Poinsettia Exploding Box

Hello, two posts in two days things are looking up in Blogland for me.  Such a cold and windy day today and my day off work too.  I looked after my little 8 month old Grandaughter, Zara for part of the day, she is so beautiful and such a good baby, a pleasure to look after. 

Today I have an exploding box which I gave to my mother-in-law instead of a Christmas card. 

The red glitter poinsettia was made using a Marianne Creatable die (the same one I used for the gold poinsettia) but I cut 3x large and 1x small, I used Glossy Accents to stick the glitter then cut all petals apart and glued them to a small circle to build up the flower, not sure it that makes sense, it was time consuming but worth it. 

This was my first attempt at an exploding box and I thoroughly enjoyed  every minute of it and I know I will be making many more. 

The gold and the glitter do not show up so well on the pictures but were beautiful in real life.

I think you can just about see that the white card is embossed.

 I would like to enter this box into the following challenges.

http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/ Christmas Treat or Gift Packaging
http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com/ - Colours of Christmas
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Glitter
http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/  - Anything goes

Kenny K - Christmas Hottie

Hello - not had chance to post for a few days as I have been busy with a family weekend away and trying to get on top of my wrapping, We have 7 children plus their partners, plus their children, plus nieces, nephews, sisters, brothers, mums, Uncle Tom Cobble and All, so it takes me for ever to shop and wrap all the presents, shopping nearly finished and wrapping started but far from finished, I will get there

Today I have a card for my nephew today using Kenny K's Christmas Hottie, I am sure he will be pleased with this.  Coloured with Promarkers.

I have coloured a few of these digi images so they will be showing up on more cards when I get chance to post them.

I did a concertina fold on the card - the paper are Bo Bunny - Father Christmas papers, and the snowflake die is a Marianne Creatables. 

The christmas tree die cut I bought off eBay. 

Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy the rest of your week.

I am entering this card into the Promarkers Challenge - Week 129–Mega Christmas challenge

Hugs
Sue xx

Fizzy Moon - With Love

Hello
Today I have a Fizzy Moon card - Festive Fun with Love.  I have made this card for all quite a few of our 7 children (the ones with partners) and also my sister and David's brother and sister.  This card is the one for David's brother Pete and his wife.

Coloured with Promarkers, I have coloured so many of these I think I could do them in my sleep... lol.  All the glitter you can see is the same Stickles colour (Star Dust), I bought so many colours only to discover you only need 2 ... doh... Star Dust (silver tones), Diamond (gold tones) as the stickles take on the colour under them... wish someone had told me.

The silver tree is Memory Box - Flowering Christmas Tree such a lovely die, very delicate.  The pointsettia at the bottom right is a from silver and pink Glitter stick on sheets, stuck onto acetate and then cut out.

Again I have used my Poinsettia die and coated with Glossy Accents and the Glamour Dust.  The centre is a beautiful Moonstone brad from Wild Orchid Crafts with a silver bead end and snowflake charm both from eBay. 

This is the inside

With a close up of the Christmas Tree words

I would like to enter this card into the following Challenges.

Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge 84 - Animals
Delicious Doodles Challenge 7 - Hairy Legs
Glitter Fairies Challenge 4 - Non-Traditional Christmas
Penny Black and More at Allsorts November Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small

Alex and Felicity - Xmas Kiss

Good Evening,
Starting to feel colder now, after all our mild weather and talking of cold I seem to be coming down with another one, I don't normally get them but this is the second one in just over a month, think I must be a bit run down. 
Anyway I digress, I have made so many cards and just need to get some really good pictures and find some challenges to enter them into.  This card I will not be entering into any challenges as I don't think my choice of papers was too good.  Still a nice card for my nephew who is 17 and his girlfriend.  The digi image from Digi Stamp Boutique is called Alex and Felicity, Xmas Kiss.  Such a lovely young trendy image for a teenage couple. 

Coloured with Promarkers, with some Flower Soft for snow.  Talking of Promarkers I have decided to go down the Copic route as so much easier when looking at colouring tutorials to get the right colours, so hubbie said he would buy me one of the sets for Christmas and I thought I might treat myself to the other, but I guess I would not use all the 144 colours so the other alternative would be to just get the most popular colours.... what do you think?  This route would work out cheaper but could take me some time to write the list of colours. 

This close up shows the image and one of my two snowflakes which I covered with Glossy Accents and then Glamour Dust. 

Hope you like it

Sue xx

Poinsettia Card

Hello
I have been sooooooo busy making Christmas card and have loads to upload over the next few days.

The first of the bunch is a beautiful card for a close family friend and I know she would appreciate a more traditional card rather than the stamped images which I normally go for.  So here it is....

It is a Poinsettia card, the gold pointsettia are die cut of mirri card and the large red glitter pointsettia is the same die, but altered.  The white card is a beautiful embossed card, you can just about see it in the close up picture. 

The poinsettia die is a Marianne Creatable one. I have used this a lot for my Christmas cards. 





To make the large red poinsettia, I cut 3 large and 1 medium petal die plus a small circle.  I applied Glossy Accents and fine glitter to all petals, when it was dry I cut the 3 large petals into pieces and stuck them to the circle in two layers then the medium die on top.  Took a little time but worth it in the end.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges. 

Make my Monday - Flowers,  Foliage or Snowflakes
and
Everybody Art Challenge - Christmas Card