Stampers Delights at Kit and Clowder

Alyce at Kit and Clowder has been running a fantastic Advent Calendar full of freebies and competitions and today she is featuring Stampers Delights.

Materials used:

Stampers Delights - Chibi Open Gift (freebie in Kit and Clowder Advent Calendar)

designer card

gold mirri card

X-Press It card

white card

star punch

gold ribbon

red paper string

red jingle bells

cracker punch board

Copic pens:

skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

hair - E50, E42, E43, E44, Y21

eyes - B91, B95, B97, B99

tee shirt and hair ribbons - BG53, BG57, BG49, BG78

jeans - B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

present - R81, R83, R85, R89

socks - C0, C1, C3     B1, B3, B5

My plans for Christmas, like so many others, have been put on hold. We usually have a big family meet up with local family members on Christmas Day and the wider family over New Year. This is our traditional Christmas 2 Celebration. For Christmas Day I try to make individual personalized crackers for every person there. This year I did not get around to it and even if I had we will not be sharing them together. I used the lovely image from Stampers Delights to make just one cracker, inspiration for next year! Of course this image would work equally well for a birthday card too.

So if you are inspired why not take a look at the Kit and Clowder Facebook page where you will find other wonderful inspirational makes as well as all the details for this year's Advent Calendar. All the links are below.

This is my final DT make for Stampers Delights as I am leaving the team to attend to family matters. It is possible that I may return at some stage but it will not be for some time so I am making no promises. I may pop up with the odd progressive challenge entry and I will be keeping an eye on Stampers Delights for all the new and exciting things planned for 2021.

Meanwhile I wish you all a happy and blessed Christmas and even though we cannot celebrate as we normally would the real meaning of Christmas has not changed, the churches are still open and Jesus still invites us into relationship with him. So this year why not put Christ back into Christmas for with out him Christmas just becomes mas which is meaningless.

Here are the links for you:

Stampers Delights Store 

Stampers Delights FB Group: 

Stampers Delights Inspiration Blog: 

Kit and Clowder Facebook Page: 

Kit and Clowder Website:

Thanks for dropping in. Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon #581 - Merry Christmas 

Always Fun #194 - Christmas 

Creative Moments #205 - Anything Goes 

A Bit More Time To Craft Extra #December - Anything Goes 

A Bit More Time To Craft #130 - Anything Goes 

To have and to hold

Traditionally there are always more weddings in the summer months than during the winter ones. Having just made a card for a Ruby Anniversary I found myself reaching for the same digi set to make a wedding card.

Materials used:
Deedee's Digi Stamps sets - Two Hearts and
Framed Comfort
Britannia rose dies and leaf die
heart shaped dies
shimmer white paper
Copic pens
white printer card
centura pearl card
white A5 card blank
memento rose bud ink pad
silver pen
spray and shine
clear wink of stella

Method:
I printed out the frame from the Framed Comfort set with the words from the Two Hearts set and the names of the couple and the date in the middle. I cut around the outside of the frame to make the topper. Using the silver pen I traced over the design of the frame and then went over the top with the Wink of Stella pen. I cut a piece of centura pearl card slightly smaller than my card blank and embossed some heart shapes on it using the heart dies. I then blended the memento rose bud ink over the card. It left a very subtle watermark effect which does not really show up very clearly in the photo.

Using the Britannia dies and the shimmer white paper I cut out the rose petals andleaves and coloured them with Copic pens before making up the flowers. When the flowers had set I sprayed them and the leaves with spray and shine.

Finally I attached the topper to the card blank and arranged the flowers and leaves along the bottom edge of the frame.

This is the first card commission I have had for a while and I am happy to report that my customer was very pleased. She had given me a good idea of what she wanted so I guess I was following a recipe for it.

Thank you for dropping by. Take care.

Pippa

I would like to enter my card into:
Simon Says Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #30: Anything Goes
ATSM Challenge #155 - Photo (flowers; colours white and pink)
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #194 - Anything Goes/Family Friendly
DSC #140 - Anything Goes!

PS This will be the last post for a while as I am off on my summer holidays. Hoping that the weather warms up a bit and the sun comes back for good!

Where did the days go?

I have just realised it is over a week since I last posted. I'd love to say that I have lots of projects finished and ready to share with you but that would not be quite true.  I do have a lot of projects but most of them are still in my head and the ones I have started are not ready to share!

I do have one thing I can share. I have been working on Create and Learn  Classes from Kit and Clowder. It sends me way out of my comfort zone for both the pencils and the markers but I am enjoying the challenge. My final pieces are no where near perfect but I do learn so much just giving them a go. So in the absence of any actual finished projects here are some pictures of the images I have been working on.



Both of these have been coloured with Polychromos.

If you are looking to learn more about colouring or improve your skills, have a look at the Kit and Clowder site. Alyce Keegan runs the 'company' and is a fantastic teacher. The advantage of doing a paid for course is that you get all the wonderful tips and help with feedback on your work. You can either go for a large techniques class or a smaller project class.

Thanks for dropping in. Hopefully there will be a finished project to tell you about over the weekend. Take care.

Pippa