Hello everyone,
Well I am definitely slowing down,I only managed one card today,I had been managing 4 a day. I need to postpone Christmas for another week if that's ok with everyone ha ha.

Well I hope you like this one,I used real cinnamon sticks on it to give it the smell of Christmas to. I make no apologies for it being another House Mouse,you know by now how Ga Ga I am about them.

 

Good evening everyone,
I managed to get another three cards made today. After sitting for a couple of hours not feeling very inspired because my husband wanted me to make smaller cards so they would be cheaper to post. When he discovered I hadn't been able to start on them he said it was ok to make my usual 8x8 cards and I was soon making.
I hope you like them,I am sorry I haven't the time to explain each make but if you have any questions I will be happy to reply to any if you leave them in the comments box

Good morning everyone,I hope you are all ready for Christmas?
As you might be able to see I am not. I took so long over getting my last project done (my grandson's advent calender) that it has put me behind by a few weeks and I am now playing catch up. Last post for 2nd class is Wednesday so I have been frantically making cards to send to all the special people in my life. But it has meant that they have had to be what I call quick cards. It very often takes me two days to make a card but I didn't have that luxury so I have been managing 4-5 a day. It has meant I haven't been able to decoupage them as I usually do but maybe with the amount of cards to be made for Christmas the people who receive them will forgive me. So with lots of coffee to keep me going and a energy drink or two these are the cards I have made in the last two days. I still have more to make though so watch this space, "well I still have two more days" . I hope you like them,it's probably to late to say I hope you get some inspiration from them but maybe for next year,unless you are as behind as me?

Here is my latest DT card for the Digi challenge on the Creative Craft Cottage blog. Why not pop over and take a look and enter the challenge

Good morning everyone
I thought I would share my latest project with you
I wanted to make a advent calender for my beautiful grandson to use year after year and maybe even pass down to his 1st born
It has taken me over a month to do but I think it was worth it.

I started with a blank papier mache advent calender

Then I gave it two coats of paint, I painted the main body in red and then alternated the drawer colours in red,green and purple

Then I sorted through all my backing papers to find one's I liked and cut them to size and pasted them on using decopatch glue,(which is also a varnish) then pasted over the top and waited for them to dry. I also varnished the main body of the calender. 

Then I set about designing a picture to cover the back with and one to go in the center front. I designed it using the papermania enchanted Christmas cd which has some truly beautiful and magical design elements on it. I added some glitter to elements of the pictures and  then I pasted them on. As the back was larger than A4 I cut a piece of decorative paper to go by the side of it and used the same paper to decorated the sides of the calender. And again I finished it off with decopatch to seal it all.

Then I added a wooden stand to it to give it stability and covered it with paper and sealed it.

I then set about guilding it to give it a aged look and put coloured number peeloffs on the drawer fronts.

Finally I added a Christmas ornament inside the front recess which I stuck down with silicone glue

I hope you like the finished calender :)

Angie's card designs: Hello everyone, Here is my latest card.Being the ...

 Hello everyone, Here is my latest card. Being the time of year it is another Christmas card with my favourite characters, from the House Mouse

Hello everyone!
This is my design team card for the Texture challenge over at 
 "http://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.co.nz" which starts on the 15th November
 I used two different embossing folders for the background to give it texture and layered them on to textured gold card. Then I printed out some baubles from the " Papermania Christmas Past" CD and added some guilding flakes to them to give them some sparkle and texture. Then I added some gold cord which I bought at the Range store and hung the baubles from it using some gold thread. I then added a brown spotty ribbon and placed a button in the centre of the bow with a small guilded circle in the centre to tie it all together. Oh and then added the seasons greetings cut from the tattered lace Christmas sentiments dies and also coloured them brown to match the colour theme. I am very pleased with how it turned out and hope you like it and it gives you some inspiration,happy crafting!!

Materials used:-  Beige backing paper

                          Brown card

                          Textured Gold card

                          Embossalicous A4 argile folder

                          Embossalicous 8x8  regency swirls folder

                          Papermania Christmas Past CD rom

                          Tattered Lace Christmas sentiments die's

                          Gold cord

                          Brown and white spotty silk ribbon

                          Beige button

                          Gold thread

                          Guilding flakes

Hello everyone,well I am really starting to get used to doing some quick cards now and I have made another today. I know you may think that one card in a day isn't very quick,but it is for me and in my defense I didn't start until 3pm after I had got all my wifely duties done lol, then had to stop to cook dinner,"don't want hubby wasting away". So I would say all in all it only took me about 4 hours which is very quick for me. I am pleased with the finished card and hope you like it to and it will offer some inspiration,happy crafting everyone :) I forgot to say that the image I used is from the papermania enchanted Christmas and Fairies CD

I am busy making some cards to build up my stock so that I can start offering my cards for sale,so watch this space

Well it's November and I need to get seriously busy with making my Christmas cards,I said I was going to but you know how it is,life takes over and before you know it,another month has gone by.

I thought if I  was going to make up for lost time I should try and make a few quick cards or I will be sending out shop bought one's again this year to most of my friends lol.

I hope you like it