Christmas Bells

I managed to finish only 6 more Christmas cards this year on top of the four others shown in recent posts.

Using a Meljen's Design image, Jingle Bell my first three cards I made this year were bit fancier than the last three you will see in this post - just goes to show what can be done when one has more time!!  Three cards using the same  image with slightly different colours, and completely different card designs.

Copic colours used - 
Bell - Y15, Y19, Y38, E13 and E15
Holly - R29, R59, R89, G20, G21, G24, G28 and G29
Ribbon - BG000, BG01, BG05 and BG09 

Copic colours used - 
Bell - Y15, Y19, Y38, E13 and E15
Holly - R29, R59, R89, G20, G21, G24, G28 and G29
Ribbon - V01, V04, V06 and V09

Copic colours used - 
Bell - Y15, Y19, Y38, E13 and E15
Holly - R29, R59, R89, G20, G21, G24, G28 and G29
Ribbon - B91, B93, B95, B97 and B99

The next three cards use an image from a company call Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet, the image is called Circle of Bells.

I needed to get these three cards in to work on the Friday morning of our last day this year, so at 5am on the Friday morning I was up making up cards.  My images had been coloured during that week, so thankfully I had that much done to make up some cards with.  Once again, three of the same image with three different colour combinations.  These card designs as you will notice are a lot plainer and simpler in design.

Copic colours used - 
Bells - T1, T3, T5, T7 and T9
Holly - R29, R59, R89, G21, G94, G99
Leaves - G24, G28 and G29
Ribbon - BG000, BG01, BG05 and BG09

Copic colours used - 
Bells - Y15, Y19, Y38, E13 and E15
Holly - R29, R59, R89, G21, G94, G99
Leaves - G24, G28 and G29
Ribbon - B91, B93, B95, B97 and B99

Copic colours used - 
Bells - W0, W1, W3, W5
Holly - R29, R59, R89, G21, G94, G99
Leaves - G24, G28 and G29
Ribbon - V01, V04, V06 and V09

Thanks for looking

xx

Sweet Dreams Moon

In the middle of December we had a morning tea to celebrate one of my colleagues heading off on a years Maternity Leave.  For this card I had seen an image that I wanted to use and spent a good couple of hours trawling digi sites trying to find it.  Well I found it and it was a rubber stamp :(  I was so disappointed I needed the card in two days so no time to order it from America.  I had my heart set on this image I had seen and now had to do something else.

As I am googling and searching for new and different digi companies I came across a fabulous site Meljen's Design's.  The images on this site are gorgeous and unique and I ended up walking away with two, which was using major restraint.

For my baby card I bought this gorgeous image called Sweet Dreams Moon.  So by now I had wasted a whole night shopping for a digi and had left myself one night to make my card - nothing like working under pressure!!

Generally I do my best work under pressure, and whilst the gradients are smooth in my colouring, the colours on my picture weren't exactly what I was after, but they work ok.

Copic Colours used - 

Moon - E40, E42, E43 and E44

Stars - Y15, Y19 and Y38

Hat - G20, G21, G24, G28 and G29

Thanks for looking

xx