Luminara

Have been mucking around today trying my hand at something different.  I saw one of these on Paula's blog last year so thought I would give it a go today.

Am quite happy with the way it has come together but am sure I can fine tune it a bit more.  Something to sit on the mantle or shelf at christmas and very safe as the "candle" is battery operated.

Another Christmas Card

Here is another card that we made at my class last week, I apologise if the idea is one of yours but I have looked at so many cards lately to get inspiration that I'm not sure where I saw it or something similar.

On this card I have again used the Welcome Christmas and Christmas Greetings stamp sets.

I stamped the wreath and then added red dots for the berries with a stampin marker and I have fussy cut JOY and adhered the J & Y with small pieces of dimentionals but the O is flat.  The ribbon is Very Vanilla Seam Binding.

The colours used are Real Red and Pear Pizzazz and the base card is Naturals Ivory.

Welcome Christmas

We had our Team get together on Saturday and this is the swap I put together.  I actually made this as one of the card for my class that I held yesterday too.

I have used cherry cobbler and old olive card stock and crumb cake and cherry cobbler inks to stamp the images from the Welcome Christmas. The Merry & Type stamp set has some great stamps to choose from and that is where the Deck the Halls stamp is from.  The Merry Christmas is from a set of two stamps called Christmas Greetings the other stamp being one that is suitable to stamp on the inside of your cards.

I love the new seam binding ribbons that are available now and with the addition of some rhinestones and some Champagne Shimmer  Paint the card was finished.  

Masquerade Ball

Early in August (I know that was a while ago) my daughter Ellen went to her school ball and it was a masquerade ball.  So we had to sort out a mask.  She did have one from a previous party she had been to but of course it was the wrong colours and then she also needed a mask for her partner.  At the local art shop here we found some paper mache masks which Ellen painted and decorated with some dimensional silver glitter glue.  We then found some trim to finish the edges and I glued some feathers and a blingy button on hers.  They were finished off with some Stampin Up Rhinestones.

This photo was taken before we added rhinestones to the plain mask.  














Then the finished masks where we had added three rhinestones to one side of  that mask.








Stampin up products came in very handy as I used tombow, crystal effects and sticky strip to help finish these off as well as the rhinestones.