A few more (8) Christmas Cards

Hello my blogging friends and family. I hope you have had a great Christmas and that when the new year rolls in your NYE celebrations are Super, Safe and Spectacular! I also hope that 2014 also brings you all the things you wish for.

We had a quiet Christmas with friends and on New Years Day the family arrive for a few days which will be wonderful. My second new knee (Surgery 4th December) has just started to get with the program. It has been a painful journey and so different from the first. However I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is beginning to feel so much better. Thank you to all my well wishers for a full recovery and recuperation.

Today I have a few more Christmas cards to show you.

Here they are:

This first one I think is just so cute. Made using the Stampin' Up Owl punch and Kaisercraft Base Coat Design Papers.

The sentiment was made using JustRite Christmas Antique Labels One Stamps and matching Custom Die with memento Bamboo leaves ink pad and Copic pen.

A la-La Land Christmas Elf Digi stamp sits at the centre of this card. Behind the image I used a Spellbinders Heirloom die as well as a Swiss Dots embossing folder. The paper is from a Bo Bunny Mistletoe Collection 6 x 6 paper pad and the merry Christmas sentiment is from a sizzix decorative strip die.

Similar to the card above but on different background paper.

Yes, you've guessed it another La La Land Digi stamp, with a Flourishes stamp coloured in Copics as are all the Digi stamps!

The Ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

A simple card using a couple of Christmas dies (see links below in the ingredients list).
 I used some foil design paper bought at Spotlight and cut out the oval using the Grand Ovals dies.
The design paper is from a Kaisercraft Christmas 6.5" x 6.5" paper pad.

Couldn't not show you a pop-up card. I saw this lovely idea on Pinterest and thought I'd have a go at replicating it. Here is the front of the card.
I used Sizzix embossing folder, as well as a Sizzix, Karen Burniston designed Noel Pop-up insert.

Here is the inside of the pop-up card. Using a Sizzix decorative strip die and a Spellbinders Fleur de Lis die.

Here is one of two cards that are pretty similar. White card base, Kraft card for the background, a Spellbinders Edgeability die, a spellbinders pinking die and the Hero Arts and Sizzix Reindeer stamp and Die set.

... and here is the (almost) twin version of the same design.
















... and there you have it 8 more Christmas cards. Here are the main ingredients I used to make these cards.

Stampin Up Owl Builder Punch	Kaisercraft Base Coat 12x12 Paper Tiles P1333	Kaisercraft Base Coat 12x12 Bricks P1057	JustRite Christmas Antique Labels One Stamps - CL 03785	Just Rite Stamps Antique Labels One Dies
Memento Bamboo Leaves Ink Pad	La La Land Christmas Elf Marci Digi Stamp	Bo Bunny Mistletoe Collection 6 x 6 Paper Pad	Sizzix Decorative Strip Die - Stacked Words: Christmas # 658257	Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornaments S4-334
PORTACraft Self Adhesive 5mm Pearls	Flourishes Christmas Classic Stamps	La La Land Christmas Lantern Marci Digi Stamp	RRR February 2013 Ribbon Club	Spellbinders Grand Decorative Ovals One - LF 016
Memory Box Merry Christmas Tidings - 98643	Impression Obsession Santa DIE081-O	Sizzix PNC Insert Die - Noel - 658046	Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Squares S4-318	Sizzix Decorative Strip Die - Festive Greenery # 657467
Sizzix Reindeer - Happy Holidays Stamps & Dies 657780	Spellbinders Small Pinking Circles S4-172	Memento Lady Bug ink pad	Spellbinders Classic Ric Rac E8-004	COPIC Sketch Markers

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Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you have a Fantastic New Year Celebration and a very special 2014.

It'll be a hoot - 2 Pop-Up Cards

Hello my dear Blogging Friends. I am so appreciative of you popping in to see what I have been up to. Thank You. I do so hope your week has started well.
Today I have another couple of Pop-Up cards to show you as well as a video clip of them, so grab a quick cuppa and take a load off for a little squizz. Both cards are similar and there will be a few little differences between them.

Card # 1

I was so hugely inspired by a Blog from a lady called Carla in Holland. I decided I would try this style of card adding my own interpretations; so this is what I am sharing with you today.

It is a Pop-Up card ... oh yeah I am so loving making these cards at the moment.

Here you have what looks like a tree with an Owl poking through from its little hole saying hello.

I used Kaisercraft Sweet Treats paper for the leaves (which I added using 3D foam pads to give it a little dimension), some Core'dinations brown card stock for the tree trunk and the Sizzix Flagpole and lantern decorative strip die to make the embellishment at the bottom.

The sentiment is from a Freebie set of stamps from The Australian Papercraft Essential Magazine issue #28. I've shown the stamps and the Magazine (obviously not to scale but you get the idea!). The Brown card stock I used was also part of the freebie from the Magazine too.

When you open up the card you see our little Owly friend sitting on some branches. I used two Stampin Up Punches (see the ingredients list shown below) and the papers are from a 6 x 6 Authentique Paper Pad. The stamps sentiments are from Lawn Fawn and my freebie set. Insdie the label I used the Love set label from Sizzix and inked the edges using Vintage Photo ink.

You can see our Owly friend a little better in this photo. I made him using Kaisercraft 6 x 6 Technologic Paper Pad scraps. [Hint here for next set of Pop-UPs that I will be showing you ;)]














Card # 2

So you can see the similarities as well as the differences. On both cards I used the Textured Impressions Woodgrain Embossing Folder from Stampin Up. Here I have used DCVW Card stock and I really like the effect that the embossing folder has on this card.

I used the Lawn Fawn stamps on the outside of this card stamping with a Memento Rich Cocoa Ink pad onto some Kraft scarp card stock.

I used the Authentique Paper pad again as well as the Sizzix Bracket on the edge die to create the effect on the sides of the card. I like the butterflies as much as the bees - both fly so the sentiment still works with Our little Owl.

A close up of this Owl shows that I used scraps of the "Leaf" paper from Kaisercraft Sweet Treats and the reverse side of the Bees paper scraps for the label layered behind the owl.

... and there you have them, two It'll be a hoot - Pop-Up cards.













Here is the video clip I mentioned earlier if you'd like to view it .....

The main ingredients that I used to make these cards are shown below:

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed the read