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he christmas cards i ve been blogging lately so how do feel about a get well card featuring one of the stamps from the brand new alice palace range available at 3djean i think he looked quite splendid with his glittery bits twinkling in a rare ray of sunshine yesterday i ve tried fairly hard not to mention how nice his distress stickles looked in the sunlight because it sounds rather risque yes evidently i didn t try hard enough because i ve just said it but really if you will insist on calling a product distress stickles you must expect people to misconstrue it occasionally and don t get me started on distress stains moving on as i often do i stamped this design on to a patterned paper as i really struggle so stamp on to a completely blank background i love pattern too much then after stamping i just coloured him in using colours to match my papers the puffin comes with the speech bubble attached but i cut it free so i could use it in any position i fancied and as for the sentiment i stamped it using the huge alphabet roller i mentioned in this post and i know it s an awful pun but i just couldn t resist if you like stamping you can go look at the other alice palace designs here and i ll see you soon julie products available from 3djean alice palace puffin stamp stickles collections elements printed ticket wooden painted button posted by julie kirk at 12 01 2 comments labels cardmaking alice palace puffin crafty individuals 3djean get well pun email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 14 december 2012 christmas cards in black white hello ahoy how s the dark days before christmas treating you it s 11 40am now and i m till waiting for the sun to realise it s daytime here if i hadn t had to go out this morning i don t think i d have bothered venturing beyond my doorstep but i had a box of papercrafting supplies waiting for me at the sorting office and it would ve been heartless to leave them there in a cold storeroom feeling unloved so i braved the chill and now i m back i thought i d share what probably ought to be although i can t promise it actually is my final post sharing my handmade christmas cards and today s offering is brought to you by the colours black white and sepia as with all the christmas cards i ve shared so far the images are from a 12x12 sheet by pion design these were available here from 3djean but this particular sheet has now sold out and i think the sepia of the photos works nicely with the kraft base card although really what doesn t go with kraft not much as i ve said before kraft is the denim of the paper world one day someone will beg me to combine all thesecrafty philosophies into a little book of papercrafting wisdom i m sure of it any day now actually i shouldn t really make out that that s a joke it s seriously on my ever expanding things to do one day list anyway back to the cards here i had fun mixing textures combining the wooden snowflake with a glittery sticker and button mini pompom trimming a length of black german scrap and a snippet of gingham ribbon and i repeated the trimming details on this next one too this time with a tiny feminine touch and i think that of all the cards on which i ve used the naughty or nice sentiment perhaps this image fits it best she certainly looks like she s having to think back about which category she falls into this year thank you for not only putting up with my christmas card show tell over the last few weeks but for also being kind enough to leave encouraging comments and emails consider yourself firmly written down on my nice list in pen right i m off to turn the heating up even my animal print m s thermals are struggling today julie posted by julie kirk at 11 46 3 comments labels christmas cards kraft card pion design 3djean the ribbon girl german scrap black white sepia email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 13 december 2012 christmas cards in turquoise kraft hello again yes i really am going to talk about christmas cards again for the fourth time this month but hey if i can t talk about them now you re never going to let me do it after christmas when all the twinkle is less twinkly and the warm festive glow is not quite as glowy so i m going to take advantage of your good will to all cardmakers for a couple more posts starting now believe it or not i found this card in the bottom of my crafting tote in what was almost like a crafter s equivalent of an archaeological dig i was scrabbling round looking for blank square kraft cards when i came across a handful of half finished general greeting cards i d started over a year ago some just had the first background layer stuck down while others like this one came complete with journaling block and bunting so rather than put them to one side and keep on hunting for blank cards i just chose the best colour matching santa and tucked him in beneath the pre existing layers and while there s nothing especially festive about the background journaling card or bunting i think that sticking a santa on something along with the words season s greetings is probably enough to fool anyone this is another one which i found with a pre made background but the sepia images i used meant i didn t have any colour co ordinating to do here i just added lots of pretty layers of embellishments lace leaves pins a button and i love the look of the tiny peg on the twine i think i ll be plagiarising myself at a later date with that idea if you missed any of the posts in my i was so surprised to have willingly made lots of christmas cards that i blogged them all series you can catch up on the rainbow here green peach red white bright pink thanks for stopping by today if your weather s anything like ours then if you do have to go out make sure you re either wearing non slip soles or lots of bubble wrap or both julie x posted by julie kirk at 09 07 8 comments labels christmas cards 3djean pion papers kraft vintage images santa email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 4 december 2012 christmas cards in green peach hello hello just swooping in with a quick pre elementary post tonight because in my world everything stops for elementary sometimes even breathing oh my nw look what you ve made me do who mentioned johnny lee miller and his eyes i m sure i came here to say something el oh yes christmas cards for those of you who left comments on my previous post then i should just say a thanks and b no i didn t really make 156 christmas cards i was exaggerating wildly although by the time i finish blogging the ones i did make we may all feel like there were at least 156 of them if not more so i d best move straight on to them last time i shared cards in red and white and now we re moving on to splashes of red with shades of green on this card i used one of the techniques i return to again and again but more often in my scrapping and art journaling using up the leftover surrounds from a sheet of label stickers here i have them poking out behind the vintage style santa image as i liked the way the colours matched this next one s probaby the most traditionally christmassy of them all and now we re back to some smaller cards with the lets skew everything and push the layers slightly beoynd the edge of the base card design i m currently favouring and another as with all of my santa image cards i ve used the printed image as the inspiration for the colours across the rest of the card and because each of the 15 santas on the sheet was different each card naturally turned out differently and the final few for now are just peachy no really look and finally does anyone know why santa s on the phone in this next one or for that matter why the phone s on a tree ok i m going to leave you t ponder that one while i go ponder johnny lee miller julie vintage style santa images by pion available here from 3djean lots of trimmings pins from my friends at the ribbon girl posted by julie kirk at 21 01 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 2 december 2012 christmas cards in red white hello you if you ve witnessed the tomatoes on my windowsill in my november month in numbers post you ll be aware of how much i like to arrange things in colour order so now following on from the pink christmas card i shared last week here s a couple more in the same style but in red this time as much as i love the vintage pion images i didn t really want to do a full on vintage look with them so tried to incorporate bright reds and fun touches with the embellishments now here s quick question for any cardmakers amongst you do you use alphabet stickers on your cards or do you prefer to use a stamp or a pre preinted greeting i only ask as i think alpha stickers are more often found associated with scrapbooking and yet i find them just as useful for customising and personalising cards obviously success with using alpha stickers on cards depends on a combination of the size the card the size of your stickers and the length of the word you want to spell out but there are lots of small alphas available so you should be able to fit even really looooonnnnnggg greetings on there with a bit of creative kerning the only thing i found difficult while using these particular images is sticking to the these are actually christmas cards plan and stopping myself from thinking up funny captions to go underneath them however i didn t bother to restrain myself earlier in the year when i made this card and this one using the romantic images from the same range as a younger sibling i look at this particular one and wonder about that as if butter wouldn t melt look the older girl is giving the camera i reckon that the very moment the shot was taken the little one ended up unceremoniously shoved through that door on the left if you re not already too bored of these cards i ll share some more the next in the rainbow of colours i ve made next week see you then happy december to you julie p s let s face it chances are i m going to be sharing the rest of the cards whether or not you re bored of them it s not that i don t respect your feelings or anything but y know i m just fond of the cards and i ve already photographed them all 156 of them p p s there aren t really 156 of them yet some of the supplies used vintage images from the grandma s attic range by pion they were from 3djean but are not in stock at the moment leaf pins seam binding the ribbon girl heart pins cabochon 3djean black white paper kraft ticket by collections elements from 3djean paper flower leaf prima posted by julie kirk at 21 51 9 comments labels christmas cards pion red white vintage cardmaking collections elements email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 30 november 2012 my month in numbers 2012 november hello to paraphrase john lennon so this is november and what have you done another month over and a new one just begun all together now no anyone ok let s start again it s the end of another month so without further ado or reference to any more christmas songs let s see how my numbers stacked up this time round for more info on the my month in numbers project visit here 6 7 including this one the number of blog posts published looking back over previous years it would seem that i ve always had a dip in blogging around this time of year but this month has been quite spectacularly low in comparison to the rest of the year for this i m blaming my laptop which had a virus and truth be told what has been a general lack of inclination to sit still and focus on squeezing the words out of my head yet i have not run out of things to blog which makes my lack of blogging even more anxiety making i ve got several months worth of plans and ideas trapped in a blogging back log a blogging log jam a blog jam what i really need is to find someone who can follow me around coaxing out the ideas from my brain bashing them into coherent sentences taking dictation photographing finished projects editing the photos on a virus free computer and who can then blog them for me that s all puts blogging fairy on christmas wish list minus 3 the temperature in my garden right now and this sudden cold turn has brought with it a very pretty and festive feeling frost it s like december just kicked november out of bed and yelled at it to start doing something wintry looking now let s take a big leap up to some larger numbers 10 000 the approximate number of starlings we watched carrying out their murmuration in our now annual visit to the local rspb reserve s soup starlings event i say it s an approximate figure as i couldn t quite count them all myself so i m going by what the bird expert who led the event said and he seemed pretty confident and on a related note 20 the number of individual items of clothing i dragged onto my body to keep the november chill at bay whilst standing on the aforementioned reserve for an hour and a half 2 the number of sandwich bags i wore on my feet in between two pairs of socks just in case my much adored but getting on a bit boots let in any water i might have to tread through following the recent rains and flooding fortunately i didn t get too wet and better still the extra pair of socks on top nicely deadened the crinkling and rustling noise they made 323 the number of footsteps it takes to climb up the 10 floors at work which i mentioned in my month in numbers post last month i counted the footsteps not the stairs early on this month but since then i ve started supporting another student immediately before having to get up those 10 flights so now i have to get the lift instead which would be ok if on the first time i had to do it with no time to spare someone hadn t pressed all the buttons for every floor 1 10 on their way out making me have to stop at every floor in between student japes eh and finally 235 the number of tomatoes left to ripen on the kitchen windowsill looking at our little greenhouse early on in the month we had to give in and accept that as it was now november and the days weren t likely to get any sunnier anytime soon all of the perfectly lovely fruit was never going to ripen naturally on the vine so james brought them in from the greenhouse in two big bowls which he left them on the worktop but i thought that the tomatoes like me might benefit from a little more access to sunlight so i cleared everything off the windowsill and tipped them all out so they could get the most exposure possible for the record i ve never actually tried to access more sunlight by personally laying on the windowsill to soak up a few extra rays well not up to now i haven t later in the month i noticed him looking ponderous at them all laid out there scrutinising how they somehow seemed to transition ombre style from bright glossy green at the lefthand side all the way through shades of yellow orange and right up to the most ripe reds at the righthan...