24 Days of Christmas - Day #22

I thought I would give you a break from Christmas cards today, and show you a couple of the Christmas ornaments I made for the tree.

I am adding this to the following:
Sentimental Sundays - #238 Anything But A Card
Crafting For All Seasoons - #92 Anything But A Card 

Materials Used:
Clarity Stamp - Peace on Earth, May Peace Be Your Gift stamps
IndigoBlu - MDF ornament shapes, post box red paint, manchester tart megaflake, slap it on matte, flitter glue

24 Days of Christmas - Day #10

Hi!  Something fun for day 10!  I bought this fun Christmas jumper stamp set from Clarity Stamp as I just could not resist it - and it goes quite well with the Christmas jumper boxes that I have made!

I don't make that many shaped cards, but I just had to make this with the jumper stamp - the idea just came to me and it had to be done! LOL!

I am adding this to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - 09/12 - 15/12 Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Clarity Stamp - Christmas jumper and Christmas knit stamps
Stampin' Up! - Real red ink and marker, whisper white card

Clean Out a Corner

I love this new "clean out a corner" phrase from Clarity Stamp and wanted to use it to make a card for the July challenge  - something nice and clean and simple, in keeping with the sentiment!  So I teamed it up with the pennant / bunting stamps from the remountable shapes set - I thought this would look really good zentagled, but I need more practise on that one!  Instead I stamped onto some patterned paper and paper pieced the bunting.

I am adding this to the following:
Clarity Stamp Challenge - #17 July Anything Goes 
The Pink Elephant - #258 Inspiration challenge
Just Keep on Creating - July Anything Goes 
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #43 Anything Goes (rectangluar or square) 
Aud Sentiments - #110 Anything Goes 



Materials Used:
Clarity Stamp - Clean out a corner stamp, remountable shapes stamp set
Craftwork Cards - Kitsch paper pad, white square card blank
Graph-It - 7109
Black sharpie pen

Happy Birthday Jazz Man

Now, I don't know about you, but I have a huge selection of rubber / clear stamps which I have been collecting over the last ten years or so.  Recently I have found myself using digi stamps more and more, and that my physical stamps haven't had much attention.  So, I decided to find myself a blog challenge to enter and pick some suitable stamps.  I love Clarity Stamps, so the June challenge (masculine) seemed a perfect opportunity to get stamping!

I've kept this card very simple as I didn't think it needed much adding to it.  I've used an espresso ink, though I know the photos make it look black - but it is brown I promise!

I am adding this card to the following:
Clarity Stamp - June # 16 Masculine
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments - Two Word Sentiment
Try It On Tuesday - One For The Boys
Mema's Crafts - June - Only Men Allowed

Materials Used:
Clarity Stamps - Word Chain set 2 and 3, Jazz Man, Journalling set
Adirondak espresso ink
Die-Namics - Fishtail flag stax
Core'Dinations - brown card
Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank

Great Britain

Loving all things Red, White and Blue I've enjoyed being able to get hold of various stamps and papers with a Great Britain/London/Keep Calm/Union Jack theme that have become very popular in the crafty world this year.  This card was made for a friend of my OH's, and I am sure he will like it when he sees it in a few days time.

Materials Used:
IndigoBlu - Jack A6 stamp, Pomp & Pageantry stamp set (using the smaller Union Jack and the Great Britain logo stamps)
Artistic Outpost - London Underground stamp set (using the Keep Calm and Carry On stamp)
Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank
Claritystamp - white double sided coated paper
Ranger Adirondack due inks - Denim, Cranberry
Gold mirror card from stash

If I Had A Single Flower

My new Spellbinders layered flowers dies arrived :-) so I decided to have a play!  I have to admit they are a bit tricky to get the card out of the dies and there are lots of fiddly bits to poke out to clean them up, but they are pretty - I think next time I will try Sue Wilson's tip for the more intricate dies and use some baking parchment between the die and and card to help release all the bits.

I thought these die cuts went well with a lovely stamped quote from Claritystamps and I wanted to create something quite simple, so here is my card which I think works well for the The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #176 No Image, Just Words

Materials Used:

Spellbinders - Layered Flowers, Labels 18

Claritystamps - If I had a Flower

Crafters Companion - pastel collection ribbon

Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank and card

Pink card - from stash