an arched card…It was just a case of finding the right set of dies …you know the feeling …I have them somewhere half a day later and bingo there they were…

Thanks for popping by today it’s a glorious morning chilly but bight and sunny … enjoy your day

playing with my glimmer...

 no I haven't bought the new one just getting my old one out....

I thought my gnomes needed a starry sky behind them...all from spellbinders

I was having no success at all until I bought the platinum 6 which seems to have just the right pressure and doesn't over foil... 

Thanks for popping by today a busy one for me a new fridge today...freezer 2 weeks ago, new kitchen, and bathroom taps fitted the house is getting a freshen up

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Happy birthday

 It’s my friend Vicky’s birthday this month and I thought I would go with an autumnal scene

Made using Elizabeth craft design snuggle season …absolutely loved making this

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Week 41

 Not on theme this week…which is art deco

I then used Chat to insert a starry background 

And then to a a Christmas background

Isn’t it just fun…..which do you like best ?

So I have used a spellbinders rub on in an arched frame…

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Christmas cards

 Made using Katy Sue new Poinsettia collection..such fun to decoupage up and embellish with fluffy stuff and glitter

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Happy Birthday

 its our friend Kate's birthday this week...so I made her this card

using Lisa Horton stencils and dies

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playing day 2

 well this chatGBT is just amazing...

I just asked it to put a christmassy background behind my photo....

and then I asked it to make it snowy

isn't that just amazing at least now I can follow where it puts snow and make my cards look like this...or maybe not still its fun playing...

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Harvey

I have been playing with Chat GPT...

and adding a Christmas background to my card made with Tim Holtz Harvey die set

I can see this is going to become a bit addictive

I have ordered the new back from the vaults set of dies which has a smaller Harvey in it...

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Happy 33 anniversary to us

 

It was our anniversary this week so we celebrated by going off for the day and visiting ‘Benningborough Hall a stately home near us, it was a glorious sunny morning and we had a lovely walk round the gardens,coffee and cakes in the cafe and then a trip round the house itself …a lovely day

This is the card I made for Richard using Penny Black images…we have lots of hedgehogs that visit our garden so I thought would be cute 

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Happy birthday

 

made with John next door does and a Lisa Horton embossing folder...

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Birthday wishes

 

playing with embossing folders again...

hoping for a dry day today to get the washing out and then some crafting...

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week 39 contempary colours

 

this was fun to make using spellbinders spectacular Bear dies...

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Happy Birthday

 

made using Hunkydory spring wreaths....

Thanks for popping by today we are off to Benningborogh Hall today to celebrate our 33rd wedding anniversary with a nice lunch our and a good walk round the gardens

 

let it snow

 I treated myself to the new snow globe from carnation crafts

I have mixed it with various other collection element and made a shaker card..

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week 38....christmas presents

 

been playing with my craft studio programme again and the delightful gnomes from highlight crafts

it really is fun crating a scene and then extra characters to cut out and decoupage up...keeps me out of mischeif

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happy birthday

 such a sweet set of dies from carnation crafts I think these will be so useful

Back to school for all the children today so we can once again start to go into York...its just too busy during the holidays not just with all the locals but the tourist it get manic

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week 37...christmas fun

 

I just have had so much fun with this spellbinders set of dies...say cheese...

and when I saw this set of  the stamp market stamps and dies I knew they would work well together with the spellbinders arched dies

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just because...

 a pretty card made using carnation crafts flowers and arched dies...

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Holly Jolly

 my fun swinging gnome.....

I just think this die set is such fun...

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Its your day to sparkle

 this is the other card I made for Edie's birthday...which will now go in my card stash...

made using a stamps by me embossing folder and white sparkle ink....

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Happy Birthday Edie

 its Richards great nieces 10th birthday....

 made using All & Create card ...Andy Skinner stamp....white acrylic paint and black ink splatters I really enjoyed getting messy with this one

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week 36 christmas wishes

 a Christmas bear...cute I thought....

thanks for popping by today its bank holiday weekend so of course the weather is abysmal so I am crafting instead

Merry

 just playing today...

jolly penguins from spellbinder, My favorite things Merry die cut a spellbinders embossing folder and gold pigment ink....just having fun

Happy Birthday

 

using a lovely spellbinders embossing folder and some silver gilding wax

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week 35 ..... frost or snow

 

I have been having so much fun with this digital download from Highlight crafts,,, Merriment and Yuletide

 its full of fun scenes and gnome images to create in my craft studio...its been a long time since I used it so it took me a while to get back to creating and making sure that I copied and pasted the characters to cut out on my scan and cut and decoupage...on this one I forgot I could also add text so I ended up with a creative expressions wordies ...traditional christmas sheet

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week 34 Christmas Drinks

 I am a bit behind with my weekly christmas posts....

made using Altenew stamps and dies...

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nostalgic birthday card

 playing with Andy Skinner stamps

trying the drip technique...a bit murky for my liking maybe practice will bring better results

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snow globe

 

a lovely stamp and stencil from Inkylicious 

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Happy Birthday

 

using a set of dies from John Next Door...going for a more masculine look I think the kraft card and the embossing sets off the dies...

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gnome Tree

 

the background was made using a very old stencil and white cosmic shimmer dimensional paste splatter with white acrylic paste

I cut the gnomes out several times in different colours and paper pieced them.. adding nuvo drops to give dimension to the strings of lights

took a while to make...

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fun Santa

 another of my sale dies...

I used lots of things to create the background a stamp which I embossed and then used and embossing folder and some inks...

the Santa is spell binders St Nick which I have cut using Lawn Fawn wooden card stock in white and coloured using promarkers and the parcels are made from another set of dies...

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Christmas shops

 

saw these on a craft buddy show and thought they were a bit different, lots of decoupage layers and  I really enjoyed this for a change

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Santa

 warming his behind....

loving these images from Dutch Doobadoo Merry and Bright from last year just a bit of fun

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