Traditional Christmas at Try it on Tuesday

Traditional Christmas is the new challenge at Try it on Tuesday and we would love to know what it means to you.  For me it's the reds and greens and putting up the Christmas tree.  I also love a Christmas wreath on the front door.

With those things in mind, I've made quite a few cards featuring festive wreaths, building up the design with small stamps and on these two cards the stamps are all from Lavinia.

 The rest of the Design Team have some lovely inspiration for you, so please pop over to the main blog where you will also find all the challenge details.

This is a scheduled post as we're away, hopefully enjoying some winter sunshine and having a much needed rest before the excitement of Christmas really kicks in - I'd forgotten how good the bribe of Santa not bringing presents to naughty boys and girls is!

Thanks for calling in and I'll catch up with you soon.

Avril xx

November mid month inspiration at Stamping Sensations.

 We're halfway through the month of November and its mid month  inspirations time at Stamping Sensations where we're getting Ready for Christmas.  The DT have some fabulous makes to show, so please pop over and you will also find all the challenge details.

I've used one of my new Lavinia stamps Fairy Catkins to make a wreath along with some of the smaller individual stamps. I've also used the Winter magic verse, stamped and heat embossed with gold EP and for an extra sparkle, I coloured the Catkins with Twinkling H2Os in Gold.

I am going to  join in the fun at Allsorts with their Christmas challenge and also

Inkspirational  where the theme is Seasonal

Thanks for calling in, I know it's a busy time of the year,

Have a lovely weekend.

Avril xx

Baby it's Cold Outside at Try it on Tuesday

 Baby it's Cold Outside is our new challenge at Try it on Tuesday, so another opportunity to make a Christmas card.

I've used a selection of Tim Holtz stamps to create my winter scene, it certainly does look cold outside.

The rest of the team have some great inspiration for you, so please pop over to the main blog for all the details.

A busy day today, I'm picking the twins up from their first full morning at Nursery - their visits went well, so fingers crossed everything is OK.

Avril xx

Get Ready for Christmas at Stamping Sensations

Morning, can you believe it's the beginning of November already and the countdown is on for those Christmas cards and to help you along, we're Getting Ready for Christmas is the new challenge at Stamping Sensations and this month there are two prizes from Penny Black.

I decided to stamp this large Poinsettia from Tim Holtz, first stamping onto my base card and then again onto water colour paper.  My base layer was coloured with Tumbled Glass before stamping the script  with Brilliance Iridescent Olive (which is a dark gold colour), I then stamped the music script and greeting and heat embossed with Gold EP. I fussy cut the poinsettia and water coloured. I also added a few extra leaves.

The rest of the DT have some gorgeous inspiration for you, so please pop over to the main blog, where you will also find all the challenge details.

Thanks for calling in, have a great day.

Avril xx

 

Sparkle All The Way at Try it on Tuesday

 At Try it on Tuesday the new challenge this fortnight is Sparkle All The Way, so lots of Sparkle.

This jolly snowman was a magazine freebie and I've used Lavinia 's Berry Wreath adding lots of Liquid Pearls and a generous sprinkling of glitter to the holly and my snowman's scarf.  For extra sparkle, the    blue layer is a patterned glitter card.  It's just a shame all the sparkle is difficult to see in the photo.

The rest of the Design Team have some gorgeous sparkly creations to show, so please pop over to the main blog where you will also find all the challenge details.

Thanks for calling in.

Avril x

Happy Halloween

 Well, I had to use Willow the Witch again before she's put away till next year.

This time I used a Tyvek sprayed background, which gives a lovely silky sheen, although that doesn't show in the photo.

I added, some shading with a hill mask and then a circle mask to give the impression of a moon and added glittery sparks coming from her cauldron.

Take card, you never know who's about this Halloween!

Avril xx

Too Cute to Spook

 These two pumpkin men, I hope, are too cute to spook as they are for the twins.  They have really taken to all the pumpkins around this year and they have a Pumpkin Picking day organised for Monday next week, so I hope they will like these Halloween cards.

I've  used the Lavinia Playful Pumpkin, masking out the face on the bottom layers and they're coloured with Carved Pumpkin DI.  I stamped their hats on a recent crafty day with my friend as I don't have this hat stamp.  I've also used the mini branch and the Ickle Pumpkin along with the small broomstick.

While I'm here, just a reminder there's still a week to go for the Halloween challenge at Try it on Tuesday so why not join in.

We're making  Gingerbread Halloween biscuits today, wonder if there'll be any left for them to take home!

Have a great day, Avril xx