Winter Holiday Cards 2011

December 23rd and all my various 'winter holiday' cards are finished, mostly on time! Here are just a few of the cards I did this year, there are far too many to post them all!

You're a Classic

So one of my very best friends husbands is 40 next week... he and I have a relationship where by we snark at each other until one of us gets speechless... this has been known to take hours... we then change the subject and snark some more. So in honour of his birthday - and off our usual snark fest, I made this card for him.

I don't often make cards for men, because there are really only a few men I know well enough to give cards too, but I found this image online at the papercraft inspirations site and coloured it with promarkers. The papers were also printed, but I have entirely forgotten where they came from! (I really need to learn to label things better when I save them!)

356 Challenge Day 243 - Imagine This: Starry Skies

So I haven't posted here in forever and a day. To be honest I hadn't done much in the way of crafts in nearly a year - real life sometimes is a bitch - but I decided to make my grandmothers 90th Birthday card in June and since then I've rediscovered my love of making cards.

Having been looking through various challenge blogs, I came across a new one that I just adore. 365 Cards, which has a new challenge every day and have been having some fun going back into their archives to find inspiration for some of my yule cards following a few old challenges, but then I saw the challenge for Saturday 29th October and I knew exactly what I'd want to do.

My 'honorary' nephew Ethan is 1 in a few weeks and the theme for the 365 Cards challenge was 'starry skies'. As a self confessed sci-fi/fantasy geek, who already got his brother (Kyle, who is 3) watching the important things (Doctor Who, Harry Potter, LotRs - we'll be starting on Stargate soon *g*) and fully intending to have Ethan doing the same thing in no time, a spaceman card is perfect the perfect place to start his education *g*

I got the papers free ages (reaaaaallly ages!) ago in a craft magazine. The image of the spaceman was printed from the computer - it's one I again had saved from ages ago, off some clip art site or another (I really must keep better track of these things!) and the stickers are from a Daisy and Dandelion sheet.

Been a While...

Haven't done much crafting lately, but here is a little something I knocked together quickly over the weekend using some rub-ons and notelets from the Bubbles, Born to Shop range and a few scraps I had laying about.

Snowman Card - Lili of the Valley Challenge 42

Lili of the Valley - Challenge 42 is this awesome sketch by Jacqui:



This is my attempt at following it (sorry about the picture quality, no amount of photoshop image sharpening can make my camera take better pictures!):

Let it Snow

A Yule card based on this weeks 2 Sketches 4 You sketch by Kazan.

And also fits in nicely with the challenge from Cupcake Craft Challenges

It's bigger than I usually go, an A4 card folded in half... you can't see very well on the picture unfortunately, but the snowflake is surrounded by a pricking pattern... up close I think it looks amazing.

It's A Mans World...

So I don't have a lot of men in my life - but a friend asked me to make some cards and she does actually have a few male realatives and such, so I decided to try my hand at a few cards for men. 3 birthday cards and 1 that could be a birthday card, or used for something else.

Most of the papers (except thoes mentioned below) were from ones a friend sent me for my birthday (same friend who asked for the batch of cards, incidentally). All the pictures were printed from the computer and coloured with whispers markers. Writing is all outline stickers, except for the Gorllia card which is computer generated.

Paper is printed from Shabby Princess freebie kits. Writing reads: Why so Glum? You can hardly see the grey...

Same paper as above, from Shabby Princess, just enlarged.