Winter Owl Candle Jar Wrap

Our friends Debbie and Mike gave us this lovely scented candle in a jar before Christmas.  It's scented with cherry and almond fragrance - yummy, it makes me want Bakewell tart each time I light it LOL!  It's a big candle and will last us a long time, it has a 100 hour burn time.  We used it over Christmas and before I lit it I decided to make a wrap for it.  I made it a winter themed wrap as opposed to a specific Christmassy one so I could keep it out after Christmas.

I wrapped olive snowflake paper around the body of the jar.  Nothing is adhered to the glass so that I can easily swap out the wrap if I want to.  I used Labels Four Nestability dies for the image and mat layers.  I punched holes in the olive mat and tied it onto the jar with vanilla ribbon.  I embossed the cherry mat with the Victorian Fleur embossing folder and popped it up.  After stamping the owl and die cutting the label shape, I edged the shape with olive ink and added an olive crystal to the centre of the large snowflake.  I've also popped up the owl layer.

For the lid, I die cut cherry and olive circles.  I stamped a large snowflake on vanilla CS, die cut it into a circle, edged the circle with ink and put an olive crystal in the centre.  The olive and snowflake layers are popped up.

Supplies:
Stamps: Inkadinkado Winter Birds clear set, My Cute Stamps Let It Snow clear set
CS: SU! Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla
Patterned paper: SU! Merry Moments Designer Series Paper pack
Ink: Memento ink in Rich Cocoa & Rhubarb Stalk
Tools: Labels Four & circle Nestabilities dies, PaperMania Victorian Fleur embossing folder, Crop-A-Dile
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Very Vanilla grosgrain ribbon, olive crystals, 3d foam pads

Snowflakes 50th Birthday Card - WMSC25

This is the card I've made for my friend Bev who turns 50 at the beginning of January.  I've used the fab Waltzingmouse Sketch for challenge #25 to make a wintery snowflake card for her.  Here's a link to the sketch blog and here's the sketch:

 The card measures approx. 15 cms square.  I embossed snowflakes onto blue Core'dinations paper, scuffed the embossing and then added glitter.  For my sentiment circle I used stamps from WMS Say It With Style and Vintage Circles Small sets.  The sentiment circle is popped up.  For the age circle, I stamped some blue snowflakes onto white card, added die cut letters and punched with a circle punch.  The 50 circle is also popped up and I used double thickness of foam tape.

I really don't remember where I got the jewelled snowflake embellishments.  I found these three in my stash in a plastic bag.  I have a feeling I might have rescued them from some Christmas crackers last year!  I punched black snowflakes and layered the jewelled ones over the top.  * Sniff * - that is the last piece of my lovely black and white snowflake ribbon.  To finish off the card front I added some blue crystals.

Then I decorated the inside of the card and the envelope.  I love that snowflake border, it's so pretty.  I stamped it across the front of the envelope too.

I can't believe I'm ahead of the game for Bev's birthday, I'm usually scrambling in the New Year to get a card made for her so I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself LOL! 

Supplies:
Stamps: SU! WMS Say It With Style & Vintage Circles Small sets, PSX Snowflake Medley stamp, My Cute Stamps Let It Snow! set
CS: Craftwork Cards Alabaster Smoothies CS, Core'dinations Blue Lightning, black CS, SU Whisper White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaColor Sky Blue pigment ink
Tools: Snowflake folder from Cuttlebug 'Winter Wonderland' embossing folder set, circle & square Nestabilities dies, circle punches, X Cut snowflake punches, Katie Skinni Mini QuicKutz number dies
Embellishments & accessories: Snowflake ribbon, jewelled snowflake embellishments, crystal ultrafine glitter, blue crystals, ultrafine sandpaper, 3d foam tape

Flowers & Butterfly Window Card - July 2010 Card Group Project

This is another card we made at our July card group meeting. This card came about because Lesley told me about a card she'd seen in a magazine that she wanted to try out. She told me the card had a flower on one side and a circle cut out of the front on the other side with a butterfly placed on the inside of the card. Sounded good to me!

The card is a hemp textured 5" square card. As the card is textured I didn't stamp the stems direct to the card, I stamped them separately and have cut them out. A bit fiddly but you could use strips of green CS as stems if you didn't want the fiddly cutting - or use a non textured card blank! The flowers are also cut out and are popped up. The stamping is done with VersaMagic chalk inks and I've added a little sponging to the butterfly and sentiment panel. The grass was made with the Martha Stewart grass border punch. I bought this fab punch on my trip to the Cotswolds in April and finally I've used it!

The circle aperture and banana circle were cut with a 2" circle punch. I stamped the dotty butterfly, punched it out with the matching SU! punch and this is adhered to the banana panel on the inside of the card. I've cut a foam pop dot in half, kept the backing paper on and popped one half under each wing. This means the butterfly stays popped up even after being in an envelope. A fab tip I got from my SU! demo Joanne.



Supplies:
Stamps: My Cute Stamps 'Spunky Nature' clear set, SU! Flight of the Butterfly set, sentiment from SU! Best Yet set
CS: Craft Creations hemp textured square card blank, SU! Old Olive & Barely Banana, white CS
Ink: VersaMagic Aquatic Splash, Turquoise Gem, Tea Leaves & Persimmon chalk inks
Tools: SU! Butterfly punch, Woodware 2" circle punch, Martha Stewart Grass border punch
Embellishments & accessories: 3d foam pads

CAS Flower Sending Happy Thoughts for Craft for Life Campaign

Today's CAS73 challenge on Splitcoast Stampers is a colour challenge - the colours are pale blue, pale green and orange. I put together a very quick and simple card which will be donated to the Craft for Life Campaign to support Cancer Research UK.

I used my metric Scor-Pal to score the lines on my 10 cms square card base, I used the 2 and 8 cms grooves. I stamped the flower and leaves and then cut them out. I punched out the orange flower with a 1/2" circle punch and I added a pale green gem to the centre. The flower is popped up with a 3d glue dot.



Supplies:
Stamps: My Cute Stamps 'Spunky Nature' set, sentiment from Hero Arts Sparkle Clear 'Happy Day' set
CS: Anita's textured white card blank, Personal Impressions white CS
Ink: VersaMagic Sea Breeze, Aloe Vera & Persimmon chalk inks
Tools: Metric Scor-Pal, SU! 1/2" circle punch
Embellishments & accessories: Hero Arts pale green gem, 3d glue dot

Chocolate Box Inspired Snowflakes Card

I saw this box of chocolates last winter in Waitrose and absolutely fell in love with it.



I loved the aqua, chocolate and silver colour combo and the fact that it had snowflakes on it. Can't say as I liked the price though! After Christmas, when the seasonal goodies were reduced, hubby bought the box for me. Of course, the chocolates are long gone - but my completed Christmas cards are being stored in this box this year.

As I love the box so much I decided it was high time I made a card inspired by it. I started off with Bazzill Doodlebug CS in Swimming Pool to make the 6" square card. I used punches and stamps to make the main panel - making sure I stamped on the plain, non-textured side of the Bazzill CS. I used several snowflake stamps from My Cute Stamps and Hero Arts. I punched the snowflakes out of silver Mirri card so they are really shiny.

Square Nesties were used to mat and layer my Hero Arts stamped sentiment piece. The aqua layer is popped up and I popped up the whole sentiment piece over the embossed Choc Chip strip. It's hard to tell from the photo, but I used the Kars Snowflakes Cuttlebug folder to emboss the strip. To finish, I added silver Dew Drops to the sentiment corners. This card was sent to our friends Kevin and Peter.



Supplies:
Stamps: My Cute Stamps Let It Snow! set, Hero Arts Winter's Butterfly clear set, Hero Arts Warm Wishes to You
CS: Bazzill Doodlebug CS in Swimming Pool, SU! Chocolate Chip & silver Mirri card
Ink: SU! Chocolate Chip
Tools: Square Nestabilities dies, Woodware Snowflake punches, Kars Snowflakes Cuttlebug embossing folder
Embellishments & accessories: Silver Dew Drops, SU! Dimensionals

October 2009 Card Group Christmas Cards

These are the Christmas cards we will be making at my October card group meeting. Hmmm, you can tell I love snowflakes!

First up is a bookmark card - this is based on a card Joanne made at the August Stamper's Ten meeting. I was away so I couldn't make it there but I've made my own version - I couldn't use the same stamps as Joanne as I don't have the SU! set she used. My favourite My Cute Stamps clear 'Let it Snow!' set was used on this card, I adore the snowflakes in that set!

The card is a regular A6 size but 5 cms is trimmed off the front and then the back is perforated at 5 cms to form the tear off bookmark. I used a Fiskars Rotary Trimmer and a perforating blade. On the bookmark piece the snowflakes were stamped in VersaMark and then embossed with clear embossing powder. The bookmark topper was made using circle Nesties and the Crop-A-Dile easily punched the ribbon hole through the layers of CS. I've since added crystals to the snowflake centres and to the corners of the red square. This card will be sent to my friend Bev.



And here's the inside of the card:



Next up is a snowflakes window card. A circle Nestie was used to cut the window out of the front of the square card and for the blue circle inside the card. This card uses my newest snowflakes stamp - it's the Hero Arts Snowflakes Circle cling stamp - I LOVE it! The Bashful Blue snowflakes are punched and the Let it Snow is a Sizzix Sizzlits die cut.



Lastly is a clean and simple card with a tree shape made out of circles stamped with - surprise, surprise - snowflakes! I've CASEd a fab card I saw on Splitcoast Stampers made by Kristin Moore. Please click here to see her card - the page will open in a new window. I thought it would be a great card to mass produce for Christmas.

I've used a Nestability Labels Eight die for the patterned paper piece. I stamped all 6 stamps from the SU! Snow Flurries set in Always Artichoke ink and then punched the images out using the 3/4" circle punch. The star is popped up with a 3d foam pad.

Hope the ladies enjoy making them!



Supplies for bookmark card:
Stamps: My Cute Stamps 'Let it Snow!' set, sentiment by Penny Black, snowflakes on white panel inside card by Hero Arts
CS: SU! Real Red, Old Olive & Whisper White
Patterned paper: Daisy Bucket
Ink: VersaMark, SU! Real Red & Old Olive
Tools: Fiskars Rotary Trimmer and perforating blade, square & circle Nestabilities dies, SU! Ticket Corner punch, Crop-A-Dile
Embellishments: Clear EP, red grosgrain ribbon

Supplies for snowflakes window card:
Stamps: Hero Arts Snowflakes Circle cling stamp
CS: Craft Creations hemp textured square card, SU! Bashful Blue & Not Quite Navy
Ink: SU! Not Quite Navy
Tools: Circle Nestability die, Sizzix Sizzlits Phrase Let it Snow die, X Cut snowflake punch
Embellishments: Blue Offray ribbon

Supplies for Noel tree card:
Stamps: SU! Snow Flurries set, Noel by Hero Arts
CS: Craft Creations hemp textured A6 card, SU! Real Red
Patterned paper: SU! Wintergreen DSP pack
Ink: SU! Always Artichoke
Tools: Labels Eight Nestability die, SU! 3/4" circle punch, X Cut star punch
Embellishments: 3d foam pad

CAS Flower Note For You

Today's CAS challenge on Splitcoast Stampers was to follow a sketch based on a card Krystie Lee made. Click here to visit the CAS challenge thread.

I stamped the flower and leaves and cut them out. The leaves are glued flat but I've popped up the flower with 3d foam pads. I used square Nestie dies for my mat and layer.

The patterned paper is from the gorgeous My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow collection - as is the sheer ribbon. I was so happy to find inks that went with the paper - and delighted to find the metal embellishment that I put in the centre of the flower. You just never know when a long hoarded embellishment from a pack in your stash will be just the perfect thing!



Supplies:
Stamps: My Cute Stamps 'Spunky Nature' clear set, sentiment from SU! Sweet Little Sentiments set
CS: White CS, SU! Old Olive
Patterned paper: My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow 6" x 6" pad
Ink: ColorBox Celadon and Moss Green, SU! Pumpkin Pie
Tools: Square Nestability dies
Embellishments & accessories: My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow Ribbon Set, PaperMania self adhesive metal embellishment, 3d foam pads