Exciting News

I have partnered with Marie over at Pink Poison Stamps - Splendid Little Company, we have opened a Yahoo Group for all the lovers out there, we will be sharing ideas, tips and tricks, we would love to have you join us, we will talk about every coloring medium from Gamsol magic to Copic markers, they have a new range coming out in January and I can't wait to get my hands on some, I will post when I do, they will be changing there name to "The Greeting Farm" in January, don't you just love their new logo


Here is the link to the group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/splendidlittlecompanystamps 

Hope to see you there

More Magnolia Christmas Cards

I have two more cards to share with you, one is for my manager at work and the other is for a friends of my Mum's who is lovely and always send Maddi and me such lovely things that she quilts.
Let me know what you think


Happy Holidays

Special Christmas Cards

I am finally down to just my special cards!! I created four today..not alot I know and they did take nearly 2 hours each!! Still I thought I would share them with you, the recipients don't watch my blog, or even log into the world wide web, so 'm safe sharing them with you, they are all winging there way across the pond,

The first was to my very special great-aunt, who is in England from Germany for the holidays, you will have to excuse the red fingerprints, we have a tradition of putting Maddi's hand print in the cards and the older she gets the messier it gets!!



The second is for my Grandad, who is so special to me, we are very close and I miss so much not being at his house for all our family traditions and can't wait to get to see him next year


The third is for Mum, she is a card maker, but doesn't get much time at the minute to craft so this one took extra time as I wanted it to be perfect and her to feel appreciated for all she does for me and Maddi and all the red cross parcels we get!!


Finally, this is for my Mum's neighbor, she is wonderful to Maddi and has a great-niece only 10days different in age to Maddi.


The first three cards are done with my copics, and the final card is gamsol magic with the CHF Thomas Kinkade collection its the first time i've used it and love the outcome.


Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season




PS. Thanks Debi, Sandy and DeeDee for the images I was so pleased to get to play with them, I hope you like what I did with them

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Inspired by colour not shapes

This weeks inspiration challenge over at Utah Divas blog is the beautiful snowflake stamps, I was actually looking at these in the post office and up close you can see beautiful purpley/greeny tones on the snowflakes, so I scrapped the card I was making and wasnt too happy with, instead I started playing with the colour combo, I loved how it all started coming together, hoewever, my snowmen weren't stampin up, so I grabbed the only xmas set I bought this year, snow swirled and started playing with the gamsol technique, I don't have a finished card to share yet as i'm still playing with how to finish it but thought I would show you that the inspiration doesn't have to come from the shapes or objects in the picture it can come from the colours, this is the snow swirled tree, it is a little more "funky colours" than i would normally use on a christmas card, but all the same I quite like it,

I thought it looked like a muted alcohol ink technique.

I also tried an inkadinkadoo stamp that I have had for a long time, I am so pleased with it I have decided to turn it into my christmas card design, I'd love to know what you think, I used my precious copics!!


I also started with the blues on my Judikins, you will love this set i've you've never seen it before, I will work on the other angels and show you they are so cute!!


That's it for this week! I am hoping to stamp at the weekend, but never get around to it!! I have 250 christmas cards to make so I must get going!!