Silhouette Cameo Poinsettia

Hello Friends,

I stayed up late last night finishing this card...........

I actually started it after seeing this lovely card made by Linda Suarez in the on-line gallery of the Holiday Card Workshop on-line class (see side bar for details).

I was definitely missing using my Silhouette Cameo and decided to cut out the shape of this Poinsettia.  To do this I download some flower petals from the Silhouette on-line store and manipulated one of the petals to look more like what I wanted.  I then replicated the petal five times and fiddled about with them until I was happy with how they looked before cutting them out.

I had a real problem finishing the card as I seem to have lost the Stampin' Up stamp set that goes with my tiny little jewellery punch.  I had visions of stamping the little word "merry", punching it and tying it on one of the loops at the bottom, but it's nowhere to be found :( !

In the end I finished my card with a little metal heart that says "made with love" on it, which is pretty cute.

Right I'm off to search for that missing stamp set!

Enjoy your day and I hope you find some time to craft.

Carole
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Holiday Card Workshop - Bonus day

Hello Friends,

I'm back in class!

I've had a couple of days off, with a little too much to do and not feeling all that great, but when I saw the lovely cards made by the very talented Debby Hughes in the bonus class today I was determined to get out my vellum!

This is the card I made.........

I am really pleased with how it turned out.  I love the word "Joy", it is my favourite Christmas word and each year I use the word in some of my cards.

This is another card using product I've had for a very long time, and it makes me want to jump for joy, using it ;) !

Have a lovely week.  I'll try and post regularly again this coming week.  Don't forget to click on the link in my sidebar if you want details of this great class.

Happy crafting.

Carole
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Skiving!!!!!

Hello Friends,

Just thought I'd pop in to tell you I'm off skiving from my wonderful class!

Yesterday I felt a little weird, a bit heady and sicky and today I woke very early and spent the first hour or two making regular trips to the bathroom.  I felt better once I'd eaten, but can't seem to concentrate on anything.

I think it's a reaction to the Flu injection that I had on Wednesday.  I haven't been out to eat so can't blame that and I'm certainly not going to blame anything I've cooked!

So sorry if you are popping by looking to see what I've made in class.  I'm off out tonight and then tomorrow is another day and hopefully I'll be back firing on all my cylinders (I mean "both" my cylinders - lol !!!).

Hope you managed to make something lovely.

Happy crafting.

Carole
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Holiday Card Workshop - Day 4

Hello Friends,

I have been having a great week, I've been doing all my jobs in the morning ready to begin the class when it comes in at around lunch time here in the UK.  It has worked well and I have felt more or less up-to-date with things.  But with so much inspiration yesterday and with getting "on a roll" with those lovely robin cards, which were a dream to make, with the quick colouring technique, I went to bed feeling that I hadn't made a card similar to Shari's!  So with gay abandon, I decided to skip the ironing and craft like Shari this morning!

Here is my card.........

The class was based on working on an acetate panel, which I found a little fiddly but definitely worth it.  I'm still using supplies I've had for years, the stamped image is one of the first ever Christmas stamps I bought, more than 10 years ago.  It had gone a little hard and my lovely friend Maria told me that all I needed to do was to sand it a little, which I did and it stamped really well.

The papers I've had for many years too, which I found whilst sorting out some of my old stash, they are from when I was a Creative Memories Consultant, which seems a life time ago!

I've used Whisper White card stock, Christmas sentiment and punches all from when I was a Stampin' Up demo - oh how nice it is to use up my stash.  I never thought I'd feel so good putting it all to good use!

Another card without the Silhouette, I can't quite believe it - lol !!!

Have a great day and I hope to be back later with whatever I make from the class today, when it comes in at lunch time.

Carole
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Holiday Card Workshop - Day four

Hello Friends,

There is one very good thing to know that when you sign up for one of Jennifer and Kristina's on-line card classes you will have access forever!  With that in mind, I'm not going to get stressed..............I feel a little stressed that there is so much inspiration bursting from these classes that I don't have the time (or the energy) to make everything at the moment!!!  I'm am telling myself to pace myself and when the class is finished I can go back and enjoy the videos again and make the cards that I haven't time for whilst the class is "live"!

Today, was amazing, Jennifer taught us 4 ways to colour in quickly and these are some cards that I made similar to hers with just one of the quick colouring techniques...............

I actually made 5 cards, the first one I made wasn't the best, but it inspired me to try harder and these were the four that turned out really well afterwards.

I might have made more, but my mask was worn out!  I really should have treated it more carefully, but at least it was good for five cards!

If you haven't signed up for this class yet.........what on earth are you waiting for???? You can follow the link that is now on my side bar to get registered!

Thanks to my very busy tech guy for getting that little link on to my sidebar ;-) !

Enjoy your crafting..............with or without your Silhouette (mine's obviously takin' a well earned break!)

Carole
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