More Fairy lights

Post 160

A variation on a theme...see post 157, just using a rainbow of colours and adding in wink of stella to the lights before using glossy accents.

Hope you like this variation on the theme,makes for quick production line style Christmas cards without getting too boring!

Happy Crafting.

 Clair xxx

Purple Santa.

Post 159

'Jingle all the way', was out to play again today, along with the 'Festive Greetings'.

The Santa, tree and presents are all stamped and embossed in white. I used my Clean Color real brush markers to colour in cool shades of blue and purple.

Santa looked weird once I'd done, I decided it was his white eyes! I went over the embossing with a black marker to rectify this.

The extra presents were stamped and cut out to finish the image.

And the sentiment stamped and embossed in silver.

To bring the card together I stamped the Pinstripe background onto my base card and used the same colours to fill it in.

Hope you like todays card, please let me know.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Decking the Halls..

Post 157

For todays card I'm continuing on the festive route. Using the same stamp sets as the post 154 but a completely different card.

MFT's 'Jingle all the way' provided Rudolph, and W Plus 9's 'Festive Greetings' finished the card.

Once again water colour card was used as I HAVE to use my Kuretake clean color markers!!

I started by stamping and embossing my greeting using silver embossing powder.

The reindeer was stamped in Versafine Onyx black. I then had a trail of fairy lights from the reindeer around the card. I had to draw in the line from the reindeer to the start of the lights but after that the card was simple.

Everything coloured with the clean color markers, then the lights glossy accented, and the reindeer embellished with some white pen on his cheeks and rump.Finally the top right corner of the card was chomped using my corner chomper just to balance out the card.

Hope you like todays card.

I'm away for the bank holiday weekend...see you next week.

Happy crafting .

Clair xxx

The unforgettable elelphant...again!

Post 156

Another Unforgettable card!! Today I'm using the 'Unforgettable' stamps from W Plus 9 , Mama Elephants  'Block Party letters', and just a little bit of the Waffle Flower 'Lotus' set (the 'Birthday' part of the greeting).

I stamped the images on water colour card stock and coloured them using my water colours. 

The front of each letter is covered with some clear wink of stella and some glossy accents.

Down the side of the water colour panel was trimmed using the Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Scalloped Border dies' On the base card I adhered a sheet of the Lets Polka paper from Lawn fawns 6inch petite paper pack.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Doodle Buds

Post 155

Two for the price of one today! I know I won't get time to post tomorrow so you get a double posting today!!
For this card I've been playing with these happy stamps from W Plus 9 called 'Doodle Buds'.

I began with the flower heads, stamping and masking to fill up along the card (water colour cardstock). I went on to stamp/ mask to add in the stems. Then I added the birds from the W Plus 9 set 'Happy Mail'.

The clean color real brush markers from kuretake were used to colour the image. I used 2 colours on each of the flower petals, just scribbling in the colour then blending them together with a little water.

Once the image was completely dry I went in with my white pen and added a little pattern to some of the petals. I also added some glossy accents to the centre of each flower.

I finished the card with a lovely sentiment from the Doodle buds set, and a doodled line all the way around the card. 

I'm not too confident using all these bright vivid colours but I love how this card turned out. I have recently bought a little colour wheel , and I used it for this card to coordinate my colours. I can highly recommend investing in one, HERE is mine!

Hope you liked todays card too, let me know!

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

A little bit festive!!!

Post 154

For todays card I'm feeling festive. The wonderful My Favorite Things and their 'Jingle all the way ' stamps are  used along with W Plus 9s 'Festive Greetings'.

The greeting was stamped and embossed in gold. The santa stamped then masked to allow for the tree behind him. This was all done on water colour card as I have finally aquired the Kuretake 'Real brush clean colour makers' and they are truly my new best friend!! ( haven't linked you to where I bought them as they have double in price!! )

I just coloured the image with various markers, blending as I went. I only used water when it came to grounding Santa!

I used some stickles on his beard. And wink of stella on his hat, belt and star.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy Crafting.

Clair xxx

Another bunch of Doodle Buds.

Post 158

I'm loving playing with these fabulous flowers from W Plus 9, the 'Doodle Buds'

For this card the flower heads have been stamped and masked to form a nice bunch, then the stems were stamped in. 

The image was coloured with the clean color markers, then doodled on with a white pen.

I then added dots all around the flowers using Julia Altemanns technique of one big dot with lots of little dots around it....it gives a random look without the stress of trying to be random ( if that makes any sense at all!)

The card needed something extra once I'd doodled around it so I stamped some pinstripes on the card base and used the same colours to coordinate with the flowers. I used MFT's Pinstripe background stamp for this.

I hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx