Another Toadstool Card

A single "house" this time, with an extra embellishment for the door - a "witchy" button from Craftwood Creations - Button-It range.

Background painted with Spectrum Noir glitter pens as a wash, and the grass was stamped and painted using distress ink (bundled sage off the top of my head)  The fence was also stamped in a brown distress ink (walnut stain) and then "brushed out" with water.

The house was coloured with alcohol pens.

Starting the Christmas cards ...

This year I decided that I would try and use some of my dies and stamps for my Christmas cards instead of creating them in Craft Artist.  So over the next few days o(r maybe weeks) I will share some of my makes.

Today I am showing a few made with dies:  (I apologise for the quality of some of the photos, but Microsoft in their wisdom upgraded their photo editing programme, so some of the photos might not be as good as I would have hoped as they were all taken indoors in artificial light and I had a problem cropping and tweaking them - hopefully I will get to grips with the new programme by the time I have finished my cards!)

Joy

 Blue Joy again on a background created with mini gelli

Star wreath with circular gelli min background

Star wreath again but over-painted, and no background

Wreath die and bauble die on circular gelli background

Wreath die with blue gelli background on a green card, with Clarity stamp images

Snowflake on square gelli background

Snowflake again on hexagonal background

Star with square gelli background and snowflake stamp corners

Woodland heart on square gelli background

 Just to finish the descriptions under the photos, those using the mini gelli plates and memento inks. were edged with a black micron pen, and sentiments added with various stamps.

80th Birthday Card

My daughter is so busy at moment she hinted that if I had time I could make a card for her husband's aunt's 80th birthday, as she didn't think she would get around to making one.   

Well  ........ it's like this I treated myself to the Crafter's Companion Gemini machine (an electronic die cutting machine), as I am suffering with a very painful arm, which they now reckon is a frozen shoulder, and I was having trouble turning the handles on my other diecutting machines ......  of course I had to have a play with the machine when it arrived didn't I?

So I made this card using the freebie dies that came with the machine.  (By the way I love this machine).

I painted the background with various Memento inks and a smidgen of water to blend them, and then went over it with the clear sparkle overlay pen and some water - don't you just love the shine?

The die-cuts then had more of the clear sparkle overlay applied, with a smidgen of highlights added, by mixing with some of the background colours.

I don't use a lot of die cuts - although now with the new machine I intend to.  Am quite pleased with the finished result using just a few simple dies.

Right I had better get off here now and sort out a suitable insert (yes back to CAP2 for that one).