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

thanks for popping by today...still praying for rain

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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