Two new cards

 Hi there everyone, I am sorry I have been missing from the blog for a couple of weeks, am still having medical issues, and going into hospital in 1-1/2 weeks for a right full hip replacement.   Not looking forward to it, but I will be happy to be able to get about, reasonable well when it is over, only trouble is that I will have a left full hip replacement in the New Year some time as I have severe Osteoporosis in my bones!!! Oh well, just have to keep smiling and working at my hobbies.   I made two cards with a wooden plank background the first one I put a wreath cut from a plain green cardstock and another from designer paper. just a scrap left over from another project, and the green is a bit darker and there are pieces of red and yellow, to look like the flowers and fives it a bit of depth, I used some silver card, also left overs, with a new Poppy's craft albhabet die for the "Noel" they were all lower case, but that was ok, I used a Mariannes Creations Pointsettia die for the flower and used a small rhinestone flower for the centre, and a Mariannes Creatables die and a Memory Box die for the greenery.   and for the second card I also used the wooden background paper with white deer on top of a white strip of cardstock, the deer are from IO dies, (www.loststamps.com) I bought this die on E Bay, but cannot remember which seller, I cut the holly leaves with Tim Holtz repositional magnetic die, (movers and shapers) Pine tree and Holly Leaf, I used plain green card and shaded the leaves with distress Evergreen Bough, and just cut the red berries with a hole punch.  and the Merry Christmas is an un-named stamp that I have had in my stash forever.  Hope you like these cards and as always your comments are very welcome, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Joy

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the Merry Monday Challenge #218 (plaid).http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com. I used red cardstock from Quill for the base of the card and a white piece from my scrap box which I embossed with Tim Holtz "Holiday Words, this is my 36th Embossing Folder I am using in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders, as I am sure I have a few which I haven't used yet!!!, I used the red plaid from the Graphic 45 "St.Nicholas collection and also the santa image came from that pad, and the green plaid came from the Graphic 45 "Good Ol Sports" it was the last piece I had left, and I cut the flags by hand and put clear rhinestones on the top and cut the sentiment with a very old alphabet die. I rounded the corners of the white card with an old corner punch.  Hope you like this card, and as always your comments are gratefully appreciated, thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Happy

Hello there everyone, it is a very hot day here today. it is after 6 pm and is still 30o C, hope it will be a bit cooler tomorrow.   Here is a card I made for Happy Little Stampers October Challenge "Anything goes with dies"   I used white cardstock from Quill and cut the background with 2  new Thinlits Dies from Tim Holtz, they are from set 660220, I can't remember what the number of the series it is, and as a background paper I used a scrap that had been  on my friends craft table, she usually uses papers as a backing when she is spraying and when the paper is covered then she uses it for card making and it suits this card very well I thought, as there are some gold highlights on it.   I used another die from Cheery Lynn designs "Fanciful Flourish Left" for the greenery, which was cut from a scrap of green card, I then cut out the flowers from a nice piece of yellow cardstock from a pad, it is from Die Namics "prima donna petals"   and I used stickles "icicles" for the centres of the flowers and the extra leaes were also cut from that set in the green card, I also cut out the dragon fly from a Fancy That die out of the backing paper.   Hope you all like this card, and as always your comments are gratefully received, and thanks for visiting today, Jasann

trees

Hi there everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the 52 (Christmas) card throwdown, October Colour challenge http://52cct.blogspot.com, I used white and pale grey cardstock from Quill and used the tree stamp from Merry & Bright Christmas stamp collection by Practical Publishing and used the scalloped rectangle from Spellbinders, and used Distress Ink Evergreen Bough, which is a lovely pale green colour and the bird is cut with Movers & Shapers magnetic die out of pale blue coloured paper, and I used Baby Blue Liquid Perfect Pearls to make the birds eye and the corner dots on the card.   The inspiration for this card is from Debbie Henderson's newsletter 17/12/15,  Hope you like this card, and as always your comments are always welcome and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann 

Pink Christmas

Hi everyone, here is the card I made to enter into the Jingle Bells challenge "Pink Christmas" http://jinglebells.blogspot.com and I used White Quill cardstock for the base and Pink Quill cardstock for the topper and I embossed it with Couture Creations "Endless" which is my 35th embossing folder to be used in my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders, because I am sure I am forgetting some, The baubles and sentiment were cut from silver cardstock with two dies from Marianne's Creatables and I used Pink rhinestones for the top of them with pine needles from Memory Box. I also used White Liquid Perfect Pearls for the ornament hangers and the for corners of the card.   I hope you all like this card, and as always I am very grateful for all your comments, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

embossing

Hi there everyone, here is todays card that I made for the Happy Little Stampers October Christmas Challenge "Embossing", http://www.happylittlestampers.com.  I used White cardstock from Quill and for the base I used Distress ink pad "Barn Door" applied with a blending tool, and used a Sizzex embossing folder "Snow Flurries", and this is the 34th embossing folder that I am using for my personal challenge to use all my embossing folders, the little landscape is from Memory Box "Country Landscape" and the sentiment is from Marianne's Creatables in red cardstock scrap out of my scrapbox and I also used red and white bakers twine to tie around with a bow.   Hope you all like this card, and as always your comments are gratefully appreciated, and thanks so much for visiting today, Jasann

Elves

Hello there everyone, Here is a card I made today to enter into the Merry Monday Challenge #216, add an Elf to your project.     http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com.au,   I used a Green and White Cardstock from Quill, and put two little elves on my card, stamped with a very old stamp that has been in my stash forever, and coloured them with a mixture of Gel Pens and Faber-Castelle Water Colour Pencils, and I masked them and used two Tim Holtz Stencils "Latticework" and "Holly Bough" with Peeled Paint distress ink pad, and I used a red gel pen for the holly berries, and I used Barn Door distress ink for the sentiment "Joy" which was on the same stamp set as the elf.    Hope you all like it, and as always your comments are gratefully received, and thanks so much for visiting, Jasann

Merry Christmas

Hello everyone, here is a card I made today to enter into the 52 Christmas (Card) throwdown, - October Sketch Challenge - http://52cct.blogspot.com.au , I used Red, White and Green cardstock from Quill, and also used an embossing folder - Sizzex Snow and Trees, which I have had for a long time, this is the 33rd.embossing folder         in my personal challenge to use all my emb.folders, I also used a die from Creative Dies that I bought out of the sale box at our newsagents, and I only had two stars left, so used them one gold and one silver.   I hope you like this, and as always your comments are always  gratefully received, and thanks for visiting today, Jasann