A different Christmas Pine branch card

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies, 

Here we are at the start of a new week,  a busy one here, I have two appointments this week, one for a 24hr ECG and then Nurse on Thursday for Coil appointment, I felt a little more reassured after discussing things with her on Wednesday,  she thinks it will be good for helping manage HRT, it will provide the Progesterone part, not that I was aware that I needed HRT,  did you ladies have it?

I hope that you all had a nice relaxed weekend my lovelies, yesterday was very relaxed for me, Paul was busy out in the garden, we also have a major issue with our Fridge Freezer, its making a horrendous noise, I spent hours looking a new ones, Paul says he would prefer a seperate fridge and freezer for this very reason, if one goes wrong you wouldn't have to replace both.  I showed him a video of someone with the same issue so he spent hours trying to fix it. As I am writing this it is still a work in progress!! 

Today's card was made using another colouring technique. which I will get to in a minute, first though I did the background, I put my piece of watercolour card in my splat box and spritzed it with Spray Stain in Iced Spruce and Speckled egg and a spritz of water. I heated to dry and then placed it in my stamping tool, (which is necessary for this technique). I stamped the pine branch in Rustic Wilderness and then I lined up the pine cone branch so that it fit perfectly over the stem of the first layer, I stamped the pine cones in Archival brown ink and then coloured the pinecones with Gathered Twig Oxide ink as this is opaque so you cannot see the pine fronds behind, now the issue with using opaque ink is that it hides all the detail of the stamp, but.... if you leave your card in place in your stamp tool you can ink up those pine cones again and stamp the detail over the top of the oxide ink, so you have all the detail back, you have coloured pine cones without the need to do any masking. Such a great idea, thank you Mr Holtz!! I added a spritz of mica spray over the whole piece to add some sparkle and added the sentiment in Archival Vintage photo, I mounted the card onto a Kraft Background to finish. 

I hope that you all have a great start to your week,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra xxx

Lets look at this weeks crafting ..

 

🎄Welcome December🎄 

Good Sunday Morning Ladies, 

Welcome to December, I hope it brings you lots of lovely family time & happiness, it would be lovely to have some ❄️ snow to add to the Christmas feeling,  I am hoping that the Christmas spirit is going to come to me in the next couple of days because despite seeing the lovely Christmas lights in Bourton on the Water....

I'm not feeling it at the moment 😕.  Maybe when the tree goes up.🤣

I have really enjoyed making Christmas cards this week and I have lots more Christmas stash to play with,  lets look at what you have been making....

Your Christmas Challenge cards

Karen

Karen's Description:

A Christmas card using a piece of Pixie Powder card I found Aall & Create background die and a Sizzix snowman die xx

At first I thought you had printed the background in Serif, thats how perfect it looks,  you were so write that Aall&Create background die really does work perfectly with the snowman die!  

Thank you so much for an amazing Christmas card XXX 

Lilian 

Lilian's Description:

Hi, hope you are OK this morning.

Here is my card for this week, the stickles are not dry, hoping they will look better later.

Background paper with some stencilling and stamping, also picked out some of the trees with my 2h pencil.

White peel off stars .

Have a good day .

Oh Lilian your card is like a piece of Art, so much incredible detail, it looks like you could walk through those trees and off into the distance.  Absolutely stunning. 

Thank you so much for another inspirational Christmas card. XXX

Maria

Maria's Description:

Hi, here are some Xmas cards and a little CA for tomorrow.

The mittens are from a magazine. No idea where Santa is from. Papers from my stash.

Oh Maria, I love your Crystal Art,  those Christmas 'Gonks/Gnomes' are so cute,  the look lovely in that pretty Christmas scene.  What a lovely gift for someone.  

The Reindeer die cut card is so intricate and pretty, I love that you made it all in white with the silver behind, it looks really stunning.   

The mittens are just so cute, they actually look knitted,  the background looks almost 3 D too! 

Thank you so much for 3 amazing Christmas cards my lovely XXX 

Sonia

Sonia's Description:

I’ve used the poinsettia and holly die from Tim Holtz ‘Vault Seasonal Sketch’

‘Merry Christmas’ from Spellbinders Christmas Mix and Match Sentiments.

On the first card I’ve also used a Sue Wilson snowflake border die, and the second card a Memory Box cut out die (sorry, can’t remember what they’re called) Gems from my stash 

Two gorgeous Christmas cards Sonia,  the colours are perfect,  the look is a lovely mix of traditional and modern. I really love that sentiment die you have used.  Your attention to detail is incredible,  to me you are and always will be the 'Queen of Kraft card'  

Thank you so much for sharing your Christmas cards with us my lovely XXX 

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So many lovely Christmas cards,  thank you so very much my lovelies 😘

I hope that you all have a great Sunday,

Love & hugs to all of you, 

Sandra XXX