More Christmas cards!

Yes, it's been a busy few days indeed! finishing off my cards to send to all my loved ones did take a few late nights:-) but it's done, at least what needed to be mailed;-)

Here's one of my faves! I love circle cards, and this is a really fun Christmas card, it fits in a 4x4 envelope:-) really quite small.. I used some chipboard and letter stickers as well as a snow flake die. The '&' is from a Valentines Hero Arts set.. I thought a stamped '&' would go best with this card.



I pop dotted one layer for added dimension ( the scalloped layer). all parts of the card were die cut using my Cuttlebug, so it was ready in next to no time at all... That's how cards should be, specially during these busy days:-)

Supplies list:

All paper by My Minds Eye
Sparkly Thickers by American Craft
Letter stickers by Basic Grey( these are so versatile!)
Stamps: Valentine sayings by Hero Arts
Snow fake die by Dienamics
The other dies are by Spellbinders
Pearls: Kaiser Kraft

Circle card

It's been forever since my last blog post, I promise to make my post a little bit more regular in future :-) So as a peace offering I thought I should do two posts today, here is the first!

Some of you may know, I got a Cuttlebug ; but silly me didn't order the dies to go with it and had to wait till they finally arrived after I ordered them a week after I purchased the Cuttlebug. I have also been really busy travelling and catching up with some designing and well you know how it goes... So finally its the weekend and I got time to make a card with my new Spellbinders circle dies! I love these circle cards, so much more fun than regular sized ones..

For this card I used the 'Mi Casa' stamp set by Hero Arts. I love the pretty sentiments that come with this set, they fit so beautifully on circle cards. Totally plan to make some more cards with it soon..

I started off by cutting a circle card with the biggest circle in the pack and cut another nesting smaller circle to do my stamping on. I used the Lime Rickey 6x6 pad (Basic Grey) to cut out a background paper for the card the same size as the card base to cover the front completely.

I used my Ranger distress inks and gave a small border to the nesting circle to add definition to the edge and stamped all the images on white card stock and coloured with Copics. I coloured them in cut them out and paper pieced the card and added my sentiment.

Finally I used a piece of yarn and made the hanging bit of the birdcage:-)





Here's a close up of the card, the little bird house stamp is by Penny Black goes so well with the birds from the Mi Casa set..

Hope you enjoyed this fun card, I had so much fun making it:-)

Also stay tuned for the next post later today...

Till then, Happy Stamping!

Spring is here!!

It was a fight to the end with my Martha Stewart cutting system last night, wasted two perfectly good sheets of card stock in an attempt to cut out my card base. I think there is some sort of a play in that thing! Every time I cut a circle, were the end is, it seems to overlap the starting point and cut extra, so I end up with a lop sided card! After about 4 card bases, finally got this one right...


Oh well, here's the baby I have been working so hard at..

I like the composition, had issues with the sentiment 'cos the one that came with the stamp set was too big for this card so ended up writing it by hand:-) I pasted the mushrooms with some dimensional adhesive, however in the photograph it seems to disappear!


Supplies used:

Hero arts 'Sending happy thoughts' and ' Adorable baby girl' stamps.
Copic Markers
Memento Ink
Tombow mono permanent runner
Bazzill swiss dots card stock
American crafts cloud paper

Have a great day you guys!!

Submission for 'Patterned paper in every way' at Two Peas.

Hi,

Just thought i should do a quick post on a submission i made to a patterned paper challenge on Two Peas in a Bucket. Its not a new card ( i made it about two weeks ago) , but since its one of my favourites I thought i should share it with you guys:-)

Its a circle card and i love making them 'cos they are so tiny and fun to make! Its all cut by hand, we were not allowed to use anything but scissors for this challenge. (Not like i own anything fancy anyhow!! he he)

I have been wanting a Circle cutter by Martha Stewart for ages and finally decided to get one after a recommendation i got from a friend from the Two Peas member gallery. So its yet to arrive, and i am eagerly waiting for it.

Let me know what you use to cut circles, I would love to hear from you:-)

P.S: Follow me on Twitter: michellesielman

Supplies List:

Stamp for flowers and sentiment- Inkadinkado

Paper - Basic Grey (Sugar rush, Kioshi) , Kraft paper

On your special day!!

Today I made this card for the challenge at EBTKS( http://www.ebtkschallenge.blogspot.com/). It was all about making a layout or a card using string.

What better way to make a fun card other than balloons! so i took my brand new Lime Rickey mini paper pad and came up with a creation with a pretty acetate window:-)

Hope you find it interesting, and all comments are welcome.

Happy stamping!