Vintage Santa

Well as you can see I am loving this style of card At the moment, its a great way to get a larger card without having to go to the extra expense of buying A3 card The images and backing papers came from cardmaking Ideas, I just love this Santa.
Folded some A4 card just some simple matting and layering a bit of gold Ribbon , I also made a border strip Using one of my Fiskars punches.
Nice and easy to do but a lovely result, Looks much better up close

Here Is a photo of the card open, as you can see I have used the Santa image a few times in different sizes, sentiment also came from the same source

Front door Christmas Card

Not sure if I like this card, I had the idea to make a front opening larger card, But not to happy with the finished result The decoupage is one of Jonnies free sheets, You will find a link to Jonnies blog on my side bar.
I layered the card up using small bits of Glitter on the Trees and wreath.
I then mounted this card to a larger gold card that i had embossed using my glitter girls board

Here Is what is hidden inside the front door card, a decoupage fireplace with a cute basket of puppies. I would like to think they already lived there and are keeping warm and not a Christmas present

scrap page

I have just added two new scrap page to my scrapping blog if anyone would like to look
http://wendysscrappingdays.blogspot.com/

My sketch challenge 34

Here Is this weeks Sketch challenge, We had a break from the Sketch challenge last week, Our Crafters companion Forum was up graded to a new look Forum.
So everyone was a bit lost and trying to find out how everything worked, some members had problems logging onto site, So I decided to give the sketches a miss for a week.

For this Sketch i have done a simple layout for the mats of backing papers.
The twist come in as they have to make a Tag of some sorts to add to the finished card

For the card Base I used a lime green card and Lilac backing papers(not showing up as bright in photo) The papers all came from Pink petticoats.

For the tag To colour the base I dabbed a mauve ink pad over, I then wound some lilac raffia around the tag, Made two lemon and lilac flowers with matching centres , And just added a metal butterfly to finish off

close up of tag.

If antyone else would like to try this sketch please leavea link in the comment so that I may come take a look

Waterfall Christmas Card

This is one of my favourite Images from Joanna sheens Victorian Christmas CD.
I turned the smaller three images into a waterfall effect Topper to this I added a Tassel before adding to the side panel of the card.
I then took a larger image with matching backing paper matted them onto gold mirri card And the added to the Green perlescent base card

Westie Christmas card

I was asked to make a Christmas Card For A Lady who just loves Westies.
I found this very cute image om the web, I took the image into my 3D2 cardbuilder and made two backing sheets . I matted and layers the sheets onto some Blue pearlescent card, The centre tag I cut out and mounted onto some more Blue perlescent card, this I then stuck to a strip of acetate using a Brad, the other end was Caught behind the second mat , this then let the Image swing free of the card Close up Picture showing the topper swinging away from the card

Another Parchment card

Here is the last of the parchment cards that I did over the weekend, Just finished the cutting out last evening, I do love these patterns, Just takes such a long time, And I don't like to stop and come back , so nobody gets fed around here when I start a parchment project.
I have a large collection of to do patterns for when I finally retire, Still a few years to go LOL

SBS24 Challenge

I have at last found the time to get back on with my SBS24 group Challenges.
This weeks Challenge was to make a spring Card, I had traced out a few Parchment cards the other week, So yesterday being full up with a cold I took the time to sit down in the warm, In front of the TV with a few chick films and do my Parchment crafting. A great way to forget all your troubles.
This was one of the cards that I made and I thought it would go great for our Spring theme, Tumbling flowers and butterflies, Oh come back spring and summer, Missing all the flowers and warm Sun, Mind you here in the UK we usually get a lot more Rain during the summer months , It has been a lot dryer throughout the winter