Christmas Castle x

Morning lovelies

Happy Wednesday to you all, hope you're well?

I'm slowly getting through card orders, work and happily playing Animal Crossing. Still in Lockdown but it seems there is slow easing all over, sadly I'll be shielding 

This time over at Use Your Craft Stash we are using the letters C and D with Anything Goes for the nest 2 weeks and also for fun Angela is counting how many of the chosen letter you van get into your craft make???!!! Think I'll leave it between her and Carole

Here's just a little something I made hehehe

My Christmas Castle

I made this from Charcoal card, Crimson card, Centura Pearl, Distress Inks, faux candles to light the towers some Classiques Spectrum Noirs to add details to the windows, some Hat pins and pearls to the towers and then lots and lots of Chloe's Sparkelicious Glitter (I'm still finding it all over my desk)

above is with the faux candles off

I used the Dreaming Tree SVG file Enchanted Winterland that I got a few years back but never had the chance to create! I will need to add the other elements ready to display at Christmas

I hope you will join over on Facebook and play along with the Challenge! Remember its ANYTHING just use the letter C or D with could be as simple as card to Diamond! 

Well best get back to work ..... its a Victorian theme today hehehehe

Huggles Mel xx

Potted Poinsettia xx

Afternoon my lovelies

I do hope that you all had a great Christmas and that Santa was good to you? I was totally spoilt rotten and so was hubby too! Even with the "lurgie" we all had a fantastic time with the family!

Today I wanted to share a wee post for my Clare Curd Design team

I made this wee potted Poinsettia plant using my Silhouette Cameo and the delish Botanical Noel papers

The flowers I edged with markers to bring out the colours, then layered them up  after curling the papers to give them some shape! The centres are from some seed beads I had in my stash with some wire to make the stems!

The wee pot is made with some terracotta paper from my stash

They were very easy to make and made a perfect wee Christmas Gift!

Well off to catch up on some cleaning and ironing!

Have a great day everyone

Huggles Mel xxx

Mistletoe Kisses xx

Morning all

How are we out there in blogland?? I'm still bit under the weather but made it into my craft room to get something crafty made for my Clare Curd Design Team post

A great wee set of last minute Christmas cards using some adds and ends from different paper packs and using my trusty Silhouette Cameo for the frames and mistletoe. If your really good with a craft knife you could do the frame yourself but here's how I done it

Firstly on my Silhouette program I made a 4x4 square with the text on it so when it was cut the text would leave a space. I also added my mistletoe shape to one side that I cut

I next removed the white text and stuck the white panel onto some red paper from my Basic Grey Hey Boy pad and used some of the green to cut the mistletoe from the Hey Boy pad as well

I've kept the text for another card, us crafters throw nothing away!

Next I covered the back of the red panel with foam pads and stuck it down on to a card blank, making sure it was certain and leaving a white border all around the red

Taking the mistletoe leaves just one large and 2 small, I embossed the back to give them some shape

before adding foam pads to the leaves and glue to the stems

the sticking to the card, in the middle just at the top of the white panel

Next I took some of my Card Candi and stuck it down to form the start of my mistletoe.

The folding another Card Candi in half with the pattern to the inside I stuck it on top of the other piece already on the card.

To finish I added a piece of red satin ribbon and thats it!

I also used some of the lighter green paper from the Hey Girl Basic Grey pad to form the lighter mistletoe steams! I think both are very festive!

Well thats all for me! Till next time everyone

TTFN

Huggles Mel xxx

        

Let's go cruising xx

Well hello my lovelies

Today I've been stuck on this stupid "taptop" trying to sort loads of things but with no luck! Typical when you have 101 emails to reply to and sort you can't send one! Guess it means more fun in the craft room instead hehe!

Well yesterday was our 7th Wedding Anniversary, yeah I can't believe it either lol! We had a nice quiet day as hubby was working but we had a lovely meal and as usually he spoiled me rotten! He even made me a wee card, knew the cardmaking would rub off lol!

I decided to make another special wee card for him 

What do you think?

He just loved it and his wee face was sooooo smiley when he seen it lol!

I stuck with grey/silver tones so I could sit it in our hall, matching our colour scheme!

I would like to enter the following Challenges

Penny's Paper Challenge -Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody -Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Men/Boys

Brown Sugar Challenge - Transportation

My Mum's Craft Shop - Boy's Only

Sister Act - Anything Goes

Now I've just gotta come up with something for his birthday card ekkkk! Ideas on a postcard please! Well off to work on a special lil ladys Birthday Card, my wee Granny oh and maybe check out the Christmas box, I mean its only like 99 days now lol!

Till next time all, be good and happy crafting

Huggles Mel xxx

Ps yeah its us wee two and the mad puppy! Not much has changed, I think??