Dashing off...

I fly to Sri Lanka tonight, so I hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year whatever you are doing.

I have scheduled some posts for you whilst I am away, and you may be glad to hear there won't be any Christmas themed ones; other than a project which I have planned for a visit to a Children's centre in Colombo (the capital of Sri Lanka).  More to follow on that on Monday.

So, despite having not made many Christmas cards this year, here is one that I received.  Another great card designed by Amy, and a nice quick one if you still need to rustle up a few more before the celebrations start!

Sorry, must dash[er] (that's bad, sorry again!) so full details can be found here.  Have a good one and keep an eye on my travel blog (link should be down on the left hand side of my site under 'blog list') if you are interested in hearing about what I will be getting up to...

Another dasher idea

As promised, another Christmas themed card for you today.  A slight variation on one I shared with you last week (see here) but using the Dasher stamp instead.  The ink used for Dasher and the trees (from the Lovely as a Tree stampset) is Chocolate Chip.  I have used a Brayer with Marina Mist ink to create the background.  Another very quick card and great if you want to make a stack of 'em if you're behind on your Christmas cards :).



Brayer time with dasher

Here is one of the cards from Wednsdays Christmas card club.  It features the dasher (individual) stamp in Chocolate Chip on a Chocolate Chip card base.

 

The ladies who attended the club really enjoy using some of the tools that they don't have of their own, including the Big Shot (embossing folder not a Stampin' Up! product) and a brayer.  The embossing folder has been inked with the brayer using Marina Mist ink before running a piece of the Whisper White card through the Big Shot to create a two tone background.  The sky behind dasher has also been created using the brayer.

Both these techniques are completely new to me too but I am definitely going to be incorporating this into more cards in future.

To finish the card we used some white glitter embossing powder on some of the snowflakes and on dasher's antlers to give them a bit of sparkle... 2 days later and I still keep finding glitter patches all over my house :)! 

The sentiment is from the Welcome Christmas stamp set which has some lovely images that I hope to use in at least one of the remaining club sessions.  If you would like to come along full details can be found on my classes page so contact me to book your place as space is limited.

Christmas :(

Finally I have succumbed to my NOT so favourite time of year! 

However, I absolutely love this stamp, which features on the swap that the lovely Pip gave me at our team social last month.

I love it so much it will be appearing on one of the first cards that I have planned for my Christmas Card Club.  Check out my classes page for more - there are only a couple of places left as this one was very popular as soon as I suggested it to people...


So email me to book now and avoid missing out.