GlitterAngel Art

Daring Cardmakers

This week's challenge on Daring Cardmakers is to use Kraft card - easy for me since all of my recent cards are using it!  Here's another card using my Christmas tree template and the Hero Arts tag stamp:

 

Frosty the snowman

I'm still working my way through my Christmas card list, and still loving my new Christmas tag stamp.  I decided to make a fun snowman for this card - although now I've finished I like it and wish I'd made myself a template instead of just cutting it from hand without thinking as I think this would be nice to use in my next class.  Oh well, I'll just have to make one now!  Can you tell I never plan my cards in advance but just make them up as I go along!?

Hero Arts Christmas tag set

I just bought a set of lovely tag stamps to finish off my Christmas cards.  My boyfriend likes to give individual cards to his family, so it's always quite a big job each year on top of the hundreds of other cards I make!  I've made a start with cards for his mum and dad - I've just got his brother and sister, 3 nephews and niece to go!

 

Birthday calendar

This calendar is something I came up with for myself more than for the class.  I keep a typed calendar card for each month on a pinboard above my desk so I can keep a record of what birthday cards I need to make, and then tick them off as I go.  I thought it would be nice to have a proper calendar for them.  I fixed the month cards onto the mountboard with brads, so I can swap them about and have the current month on the front.  Also, if they get tatty, I can easily replace the cards.  The background is extremely shimmery and is lots of glimmer mists, mica powders and interference paint (very messy but worth the effort).  The main image (again from Third Coast) is stamped onto acetate, then coloured with Twinkling H20s and stickles glitter.  I'm really pleased with the end result.  I'll print a set of the cards for everyone in the class, but if anyone wants the file (it's just created in Word), drop me a line and I'll email it to you.

Calendars for Christmas

I wanted to come up with something for my next class as well as cards, and as I'd picked up some Anita's calendar tabs a while back, I thought calendars would be a great idea, as they'd made great Christmas presents. The next class is on the 21st November at the Jinney Ring and I still have a couple of places left if anyone would like to join us (just drop me an email if you're  interested and I'll give you full details).

I posted one sample a few weeks back.  Here's the next idea I came up with - it's using a lovely carousel horse stamp from Third Coast, and lots of glimmer mists and glitter:

I'll be back soon with the next sample.....
 

Christmas wishes

 
Well it's one extreme to the other with my blogging, and I've got lots to post this evening.  Actually blogging has been a bit frustrating recently as my poor old laptop really can't cope with the amount of music and art photos I've saved and it's beginning to protest a bit.  As you can see, my Christmas production line has been progressing and I'm happy to say that I've FINALLY finished my Christmas cards. Very late for me - I usually have them made and written by the end of August.  My boyfriend has been enjoying telling me that "I'm slacking with my cardmaking" - to be quite honest I'd rather that than the usual moans I get about taking over the house with my craft stuff!

Anyway, here's the finished article

I made the template myself for the tree, which is cut from green card, then glittered.  The burgundy background is Coredinations card put through a Cuttlebug folder then sanded.  If anyone wants a tree template, just email me, and if you send me a SAE I'll send you a set.
 

PaperArtsy Mini-book

Isn't it fab?  Don't you just love that lovely bird?  This was made in a workshop with the fabulous Leandra from PaperArtsy.  I had been really keen to have a play with the 10 Seconds Studio tools, as a set has been on my want list for a while and I really wanted to try them first to see which set would be best.  I bought the basic set to start with, but I can see I'm going to be buying more!  In the class we painted the edges with acrylic paint, but when I got home I decided to add some copper Krylon to the edges to tie in with the metal.

I also had to knock up a quick card for my boyfriends kids to give their grandma.  I'd made our card ages ago, but had completely forgotten that the kids would need one too.  So this was made in a rush on Sunday morning so they could give it to her at her birthday lunch! 

Busy, busy

I just don't seem to be getting enough time to craft at the moment, I'm not sure why, but I'm determined to keep some time for myself this weekend to get some serious crafting done!

I had to make a quick card last night (usual last minute request from my boyfriend!).  He needed a sympathy card for a friend, and I thought some Laura Ashley papers would be perfect.

I took a photo of this box when I made it for my little niece's bedroom, but I went to visit her at the weekend and was very pleased with how it looks in her lovely room:

 

Well done card

My boyfriend's nephew passed his driving test last week - and as usual, I had to make a card with no notice!  This was a bit of a challenge as I don't really have any nice car stamps, but I found this cute little car in a new baby set I have, and it makes a lovely background paper I think.  The letters are cut using my Cricut, and the background is a cuttlebug embossing folder using some C'oredinations whitewash paper with a green core which was then sanded.  I then added some glossy accents to the letters.

My newly decorated craft room

I took a few snaps this afternoon of my craft room.  I've still got a few things to do before I get it how I want it, but I'm really liking how I've got it so far.  I want one of those lovely ink pad storage shelf units, and might treat myself to one soon, and some of my supplies are bulging out of their containers so I need to re-organise them slightly, but it's only little things I need to do now.  As you can see, most of my supplies are in A4 plastic boxes stacked in an Ikea Expedit unit.  My desk is close enough for me to just reach round and grab whatever supplies I need as I go.

 

I had a wooden desk tidy from Ikea, so decided to tie it in with the new colour scheme by covering it with some gorgeous Laura Ashley wallpapers.  I also treated myself to a gorgeous memo board which is covered in a lovely sage laura ashley print.

 

 

This is a close up of the top of my white ikea unit.  I really liked this decanter style bottle - it was a lovely bottle of cognac that we recently finished and it was just too nice to throw away so I decided to store some pearl beads in it.  I also thought I'd use my angel oil burner for beads too as I've got another metal oil burner that's more practical to use.

 

This is how I store my stamps - I catalogue them, and have a ring binder with all the images and CD numbers in, so I can quickly swivel  the storage unit round to find the numbered CD containing the stamp I want. 

 

And this is the overflow as my swivel CD unit is full - I need to get another one as I've even got more CD cases full than will fit on this extra rack!

 

As well as storing my stamps in CD cases, I also store my nestabilities in them.  I cut a piece of magnetic sheet to fit the case, then the nestabilities stay in place and are easy to grab when I need them.