Monday 30 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #11

This card was one of my first christmas card this year. I was using a different color scheme as you can tell. It is hard to capture the shiny stamped snow flakes on the dark blue paper...
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Cette carte a ete une de mes toutes premieres cette annee. J'ai commence par des couleurs differentes!!!!


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Sunday 29 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #10

And another one ....more to come!!



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Saturday 28 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #9

This is another beautiful card, I just love the combination of coulors!
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Encore une carte aux couleurs chatoyantes...


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Friday 27 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #8

And another one ...Dried embossed as well as heat embossed, using distress ink and resist technique...


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Thursday 26 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #7

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas... It is over now but I still have many cards to post :-)
This is one of my favorites too...
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J'espere que vous avez passe un tres bon Noel...J'ai encore quelques cartes de Noel a poster :-).
Une autre de mes cartes favorites...


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Friday 20 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #6

Ths card was made with many techniques. The white card was embossed with an embossing folder, whilst the tree was stamped and embossed with clear powder. I then used Distress Inks to add the red ink with the resist technique. A few gems, and voila!
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Cette carte a necessite plusieurs techniques. Le fond de carte a ete embosse avec un motif de flocons de neige. Le sapin de Noel a ete imprime a la couleur verte, puis embosse a la poudre transparente. Enfin j'ai rajoute de l'encre rouge par dessus, et quelques perles...Et voila!


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Thursday 19 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #5

These are three cards made for teachers. One stamp, three cards :-). I like this background stamp. I stamped it with green ink, then added the little red dots.
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Ces cartes sont pour les maitresses d'ecoles....Un tampon, 3 cartes....J'ame beaucoup de large tampon, imprime en vert, puis j'ai rajoute des petits points rouges....






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Tuesday 17 December 2013

Xmas 2013 - Mini Card Series - #1

For those of you who know me would probably know I am part of a book club. Well, it is a girly gathering to talk about books we read, but mainly to have a good laugh and a girlly talk..and gigles :-)
Every year my intention is to make a series of cards for the group but never got the time. This year, I was stuck at home with a cold so had time togo through them! I made a mini card to each of one, much quicker to do but still a lot of fun!

I also made a serie of mini envelop to go with them using my great envelop punch board.

I will present them in batches....
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Ca y est, cette annee j'ai enfin eu le temps de faire des cartes pour chacune des membres de notre club de lecture. J'ai decide de faire des mini cartes, rigolo et plus rapide...avec enveloppes assorties!
Je vais vous les presenter deux par deux...
 







Below is a card with its matching envelop.
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Monday 16 December 2013

Xmas 2013 series - #4

Another card made with natural brown color, red and white....I love this combination but also this stamp!
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Une autre carte faite avec les couleurs neutres marrons, rouge et blanc...Et ce tampon est un de mes favoris en ce moment, je l'ai pas mal utilise!


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Saturday 14 December 2013

Xmas 2013 Series - #3

Another beautiful card, yet very simple to make. I used my favorite color combination, brown paper, white and red. The paper was embossed with an embossing folder, I colored a few embossed items in white and added some red gems. Simple but lovely!
Again, the picture does not do any justice to this card...I really (really) need to improve my photography skills!!
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Encore une carte magnifique, bien que tres simple. J'ai utilise un des mes combinaisons de couleurs favories: papier marron, blanc et rouge. Le papier a ete embosse, puis j'ai colore quelques elements en blanc et rajoute des perles rouges.


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Friday 13 December 2013

Xmas 2013 Series - #2

The picture taken does not do justice to this card. The light green and dark red form a beautiful combination. One of my favorite cards !
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La photo ne rend pas justice a cette carte. La couleur verte claire et le rouge fonce forment une tres jolie combinaison. Celle-ci est une de mes cartes favorites!



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Thursday 12 December 2013

Xmas 2013 Series - #1

Every year I start making cards with quite an ambitious target: make all my christmas cards by hand! And, of course, every year I fail miserably :-).
Why? Many reasons really...The first reason is that december is such a busy month, the busiest of the year, and so there is not much time to craft. 
So why don't I start before then? Good question! I wondered why myself. This year I had my answer: I am simply not in the Christmas mood before then! I cannot get my head round making cards, getting the presents ready etc before I see the Christmas tree up in the lounge :-). Then it strikes me that Christmas is round the corner and I'd better start making those cards ! And I then feel Xmassy ! lol

So this year I still have not managed to make them all, but I enjoyed making every one of these....and I will present them one by one...Have fun!

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Chaque annee je commence a faire les cartes de Noel avec un objectif ambitieux: faire toutes mes cartes a la main! Et bien sur, chaque annee je n'y arrive pas...
Pourquoi? Plusieurs raisons...la premiere etant que le mois de decembre est le mois le plus charge de l'annee et donc je n'ai pas tellement de temps.
Pourquoi ne pas commencer avant donc? Bonne question! Je me suis demandee la meme chose et cette annee j'ai eu ma reponse: je ne suis tout simplement pas dans le mode Noel avant ca! Le declic se fait le jour ou je vois le sapin de Noel decore dans le salon :-). Et la, paniquee, je realise le peu de temps qu'il me reste, et enfin je me sens en mode Noel...

Alors cette annee ne sera pas l'exception: je n'ai toujours pas reussi a finir toutes mes cartes a la main. Mais j'ai adore faire chacune d'elle, et je vais vous les presenter une a une au fil de ce blog....Bon visionnage!



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