Owl Santa

Here I am back again with yet another entry for the LIM challenge - A Christmas Bird. This time I have used the ever faithful Owl Builder and Bird Builder punches to make a Santa Owl. he is made from Crumb Cake, Real Red and Basic Black cardstock with a teeny piece of Silver Glimmer Paper. His hat was stamped from Embellished Events, cut out with paper snips and a bobble punched with one of the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack.
For the background I took a square of Basic Black cardstock and swiped the Whisper White inkpad across the bottom to make the 'snow' and some Dazzling Diamonds for the sparkle. As it is meant to be a night scene I used just the tree bauble stamp from Warmth & Wonder to represent lights on a Christmas tree and the twinkly stars (again a stamp from Warmth & Wonder) are stamped with the Silver Metallic Encore pad. The finished panel was then matted onto a Basic Black card blank with a sentiment from Petite Pairs, stamped in silver, added to the bottom of the card.

Thanks for stopping by

Margaret x

Simples Sunday

The LIM challenge this week is to make a Christmas card incorporating a bird so what could be more simple than to use this image from the Warmth & Wonder Hostess set? I coloured the stamp with Basic Black, Real Red and Old Olive markers, stamped onto Whisper White and cut out with the Large Oval Punch. This was then matted onto a larger Real Red Oval, cut with one of the Ovals Collection Framelits. A piece of Real Red Taffeta ribbon was fixed across a piece of white cardstock, a bow added to the oval and then this was matted onto a white card blank.
I appreciate that you may not have this particular stamp set but the real purpose of this card is to show that using a single stamp with a couple of dies or punches can make something very simple but effective.
(Edited to add - my bird, being a Cardinal, should have been red! Whoops, shows how much I know about birds!!! Thanks Chrissie)

Enjoy your Sunday and do pop back tomorrow to see a Christmas Owl!

Margaret x

CAS(E) this Sketch

This is a card I have made for this week's 'CAS(E) this Sketch' challenge based on the sketch to the left.
I have flipped the sketch around as my reindeer was facing that way! I used two stamps from the Hostess set, Warmth and Wonder' and stamped the reindeer in Early Espresso and the tree in Old Olive. For the baubles on the tree and the sentiment I used the Gold Metallic Encore pad - the shine shows up much better in the close up above left! For the sentiment banner I used a stamp from Sweet Essentials, masked to leave the word Christmas, then used my stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the 'merry' from Pennant Parade just above. To finish the card I matted the panel onto Early Espresso cardstock and then onto a Crumb Cake card blank.

Less is More Sketch

The Less is More challenge for this week is a Sketch (top right) and my entry was made using the Warmth & Wonder Hostess set in the Autumn/Winter catalogue.
I stamped both the image and sentiment on Naturals White cardstock with the new Gold Metallic Encore ink pad (also available in the Autumn/Winter catalogue). The tree was punched out with the Extra Large Circle punch and matted onto a 4" square card blank using dimensionals and the sentiment banner positioned on top.
Because most people have lots of cards to send at Christmas it's very tempting to buy them because you simply don't have the time to make your own, however, armed with a simple image, a punch and the new metallic ink pads (which is also available in silver) you could make several of these in a very short space of time. Obviously you don't get the same shine with the ink as you would with embossing but I think that's a small price to pay for the amount of time saved!!

I hope you all have a great weekend and, hopefully, I'll be back with something to show you for 'Simples Sunday' tomorrow

Margaret x