Christmas Ornament and Red & Green Card

Inspired by a hanging wall ornament made by Kath, I set off to make my own version - it took me ages, and tons of stickles, but I love it and am really pleased with it - I made mine half the size of Kaths, so it was fiddly but if I made another, I'd be much quicker. The ribbon and gold bells are from Ribbon Girl.

This is the card I made for the DT Green and Red challenge No. 2 over at the Ribbon Girl Blog - I stamped the greeting and frame with Waltzing Mouse stamps, cut out with nestabilities and the paper is Cosmo Cricket.  The ribbon, bakers divine twine and little liberty bells are all from Ribbon Girl

Balloons and Pansies

I had a really nice time on Friday last when I went to my first 'crop' at the Scrapbook Shop in Durham - a nice group of ladies and very tasty pizza!  I had prepared some parts of this card before I went, and actually made it into the finished card when I was there.  The stamp is a Pure Innocence stamp stamped with memento ink and coloured with copics. The papers were cosmo cricket from 3djean . 

The embellishments are pansies I pulled off a spray of silk flowers. I took the central plastic stamens out and replaced it with a brad then stuck on a self adhesive prima pearl, again from 3djean.  I had the spray of heart shaped crystals in my stash. The lace, ribbon and button twine are from Ribbon Girl

Santa and a box of holly

I didn't win the lotv thursday challenge but am not downhearted - I've made another couple of cards, this santa card is not suitable for this weeks challenge but I like it.

The stamped santa is from http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/ which I coloured with various copics pens.  I cut the circle using a nestability die and matted it onto another circle of paper cut from a serrated edge die, then glittered all of his hair and the fur on his hat and coat (I love anything that glitters - I put my thumb in it before it dried so the kitchen table cloth, the table, the dog, the kitchen etc are glittering). 

I stuck on some dark red satin ribbon and cotton lace using narrow double sided sticky tape, then attached some christmas rose flowers and holly leaves (cut from artificial silk flower sprays) and finished the card off with a couple of gold coloured bells.  I didn't realise that I should have used a lot more glue than a little old sticky foam pad, so everything dropped off when I proudly displayed it on the window ledge  lol :)  I then used a big blob of glue and re-stuck everything - and it's still stuck! All of the paper is from Cosmo Cricket and the ribbon is from http://www.ribbongirl.co.uk/