Christmas Wreath

It is time for a new Anything Goes challenge in the Art by Mi Ran facebook group, this time the optional theme is Anything but Square. For this card I decided to use a stamp Mi Ran has created for Whimsy Stamps called Christmas Wreath. I have, as usual, coloured it in with copics.

To make the card shape I used Go Kreate dies, I painted the edges with acrylic paint which I also added to the flowers and dies. The green paper is by Pion, the striped red one I forgot unfortunately. The tree dies and small bricks are from Noor Design, the lace is from KaBoks, the flowers are ribbon are by Wild Orchid Crafts, the berry looking flowers are from Live and Love Crafts and the sentiment stamp is from North Star Stamps. At the end I added glitter to the circular white dots to make them sparkle!

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This card has been entered into the following challenge:

Noor Design – Shaped Card

Card making course with Tracy Payne

On Saturday afternoon I couldn’t shake the thought that there was something going on this weekend that I’d forgotten about. Suddenly it hit me: there is a big scrapping fair in the city, hosted by North Star Stamps, where Tracy Payne of Noor Design UK is visiting and doing courses. I’d forgotten all about it!! Oh no! I was gutted! I went to Tracy’s FB and typed a post along the lines of “Noooo, I forgot about your courses!!”. Then the sweetheart responded she had one spot left for Sunday. It was the class I had wanted the most as well! Did that make my weekend or what!! I am so happy. It is the first card making course I’ve ever attended, and I doubt it will be my last! The card on this post is what she had us making. Isn’t it the best?! I am so pleased I got to meet Tracy, she is such a lovely person!

A lot of the products is of course by Noor Design: the snowflake and mistletoe dies, the red tag, the stencils we used to cut out the window and card shape as well as the bricks, gesso and structure paste for the white elements. The papers we were provided with are by Pion, as is the adorable image. I honestly don’t know where the rest of the goodies are from, but it wouldn’t surprise me if you can get a hold of some of them at Live and Love Crafts!

And of course I made it home with a big grin on my face along with a few new goodies, including the wonderful window stencil and a few Noor Design dies!

One thing is for certain: this card is going up as one of my Christmas decorations!

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Here is a more detailed close up collage of the various elements:

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Baby elephant’s first christmas

Oh! Christmas has been and gone, and so has the new years celebrations as well. I hope you all had a good, peaceful and creative couple of weeks, with of course far too much food and surrounded by family and friends. I guess I should get all my Christmas cards posted here. At this rate it will be summer before I know it.. heh.

This card is made with an adorable prec-coloured topper by Wild Rose Studio, leaves and snowflakes by Martha Stewart, lace, big pearl and flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts, some rhinestones, frantage for snow and distress ink.

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Gardening birds

Every other post a CAS card means we’re due a new one today! Well, technically yesterday, but I just felt like posting up the other one first, heh.

I just love the colours of this one, it could be both summer and autumn inspired! As usual I have made the CAS card with a Lili of the Valley pre-coloured image. I think they are just perfect for this purpose! The sentiment I decided to use is also by Lili of the Valley; a stamp this time. The papers are from First Edition paper, and the ribbon from a local shop.

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This card has been entered into the following challenge:

Lili of the Valley – Anything goes

Flutter me by

Another CAS card today. This card is made using a pre-coloured topper by Lili of the Valley. They are simply perfect for CAS cards! I used two different butterfly punchers by Martha Stewart and used small pearls to give them a body. Sadly I don’t remember where I purchased the ribbon as I wouldn’t mind getting some more of it… heh.

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This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Nordsalten Hobbyklubb – CAS