Countdown to Christmas - Day 20

Evening,

How are all your Christmas preparations going? I'm pleased to say that for once I seem to be relatively on top of things, although we haven't managed to get any Christmas decorations up yet.

With only four more days to go to the big day, here are another couple of cards featuring Embossing folders and metallic card stock.

I do love this technique, although it is very hard to get any decent photos because of the shine on the metallic card.

I used Cosmic Shimmer gilding polishes for both the vintage background,

and also the painting on the embossed images.

I told you that poinsettia was a favourite of mine, and the holly branch is a pretty good one as well.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx 

Countdown to Christmas - Day 19

Evening All

We had an unexpected visit from the littlest Grandchildren today, which was lovely.

The first thing they wanted to do was crafting, so I gave them the pile of Christmas crafty goodies that 'Auntie Weena' had given me on Saturday. Its amazing what fun you can have with some die cut snowmen, paper and glue.

Mummy needed to do some shopping so I went too, which saved me a walk into Horley. The snow has gone, thankfully, but has been replaced with pouring rain, so I am very glad not to have had to make that trip.

Here are a couple of cards made using one of Jane's Christmas Bubble stamps.

I mirrored all the bubbles and wreath with a circular card here

and plenty of glitter and glossy accents. There are even a few die cut circles.

This second card uses the same stamp set and white embossing,

but this time straight on to white cardstock.

Traditional red for the poinsettia on this one, and then glossy accents to highlight the circles. Unfortunately it doesn't show up very well in the photos.

Must get the last of the prezzies finished tomorrow. The Grandkids rather sidetracked me, in the nicest possible way, but if I am ever going to get things finished, I really must do it tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty hugs

Kimx

Countdown to Christmas - Day 17

Evening,

I hope that you have had a wonderful Saturday. I have spent the day with crafty friends playing with paper, inks, stamps and dies. Always the perfect way to spend the day. And of course there was plenty of tea and coffee, biscuits and Christmas Stollen. I'm a happy bunny, although I'm not so sure about the waistline lol.

I've got a couple more cards to share tonight, using that Tim Holtz Poinsettia Embossing Folder again. 

I did say that it was a favourite of mine.

There will definitely be a few more cards before the end of the month I can assure you.

The technique used here was inspired by a card that I found on Pinterest.

  

It was a blog post from a lady called Juliana Michaels, and showed step by step details of how to achieve this fabulous vintage look,

using distress crayons, inks and embossing glaze.

I absolutely loved what she had done and so I faithfully recreated the technique and shared it with the Girls on one of our Saturday get togethers. Thank you Juliana for the inspiration.

And thank you all for stopping by.

With love and crafty hugs.

Kimx

Countdown to Christmas - Day 16

Evening,

Another day nearer Christmas, and a couple of birthdays to celebrate as well. My Grandson is 20 today and a good friend is ???? (she would kill me if I revealed it lol)

The couple of cards that I am sharing tonight are Christmas cards,

but could just as easily be made to celebrate a birthday.

Especially made in blue for a change to the usual Christmas red.

The background to this one was created using a stencil, pastes and distress inks.

The same stamps, only this time I used the co-ordinating dies to cut the image out instead of fussy cutting it.

I also went with a more traditional colour palette.

The background is a fabulous 3D Embossing folder and a piece of background card from my stash.

It is the last get together of the year for the Girls tomorrow so there will be plenty of coffee, chat and crafty playtime. And probably a few mince pies as well.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx 

Countdown to Christmas - Day 14

Evening,

I'm back home, safe and sound, after my extra few days of babysitting. The roads were actually much clearer than expected which was a very pleasant surprise. Let's hope all the snow disappears as quickly as it arrived. It's now gone past the picturesque stage to the grey and dirty looking one lol.

Here is a card made using a fabulous Poinsettia 3D embossing folder.

The folder also has a die inside of it to cut out the circular, non embossed portion of the design. 

I removed the die from inside the folder before embossing as I preferred this look.

The colour was applied using blending brushes and Distress Inks.

Thanks for stopping by.

Love and Crafty Hugs

Kimx