Little Outbursts of Creativity: Christmas

35 posts categorized "Christmas"

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Masked presents

Just a quick post with my card for DESIGN in PAPERS this week. I used a birthday stamp from Pebbles where I cut off the text from the stamp. This is like the third or fourth try to make this card and I'm still not happy with it but after seeing the other ones it's pretty ok even though there is a blue present hanging mid air. Nevermind. I used papers from the Stitched collection from Amy Tan for this card, they work as christmas papers too :) They work for everything really, so pretty!

That's it for today. Lots of stuff to do before Christmas. Trying to get all the posts ready until the new year at least but so far it's not going as fast as I want. My inspiration has escaped somewhere and everything crafty takes a loooong time. But I'll get there. :)

Dec 17, 2014 7:00:00 AM | Cards, Christmas, Design in Papers

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Merry Christmas with Lawn Fawn

For todays post at DESIGN in PAPERS I've been using the Joy to the Woods stamp set from Lawn Fawn. I colored it with Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils. I also got these wonderful papers from Amy Tangerine called Stitched and this sort of knit patterned paper is perfect for christmas cards. Unfortionetly the other side of the paper is also really great with some kind of journaling tags that are super cute. I would recommend getting two of this paper. Of almost all of the papers in fact. They are super cute!

Talking about Spectrum Noir, I made a card for their november challenge, first time I entered and my card was picked as Card of the month! How cool is that??? I'm super happy because there was some really pretty cards entering and I mean it was my first try. I'll definetly try again this month if I can find the time. Here is the card that won.

I'll be back twice today, busy day! See you soon again :)

Dec 10, 2014 7:00:00 AM | Cards, Christmas, Design in Papers, DT, Lawn Fawn, Spectrum Noir

Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Christmas Joy

I have a big bunch of diecuts on my desk, I'm not kidding. A BIG bunch. I' have been trying out my own cut files for Pretty Crafty Stuff since I want to make sure they work before uploading them. And I haven't had the time to use them all yet. But here is a card using the new Peace on Earth cut file.

And here is a snapshot of my craft space before I tried to organize some of the piles into other piles.

I would love to get any ideas on how to organize cutouts and die cuts from those stupid packages that aren't resealable. I can't find a way to both store and find the ones I want. If I don't see them I rarely use them. Everything needs to be close and also easy to see. Ideas?

Dec 2, 2014 9:22:31 PM | Cards, Christmas, Pretty Crafty Stuff, Sillhouette Cameo

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Winnie and Walter playdate no 4 revisited

I made a card for Winnie and Walter playdate no.4 in the beginning of the month. While I had the stamps out I made a couple of other cards. This first one is actually following the color inspiration even though it doesn't look like it since I stamped with white under. There is two different tones of teal/green and red/pink but it looks hopelessly pastel. I hope it'll pass as a less saturated version of the inspiration image. And it's not a christmas card, since I don't have any christmas stamps from W&W. I'll enter this card in the challenge.

Well, this other card started out fab, most of all as therapy coloring while listening to an audio book. Then it went downhill from that. I kind of like it but at the same time I don't. Well, since I already have two cards for the challenge I decided to blog it but not enter it. I think it's because the text doesn't show up on the very loud background. Ot it's just the mess I made when trying to make it pop by adding some white gel pen. Who knows. You can't be totally happy with everything :)

That's it from me today, I'll be back tomorrow with some Art Journaling. I was debating weather I was going to blog my AJ or not but since I use the blog as a kind of creative journal to see all my stuff in one place I'll blog it all in one post and be done with it. I also decided not to blog my Project Life spreads since they are a pain to photograph. Maby when I've done a few I'll change my mind but they aren't all that interesting anyways.

Thanks for stopping by!

Nov 27, 2014 7:00:00 AM | Cards, Challenge, Christmas, Copics, Winnie & Walter

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Improvised Christmas ornaments

I made some Christmas ornaments using some of my Hero Arts sets. I only own one HA Christmas set and I wanted to try to improvise to stretch my stamps. I used a brush stroke circle for the ornaments, stamped it twice to make the colors pop more on the kraft background. Then I embossed a cicle and some leaves on top of it. Lastly I used another brushstroke stamp to make a reflection in the ornaments. I also used the Stepping Stone alpha to spell out the word joy. Lots of stamps on this cards. And a small alpha of unknown brand. Pretty happy with the card concidering nothing is really ment for Christmas. Gotta love the stretch your stamps classes from onlinecardclasses.com. I guess something stuck ;)

I hope you got some ideas how to make something out of something else. There is probably better ways to make ornaments but this is what I came up with. Thanks for stopping by!

Nov 25, 2014 7:00:00 AM | Cards, CAS, Christmas, Hero Arts, Pumlor

Sunday, 23 November 2014

Christmas fun at A blog named Hero

I hope you haven't missed out on all the inspiration over at A blog named Hero this month. There is new inspiration each day, sometimes even two posts a day and we are all sharing what we like most about Christmas.

Today is my turn to inspire and I made a card using one of my own cut files and one of my favourite Hero Arts background stamps.

I embossed the black background using silver pearl embossing powder from WOW and colored my die cut with Distress ink. Lots of shimmer using mist on top of the triangles that now looks like trees. I did stretch out the file first to make the triangles longer. I think it looks great.

There is two prizes from Simon Says Stamp to win by commenting on one of the post at A blog named Hero (you are very welcome to comment my post here too but you won't win anything, you'll just make my day).

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Nov 23, 2014 11:05:00 PM | A Blog Named Hero, Cards, Christmas, DT, Hero Arts, Pretty Crafty Stuff, Sillhouette Cameo

Saturday, 22 November 2014

Crosstitch star card

I used one of my Pretty Crafty Stuff cut files to make a stencil, this crosstitch star is really pretty to use embossing paste with. I colored the paste really light blue, it doesn't show in the pictures but up close you can see it. I only wish I would have poured some glitter embossing powder on top. I didn't think about that until I was done with the card. The stamp I got from Ebay and I have no idea what brand it is but it comes with a few others that are just as cute. I silver embossed it on vellum and cut it out by hand. I really like white on white for winter themed cards.

Thank you for visiting today, there is a lot of posts this week. I've been busy as a bee :)

Nov 22, 2014 7:00:00 AM | Cards, CAS, Christmas, Pretty Crafty Stuff, Sillhouette Cameo

Friday, 21 November 2014

Merry Christmas in Swedish

For the WOW and Ruby Rock-it bloghop, klick here.

I actually have some Swedish stamps too, even though I mostly use the english ones. They tend to be more to my taste for some reason. But I got these Holly leaves (at least I think it's Holly?) a while back because I thought they were so pretty and the text stamp I had for a few years but never used I think. The text says Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. It's a really pretty font and honestly I found a bunch of Christmas stamps that I totally forgot I had while looking for something else. Well, actually, I rediscovered a whole drawer full with stamps. That is not normal, right? I might need to re-organise the craft room. Again...

Nov 21, 2014 7:00:00 AM | Cards, CAS, Christmas, Copics

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Seasons greetings

For the WOW and Ruby rock-it bloghop, klick here.

I was in the zone the other night, making Christmas cards and listening to a good audio book. I was going to make one card for a DT post later this week but I ended up making three. For this I used a couple of Hero Arts stamps and the deer head cut file I created for Pretty Crafty Stuff. When I made it I saw it in my head all gold embossed and 3d mounted with threads behind. I love the deer head trend. I also made a raindeer, a fox and a bunny to keep him company.

Anyways, I wanted to frame him så I stamped a background from Hero Arts and just masked the middle of the card using a PostIt. It's very pretty this card, don't you think? I never get my gold thread as perfectly nested as other people do, mine looks all messy and uneven. But I keep trying. One day I'll learn.

Thanks for stopping by! There will be more Christmas in the blog soon. Promise! And I don't even send out Christmas cards, more than to the closest family. But I'm in a Cristmas-y mood lately.

Nov 20, 2014 7:00:00 AM | Cards, CAS, Christmas, Hero Arts, Pretty Crafty Stuff, Sillhouette Cameo

Sunday, 09 November 2014

Christmas ornaments

I made a card for the Winnie & Walter Playdate #4. I really wanted to make a christmas card because of the color theme and inspirational pictures but I don't have any W&W christmas themed stamps. So I used some ornament die cuts and added the great starburst shapes from W&W for the background. I think it turned out great. I love the stamps from the sequins stamp set, they are such a good accent to add on any background. I embossed them with white pearl embossing powder and used distress ink for the background. I cut the ornaments from vellum, glitter paper and the red ones I colored with distress ink and added glossy accent on top.

I've made a couple of more cards for the challenge that I'll blog when i have time to take pictures.

Am I the only one who is looking forward to putting up some christmas decorations? I think I'll start decorating next weekend. It's been a few years since we were spending christmas at home and I haven't really felt like putting much effort in the decorations when we weren't going to be at home to enjoy it. This year I'll go all in. At least that is the plan ;)