Cheery Santa & Spellbinders

My weekend project was to colour the super cute "Cheery Santa" image from Make it Crafty.

I cheated just a little and used the sentiment from "Cheeky Santa" again from Make it Crafty.

Then I cut the finished image using Spellbinders circle dies and mounted them onto gold paper also cut using Spellbinder circle dies and then onto patterned paper.

Yes I seem to have reverted to a clean a simple style for the moment. It seemed to suit this card!

We have a great range of Make it Crafty stamps in stock and can give help and guidance on choosing your Copic markers for great colour blending.

Fairy Dahlia Card

How can you not love Make it Crafty's range of stamps. And we have just expanded our range of these gorgeous stamps! Just in time for Christmas we have the Aussie Santa, Cheeky Santa and Cheery Santa stamps as well as the Aussie Christmas Tree and Snow Elf stamps.

And some very good news (as I know there are a few people waiting for these dies) is that we will have a new supply of the Marianne Craftables Dies arriving next week. So if you have been waiting for the circle or oval craftables come in a get yours while they are still here.

While we are talking about some of my favourite things, I had the opportunity of a little play recently. Make it Crafty Stamps, Copic Markers, Marianne Dies and Memory Box Dies - these are a few of my favourite things! So what better than to be able to combine them on a card!

I coloured the Make it Crafty "Fairy Dahlia" stamp with Copic Markers - YR31, Y15, Y28 for hair; RV000, RV10, RV21 for her dress and flower; E000, E00, E11 and R20 for her skin. I also used C0 for grey highlight around the image and gold gel pen for her anklet and bracelet. Her wings are B0 and white gel pen to add veins. The I fussy cut and mounted the image of a piece of Pink Gelato Kaiser Craft Paper from their paper pad. I mounted that to a burgundy card and then onto a white A6 card.

 As she is Fairy Dahlia I decided to adorn the card with a hand made paper dahlia in white. I made this using the Marianne Craftable Die CR1201 (medium and small flower die) combined with a small Carl Craft petal die.

Then using this beautiful "Delicate Fern" Memory Box Die and the leaves from the Marianne Die "Bird on a Branch", I added some soft little leaves.

 

I think she turned out just right!

 

Make it Crafty Stamps & Chipboard Beauties

Last week I was very excited to take charge of our first shipment of Make it Crafty Stamps and Chipboard items (can't really call these ones mere embellishments!).

I've had the opportunity over the weekend and today to have a good play. I started off with Summer Dreams which seemed to be a lower impact stamp for a rank Copic colouring beginner like myself and I have to say, I was quite happy with my end result but I killed my first image during my card making procedures (don't ask) and had to start again.

I was not as happy with this effort as I seemed to have more trouble blending my mauves and browns too. I ended up with both patchy results in some places and sticky shiny excess in others. Still I wasn't going to do her over again again!

After my Elf Queen card I wanted to make this card a sweet and simple one to match the sweetness of the Summer Dreams image. I went for purples and white.

And yes! I actually stopped myself using either any Memory Box or Marianne Dies this time. What a shock hey?!

 
I did have some Perfect Pearlized Kaiser Flowers left over from the Elf Queen card and they were just the ticket to add that little something without going nuts about it!