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

Free Download - Build a Blossom

I bet you thought I'd deserted, well I have been very busy trying to get everything finished for La Pashe before breaking up for Christmas and also busy with the family.

I thought i'd give you something to play with that isn't Christmas so here it is.

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

You're my Best

Couldn't you just snuggle up and give him a hug.

I tried to keep the colour matching with card and papers to the Promarker colours I used.

The image digital stamp image is from Digital Pencil Too and is called You're my Best.

Lots of layering to mount the image a pretty paper from Stampin Up and ribbon to finish.

Attention to detail...

I added shadows in a shade darker pens to areas that needed it.

If you click on the image it will enlarge and give you a better view of this.

Bye Bye - Off to Granny's

I thought these images from Digital pencil Too would make a perfect GrandMother card, it reminded me so much of my 2 girls running over to their Nanna's to raid the cake tin lol!

On another note it would also make a great fun wedding cardwith a note saying and they lived happily ever after.

Attention to detail...

I matched the inside of the gatefold card in the same theme as the front edging the insert with red gingham amd using the scallop border punch to give a fancy edge.

The little flowers were punched out from a corner punch I have, I dotted the centre of the flowers in red glued them in place and using a white pen dashed some faux stitching.

I love the detail in these images the Bye bye girl has a ladybug backpack and the Bye bye boy has a car backpack cute, cute, cute.

Jack 20 Weeks Old

It has been a little while since I gave you all an update on Jack's progress and as I had him for a few hours tonight I thought I'd share a couple of pictures with you.
He arrived to us like this...

And in no time at all with a bit of prodding and poking (wink) to help him wake up, we had him

like this....

and this...

he really is a happy little chap

Navy Iced

Navy and ice white card.

The tree is a stamp from the set As lovely as a tree from Stampin Up, stamps onto navy coloured card then heat embossed with white embossing powder. I then punched out the border using a Martha Stewart Border Punch.

The white iced card is embossed with the cuttlebug folders Vicyoria and Snowflakes.

I layered all the card together then finished with a Snowflake charm a ribbon and Stickle Ice glitter glue over the tree.

Gingerbread Man Winners

The winner of the Waltzing Mouse Gingerbread Stamps are...

Joan Cummings

Debs Ankin

Cally Ancell

Marge E Robertson

Ladies please contact me jakheath@gmail.com with your address details and I will have a set of the stamps sent out to you.

Congratulations and a big thank you for supporting me in my fundraising.

Coexist - Fur Fear

I have to say this is one of the scariest projects I have done the digi image is by Mo Manning and is called Coexist and doesn't it just make you say "awe"?

Well I have been dying to give this one a go but I have a fur fear, no not really, just the thought of how to tackle colouring it sent me in a spin. I wasn't going to let it beat me so here is my result.

Teamed with 2 pretty papers a ribbon and a button to finish.

Attention to detail...

So I thought I would give the attention to detail to the fur.

I did colour with Promarkers but I just wasn't getting the effect that i was after so I remembered what Jim Harker (artist for La Pashe) told me.

He said "there is no law against mixing mediums" so that is exactly what I did, I used watercolour pencils on top of the Promarkers and I have to say that I am quite chuffed with the result

I'd love to hear your comments on this one, I love reading them

Jordan Multitasking - Joint Effort

Can you remember Lauren? "eldest daughter, Mother of Jack" well from being old enough to pick stuff up she has always had to have a try of everything she saw, as she got older I was always threatening to chop her fingers off if she touched my craft stash and I thought she would grow out of it "but"no!

This time she asked if she could colour in one of my digi stamps from Digital Pencil too as Jack lay sleeping on Friday afternoon I asked what she was going to colour it in with and she pointed gingerly to my Promarker stash, I said she could but only if she returned each one to when she got the from as I have them all in order.

I was so impressed that I thought it warranted a card being made.

Now I think the girl did good, first try of Promarkers too, it just goes to show that you don't need to be an expert when teamed with a good image by Mo and a set of Promarkers.

Last Chance - Gingerbread Man Stamps

It is the last chance today to enter the draw to win the Gingerbread Man stamps from Waltzing Mouse stamps, Claire Brennan donated 4 of the stamps for a very worthy cause. click here for details on how to enter.

Friend to Friend

A chocolate card base and pretty paper and some cream card embossed using the Victoria A2 Cuttlebug folder.

Attention to detail...

A fancy paper fold with a double sided paper, a diagonal concertina fold.

The flower was a mishap, I cut off the stem and the centre bud dropped out so I used a bead and a gold finding to replace it.

Paper- Bella Bleu (Stampin Up), Card - Papermill Shop

Embossing - Victoria A2 Folder (Cuttlebug), Stamp - Stampin Up

Nestabilities Tags, Ribbon, Flower and findings - My stash

Christmas Reindeer

This card was made for work, well sort of, I was trying to explain the uses of Versamark ink to a work collegue, explaining that you can use it as a watermark or use embossing powder with it and said I was do a couple of samples, so I did the samples of each then got carried away in making this one into a card.

After cutting the layers of patterned paper I distressed the edges with a red distress ink and a sponge.

Attention to detail...

The ribbon is a two toned ribbon in red and green from a local Craft shop.

You can see on the image below how I picked out the dotted swirl from the patterned paper and used stickles glitter glue to make it pop, you can aslo see the green nailhead at the edge of the punched out point.

Stamp - Papermania

Patterned Paper- Graphic 45

Border Punch -Martha Stewart

embelishments - Stickles Glitter glue and nail head gems from my stash

Card - Papermill shop

Ink - Ranger Distress Ink Red Brick

Tea Towel Winners

The 5 lucky ladies that win a Tea Towel each from All Tea Towels are...

Sam
hmm, it's a toss up between the naughty cat under the tree and the Twelve Days of Christmas!!

Kimbo
I can't believe there are so many to choose from. The nostalgia ones are great but then I was torn between the Owls and Fashion Victim. SO I'm going for one of the ones you've shown - Hand Wash Only - so appropriate. Thanks for letting us know about these wonderful products. Kim x

Anne Marie
Wow these tea towels are fab and I got ideas for Stocking filler gifts on just about every page!! My favourite has to be the one witht he Border collie on it. It just looks so like my SIL's collie. would make a great gift for her if I was to win it. Not fliipin likely though - lol!! Love the wrapping idea too Jak!!

Trish
Hi Jak,Your log is a smashing idea- it looks so good. I had a lovely time going through the tea towels and to my surprise I found out it's only approx 15 miles from where I live- small world and all that!! Hard to choose a favourite, probably the form-ewe-la-one which I would give to my daughter-in-law as she's besotted with it, or the gorgeous Rennie MacIntosh design for myself!Hugs,Trish

Louise
What a fab idea for a christmas pressie, had a look and there are many favourites!! If I had to choose one though it would be the penguins on ice drinking tea, how cute!Thanks for showing us them, Louise x

Well done Ladies please email me with your final choice of which Tea Towel you would like and I will forward the details to Al at All Tea Towels

For those of you that haven't yet visited Al's shop head over there now you still have plenty of time to buy them to give as Christmas Presents

Christmas Robins

I can't claim fame for this fun card, it was a make and take from Joanne at Mainly Flowers, all of the components and instructions were added into a Stampin Up order from her to make up.

You can see from this photo that the Robin was made with a circle punch the redbreast is another punched circle punched again to remove part of the circle, the wing and beak is the petal of a pointed flower and a google eye to finish. Legs are hand drawn.

Die Cut Winners

And the winners are

No.3 Nicola Jolliffe No.12 Merry

Ladies please contact me with you address details at jakheath@gmail.com and I will send out the Flippin Christmas Die Cut decoupage sheets to you both.

These are the cards I have created with the In memory of Layton Digi Stamps.

Now it is your turn to show me the wonderful cards you have created

I have a Mr Linky at the bottom of this, it is below the Add to Cart button, All you need to do is click on it and leave the URL link to the card/cards you have made with the Digi stamps

Add the URL to your card in the Mr Linky I will leave this on untill Sunday 22nd I will then draw 2 winners to receive from La Pashe a full set of the Flippin Christmas DIE CUT Decoupage.

Competition is now closed

Competition is now closed

Trendy Trees - Stampin Up

A card made with the Trendy trees Stamp set by Stampin Up.

I was actually sitting in my craft room testing out a new light fitting whilst making this card.

Did you know that you can get a Daylight Strip Fitting light? I didn't until around a week ago.

It looks like a slimline fluorescent tube and it isn't at all expensive, A 4 foot slimline tube for around £6 I took this picture of the card under the same light, very impressed with it.

Attention to Detail...

I punched the border from the same Kraft card that I used for the base then used the reverse side of the paper and cut a strip and glued this across the top of the border, I then tied a green ribbon around it before stamping the sentiment then stuck this near the bottom of the card.

I left a bit of interest by leaving one of the trees bare, the leaves and the trunks of the trees are separate in this set.

I used a Koi water brush to drag some of the colour from the base of the trunks to add shadow then topped with a bit of glitter to add a bit of bling.

Ingrediants.

Stamps, from Stampin Up (Trendy Trees)

Papers, Stampin Up (Bella Bleu)

Tools, Stamp a jig Stampin Up, Border Punch Marths Stewart (Drippy Goo)

Card, Papertrey Ink (Kraft Card)