Fröhliche Freitag

Back again (if a few hours late) to share my second touch of gold for the Jingle Belles prompt this week. It's so wonderful to be guesting over at the Belles' blog. These girls are beyond inspirational so I'm honoured to be a part of it in a very small way.

I couldn't resist using my Cameo for this CAS card. Some Studio Calico vellum, a little gold foil card and a twist of Martha Stewart twine was all this needed.

I thought the vellum would add a little interest to the simple design. Love this paper and think I need some more!

The cuts from the Cameo are totally amazing. The detail of this wreath came out so well.

Of course, while I was making one, it made sense to make another one at the same time. I'm way behind on my card making and am hoping that this will help me out.

Thanks so much to Stephanie and Lauren over at Jingle Belles for inviting me to join in. I feel back in the spirit now and hope to get the card making up and running again as soon as my boxes get unpacked.

There's a lot of sharing going on!

I've been busy in the background these last weeks with lots of scrapping and kit work but there's not a lot of sharing. Somehow I can manage the scrapping but not the blogging!

But I'm slap bang in the middle of the Scrap Happy members LOAD this month and have been creating every day. *Happy Dance*

I've said it before, but combining daily scrapping with kits, be they purchased or my Counterfeit Kit Challenge kits, is the perfect combination. The grab and create concept works so well for me when creating with a deadline. I've used my Scrapabilly kit (shared a few days ago here and here) for two of the days, finished off my August kits on one day and then used my Stargazer (October) kit for 9 of the days! Only 6 days have been with general stash. It takes away a lot of the decisions which can slow you down and more often than not, I even create the page before going to find photos to match the story I want to tell.

Anyway, cutting a long story short, I have linked up a few of my CKC pages through the CKC Flickr group (here) but I thought I'd do a couple of sharing posts here on my blog - I really want to show off my October Stargazer kit which has produced 10 pages already and is definitely up there in my top three kits - evah!

LOAD Day4 - inspired by 1920s American Industrial Design (typewriter)

 

 

LOAD Day5

I adore this paper and definitely need to track down another piece as a single rather than in a paper pack. Gorgeous.

LOAD Day8 - inspired by letter/message to someone

I did two versions of this layout amending the letter under the vellum to a silver pen rather than a harsher black pen. I love using vellum to give a glimpse into what is behind but still keeping things private

LOAD Day12

There have been a few additions to this kit along the way - some gorgeous gold glitter paper, some gold thread and cardstock and then from page to page, I've added in a few little embellies. No rules, right? :-)

What have you been scrapping recently?