Dazzling 5th Advent Window

When the days are short and the dark nights long, we ALL need some dazzling diamonds to add sparkle to our day!

 

In today's advent window I'm sharing this paint effect, which is now hanging in the window dazzling with the street lights :-)

 

This is made from MDF and even though I'm a huge fan of the rustic look I wanted a bit more sparkle, so initially covered the surface with Craft ink, printed the small spray stars from the Be a Star stamp set in Pacific point ink, using a sponge dauber to highlight the letters and star edges. Then covered the surface in Vera Ink, heat and stick powder, activated with my heat tool and then Dazzling diamonds for the final sparkle!

 

Here's hoping there's some sparkle in your day,

keep on Christmas crafting, Gen xxxx

Advent window 4 - Twinkle twinkle, 3d star!

 I simply couldn't resist this gorgeous Bright & Beautiful star stamp set, or the temptation to create a little 3d decoration, and this year I have kept it seriously simple.

Here I've used 5 printed stars, cut out with Star Thinlit on Pacific Point card stock, Silver ink, and 1/8" Silver Ribbon.

And after the above modern colours I have of course succumbed to a more traditional take.

Real Red card stock,
Gold ink,
and 1/8" Gold Ribbon

As you can guess these are, at present the only decorations up in my home ;-)

Keep on Christmas crafting, Gen xxxx

Advent Window Number 3

 

Here is another Workshop Wow that I cased from a fellow demonstrator who was fabulous enough to put her tutorial on You Tube, where would we all be without that resource?

 

This is of course the Curvy Keepsake box Thinlits die in Chocolate chip for the pudding, Very Vanilla for the brandy butter sauce, red glimmer paper punched out with my cropodile for the pudding cherries and Garden green for the Holly leaves created with an oval punch and then a small circle punch to make the points of the leaves, and blendabilities coloured pearls for the holly berries. Of course the little tag that comes with the die, and some 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Real red for the finishing touch.

 

Perfect for tree treats or small presents,

hopefully looks good enough to eat ;-)

 

Keep on Christmas crafting, Gen xxxx

Second Advent Window

Here's the card that I shared with Llandrindod Card Club in November, many thanks for asking me along :-)

I cased this from the Autumn-Winter Supplement and this workshop allowed me to play around with the shaker window concept. Having made the most of a previous SU promotion I bought star stamp and framelits together and have been using them lots since!

 

Stamp set: Many Christmas Stars, Sassy Salutations

Card stock: Bermuda Bay, Costal Cabana, Brushed Silver, Window Sheets

Ink: Bermuda Bay, Silver Metallic Encore

Accessories: Shaker Frames, Frosted sequins, Stars framelits

 

You can never have enough shimmer and shine ;-)

Keep on crafting, Gen x

First Advent Window!

 

So with the first advent window we have some glitz and serious traditional colours. This is my favourite Old Olive and the fabulous Wondrous Wreath stamp set and matching framelit dies.

 

Stamp set: Wondrous Wreath

Inks: Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Real Red

Card stock: Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White and Gold Foil

Accessories: Wondrous Wreath Framelit die, Perfect pennant Framelit die, 1/8" Gold ribbon

 

Just wanted to start my virtual advent with a message of joy,

if all else fails keep on crafting, Gen xxxx 

It's a cupcake kind of day!

Although preparations and workshops for Christmas are well under way I'm going to continue with my card creation catch up, and somehow I'm still showing things I did in October!!

 

As always with SU products, colour co-ordination comes with ease when their stamps and matching punches do the work for you. As I'm continually lying in the hammock and never leaving things till the last minute (if only!), when products go together like this, cards can be made in a jiffy which gets me out of tight squeeze again and again!

 

Stamp set: Cupcake Party, retired greeting

Inks: Melon mambo, stamped off, Basic Black

Card stock: Silver Glimmer paper, Basic Black, Whisper White

Accessories: Melon Mambo embossing powder, Cupcake builder punch and small star punch from Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack 

 

Just so you can see the detail of the stamp, here's a close up . . . .

 

 

And for a different look, on the same theme a few days later in the month . . .

 

Stamp set: As above, cheeky cherry stamp in the set!

Inks: Real Red, Chocolate chip

Card stock: Red glimmer paper, Whisper white

Accessories: Cupcake builder punch - contains the cherry punch! 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch

 

And just for something completely different, using SU card stock and punches, but simply copying from original artwork I made this for adorable Archie, who is the ultimate Thomas fan . .

 

Stamp set: Retired greeting from Party this way

Inks: Pacific point and Project Life journaling pen for the expressions and outline

Card stock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Smokey Slate, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Soft Sky for the background.

Accessories: Assorted circle punches and Stampin Trimmer for cutting, Word window punch for greeting.

 

Here's hoping the trip to Llandudno to visit Thomas went well ;-)

 

Keep on crafting, Gen Gen xxxx

Where does the time go?

Somehow our friends daughter has reached her 18th Birthday - where does the time go?
 

As the theme of her party was pastel candy colours and Hawaiian flower garlands I tried to pick up on that with her Birthday card.
 

 

Card stock: Whisper white, Blushing Bride, So Saffron, Soft Sky, Marina Mist & DSP

Inks: Blushing Bride, So Saffron, Marina Mist

Stamps: Flower Shop, Beautiful Birthday

Accessories: Big Shot Pop Up cutting pad (retired), Deco labels Framelits, Cupcake Builder Punch and Subtles Candy dots for flower centres.

 

Keep on crafting, Gen xxxx