2nd Advent Window

 So here we are on the 2nd December! We had a little flurry (with Hail) a couple of weeks ago, although it didn't last it does get you in the festive mood ;-)

Stamp Set: Flurry of Wishes

Card stock: Pool Party, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper

Ink: Bermuda Bay

Accessories: Snow Flurry Punch, Iced Rhinestone Embellishments, Winter Wonderland Embellishments

As always with cards there is further flurries on the inside of the card and the envelope too . .

. . . Keep on Christmas Crafting GenGen xxxx

First Advent Window!

Somehow we're in December! I always think I'm going to be more organised, really must try harder! That or I must have a slightly less chaotic life ;-)

So With this year's virtual advent calendar I have a vague idea of the things that I would like to cover over the 24 windows, and here's the first project, a quick card.

Card Stock: Real Red, Whisper White and Merry Moments DSP

Ink: Real Red & Garden Green

Accessories: Circle Card thinlit, 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Tree Punch and 1/8" striped ribbon in Real Red

So an easy, but fun start to the festivities, keep on Christmas crafting, GenGen xxxx

Count down Birthday cards!

Somehow this year it's been a year full of numbers. This card went down under, with 3 layers of the butterfly I accompanied it with 10 flowers to mirror the 13 theme.

Stamp set: Petite Petals, Butterfly Basics

Card stock: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Shimmery White,  Silver Glimmer, Basic Black

Ink: Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Petite petals punch, Butterflies thinlit

Continuing to mix up a few elements, a punch, dies and a bit of sparkle ;-)

Stamp set: Celebrate Today

Card stock: Bashful Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Night of Navy, Silver Glimmer

Ink: Tempting Turquoise

Accessories: Balloon and Hello You Thinlit, Confetti Stars Border Punch, Star punch from Itty Bitty Punch Pack

Finally for the Octonauts fans out there, a colour in card ;-)

Stamp set: Big Day (retired) 

Card stock: Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay, Pool Party, Silver glimmer

Ink: Island Indigo

Accessories: Little Letters Thinlits, Retired Numbers die.

Keep on crafting and colouring in, GenGen xxxx

All Hallows Eve

Hope you all have a FaBOOlous time!

Simple but Spooky! Loving the Black glimmer paper! The fantastic paper webs are just too good to cut up ;-)

Hope it's more treat than trick, keep on crafting, GenGen xxxx

A few cards for friends

One of my favorite things is to make a card just because and pop it in the post when a friend least expects it :-)

As always, it's a less is more approach!

Stamp set: Sprinkles with Life

Card stock: Old Olive, Early Espresso

Ink: Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Daffodil delight

Accessories: Tree Builder Punch

I think colouring in is as close as I get to meditation ;-) Here's something from the Everyday section of the New Catalogue . . . 

Stamp set: Circle of Spring

Card stock: Old Olive, Whisper White

Ink: Old Olive, Melon Mambo and colouring pencils

Stamp set: Six Sided Sampler

Card stock: Whisper White, Old Olive & Vellum for Butterfly

Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate chip, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand

Accessories: Buttterflies thinlit, Hexagon Punch, Pearls and some paper ribbon from my stash ;-)

And my final one today has let the stamp set do all the work,

Stamp set: Sheltering Tree

Ink: Old Olive, Early Espresso

As always, less is more, keep on crafting, Gen x

Birthday Blossoms Stamp, for more than Birthdays!

One of the first cards I made with this stamp set was a Birthday Card!

To comply with thin postage requirements I simple used the shetchy flower as a background and the greeting of the stamp set in Melon Mambo Ink, with a Tempting Turquoise Butterflies thinlit.

This stamp set coordinates with the Pansy Punch, and my next card, also celebrating a summer anniversary uses the punch.

Stamp Set: Birthday Blossom and retired greeting

Card stock: Soft Suede and Very Vanilla

Ink: Soft Suede

Accessories: Pansy Punch, Wooden leaves from a clearance event and In Colour Blossom Accents

And finally, should you have printed and punched too many flowers it's an ideal time to make another card using a crumb cake Note Card and swiftly pop it in the post to a friend.

As you can see, I'm still persisting in stamping off and appreciate the structure of the stamped image, you can also see that I have lots of cream buttons for flower centers :-)

Keep on crafting, GenGen xxxx

Summer Anniversaries

With my little section of Anniversaries I start with the card that I made for our Wedding Anniversary. Very pain and simple, with a background of Fancy Foil Vellum and 17 simple Gold Foil hearts punched out with a small heart punch and arranged into a heart.

Continuing with the Heart theme . . .

I used a heart thinlit die as a guide and raided my button jar and some retired SU clear heart buttons in the mix, with a greeting from a retired stamp set, buttons simple secured by glue dots.

And finally, some proper stamping!

As part of the Clearance Rack is a reduction on the Circle Card Thinlit, while stocks last.
I'm thinking of using this card format as one of my Christmas card designs, as the flip aspect of it creates a nice surprise.

Stamp Set: Summer Silhouettes and retired greeting
Ink: 2015-2017 In Colours Tip Top Taupe, Cucumber Crush, Delightful Dijon, Watermelon Wonder
Card stock: Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Circle Card Thinlit and 2 1/2" Circle Punch

Celebrating Love, keep on crafting, GenGen xxxx