"Silent Night"

Here's another card made with the beautiful Silent Night stamp set, when I first saw this set in the SU! catty, it completely passed me by, not the sort of thing I'd normally go for, so I didn't really register it. Then I saw some of the fantastic cards other Demo's had made with it, and when I visited another SU Demo, Rachel and had a play with some of her stamps, I stamped out a couple of image from this set & fell, completely & utterly in love! So much so I've now got my own & will be making quite a few Christmas cards with this set for sure. Only two stamps in the set, this one & a lovely saying in a beautiful handwritten script.

The image is large and IMO needs no colouring in, so you've got a card pretty much in an instant with it, I've added SU! Heat & Stick powder & then my SU! Dazzling Diamonds (no glitter drift if you use the powder first) and I think that's all the image needs.

I'm entering my card into Stamp With Us, who are also having a DT call (so fingers crossed) and their theme this week was a recipe challenge -

1 stamp, 2 papers; 3 brads.

I also entering it into Creative Card Crew's challenge, and their theme is favourite things, well I think this stamp definitely falls into this category!

Here's the rest of the details - all Stampin; Up!

Stamp - Silent Night

Ink - Chocolate Chip

DSPs - Merry Moments

Cardstock - Very Vanilla; Chocolate Chip; Old Olive (I've distressed the Olive layer)

Brads -from stash - non SU!

TFL x

Creative Card Crew 20 & FunkyFairies 26

Close up so you can see the polka dots on the pink paper:

Two challenges with this card, the theme over at Creative Card Crew this week is Polka Dots (love polka dots) and at FunkyFairies it's a girly theme.

The image is Anna, from Anna & Bella stamps by Gina - you can see the blog here and I've coloured her with PM's - I think she's very sweet dressed up in her mum's shoes & make-up. The papers are all from FunkyFairies ShabbyChic set and I've layered them with Stampin' Up! Gable Green cardstock, flower embellies & spotty ribbon from my stash, & the swirly flower is a K&Co sticker.

The photo's come out a bit dark, in real life it's a lot lighter & brighter!

TFL x

Creative Card Crew - Challenge No. 7 - Round and Around

I made this little box & thank you card at my SU Workshop and as there's lot's of circles going on I thought they'd be just great for this challenge.

The backgrounds have been made using a SU Stampin' Around wheel "Spot On" with Old Olive ink; the sentiments are from SU "Circle of Friendship" and layered up using two nestie dies, the giftag also has a 3d circle on it, and some Whisper White ribbon has been used to tie up the box.

Creative Card Crew - Challenge No. 6

Monochrome Madness was the theme this week, which I love doing, I think black & white just looks so classy together.

I've made this card using a digi-stamp from Pink Petticoat, from a set called "Simply Delightful", the DP is also a download from Crafters Kitchen and I've embossed the white card behind the image using my Cuttlebug and finished with some Stampin' Up! ribbon in Whisper White.

Creative Card Crew - Challenge No. 4

This week's challenge was to use texture on your cards.

The image is a free Digi-stamp I got from TwoScoopsRice and is so cute, I've coloured him with very pale pink water colour pencils and use Sakura Glaze pens on the rest of the image.

I put some card through the Cuttlebug with one of their embossing folders and have used chalks to pick up the embossing.

The DP is Stampin' Up! and is from a set called Sweet Always, the sentiment is also SU from "Simply Said".

I've added more texture with a ribbon, flower brad & a tiny heart stick on all from my stash.

The base card is a graduated coloured card that I've had in my stash for ages and glad to finally use!

Creative Card Crew - Challenge No. 2

This is my entry for this week's challenge which was to keep it clean, i.e no designer papers. A couple of weeks ago this would have filled me with horror but since I've been Stampin' Up! I've started making more cards without any dp's on them, and finding to my surprise that I like the clean look.

I've used all SU products on this one:

The image is from the hostess set "A Little Bit of Happiness" which is one of my fav's, and I coloured it with a mixture of SU watercolour crayons and a couple of my own watercolour pencils (ooh so not all SU then! LOL).

The sentiment is from the set "Cheer & Wishes" and I've stamped this with Old Olive ink.

The cardstock is Old Olive and Cameo Coral, and the ribbon is Whisper White