Fifth Advent Window - Elegant Pine Snowflakes

 The Elegant Pines Snowflakes Designer Series Paper is so detailed, I'm trying to show as much of the paper rather than covering it up.

Stamp Set: Delicate Pines

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Elegant Pines Designer Series Paper, Whisper White

Accessories: Delicate Pines Dies, retired die for the sentiment, Old Olive and White twine, Cherry Cobbler coloured Pearls.

Celebrate the Season with card making,

GenGen XxXxX

4th Advent Window - Peace & Joy

 Time for a little simple stamping.

Stamp set: Ornamental Christmas

Ink: Old Olive, Real Red

Cardstock: Old Olive, Gold Foil

Accessories: Ornamental Christmas Dies, Star punch, Gold sparkle gems, retired sentiment frame and ribbon - as somethings are always useable ;-)

Wishing Peace & Joy,

GenGen XxXxX

Third Advent Window - Gate Fold Card

 Continuing with the versatile Elegant Pine Snowflakes 12"x12" Designer Series Paper, this is a simple design using the DSP colours and dies.

Cardstock: Pretty Peacock, Elegant Pine Snowflakes 12"x12" Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Delicate Pines Dies, Cherry Cobbler Gems

The large snowflake of the DSP is detailed in Pretty Peacock and Old Olive, which I've just highlighted with another snowflake die in Pretty Peacock to emphasize the outline.

Keep crafting co-ordination to keep it simple,

GenGen XxXxX

2nd Advent Window - SU Advent!

 So this is going to a be a bit confusing, as I treated myself to the SU 

12 days of Crafting Advent Calendar

I'm going to spread my 12 days of crafting through my Advent Blog, and here's the first window goodies.

So with the coordinating stamp set,

I made this card.

I used Cherry Cobbler for the Poinsettia flowers stamp and now matching dies, then Garden Green foliage die and Old Olive larger leaf die, with a Large Gold Hoop from the Modern Christmas Suite Collection, Gold Striped 3/8" Mesh Ribbon with a Greeting for you Mix & Match Ephemera Pack for the Merry Christmas Greeting, and some golden rhinestones for the Poinsettia centres.

Keep the spirit of Christmas alive with Crafting,

GenGen XxXxX

First Advent Window - Ornamental Christmas

As always, the temptation to send a Christmas card to Australia with snowy scenes and snowflakes still gets the better of me, while they are in the height of summer. There is always an excuse for a shaker card, but when I took this photo I realised that you wouldn't know that snowfall is a possibility from this photo.

 Stamp Set: Ornamental Christmas

Ink: Versa Ink and Wow White embossing powder

Cardstock: Modern Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper, 

Basic Black, Gold Foil

Accessories: Ornamental Christmas Dies, Gold sequins, 

retired shaker contents ;-)

So this is what the Shaker snow looks like.

Keep on Christmas Crafting, one project a day, 

GenGen XxXxX

World Card Making Day

#WorldCardMakingDay25

 I know today is nearly over, but just for a bit of easy inspiration I joined the Stampin' Up! team for an hour of virtual inspiration using the Handmade & Heartfelt Kit.

So I now have a wonderful Letter rack that holds the cards I made, and as I'm going to gift this to a friend when I've done all the cards, I thought I'd add some stamps, and handmade tags to fill the letter rack and make the gift complete.

The cards that are in the Kit are for all occasions, so mean you always have a card to hand when you need it, such a useful Kit.

So here are the cards I made, and the matching envelopes means that they're good to go!

Keep on crafting, even when you need a little online inspiration and the reassurance of creating from a Kit, but a handmade card is still wonderful to receive, GenGen XxXxX

Last Chance List

 Here's a card that I did in the Autumn, and now this lovely set is on the Last Chance List

Usually I'm very less is more, but somehow with this card I've used even more than the bunde! I do love a debossed vellum background though ;-)

Stamp set: Labelled with Love

Ink: Metallic Copper

Card stock: Copper Foil, Vellum, Bronze Glimmer, Cajun Craze, Whisper White

Accessories: Paper Butterfly Accents, Metallic copper Rhinestones, Labelled with Love Punch, Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing Folder

Nature is such inspiration, GenGen XxXxX