UPCYCLING

 Hello Everyone,

I forgot it's nearly the end of the month and I hadn't entered the Rudolph Days challenge for June. So, because of this, I decided to upcycle one of last year's Christmas cards for quickness.

The image didn't look right on a white card so I made a red card blank just below a DL size.  I added a gold mirror card mat to the image and adhered it to the red card.  Nothing else needed as it is quite a busy image, very quick and simple and it adds another to my pile for this year.

I would like to enter:

June Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas

Simon Says Weds - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoy the rest of your week.

Lynne x

JUNE RUDOLPH DAYS

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are having a good weekend. Very windy here today, but far better than the overpowering heat we had a couple of days ago.

I have upcycled another card for the June Rudolph Days challenge.

The card front was very plain so I drew around a square die and then added gold peel-off borders over the lines.   This was then stuck on to a gold mirri mat.

A quick and easy card for the Rudolph Days challenge.  I don't upcycle many cards, but there are some where I like the image and it seems a shame to waste them and I did love the colour of this one too.

So I would like to enter:

June Rudolph Days  - Anything Christmas

Simon Says Weds - Anything Goes

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Upcycle

Thank you for visiting and I will be back soon.

Lynne x

FEBRUARY RUDOLPH DAY

Good Afternoon Everyone,

A quick card from me today to enter into the February Rudolph Days challenge.

I've upcycled another Christmas card  that we received.  I don't like to throw the nicer ones away and they always come in handy when you are short of time.

With this one I've made it smaller with a square stitched die and matted onto some platinum pearlised card.  I've added four small sparkly gems and stickles to parts of the snow.

I would like to enter

Feb Rudolph Days Challenge - Anything Christmas
Winter Wonderland - Anything Christmas Goes

Thank you for visiting and have a good evening.  I'll be back tomorrow.

Lynne x

RECYCLING AGAIN

Good Afternoon All,

Happy New Year! I hope you've had a good Christmas and are not suffering from any after effects from festivities last night.  We had a quiet night in after a fairly busy day.

I am here to share my snippets makes for the latest Grand Draw so generously given by Di from Pixie's Crafty Workshop every year.

When we were fetching the Christmas tree etc out of the loft my hubby found an old bottle bag which had been left up there.  The main part of the bag had totally discoloured but my little eagle eye spotted some small squares on it which still looked ok so I thought I would make them into a card before I ended up losing them.

There were in fact 9 small squares but as you can see I decided to make 2 small CAS cards. The small A6 card used snippets of red glitter card and a snippet of hammered cardstock.  I heat embossed the sentiment and added 3 little red sparklies.

The square card is only 5" and the piece of red glitter card is an offcut from the other one as I'd cut the square too big so I used a die and created a small frame for the second card. The silver square is also a snippet.  I didn't want to risk messing up embossing the sentiment direct to the card itself so this one is printed with silver metallic ink.  That's 2 to start my pile off for next Christmas :) .

I would like to enter:

Pixie's Snippets Playground  #368 - Use snippets

ABC Christmas Challenge - A for Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Christmas 

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Anything Christmas

Thank you for visiting and I will be back tomorrow with a DT card.

Lynne x

P.S. The square on the first card looks wonky in the photo, but I can assure you it's not :)

UPCYCLED CARD

Hello Everyone,

A very wet day here today.  I was looking through last year's Christmas cards that I kept and decided to upcycle another one for this month's Rudolph Days challenge and this is what I made.

The topper was cut down from being a rectangle and I've made a small 4.75" square card with it by adding snippets of red and green paper cut with my stitched squares dies from Crealies.  The pom poms were already on and I've added a few small red pearls here and there. So a fairly quick card, once I'd decided what to do with it.

I would like to enter:

Rudolph Days September - Anything Christmas

Pixie's Snippets Playground - the red and green papers were the snippets

Thank you for visiting and have a good week.

Lynne x

UPCYCLED OR RECYCLED?

Hi there,

Which one is it, upcycled or recycled? Whichever it is that is what I have done with this card, made from one received last Christmas.

A quick one to enter into the April Rudolph Days challenge.  I cut the image out with a stitched die and layered it onto gold mirri card and two strips of paper from my Christmas snippets box.  The background of the card is embossed and so are the reindeer and I thought it was a good one to keep for such an occasion.

I would like to enter this into these challenges:

Rudolph Days April Challenge - Anything Christmas
Simon Says Stamp Weds - Anything Goes
Crafting by Designs - April Get Ready for Christmas

A quick post today.  Thank you for visiting and hope you have a good week.

Lynne x

GOLDEN CHRISTMAS

Morning Everyone,

I hope you've had a good weekend.  The temperature has certainly gone down here with Saturday being the coldest day we've had for a long time.

I've made a quick card here by upcycling a card received last year.  I don't save many, but the ones I think I could do something with go into a drawer.

I cut the gold glittered tree and sentiment out with a stitched rectangle die and glued it onto gold mirri card.  Another stitched rectangle was cut and I added four small strips of mirri card to this, glued it onto a hammered white card base and added four gold gems to match.  This was a super quick make, I think the part that took the longest was deciding on the layout!

I would like to enter these challenges:

October Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas
ABC Christmas - V for very quick
Allsorts - Pearls and/or Gems
Crafter's Castle - Winter/Christmas
Pixie's Snippets Playground - All pieces except the card base were snippets
CraftyHazelnut's Christmas - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Sparkles

Thank you for taking the time to visit and I hope you will be able to leave a comment, they are much appreciated.  Have a good week all.

Lynne x