Mid month inspiration

Time for some mid month inspiration at Christmas Cards All Year Round. Here's my card:

I'll say it again - it's so nice to be able to pull out my Christmas stamps and play with them during the year. These stamps are from Purple Onion Designs - one of my favourite companies :)

The challenge this month is an easy one - include a Christmas flower or holly on your card. Pop over to the blog to read directions on how to enter and find out what the awesome prize is this month.

There have been lots of Christmas in July festivities around, so I'm feeling some Christmas excitement already. I'd better take it easy - I don't want to run out of juice months out from the real date!

Thanks for dropping in today. Hope your weekend was wonderful.

Christmas Cards All Year Round May Challenge

Wow - we're in May already! This means it's time for another challenge at Christmas Cards All Year Round.  The theme for this month is to make a card using your favourite carol or Christmas song as inspiration.  Here's my card:

 I have used Purple Onion Designs stamps, and the paper is Echo Park.

I sure hope you'll join us this month! There's a cute stamp set to be drawn randomly, you can see it on the CCAYR blog.

Oooh - hang on! More published!

Serve me right rushing! I really should sit down, relax, enjoy a cup of tea while I flick through magazines, instead of trying to do everything quickly! I totally missed another two cards that are in the current issue of Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft. 

This one was made for a Cards for All Occasions special feature. I made a New Home card using Purple Onion Designs stamps:

 

These images are beautiful to paper-piece. I enhanced the patterned papers a little with Copic markers. Here's a close up - see under the fence palings:

This next card was for the new Designing with Sketches feature. I think you all know by know how much I love a good sketch!

Oh look - Purple Onion Designs stamps again! The sentiment, the frame under it, and the damask in the lower right hand corner. This is one of my favourite companies.  Here's a close up of the sparkly interesting bit with resin flowers and seam binding:

Thanks for listening to me toot!

 

Monochromatic cards

Monochromatic cards are those that use any number of different shades of one colour. In my world, white doesn't count as a colour ;)

These are some of the cards I taught at our monthly 5 Quick Cards class a couple of months back

Meet the silver card:

 A big silvery wedding type embellishment, and a Purple Onion scroll stamp underneath it. I used Dove Gray StazOn ink, and added some sparkle with different sized adhesive bling. Could do with a word on it I guess - congratulations, or many happy returns if you don't think the couple will stay together very long LOL.

 This is the aqua card:

Big mulberry daisies stacked, with a silver centre that has been coloured with Copics. The words come from a Darkroom Door set of stamps called Enjoy Life. The background has been spritzed with some Glimmermist.

Last but not least, the pink card:

The webbing is ribbon from Green Tara, underneath some satin ribbon. The  flowers are from Crafty Koala, and stamp is from Stamp It. It has been stamped onto white cardstock and then mounted onto some scrap chipboard for extra dimension.

Quick, easy, monochromatics. Love 'em! Thanks for dropping in today.

 

Lynne's birthday card

This is the card I made for my friend Lynne earlier this month:

I'm loving this colour scheme! The dark brown really sets it off.  You might not be able to see very well, but I ran the brown circle through the Cuttlebug with the wood embossing folder by Tim Holtz. Here's a close up:

I used some beautiful MME paper, a Pink Paislee Artisan Element, a Prima hydrangea flower, and some Twinery twine.  The rolled roses were made with a My Favorite Things die, and the leaves with an EK success punch. The stamp is Purple Onion.

Thanks for stopping in today.

 

And now, a twinchie

Twinchies are little squares 2 x 2 inches.  That's the theme this month at Inkurable Stampers - make a Christmas themed twinchie, then make something with it.

Firstly, here's my twinchie:

and here's a pendant I made with it:

I used my delicious 6x6 pad of paper from Cosmo Cricket, and a Memory Frame.  The frames are available at my friend Barb's shop The Stamping Queen.  The glittered tree is a Tweenybitz piece from Twiddleybitz. The stamp is Purple Onion.

This will probably hang from my Christmas tree when I am allowed to put it up.  Must wait until December 1st, house rules :(