Christine stokes christmas cards

I ordered a few more of the Memory Box Open Studio die sets, Christmas this time and so made a video on how to make a really quick yet elegant Christmas...

Some time ago I was fortunate enough to have a card selected as the winner at Time Out Challenge and I was subsequently invited to do a Guest Designer Spot and here it is! The theme of the challenge this time is NEW Anyone who knows me, knows that my card style is Clean And Simple, although the kinds of technique I use tend to be somewhat eclectic. Having said that a real favourite of mine is using dies... I must have thousands of them and yet I still seem to be acquiring more. The one by…

For this challenge, I looked for one of the smallest Christmas stamps in my collection, as the brief from AAA Cards is to leave maximum white space. This little wood mounted stamp is from Stampendous, coloured with alcohol markers and cut with a MFT pierced die. The embossed surround on the card front, was made with the next size up of the same set of dies. I think that this is a potential for mass production as two runs through the Big Shot, one stamp and a little colouring completed the…

I had a fancy for using this tiny reindeer for my card for CAS Christmas this time. The challenge is to use the colours Grey and Red. I dug out two shades of grey paper and a scrap of red. This little Memory Box deer doesn't actually have a nose per se so I used one from the waste of a holey border die cut. The trees I believe are from SSS or maybe Memory Box, sometimes there seems to be a bit of a cross over of the same dies from different companies. Rudolph is stacked a couple of times and…

Here's today's advent card. Here's the link to the video https://youtu.be/4HEas7BG3dc?si=fTvTsdK4uKMHa3fR I'm desperately trying to get my Christmas...

Someone suggested that I use my little Christmas tree as a beard for Santa, but I thought it was a bit too scrawny, so I looked to see what else I could...

I was looking though some blog challenges today and spotted that CASology had the cue word COZY Actually I wouldn't spell it like that, as in the UK we tend to use an 's' instead of a 'z' for lots of words... but we all know what we mean! The first stamp which came to mind with this word was this old one from Hero Arts. I have another with Santa's jacket and another with his boots...and I have always loved them. I coloured it with Copic markers and added some fun flock for the fur. I cut two…