Time for a catch-up!

It's been far too long since my last post, I am so sorry! We moved house 10 days before Christmas and there has been so much to do and being so busy really took it's toll on my M.E. and I've been exhausted. Anyway, a few days ago I finally got round to making my first card in our new house and it was so good to be back!

First of all though, it's time for a catch-up with the Christmas cards, so here goes...

First of all, this is the Christmas card I made for my husband. I loved this stamp so I bought it especially for this card. I might just have to use it for several years to make it worthwhile though!! The image is a Magnolia stamp and I bought the matching Magnolia Mistletoe paper to go with it. I used an A5 card blank as I like this size and a little green glitter paper to break up the background. The image was coloured with Lyra pencils and I used a Penny Black "Merry Christmas" stamp for the sentiment. The flowers are Prima flowers and the hearts border was made with a Martha Stewart "Valentine Lace" edger punch.

Next, I made this Christmas card for my daughter. She loves lilac and sparkly things so it had to have glitter card and lots of lilac. The image is an Elzybells rubber stamp that has been coloured in with Copics. I went around it with a blue chalk pencil afterwards. The sentiment is also from Elzybells. The tree border along the bottom is white glitter paper cut with an EK Success slim edger border punch.

Finally,this card I made for my son at Christmas. The image is from a Lili Of The Valley rubber stamp. I *Love* this stamp! It had sold out when I first tried to buy it so I was really pleased to get it in the end. I coloured it with my Lyra pencils and blended it with Zest-It which has now replaced my Sansodor as I found that the bottle can get a bit messy. The green paper was from a Papermania pack I bought the year before, it's so handy as I feel that I don't need a sentiment stamp when using that. I felt that the card turned out a bit too grown-up but in the end didn't have time to make a new one from scratch so had to give it to my son.

I found out four days ago that we are moving house in three weeks time! Plus on top of that the whole house needs re-decorating and carpeting before we move in. Therefore I have been flat out trying to organise things and today I'm concentrating on Christmas! I need to get all my Christmas cards done in the next few days and get presents wrapped then packed for moving. I made these cards a few days ago:

For this card I used the Eskimo and wording stamps from Elzybells. I coloured the Eskimo image with Lyra Polycolour Pencils. The papers are from a Papermania 8x8" paper pack from last year and the snowflakes were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.



For this card, I used a Whiff Of Joy stamp of Henry Mouse, coloured with Copics. The wording stamp is Magnolia. The papers are from Daisy & Dandelion.

This stamp is from Elzybells and is so sweet! I coloured her with Copics ans used a blue chalk pencil around her to add a bit of sky. I added some Snowflakes punched from Glitter Card using a Martha Stewart Punch and then for speed, used a die-cut greeting from a Daisy & Dandelion paper pack.