Christmas in July

Good Morning

A warm welcome to my new followers, I do appreciate the fact that you have decided to follow me.

Today I would like to share my Christmas in July card that I made.  This is the first time ever that I have made a Christmas card this early in the year, maybe that is a sign that I will be making some more and that this year I will send all my friends and family cards that I have made myself.

Because most of our belongings are still stored, I could not find one piece of paper in the stash that I have with me that had a Christmas feel, so here is my improvised card. I used traditional red and green to bring the Christmas feel over.

I have also used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the green paper, I have actually forgotten how much fun embossing can be.

This is a close-up of Tilda with Hellebore's.

I have just Googled the flower Hellebore's and found that the flower is mostly white and then in shades of pinks, purples, greens and maroon.  Now I am wondering, is it okay to colour them in the colour of our choice, to suite our colour theme of our card?

I would love to know what your comment about the above question is, so please leave me a comment.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

1.  Simply Magnolia - Embossing challenge
2.  Totally Gorjuss Challenge - Christmas
3.  Rubber Stamping in South Africa July Challenge - Chrismas

Thank you and have a great day.

Hugs,
Marika

Cards made with a freebie

Good Afternoon

I love buying card making magazines especially if they have a freebie that comes with the magazine.  Now in South Africa we do not have a magazines that focuses on card making alone (not any that I now of in any case), there are however very nice magazines that is "imported" to South Africa from other countries.  They do however only arrive about 2 months after they have been released in the country of origin.  Now the specific magazines I am talking about is the British magazines like Papercraft Inspirations, Papercraft Essentials, Simply Cards and Papercrafts etc.

So like I mentioned, I love these magazines as there is always a free gift with the magazine.  Today I want to show you some cards that I made with my freebie that I received with the latest
Papercraft Inspiration  (June issue here in South Africa - the August issue is already available offer there) issue that I bought about a week ago.  I just fell in love with the "Me to You" chipboard collection and paper stack.  The first few cards that I made I stuck to their suggestions.

Sorry about the amount of photo's, but I so enjoyed making these. 

Have a fabulous day.
Hugs,
Marika

Ribbon Tilda

Good Morning

Today I would like to share a card with you that I made with one of my very first Tilda stamps.  Ribbon Tilda.  Tilda is coloured with my beloved copic markers and the papers that is accompanying Tilda is from Bo Bunny and it is the Smoochable collection.

A close-up of Tilda.

Thank you for taking the time to read my very quick post.  Have a great day.

Marika