Decided to get myself motivated and do a Christmas challenge, I also thought I would use the colours over on the Case Colours & Sketches challenge but missed the upload by a smidge, never mind it gave me inspiration.











​Part of the problem was my camera ran out of battery power just as I was about to take the photos and I discovered we only had three AA batteries left so there was a mad scrabble to fine a fourth battery that would work, hence me missing the CC&S cutoff time, serves my own right for leaving it so late lol, but it's an ill wind that blows no one any good and it got me motivated to add to my Christmas stash.
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I slapped and then squirted some SU Pool Party and Bermuda Bay onto some baking paper and sprayed it with ironing aid. ​

​I laid the tag into this ink several times until I was happy with the coverage drying between each laying. Last for this section I slapped some Distress Oxide Evergreen Bough down, sprayed it and then laid the tag back into this ink. Once the tag was dry I gave it a light spritz with home made glimmer mist.

I hope you enjoyed reading about this cute little card as much as I did making it.
There are three more very cute penguins in this stamp set along with three more hats of various designs to pop on their heads.
Feel free to use the card as inspiration.
​Cheers Marg

This card is for two challenges, the CAS Colours & Sketches current challenge found here; http://cascoloursandsketches.blogspot.com/2018/06/challenge-276-sketch.html

The Fan Club Christmas challenge over on SCS found here; ​https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/christmas-challenge-f421/june-2018-christmas-challenge-t624564.html, you do need to be a Fan Club member to access the second challenge.

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​I first created the greeting using two different fonts, one for the capital letters and another for the body of the words.
I then pasted the digi image between the greeting words.

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​I had the collective image at the top of the A4 card initially and printed it off like this but that was a mistake as I wonted a single layer card, however all was not lost as I decided to mount the digi image as a 3D so used the first print for this and then moved the collective image down to the bottom of the A4 card and printed again.

​Because I had an image it was quite easy to place the gold thread and the ribbon and it was easy to see where both the thread and the ribbon would peep out from the coloured image. 
I attached both the ribbon and the thread with some double sided tape putting the tape down first then just laying the ribbon and thread over it.

​This photo is a bit grainy but shows the digi image before I fussy cut it. Once that was done I mounted the image onto some white craft foam with Tombo Multi glue, let it bond under pressure for about ten minutes then mounted that sandwich onto the card base placing the coloured image directly over the image on the base with the ribbon and thread. 
the only other thing left to do was to add some Nuvo drops to the card to give it a bit of added interest

This card is for the teapot challenge for this week to create a card using a song.

For this card as you can see I have gone with "Paris in the Spring" and like one of my co members of SCS, Sabrina I would be happy to be in Paris any time of the year. We spent three days in Paris at the end of summer in 2014 and all it did was wet my apatite. I loved it, so when we were heading back to the British Isles in 2016 we spent six days in Paris at the very beginning of Spring.

Paris is my favourite city in the whole wide world apart from my home town of Brisbane lol. 

I bought the Paris die at the Paper Craft show last year and that same craft show is this week and I haven't used the die so it was the perfect opportunity.

I'm going to give this card to a friend who has just come back from her first trip overseas at the age of 81 that included Paris.

The card is fairly simple I layered the die image four times with the top layer being cut from some background paper I made with the Slap & Squire technique and I put glitter on the Eiffel Tower part of the die. I mounted the rest of the greeting on some craft foam and that's it.

I know the DP is cherry blossom but it reminded me of Paris and I like the colours. I have also been told that there is cherry blossom near Notre Dame 

​I first laid colour down on some baking paper using the Slap & Squirt technique to create some coloured card stock to cut the top layer die

​The top die cut from the coloured card stock and a plain cut die for sandwiching. I cut four white images with the die to give the final image stability and some height.

​I use aqua adhere as the glue to sandwich each of the die cuts together, the reason being the glue stays wet for quite a few minutes allowing you to move the die cuts around.

I prime the paint brush that I apply the glue with to the die cuts with ordinary washing up detergent and then wipe it off slightly.
This allows easy cleaning of the brush after use.

​I use a pointy nosed pair of tweezers to sandwich the layers together, one layer at a time allowing each layer to dry before starting on the next, about 15 minute between layers.

This image shows the completed sandwich and a view of the tweezers used.

Once the sandwich was completed I brushed some glue over the Eiffel Tower section of the die and sprinkled diamond glitter over it. Diamond glitter is a very fine glass glitter that absolutely sparkles.

I cut two strips of pink glitter paper and butted the strips up against the cherry blossom paper then mounted this onto some soft pink card stock to give it stability.

I embossed some Smoky Slate card stock and then mounted the panel onto this. Finally I glued the die to the front and made the rest of the greeting with my Dymo tag maker and mounted this on some smoky grey and a little craft foam.

I finished the card by putting a strip of the cherry blossom paper on the inside of the card with some white card stock for writing on mounted on some of the soft pink card stock to create a border.

I loved making this card and in reality it didn't take too long.

I hope you enjoyed my description, thanks for looking cheers Marg. 

Spent yesterday, Sunday 3/06/2018 at Stampin' Up demonstrator extraordinaire Katie Kaup's place making cards. Had a great day and will have to say Katie is so generous both with her time and talent and her supplies.
​Thanks so much Katie.