Christmas Poinsettia!!

I decided to play along with the Simon Says Monday Challenge "Lets Get Ready for Christmas" 

I don't usually play along with this challenge but when I saw the theme was Christmas and I decided to play as I still have lots of cards to make.

I used the SSS Winter flowers stamp set and stamped and embossed in gold randomly of a piece of water colour paper.  I then loosely coloured with my Zigs and lots of water.

I then splashed the panel with some white paint and adhered it to a purple card blank. The sentiment is the SSS Holiday Frames die cut down and then layered up twice.

I shall also add this card to the Simon Says Flickr Group Challenge "Emboss it like a Boss" 

Have a great day

Hugs

Sally

Poinsettia!!

Another wet and windy day in Dorset, still I have had time to make a batch of Nectarine and chilli chutney and also another Christmas card!

This time I have used the Simon Say "Winter Flowers" stamp set, I have stamped and embossed in gold then coloured the leaves with Zig markers.  I made two poinsettias and layered then up for some dimension.  Then added some gold splashes and crystal gems.

I am adding this to the SSS Flickr challenge "Emboss"  and the SSS Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes".
Have a great day.

Hugs
Sally

Noel!

 Had time to make another Christmas card today and decided to ink up the beautiful "Winters Flowers" from Simon Says.  Inked and coloured with Zig Markers.

I then couldn't decide how to add the sentiment and after looking through my box of cards found this card and thought I could use my Altenew Alphabet dies and cut out "Noel" as a hidden sentiment.

Just added some white Nuvo drops to finish. I am really pleased with the design and will try it again with a different stamp.

I am adding this card to the current Simon Says Stamp Flickr Group challenge "Lets Colour".

Have a great weekend

Hugs
Sally

Poinsettia!

I love Poinsettia's and have a number of poinsettia stamps but this is my new favourite, the SSS "Winter Flower" set. I have stamped and embossed in white before colouring with Copics and fussy cutting.  The leaves have been stamped onto vellum and coloured with Zig Brush markers.  The background strip is the SSS Kaleidoscope background stamped and embossed in gold and the sentiment is computer generated. I have slightly lifted the flower petals for some dimension to the card.

I will add this card to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes " and also the LOVE handmade cards Flickr Group challenge also "Anything Goes" 

We are away for a week next week house sitting for my cousin, he is a wildlife photographer and is off to Peru so we are looking after his menagerie of animals and birds.  He rescues owls and other wildlife and at present he has 7 owls for us to look after.

Hope you have a good week.

Hugs
Sally

Christmas Gift Holder.

I wanted to make a small gift box for some Nail Varnish and after looking around on Pinterest for some ideas and  I found a design that I liked here,

You can see from the side view how it works. 

On the front I have added a gold embossed and die cut Antique Poinsettia (Hero Arts) I have layered it up with some more leaves and the Chloe stem from Memory Box. The Tag is also Hero Arts, 
I shall add this to the a2z challenge this month "Anything but a card"  also the Simon Says Challenge "Anything Goes".

Hope you have a great week.

More Poinsettias!

I have been having fun practicing my colouring skills while taking part in Kathy's 30 colouring challenge.  This Hero Arts Antique Poinsettia stamp is perfect for practicing using my Copic markers.  I am enjoying this challenge, so I decided to used my coloured image to make another card for the Virginia's View challenge which is using plaid or stripes.  As you can see I have carefully partially cut an oval from this card then fussy cut round my stamped image.  I have then used some plaid patterned paper in the background and made a shaker card.  The sentiment is cut with my Silhouette machine. I am also adding this to the current Hero Arts Challenge "Holiday Cards"  and the ABNH "Holiday themed challenge."

Stripes and a Poinsettia!

I decided to play along with the Virginia's View challenge, its been a while but I am only just getting back into the swing of card making since we moved house,

I have used the Hero Arts Antique Poinsettia again, love this image and fairly easy to colour with my copics.  I then die cut the image, the gold embossed stripes are created using a really old Hero Arts cling stamp called Canvas Stripes.The sentiment is also Hero Arts, I have pop dotted the flower up for some dimension and was really tempted to add some sequins as I love a bit of bling!!  Decided to leave it plain in the end as I didn't want to make it too fussy.

I will also add this to the current HA challenge "Holiday Cards".

Hero Hostess alumni blog hop !

Welcome to the Hero Arts Hostess Hop, featuring stamps from the new

2016 release and winter catalogue!

You should have arrived here from   Linda's fabulous blog.

 I stumbled upon the Hero Arts Group flickr page back in 2008 and was immediately welcome into this exciting and friendly group. In 2011 I was lucky enough to be chosen as a Hostess by Hero Arts and I really enjoyed being part of the support and inspiration.  Its been amazing to be given the chance to do a reunion Blog Hop and to be part of this amazing group again, (Thank you Hero Arts) and thank you Virginia and Lin for all your hard work and help!!!! Now to the details of this hop!

  

Hero Arts will be awarding 4 prizes from randomly drawn comments 1 x $25 Hero Arts shopping spree and 1 bonus prize on today's hop and the same for yesterdays hop. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on Oct. 24th and 25th, including each day’s end post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!

 Please comment by Sunday Oct 30 11.59 PT. If you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Club Blog.

For my cards I have decided to showcase one stamp three ways.  I have used the new K6176 Antique Poinsettia stamp For this first card the Poinsettia stamped onto good quality patterned paper with Distress Inks, I have then lightly blended the image with a little water to spread the ink and create this washed effect.  The sentiment is using the CL983 Holiday Messages and Frames Set, stamped, embossed and fussy cut then layered up with foam tape.

For this CAS design I have used  a masking technique and have used Hero Arts Wet Cement Shadow Ink for a much more subtle card. I have added a die cut sentiment and some sequins.

Lastly a small die cut card using the same mask and stamp technique.

Another of my favorite items from the Holiday release is the DI196 Paper Layering Snowflakes with Frames Set. Gorgeous Snowflakes with lots of dimension.  This card is made from a spellbinders die to get the shape, I then made a background panel with Peacock Distress ink and my favorite technique of the moment, "Waxed paper embossed ".  The snowflakes have been cut in glitter card and I have layered up two of the die cuts to make a more elaborate snowflake.  Next I added a gold embossed sentiment and lots of pearls. Its very sparkly in real life hard to capture in a photo!

As you can see lots of dimension.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog today , the next blog on the hop is the very talented Deborah.

White Poinsettia.

 I had fun with the last card I posted using alternative Christmas colours that I decided to have another go, this time I used some wax paper embossed backgrounds that I had made and had in my stash. Here is an article on how to achieve the look , I love the effect that it creates. I have cut with my Avery Elle rectangle die a frame in the pink and adhered it to the red background, clashing colours I know but I really like them together.  I have then added a die cut poinsettia made with the Hero Arts "Peace Poinsettia " stamp and die.  The tag is made from a patterned paper scrap I had in my basket.

I am adding this to two challenges, firstly the "Geometric "challenge at A Blog Named Hero (hope it qualifies)!! and also the Love Cards challenge over at flickr which is for alternative Christmas
colours!

Have a great week.