Phoenix Inspirations

 It's all systems go for our Christmas card challenge over at Christmas 24 The idea is to start making your Christmas cards now and then hopefully when it comes to the end of the year you will a nice pile of Christmas cards ready to send out. The first challenge of the year is  That's right as long as it's a Christmas card it can be entered into our challenge. Here's my card Would you believe that the poinsettia petals are made from the two leaf stamps in the Rooted in Nature set ? I thought that they worked pretty well - don't you? Watch out for our next challenge coming on the 15th of January. Bye for now - J xx

The set Rooted in Nature was a gift from my lovely upline  Michelle Last  - please visit her blog as her cards are stunning. Anyway - Rooted in Nature has some fabulous foliage images that look lovely as a wreath especially stamped in gorgeous rich browns - take a look Kraft makes a lovely card base but I used Early Espresso for the circle in the middle - it's a perfect backdrop for the copper embossing powder. Time's moving on and I'm hoping to use this set for a few Christmas cards  - imagine this card in red and green with accents of gold - yummy! Thanks for stopping by today - see you soon - j xx

Cute and Cuddly was the brief for this card - a Face book swap. Luckily I have just purchased Wildly Happy and these bunnies are just thing. Post-it-notes were also grabbed so two little bunnies rapidly became nine! The bunnies were then coloured with my Blends and a background of blue and green sponged on. Rooted in Nature was also 'rooted' out and various bits were stamped and cut out to be added behind the panel of bunnies. I'm loving using Kraft for my cards at the moment. It makes a good strong base and stands up well - as well as looking great with the woody elements. There are three more gorgeous images of mummies and babies in this set and I can't wait to use them all! See you soon - j xx