Whimsy Stamps - Christmas Snowflakes

Hello!! It's time for the September Whimsy Stamps release and my goodness do we have some lushness to share with you, just don't blame me if your purses are a little lighter by the end of this week....just saying.....

Today is a very unusual card from me....well unusual for me that is in that not only is this card pretty CAS, but it also doesn't have an image. Here I've just used cardstock, papers, dies and an enamel dot....I know shocking right?!

But I have been looking for a way to make some, I won't say mass produced but at least something I can maybe make subtle changes to but still stick to a design that I can produce quickly, to make Christmas cards. I found a lot of cards on Pinterest that have stirred my creativity and I'll have several snowflake themed cards just using dies a sentiment and not much else in the coming weeks.

For today's card I used the fabulous Snowflakes Dies, the Winter Wishes 6 x 6 pad and the Winter Wishes Glittery Enamel Dots.

I also used a sentiment from an older stamp set called Simple Holidays, sadly this is sold out currently.
I really enjoyed making this and will be making a whole range of different cards using dies and sentiments with no images, so look out for those in weeks to come.

I'll be back tomorrow with more goodies from the release.

Don't forget about my giveaway here, you have until 4th October to enter.

Little Christmas Angel

It's definitely a week for Christmas cards, I'm still working my way through them, so you'll probably see a lot of Christmas themed cards from me over the next few weeks.

This one is my DT card for the new challenge over at Deep Ocean and this time we have a Bingo grid for you to follow. I've shared the grid at the end of this post. You have rather a lot of choice here, you can do one line, straight or diagnol, or a full house and just to give you even more choice, you can choose to do a line of colours rather then using the elements.

I used a diagonal line of elements encompassing lace, flowers and pearl, I did also squeeze in die-cuts a sentiment and a charm so I did 2 straight lines also.

I used some lovely Christmas papers from Lemoncraft and coloured up a digi stamp from Saturated Canary that I've had for a while and not found the time to colour up before. I think she's called Little Angel. I've coloured her in distress inks and listed the colours below:

Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Worn Lipstick, Pine Needles, Walnut Stain, Pumice Stone, Festive Berries, Fired Brick, Wild Honey, Gathered Twigs

The sentiment is from a set from Mama Elephant.

Our lovely sponsors are Live and Love Crafts and The Ribbon Girl and you could win the following prizes

I've used the following products from The Ribbon Girl on my card:

Cheesecloth

Ophelia Embroidered Tulle Lace

25 mm Red/Cream Rustic Gingham Ribbon

Ivory White Magnolia Flowers

Ivory 30 mm Wild Roses

14 mm Flat Back Pearls

11 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

I've popped the grid blow for you so you can see the choices on offer and hope that you can join in with our challenge.

If you haven't done so already, don't forget to enter my 500 follower giveaway here!

Happy crafting!

Crissy Armstong - Moose Friends

Hello lovely crafters! I can't believe it's been a week since I've posted something, but between hurting my back and my Dad going into hospital, not to mention preparing my lesson material for the Whimsy Craft retreat ....which is only 3 short weeks away......eeeeek!!, I just don't seem to have gotten around to blogging and the week has just slipped away.

But anyhooo, on with the sharing and this time I've gone all CAS. This is not my usual style as you know, but I do love it when you want to send a quick card in the post and it really does seem to suit some images more.

This stamp, Moose Friends by Crissy Armstrong, appealed to me as soon as I saw it, it's just so fun and heart warming. I love the punny sentiments that come with it too and just had to use one of them on my card.

I coloured them up with my distress ink markers:
Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Fired Brick, Festive Berries, Worn Lipstick, Pumice Stone,
 to match these lovely papers. You're getting a bit of a sneak peek of these as they are being released next week! I cut out a little frame using a small rectangle die

I thought this would be perfect for sending to a couple for Christmas, but you could also send it to a loved one depending on which sentiment you use.

That's it from me today, have fun!