I finally got around to making my ATCs for Paul's ATC swappers November swap. The theme was the 12 days of Christmas and you had to make a series of 12 ATCs. Here are all of mine together. Sorry the photo is a bit blurry!


I took iinspiration from some cards I made a few weeks ago using my Cuttlebug folder and an Elzybells stamp.
Here is a close-up of a couple of them. A couple got a bit smudged but I didn't have time to redo them but I don't think it is too noticeable.
I did lots more preparing for the Fair yesterday evening and just have a couple more things to finish off.
Am off to bed now as it is already Saturday and am suddenly feeling very tired!
Jane
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One of my very Good Friends who is also a bit of a Craft addict and works in the same team as me left to go and study at Reading University as a mature Student at the end of last week. We went out for lunch to say Goodbye yesterday and I made her this card for us to sign.

Helene is going to study Meteorology so I wanted to make a Weather themed card for her.
I decided on a Rainbow and clouds and tried to find suitable embellishments, I couldn't so I decided to make one with my Nestabilities and Cuttlebug. I cut three concentric circles in red yello and green card and stuck them together. I then cut a round frame from blue card by using 2 Nesties one inside each other.
I stuck that on the other 3 and cut the whole thing in half through the diameter of the circle and then trimmed out the arch with some small scissors.
I cut 2 clouds from felt with oval scallop nesties and then mounted them with foam pads under the rainbow to make the topper.
A bit of bling, some Sizzix letters and a stamped Elzybells greeting complete the card.
It actually turned out better than I'd imagined and I have another ready made rainbow to use for another project!
Hope you are having a good day and are keeping out of the rain. It is rather grim here!
Jane
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I made this card today with my new Elzybells stamps. I embossed some white card and stamped the greeting at the bottom of the card. The stamp actually has 4 faces on it set into a square on it but I coloured them in and cut them out so they could be set in a row on the card.

The pom pom trim is from John Lewis and is quite expensive so I am using it as sparingly as possible. I think I should get 4 more cards out of the 50cm I bought.
I have prepped 4 more of these so am off to make them up now.
Can't believe half term is nearly over!
Hope you are all having a good week.
Jane
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The Elzybells blog challenge on Thursday was to create a card in the colours of your country's flag - red white and blue for me...

I immediately thought of this cute boy in the snow stamp and this lovely sentiment for the front of the card.


I used some of my new Daisy and Dandelion Christmas stack paper and dug outs some of my Christmas snowflake confetti and embellished each flake with a small gem.

I embossed the stamped and coloured image with a Cuttlebug folder to make it look like it is snowing. I got this tip from Carol's blog and I think it is great for wintery scenes.

The image was coloured with Promarkers and chalks, I used some shimmer chalks on the snow but I don't think it shows in the photos very well.

Am off to Newbury Artstamps England fair today, then I hope to spend the afternoon crafting :-)

Have a lovely Saturday!

Jane
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I cut some more felt shapes with my Cuttlebug and nestabilities today. I decided to make this needle case. I was inspired to use these colours after spotting the spotty ribbon. I love spots and stripes! I cut the flower with a sizzix shape. I am really pleased with how this turned out and I plan on making a few more in different colour combinations.




I also made this little brooch using the same colour scheme. I sewed this on the machine but I think I would do this by hand next time as it has turned out a bit wonky....