Tellen's Place cards for Christmas

Hi all you happy bloggers out there. Sorry, I've not been keeping up to date the last couple of weeks. Work, the holiday season, the weather. All conspiring to keep me away from here. Our internet went kaputt for a few days because of the snow, arrggghhhh. Back on now :)

Anyway.
I had made a few cards for Tellen's Place as part of their design team and Terry had them for posting before calamity struck here. Just as well!!
So just to update and give more details, is the main reason for this post.
First up was this little card using a freebie from Tellen's Place and the folded frame technique from Splitcoast Stampers. The patterned papers are all from Crafty Chaos.

Ribbon, brads and card stock from stash. Image coloured with promarkers.
This card was featured in the CDAC forum


Next up was a shaker card I made using the Little Drummer Boy image.
Again using papers from Crafty Chaos. Image coloured again in promarkers and the shaker filled with seed beads and sequins from stash as was the base card and ribbon etc.

Octo card

Make a card with only 8 items. No more and no less!! That's the challenge over on Macabre Mondays at Haunted Design House this week. More difficult than you'd think. I hope this one counts. It's a birthday card for SIL.


The backing paper was made by me ..... loads of words stamped (from the same set as the image Smeared Ink - Li'l Grumpies set)
1. base card
2. main BP
3-7. matting and layering layers
8. Image layer

So the challenge HDH#068 over on Haunted House Design is where this little card is being entered.

blue Christmas

Snow cones and snowflakes for Stamp It Crazy. Well as long as the snow is on a card, I don't mind. Living in Scotland, we've sure had our share of snow this year. It's piled up here everywhere and with temps touching on -20C it's cold as well :(
Anyway, onto the card.....
An easel card with snowflakes on the paper, one of those freebies from last year and I can't remember the source. I think it was crafty companions. The snowman with his head knocked off is stampotique to which I added just a dusting of pale blue promarker and sparkle and a fibre scarf.
The snowflake was made by threading "a few" seed beads onto thin wire and stitched onto the card then a couple of peel off snowflakes.

The base has a topper from a RAK "Winter Wishes" mounted onto sticky pads and 6 little homemade snow cones using more of the BP and some crackle beads and a couple of little pompoms. The ribbon was rescued from a box of chocs. All mounted onto a hammered white card stock.


I am entering this into the challenge over at Stamp It Crazy - Snowflakes and snow cones challenge
Also the City Crafter Challenge - Let It Snow
The Crafty Purple Frog have an Easel card challenge so I'm entering this in that as well

Paper Pandemonium

Haunted House Designs set the challenge and I've just squeaked in I hope. At least two papers to be used. Well I snuck in with just that - 2 papers. They are from the velvet descent range from Crafty Chaos, although I did a little bit of alteration of the colour on one of them .... sorry Susan.
The image is from Delicious Doodles. The folded paper frame was inspired by splitcoast stampers, though I have added a bit of my own to it.
The colouring of the image was done with promarkers. Ribbon and brads and other cardstock from stash.


I am entering this into the HDH challenge #67 - 2 or more patterned papers

Yet more cards

This being snowed in has meant that a few more cards than usual are being churned out of my crafty room. I have followed a few sketches and recipes from some of the challenge blogs and these have been credited.

Sketch from the Craft Mad and Loving It group on the craft bubble forum... an image from digidrawn



Using the recipe of lace SISC#37 from Stamp Insanity, one of their images and the sketch from Midnight Madness MMSC#84. Papers from Crafty Chaos, blue Christmas range.



Using the recipe from Delicious Doodles challenge #3 - use a digi and one of Teri's images "Bark at the Moon".


Using the sketch over at Midnight Madness again. This time MMSC#82, the CAS version. The image is from Gingerloft.

Yep - yet another C'card

This time it's the turn of blue for a christmas card......
Following no particular sketch... just plonking down bits and pieces where ever the mood took me....


The image is "Star Keeper" from Digistamps4joy. Coloured with promarkers and made into a shaker with blue and silver glitter, seed beads and sequins. The top layer is a dotty embossed card from stash. The base is pearlised with a pearlised damask effect (it's there but I couldn't get it to photograph) layered on followed by a piece of torn vellum with a couple of snowflake brads and some peel off stars. No flowers or ribbons ..... I toyed with some but decided against them, the clean lines looked better to my eye.
Simple and clean
I am entering this into the challenges over at I Did It Creations - Surprise Me challenge
Lexi's Creations - Blue and silver

Yet Another C'card

Well, we're well and truely snowed in. Even hubby's 4x4 hasn't been able to move!!! I made it into work on monday, that was it. As of this am we had over 30cm of the white stuff at the door!!
Staying in and crafting (mostly making boxes or thick envelopes for previously made cards) has been the reason why I haven't gone stir crazy as we even lost the internet for a while. No milk or bread to be had in this small area of Scotland, luckily I had been shopping on friday before all this.

Anyway - on to one of the cards I had made in this "enforced" crafting session.
I followed the sketch over at Fairymoon Crafts for this one.

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The image is from Digis With Attitude!, one of the "Grumpy Gretchen" range called Santa's helper. I wanted to do a Christmas card out of the normal colours and this "Berry Snow" range from Crafty Chaos was the ideal choice.
All colouring was done with promarkers with just a touch of purple glitter to the "furry bits" on the outfit of Gretchen. A tiny bit of ink distressing and some purple gems were all I felt this needed.
I am entering this into the Fairymoon Crafts challenge as it is their sketch.