Christmas Cards - Christmas Greetings

Hello everybody

I always consider myself as a scrapbooker and not really a card maker. But I do odd cards for friends and family mainly when needed and they are always done in a last minute. Then I do Christmas cards again for family and friends. However when I do cards I approach to each card as an individual piece of art and as long as I do that way I really enjoy making them.

Then Christmas time comes, once a year; 15th December or beyond and I still have a long list of cards to do, and every year is the same. At that stage making cards should either turn into production or they won't be done and that is frustrating sometimes, at least for me. What about you?Should I skip my creativity and just produce lots of identical cards?

I found solution this time by buying few packs of charity cards and for my kids, I just showed them my stash and told them that I don't want to know anything about their cards done again in a last minute. And guess what, they did all of their cards by themselves, pity they closed them an I didn't take a single photo, not even a mobile phone snap.

I have few more cards to share with you that I made and managed to snap with my iPhone last second before closing the envelopes (under the moonlight, LOL) :

 

For these I used:

1. Hero Arts Stamps (musical background and Christmas bubbles)
2. Tim Holtz dies
3. my home made flower
4. Tim Holtz distress inks (new winter collection)
5. perfect pearls
6. Clear embossing powder -Ranger
7. Spellbinder die - label 
8. Waltzing Mouse Stamps (background on the label)

And this is all for today and probably last post before Christmas.

I wish all my readers very Merry Christmas and big thank you for all your support.

xx

Svjetlana

Hello Nanny Goat - more summer pages

Greetings to all my readers


It is getting very cold over here and everybody is getting into Halloween spirit and there are sings of Christmas everywhere as well.
I am trying to worm up myself buy scrapping summer and even Easter photos (LOL). I have one page for you today that is based this time on the pencillines.com sketch. Pencil Lines is one more great sketch blog and I would advise everybody to visit it, they do new sketch every week and have fab designer team.
Now, this is my take:

Once again I used Fancy Pants papers, Tim Holtz dies, inks and stains. Background was a plane white paper once. I took a stamp that I had for ages, but never seen ink before, stamped and heat embossed (not seen very well on the photo) then I inked the paper, I am very pleased with the results. Funny thing about this page is that I started off to do clean and simple page, ended up with this messy background, but then what 'clean and simple' has common with farm, LOL?

And one close-up:

Oh, it seems I am not even late to enter this into RAK challenge, so I will try to do that.
That is all for today, I hope I will write something soon again. Have a nice day.

Svjetlana x

Few Old Pages

Hello everybody

It seems I cannot really get back into my routine of everyday chores + scraping and blogging.
I haven't done any 12x12 page for while but have a pile of never posted pages done while ago. I would like to share 2 of them with you today. I did them just before going on the summer holiday, they are similar in design and use some of very old and some of new stash as well.

 

Ok, I know we are approaching Christmas and everybody had forgotten about Easter so far, but I was doing kind of stash 'clearance' and those spring style MME papers were perfect for the Easter photos, they also go well with kraft card that I just bought at the time and my raffia flowers that I was in a mood of making. I have few more sheets of these MME papers and I just want to use them up. I toned down the paper using white acrylic paint  and dry brush technique.        

Little birdies are stamps; Hero Arts (the birdie) and Technique Tuesday (owls), coloured them with promarkers, added gloss on top and little gems to highlight the eyes. Ribbon is by  the Webster pages and punches are Fiskars and Martha Stuart. The title is hero Arts stamps and Sizzix dies, love this bigz dies as I can make my own chipboard letters with them - I pained them first, then applied clear cracked paint- love this stuff.  And one close up:

This page is special to me because it was probably our last egg hunt which both kids enjoyed equally. This year's was disaster as the big girl (DD1) who is 11 was looking for something far more exiting and for the little one was too complicated and all ended up in tears, I did not even take any photos.

Second page, uses similar design:

 
I was trying to take a passport photos of my DD2, and it all took us 3 photo sessions and lots of photos taken untill we got something where she wouldn't be making faces or smiling or laughing.
Again I used kraft card that I just got at the time and stamped it on the left hand side with my brand new butterfly script background Hero Arts stamp and distressed it with the Ranger stain. The papers and paper flowers are from one of Papermania goody bags and fabric flower is hand made using the Webster pages netting. Title is stamped using Autumn Leaves and Hero Arts stamps. Borders are Martha Stuart punch and small craft tonic square punch used with border system to make a 'film'.

   
This is all for now. Thank you for reading my blog and all kind comments.
Svjetlana xx

Thank You Teachers

It is now second week into summer school holiday, and for the first time after long time, my children can actually enjoy their holiday without going to daycare, I don't have to say how happy they are about that.

I made few cards for their teachers and I want to share them with you. This time I want completely shabby with my cards, very little pattern paper, lots of inks, stamps, distressing, my brand new Hero Arts script butterfly stamp, which I sooooo love and of course my home grown flowers:

and few close-ups:

The Blue and red flowers were made from naturally coloured paper raffia and then misted with glimmer mist (apple red) for red and Clearsnap smooch electric blue  (or something like that) for the blue flower.

That is all for now, hope you like my cards, thank you for your comments and reading my blog.

 

A Couple of Thank You Cards

Hello everybody

First of all I would like to say 'Big Thank You' to everybody who commented my last post or emailed me regarding my job problems. Your moral support really means me a lot, and my story is turning from bad into worse at the moment, but at least I am meeting a solicitor this week, so will get a proper advice.

I would also like to say 'Thank You' to everybody who visits my blog and what is better way to say thank you but 'Thank You' cards.

 

 I made these cards for our lovely childminder and her assistant as the kids had to be taken out of the daycare due to my job situation. The cards were inspired by one I have seen once on some blog. Please forgive me for forgetting which one and if anybody recognises them I would appreciate if you tell me where my inspiration came from. These cards helped me to find my mojo again.

The roses are my own make, used X-cut and EK Success punches and K&Co papers to do them, stamps are some old Basic Grey and Tim Holtz dies were used for the borders, of course lots of inks and plain cards. I hope you like them, there are few close-ups too:

 

This is all for tonight, I hope you like them.

Hope to write soon again

Svjetlana xx