A Card from Artist Jim Harker

The story behind the card.

I made Jim Harker the artist at La Pashe a Christmas card and when he opened it he said that he must get around to writing his cards out, So I stamped my feet and said "I expect nothing but a hand sketched card" well, it just wouldn't do to have a shop bought one from and artist would it?

When Jim made the card for me as he passed it to me he said " I thought you might like to make a digi stamp from it to make your own cards and add some colour" So although I had made my last Christmas card (or at least I thought I had) this image was just screaming for me to add some colour.

So here it is, coloured with Promarkers and made into an Easel Card.

I hope I did him proud.

With Heartfelt Thanks

Total raised by friends and visitors to my blog in memory of my great nephew Layton John Cleaver (Search 4 a Vaccine)

£1473.00

A note from Kim and David

"We would like to thank you all so much for all the money raised and all your support throughout this very sad and hard time. Losing your child is so difficult to come to terms with however we have found some sort of comfort from all your loving messages. We are overwhelmed by how much all you have raised. We can't thank you all enough for helping us raise money to help find this vaccine we so need. Thanks again Love David & Kim (Layton's Mum & Dad)xxx"

I know a few of you have continued your support by donating money in place of sending Christmas cards so thank you for that too.

Anyone feeling they could donate a little in support of the Search 4 a Vaccine Campaigne please do so here

Pink Peppermint - Free Download Sheets

You are free to use my sheets for personal use but please do not share, alter, claim them as your own or sell them, instead link back to my blog for people to download them.
They are copyright protected.

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

The sheet will print to a normal size A4 sheet, once saved to your computer double click on the file then from the top menu on your computer click, file then print this will then print out the image

So onto the free sheets, I was playing with colour when these sheets crept up on me I love pinks, browns and aqua colours so I named them what came into my head "Pink Peppermint".

I thought that matching blossoms might be nice too.

And Finally... Santa Collage

I finally found time to make the last of my Christmas cards and what a better way to finish than with old St Nicholas himself I think this has to be my favourite Christmas stamp of all (Santa Collage) the flourish and sentiment image are from a Papertrey ink stamp set (Silent Night)

Attention to detail...

I added heavy lace under the stamped image and on the base card I used a Stampin Up wheel with a holly stamp and heat embossed with gold detail powder.

On the image below you can see that I wrapped a gold thread around the right hand side of the card, the sizzix bigz floral die was glittered along with the punched out snowflake for extra texture.

Free Download - Build a Blossom Fleur Bleue

I gave you the pink pink pink version so now here is the fleur bleue

You are free to use my sheets for personal use but please do not share, alter, claim them as your own or sell them, instead link back to my blog for people to download them.

They are copyright protected.
Just click on the image and this will bring it to full size on your screen then save it to your computer.
The sheet will print to a normal size A4 sheet, once saved to your computer double click on the file then from the top menu on your computer click, file then print this will then print out the image