Tri-fold card for Christmas

Welcome to the 1st of December and our new Country View Challenge! 

An easy one for you... the theme is "Christmas". You can enter any projects with any supplies on this theme, as long as you follow ALL the rules! 

I made the Z fold type card shape using an old die (Presscut) but it is an easy one to make with 4 scored lines and 2 cuts out of an A4 piece of card. It has the advantage of offering lots of surface for decorating... 

For the front I stamped trees and snowflakes in black ink and the big tree and baubles in coloured ink with the Bottle Brush Trees Paperbabe Stamp set, on white card. 

On the sides I added white card stock with velvet effect stickers from my underused crafting supplies. 

A merry Christmas die-cut serves as the sentiment.

On the reverse , I simply added patterned papers and a piece of white card for the message.

And the beauty of the shape is that, when folded, it fits a standard envelope!

There you have it, something that will stand out on the mantelpiece...

I hope I have inspired you to enter the Country View Challenge blog, if not have a look at my fellow teamies projects and don't forget if you link your project you are in with the chance to win a £20 voucher for the Country View Craft shop!

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield   I am entering the Paperbabe and SSS Wednesday challenge

Cute but CAS

I should be working on  a DT project but I'm waiting for the crackle medium to dry.... using a heat gun is not an option because the crackles aren't as big if you do...

Instead I find myself inspired to make the Rubbernecker(s) smile... with an Autumnal card.

The stamps are from 2 Paperbabe stamp sets, designed by Kim Costello. I don't know about you but the sentiment always makes me smile!
I stamped tree, branches and leaves individually with a Kaleidacolor inkpad (Autumn Leaves), since the stamps are small enough to ink them with each small pad of colour independently. In fact, I actually used several inks on each leaf with yellow, green and orange to mimic real life autumn leaves which do not lose their green colour all at once.

The leaves are die cut from fun foam and coloured with DecoArt Mixed Media acrylic colours.

I thoroughly enjoyed my stamping session, in particular building a tree and creating a carpet of fallen leaves exactly as I wanted...

Do tell me in the comments if you like the card and if it does make you smile!

I am also entering the Addicted to stamps, SSS Wednesday, Paperbabe, Allsorts and The Artistic Stamper challenges.

Whistle While You Work

First let me welcome my latest subscriber, Sandma's Handmade Cards, who marks my 50th blogger subscription! It feels incredible to see my blog grow, slowly but surely... So I'll take this opportunity to thank ALL my subscribers, Blogger, email, RSS or other ways that I'm not even aware of for taking an interest and the time to visit and leave sweet comments!

Recently, I was lucky to win some Paperbabe Stamps goodies and they needed to be inked up!

The cute animals and funky mushrooms of the Whimsical Woodland set 3 reminded me of the Whistle While You Work song from the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, when rabbits, squirrels, and birds are doing the housework with Snow White. [I would include a link to a YouTube video but for the thorny issue of copyright; still, most of you will know this iconic piece of animation].

Regular readers will know I love creating scenes with my stamps and so the small sets in the Whimsical Woodland collection are well designed for the purpose, with elements that can be inked separately and combined in any way you wish. Paperbabe also makes matching wooden (MDF) shapes for the Whimsical critters and I'm mulling over the possibilities.

I used my new Kaleidocolor stamp pad for all the coloured stamps and black Memento for the sentiment, the rabbit eyes, paws and mouse features.

I die cut my ivory base with a Stitched square die (Crafts Too PCD89), partially cutting to obtain a rectangle instead of a square.

I felt the card needed something in the top corner so I added the Hedgehog.

I seem to be in a non-Vintage crafting period, which is so unlike me... I blame it on the weather!


I am also entering the Casology and Unikostudio challenges.