My first Christmas card this year...

At Patties Creations this month, I have used one of her fabulous new Christmas images...

"Holly Wreath".

 I just love this image...

It was so lovely to colour and to fussy cut! 

I used my alcohol markers to colour it,

 added some glossy accents to the berries and a 

few glittery blobs here n there, to resemble little bits of Christmas magic!

I popped some 3D foam on the back of the wreath and 

used a faux wood backing paper, along with a

beautiful berries and leaves backing paper.

It's hard to see in the photo, but there is some real sparkle to the dark paper!

The sentiment has been stamped.

I love this card - my first Christmas card of this year

and it will be going to a member of my family. 

 I would like to add this to the following challenges:

Little red wagon - Holidays - 1 Nov

Di's digi design - Hand coloured image - 10 Oct

Polkadoodles - atg - 1 Nov

Male card

This month, I used an old image from Patties Creations.

(Unfortunately this is no longer for sale in her shop, but she may bring it back-

 if enough people ask for it!)

I coloured the image with my alcohol pens 

and used some coloured backing papers -

including a star embossed piece.

I used a digital sentiment 

and a diecut star.

I also inked the edges of everything to give a bit of a vintage feel.

I wrote the name of the recipient on the gumballs... 'Charlie.'

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Digi Choosday - atg - 30 Sept

Cards Galore Encore - atg - 30 Sept

Creative Crafting Uncles - atg - 14 Sept

Creative knockouts - lots of layers - 18 Sept

 

Chickens

Over at Patties Creations this month, I have used the
 "Silly chickens on coop" image... minus the coop!

 It just goes to show how versatile Pattie's images are. 

I coloured the chickens with my alcohol pens and fussy cut around them.

I embossed a panel and inked the edges for a background and a stamped sentiment.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Krafty chicks - atg - 6th August

Seize the birthday - birthday - 6 August

Can you handle the pressure - embossing and birthday - 8th August

Male 50 card

 I used one of the images in the Milestones set

to make this card. ..

But I changed it up a little, so that it would make a card

for a male friend, who enjoys being a beekeeper!

I  printed off the bees from Patties other image - Bee my Honeycomb

 and fussy cut the bees, colouring them with my alcohol markers and glittering their wings. 

The scroll is a basic shape, created in Publisher, with a greeting inside.

I wanted to keep the colours simple, so just used greens to colour the wreath and

a selection of greys to colour the 50, with a white pen to highlight.

Ice cream cones

 

At Patties Creations this month, I used her image:

Ice cream come celebration.

This was printed out and coloured using my alcohol markers.

I used coloured fine liners to draw on the teeny little 'hundreds and thousands' sprinkles.

I used glossy accents on the cherries and choccy drizzle.

I fussy cut around the image, added a sentiment and some cute backing papers, 

which I cut into strips to make the backing.

Finally, a few punched butterflies finished this card. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Relax with a glass...

For this card, I used one of Pattie's newer images - Frogtini.

 I chose this image for my friend's birthday card because

she has a pond on her garden - with loads of frogs and tadpoles in.

She is also partial to chillin' with a glass of something delish and sparkly!

I coloured the image with my alcohol markers and inked the edges.

I had added a computer generated sentiment and 

mounted the whole thing onto 3d foam tape.

The tile effect background border is a simple border 

of decorative washi tape. 

The butterflies are punched out and spots added with my white sakura pen.

 i would like to add card into the following challenges:

Mother's day

 For my mum's Mother's day card,

I decided to use Patties new image: Forget-me-knots...

We have lots of Forget-me-knots in our garden, which are all

just starting to bloom. They are beautiful!

I looked closely at the flowers before colouring this image.

I popped he image onto 3d foam and backed onto the grey and blue papers. 

I dry embossed the edge of the grey card,

as well as drawing on faux stitching.

A stamped sentiment and punched butterflies finished this card. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

As you like it - floral, because forget-me-knots are some of my favourite flowers... I have them all over my garden! -17th April

Crafters cafe - atg - 13 April