ife has been so hectic lately that my card making sessions have been few and far between. Anyway hopefully things have quietened down a bit now and I can crank up the card making.
To get started I've been cutting out circles and ovals with Nestabilities and them rubber stamping on them sat in front of the TV.
Last night I started assembling the cards and I thought you'd like to see one of the results.
Materials used:
White base card, Green mirror card, red textured card, Christmas backround paper, Christmas sentiment, red spotted ribbon, white sparkle glitter, red glitter and the rubber stamped image was free with a card making magazine. Coloured using Copic pens.
Here's a close-up of the rubber stamping:
The card and image is a lot sharper in real life - I think I'm going to have to work on my camera skills!
I had a superb day last Saturday when a friend and I went to a Rubber Stamping Fair at Port Sunlight. It was a great day out and we were spoilt for choice with the wide variety of different stamps which were for sale.
Obviously Christmas themed stamps dominated the stalls but there were plenty of other stamps as well.
I picked up some lovely Penny Black clear stamps packs which had been discounted by 66% - what a bargain! Hopefully I'll be able to post some of my efforts with them shortly.
I also got another set of Just Rite stamps which I'm itching to use!
We spent the whole day at the Fair and by the time we got home we could hardly stand let alone think about rubber stamping!
I really enjoy going to card making and craft fairs - I like seeing what new products are on offer and always find there's some new tip you can pick up from the demonstrators.
Just had to share with you this video I found on YouTube. The camera work is a bit shaky but just look at the rubber stamps this shop has got - this must surely be Rubber Stamping Heaven!
Saturday was World Card Making Day and what a good day I had.
In the morning I went to see a friend's daughter getting married and I have to say that she was the most beautiful bride I have ever seen, and boy did she enjoy her wedding.
And then I spent the whole afternoon and evening making cards- what bliss!
I've just started my push on making Christmas Cards -I'm part of a small card making team at Longton Community Church and each year we make about 500 Christmas cards which we sell to raise funds for a Children's Home in Uganda. For every card we sell we support one child for one day. So Saturday got my efforts off to a great start.
Because of the volume of cards we have to make we start off making the ones which are the easiest - so most of the ones I made on Saturday were made using background papers, glitter and card toppers. In my card making sessions I tend to concentrate on one type of card making, so Saturday was my day for quick cards. Another day I will move on to rubber stamping, another embossing etc.
Here's one of the first cards I made - I've used a pretty background paper which wraps round the card. Then after matt and layering the card toppers onto mirror card I used 2cm double sided foam pads to fix them to the card. For a finishing touch I added glitter to the stars on the toppper and to the snowflakes on the background paper.
The funny thing is that once I'm in a Christmas card making mood I find it difficult to switch to another type of card making - does this mean I am addicted to glitter and sparkle?
Do you find it easy to switch from type of card to another, or do you tend to concentrate on batches of Christmas Cards, batches of birthday cards etc?
Here's one of the first cards I made - I've used a pretty 
