5 February General cards

29 January General cards

Fantasy flowers

Leaves marsh green, bright orange, sunflower yellow, turquoise and amber. Sakura clear pen and stardust stickles. Edges broken china or peacock feathers ink. Gem to grey flower heads.

Gardening

Add stenciled dots to background with broken china and faded jeans oxide ink. Stamp seed text panel with black. Pot cut off back bit and colour with terracotta. Wellies marsh green. Foam pads under pot wellies and sentiment. Tools cool grey 4 and berry red. Lupins lilac with pink tips (trick or treat). Sakura clear pen to flowers and leaves.

Black flowers

Stamp flowers with black. Edges hickory smoke grey ink. Foam pads under sentiment. Gems to flower centres.

Lacy edge flowers

Fossilized amber oxide ink to flower tips.

22 January general cards

Pink and blue flowers

Blue flower paint with shaded lilac oxide ink or china blue promarker, pink cardinal red promarker. Stamp greenery around frame, stardust stickles to flower centres, edges bundled sage ink. Foam pads under flowers.

Hats

Cornflower blue and lime green, some parts need second coat of blue. Sakura clear pen to ribbons and bows. Foam pads under hats sentiment and handbag.

Peach background

To smooth side of white card apply fired brick oxide ink with smoothie, dab with wet wipe. Stamp flower head then mask off for stem. Stardust stickles to flower head. Edges fired brick ink. Foam pads under picture and sentiment.

Sailing boat

Apply glitter paste through stencil. Yacht berry red, firewood brown and apple green. Waves marsh green. Edges and shells gathered twigs ink. Foam pads under sentiment. Tear sandpaper to give rough edges.

15 January general cards

Lilac flowers

Mix chic viola, luna paste and sparkle paste then apply through stencil. Frilled edges dusty concord distress ink.

Yellow flowers

Leaves marsh green, flowers sunflower yellow. Sakura clear pen to some greenery, edges of flowers sunflower yellow promarker or yellow ink. Black stickles to flower centres. Gems to blue decoration.

Tools

Gathered twigs distress ink to bricks and edges. Tools cool grey 4, heatwave (orange) and sleigh bell yellow and raw sienna (brown).

Yellow card behind spirit level.

Red hearts

Stamp hearts with gold embossing powder, centre of flowers and bird’s eye black glaze pen. Foam pads under small hearts.

Blue hearts

Stamp hearts with silent night embossing powder, centre of flowers and bird’s eye black glaze pen. Foam pads under small hearts.

4 December Christmas cards

Triangles tree

Stick triangles to meet at corners, add red gem to each join. Stick inside message under shaped top layers. Stardust stickles to embossed layer.

Father Christmas

Santa, ribbon and candy cane berry red, faces satin, marsh green holly, Sleigh and teddy’s patches firewood or umber brown, Teddy and gloves sandstone. Bells, drum top, and doll’s trim sunflower yellow. Front pot lime green and sky blue. Drum heatwave (orange) puppet turquoise, parcel china blue. Sakura pen. Tiny red gems for holly berries. Foam pads under picture, frosted lace stickles.

Village houses

On white card place circle mask then apply sapphire distress ink then add faded jeans oxide, remove mask and add frosty sky ink. Stamp Father Christmas. Yellow card under each house. Tear waste card off bottom of each 2 smaller layers. Foam pads under houses of top and 2^nd layer. Stick just base of each layer. Trim to fit and frosted lace stickles.

Jumpers

Stick trim and snowflakes to jumpers, put foam pads under each. Stick it all together.

27 November Christmas

Silver tree on blue

Lightly apply some silver gilding polish to embossed layer. Fold each of the squares to make tree. Red gems to tree and clear gems to snowflake border. Foam pad under pot.

Gold stamped tree

Background candid apple, peeled paint, iced spruce and bundled sage oxide inks. Stencil leaves with stampin up green. Stamp fir cones with brown versafine. Edges any green ink. Stamp gold tree on background and white top layer. Foam pads under tree and sentiment.

Glittered poinsettia

Apply gold gilding wax to green leaves. Apply glitter to red leaves.

Poinsettia trio

Marsh green, berry red, sunflower for centre, sakura pen to berries and centres. Crystal stickles to snowflake borders.

6 November Christmas cards

Snowflakes

Stamp and emboss with totally teal on smooth side. Add glitter crystals to snowflake on circle. Edges broken china oxide ink. Foam pads under sentiment and circle.

Poinsettias

Stamp branch with brilliance pearl ivy ink, stamp on top with spikey greenery stamp and versafine Olympia green ink. Edges iced spruce oxide ink and gems to tag.

Fabric baubles

Mark on gold card position of baubles. Use template to cut out wadding and stick to gold card. Red liner tape around cut outs. Foam pads under sentiment and border. Peel off strip to border.

Nativity

Manger frame and hair burnt sienna. Halos mustard and sakura clear pen. Rays gold promarker and sakura clear pen. Background powder blue promarker.  Floor and seat grey squirrel. Skin satin, Joseph’s outer coat 7119 (blue) or twilight sky blue, under clothing polar blue. Mary outer clothing sugar plum(purple) under clothes bluebell.Baby’s wrap 8280 (green) Manger straw is sandstone (beige) Foam pads under picture.