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Hello Everyone, I hope you are well, but I know that one of our lovely Blogging Friends has a great sadness just now as her beloved husband passed away the other day, so thoughts are very much with her and her family just now, and with anyone who is struggling just now, sending healing thoughts to you all.
Well, I can hardly believe that it's been two weeks since the last Christmas Card Club Challenge, but it has, so me and the girls are back again with cards showing Santa, which is our lovely Rita's choice.
Here is what I've come up with;
I've a fantasy Santa from an old stamp set from Papermania called Enchanted Christmas, the other little images are from the same stamp set and the sentiment is from Creative Stamping magazine.
I embossed the Santa image and sentiment in WOW embossing powder and my colouring is done the Zig watercolours. The papers are First Frost from SU, and I've layered silver glitter card and a teal card, with a grey base card. Wink of Stella and some glitter. I love this stamp, but I find it difficult to colour, it's quite detailed and I thought the embossing would help with that, but it didn't, anyway, Rita I hope it will do. Thank you so much for the challenge, it was fun to do.
A quiet weekend for us, sometimes it just good to have nothing planned, I hope you are enjoying whatever your doing.
Scheduling this post for when it goes live tomorrow, and just before I go, thank you for your lovely comments about my last card. Take care and see you soon,
Hello Everyone, here I am back again sooner than I expected.
I hope you are well, and having a good day. I took myself into town today as I wanted to buy a gift for our niece Karen ready for Alistair going down to visit next week. I try to keep away from the town as I find it so depressing with lots of shops now boarded up, a plethora of betting shops and charity shops. The shopping center has the same shops that you find the length and breadth of the country. Almost all of our little independent shops have gone, such a pity, but the rates her in Inverness are exorbitant, I do wonder what the tourists think when they visit.
Anyway, I did what I need to do and got back home and settled in for an afternoon of knitting.
Thank you for your lovely comments on my last card.
I have a card that I thought would be perfect for Moving along With the Times challenge, card for a man;
I made this card way back last year for a friend's husband's birthday, but never got round to posting it.
I love trees as you know, and I think they are awfully good for male cards, so I used this fabulous tree image from the SU Rooted in Nature stamp and die set, and I've embossed the background with more trees. I can't remember what the paper in the background is, sorry. The sentiment is from a freebie set I got in a magazine, some twine and some enameled dots finished it off.
So I would like to enter my card into; http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2019/03/94-for-man-zoe.html
Just a short post tonight, so I'll say cheerio for now and see you soon, take care of yourselves,
Hello Crafting Friends, I hope today finds you well and enjoying your day.
The sun didn't make it through the cloud and it's a bit chilly, but other than that not too bad. Alistair had planned to get up early and go for a walk in the Cairngorms this morning, and after laying out his walking gear last night, when it came to it, he changed is mind, saying he was too cosy in bed. i think he's missing his walking pals, Derek is in China, Bill skiing in the Alps, Dougie still not able to go out walking, poor hubby is like Billy No Mates. If he makes a plan with someone it motivates him to get going as he wouldn't let anyone down. He occasionally says he feels his age. Don't we all!
Anyway, enough of that. I've got a card that I want to enter into;https://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.com/2019/03/march-rudolph-days-challenge.html
It's a little Card-io wreath, nothing complicated here, but I think these stamps are brilliant to use. There is loads of sparkle on this but doesn't show up too well.
Thank you all so much for your visits and you lovely comments, I do appreciate your time.
This is just a quick post today, so I will love you and leave you and see you soon, take care of yourselves,
Hello Everyone, hope all is well with you and that your Saturday is going good. We have had a lovely one where we went through to Nairn and had a grand walk along the riverside. The weather was good, sunny but a bit cold, but my woolie kept me warm. I seem to need to wear hats these days in cold weather, must be an age thing lol. We then had a spot of lunch at the harbour cafe, I was very naughty and had eggy bread with maple syrup, with the expectation of my blood sugar being through the roof at dinner time, but it wasn't, in fact it was a wee bit low, I suppose the long walk helped with that. Anyway, it was so good and it's something I've not eaten in a very long time.
Thank you all for the lovely comments on my last post, you are very kind.
Back to papercrafts for this post;
Chocolate Baroque stamp and for the life of me I can't remember what it's called, but as always with CB images I think it is just lovely. Coloured with SN alcohol pens with a sentiment from Honey Doo Crafts, I've added Wink of Stella and some sequins. I've matted with black and grey card. Hope you like it.
Well that's me for now, getting settled down for a Scandi Noir drama later this evening, I do like them, although you've got to keep concentrating on the sub titles, so you can't go off and make a cuppa or you loose the plot....something I do quite often in another sense lol.
So enjoy the rest of your weekend and see you soon,
Hello Everyone, hoping all is well with you today. Lots of sunshine and it was much warmer today, I even managed a wee sit down with my book outside this morning....mind you I had just cleaned the ovens and I wasn't just glowing, I was dripping and needed to cool down. What an achievement though to get it done, it had been left far too long and as I felt as if I had a bit of energy I went for it. Mind you that's all I've done today.
Anyway, I managed to get the socks completed that had been started way last year, so really pleased by that, though because they had been left so long, I discovered that one is an about an inch shorter that the other, but they are just for me and will not be noticed. Just as well I'm not a perfectionist lol.
Here they are along with some others knitted last year, a couple were gifts for friends;
For the two pairs that were for gifts I made bands with stamped images, just to make them a wee bit more special, Peter and Jean loved them.
Thank you for your lovely comments on my previous card, once again I really appreciate them.
That's me for now, take care and see you soon,
Hello to You All, I hope you are well and enjoying your day.
The sun is shining, there is no rain or high winds...so rather good I'd say. What disparate weather over the weekend, and it seemed to be all over the country. The end of the rugby games shown on TV had every kind of weather going whilst they were playing. Yes we had the rugby... don't mind that so much as footy, and they are usually good games, and although Scotland didn't win, they still did well, so it was a happy household.
Thank you so much for the lovely comments on my last card, you are very kind and I do appreciate the time it takes to get around the blogs and comment.
I have another Christmas themed card today;
I love this LOTV stamp, I think the Santa and Rudolph are so cute, and I've coloured them with Copics. Now poor old Rudolph is a bit multi-coloured as I only have a few pens and not all that many that would suit a deer, but he's still cute. I've used some glitter card and red card from SU. Paper from First Editions and a Sentiment from one of the free sets from Creative Stamping magazine. Sparlke and gems.
I would like to enter into; https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/03/christmas-kickstart-challenge-6-moves.html
This is a new challenge to me so I thought I would give it a go, especially as Christmas cards are my favourite card to make.
Not much planned today, I was waiting in for a Dr's phone appointment this morning, which I find a strange thing to do, much rather have a face to face one, but it was that or nothing, this doctor is very popular and I've been waiting since the start of February to speak to him. Anyway, I've to go to the surgery now to collect something in order to do a fit test...thankfully nothing to do with exercise, but something to do with the gut problem that's being investigated. And more bloods to be taken again as my Vit B12 is on the low side, it's never ending it seems. Still that's life!
That's me for now so I'll say cheerio and see you soon,
Hello Everyone, and welcome to another Christmas Card Club Challenge, and this time the choice of theme is Festive Food, chosen by Loraine.
Now I had to give this challenge a wee bit of thought, as the only image I have is a LOTV one used every time this theme comes up and I didn't want to go with that, so I went on the hunt through all my stash and came up with this;
I found this Christmas Pudding in amongst some papers from a craft magazine, sorry don't know which one or what year, but I thought it might do, and there was extra interest as there was a wee bit of decoupage with the brandy sauce pouring down the pud. a bit of sparkle and some sequins to finish.
Now my second card is perhaps stretching the theme a bit, see what you think;
I don't know about you but I think of Chocolate as Food, and wish I could eat more of it than is allowed having diabetes. I found this LOTV image and it does look more Valentine than Christmas, but I decided to go with it, especially as there is always loads of Chocolate around at Christmas time, in our house anyway as Alistair adores the stuff.
i have a few Copics and that's what I used to colour the image and a wee bit of Sparkle Pen/ The papers are from SU and the sentiment was made on the computer.
Thanks for the super challenge Lorraine, I enjoyed it and got to use up some stash from yonks ago and a stamp that I don't used much, I hope they will do.
Scheduling this for tomorrow, Sunday when the challenge goes live, so check out what my teammates create too.
Thank you all for the lovely comments on my last card, so much appreciated.
Been awful weather again today, I've not been over the door, and poor Teallach has dashed out and back in. Cheerio for now and see you soon,
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