Handmade by Gem

20 December 2012

Star Crafter at LEJ Designs!

Woohoo so pleased to find out I was picked as one of this weeks Star Crafers at LEJ designs for my brayered background card!!

Thanks so much! This is the card I entered:

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Santa claus is coming to town!

This week at Charisma, Team Gem reckon Santa Claus is coming to Town!!! only 5 more sleeps until you will find out if you've been naughty or nice this year! So we want to see Santa on your projects for this challenge! Head on over to Charisma Challenges to enter!! Our fabulous sponsors this week are...

PRIZE ONE

One lucky winner will receive 4 stamps or 1 stamp set!

PRIZE TWO
Marker Pop

Marker Pop are a new sponsor of ours!! They are generously offering a $10 voucher for their online shop, be sure to pay them a visit!!

PRIZE THREE
Cedarchest Designs

Cedar Chest Designs are another new sponsor, and are generously offering our third winner a $10.00 Certificate to their online store!

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18 December 2012

Snowy Postcard Stamp!!!!

I've been wanting this stamp for AGES ever since I started seeing what the creative Coops can do with it! Stampendous really should be paying her commission as so many people must have bought this after seeing her fab work with it!

I only hope I've managed to do it justice with this card, the first I've made with it as it only arrived today!
I can't believe it's only a week till Christmas and I'm STILL making Christmas cards!

I stamped onto cream card using Frayed Burlap distress ink and edged the whole panel with gilding flakes.

The poinsettias are Marianne dies, the floral sprigs are Memory Box and the sentiment is LOTV.

Papers are papermania which I've distressed around the edges, and I've added lots of stardust stickles to the snowy roofs which hasnt been picked up very well on my pics! I should have waited to photograph this in daylight but I couldnt wait to blog it :)

Card candy is craftwork cards.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

A & T Emerald Faeries Challenge - 2/3 - Christmas

Celebrate the Occasion - 1/1 - Christmas Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - 1/1 - All That Glitters
Elke Kaart Een Feestje - Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - 1/1 - Anything Goes For Christmas
Loves Rubber Stamps - Merry Christmas
Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge - 1/1 -Snow or Snowflakes
Papelitos Stamps - 1/3 - Anything Goes
Vickie's Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - Christmas
Fashionista Challenge - Winter
Hooked on Craft - Christmas
House of Gilli - Add Sparkle
Kaboodle Doodles - Christmas/Holiday
Lexi's Creations - Snow

Love to Create - 2/3 - Anything Goes
MyGrafico - Anything Goes
Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - Christmas
Pike's Playground - Christmas
Squigglefly - Anything Goes with Sentiment
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - 1/2 - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - 2/4 - Christmas Time
There's Magic in the Air - Snowman or Anything Christmas
Whoopsi Daisy - Traditional Christmas Card

Come and Get It Challenges - Anything Christmas
Dream Valley Challenges - 3/3 - Christmas
Eclectic Ellapu - 2/2 - Anything Goes

PanPastel UK Challenge - 1/1 - Christmas Time
Penny Black and More - 1/3, no digis - It`s your choice
Platypus Creek Digitals - Anything Christmas
Quirky Crafts - Last minute christmas
The Squirrel & the Fox - 1/2 - Christmas

Craftymess Challenge - Vintage Christmas
One Stop Craft - 1/2 - Distressed Christmas
Speedy and Friends - Dreaming of a White Christmas

Card Makin' Mamas - 1/2, cards only – Happy Holidays
Crafty Ann's - White Christmas

Guylou's Inimitability - 1/1 - Let it snow
Jingle Belles - Christmas - Anything (Holiday) Goes
Just Add Ink – Just add Christmas
Pattie's Creations - 1/2 – Christmas Card
Pause, Dream, Enjoy – Snow
Raise The Bar - Let it snow
Stamp Man - 1/1 - In the Bleak mid Winter
Stampin' For The Weekend - 1/1 – Let it Snow
Wags 'n Whiskers - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything goes with seasonal sentiment
C.R.A.F.T. - 2/5 - Winter
Do You Stack Up? - 2/3 - Christmas
Forever Friends - Christmas Cards

It's All About the Vintage - 1/3 - Christmas

Paper Crafting Journey - Any Christmas, Paper Project

Shelly's Images - Christmas is in the air

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17 December 2012

Winter Wryn

This is a digi by Tiddly inks called Winter Wryn, isnt she sweet!

I've coloured her with Prisma pencils and inked around the edge with distress inks.

The red card is embossed with a cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder and the paper is a scrap I found, no idea who it's by!
The sentiment is by Lili of the valley and the branch is made with a Memory box die. The Xmas tree hiding in the corner is made with a Marianne die.
Ribbon and dew drops are from stash.

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Poinsettia Christmas Card

This was surprisingly simple to make although it looks quite busy!

I cut 3 poinsettias out using Marianne Dies, stamped a sentiment and cut it out with Nesties and used one sheet of patterned paper by Papermania for the background.

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16 December 2012

Brayered Background

This is a card I made using my brayer, distress inks, and my new splodge mat!
I masked off the moon with a post it note and used torn paper to make the hills.

The Stamps are all from Kaisercraft and the sentiment is by Fiskars.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Amusing Challenges - 1/2, No Digi - Pink, Purple, Blue

Eclectic Ellapu - 1/2 - Anything Goes

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - 1/3, no digi allowed - Mask It

Stempelsonnen Challenge - 3/3, stamp as main focus - Anything Goes with a Stamp

Wags 'n Whiskers - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty - 2/3 - something new (splodge mat)

Simon Says Stamp - your favorite (technique)

Bearly Mine - 2/2 - Anything Goes

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Anything Goes

LEJ Designs - Sentimental (Anything With A Sentiment On It)

Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes

Vickie's Challenges - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by :)

14 December 2012

Indigo Blu bare forest

This is a beautiful, versatile stamp by IndigoBlu and I never get bored playing with it seeing what new looks I can achieve!

For this christmas card, I stamped onto black card with FlitterGlu and sprinkled with glitter. As I didnt want the glitter to shed everywhere, I then covered the whole panel with Acetate to protect the glitter.