Festive Wishes

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

A festive card today.  I've stuck to traditional colours and I do love the combination of red and gold.

I stamped, heat embossed with gold powder and fussy cut the poinsettia cluster. I did this twice and layered just the flowers on top, adding pearls to their centres. This stamp is an old one from Woodware which I bring out every year. The whole stamp includes a sentiment too, but I didn't use it this time as it didn't fit in with my new Yuletide Frame from Crafter's Companion.

I arranged the flowers  in the left corner and used a sentiment die from Sue Wilson - white with a red metallic drop shadow.

Some red gems in the holly in the corners were all that was needed to finish.   I wanted the flowers and die to be the stars as it were, so I used simple dotty paper in the background from Papermania's Tulip Christmas range.

Challenges:

Crimbo Crackers  #213 AG

Aud Sentiments Ch. #257 AG + sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #502 Anything christmas goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends AG

Dream Valley # 230 add gems, pearls or both

Crafting Happiness #61 AG

TTCRD AG

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Ch. #76 Anything Christmas goes

Lemon Shortbread #126 AG

Crafty Sentiment Designs AG
Krafty Chicks #520 Christmas

Thanks for visiting and any comments you leave - always appreciated.

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima

xxx

Flowers in a vase

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

Onto today's card...
 Once again I've used a LOTV art pad image and teamed it with some new papers from Craft Consortium - Bright Blooms. 

I've used some Crafter's Companion butterfly and flower dies - I inked through the latter to highlight the embossing on the petals.  The flower border die is from Tonic. A button and some pearls add the finishing touches.

Challenges:

Creations in Pink AG

Creative Craft Cottage Ch. #132 ribbon/lace / pearls

TTCRD AG

Let's Craft and Create #162  AG + lots of layers

Dream Valley #230 add gems/ pearls

Thanks for dropping by and any comments - always appreciated.

Happy crafting.

Fatima

xxx

Boating Fan

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

I've used a cute topper from a LOTV  Art Pad. I just added a little colour to the sails of the boat.

The paper is from Craft Sensations and I've used a selection of dies for the sun, clouds and border.

Challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge #16 AG

Allsorts #583/4 make it masculine

Crafty Friends Ch #142 AG

Daisy Chain Ch. #44 for the boys/men

Love to Scrap #136 for the kids

Aud Sentiments Ch. #257 AG + sentiment

Let's Craft and Create #162 AG + lots of layers

Thanks for visiting.

Happy crafting and take care.

Fatima

xxx

Pearl Anniversary

Hello crafters. Hope all is well.

I've used an Hunkydory Little Book topper for today's card.

As it's a Pearl anniversary, lots of pearls!  I cut the topper with a Spellbinder Die. The background embossing was done using a Sue Wilson EF.  The flowers and leaves are all Sweet Dixie, finished with pearl centres.

Challenges:

Unstampabelles #103 Good  News

The Paper Players #502 Wed/Ann.

Die Cut Divas - flowers

Thanks for visiting.

Happy Crafting and take care.

Fatima

xxx