Double the Birthday Fun

Today is a special day, it’s Corinne’s birthday and we’re celebrating with a blog hop featuring cards made using the image Betty drew of Corinne.  Now you should have come here from the lovely Jackie’s blog, if not then head on over to the SBS blog to start from the beginning of what is going to be one heck of a hop!

Here is the card I made for Corinne featuring the awesome Mrs Jones image.

From me to you, Corinne, I wish you a very

Now this hop is not just for Corinne it’s also in honour of a special day tomorrow, Irene’s birthday.  I think it cool that Corinne and Irene are twins but get their own birthdays.  And here’s my card for Irene featuring her awesome image, Irene Bday Girl, also drawn by Betty.

Irene, here’s wishing you a very

Your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Samantha’s blog.

In case you’ve missed any stops along the way, here’s the complete blog list:

SBS blog featuring cards from Betty and Cynthia

Tanja Charles also featuring Vanessa Bland

Tanya Johnson

Jackie Rakoski-Diediker

Sian Hillman

Lucy Gregg

Karen Pimblett

Maggie Cox Schoener

Wendy Billings

Darcy Schroeder

Sheri Scraps

Bettina Leikvoll

Lori Gauerke

Christin Myhre

Vicky Fortier

Katya Bess

Danni Bindel

Stacey Schofield

Jackie Randolph

Emily Shroom (that’s me)

SamanthaValantean

Kay Mowat

Ruza Stevanovic Rebel

Cindye Wile

Lisa Howell

Veronica Chasteen Rosenshein

Robin Bogle

Melissa Whaley Varga

Sharon Gerber Brown

Roz Gold Wolfe

Trish TheDish Sakulich

Sharman DeLuca

Kathy Johnson Gillon

Lisa Lucas Nelson

Heath Whitlock

Stacey Stratis

Louise Mann

Rio Judy Ford

Sharette Smith

Elisabete Olivera Balcavage

Celina ScrapVamp Matthews

Summer Hill-Painter

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North Pole or Bust

With hardly any days left of the year I finally have my last two Christmas cards to show, these ones feature Santa’s Helper Rio from Simply B Stamps.

I forgot to add a sentiment before I printed these out so I had to write it in after but the slightly shaky writing suits the slightly tatty look of Rio and the theme of her hitching her way back to Santa’s workshop.  Notice something else about the green version?  Yep, no image.  I had all my supplies laid out on my table last night, I swear I had a red and green version of Rio but when I went to make up my cards today the green Rio had disappeared.  I turned my craft room upside down looking for her, the room is now clean but she is no where to be found.  Either she’s run off with Merry Betty and they’ve having a good time together or else there are gremlins in my craft room trying to send me mad.  Too bad for them I already am!  I'm still working on the recolouring of the green Rio luckily I am hand delivering these two cards.

The cards follow the sketch at A Die for Sketch, which, as the name suggests, also calls for a die cut to be used.  I’ve cut all three main elements to the sketch using dies.  The designer papers are all old and the gems are from my stash too, I rediscovered the red ones in time for my late Christmas card making and the green ones were a complete sheet too that I had to dig through my entire stash to find, I’d almost given up thinking I actually had any green ones.

Ingredients:

Copics

Coloured last year so I no longer remember

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities – 5x7 Matting Basics & Classic Ovals

Embellishments

Gems from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Tea Dye

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock – White

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock – Aged Mahogany

Kaisercraft Mint Twist – Peppermint & Twine

Kaisercraft Twig & Berry – Frankincense

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Santa’s Little Helper Rio

Challenges

A Die for a Sketch #19

Creative Belli Challenge #185 – Christmas

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Now fades the last long streak of snow…

I’m still ploughing through my Christmas cards and the images I coloured last year to make cards, these two feature Rio and Frosty from Simply B Stamps.

I’ve followed the sketch at Your Next Stamp to make up the cards, flipping the sketch for one of the cards.  There was also an inspiration photo to follow, I’ve chosen the snowflake from it and picked paper from my stash with snowflakes.  With the designer paper I’ve chosen I didn’t actually need any embellies.  I’ve also let the image take the place of the oval element in the sketch.  The image is kinda oval in shape, well, maybe an oval that’s enjoyed a big Christmas dinner!

Over at the Flying Unicorn Forum they’re running a use your stash challenge to help clear our craft spaces for all the new goodies 2014 will bring.  The paper used on the project needs to be at least a year old.  So I went Googling to find out when the BoBunny Noel and Graphic 45 Christmas Past collections came out, I had no idea how long they’d had been in my stash or even where they came from.  Turns out the BoBunny is from 2011 and the Graphic 45 from 2010 (or maybe 2009) so they certainly meet the challenge requirement so I’m also linking my cards up there.

Ingredients:

Copics

Coloured last year so I no longer remember

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink –Tea Dye

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock – White

BoBunny Noel – Cut Outs

Graphic 45 Christmas Past – Let It Snow

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Rio and Frosty

Challenges

Flying Unicorn – The Use Your Stash Challenge

Your Next Stamp Fun Friday Challenge #7 – December sketch and inspiration

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A Rippa of a Christmas

Another pair of belated Christmas cards, these ones feature another Teen Scene Jolly Christmas image from Simply B Stamps, Rip it Open Rio.

 
For these two cards I’ve followed a sketch from Stamps & Fun = Creativity, again I did the flip thing to get two same but different cards.  I did switch out the circle element for an ornament shaped one to better suit my Christmas theme.  As the papers have quite busy patterns I haven’t added any extra bling, other than to the top of the ornaments.

Being Christmas cards I’m also entering these over at Craftyhazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra, where it’s anything goes.

Ingredients:

Copics

Coloured last year so I no longer remember

Embellishments

BoBunny Brads – Silver and Gold

Gems from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink –Tea Dye

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock – White

Kaisercraft Mint Twist – Candy Stripe, Peppermint, Twine & Twist and Twirl

Webster’s Pages A Botanical Christmas – Singing Joyfully

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Rip it Open London

Challenges

Craftyhazelnut’s Christmas Challenge Extra – Challenge extra for December

Stamps & Fun = Creativity #183 – Sketch

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O Christmas Tree

More of my last minute cards featuring some images I helpfully had coloured up from last year when I failed to make any cards at all.  These cards feature Rio Trimming the Tree from the vaults of Simply B Stamps.

Again I’ve production lined my card making using a sketch from Sketch N Stash, flipping it to make the second card with the flipped image.  The paper I used was full of fun elements so I chose not to embellish the cards further but I did add bling to the images.  This was to cover the spiders and skulls, while I’d happily leave them on a card for myself, these cards aren’t going to those with the same macbre tastes but that’s the great thing about bling, it can turn any image into something different to suit a different taste.  The bling is all from my stash (old) and the BoBunny paper is new so I’ve got both twists of the stash element covered.

When it comes to decorating for Christmas I am a traditionalist so the main decoration is the tree with the extra special old star that tops it.  So in keeping with the current theme at Card Crafter’s Circle, my card features an image of someone, in this case Rio, trimming a tree.

Ingredients:

Copics

Coloured last year so I no longer remember

Embellishments

Gems from stash

Kaisercraft Pearls – Green & Red

Kaisercraft Sparklets – Daffodil

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink –Tea Dye

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock – White

BoBunny Back to Backs – Noel Cut Outs

BoBunny Silver & Gold – Stripes & Trees

Graphic 45 Renaissance Faire – Enlightened

Kaisercraft Twig & Berry – Advent

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Rio Trimming the Tree

Challenges

Card Crafter’s Circle #106 – Deck the Halls

Sketch N Stash #128

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