Inkurable Stampers- Shabby Chic Cristmas!

Aaah! Hurry hurry hurry! Last day to enter the Inkurable Stampers November Challenge!!

These are my christmas cards for my friends (first one shown is the one I am entering)

(click on above pictures for a larger image)

Once again I used my "Oh Joy!" papers (and got to use all the different ones!). The puzzle peices were with sizzix dies, stamped with various christmas stamps and distress inked. The tim holtz music stamp is fast becoming one of my favourites! Twine and cotton tied with a charm around the puzzle peices (each mounted) and Darkroom door christmas wordstrip phrases finished it off.

Thanks for stopping by!

Em
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Lets Get Shabby & a sewing project

Hey I'm back!




I have had my shabby entry waiting to be posted for a while, but I finally got round to posting it.




As this Christmas card is going to be for my wonderful mum, I used a recessed window as a sort of tribute :) I used some more of my lovely "Oh Joy!" papers from Cosmo Cricket.

The challenge was to use at least three sewing items, including pins. I used pins, ribbon and a safety pin for my 3 items.


I also made a funky door snake out of corduroy- it even had dinosaur spines :P



Emily
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Inkurable Stampers October Challenge: Sketch!

Hey!
I have missed a month on Inkurable stampers, and though it's late, I have put in an entry :)
It is the first of my Christmas cards (:O hasn't the year gone fast!?) and I am going to use the Cosmo Cricket Oh Joy papers (last years christmas range) which we managed to find at an american shop: Inky Impressions. She also has a VERY exciting amount of charms and even illustrates her own stamps!

Anyways, Here is the card I created for Sarah's challenge:


I started off by stamping a stampers anonymous(I'm assuming Tim Holtz) music stamp on my cream card base, which I then distress inked with tea dye. I used some oh joy paper (teared a bit) on the top, then added two green ribbons. I used four small squares with embossed Kaisercraft dear santa stamps, which I inked over in various colours (resist). As the finishing touch, I added "merry christmas" in small black letter stickers above the ribbon.



Em
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Happy Bday HAT!

Recently I went to a crazy mad hatter sleep over party, so as I was feeling creative and inspired when I designed my friends card, this is what I came up with:



:D It took me ages but I finished it and I was very proud :P

This is the technique I used to create the hat: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/boxinabag/ - except I didn't pinch it together at the top and added a lid and a base.

I did as much as I could with the hat before I wrapped it around the box base.

I used:

• cardstock
• PP
• ribbon
• wire
• brads
• flowers
• stamps
• eyelets
• embossing powder
• charms
• cotton
• tearing =D
• and some more ribbon, and some more PP, and some more............

I'd love to hear what you think!
Em
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