Pretty as a Row of Trees

Chocolate and aqua a lovely combination.

The aqua base card was stamped using the Rollergraph snowflake stamp inked with versamark then heat set after applying bridal embossing powder by Ranger, I'm not sure you can see all of the subtle twinkles that this powder gives but it is simple gorgeous in the flesh.

I used the same powder to heat emboss the Lovely as a Tree stamp by Stampin Up only this time using it on the chocolate coloured card then dividing it into 4 pieces and matting and layering it.

Lastly I punched 4 holes into the topper aqua card and threaded and tied a chocolate ribbon through the card. finished with a little Christmas tree charm and a pretty snowflake.

Attention to detail...

The snowflake was made using 2 snowflake punches then a little drop of clear drying glue on each and dipped into Crushed glass glitter to give the sparkle, a brad was added through the centre.

Christmas Poinsettia

How would you like to make a poinsettia like the one below to add to your cards or scrapbook layouts?

well you can...

I've made a sheet for you to build the image in layers so that it can look 3d on a card or scrapbook page.

You are free to use my sheets for personal use but please do not share or sell them instead link back to my blog for people to download them. They are copyright.

Just click on the image and this will bring them to full size on your screen
then save them to your computer.

A Pumpkin Card

This card was made useing the Rubberstamp Tapestry Believe/Dream/Peace Designer Block Prints set.

Take a piece of cream card size 4" x 5" and stamp one of the tiles all over this with Sage ink then distress the outer edge by sponging with birch colour ink, wrap a ribbon around the bottom of this card and attach to the Green A2 base card.

Cut out a circle using a punch or a nestabilities die from orange coloured paper then by moving the punch or die to the side of the hole in the orange paper cut 2 crescent shapes from the paper distress all od the edges with the birch ink.

Take a piece of cream card 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"and stick down the orange coloured pieces as shown on the card,

Use the evergreen ink pad and stamp the flower at the top of your pumpkin shape then in the same ink stamp the vine stamp at the top of the pumpkin, stamp the leaf stamp in each corner and the Believe words at the bottom of the card.

Cut a piece of green card stock slightly larger and mount the cram on top of this then attach to the base card

Dragonfly - Southern hawker

This poor thing was picked up outside work today by one of the staff, as you can see it has had some form of an accident, it was quite large and as you can see it has the most vibrant markings.

I looked it up on internet searching for UK Dragonflies and this is the information.

"have long thin bodies, four large wings that are held out to the sides and two large compound eyes. Antennae are very short. Southern hawkers have black bodies spotted with green, males also have some blue spots near end of their abdomen.

Fleur De Lis Pendant

I used the Spellbinders Fleur de lis pendant die and red card stock cut out and embossed using the tan Matt then I cut the die shaped into quarters I attached the shapes to the left facing corner then attached some of the waste petal shapes to cast over the corner a bit like a sunburst.

The friends was stamped in red poppy ink, from PTI

Attention to Detail...

This is the border that can be purchased to match the pendant die, I actually cut it out on an extra piece of Kraft Card and stuck it down on top of the red card then added it to the base card where the ribbon is hiding the join.