Pickwick Papercrafting

Now that the main event is over, I am finally getting around to showing you some of my Christmas cards. I made several batches of cards using both stamped images and printed toppers/decoupage. The first batch are a selection using the Nitwit Collections Joyful Hearts Topper & Decoupage kit and I have highlighted these images with some card that I have embossed through my Cuttlebug:- I then did some rubber stamping using Milton the Bear and tried my hand at a few different layouts, taking inspiration from some designs in either Cardmaking & Papercrafting or Quick Cards Made Easy, I can't remember which one. I used papers from my stash, the red and blue ones are Forever Friends papers and the lilac one is some Papermania papers that I have had for years! Each of the images is coloured with Promarkers. I also made another batch using the Xmas Creature Capers clear stamps bought from QVC, papers as before from my stash and DCWV xmas papers. The snowflake diecuts are made using ...

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year. Have you started thinking about your new year's resolutions yet? I know what one of mine has to be......................................................................to update my blog much more frequently. Hope to get around to uploading my Christmas cards next week

It seems that as far as my family and friends are concerned, October is a popular time of year to get married. So I recently had three anniversary cards to make. Above are the cards I came up with using an image of Martha & Marvin downloaded from http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/and coloured with my Promarker pens. I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder through my Cuttlebug machine for the background and mounted it onto matching cardstock and finished the cards off with either ribbon and sentiment or adhesive stones and peel off sentiments.

This month's DoCrafts friendship swap was with Craftymess and I decided to use one of my new rubber stamps, which was part of the TSV (589816) from http://www.qvcuk.com/ . I coloured the image in with my Promarkers / Copic Caio pens. The backing paper was printed from the CD that came with the TSV. I embellished the card with three Prima flowers using card candy in the centre of the flowers.

I was asked to make a couple of cards for my mum's friend to give to her granddaughter for her first day of school and also her daughter-in-law who has just graduated as a nurse. After searching through all my stash, these Jolly Nation decoupage sheets just jumped out at me as being oh so appropriate. I am glad to say that they went down really well.

I've just had my lounge decorated and have been out today looking for new sofas - what a nightmare!! Of the few styles I liked, they were either too big or the wrong !! So at the moment I have a really nice new lounge which is being ruined by two old mismatched sofas !! (aaah!!!)

I had to make a quick card so thought it was about time I used some of the freebies I'd got from my magazines. The paper was a My Minds Eye, Quite Contrary set received with Cardmaking & Papercraft and the pyramage image was a freebie with Quick Cards Made Easy and designed by Nel Whatmore.