Christmas with a metallic twist

Hi everyone.

There's a new challenge at Ruby's Rainbow.

Our theme is Christmas with a metallic twist.

We'd like to see a metallic element to your creations this fortnight. I chose to use silver mirri card, plus a little red and green to make my card...

I made the topper using a peel off which has been in my stash for years...can't remember the last time I bought any. I've put it on a white rectangle and added Glitter Magic glitter. It's then been mounted onto red card and then silver. The backing paper has also been mounted with silver. I've wrapped red and white twine around the base card and added a little bow with several loops, using the bowmaker. Finishing touches include a ready made sentiment and some metallic holly cut with a Spellbinder die. The card is 4 x 4.

I would like to enter this for the following:-

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra - November

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - November

ABC Christmas Challenge - 4x4

I hope you'll join in the fun at Ruby's. I look forward to seeing your fabulous creations.

See you again soon.

Helen x

A Crazy Happy Bird-day!

Hi everyone.

I just wanted to share the birthday card which I made for my Mother-in-law...

The image is from the Tim Holtz 'Bird Crazy' stamp set with matching dies, which I bought at the NEC. My hubby Ted just fell in love with this set. I've coloured using Copics. I love the way all the wings, beaks and eyes also have dies so you can layer them up. I've used 3D glue gel for this. I'm really hoping Father Christmas will bring me the accessory set of stamps and dies to go with these.

I've been looking for a die to do the happy birthday for ages and spotted this memory box one at the NEC. You can't really see in the photo but the black and white papers are both pearlescent. 

I used a Cheery Lynn die and a tonic punch to make the flower, finished with an orange candi to pick out the beak colour of the owl.

Oh, I nearly forgot to mention the tiny bow I added to the owl's head. I tied it using my new bow maker (also from the NEC). I love this, it's so easy to use.

The whole card has been matted with mirri board and contains an orange liner with a deckle edge.

I would like to enter this for the following:-

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes

AAA Cards - Anything goes CAS

Crafting When We Can - Don't forget the animals

Thank you so much for visiting. I'll see you again soon.

Helen x

A tiny Tattered Lace side stepper

Hi everyone.

I hope you're all well.

I've been playing in my craft room recently and realised I haven't shared anything. I seem to have let blogging take a back seat recently but I think it's time to rectify that now.

I was really happy to find out that Create and Craft were going to give me a £10 voucher for each year I've been a member. Last month I bought some Centura Pearl card with it. This month I ordered the latest Tattered Lace magazine. It comes with a mini side stepper card die set...it's just so cute...and a great way to use up some scraps...

The die set includes all the dies needed to cut the papers and also some ovals and rectangles. I've also used some Tattered Lace mini dies to cut the butterflies from lemon glitter card. To finish off I added some self adhesive pearls and an organza bow tied using an Embellishment Attic Bowmaker (bought from the NEC). You can't tell the scale from the photo so here's another...

I would like to enter this for the following:-

Crafty Gals Corner - Use scraps

The Crafty Addicts - Use die cuts

Craft-Dee Bowz - Handmade bows

Thanks for visiting. I hope to see you again soon.

Hugs Helen xx

Anything but a card with Sparkles Monthly Challenges

Hi everyone.

There's a new challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges.

The theme for this month is Anything but a card.

Here's my little piece of inspiration...

I've decorated a hessian bag with some Christmas foliage and ribbon. It was so simple to do...just needed to tie the bow and use a bit of glue but I hope you'll agree that it looks really effective. Just need to buy a nice pressie to fill it with now.

We've got some lovely prizes...

This gorgeous prize from Marianne Designs.

7 digi stamps from Bugaboo Stamps.

and

 a goody bag from Crafty Bren.

I really hope you'll join us. Pop over to the challenge to see some more fabulous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Thank you so much for visiting. I can't wait to see all your gorgeous creations.

Hugs Helen xx

Red, white and blue with Ruby

Hi everyone.

There's a new challenge at Ruby's Rainbow.

Our theme is Red, white & blue.

Here's my little piece of inspiration...

I've used the Makey Bakey Mice Christmas cd to print the topper and the backing paper.

The sentiment is by Circadesign with glitter added. I've also highlighted parts of the image with glitter. I've added a die cut to the top corner and finished off with some spotty ribbon.

Now it's your turn. I hope you'll join us and have a look at the gorgeous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Thanks for visiting. I hope to see you again soon.

Hugs Helen x

Christmas Decorations with Sparkles

Hi everyone.

I hope you're all well.

There's a new challenge starting over at

Sparkles Christmas Challenges.

Our theme is Christmas Decorations. You can either make a card featuring a Christmas decoration or make a decoration. It's up to you. Here's my little piece of inspiration...

The image is from the House Mouse triple cd and has been mounted with both red and black card. The backing paper is from a pad by Craft Sensations which I recently picked up from The Range and is also mounted with red and black. I've added a red doily behind the image and some ribbon running at the same angle as the image. The sentiment is from a Daisy and Dandelion set from a few years ago and seems to be my favourite Christmas Sentiment. I've cut it out on a slightly bigger circle than the stamp allowing me to add some red glitter round it before adding green branches (Martha Stewart punch) to echo the wreath in the image. I've finished off with a tiny hand made bow.

I hope you'll join us. We have two fabulous sponsors...

£10 voucher

and

$25 voucher

Thank you so much for visiting. I hope to see you again soon.

Hugs Helen x