Back to Basics and Beyond challenge - Stamping / colouring Vellum

Hi

This fortnight at Back to Basics and Beyond Challenge we are doing Stamping / colouring Vellum.

This is not really me but I did find it a lot easier than I first thought,  as I had no vellum only parchment I had to go and buy some vellum,   Using my favorite stamp by Penny Black called Fantasy,  I seem to have used this stamp a lot this year.  

I stamp the tree three times covering part of the tree at each end so they the side ones look behind the one in the middle,  I put coloured dots in the trees they are supposed to be lights in the trees,  the white for snow was harder as the white would not show though the vellum very well,   so in the end I got out my parchment kit and with a grid on the back,  did dots for the falling snow and snow on the branches.    I added some silver dots on the front to give the image a little sparkle.

I fixed the vellum to a dark blue card and then onto a grey card, added a snowflake Brad,  a white ribbon bow, and a Merry Christmas from stock.
We would be delighted to see you at Back to Basics and beyond challenge blog with your entry,   here is a link to the blog

                                        Hugs
                                      Margaret

CD Sunday Challenge - Blue and White

Hi,
Another challenge from the CD Sunday,  after this one there is only one more left for the year,   This time its my choice and I have choosen Blue and White.l
I thought originally a christmas card,  but in the end its a birthday card using the CD Shoes in Bloom CD by Ooh La la creations, one of my favorite CDs.  I matted the card on blue card and then blue embossed card to one side,  the backing paper also belongs to the image.  I finished the card off with blue ribbon,  a spray of white feathers,  and a flower die which I brought from Amazon.  and square gems put as diamonds.

CD Sunday challenge now has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD no matter how small and let us know which CD you used.  Here is a link to CD Sunday Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend

                                       Hugs

                                   Margaret 

Happy Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving Day

To 

All my American Followers,

Hope you have a great day.

Happy Birthday

Hi,

Today is my husbands birthday and I made Vernon this card,  I do hope he likes it,
I used an image from Hunkydory,  I really love their images and this is a beautiful image of a stag deer.
The backing paper is from stash,  I kept it plain and simple this time.
We are off to Sheffield tomorrow for a check up on my eye,  as usual the weather is turning colder and looks like we might encounter a bit of snow,  hopefully not.
Hugs
Margaret   

Tatted Ice drops first 5 of 15

Hi,

It’s a beautiful but cold day here the sun is shining,  it’s going to get colder as the week goes on.

I was asked to make 15 ice drops,   Which I am doing at the moment. This is the first five which I have already sent her.

I am trying to make them all different,  my remit was purple, pink, green, blue and Christmas,  this is the first five as follows

Posy Ice drop by Nicola Bowersox in Purple Splendor and white

Swirl Ice Drop by Crea Helga in Raspberry Frappe,

Bloomin’ ice Drop by Diane in Red and White

Frivolity Ice Drop by Diane in Purple Splendor

Spring Garden by Diane in Niagara Falls

All thread used was Lizbeth no 20

I’ve nearly done the next five,  in different colours and different patterns, just shows how many patterns we have now on Ice Drop Adicts

Have a lovely weekend

                                                     Hugs

                                                 Margaret

Back to Basics and Beyond - An easy Easel card

Hi,
This fortnight at Back to Bascis,  our challenge is for an easy easel card.
I have made a simple easy card,  taking a card folding one side in half and adding another piece of card to the folded piece and therefore making a folded card that stands up.
I used an image from stash which is by Kanban, I matted it on red card and then gold card printed with Happy christmas,  added gold die cuts and a spray of poinsettia die cut with red gems in the middle and at the bottom a strip of the gold card white leaf die cuts and red ribbon and a couple of more red gems.

We would be delighted to see you at Back to Basics and beyond challenge blog,with your entry,  here is a link to the blog

Hope you have a nice day

                                        Hugs

                                    Margaret

CD Sunday Challenge - Winter Wonderland

Hi,
On this rather sad day of Remembrance we at CD Sunday have a new Challenge.  this fortnight its Wynn's turn to choose and she has gone for Winter wonderland.
For my card I used a Winter walk in the countryside CD by Creative Crafting.  I used the matching backing sheets which went with the image,  There is a silver piece of card which goes across the card in the middle,  the image was matted onto a piece of brown card to bring out the rabbits and a red ribbon down the side.  I also glittered the snow in the scene.

CD Sunday challenge now has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD no matter how small and let us know which CD you used.  Here is a link to CD Sunday Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend

                                Hugs

                            Margaret

We must not Forget

Today is the anniversary of the end of the

 First War World War

We must never forget the thousands who died so we

could live in a Free country.

Knitted Poppies

Hi,

Oh what a lovely day today,  not  its pouring with rain and windy as I write this post for today

Next weekend is remembrance Sunday a day that we remember the two wars this country fought in and won.  I must add that we did win both wars.

I have been knitting poppies,  they are simple to knit and only took a less than a night to make.  They are knitted with double knitting wool.

Hope you are having a lovely weekend

                                    Hugs

                                Margaret