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Wednesday 9 November 2011

Blue Christmas

I am a bit of a Little Claire fan and a few of their Red Gingham Christmas Stamps accidentally fell into my shopping basket recently! I recently inherited my OH old Hp printer as mine (2 years old)threw a fit when I loaded a re-filled cartridge and is now landfill. This one has better settings for graphics and does not assume everything is a photo with the result that my downloaded paper stash, which to be honest never looked that good printed out,  like this lovely Pink Petticoat paper are printing out lovely on Rymans bright white coated 200gsm  card and their  Ultra smooth 120gsm heavyweight paper that my do-crafts buddy Incy told me about.  I bought it when it was on offer and it was great value. This printer does not winge about e-bay ink and I can re-set the dry time so that it is even possible - really quickly, as the paper comes out, to sprinkle embossing powder on the image (although only the black ink works) and heat emboss.  Lots of playing going on this week! I also used a papermania 5x7 embossing folder (fab size as I don't often make small cards), SU punches, Nestie star, Promarkers, Viva pearl pen, new stardust pen adds just the right amount of glitter, I'm loving it
While not card making this week I have been busy with the chickens who are enjoying picking over the veg patch, except for Ginger who, like her namesake in 'Chicken Run' is a mistress of escapology! although today I think I have found where she is getting out.  Toby the dog comes and gets me when she has escaped.. he is partially sheepdog after all, and doing so well after his knee surgery. Our vet advised us to get another dog, a female so Toby is above her in the pack order. A friend of Toms has a beautiful Pyrenean Mountain Dog puppy from a working line, nice chunky legs! We have reserved a little girl and will collect her just before Christmas. Puppies are a lot like babies, you forget how much hard work they are!
while I was writing this post a rather strange 'card' decided to sit on my white photo booth....This is Stumpy......................... he was a  rescue kitten with his brother Late. He is a blue eyed , 3 year old siamese-ish moggie rescued by the lovely people at Pheonix in Bergerac. He loves a cuddle as he and Latte were hand reared after being dumped when only 24 hours old.

11 comments:

  1. I love the clean and simple style of this card. Thank you for joining us this week at Winter Wonderland love Linda

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  2. What a pretty Christmas card Donne, the cool blues work really well with the snowflake embssing.

    Thank you for sharing with us at Stampalot Challenge this month and good luck.

    B x

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  3. fabulous sparkle thank you so much for sharing your lovely work with us at the Winter Wonderland
    Hugs Kate xx
    PS I have some more new candy if you are interested:)

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  4. Beautiful creation
    I love the image and how you have used the colour theme
    Thanks for joining us at Sir Stampalot challenge this month

    Hugs
    Francesca

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  5. Its just gorgeous Donna, love the embossing. Look at that cheeky cat lol. Thanks for playing along at Sir Stampalot this month.
    Pinky

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  6. A very pretty blue and green creation! The cat card is rather beautiful too!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Sir Stampalot this month and good luck!

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  7. Beautiful card! I love blue & white for Christmas cards, rather than traditional red and green. Thank you for sharing it with us at Stampalot Challenge this month, and good luck.

    Lynne x

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  8. This card is great. I love how you have used the Red Gingham stamp.

    Thanks for joining us at Little Claire's for our monthly challenge. x

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  9. Lovely card - love all the snowflakes.Thanks for sharing it with us at Stampalot, Ruth

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  10. Thank you for joining the party at Party Time Tuesdays!! I hope to see you again soon!!

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  11. Fabulous Christmas card! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful talent with us at Papertake Weekly, and hope you join us again soon!
    hugs, Sharon

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