Christmas Rose

 Hi

I posted this card on Instagram the other week, and totally forgot to share it on here! Another Christmas card to add to my stash 😊

I used Chloe’s Creative Cards Christmas Rose stamp and die set. I absolutely love it, and it doesn’t have to be used just for Christmas. The background was made using a Spellbinders die which I heat embossed. I’ve also used an Amazing Paper Grace die set in the centre.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Sonia xxx

First Christmas card for 2022

 Hi

I’m back today to share my first Christmas card for the year - it’s never to early to start! 😉

I was inspired to make it from a beautiful card by Debby Hughes of Lime Doodle Design. She has some gorgeous creations on her blog, so be sure to pop over and take a look.

I’ve used Milled Lavender distress oxide spray for the background with some glitter texture paste through an AALL and Create stencil. The snowflakes from Memory Box are cut in mirror card from Chloe’s Creative Crafts. I heat embossed the sentiment on a piece of vellum. The sequins and enamel dots finish it off perfectly. 

I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Sonia xxx

Christmas Cards

 Hi

Thought I’d share a few Christmas cards I’ve made recently. I’ve not made as many as I’d have liked, due to the new addition to our family keeping us busy, but I’ve made a few in what little spare time I’ve had. Hopefully I’ll get around to making some more before the big day!

Thanks for stopping by.

Stay safe.

Hugs Sonia

xxx 

Embossing Folder Challenge

Hi

Since getting back into crafting over the last few months, I’ve been warmly welcomed back in to the Cotswold Crafter’s blog. This is a lovely friendly blog run by Sandra, with loads of beautiful inspiration and weekly challenges. I love being a part of Sandra’s blog, along with the friendly chatter, it inspires me with my crafting. A recent challenge was to use our embossing folders, something I hadn’t used for a while. So I’d like to share the cards I made. I was rather pleased with how they turned out - and the bonus of making a Christmas card to add to this year’s collection!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Sonia

xxx

It’s Never Too Early.....

Hi

I’m back today sharing another card I made recently....my first Christmas card for 2020. It’s never too early to start making Christmas cards, and I thought if I start now, then hopefully I’ll have enough to send without having to rush out to buy some last minute ones!

I used my new Tim Holtz ‘Flurry #1’ die, which I purchased at the Create It craft show recently. I cut two - one in Kraft card and the other in glitter card, from my stash. I love this pretty die, and as well as making a fabulous snowflake, I think it could be used on non Christmassy cards too. The backing paper is Anna Marie Designs‘Blissful Cocoa’ and the sentiment is from Lili Of The Valley.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Sonia xxx

Christmas Candles.

Hi. I'm here today to start sharing some of the Christmas cards I've made. I didn't realise I had made so many and am quite pleased with my stash so far! 

Todays cards are both made using the Memory Box Glowing Candles die and Sue Wilson's Grace die. The candles, with the sprigs of holly are classic Christmas and sit perfectly on the Grace frame. I inked the candles with Distress inks and added some Fran-tage embossing enamel for extra sparkle. The Peace sentiment, is also by Sue from the Dove of Peace set. The pretty Christmas papers are from my craft stash.

Hope you like them. Will be back again soon with more Christmas creations.

Hugs

Sonia xxx

Snowflake Filigree Frame.

Hi.

I was honoured to be asked by Ben at Set Craft to make a card using the Snowflake Filigree Frame from Sue Wilson's new Festive Collection. I was so excited about this challenge so decided to make two cards to show the versatility of these dies and I'm happy to share them here with you :-)

For my first card I cut the inner die twice (without the outer cutting edge), overlapping them onto a piece of white cardstock cut from the Noble Double Pierced Squares. I backed this with some double sided sticky adhesive and red card. Then added some Iced Snow Glitter Jewels from Cosmic Shimmer onto the front for some Christmas sparkle! I cut the die out again twice in white using the outer cutting edge. The centre die cut was backed in red and glittered again, and the other cut was popped behind this, turned around the other way so just the edges show through. I cut the snowflake oval twice and stuck them together to have the snowflake at both ends. The sentiment was stamped onto the small oval from the Lattice Snowflake and this was added onto the Snowflake Tag, finished off with two red diamond gems.

For my second card I wanted to show how this die set doesn't have to be used just for Christmas. I have used the same concept as the Christmas card with the die underneath the focal element, but this time the die cut has been cut in half and placed under the Regal Striplet. The Delicate Daisies - Open Petals cover the snowflake edges on the frame. The Best Wishes sentiment is trimmed down from the Triple Best Wishes die.

I hope you like them both as much as I enjoyed making them.

A big Thank you to Set Craft, I had so much fun with this challenge :-)

Hugs

Sonia xxx

Framed Background - Christmas Card.

Hi. As promised I'm back to share the second card I made with the framed background. This time, a Christmas card to add to my stash.

I have used the same Copenhagen background die within the frame, but didn't glitter through this one. My main focal element is the dove from Sue Wilson's Festive Collection - Dove of Peace. I double cut this to build up the wings. I have also used the Peace sentiment from the same set, cut in glitter cardstock to match the dove, and mounted onto a Spellbinders tag. The patterned paper is from the Silent Night Collection by First Edition Papers, Trimcraft.

I really appreciate you stopping by and love reading your comments. Thank you so much :-)

Hugs

Sonia xxx

Snowflakes.

Hi. Thought I'd share one of the Christmas cards I've already made. This was one of two I made together, the other one sent in for Sandra's Sketch Challenge over at Cotswold Crafter

I have used Sue Wilson's Happy Christmas die from last years Festive Collection. The large snowflake is from Joy! Crafts, and the other 3 snowflakes are cut from Memory Box's Snowflake Love Pendant. The tiny snowflakes in the centres are from a Tonic punch. The papers are from the Shabby Christmas Paper Bloc also from Joy! Crafts.

I'm building up quite a nice little stash of Christmas cards already, and will be showing you some more over the coming weeks.

Hugs

Sonia xxx

Challenge Card Selection.

Hi. Apologies for not blogging for a few weeks, I hadn't realised how long it had been. Today I thought I'd share with you some of the cards I have made to take part in various challenges over on Cotswoldcrafter blog. This fabulous blog is hosted by the lovely Sandra, and I have been made very welcome by all its friendly members. There is a beautiful array of cards and crafts on display and a new sketch challenge every Monday. Sandra has also recently introduced a mid week mini challenge every other week which gets our minds thinking of other ideas for using our vast ranges of crafty stash. If you have a few minutes to spare pop on over and say hi, you won't be disappointed! :-)

This was my first sketch challenge card.

Some more Sketch challenge cards.

The next cards are from Sandra's recently introduced mini challenges.

This challenge was to use an older die which hadn't been used in the last 6 months.

This was to use the Bokeh effect on our card.

This was to use an embossing folder(s) and no dies. I found this one very challenging! ;-)

Thank you for stopping by today.

Hugs

Sonia xxx

Favourite Five Of 2015.

Hi. Thanks for stopping by on this last day of 2015. Another year to look forward to, where I hope to be able to spend more time on my hobbies - including my crafting and getting back into my photography. (I am hoping to start a 52 week photo project, but its still in the planning at the moment, so watch this space!)

Anyway onto my favourite five cards I made during this year. I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them. 

Wishing you a very Happy, Healthy and Crafty 2016.

Hugs

Sonia xxx