Artful Times for Christmas

Hello and it's lovely to be back with Neet at Artful times and Chissie of Jumbled Crafts who will be helping us as well, so between us we hope we can get your creative juices flowing and inspire you to join in.
A very easy challenge so no excuses, we would like to see your favourite Christmas card you have sent or received.

For my offering two CAS card with the same snowman from Gorjuss stamps borrowed from my friend Becky

 

 lots of masking and the fab free stamp from Novembers Craft Stamper, the glasses and tash have been embossed the cap stamp unknown stamped and cut out and an other unknown little birdy stamp just for the fun of it all coloured with distress markers

 

 

 

Same stamp but a different hat from PSX embossed in sparking white and coloured with white acrylic paint  and H2O's lovely and sparkly

So there you go folks nice and easy for Christmas

Have fun and we look forward to seeing your favourite

 

Merry Christmas

 

I'd just like so say blogger is still playing me up and not publishing it's been like this since reader changed any suggestion as to how to fix this annoyance would be very much appreciated

 

Thanks for popping by

 

 

 

Two for one

This card uses an old free stamp from the Craft Stamper back in January 2009 never used it at the time but this year it really spoke to me, Make My Monday want to see a red ribbon and Crafty Cardmakers would like you to use the same stamp in 3 different ways .
I've stamped direct onto the card then added a stamped masked and watercolour background stamped the flower again and coloured with promarker and decoupaged toped off with the Tim Holtz bird and a red ribbon

As you can see I did get a bit carried away lol the card atc and tag were for a swap and the last card that took ages to make is for my mum

Happy Birthday Pete

A fun card for my friends husband who we have draged into the crafting world on our get together :) and I'm just in time for the Stampman Challenge of Boys and Men, boy what a lot of inspiring cards there are there too :)
I've used distress stains and water colour pencils, stamps from Penny Black, Craft Stamper and Papermania

Thanks for popping by

Wax Crayons

I've used technique 1 for wax crayons on this months craft stamper where you heat the paper with an iron and then applied the wax crayons.
It's birthday cards at the come and get it challenge so Happy Birthday Cindy

Main image stamps from Paper Artsy

Tip If you want to change the first letter of a word mask with stickytape while inking and then remove before stamping, I did this with the H of happy and used a much bigger one :)

Time Flies JFF Challenge

First, I must say that the DT team have been blown away by the responsee we had to our first weeks challenge such an amazing variety of art and interpretations.
So this week on JFF Challenge  it's wings with clocks I have made an atc the background is made with the shaveing foam technique then over inked with DI's the clock was free with the  January's Craft Stamper with some detail picked out in gold the wings from Hot off the Press Flight's of fancy.

So Thanks for stopping by and looking forward to seeing what you do :)
Oh and this is going in the swap pot :) so just a reminder is you want to swap your creations then email Zoe

Mans card

Own up who's got one of these at home lol
 A quick and simple card useing a free stamp form Craft Stamper mag a few years back. I've stamped and coloured on to cream card mount that onto printed parchment paper and distressed the edge with Spiced Marmalade

Just right I think for the Allsorts Challenge and man /boys card
All so the Stampmans challenge Distressed  well you would be wouldn't you lol

The look

Atc for the stampman swap

Quick off the mark this week for the lots to do challenge Mail art.

A brayerd background and used the new stamp from Craft Stamper it came this morning lol just love shells so had to use it stamped with archival ink and sprinkled a little verdigri embossing powder on it with the flourish and main image stamped with brilliance inks and the stamp embossed with gold .

Not so much wish you were here but but more of a Wish I was there .

Got two cardies on today :(

Opps here's one I forgot to blog

It's a wedding card for a friend .

You might recognise the stamp it was a freebie with the craft stamper I just didn't ink the bird in the middle just though it made a lovely frame for their names :)

The lace panel I cut on my silhouette and brayered with a big and juicy