Path of Positivity: Noelle

 Hello!

Happy Monday!
I hope you are staying safe and well.

Today is the start of a new Path of Positivity challenge.

This month the theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of Rejoice.

Prizes this month include:

• $10 Gift Certificate from Limited Runs our guest sponsor for this month, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants. 
• ONE image (value of $5 or less) from Scribbles Designs, for the post or project that the team deems most inspiring of the bunch based on all qualifying entrants.
• One digital image from Creative Bug Digital SnapShots for each person chosen as a DT Delight.

Our optional theme this month is Rejoice. 

For many, this time of year is an occasion for happiness. While the pandemic makes this year harder to get together with those you may normally spend time with during the holiday season, there are still many reasons we have to rejoice. Thus, we want you to create a project that reflects the JOY of the holiday season

Please remember in order to be eligible for the prizes your project must be positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way.

 I chose to use a beautiful stamp from Limited Runs called Noelle. She can be found in the Seasonal - Christmas section on this page.

My family is fairly small and I am not one for huge parties or celebrations any way, so this Christmas I will be very happy to spend some quality time with my immediate family. My Christmas card, featuring Noelle in the snow is reflecting my joy at being happy and healthy, having all that I need in life and enjoying the quiet calm of nature on winter days.

I coloured Noelle with Copic markers and fussy cut her leaving a thin, white border. I teamed this beautiful image with trees, die cut from card that I coloured by smooshing the new Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide inks onto card, dabbing, drying and smooshing several times to get a good depth of colour.

The sky is stamped with a stencil using Speckled Egg Distress Oxide. The ground is texture paste with Crystal Snow applied on top whilst it was still wet. The trees and Noelle are popped on foam tape for dimension. I splattered white paint and added some flecks of crystal snow to give the impression of falling snow. The sentiment is die cut.

Many thanks to Limited Runs, this month's guest sponsor,

and to Scribbles Designs as the ongoing sponsor of the challenge


We would love to see your creations! 
Just make sure that your entry is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way!
The link up is here: Challenge #86 Path of Positivity.

 

That's all for today! 

I'll be back with a another Path of Positivity project in  a couple of weeks time.

Thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo

                                                                                                                                            

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Crafty Catz #529 Baby Its Cold 02/12

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #84 AG 06/12

Dies R Us #158 Christmas 13/12

Crafters Cafe #256 AG 13/12

A Bit More Time to Craft #129 AG 13/12

A Perfect Time to Craft #12 AG 27/12

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

Vera Lane Studio: Merry

 Hello!

Time for another Vera Lane Studio post today. I have a Christmas card featuring two recently released sets called Just Jump and Merry. The little girl reminded me of the excitement of youngsters on Christmas morning. 

I coloured the images with Copics and fussy cut them. The background is stamped with one of Janet Klein's stencils, Petals and Pods, using Distress Oxide inks. Background and edge stamping was done using Janet's Visual Ingredients stamp set. Stamps and stencils are from AALL & Create.

Just Jump                               Merry

   

That's all for now.

I hope you'll come along and play on Vera Lane. It's such a friendly, fun place to be!

  

Here's all the info you need:

Vera Lane Studio Blog

***Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group***

Vera Lane Studio You Tube Channel

Vera Lane Studio Etsy Shop

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz #135 Cute Christmas 02/12

Creative Knockouts. #378 Christmas Delight 03/12

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge #518 04/12

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #146 AG 05/12

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #84 AG 08/12

Penny's Challenges #485 AG 08/12

Creative Fingers #198 AG 11/12

AALL & Create: Poppy Field Book Jacket

 

Hello!

For today's AALL & Create project I have made a dust jacket to pop over the little memo books that I use. I decided to use some of  Tracy Evans' beautiful nature inspired stamp sets along with background stamps and stencils from Autour de Mwa and Janet Klein.

I use many little notebooks throughout the year and often buy cheap memo books. I decided to make a pretty, nature inspired jacket to wrap around the memo books. The back flap can be used as a page marker. The jacket can be reused time and again and is even reversable in case I feel like a change.

This is what it looks like. It has two flaps that fold inside the book. The back one can be used as a bookmark.

This is what it looks like on the memo book. I added bull dog clips to secure the jacket, but it could easily be secured with reposition tape as well.

I added some elastic string as a closure. Inside the cover, the spine is strengthened with red tape and washi tape.

The front:

The back:

Close Ups:

How it was made:

I started with a piece of A4 300gsm card and trimmed it to the length of the memo book. I smooshed Distress Oxides to replicate sky and land, then used stencils to stamp patterns.

 

Next I added some background stamping

 

Elements from Papaver Poppies were stamped, coloured with Copics and fussy cut. The bird stamps from Pinecone and Wire Birds were stamped and fussy cut, but left uncoloured. The birds and their backgrounds were stamped onto the book jacket and the small foliage stamps from Papaver Poppies filled the ground between the poppy flowers and seed heads.

 

White paint splatters were applied over the cover.

The back of the book jacket is decorated too, but more plainly. This makes the cover reversible.:

Stamps used:

#389 Pinecone - Tracy Evans

#394 Wire Birds - Tracy Evans

#395 Papaver Poppies - Tracy Evans

#399 Framework Elements - Tracy Evans

#294 Tile Pile Autour de Mwa

Sencils used:

#59 Weathered Tiles Autour de Mwa

#116 Tres Fiori Kanet Klein

To see the stamps, stencils and dies used, please visit 

AALL & Create Boutique. 

A list of stockists can be found here.

You'll find lots of inspiration on the 

AALL & Create Facebook Page, the AALL & Create Fanatics Facebook Page and on Instagram

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft #11 AG 27/11

613 Avenue Create AG 30/11

The House that Stamps Built #2520 AG 01/12

Simon Says Stamp AG 02/12

Cardz TV #128 AG 03/12

Pennys Challenges #485 AG 08/12

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge AG 12/12

Vera Lane Studio: Christmas Elves ATCoins

 

Hello!

For my Vera Lane Studio DT post this week I have made a set of ATCoins using the adorable Christmas Cheer digi set.

This is an older set, but one that I still love. The boy and girl elves are so cute. They come with two different trees and a sentiment. 

I coloured the images with Copic markers and fussy cut them. The coins were smooshed into Distress Oxides in shades of blue and Black Soot. I die cut a strip of card to represent the snow drifts and covered them with mica flakes. White splatters represent falling snow and some dots of glitter were also applied. The elves were popped on foam tape for a little dimension.

Christmas Cheer

That's all for now.

I hope you'll come along and play on Vera Lane. It's such a friendly, fun place to be!

  

Here's all the info you need:

Vera Lane Studio Blog

***Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group***

Vera Lane Studio You Tube Channel

Vera Lane Studio Etsy Shop

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

CRAFT #577 Christmas 25/11

Creative Knockouts #377 Winter Wonderland 26/11

Allsorts Challenge #599 Santa/Elves/Angels 27/11

A Perfect Time to Craft #11 AG 27/11

613 Avenue Create AG 30/11

Craft Rocket #76 Christmas/Winter

A Gem of a Challenge #24 AG 01/12

Crimbo- Crackers #220 AG 01/12

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #146 AG 05/12

Christmas Craft Creations Anything but a card 08/12

Gecko Galz: White Christmas

 Hello!

Over at the Gecko Galz Challenge blog ,the November theme is White Christmas, so I thought I would continue with that theme for my DT day.

I have made a selection of cards using images from Gnome for the Holidays. The images all have a lovely vintage vibe. 

The first one here depicts some cute little gnomes skating in the snow,. Look at the sledge made from a nut shell - how adorable.  I decided to make a shaker card, using silver sequins as snow.

In this close up photograph you can see the flecks of glitter I applied over the falling snow. The shaker box was built up by using several pieces of die cut card.

My second card  features a gnome peeping out of his doorway. His lantern lights up the night sky.

The gnome has glossy accents on his cold nose and also on his lantern.

My third card features a trio of cheeky gnomes. One holds a lantern, one holds a gift. They all have warm and cosy mittens and hats.

I used some paper from the Merry and Bright ATC set as background  for these gnomes and applied glossy accents to their noses and to the lantern. The cute sentiment was stamped.

This last card was the one I made for the Customer Inspiration post. It uses a beautiful image from the Snow Time Fantasy collage set.

 I added a silver glitter, die cut tree and two kraft card die cut deer to replicate those in the image. I also added glitter to the snowflakes and a banner of silver snowflakes along the top edge.

                          

 Gnome for Christmas                Snow Time Fantasy    

 Merry and Bright ATC

That's all for now.

I hope you'll join our White Christmas Challenge where the Winner will get a $25 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz shop.

The only rule is that you must use at least one Gecko Galz product 
(this can be one of the freebies or, of course, you can buy at the Etsy store!) 
Also if you sign up for the Gecko Galz newsletter, you'll be able to claim a free collage sheet each month and get first claim on the monthly $1 deals!

Please pop over to the Gecko Galz blog to see the fabulous designs by the very talented DT.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where there are 4 monthly challenges, each with a collage sheet prize. 
Do come and join us!

I'll be back on the 1st December with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : "White Christmas"

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:

Red & White Shaker Card 1

Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge AG 22/11

Dragonfly Dreams Christmas/Winter 30/11

Craft Rocket #76 Christmas/Winter 30/11

Cardz 4 Galz #135 Cute Christmas 02/12

Crimbo Crackers #220 AG Christmas 02/12

Cardz TV #128 AG 03/12

Simon Says Stamp Christmas 25/11

Crafty Catz #528 AG/Christmas 26/11

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge AG 12/12

Blue Winter's Night Card

The Sisterhood of Crafters Embossing 22/11

Pennys Challenges #484 AG 24/11

CRAFT #577 Christmas 25/11

*A Perfect Time to Craft AG 27/11

* Double D Winter Blues 29/11

Ellibelle's Nov Challenge Christmas 30/11 TOP 3

Sweet Stampers Challenge Christmas 08/12

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

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AALL & Create: Christmas Cuties

Hello!

Thursday is here and it is my GDT day at AALL & Create.

I made a couple of cutie Christmas cards featuring the A6 stamp, Merry and Bright, designed by Janet Klein. I used traditional seasonal colours and added a touch of grunge to the backgrounds.

My first card has the mistletoe girl! Her background was made by inking the Lotza Triangle stencil, spritzing with water and using it as a stamp. I used a spare piece of card to smoosh through Distress Oxide, then traced three triangle from the stencil and fussy cut them to make the banner.

I popped the Copic coloured girl on a piece of torn #6 Washi Tape and added the Merry Christmas sentiment.

Here is my second card:

Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint and Weathered Wood Distress Oxides were smooshed onto a craft mat and the card was dipped, dried and dipped again until I was happy with the coverage. White splatters were applied all over and the edges were inked in black with Background Noise and Tile Pile.

The little girl was coloured with Copics and fussy cut. I popped her on top of a gold embossed wooden frame which was on top of black mesh trim and gold trim.I found a Tim Holtz brad with the number 25 in my stash and added this to hold the mesh trims in place.

Stamps Used

#338 Background Noise - Janet Klein

#413 Merry & Bright - Janet Klein

#314 Tile Pile - Autour de Mwa

#376 Reverse Triangles - Autour de Mwa

Stencils Used:

#105 Lotza Trianglz- Autour de Mwa

Washi #6 - Autour de Mwa

To see the stamps, stencils and dies used, please visit 

AALL & Create Boutique. 

A list of stockists can be found here.

You'll find lots of inspiration on the 

AALL & Create Facebook Page, the AALL & Create Fanatics Facebook Page and on Instagram

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

52 CCT Red and Green 20/11

Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge AG 22/11

Pennys Challenges #484 AG 24/11

Simon Says Stamp Christmas 25/11

A Perfect Time to Craft AG 27/11

Ellibelle's Nov Challenge Christmas 30/11

Dragonfly Dreams Christmas/Winter 30/11

Sweet Stampers Challenge Christmas 08/12

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge AG 12/12