Sharing a card today that I have made for my sister, who owns a farm with lots of apple trees. And I have used the sketch from this week’s Freshly Made Sketches.
I have used a combination of the Perfectly Preserved and Polar Party Stamp Sets, along with the Be Of Good Cheer patterned papers in some traditional Christmas colours.
Here is the sketch:
Hope you are finding time to do some Christmas stamping too.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
Our challenge this week at Our Creative Corner is to create a project which uses some stitching and fabric. Stitching can be done on the sewing machine or faux stitching, and the fabric could be used in any part of the project, either as an embellishment, or as I have done, an entire panel.
Again, I am sewing machine-less… that is, without sewing machine…. so I had to use “faux stitching” on my card. Faux stitching is one of my favourite’s, so it wasn’t a chore, actually I think I may have got a little carried away with it, what do you think? That’s all faux stitching around the outside of the greeting and the lines along the top and bottom of “Season’s Greetings”, plus there is some around the red star, it’s just a bit hard to see in the photo.
I stuck with some traditional Christmas colours for this one, and have used a non Stampin’ Up! embossing folder which has been sitting unused for some time now. The Christmas tree looks a bit lumpy in the photo, but I have just used some cotton wool behind it to make it puff out a little.
The Christmas Tree was cut out of the white panel of card stock using the Holiday Collection Framelits die, and the fabric is from the Orchard Harvest Designer Fabrics. And the greeting is from the Welcome Christmas stamp set.
If you have any questions about how I made my card, please feel free to send me an email. And you can see what the rest of the Design Team have made for this challenge here. We do hope you will give this one a go and join in the fun, we love to see what you have created using our challenges.
Next week is my challenge, so make sure you come back to see what I have for you, and it is also our final challenge for the year, as we are taking a well earned break over Christmas.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
I love Papillon Potpourri stamp set, such beautiful butterflies!
And I have seen this idea around on the net in a few places so thought I would make a couple of different ones. What I really wanted to do was to show you just how easy it is to change a couple of elements and come up with a completely different card.
So, as you can see, I have change the colours, the first card uses Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze and Summer Starfruit.
I used a different piece of patterned paper, although both are from the Comfort Cafe Designer Series Paper. The greetings on both cards are from the Curly Cute set.
The colours in the second card are Whisteria Wonder, Pool Party and So Saffron.
I have also used a different butterfly to achieve a different look, but both are from the Papillon Potpourri stamp set.
I like this design, I think I will make a Christmas card using it 🙂
I also want to let all of my lovely followers know that there are going to be some pretty major changes going on over the next couple of months. My son and I have decided that it is time to move back home to Canberra. We have started packing, but we don’t have an exact date to move yet, but imagine it will take place before Christmas. So I will attempt to continue to craft and blog over that time, but I hope you will understand if it’s not as frequent as it has been.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
No, I am not asking you to go clean up your kitchen, it is this week’s challenge theme at Our Creative Corner. Meihsia’s challenge is to create a Clean and Simple card featuring something you would see in the kitchen.
I have used the coffee cup from the fantastic Scentsational Season stamp set (page 16 Holiday Catalogue), and while this is definitely meant to be a Christmas set, I didn’t want to make a Christmas card this time, so I punched out the For You sentiment from the Mixed Medley stamp set, one of the new Hostess Sets in the Holiday Catalogue, and layered that over the snowflake image. The image is cut using the matching dies, which can be bought in a bundle with the stamp set.
The patterned paper is from the Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper Stack, and also the woodgrain is from the Natural Composition Specialty papers.
So please join in this week, we always love to see what you come up with for our challenges. The rest of the projects from the Design Team can be seen here.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
Just a short post today, but I wanted to share the cute little punch art caterpillar. Or is he a worm – perhaps a book worm 🙂
I have been incredibly busy just recently, with a lot of cards and gift tags going out to various charities for fundraising events. I have one more lot of these to get done, but only a small one so that should be done this week.
I then have to focus on getting some things done for a display that I will be having at the Brighton Library in November. So busy times for me, but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been crafting, just not doing much blogging. I will do my best to keep you up to date though.
Happy stamping!
Chris
This week’s Our Creative Corner Challenge comes from the lovely Liliana, who has picked a photo of a country scene as inspiration, with the following requirements:
-Create a card or project with a country or western look. Use the photo to inspire you.
-Your project must have something plaid or gingham (checkered/tartan is acceptable too!), such as in a ribbon, or designer paper.
-Most of all, have fun!
And here is the photo:
It took me some time to figure out what to do with this challenge, since I don’t really have anything “country or western” but ended up choosing this cute little cart image from the stamp set For the Birds (Page 34 of the Annual Catalogue). I decided this could easily be something you would see in the country. Well, anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
I just adore this stamp set, it was on my “absolutely need to have it” list when the new catalogue came out.
The image has been water coloured in colours to match the stripey mount, which is made with the Orchard Harvest Fabric (Page 30 of the Holiday Catalogue). The dark background layer has been embossed using the Woodgrain embossing folder, then just add some twine and one of the gorgeous new wooden buttons.
I do hope you will play along with us this week, so make sure you check out what the rest of the Design Team came up with here.
And if you have any questions about my card or the challenge, just send me an email.
I promise to return in the next day or so with some new projects, so stay tuned!
Happy stamping!
Chris
I haven’t used a resist technique for a while, so it was good to get into a different technique this week.
This week’s Our Creative Corner Challenge is to use some form of resist technique, whether that is Heat Emboss Resist, which I have used here, or crayon resist, and there are a number of others as well, and they are all fun to do. The only other thing required on your creation is a pair of wings – animal, bug, butterfly, angel…. 🙂
I have used some Glossy White card stock and embossed the large flower type design from the new stamp set Betsy’s Blossom, which is available…. now….. today 🙂 … with white embossing powder. I have then used inks and daubers to sponge on the colour in the background – the colours are Wisteria Wonder, Pretty in Pink and a new In Colour called Primrose Petals.
Feel free to send me an email if you would like more information about this card.
And have a go at something different, it doesn’t have to be complicated, but do check out the amazing inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.
Happy Stamping!
Chris
Our Creative Corner challenge this week from Kim Price is to use Office Supplies on our creation, along with lots of the colour red! Yes, office supplies, as in staples, post-it notes, string, sticky tape…. you get the idea.
So I went searching to see what I could find that would fit in with those criteria. My card is inspired by Deb Fearns, a fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrator and friend from when I was living in Canberra. Deb has used some of the doilies from the Flirtatious Specialty papers, cut them and coloured them to look like cogs. I just wanted mine to look a bit like a wheel, but I love this clever idea for using up some retiring bits and pieces. I have also used the retiring Well Worn DSP, which are fantastic for male cards.
The stamp set is The Open Sea, which becomes available again on the 1st Sept (Yay… love this set!), and I have used string, staples and a clip as my office supplies.
I do hope you will play along with us this week, this challenge is so much fun. And have a look to see what the rest of the fabulous Design Team have created for some inspiration.
Happy stamping!
Chris
This week’s challenge at Our Creative Corner is a colour challenge, to use the colours Lime, Poppy, Pink, Black and White, along with either fabric or circles (or both!). Lori Rider has given us a photo for inspiration for this challenge:
For some reason I struggled a little with this one, I have ended up with three cards made using the colours, but I will only show you one today. 🙂 Might show you the others another time.
I have used the Twitterpated fabric as a background and have stamped the swirly image from Precious Butterflies (Hostess set) in black Stazon ink, directly onto the fabric. I have then stitched the fabric onto the black card stock using my sewing machine! Yes, you heard right… I used my sewing machine!
For the leaves I have used the Little Leaves Sizzlit Die, and the white flowers Blossom Party Originals Die. The little flowers are made using the Itty Bitty Shapes punch set.
This one is a little different for me, but I enjoyed the challenge.
Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team’s fabulous creations.
Have a great weekend, and happy stamping!
Chris
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