My first Christmas card.

This week over on Make My Monday (remembered the link this week) the theme is Fairy's or Angels, now I am not a big fairy or angel lover, so knowing that I didn't have any stamps suitable for the theme I had a good look around the internet and sent my order off. Not quiet sure what happened but I am still waiting! So I started hunting through my stash to see if there was anything I could use and came upon a very old Christmas stamp that had been used once and put away, but there on top of some parcels was a fairy.

I do not know the name of the stamp as I put all my Christmas stamps into one box years ago. I stamped her up with black archival ink and coloured her in with watercolour pencils, you can see in the close up that the card had a weave to it that I hadn't noticed until I started colouring. I then added glitter glue to her shoes, the bottom of her dress and the holly. The sentiment is from a very old set I got about 5 years ago and still use ever year, I stamped it then cut it out and added pom pom ribbon to look like snowballs.

 
You can see the glitter on her wings and dress a lot better in this photo also the small charm hanging from her hand.

Please go and have a look at what my team mates had been doing this week as there are some stunning cards, and if you feel inspired have a go along with us.

Thanks for reading,
Cath

Missed WOYWW this week.

I totally forgot that it was Wednesday today with one thing and another so there is no photo but that might not be that bad as my room is still a tip. So if you have come over sorry I am not joining in this week but hopefully Julia will let me play next week.

Thanks for reading,
Cath

Make My Monday this week is Birds or Bugs

We are still on the monthly theme of Things With Wings but this week we are looking for something with either Birds or Bugs on. So this week I decided to go with the Birds as it meant I could use my favourite Paper Artsy stamp again.

I stamped the background and bird with brown versafine ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder. If you click on the photo you might be able to see the embossing a bit better. I then mounted it on to a slightly darker card. The background paper I used is from the V and A collection from Papermania.

Have a look over on the Make My Monday blog as the ladies have done some fantastic work.

Thanks for reading,
Cath

My pages for Rita,

 I have had an email from Rita to say she has received my pages at last, so I can now show you the pages I did for her.

I started with a A4 sheet of blue card that I cut in half and painted Jade. I thought if it was blue to start with and the paint lifted at all it would look nice. I then found that I had made them about a half inch too small! so I used some of the paper I had set by to use and stitched a frill along the bottom of each page.

On this first page I painted a red area and then stamped a lady onto some fibres using my iron to fuse them and attached this to the painted area. A strip of the same paper was added to the side with a red tassel.

On the second page I used paper with an oriental theme of flying dancers. I took one of the dancers and set her in a frame with some clear sealer. Added a bit more Jade paper some oriental lettering that I had lifted from a sheet with clear tape and a red tassel to finish.

I then added on the back of the first page some more of the papers that I had used with the dictionary definition of Jade and Oriental as that was the colours and theme I had to go by. I don't seem to of taken a photo of the back of the second page, but that only had my information on so you wouldn't want to see that anyway.

I packed both pages up and put them into this envelope and then a normal padded envelope ready to post.

If you look close Elizabeth you will see I used the paper you sent my 12 days in on these pages as it was just what I was looking for colour wise.

Thanks for reading,
Cath

This weeks card for Make My Monday.

Late again this week! never mind here is this weeks card.

Its the start of a new month so we have a new theme and this one is from Suzanne and is Things with Wings. This week it's Butterflies or Dragonflies and as you can see I chose Butterflies. To make this card I made a square card blank that I covered with paper from Tim's Lost and Found collection, on top of this I used a piece of card that had been stamped by a Blog friend (thanks Hel's) coloured it slightly with distress ink and mounted on foam pads. I then cut out two of the remaining butterflies, inked them in fired brick attached some stamens between them and added to the card. The card is a little brighter in real life I just could not get a good photo, but then if you have seen the state of my craft room at the moment you would understand why.

We had a good number of entrants again this week it was a delight to go through them all, I am sorry if I didn't get to comment on your's but I had problems with the internet over the back end of the week.

Please go over to Make My Monday to see what the rest of the team have been up to this week and to say hello to our newest team member Suzi.

Thanks for reading,
Cath