One Of A Kind

Hello all, I hope it's not too wet and windy where you are.  I'm not keen if I have to be outside, but don't mind snuggling up in front of the fire with a good book, or some cross stitch and a cat on my lap. 
I am feeling flushed with success as I'm pretty sure we've done all the Christmas shopping today, so now I have the mammoth task of wrapping everything and making tags!
Here's a card I'd like to share with you today:

This card is unique because the white and blue dotty paper is my last ever piece of the Craftwork Cards vintage range.  It was perfect for this card.  I've cut the scalloped circle and trapped a die cut snowflake inside vellum and added it to the vertical strip.  The snowflake top left is Perfect Plum and the scalloped circle is Rose Red, two beautiful Stampin Up! colours.  The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards, too.  I was thrilled to be able to die cut a little circle, punch two small holes in it and make my own button.  It looks really good IRL.
I am making a gradual transition towards Stampin Up! products so that every time I run out of something I am replacing it with the SU version.  Although I've enjoyed making Christmas cards this year, I've found it quite stressful trying to think which patterened papers go together and am more than willing to let SU take the hard work out of it for me! 
A woman in my knitting group goes to a craft group where the participants have depression and other problems.  They really find that crafting relieves their problems, as you can imagine.  As it's a charity I thought it would be a good idea to donate all the bits and bobs I no longer need, so they can add to their own stash and help more people.  Brainwave, I think!  I am not a cluttered crafter, I like to be organised and know where everything is, so this will give me more space to get better organised.
Anyway, enough of my rambling, I'm off to read all your blogs and flick through some magazines for ideas for Christmas gift tags.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend, everyone, and thanks so much for dropping in today.
Jane xx

Comments

  1. Stamps and Paper3 December 2011 at 21:26

    A really pretty Christmas card Jane , well done for doing all your Christmas shopping

    Anne

    ReplyDelete
  2. Margaret3 December 2011 at 22:08

    Lovely card, Jane. I hate using the last piece of a paper that I love. If I have scraps that I can cut an inch square from I stick them onto a piece of copier paper to make a "quilt" backing paper. I tend to do a few sheets with different colour combos. I used some on a card on my blog here http://christianchickcrafts.blogspot.com/2011/06/couple-of-cards.html
    That might be an idea for the craft group to do something similar, creating their own backing papers and keeping costs down.

    Margaret xx

    ReplyDelete
  3. Jean3 December 2011 at 22:30

    Once again, very pretty. I love that "captured" snowflake.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Donna Mosley3 December 2011 at 22:47

    Gorgeous card Jane, love the fab design and gorgeous snowflakes.

    Donna x

    ReplyDelete
  5. laurie6 December 2011 at 01:44

    Love the snowflakes!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Sarn9 December 2011 at 12:16

    Lovely! x

    ReplyDelete
  7. Vicky Hayes9 December 2011 at 13:27

    This is a gorgeous card Jane! I love your snowflake embellishments - especially your clever idea of trapping a die cut in a vellum sandwich. I agree that crafting is very therapeutic and how lovely of you to donate the stash you no longer need to a help group. Vx

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Colour Q Challenge # 121 and Freshly Made Sketches # 19

Image
Hi folks, hope you're having a good weekend.  I can hardly believe I'm posting again so soon, but I really wanted to get this card on before it's too late. Here are another couple of challenge blogs I've been following since just before Christmas, but I haven't had enough supplies to be able to join in.  The first one is the Colour Q challenge  which as you can see, wants us to use the colours shown in the picture, put together beautifully in the skirt.  I don't have any of the Stampin Up! In Colours yet, so this is the first time I've been able to have a go.  The second challenge blog is Freshly Made Sketches.  I saw this and wondered if I could combine the two challenges. And so here is my card: First of all, I rotated the sketch, I just couldn't work it that way up! I decided to use a kraft card base, and stamped the image (sorry I can't remember the name of it) which I'd inked up in Old Olive, Real Red and More Mustard. ...
Read more

The Paper Players #95

Image
Hello there everyone, hope you've had a good Monday.  I have, despite the pain in my hand.  I'm pleased to say it hasn't stopped me crafting one bit. I'm really pleased to have made a card that I can enter at The Paper Players blog challenge .  Here are their colours for this week: Such great colours, but it took quite a bit of experimenting before I was happy with my card: It looks a bit light in the photograph, but it's lovely in real life.  I've just received my order of card stock, including a pack of Baja Breeze, so that was my jumping off point.  I tried several different stamps before deciding on the Posy Punch set, as a lot of stamps didn't have enough impact in these colours, and I wanted to make a statement.  I've substituted Real Red for Poppy Parade as I don't have any ink in that colour. The base card is 5"x7", with a layer of Baja Breeze on top.  Then the bit that frustrates me:  I really, really need a 5"x7...
Read more

The Paper Players # 86

Image
Hello there!  I am a big fan of The Paper Players challenge blog and follow it avidly week by week (yes I spend a lot of time reading blogs!) and so finally I'm able to join in this week.  It's a colour challenge: Now here's the silly thing... when I saw these colours I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them, but when I actually tried it, it didn't work!  So I played and played and had practically every stamp out that I own, and then in the end, this is what I made: The thing that's brilliant about these challenges is that they're helping me to learn about proportion, i.e. whether everything is to scale (you know what it's like when you have a tiny stamp that disappears on your card) and the way colours work together.  Years ago (yes, I'm quite old!) there was a brilliant book called Colour Me Beautiful which explained very cleverly about how to dress and keep colour and pattern in proportion.  It talked about main colours and accent c...
Read more