More Christmas words

Saturday was such a wash out here but Sunday was glorious and I needed a walk to blow away the cobwebs. Beddington Park looked so glorious in the sunshine.

 The trees are bare now

but the golden sunshine was glorious. 

It's time for some more inspiration from me for our December theme and sketch challenge over at STAMPlorations. Please check out all the rules over at the main blog post here. In brief you need to use stamping on your projects. You don't have to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter but of course we love it if you do! You can link up 6 times with new blog posts and you need to add our logo to your post. You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won too!

I used the stars from the brilliant festive baubles set, 

the fab large typografia Christmas words stamp.

and the beautiful stitched winter landscape CUTplorations die

I stamped the word stamp and white embossed it on gold card

I used the stars from the baubles set to randomly stamp in gold on black card to form the background.

I also die cut the sketch swirl in gold

Here is my card 

and one last shot

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

That's Crafty 2/3 anything goes

Crafty Calendar 3/3 It's Christmas time

Fussy and Fancy 2/3 Christmas

Cute Card Thursday 2/3 embossing I have white embossed the words/

Moving along with the time 2/3 anything Christmas

Crafty Catz 2/3 anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #416

Card mania 5/5 Christmas

Allsorts 2/3 Christmas trees

Remember that you can also get 20% off all the products on the website if you use my code STAMPGIRLJANE ......now there's an offer your can't refuse.

 Thanks for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

9 more advent calendar doors to open

I love my vintage advent calendars and have quite a selection to choose from each year. I still buy all the children big and small, advent calendars and no they don't feature chocolate!

This is the one I am using this year. I forgot to take photos of the kids ones this time!

It hangs by the side of bed and I see it sparkling in the darkness when I wake each morning.

The pictures inside the doors are so pretty.

Such sweet vintage angels.

I shall be opening my Number 15 up this morning.

I thought my card today should feature an angel. It's another vintage style Christmas card I made and is for sale down at Dotty's Teahouse, Carshalton

High St, SM5 2AE

I made an inky blue background using distress inks and then added an embossed blue panel. The lovely angel digi is from Graphic Fairy. The die cuts are by Tim Holtz, Memory Box and J Sheen. 

The silent night stamped sentiment is an old one from Lili of the Valley.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

That's Crafty 1/3 anything goes

Crafty Calendar 2/3 It's Christmas time

Fussy and Fancy 1/3 Christmas

Cute Card Thursday 1/3 embossing I have embossed the pale blue sheet of card under the angel

Moving along with the time 1/3 anything Christmas

Crafty Catz 1/3 anything goes

Allsorts 1/3 Christmas trees

Card mania 4/5 Christmas

Have a great weekend. I hope you are getting those Christmas odds and ends sorted out. There are just 10 days until the Big Day. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by here today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me. 

I'm back again on Monday with my final DT post for 2018 for STAMPlorations.

Bye for now,

Jane x

A Dickens of a Christmas

I love all the traditions of Christmas and one of them is buying a holly wreath (or 2)
My daughter has these made for me by her greengrocer's shop and I love them. This one is on my front door.

 So many gorgeous natural embellishments

And on my studio door (sadly asleep for me to craft in until next year)

is this lovely one.

Nothing epitomises Christmas more for me than some festive greenery so my card today features some in the background and foreground.

This is my final Design Team make for 2018 for County View challenges.  It's my 2nd design team project for our December "Christmas" theme and I have kept to a very traditional depiction of Christmas.
I made my background with some distress crackle texture paste and Tim Holtz poinsettia stencil.

When it had dried and cracked

 I just added a tiny hint of vintage photo distress ink. You will see this in my final photos.
I used my wonderful Tim Holz Victorian Carollers bigz die to create my silhouettes and added some text stamping to them.

I also die cut some of Tim's holiday greenery, his paper snowflakes and stars using his swirling stars die using lots of snippets of card and put my design together.
Here is my finished card which is for sale down at Dotty's Teahouse, Carshalton, SM5 2AE

A few close ups for you to see the details.

and one last shot

 I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Fashionable stamping 2/3 winter

Shopping our stash 2/3 tis the season

Time out 3/3 joyful

Alphabet challenge 3/3 s is for season's greetings

The cutie pies 2/3 add a little sparkle
Shopping our stash 2/3 tis the season

Simon says stamp Wednesday Christmas

Christmas at sweet stampin 1/3 anything Christmas

A Vintage journey star light star bright

 You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner. You could treat yourself over on the Country View Crafts in the new year to any crafting goodies that Santa forgets to leave you on Christmas Eve 🎅 All the details for the challenge can be found here.

Thanks so much for stopping by....time is flying by until the Big Day...just 12 days to go now....are you ready? 🎅

Back soon with another countdown to Christmas post.

Bye for now,

Jane x