Hand made Christmas Stocking

 I am very pleased to have this on the PaperArtsy blog this evening. Using the Lovely Tracy Scott Stamps and an extremely festive stencil by Darcy.

Full details can be found on the blog HERE.

Carol x

Vintage Decorations for PaperArtsy

I have been playing with Lynne Perrella's stamps on the PaperArtsy blog. 

Full details and products can be found on their Blog.

Hope you like them

Carol xx

C & S Christmas For PaperArtsy

I am on the PaperArtsy Blog tonight with some quick and simple christmas cards and gift bags using a Set of kay Carley Stamps and a couple of stencils.

A full like of items used and more details can be found on the PaperArtsy blog.

Carol Xx

Prayer Card, Altered Domino Decorations

I fancied doing some different Christmas decorations this year for my Etsy shop, so I have decided to alter dominoes for the Christmas Tree.

These are all available to buy on my Etsy shop now.

Alice In Wonderland Altered Dominoes

I have altered some domino's into Christmas decorations, along one of my favorite themes of Alice in Wonderland.

These are listed for sale on my Etsy shop.

Carol x

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to all my Blog followers and random visitors.

Hope you all have a crafty christmas.

Carol xx

S is for Snow

I used

Spiraling out of control

Snowflakes

Chilly

Sqraffiti Alphabet

The new challenge starts on the Stampotique blog today.

It is to use your alphabet or image stamps to create a letter of the Alphabet.

I must admit this one had me scratching my head for a long time as I really struggled to come up with any ideas at all.

In the end I used a Gelli Plate backgound that I had previously made using the spiraling out of control stamp as one of the elements.

I found a lovely Letter "S" online and then printed this directly onto my Gelli Plate print, stuck it to a piece of board to give it strength and cut it out.

I embossed snowflakes using the snowflake stamp and white embossing powder, adding the same stamp in places using black ink to give it a bit of a grungy look.

Finally adding a black edge with a quick swish of paint.

The rest of my word is added to the bottom with stamped letters before adding the lovely snowman and a few die-cut snowflakes which I painted silver.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Sparkly Sequins

I used the following stamps

Agatha Christmas

Barcode text #2

The new challenge starts over on the Stampotique Blog today.
Valerie has asked us to use some sequins on our make this week.

I have a card to share for the challenge this week.
My image and quote are stamped directly onto the card blank with archival ink, I used my Polychromo pencils to colour in the image add a line of sequins for Agatha to stand on and then a few randomly placed on the background of the card to give it a bit more colour.
Finishing off with some black hand drawn lines.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards Day 7

I used the following stamps

Winter
Baby, it's cold outside!

It's quick and easy Christmas cards this week for the Stampotique Challenge this week.

I have decided to make and blog a card a day for this challenge all this week until the next challenge starts. (are you getting the clue here that I have made no cards at all!!)

All my cards will take no longer than 15 minutes to make. (not including thinking time) Today's card looks like it took ages, but because there is no colouring on the image it is only about a 10 minute card once you have your tag blank cut.

I cut my card blank on my bigshot and then stamped my main image directly in black archival ink. I then masked this off with a previously cut mask (I keep all my stamped/cut masks to use again as I hate cutting them out in the first place).

I added my rub on before I  inked my tag with distress ink as the rub on resists the ink a little bit and you get a nice effect with it. I added my snowflakes with gesso applied with a sponge through a mask. My favorite snowflake mask this year is the Dinky one from That's Crafty.

I stamped my quote with black ink and edged it with a black pen.

I finished with some machine stitching and stuck a few sequins on to match the red glittered heart on the image.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards Day 6

I used the Following Stamps

Christmas Boots

Jingle your own damn bells!

It's quick and easy Christmas cards this week for the Stampotique Challenge this week.

I have decided to make and blog a card a day for this challenge all this week until the next challenge starts. (are you getting the clue here that I have made no cards at all!!)

All my cards will take no longer than 15 minutes to make. (not including thinking time)

Another card today in a similar style to some previous ones, I must admit I do like this style, as it is so quick and easy and makes nice use of all the christmas stamps I am discovering I own, I did not realise I had so many!!

My image stamped and coloured in a masked off circle using a stamp positioner to get it exactly where I wanted it. Then I added hand drawn circles and lines to the card.
My greeting is stamped onto book margin, cut out and stuck into place.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards Day 5

I used the following stamps

Brr
Baby, it's cold outside!
Snowflakes

It's quick and easy Christmas cards this week for the Stampotique Challenge this week.

I have decided to make and blog a card a day for this challenge all this week until the next challenge starts. (are you getting the clue here that I have made no cards at all!!)

All my cards will take no longer than 15 minutes to make. (not including thinking time)

A bit of a change of style for me today, I saw this style on Tracy's folksy shop Splattered ink and thought how well it would suit this stamp so I nabbed the idea and here is my take on it, a bit  more grungy than her's are but that's just how my stuff turns out.

I used Kraft Card as my base. I stamped the snowflakes in brown ink onto a piece of card cut and torn to size, and then inked this with blue distress ink. I stamped and coloured my image onto a piece of card cut to size, inked it with with brown distress ink from the edge inward to blend it, and then stuck this to the snowflake piece.
 I dyed a piece of ribbon with ink and water on my craft mat, tied it in place around the blue piece of snowflake card and stuck it to my Kraft card base.
I added my quote to the bottom and finished the whole card with some hand drawn lines.
I finished it with a metal snowflake that I painted white before dipping into clear glitter to give it a bit of bling when the light caught it.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards Day 4

I used the following stamps

Reindeer
jingle bells
Kisses

It's quick and easy Christmas cards this week for the Stampotique Challenge this week.

I have decided to make and blog a card a day for this challenge all this week until the next challenge starts. (are you getting the clue here that I have made no cards at all!!)

All my cards will take no longer than 15 minutes to make. (not including thinking time)

Today's card has had colour inspiration from Karen as she recently used these colours on a card featuring the same reindeer.

I stamped my images and quote directly onto the card and coloured them with my Polycromos, added a line of colour over my kisses stamp under the greeting.
finishing the card with some hand drawn lines and circles which seem to have become my trademark on cards this year,

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards Day 3

I used

Agatha Antlers
Merry Kiss-mas!
Kisses

It's quick and easy Christmas cards this week for the Stampotique Challenge this week.

I have decided to make and blog a card a day for this challenge all this week until the next challenge starts. (are you getting the clue here that I have made no cards at all!!)

All my cards will take no longer than 15 minutes to make. (not including thinking time)

For this card I directly stamped Agatha and then colored her in. I then carefully positioned my "kisses" stamp so she was standing on them, but avoiding going right to the edge of the card. My greeting was stamped onto a page border, cut out and glued in place. (I did originally stamp this directly too, but when my card was finished it all looked too flat so I added it this way on top of the original stamping and I think it looks better.)

I finished with some hand drawn lines.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Quick and Easy Christmas Cards Day 1

I used these stamps

Giant Snowflake

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

It's quick and easy Christmas cards this week for the Stampotique Challenge, full details can be found for the challenge by clicking HERE

Nellie is the hostess and she has this to say about her challenge

"It's that time of the year that you know you should have started earlier with your Christmas cards. So now you have to come up with some quick and easy (yet stunning) Christmas cards"

I have decided to make and blog a card a day for this challenge all this week until the next challenge starts. (are you getting the clue here that I have made no cards at all!!)

All my cards will take no longer than 15 minutes to make. (not including thinking time)

Today's offering is a simple Kraft Card, card. with the snowflake stamped directly in black ink, various bits cut out of the design, a quoted stamped on a bit of book margin and added to the bottom, then some doodling with black and white pens to finish. Simples.

Full details of the Challenge this week, how to enter and the prize can been seen HERE.

Enjoy the challenge this week.

Happy crafting, Carol xx

Stampotique New Release Blog Hop

Today all the Stampotique Design Team are joining together to showcase the images released from Stampotique this month. If you haven't had a chance to see what's new, you can do that over on the Stampotique website here.

I really wanted to show the latest Christmas releases for the blog hop so I have made a trio of Christmas gift tags. 

I used the following stamps

Symphony Scroll

Reindeer

Agatha Antlers

Schmurfy

Jingle Bells

Jingle your own damn bells!

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Happy Head Appliances

You should have arrived at my blog from Valerie's, but if you have got lost along the way and want to start from the beginning a full list of the hop is below to help you.

Janet Klein

Coby vanWilligenburg

Claudine Criner

Valerie Wilson

Carol Fox

Sue Davies

Corrie Herriman

Kathi Rerek

Samantha Read

Kristen Catalano

Nellie van Leeuwen

Kim Howard

Arwen McCullen

Jackie Payne

Gez Butterworth

 As with any of the releases, there is a variety of stamps from our artists for any stampers, scrapbookers and journalers out there. We always love to see what your favorites are so while you are hopping around, make sure to stop by and say "hi" on our blogs and come back here and tell us what some of your favorite images from this release were.

We'll be giving away a $30 gift certificate for stamps and a grab bag of stamps on two of the blogs-but you won't know which ones they are so stop by and visit them all. We will pick the winners on our first challenge in September.

I hope you enjoy the blog hop, Carol xx

Mixed Media Christmas decoration

For my Design team project for  That's Crafty I have made a christmas decoration, using a lot of resin and some sparkly stuff.

Full details are on the That's Crafty Blog

Carol x

Sparkly Snowflake Card for That's Crafty

For my Design team project for  That's Crafty I have made a snowflake Christmas Card, I did discover that round cards are not really a good idea as they tend to roll, but I did enjoy making it, as I hardly ever make cards, maybe this is why lol.

Full details are on the That's Crafty Blog

Carol x