My fave Christmas card

hello friends
hope you are all doing well and keeping warm this very chilly Saturday. I have today posted one of the Christmas cards I made last year (seems funny saying that!!) - this I think is the one Iove the most - Luckily for me Chris of ChrisAndCat fame on Docrafts and here kindly sent me a couple of these postcard images stamped out. 

All I did was printed some snowflakes out direct onto the base card in a lower transparency and added the wording. I then heat embossed the stamped image with holographic embossing powder as the image is so beautiful I didn't want to detract away from it - I also embossed some snowflakes which were also a donation but from about 2 years ago and I cannot for the life of me remember who it was who sent them to me - so apologies to you if it was you.

The corner die is cut with the cuttlebug and I added a few red gems for the holly berries and some large diamante gems for the centre of the snowflakes.

 here is a close up of the stamped image.

hope you like this - I think its simply stunning - I do mean the image not my card!! LOL 

hugs to you all and thanks for bearing with me
Rosie xxx

Hello 2013

hello everyone.
hope you all had a fab Christmas and New Year. I thought I had better write something on my blog before I forget and you might wonder where I have gone.
Well I am back at work after the usual 2 weeks off and having fully recovered from not only shopping on Christmas Eve and the usual antics of Christmas and New Year and a 21st birthday just after New Year - am finding the card making mojo may have put away along with the decorations. I just cannot concentrate long enough to make anything half-way decent. So until I find the missing mojo I am hoping to do very clean and simple cards in order to restore my creative side. So I hope to show you something in the next day or two.

hugs to you all and if anyone knows where my mojo went or has any spare - could you send it to me please??

love always
Rosie xxx

Christmas Catch up P and Q

hello friends
Saturday again and its the 1st of December. I totally agree with everyone - this year has gone far too fast. Next thing we know it'll be Easter!! I cannot work out how its gone so fast and as usual I have done nothing for Christmas - I am usually the loony running around on Christmas Eve buying things from garages and corner shops!! LOL only joking. 
But seriously though I am out on Christmas Eve. I cannot see why people find that such a baffling concept that I am not set and organised for Christmas with everything done and sorted and wrapped in November. To me its like its a competition over who can be the first to be done and sorted. Kind of takes the festive feeling out of it - in my opinion. If its a competition I am gonna tell people I have been done and sorted since Boxing Day for next Christmas. Then I will win something!! LOL
 
Anyway - I have 2 cards to share with you today P and Q for the Docrafts A-Z Daily Challenge which is now finished but I am still continuing on with finishing the alphabet. 

So here is my card for P - poinsettia. 

This is a watercolour image I found and printed onto linen cardstock and matched the colour of the green border with the lettering. The font is called Black Chancery

 

I simply added a tiny touch of glamour dust to the centres as I didn't want to distract too much from the beautiful picture. 

The second card is Q - Christmas Quackers (sorry for the pun!)

I found this cute duck on my Forever Friends Triple CD and thought he looked so cute and Christmassy. I simply again printed him direct this time onto the base card itself and added the wording at the same time - this time in blue to match the background of the duck and in a different font.

I simply added glamour dust for some sparkle. Here is a close up of the duck!

Hope you like these simply cards today - I feel a bit bad cos they are not my colouring in but I do hope you like them

until next time. stay safe and warm

hugs 

Rosie xxx

Christmas Ornaments card

hello friends
am still playing catch up!! LOL
here is my card for the letter O - here I have chosen an embossing folder which can be classed as ornaments or baubles I think!!
anyway I chose ornaments - cause I have already done the letter B!!

Here is the card - I have matted it onto red cardstock and added red gems for sparkle.
The wording is done direct from the PC using a font called Splendid printed direct onto the linen card base.

Here is a close up of the card

 

I think it looks classy and elegant. What do you think?as always I appreciate any comments you may leave me.

until tomorrow 

Rosie xxx

 

Noel - Christmas catch up (again!)

hello friends
well I'm doing my best to catch up with the A-Z daily challenge over on Docrafts. I think the majority of other have finished!! I'm up to N today. 

Here again I have used the trusty Forever Friends bears. They are fab!!
I have printed each of them out separately to spell out NOEL.
I matted each one onto red cardstock and then stuck them all onto an 8" square card. I spent more time getting them straight!! but on the photograph it doesn't look it!!  

 
 
And then to top it all over I noticed the red cardstock on the O and the E is slightly wider on the top!! aarrgghh!!  calm down - deep breaths!! LOL

here is a close up of the bears which just makes my cutting more noticeable!! LOL

Hope you like what I did for the N card - any comments welcome!! whether good or in this case probably bad!!

Until tomorrow with the letter O card

hugs to you all
Rosie xxx

Christmas card L is for List

hello friends
wow what a chilly Saturday it is!! Brrrr.... its freezing cold. 
Well as promised here is today's catch up card for the Docrafts A-Z Daily challenge. I am up to the letter L.

Here is my card.

I found this image in my digi stash images and I loved the colours. You can't change the words on the list that is the only thing which would have been good but I like the words on it.

I added wording from the PC and matted onto gold mirri card. I didn't add anything else as I felt it needed nothing.

thanks for looking today and I hope to see you again very soon

Rosie xxx

Christmas Card Catch-up

hello everyone. well I hope you are all keeping well and warm. Today I am playing catch up once again with my A-Z Daily Challenge cards over on Docrafts. Here I have uploaded my letter K card today. 
 I have chosen K for Kiss-mas (sorry for the pun) just couldn't help myself!!
the image is one of the fabulous Christmas ones from Digistamp Boutique from last year. He is called Jasper and is available here.

I have coloured him with copics and added diamantes to the mistletoe and a red pearl to the robin's hat.

here is a close up of Jasper. I carefully blended his colours together to make his chin appear rounded.

I added glamour dust to the robins hat and used a little snow-tex under Jasper's feet with added glamour dust again.
The background paper was a freebie with magazine from last year and the image and sentiment were both matted onto green cardstock.

thanks for dropping by and I will see you all hopefully tomorrow with the card for L 

hugs 
Rosie xxx