cute and crafty cards by mirella: From the Heart stamps

Sunday, 13 December 2015

I wish you a very "birdie" Christmas time!!!!

Hi there!

I hope you are doing well.
After all week of just taking care of kids and house.... and having a really bad cold, I got a bit crafty this morning and caught up with my Christmas cards making. I'm running really behind.... Luckily the cards are a bit simpler to what I'm used to make, so it doesn't take me as long!

Today I bring you the card/gift card holder that I made this morning. I used this fun digital stamp from From the Heart Stamps called "Seven Christmas Birds". With this card I went back to my love for distressing... and my addiction to washi tape! I just can't get enough of it... every time I go to the craft shop, I have to get a few rolls!

Card recipe

Christmas Pattern Paper (freebie from magazine a few years ago)

Promarkers and Flexmarkers to colour image

Washi tape

Pink and cream twine

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tattered Rose

Tim Holtz Distress tool

7 x 5 card blank

The card can also be used as a gift card holder.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

From the heart stamp challenge - I heart card sketches with a twist: make a gift card holder #130 - sketch (I turned the sketch as it suited the stamp better)

Glitter n Sparkle #167 - Christmas traditional or non traditional colours

CHNC challenge #259 - AG as long as it's Christmas

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #154 - Happy Holidays

That's Crafty! Challenge - Season's Greetings

Card Mania Challenges #75 - Christmas

Cards Galore challenges - December Anything goes

Crafting Musketeers challenge # 32 - use a sentiment

Sisters of craft - December anything goes challenge

2 Crafty girls #8 - anything goes

4 Crafty Chicks #276 - non traditional Christmas colours

CRAFT challenge #341 - Christmas

Craft Rocket challenge #5 - anything goes

Crafty Girls Creations #10 - Always anything goes

Fresh Brewed Designs - AG Christmas

I love Promarkers #298 - Anything goes

A snowflakes promise challenge #11 - Christmas/Winter theme

Creative Card Crew #102 - Holiday Season

Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge #115 - Anything goes with twist: On the day of Christmas

Inky Chicks #60 - Merry Christmas

Passion for Promarkers #60 - Mega Christmas challenge

Thanks you so much for stopping by!!!! I really hope you liked my card!!!! feel free to leave any feedback, it makes me happy! :)

Monday, 3 February 2014

Tweety love!!!! and my CAS guidelines!!!!

Hiya! I hope you are all having a good Monday!!!! Today I overslept... and I didn't go to bed really late last night! I hate when I wake up, late and I have to get up straight away.. I'm hooked to my snooze alarm! It needs to ring every 10 minutes for at least 1 hour for me to get up in a good mood! not today, somehow it didn't work! Luckily my day changed when I left home to take Alaia to nursery.. It was such a beautiful morning in Inverness!!! The Sun was out!!! It didn't last.... two hours later, when I went to pick Alaia up... freezing and sooo windy!!! well, I'm still in high spirits, which is good!

Today I've got a CAS card to show you...

I really struggle with CAS cards, so hopefully I've done an OK job with it.

I've looked around as I felt I needed some CAS guidelines for me to follow, as I usually over-embellish my cards, so I summarize these little rules:

keep it simple (not a lot of embellishments, BUT a button, a flower a bit of ribbon is OK!)

leave part of the card blank (it still can be covered with paper, but nothing on top)

have a main focus/focus point on the card (this could be an image, or if not using image, the sentiment or a few embellishements, but clustered on one part of the card...)

for all of you out there who are good at CAS cards, please let me know in the comments if there is anything else I should take into consideration.... Thanks!!!

So, on to my card....

I used a 7x5 pink card base.

I left the top of the card blank and put a piece of patterned paper at the bottom. The paper is from

GCD studios Material Girls collection.

I cie-cut an scallop circle with my Sizzix Scallop circle nesting dies and embossed it with my hearts embossing folder from Tri-boss.

The image and sentiment is called Birdbrain conversation Hearts from "From the Heart". I got it last week and I couldn't wait to use it. It's so much fun!