Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Hi Everyone,

This is most likely my last post for this year... December has flown by (is it really the 23rd already!?), and I was so busy making cards that I didn't even have the time to share them! Oh well, you'll surely enjoy some more Christmassy projects on my Instagram in the coming days, won't you? :o)

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, hope you get to spend it with your loved ones. Here's to a happy, prosperous and CRAFTY New Year, too! Those of you who don't celebrate Christmas - I wish you a lovely time over the next few days. And let's not forget about the less fortunate ones - my hugs and best wishes go out to you also! 

A quick card share, this was one of my favourite makes of this year. Super simple, but I love it! Hope you do, too!

I am entering the card into the following challenges:

Passion For Promarkers - Use dies/punches  (Bear coloured with ProMarkers, Gingy with Copics)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make it sparkle

I'll be back in 2017, see you all then!

Mirella

A break from Christmas cards... Introduction to Mudra stamps

Hi Everyone,

I seriously can't believe that Christmas is just around the corner, can you?! I haven't even posted half of my Christmas cards here on the blog... I suppose you'll be able to see them all on my Instagram - I will only share a few here... unless you are going to be interested in Christmas cards in January ;o)

Today, I decided to take a break from Christmas cards, and share a birthday card I made last night. I used stamps by a company new to me - Mudra Stamps. Watch this space for some upcoming projects in early 2017 - their stamp sets really inspired me, but I won't have much time for the remainder of December to make what I came up with (since I am going to be travelling here and there for the next 3 weeks) - so hopefully January will be the right time for some relaxing crafting! 

Today's card was actually inspired by an ongoing challenge over at Mudra - there's a sketch to follow. I also wanted to play some more with my recently rediscovered texture paste, hence the background of the card (by the way, I mixed the Golden Glitz Delicata ink with he paste, to make it more less match the golden embossing). I think the gold embossing is still a "hiccup" after all the Christmas projects, hahaha!

It's a delicate and feminine card, really beautiful and shiny in person, and it will be perfect for some birthdays I have coming in January - lots of ladies in my life happen to celebrate at the very beginning of the year!

I hope you like it!

I am entering the card into the following challenges:

Mudra Stamps - December sketch challenge

Have a great pre-Christmas week!

Mirella

SUPPLY LIST (please see affiliate disclaimer & essential supplies info here):

Stamps: Mudra Stamps, Floral Fantasy #1
Embossing Powder: Stampendous, Detail Gold

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Beary Merry Christmas with Neat and Tangled

Hi Everyone,

I'm back very quickly today - I'll need to pop by a few more times a week now, to make sure I manage to share all of my Christmas cards with you (or most of them anyway). I wanted to keep them a bit secret for a while, but now that they're out in the post and on their way to the recipients, I think it's finally time to share them! :o)

I coloured a lot of Christmassy images during the 30 day colouring challenge hosted by the amazing Kathy Racoosin, so plenty of my cards took only minutes to put together afterwards (bearing in mind that I had to make quite a few cards, I kept most designs rather simple). 

For this card, I used the adorable bear from the Neat and Tangled Beary Merry set. It was also the first card where I used the texture paste I bought like a gazillion years ago - I had lots of fun with it, so I'll surely come back to stencils and the paste some time soon! I doodled on the image a little bit, to make it a bit more personalised - loving my Copic Multiliner, I must say! :o)

I am entering the card into the following challenges:

SSS Monday Challenge - Let there be snow

Passion for ProMarkers - Use dies/punches (used a die to cut out the panel on the card & the snow slope. 

Image coloured with a mix of Copics and ProMarkers)

I hope you like this little guy as much as I do - it's most definitely one of my favourite Christmas stampsets of this year!

Stay warm, 

Mirella

SUPPLY LIST (please see affiliate disclaimer & essential supplies info here):

Gold and silver snowflakes with Neat and Tangled

Hi Everyone,

Are you getting ready for Christmas?! It's been super hectic in my household recently, but we're slowly starting to get the hang of "normal" life again, and the Christmas preparations are also going more less to plan... I managed to post out all of the packets and cards I meant to send (well... I had to cut a few lists shorter, but hey - we can always at least try our best, right?), and now I'm getting ready for another card marathon - I have LOADS of family birthdays coming in the next few weeks. It will be a nice break from all the Christmas cards, however :o)

Today I am sharing two cards with you, both inspired by the current Little Tangles silver & gold challenge. They are beautiful and super sparkly in person, but for the life of me I couldn't get good photos of them - I think I took over 60 pictures in different light, settings, rooms, etc... Nothing really worked... So you're simply going to have to take my word for it! 

Both of them are very similar, the colours are simply reversed, and the embellishments differ slightly. The snowflakes were cut from glitter paper & I used the inlay diecutting technique to put them on the panels. The sentiments, as well as all of the matting around the panels, were heat embossed with gold and silver powder, respectively. 

I have to say, I had lots of fun making these, and I was super proud with how they turned out - it's a real pity that the photos don't do them justice.

I hope you like them anyway!

Even a little Santa/gnome came to help me with the photos - to no better results! ;o)

I am entering these into the following challenges:

Little Tangles - Silver and Gold

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Ice Inspiration

SSS Monday Challenge - Let there be snow
SSS Work it Wednesday - Use dies

I'm going to try posting more of my Christmas cards here in the coming days. If you want to see them all, pop over to my Instagram account, I'll surely post more there!

Have a great day,

Mirella

SUPPLY LIST (please see affiliate disclaimer & essential supplies info here):

Embossing Powders: Stampendous, Detail Gold Opaque & Detail Silver Opaque

Glitter paper: from my stash

Snowflakes: Mix of Marianne Creatables "Snowflakes #3" and XCut old punches