Christmas Owls - Winkin, Blinkin & Nod

Winkin ,Blinkin and Nod

My base card is strong acetate scored and folded then edged with a permanemt gold marker the scalloped brown square was made with the fiskers border punch I threaded a piece of ribbon through the centre holes and again edged with the gold marker.

I layered a piece of red card stock over this that matched the little Santa hats and added a few irridescent snowflakes top and bottom.

on a pieceof cream card stock I stamped the owls in coffee bean brilliance ink(sorry no name of stamp or maker printed on the stamp, it was bought at a craft fair).

I made the little hats and addedstickles glitter glue to the image & added this ontop of the red and brown card with foam pads.

I added the image to the acetate with glue dots then hid this on the inside of the acetate card with more snowflakes.

A close up view of the Owls.

You can see the little pom poms are made from fringing a length of paper and rolling it up tight and then splaying the fringe. the little hats are just pices of card cut in a triangle and the white trim is again card cut to shape and glittered with stickles.

Saying Hi

Whilst I was viewing my stats for my blog it got me thinking to how marvelous the World Wide Web is, being from the UK I was amazed at all the different countries that were showing on my stats places like United States, Austrailia, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia,Iceland and many many more.

Pretty amazing that someone from all these countries have visited my humble blog.

The one visable country that I hadn't had a visit from today was Japan so if any of you know a crafter in Japan feel free to send them my way, I'd be thrilled.

So I want to thank you all for visiting and let everyone know that your visits are very much appreciated.

Floral Punch Craft - Moth Orchid

Well I set myself a challenge with this one and that was to make the Moth Orchid, I took the instructions from Floral Punch Craft VI by Leone Em and sat down with a coffee and set to work.

The Punch used on this flower is the Moth Orchid theme punch by Punch Bunch and coloured this with water colours.

I used a fiskers border bunch I think it was called running water to add the scallop effect to the pink card and then added a couple of score lines with the Scor-Pal, the top part of the card was embossed with the cuttlebug Stylised Flowers folder.

I cut out a couple of rectangles from the nestabilities and stamped the sentiment by Papertrey Ink Garden of Life set

Then used this as a plaque for the orchid to sit on, I added a few pearls and a ribbon to finish.

Bubbled Stampbord - Christmas Card

The Stampbord was sprayed with water before colouring with inks and then the bird stamp by Inkadinkado stamped on the middle then I used the heat gun on the edges of the stampbord this bubbles as the clay is damp where the water is added once this had cooled I used versamark and gold embossing powder on the top of the bubbles and again applied the heat gun to melt the embossing powder.

I added stickles glitter glue and a few gems for extra effect.

Tapestry Stamps - Joy

Well I could hardly make Noel without making Joy could I?

made in exactly the same way as the Noel card except I used the Oval Nestabilities in place of the long rectangles.

Tapestry Stamps - Noel

A Quick 10 minute card with no fuss.

An A6 card tent fold embossed on the front with one of the long rectangle nestabilities then cut out the next sizes down in red and gold then one more in white which I samped the word Noel and then used the tapestry peg stamps to decorate the O in the word, layered them all together with foam pads and added a pretty ribbon to the top.

Floral Punch Craft - Lilium Feathers

I was given a Lilium Feather Punch by my good friend Pam over the weekend so I put the punch to good use when I got home details of how to make the flower can be found in Floral Punch Craft VI Orchids and More by Leone Em.

A close up view of the arrangement

Christmas Card - kinkade Forest Chapel

I love the simplicity of this Christmas Card, the main image is a Thomas Kinkade stamp called Forest Chapel stamped in black then cut into an oval with Nestabilities, the robin image was stamped directly onto the card and is a set of Christmas Birds by Inkadinkado.

I punched holes and slotted through the black ribbon on the base card and tied a bow added a sentiment by PTI and used stickles to add some Christmas sparkle.