Snow Much Fun

 Hi Everyone!

Happy New Year! I can't believe how fast Christmas has come and gone, can you!?

I've decided to set myself a few crafty New Year's Resolutions and am hoping I'm going to stick to them lol!

1. To stamp and Colour more as I really enjoy it.
2. To blog and update my Instagram more to chart my makes.
3. To try and do one scrapbook page a month featuring photos from my family history.
4. After my poor show of handmade Christmas Cards this year, I'm hoping to make a one or two Christmas Cards a month to build up my stash.
5. Try to make a few more masculine cards as I always run out of them for birthdays.

Fingers crossed - this is the plan :)

So, here are my first makes of the year using a stamp set called 'Snow Much Fun' from the Crafters Companion Winter Sale. 

I coloured the images with my Spectrum Noir Triblends, and although I used the stamp set sentiment inside the card I used a sentiment from Conie Fong's 'Molly's Joy' on the outside. I used Gemini Stitched Circle Nesting dies for my front panel along with CC Fluttering Snowflakes Embossing Folder. The papers are Lawn Fawn's 'Perfectly Plaid.

I hope you like them - at least I now have two Christmas cards in my stash so I'm off and running lol :)

Joy to the World Tags

 Morning Everyone!

Just thought I'd share some of my Christmas tags with you, that I made using Graphic 45's Joy to the World papers and their ATC tags.

I love fussy cutting, so really enjoyed making these and finishing them off with diecut snowflakes, glitter, Pearl Pen and twine.

Hope you like them!

Polar Den

 Evening Everyone!

Just popping by to share another little Christmas Card - this time using Lawn Fawn's Den Sweet Den stamps. I coloured the bears to look like Polar Bears in their cosy home, using my Spectrum Noir Triblends.

Hope you like it!

Fairy Wishes

 Hi All!

Just popping by to share a dinky little shadow box card that I made for my friend's birthday. It uses the Lawn Fawn Shadow Box die and their cute fairy stamps. I coloured the images with my Spectrum Noir Triblends Sorry about the lighting - its a grim night here for photographing anything!

Hope you like it.

Graphic 45 Christmas Chocolate Boxes

 Afternoon All!

I'm off out this weekend for an early Christmas meal with four friends. I really wanted to make them all a nice card but something a bit different so I created these Chocolate Box Cards which hold a 135g bar of chocolate inside.

I used my lovely Graphic 45 papers old (12 Days of Christmas) and new (Let It Snow) to decorate them and wrapped the chocolate bars in coordinating papers. I couldn't bring myself to use large sheets of the Graphic 45 papers to wrap the bars lol!

Anyway, I hope you like them. I will wrap them in tissue and fancy them up and I hope my friends will enjoy the treat inside :)

Party on the Farm

 Hi All!

This month I've got two birthdays coming up so I thought I'd share the cards I made using Hello Bluebird stamps and dies called 'Party on the Farm'. These are such cute images and I decided to challenge myself to only use pastel colours with my favourite Spectrum Triblends, and matching pastel background papers.

Hope you like them!

December - Time to Flourish

 Morning All!

After a busy few months, at last, something to share!

I dug out some lovely Time to Flourish papers from my Graphic 45 hoard and made these four cards for my much needed Christmas Card stash.

I love the traditional colours on these December papers and the cut aparts make creating a card really easy. The black mats also make the colours pop.

Hope you like them!