Christmas cards

At Christmas time I started sharing cards that I made for a friends sister.

I didn't show you all of them (obviously) so thought I would show you them now.

The first card is using 'Little Elf Mim' from Mo Manning. 

I had issues with this one as I put glitter on the bauble and then dimensional 

magic over the top. Unfortunately it kept lifting when it was attached to the paper. 

I had to leave this way as it just was very persistant to come up. 

 This next card was made using 'Little Elf Finn'. So cute.

This turned out brilliantly and again had the issue with the lifting 

but what can you do. 

 This card was made for my girlfriend using one of the Emo Valentines images

from Simply Betty. I thought it was a good one to use for Christmas-

coz you know Christmas is all about love and sharing etc. LOL. 

This image was a freebie image from Simply Betty (for a limited time). 

She coloured up really well and love how the card came together. 

Surfing Santa from Spesch Designer Stamps. What else can I say. 

Love this jolly fellow. 

Last but not least this is 'Fairy Fae Catching a Star' by Tiddly Inks.

My GF's sister was very specific about colours and what type of image to be used

for this card. Unless you know the full story it wouldn't make sense to you but too 

long to explain. It turned out just the way it should have and the recipient was most

pleased with it. 

Enjoy your day.

{Early} Holiday Greetings

Feeling accomplished with my card making over the last couple days. I have been working on many projects but this is the first one I finished. Yes I posted the Winona card yesterday before this one but I loved that one a little bit more than this one. 

This stamp is called Reindeer Kid and it another fabulous stamp from Max. I love this one - heck I love all of Max's stamps. This image has been coloured and cut out with a Nestie for a couple years now - yep a couple years. Oops. Just haven't had the drive to put it on a card. Naughty me. At least we have a go on it now LOL. 

Again I went for a simple card. This paper is Bo Bunny and I got it - you guessed it - years ago. I actually found there weren't many papers in 2014 that I liked. There was only a couple and I bought them but normally there is too many for me to chose from but not to be last year. Hopefully the scrapbooking paper companies bring out some nice ones this year.

I decided to back up all the papers and the images in black. I saw a few and liked a few examples of this style on Pinterest and thought I would give it a go. I think it turned out well. What do you think...??

I seriously can't remember specifically what Copic colours I used but it would be just looking at the images: Skin: E000, 00, 11, 04; Shirt: YG21, 23, 25, 67; Stocking/sleeves: R22, 17, 29; Antlers: E31, 35(??).

Anyway you get the picture. Enjoy your Sunday everyone. 

Trying to make it simple

 I have been wanting to get back in to the card making again and have somewhat but have been finding it hard to sit down and dedicate a lot of time to each of the cards. In the meantime I have been colouring lots of Christmas images - as I don't want to get caught with no Christmas cards at the end of the year like I did last year. Don't get me wrong I loved making the cards I made for a friends sister but in doing so I did not have any time to make my own. 

So I am starting early on Christmas cards and just cards in general for throughout the year. Even though I have a few too many cards made up already cardmaking is a passion. It is something you do as you enjoy it not just because you have an occasion that comes up. 

The below card was made with my new thinking in mind - that new thinking is simplicity. I am trying to make all my cards a lot more simple. 

This image is Winona from my stamp shop - Spesch Designer stamps. She can be found HERE, along with all the other gorgeous chibi stamps in this line by Max. Click on Max's name and it will take you to the page on my website that has all of his stamps. 

I printed the image on to a A5 size piece of Copic Blending card which you can pick up here at Mad for Markers (along with all your marker needs). Sammi is currently having a wonderful trip overseas right now so be patient she will be back in business soon. 

After printing her on to one side of the paper I coloured her like normal but instead of cutting out the whole image to stick, she has just been backed with some purple card. I am quite happy with the way this turned out. The sentiment is something I found free online. I don't recall where I got it from. If you do a search you should be able to pick up a few images in PNG that you can put on your card if you don't have any sentiment stamps. 

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 04

Hair: E53, 35, 44

Skirt and ribbons/grass: YG21, 03, 13, 67

Vest: V01, 05, 06, 09

Stocking/shoes: C05, 07, 09

Eyes: BG23, 18

Background: BG0000, W01

Friday Sketch Challenge #13 by Bron

Good evening, afternoon or morning - whereever you may be. This afternoon I am showing you the new sketch by Bron over at Friday Sketch Challenge. This is Bron's first sketch and it is a gem. I love it. I turned it on it's side so that I could do this image from Spesch Stamps. This is an image we had last Easter but I have taken the egg out of the image so it can be a friendship image not an Easter image. What do you think...??? It is cute right. LOL. Spesch Stamps are also offering 3 digital images to a random winner of this challenge so please play along for your chance to win some stamps.

Spesch Release Day

Good morning peeps. Sorry for the lateness of my post - I had school testing for my son who just started prep and it took forever. No matter.

Today we have a new release for Spesch Stamps. We have some super cute stamps for you from Jessica once again. Today I am showing you Butterfly Girl and Cosmic Girl.

I made a star eisle card for this image. If you would like to see a tutorial and get a free template I will do one if I have enough interest. Please comment on this post and I will do one.

Friday Sketch Challenge #10 & Sneak Peek

Yep I am back with a new sketch for Friday Sketch Challenge and also a sneak peek of one of the stamps that will be for sale at Spesch Stamps on the 8th of Feb. Our fabulous Genevieve has come up with another amazing sketch for us this week. She is on a roll and she should be super proud of herself. Without further delay - here is my card and our 'Love' stamp from Spesch.

Spesch Halloween Release day

Hello my sweethearts. Hope we are all well. Today is release day over at Spesch Designer Stamps. We have some gorgeous Halloween stamps available for you - designed by Jessica. Gotta love the va va voom on most of the stamps. Check out the DT's creations here.

Friday Sketch Challenge #2 by Me

Good afternoon to all but very early morning for some. Hope you enjoyed the last sketch over at Friday Sketch Challenge. Remember it is just a bit of fun. Would love to see all your entries. This fortnight we have a sketch by yours truly. I must say that I am still very much a novice when it comes to do sketches on the computer. Give me a piece of paper and a pen and I go for my life but when trying to do electronically I am useless LOL. So please forgive the roughness.

For this sketch I thought I would use a new stamp just released at Spesch Stamps. This is Lolita with Froggy. Too cute. Well I think so anyway. Please come and join us at Friday Sketch Challenge.

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I have been MIA as I have also got myself in to dolls. Yep dolls....!!!! I have noticed a few dolls around the traps with some of the bear makers and thought I would investigate. Big mistake. I fell in love with the Ball Jointed Dolls - but man do they cost some $$$$$ so have been looking looking looking for some cute dolls that aren't too expensive with the view to 'dress' them up in my own style. Stay tuned as I received my first dolls head to do a face up yesterday (but damn the weather - too windy to seal it outside and you need a well ventilated area. Anyway will let you know when I post something up on my bear blog.

Spesch Preview Day 2 - Lamb Lolita

Welcome to preview day 2 of the Spesch Designer stamps release of the Lolita stamps by Star. How cute is this one...!!!! I can't stop thinking 'Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb'. LOL. Stop by the Spesch Blog and check out the DT girls amazingly cute creations.

I used the below sketch from The Sweet Stop for my card.

Spesch Preview day & FATHERS DAY

Today is the first preview of the Spesch Designer Stamps

release by Star. Yep that's right

the talented Star has designed the cutest

little Lolita's with pets stamps for us.

Pop in to the Spesch Blog to see the previews by

the talented DT.

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Today is Fathers Day here in Australia.

Here is a photo of Mick and the kidlets this morning.

The creations by the kids.

Digital stamps are curtesy of Dustin Pike.

Spesch Release Day - Fairytale & Max stamps

Good morning everyone. Once again we are here with a new release from Spesch Designer Stamps. We have three gorg stamps from Christina and four Max/Goth stamps from Max. Everyone loves them hey....????!!!! I must say that I adore the new stamps especially today's stamp which is 'Goth Girl with Cat'.

I made this card for two challenges. The first is the sketch from Sketch Saturday and the second is Addicted-to -Stamps challenge which is 'Anything Goes'. Enjoy your Monday. Make sure you pop by the Spesch Blog to see the DT's amazing creations for this release.

Preview Day 3 - Snow White and DS

Unfortunately I had one of those days yesterday where the last thing on my mind was making cards. So I have left it up to the girls today. Here is DS by Max. If you want to see the fabulous samples for today's preview go to the Spesch Blog. Have a good one.

Spesch Preview Day 1 - Puppy & Max

Morning everyone. Today is Day 1 of the new release Previews from Spesch Stamps. Today we are previewing 'Poor with Balloons' and 'Headphones'. We have three new stamps from Christina and four from Max. Hope you enjoy. Make sure you pop by the Spesch Blog to see the DT's amazing work.

Puppy with Balloons

Headphones

Digital Tuesday sponsored by Spesch

Spesch Designer Stamps is sponsoring Digital Tuesday Challenge this week. We have a fabulous sketch to work with. I just love it. I did forget a few things on the card - oooppppssss....!!!! Hope you can forgive me. I used 'Winter Birdy' from Spesch (of course). Pop on over to the challenge blog and join in. You could win yourself 3 digital stamps from Spesch.