A Very Elfy Creative Collection - Tonic Studios Launch

Happy Friday!

There is a new launch today of the Elfy Creative Collection which consists of stencils, dies and stamps.  My affiliate links, at no cost to you, with thanks:

UK: HERE

USA: HERE

For the first of my cards I made I stepper card which shows off the various stamps in the set so well.  It's such a fun set.

For my next creation, I used the Cherished Moments Mason Jar Treat Bag as my base and decorated it with the stamps and dies.

For my final card, I used the stencils from the set together with a sentiment stamp.  Look out for the reel showing how to create this one!

See you again soon,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Tonic Studios A Very Elfy Creative Collection

Tonic Studios Cherished Moments Mason Jar Treat Bag Die Set

Song (Crafty Christmas 2024) - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

It's been freezing this week and I've had to scrape the frost off the car in the mornings again which I haven't missed at all!

Today I'm sharing a song themed card for the Daring Cardmakers latest Christmas challenge.

I used the Festive Furry Fun collection from Katy Sue Designs.  It has such a cute image of carol singers on it and I love all the gold foiling.  I added a bow to finish.

You can join in and see more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team HERE.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and see you again next week,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Katy Sue Designs Festive Furry Fun Collection 
Icy Winter Double Sided Bows

Festive Frames & Baubles Die Set - Tonic Studios Launch

Happy Thursday!

There is a brand new launch from Tonic Studios today of the Festive Frames & Baubles Die Set.  Here are my affiliate links, with thanks:

UK: HERE

USA: HERE

I had fun creating with this set as you can make the most beautiful baubles so easily!  I used the dies from the set and added some of the papers from the A Candy Cane Christmas paper pad to decorate parts of my bauble. I love that you can add extra touches to the top and the bottom of the bauble too - it makes it look even more luxurious!

I also used the Die Set to create a Christmas card and it's one you could batch make as well.  I'd recommend a session of die cutting and inking then another to put them together.  As I had the A Candy Cane Christmas Collection out, I added one of the toppers from the set to the centre of my card.

I made the panels by die cutting one of the dies for the side of the bauble in white and then using my distress oxide inks and finger blenders I coloured the die cuts.  I stuck them onto a white base and used foam pads to give them a little dimension before sticking the topper to the middle.

See you again soon,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Tonic Studios Festive Frames & Baubles Die Set

Tonic Studios A Candy Cane Christmas Collection 

Tonic Studios Finger Blenders

Tonic Studios Craft Perfect Cardstick

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Distress Oxide Ink Pads

December Elemental Inspiration - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy December!

December already!  If you haven't finished, or even begun for that matter, your Christmas cards there has been lots of inspiration from the Daring Cardmakers over November and this will continue over December.  

I was inspired to make not one but two cards this week.  I've seen so many of my friends batch make cards but I find it hard to repeat cards so I used the same stamp and die set and cardstock to make these cards instead.  It's a start right?!

As it's an elemental challenge you need to pick at least 3 elements from the photo below and colours count as 1.

I chose the colours which work so well together and I will definitely be using them again, the star, tree and baubles.

I hope you'll join in and you can see more from the rest of the Design Team HERE.

Have a lovely weekend,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Tonic Studios Festive Tags Stamp & Die Set

Nuvo Drops

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Everything else from my stash

Cactus CAS Christmas Cards - Sticker Kitten DT

Happy Monday!

I'm sharing a selection of CAS cards I made with the Sticker Kitten Succulent collection.  I had a lot of fun creating these and the puns that went along with them.

All the cards are in a clean and simple style.  I just added a little paper, stenciling or washi tape.

I added a little glitter glue to some of the succulents for a little festive sparkle!

On all the cards I used computer generated sentiments in different colours.

The additional santa hats on all my succulents were from the Time for Tea Designs Mew Are The Best stamp set.  I simply stamped, coloured them in with my Chameleon pens and fussy cut them out before sticking on to the Succulent Ephemera.

See you again on Wednesday,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Sticker Kitten Succulents Paper Pad
Sticker Kitten Succulents Ephemera (Happy Face Plants)
Dovecraft Glitter Glue
Hunkydory Nesting Hearts Die Set
Time for Tea Designs Treemendous Christmas Stencil
Santa Hat image taken from the Time for Tea Designs Mew Are The Best Gift Stamp set
Chameleon Pens
Distress Oxide Ink Pads
Tonic Studios Adhesive
Everything else from my stash

Quick & Easy Christmas Cards - CrafTangles DT

Happy Sunday!

I'm up on the CrafTangles blog for my last post of the year.  Just in case you've not completed your cards there's still time - ha!  I actually finished and delivered the last of my cards to neighbours yesterday.

Amongst my last CrafTangles DT package I got a wonderful set of papers which I've used for my last set of Christmas cards.

The variety in the paper pad is a great as there's something for everyone.  For my first card I die cut the circles from one of the papers and made a diagonal split card using the circles for toppers.  I added a sentiment with the CrafTangles Holiday stamp set.

Next up I used a kraft card base that worked really well with the paper I chose.  I cut another one of the papers and stamped an additional sentiment in the centre. 

For my final card the paper gave me the inspiration for the rest of the card. I used distress inks to stamp the sentiment an ombre fashion.

Before I go I just wanted to thank you all for reading my blog posts.  I've enjoyed reading each and every comment and appreciate your support.

Have a wonderful Christmas and see you in the New Year!

Shabneez

Products Used:

CrafTangles Merry Christmas Paper Pad

CrafTangles Happy Holidays Stamp Set

CrafTangles Cardstock

Distress Inks

Everything else from my stash

Using Stencils to Create Christmas Card Toppers - CrafTangles DT

Happy Weekend!

I'm so very glad the weekend is here although I'm actually teaching for most of the day today.  I'm up on the CrafTangles blog with a post on making your own Christmas toppers for cards.

I had a bit of a production line going and to begin with I die cut some shapes and made all the toppers using images from a stencil together with distress inks.

For all the cards I used the Trimcraft First Edition Jolly Holidays papers as backgrounds.  It's definitely one of my favourite paper pads this winter.

So for my first card I gave the Christmas tree and ombre effect and added washi tape, lime green card and a sentiment to finish.

For my next card I used the fun candy cane image and created 3 toppers adding a sentiment to finish.

My final card uses the deer image which I inked in milled lavender and weathered wood distress inks.  I really liked the subtle effect it gave to the topper.

I finished off with a sentiment and co-ordinating papers.

There's more of an in depth tutorial HERE if you want to know more about how I created these cards.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and hopefully see you next week!

Shabneez

Products Used:

First Edition Jolly Holidays Paper Pad

CrafTangles Christmas Elements Stencil

CrafTangles Christmas Ornaments Stamp Set

CrafTangles Seasons Greetings Stamp Set

Ranger Distress Inks in Abandoned Coral, Peacock Feathers, Weathered Wood, Milled Lavender, Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron

Everything else from my stash

Christmas Aperture Cards

Happy Friday!

Today's blog post is a double post in that I am blogging for both CrafTangles and the Daring Cardmakers in one post as they both fell on the same day!  It just so happened that one of the cards I made for CrafTangles fits with the Daring Cardmakers Challenge this week so win win on my part - Ha!

My blog post is themed around aperture cards this and it's using Christmas stamps sets from CrafTangles.

This first card is the one that made me decide to concentrate on aperture cards.  It's a really simple card but I love the rainbow colours and it's a little different to the regular Christmas cards out there as it has rainbow colours.

Next up I decided to use 2 apertures in different sizes.

I used a very cute CrafTangles Santa Claus stamp set and I do love the sentiment.  The images were coloured in using my Chameleon pens.

This final card is the one that is also linked to the Daring Cardmakers Challenge this week.  The Challenge this week asks for a starry background on a card and you can find more information and inspiration on the challenge HERE.

This is my favourite card of the 3 - the one that I wasn't sure about but then it all just fell into place.  More information on how I created these cards on the CrafTangles blog HERE.

So there we have it - a 2 in 1 blog post especially for Black Friday!  You even get more for your reading on blog posts these days - Haha!!!  Don't shop too much!

See you again soon,
Shabneez

Products Used:
CrafTangles Cardstock.
CraftTangles Christmas Greetings Stamp Set
CrafTangles Santa Claus Stamp Set
CrafTangles Christmas Ornaments Stamp Set
Ranger Distress Inks
Tonic Glacier White Embossing Powder
Sizzix Circle Dies
Sizzix Oval Dies
Versafine Black Ink Pad
Chameleon Pens
Everything else from my stash

Winter Flowers and Foliage - Daring Cardmakers DT

Happy Friday!

Well, I made it - in the nick of time!  You know, I really commend those bloggers who blog daily like Linda, Holley and Annie who I follow - I couldn't do it as it is so time consuming.

The Daring Cardmakers are still in festive mode and would like to see winter flowers and foliage on your cards this week.  After yesterday's blog post I had an idea in my head but it didn't quite turn out the way I intended it to.  In other words I'm not happy but I didn't have time to do anything different!

My idea was to make a one layer card and use alternative colours on traditional flowers.  I managed to succeed in that because I used pink and turquoise for the poinsettia and foliage.  I used distress inks to paint the heat embossed image.  

It was the background I had the issues with as it came out different to what was in my head and part of me wishes I hadn't bothered with it!  Oh well, I might try again another day.

I actually used the stamp in a different way - off the page.  I got the idea from Joanne who stamped a bauble in the similar way in last week's DCM challenge (thank you Joanne!).  My stamp didn't cover the width of my card and looked a little odd in my opinion so I masked what I had stamped and rotated the stamp so I could add another poinsettia and a little more foliage.

So there we have it, bet the my teamies didn't have as much trouble as I did!  Lots of wonderful  inspiration from them can be found HERE.  I do hope you'll join in with the Challenge!

Enjoy your weekend,

Shabneez

Products Used:

Distress Inks

CraftTangles Holly Jolly Stamp set

CrafTangles Christmas Ornaments Stamp set

Ranger Embossing Powder

Versamark Watermark Ink Pad

Christmas Cards with a touch of Sparkle! - CrafTangles DT

Happy Thursday!

I keep getting reminders from various online retailers advising me on the countdown to Christmas so I thought I had better increase my card production as I send so many.  Of course, there's nothing like having to write a Design Team post to give me a gentle nudge!

I'm up on the CrafTangles Blog HERE with a selection of sparkly Christmas cards.  I just couldn't resist and it gets better as my sparkly products increase.......

I took the opportunity to use my Chameleon pens together with the colour tops on some of the images - they really make it easy to blend.

For my first card I've used the man in red himself and I just love the sentiment don't you?!  The iridescent sparkle was added using glimmer paste through a christmas tree stencil.

Next up heat embossing in gold - it gives such a luxury feel to a card in my opinion.  I bet you think I'm so odd - haha!!! I used acrylic paint flicks on the background and added sparkle in the form of glitter card.

For my final card I used the cute bear stamp set that I'd used at the beginning of the year.  The sparkle comes again from glimmer paste, this time in silver for the background.

I'm hoping to be back again tomorrow but it kind of depends if I can whip up a project in time.  No guarantees I'm afraid - you'll just have to watch this space!

Shabneez

Products Used:

Chameleon Pens

CrafTangles Holly Jolly Stamp Set

CrafTangles Bearing Gifts Stamp Set

CrafTangles Merry Christmas Stamp Set

CrafTangles Snowflakes Stencil 

CrafTangles Tree Background Stencil

CrafTangles Silver Glimmer Paste

CraFtangles Fairy Dust Glimmer Paste

CrafTangles Cardstock

Versamark Pad

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Everything else from my stash