Nutcracker Napkin ideas

Well hello again!

Time for my next project for Scrapbookingncraft, and with Christmas just around the corner, I thought I would make some Cutlery Holders for Christmas Dinner.

I mean seriously, how stinkin cute are they! and super easy to make.

I used one of Alexis' Christmas Toy Soldiers Assorted Sizes Paper Napkins from the Scrapbookingncraft Shop along with a die and stamp set from Jaded Blossom.

So while I was playing with the napkin, I decide to also do a page in my Junk Journal.

My toy soldiers are on two different types of tea bags. So cool to see the different effects.

I used the Double Daisy 6 x 4 stencil to add some interest behind my stamped sentiment.

And seeing that one is a pocket, I made some tags to pop in them.

My nice sparkly baubles are 2 of the 4 White Mixed Media cardstock Bauble Swirls (small) set that I have used Glittered embossing powder and heat set. Love how they turned out.

If I have you looking at your napkins in a different way at Christmas, let me know, and be sure to share what you did with them!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Creative Warriors Inspiration # 18

Time for my next project to inspire you, which is a Mash Up of Secret Garden Wallpaper by Elisa Ablett for my cover, with one of the Girls from Michelle's Expand Wallpaper pack. Words from Karen Yates' Little Word Bits #2 Pack.

I grabbed my Art By Marlene Journal Book die and used the Secret Garden paper for my cover as well as my tag - Jaded Blossom die.
The small tag I die cut one of the girls from the Expand pack.
Added a piece of ripped paper from Secret Garden and then my saying from Little Word Bits #2.
Before sticking my tag down, I wrapped a piece of lace from my stash and then added a resin feather which I used Finnabair waxes on. Lastly was a piece of ribbon from my stash and a brad to use to hold my signature in and as a closure.

Well, I hope I have inspired you to look at your packs a little but differently.

Don't forget to share with us any of your projects over on the Michelle's Creative Warriors Facebook group, we'd love to see them.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

RIP Ma'am

History making with the loss of our Queen this week.

Such sad sad news to wake up and learn our Queen, Head of State, had passed.

My Porch Prints gave us a beautiful file in memory of the Queen, and I felt with Michelle Grant's Affinity Image for this months challenge, was a perfect match.

For the opposite page, I used one of Karen Yates Rainbow Lyrical Wallpapers.

After tearing the edges and adhering down, I just had to add an appropriate stamp saying.

Love this saying that is in one of my Jaded Blossom sets.

It will be very interesting to see how the future pans out, not just for the Royal family, but for us in the Commonwealth too. 

RIP Ma'am, thank you for your dedicated Service. 

You will be sorely missed. xoxo

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Coffee Cup Shaker Dangle

This month's Sparkles Monthly Challenges #154 is a Shaker Card / Creation.

This month I made a Coffee Cup Shaker Dangle for my TN Crafty Brain Dump Planner.

I grabbed my Jaded Blossom Coffee Dies and some foam tape and set about creating my Shaker Cup.

I then though I'd use a couple of smaller dies and pop them on the side in coordinating cardstock.

I used some Craft Sprinkles by Uniquely Creative as my confetti to shake.

A lot of fun to make and I Love it!

I look forward to seeing your take on the theme.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

ICAD 2022 - # 19 Selvedge

Next card # 19 - Selvedge.  

Week 3 Thee is:  Typography, found text, lyrics, poetry & lists.

I used my mop up card from #17 and used some die cuts that were sitting on my desk.

Honeycomb is Tim Holtz, Light Bulb is Uniquely Creative, Coffee Cups are Jaded Blossom and the Love is La-La Land Crafts.

Lol, yes there is bound to be more floating around here as well. But I do love how this has turned out!

I would love to see what you create, if you are playing along, just tag me @8806angela  if you are on Instagram.

See you tomorrow!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Gecko Galz Christmas Challenge

For the Gecko Galz Christmas Challenge this month, perfect to make a card to add to your stash.

What a fabulous vintage image for a Christmas card!

I grabbed my Jaded Blossom Square dies out and then die cut my Scalloped Square in red, inner Stitched Square in vanilla natural and then another smaller Stitched Square with my image.

I added some white and red paper ribbon to accent it.

I don't think it needs anything else.

I am entering the following Challenges:

Happy Little Stampers - June Christmas

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Royal Cards

This month I went with a Royal theme for my project to inspire you using the Royals ATC Sheet by Gecko Galz.

Wow, you can have so much fun with these!

I decided on the same design of card, but altering the style by different toning of ATC and ATC Coins.

Both of them I added gold flakes around the edges to give it a more regal feel....I have found a new love of gold flakes!

My first card I went with a Game of Thrones feel - Aria being my favourite character, a girl has no name and that faceless armor meant my Jaded Blossom Happy Name Day stamp set come out for a play! I stamped my sentiment onto a piece of vellum and carefully adhered to my atc. (I love this card ... just sayin') I did clip the corner of the atc to match the opposite curve on the atc coin.

My second card I added a die cut Thanks from my die by Taylored Expressions.

I hope you like them and are inspired to join in on one of our many challenges this month.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Halloween Cuties

This is my first month of being on the Design Team over at This is Halloween.

This is Halloween is a Halloween and/or Gothic themed Monthly Challenge.

So both themes are accepted all year round when stated!

I decided to make a bookmark with this cute photo of twins dressed as witches from Halloween Cuties by Lilli Rain Designs. The background paper is also from the same file.

I used my Jaded Blossom Halloween Luggage Tag stamp with versamark ink and heat embossed with Black embossing powder. Hard to tell, but it has given the words a nice dark shine and shimmer.

I used the little tag hole die from Uniquely Creative and added some black tulle and black glitter ribbon from my stash to finish it off.

Hope you get a chance to play along with us - enter here.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Spring Blossoms - Poppies

When you sign up for the yearly Club Kit 2022 with Gecko Galz, you get the files for the previous months you have missed emailed to you as well.

You can get sign up for it here, and at the moment, you will get 30% discount off at checkout!

Here's the Poppies image in April's Kit Club Spring Blossoms.

Just perfect for my Anzac Day ATC's I am giving out at the Nursing Home I work at.

I used my Jaded Blossom Goodie Bag Die as my ATC holders.

My Ode is from the Michelle Grant Designs - Poppy Mini, designed by Annette Gearside.

There are some great spring blooms in this file that you can use on many of your crafty projects.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Birds + Bees

This month's Customer Challenge over at Gecko Galz is Birds + Bees.

I created 2 cards for the Bees using the 2 of the sayings from Spring Time Sentiments.

 

I used my Jaded Blossom Stitched and Scallop Hexagon Dies to die cut my bases and card matts.

My bee is coloured using my Uniquely Creative Uniqolour Water Markers.

To prop up my easel, I used a couple of Vintage style brads from my stash with a circle die cut of glitter paper and clear domes on top.

This card is so simple but very stylish.

I used a SU embossing folder from my stash and then spellbinder dies to die cut my matts.

Again, the beehive is coloured using Uniquely Creative Uniqolour Water Markers.

I popped both layers up on foam dots to give the card some dimension.

And now for the Birds of the Challenge.....I did a Scrapbook page layout.

 

I started off by making an ATC using the owl image from the new Little Birds Collage set (page 2) and fussy cutting and then adhering to one of the backgrounds from the Tin Roof ATC Sheet.

I couldn't decide where to go from here, so looked around and found this great 12 x 12 page and saying  that goes well with my ATC. You'd be surprised with what you can find in my craft room, LOL, I know I am when I go on the hunt in it.

 

Ok, so now it's your turn to show me what you can do this month - you have until the 29th to get your entry blogged and onto the blog page. 

It really is worth the try to have some fun and maybe win $25 to spend in the store along your way!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Never More Designs Gothic Challenge

Have you checked out this month's Challenge Image over at Never More Designs Gothic Image Challenge?

I have played in my junk journal this month.

I am in the middle of making some ATC's for a swap and had 3 lots of left over paint, so laid that down in my junk journal and decided it would suit this month's image.

So I stuck my image down, then used a strip of washi tape and ripped it in half, one bit for top and bottom of image.

I grabbed my Dream in Color stamp set by Jaded Blossom and stamped my saying directly onto the washi tape.

It says: " You paint my heart happy".

Such a joyous image.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Never More Designs Gothic Challenge

Have you checked out this month's Challenge Image over at Never More Designs Gothic Image Challenge?

It's a pretty cute image really.

I decided to make a card this month - I did have a tag in mind when I started, but I think it is a card sort of image.....

Anyways, I printed the image and die cut with my Jaded Blossom dies. I also die cut a black card stock matt for it.

My little saying is a sticker from Art By Marlene's Artsy Arabis Sticky Notes.

A few crystal gems and I really like how it turned out.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Happy New Year 2022

Another year here and it has started worse than the year before! Never did we image that would happen right! 

I am already looking forward to it ending, hopefully in a much better state then we have started it.

With all that in mind, I decided to use the Happy New Years Collage Sheet for my January 2022 Gecko Galz Design Team projects.

So a new bookmark and a wine tag.

Yes the bottle is empty....I have to say, the bottle is beautiful and is a momento that my daughter and I both bought one of to remember our first girls weekend away for her birthday - it just happened to be when the Toilet Paper saga of 2019 started, and yes a week later we home and into lockdown! 

We did happen to get a bulk pack of toilet paper and that in itself was an experience too!

Anyway, not that you really needed to know all that.

Of course I used my Wine Tag die by Jaded Blossom with some black card and some Silver Glitter card. 

Added my image and then a couple of black rhinestones to complete it.

My bookmark is again black card with the corners rounded.

Added a couple of Lace min doilies by PortaCraft that have a lovely gold fleck through them.

Then a purple and a green acrylic gemstone to pick up the purple and green in the image.

A piece of ribbon and lace through a punched hole and we are good.

I hope I have inspired you to go into your crafting area and create - or the very least to check your toilet paper stash!

You have until the 29th of January to get your entry into our Challenge.

I hope to see you there!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Happy New Year 2022 !!!

Oh my, how is it a new year already!

This year has literally flown by - not our best year so maybe a good thing it went quick.

So with the Nursing Home I work at being in hard lockdown, I decided to make some bookmarks for the residents I have been visiting each day as their social point of contact.

I used the Toast to the New Year Collage Sheet by Gecko Galz which you can get as a freebie until Saturday night by spending $2 in the Etsy shop.

So I got my Jaded Blossom Wine Die out and black card stock and used that as my base. I then used the second part of the die to die cut my image.

I added a saying on top of the image before printing. 

Oh my, don't upgrade to Windows 11 if you want your programs to work as you know them to. I can not get my Word program to function as it used to and had to do this in Photoshop (PSE).

Anyway, added a piece of ribbon and I was done.

Happy to say that the residents that got one loved them and it made all the behind the scene dramas worth it!

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year Day and please stay safe.

Wear your mask and hand hygiene. It's not that difficult and a small price to pay for your sanity by not having to endure lockdown conditions.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

12 Days of Christmas

Day 9 is all about Trees, Trees, Trees and more Trees!

Mixed Media happening here,.

I used an index card that I had wiped some excess acrylic paint onto a few months back.

I grabbed some trees from last years napkins and used my matt medium to adhere - I have 8 trees over 3 layers.

I then used my Christmas Dies from Jaded Blossom and die cut 4 Christmas Trees - 2 sizes of both and adhered onto my card.

Then using my Neo II crayons and an aqua brush, I outlined my Christmas Trees. 

Hard to tell but I used a glue stick and wiped over some gold flakes onto my trees for a bit of shine.

Lastly I added a sentiment from a Uniquely Creatives Cut-a-part.

I love the grungy feel to it.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

12 Days of Christmas

Day 5 already!

Love this time of year as I get to use my Jaded Blossom stamps and dies!

Stamp set is Peppermint Season and die set is Christmas Dies.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

12 Days of Christmas

Day 3 of 12 Days of Christmas and another Index card for you.

Oh yeah, nailed it!

This sums up how I feel at the moment.

so my versamark pen that I'd have years, literally, sort of broken up as I used it on my string of light - stencil by Bee Arty called Party Lights.

I think the shimmer paints don't really like being embossed on....

My stamps of sayings and tangled string of lights is from Jaded Blossom called Bah Humbug 3.

But had fun finishing it off tonight's  afternoon shift it's been a long day!

So Nailed it! was appropriate, but I did get it done on Day 3 so that's what counts.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Gecko Galz Christmas Challenge

For the Gecko Galz Christmas Challenge this month, I made a lovely card that could also be used in winter....

Such a sweet image this month to use.

Using my Scalloped Rectangle dies from Jaded Blossom, I die cut my deep red matt for my image and adhered to the front of my white card base.

I got some wording stickers in a mystery box during the year and thought it would be nice at the bottom of the matt to use one.

I love how it ended up and I think it would cheer someone up on a cold winters day!

I am entering her in the following Challenges:

Gecko Galz Christmas Challenge

Arty Divas - November

Crafts Galore Encore #94

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Christmas Gnomes

Hello and welcome to my blog......I am honored to be on the 2022 Gecko Galz Design Team. So many talented ladies in the team, I hope I can inspire a few of you with my creations as well.

I have two projects to share today with it being my day to share my project, as well as my tag for the the 25 Tags of Christmas Event.

So first I will show you my projects for December that I created.

Ekkkk how stinkin' cute are these Gnomes! 

They are from the new Christmas Gnome Stamps set.

I coloured up two images using my distress inks and my neon gel pens for the baubles and lights - I had so much fun that I decided to just use the neon gel pens with 2 glitter gel pens on the third Gnome that I also made into a tag. 

 

The sentiments on my tags are from Jaded Blossom's Bah Humbug and Hero Arts CM405 - lol, it was a gift and does not have a title only that CM #.

I wanted to show you an ornament I made as well for the Card and Ornament swap we are doing.

I originally made this to send to my partner and took a photo, as you do, then placed it with others things I had made. When I got up in the morning, I wondered what was laying in the middle of my craft room floor - yes, my dog decided to chew it up overnight! Thankfully it was all she decided to destroy!

I have made a different ornament for my partner and sent off which I will show you once it arrives at it's overseas destination

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I used one of the images from the HO HO HO collage sheet.

It turned out wonderful, or so I thought!  

I hope have inspired you to make some cards or tags for Christmas - there is always someone you forget to send one to!

Come back later today and see my Tag for the 25 days of Christmas.

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!

Never More Designs Gothic Challenge

This month's Challenge Image over at Never More Designs Gothic Image Challenge is such a unique one!

I wasn't too sure what to create with it, but after pondering for a while I made a decision.

 

I made a goodie bag for a bag of coal!

LOL, just perfect for that image.

I used my Jaded Blossom Goodie Bag die to create my bag.

Used my Vintage Photo distress ink around the image to give it an aged look and adhered onto my bag.

Such a fun goodie bag!

Until next time, keep chasing white unicorns!