The Happy Couple

I decided to make a Wedding card for my stash as it seems there is a new Wedding season approaching...
Not just a wedding season influenced by the time of year...but  a wedding season influenced by this time of our lives.
About a third of the people up at the lake are already retired. Sadly, there have been some who have passed away. Now we are seeing some new marriages...what fun! It is very social up there...lots of activities and social events. Some of our seniors have lost a partner and eventually gone on to remarry another camper!
This card is for my Wedding stash as methinks there well may be another wedding upcoming!

And a closer look at that flower...

Card recipe:
Card and Base - brought back from England last August
DP - First Edition Bird Song (green leaves); gunmetal black polka dot snippet from my stash (long separated from the ID strip!
Card stock - snippets of aqua textured, pearlized  card
Ribbon - snippet of ribbon from a birthday gift received from a lovely blogging friend (you know who you are sweetie)
Twine - snippet of fine silver twine used to tie the bow in place onto the ribbon strip
Image - Wild Rose Topper, Love and  Weddings
Flower - Layers of a pulled apart silk hydrangea and topped with a crocheted rose cut freed carefully from an old vintage doily

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1.  Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Two Peas in a Bucket - March Moodboard Challenge

Christmas Card Club - Cute Christmas

I am dedicating this post to Lorraine, who chose the "Cute Christmas"  theme for this fortnight.
I am so glad we will be all making such cute and cheery cards as Lorraine has left us...hopefully, only for a short time.  Hope you see these posts Lorraine and have a wee smile at the barrage of cuteness!

Around the middle of January 2013, my local scrapbook store had a 75% off Christmas sale. I picked up a set of stamps and matching dies. This little fellow was one of them!   I thought he would look cute on a card or a tag.

I had some snippets of Studio Calico Take Note that looked like the pattern of an igloo and some other random snippets in the colours of the March Moodboard at Two Peas in a Bucket. So I decided to stick with that colour scheme for my card. It was fun as it helped speed up the selection process....sometimes I can get bogged down choosing. lol

I inked up the edges of the DP with some black ink, and then added a snippet of Prima Devine to which I added a  K&Co black glittered border (leftover from a wedding album I made last year).  I placed my stamped and diecut penguin over the border and tucked the sentiment up in the top right.

I had some 3D tree cut out from a RAK I won. I used them to tie in the green shades from the moodboard. They are a bit brighter than the moodboard but they work for me.  I balance the card with a flurry of snowflakes from Inkadinkadoo. I stamped them with versamark and embossed them with a silver EP. I felt like it looked bare so I looped some fine silver card and glued it on top of the snowflake image.  A K&Co snowflake from my stash, hid the glue.

I used a bunch of varying colours and sizes of blue diamonds to highlight here and there.
Here is a photo of the inside...

Recipe:
Card base and envelope - from my stash
DP - snippets of Studio Calico Take Note from my stash, and a thin strip of Prima Devine for the bit under the border. Green dotted paper is an  unknown snippet
Border - K&Co black glittered border
Bling - blue diamonds from my stash
Cord - fine silver cord from my stash
Stamps - Iinkadinkadoo Snowflakes; Sizzix Penguin stamp
Die cut- Sizzix Penguin, Spellbinders snowflake (inside)
Sentiment chalkboard - Heidi Swap
3D tree stickers - Doodlebug

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
2. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - must be Christmas, anything goesl
3. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - must cover card front with paper
4. MFP Speedy TV  Christmas Card Challenge - must be Christmas
5. Two Peas In A Bucket - March Moodboard Challenge
6.. Christmas Card Club - Cute Christmas

Rudolph Day - March 2014

Yep, it's that time again. Time to make two Christmas Cards and drop by Sarn's blog, Stamping for Pleasure. On the 25th of each month, Sarn sponsors Rudolph Days. You have from the 25th untill the end of the month to link up two Xmas cards.  You can have two photos on your post or showcase both cards on one photo...whatever you chose...but both cards have to be on the same post!

My first card is designed to suit the March Moodboard at Two Peas In a Bucket. The colours this month are soft and sort of dreamy. Checked my stash and found these snippets of EP Tis the Season for the background papers and set them onto a pretty textured and pearlized aqua card stock mat.. They were not quite big enough so I fitted a scallopy  K&Co grey border piece to fill the gap. I quite like the look of it so must remember to mimic this look in the future. Now, I'm not good at remembering, so I might need reminding!!!

The quote is from a Project Life sheet of quote cards,  that I double matted with auqa and teal textured and pearilized cardstock. Two K&Co silver and white snowflakes and two aqua glittered foam snowflakes finished off the design. The bottom snowflake seemed too small, so I tucked a dollar store shimmery fabric snowflake behind it. I have a drawer full of these and use them often. Sprinkled a few teensy diamonds here and there and it was done. Here is a close up of the layered snowflake...

In spite of my resolve to finish the inside of my cards as I make them, I am posting this card without that step. It has been a hellish couple of weeks and I just have not got down to the scrapbook room to finish it yet. I will get it done before shelving this card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Rudolph Days - must be Christmas
2. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - must be Christmas
3. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
4. MFP Christmas Card Challenge - must be Christmas
5. Holly Jolly Christmas - Bingo, mine is Blue, free  and snowflakes

My second card is from a crafty day with my neighbour, Lisa. I do not have manufacturer names for this one as it was her day to design and make the card kit. I am really happy with it and loved her design and paper/embellishment selections. This was a fun card to make as it is so feminine and girly! I think I will give it to my girlfriend that has lost her husband. She will totally enjoy the girlyness of it!

We created diamond corners with some row of mini diamonds that Lisa had in her stash . I quite like the look of them.  The sticker in the center of the snowflake and also the dove, are from the same manufacturer. The embellishments were a combination of mat and mirri card. The dove was a wee bit marred (as can happen with mirri) so I added three tiny red diamond to hide the wee scratchy mark! The pink ribbon is a velvet one and provides a texture contrast between the  sheen of the mirri and the diamond glitz of the glittered outer piece of card.

I did manage to finish this one...but you will have a chuckle over how I did it...Yes, Yes, I know that the finished pieces usually go on the bottom half of the inner card. Somehow I managed to dent the card itself, so I used the extra paper to cover up that booboo. Luckily Lisa had those pretty sentiment dies for the bottom half. I will use a rub-on for the sentiment on the die.

No recipes tonight, as I have already given you the info already for the first card and have no info for the second!

I am entering these cards in the following challenges

1. Rudolph Day - must be Christmas
2. Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - must be Christmas
3. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets
4. Marks Finest Papers Christmas Card C|hallenge - must be Christmas