Christmas Wishes

So here it is - Merry Christmas Everyone!

My tree is not completed but I am happy, especially with the pressie from PJ sitting at the bottom right of the tree - the only house to be unpacked this year.  The blur at the bottom of the picture is my train - chuffing around the Christmas Tree .... let the Christmas Spirit ring .....

 ... and this is what I wish for you all this Christmas .......

December Theme - Winter

I chose some backing papers from my paper book.  Winter?   Grey, white, silver come to mind.



I had a couple of embellishments from stash, attaching one to a backing of white feathers with a few red spots.  My embellishment tree was white and had grey and red decs, which matched the backing perfectly.  I added some white and silver snowflakes across the card.

I added a Trees paper to this card and put a pretty little house in front!!  A few more snowflakes added to the 'cold' feel.

The paper for my third card had white pine cones with bluey/purple leaf sprays on a grey background.  I decided to try my hand at napkin decoupage, which may or may not be a good idea!!!  I fussy cut a robin from a napkin but I just couldn't make it stick together. I chose another robin and this time I glued the layers together before fussy cutting it out.  I added it across the lower edge of the card and added some purple and fuschia snowflake peel offs.  I didn't like the look of these peel offs so I added some white peel offs to match them up, then sprinkled some more around.

I received the following cards:

A Winter Bird.
Thank you JudithAnn.

A glistening Winter Scene

Thank you Margaret.

 A Rather Elegant Lady - bejewelled!
Thank you Kate.

December Colour - Silver

I am going to use more wallpaper for this swap - I have a sample of truly gorgeous, wonderful paper!!!



It happens to have a grey background, silver leaves and mauve flowers - really metallicky.
I fussy cut some of the leaves from a separate piece of paper and glued these across the card.  Once all the glue has dried I outlined the leaves with a fineline pen and then outlined the flowers with a thicker pen.

I used a paper from my stash for the background and added a large silver peel off to the centre of the star print.  I glued a piece of pink ribbon, decorated with silver flashes to the left side of the card.

This piece of wall paper was black with a silver line floral pattern.  I added three silver brads to the lower left of the card.  My 'wonky' eye came into play now, you will notice that the lines are not parallel!!!  I didn't notice this until after attaching to rows of silver ribbon along the top edge.




I received the following cards: 
 

Beautiful card with silver peel offs.
Thank you Liz.

Embossed foil and presents.

Thank you Kathleen.

Embossed foil with ribbon and charm.
Thank you Jan S.

12 Days of Christmas - Days one and two

yeah!!! it's that time of the year again!!!

I opened Day one

Thank you Roz.












and then Day two

Thank you Kate.