Merry Christmas & SB challenge

 good morning crafters

well it's the middle of July and for most crafters that can only mean one thing:

getting ahead with christmas cards. 

i have to say it's not something i normally do but i couldn't resist joining in with Stampingbella's current challenge: Christmas in July

i've chosen to use glitter and shimmer card to give it a luxury christmas feel and i've teamed it up with some of my fave dies.

it's funny sometimes when i make cards they aren't the vision i had originally, i had planned on using christmassy papers and got side tracked with the glitter card. 

the image has been painted with distress ink and the baubles and star have been highlighted with glitter pens and i've masked my image to stamp the christmas sentiment.

some of the items used:

distress ink, spellbinder, joycraft & creative expression dies, sakura glitter pen, memento ink, stampingbella stamp: savannah has a star, magnolia sentiment stamps, white base card, gold glitter & satin card from sizzix.

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann

Happy Birthday

 good morning crafters

popping in with a personal share today, a birthday card for my beautiful granddaughter Ruby.

a fabulous young lady who turned 12 yesterday and for her card i've used one of my saturated canary stamps: little ladybug and my colouring medium is: distress ink. i would normally die cut Ruby's name and add it to the card but i think the colours used for this card spell out her name beautifully.

i'm never quite sure how the paper will handle a bright red and i decided not to colour wash the background just in case the red bled, i need to add glossy accents to her eyes and wings, i'd ran out and had to order some more and sadly it won't be delivered in time for this post, so i am sharing minus the glossy accents but i will share the completed card at the end of an up coming post...

some of the items used:

distress ink, tonic dies, sakura glitter pen, mulberry roses, satin ribbon, memento ink, saturated canary stamp, sizzix sentiment stamps, spellbinder dies, mft sentiment stamp, white base card, off white card, granddaughter & personalised stamp from 

stamping-all-day and maja design designer papers.

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann