Another quick card using Craft Artist.  I love these little bear images.

Sympathy Card

One of those cards we all hate to make.    I like to keep these fairly simple.    Created using images from Craft Artist.

Watercoloured Christmas Cards

Another couple of prints from the watercolour paintings I shared earlier.    Scanned and imported into Craft Artist, reduced in size and then"punched" to create an oval image.   A few people will be getting these "originals" for Christmas.

My son was so impressed when he called round, that he has asked for the original watercolour paintings so that he can have them framed for his new house ........ now that is praise indeed!

Simple Flower Card

Just a simple birthday card.   A bit of an experiment to keep it simple.  Imaged stamped and embossed with a red WOW powder, and water coloured.    Sentiments created in Craft Artist.

Nordic figures

I had so much fun painting these.  The inspiration photo was originally in green, but I wanted ice blue.   The original photo had holly leaves as decoration, but that wouldn't have worked in blue, so I used some Cardi-o snowflake stamps instead.   I made add a little sparkle to the snowflakes with a glue pen and some glitter, and possibly add some to the snow effect I have createdon the bases.

The original inspiration from the manufacturers

Selfie Frames .... a bit of fun.

I took time out from Christmas card making at the weekend.   I couldn't resist when the parcel arrived , I just had to make a start on them and I had fun creating these.   Selfie frames for Christmas.   Looking forward to the grandchildren using them - well all the family really.   I am still trying to decide whether to add some hair to the Elf

My crafting mojo has been awol for a while - so these were just the think to kick-start it again!

work in progress on the elf

Red Birthday Card

I  used one of my Clarity Craft Club dies for this card.    I cut into the card with the die, and then mounted  a piece of one of Joanna Sheen's Faux Pour Paper pads behind it.   I cut two more pieces from the paper pad for the decorative strips.  I then added gilding flakes, ink and UTEE to a Clarity greyboard heart (one of Leonie Pujol's designs).  (It doesn't look straight in the picture - but it is!)

For once I didn't personalise the front of the card with a name, but the insert was personalised.   The recipient is a new addition to the family, and I wasn't sure of her interests/hobbies so I kept it "neutral" so to speak.

Watercolour Birthday Card

Having played with the snow scene watercolour paintings into Christmas cards, I thought I would attempt to turn one I did a while ago into a card for a pal.   (She is quite a good artist herself, so I hope she likes this.

For info this was the scan of the original painting that I did., before I reduced it to fit the aperture of the card.