Jingle Bells.

I have say this is my favourite card tonight.

I used two sets of stamps from this year's Autumn Winter  Catalogue fro S.U.

The  bells are from the "Christmas Magic" set and I hav coloured them with Copic Markers.

The sentiment /ornate border  are from the Father Christmas  set.

The Pine Needles are from a die set by Marianne Designs.

Father Christmas Card

Having had a bit of a stressful day, I retreated to the craft room when I got home from work. I needed to de-stress, ... big time and the way I do that is to shut myself away for an hour or so and make something to take my mind off the issues of the day. Today's make  was made using the new "Father Christmas" stamp set from S.U. This is a gorgeous set, if a little difficult to colour , but worth the effort.
stamp in chocolate chip ink and coloured with Copic markers and finished off with a touch a glitter.
I mounted the image onto a rich,  chocolate brown, shimmery card stock.  Then  mounted again on to Cherry Cobbler card stock, which I had embossed using the new cable knit embossing folder.  You may have guessed from the amount of time I have used this folder this week ...that I love this folder.

More Merry Mice.

 

I am  a little bit hooked on these "Merry Mice" stamps From S.U .

I have spent the last couple of evenings sat in front of the TV colouring in the stamped images. 

Today I have been turning the coloured images into cards.

This card is far from the traditional colours of Christmas and I am a little unsure of what I think of it.

I stamped the borders, which are in the" Father Christmas" stamp set from S.U in chocolate chip ink then stamped the mice and greeting and  coloured the images with Copic markers. 

The dark layers are a beautiful shimmery chocolate brown card stock.  

Unfortunately they look black in this photo. 

I finished this card with just a touch of glitter here and there. I love glitter but, to my mind too much glitter cheapens the overall look of the card. So I keep glitter to the minimum.

 Time to rescue the dinner!!