Merry Christmas

Here is another Christmas card, made with Penny Black stamps, for the Penny Black Weekend Challenge

The challenge was to use a Penny Black stamp and to have snow on your card.

And for the November challenge at "Penny Black at Allsorts" here:

http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.com/2010/11/november-challenge.html
The challenge there was "It's starting to look like Christmas".

Please note that my little hedgehogs don't have such a red face in real life - must be the lighting....

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Merci de votre visite!

Louise

More Bonnidée Christmas cards

A few more cards made with Bonnidée's new "knitting" stamp sets....

New Christmas cards

Hi everyone,

I'm back from Europe - I had wanted to post more photos over there, but we changed hotel and couldn't get the wifi to work on my IPad.... We had a great trip, but I'm glad to be home!

Here are a few cards that I made with Bonnidée's new stamps before I left...

Happy Halloween from Brussels, Belgium

A beautiful chocolate shop window in Brussels that Jim and I are visiting right now.....

(oui Josée - je suis en Europe, mais j'ai mon ordi... Merci de tes commentaires)

Happy Halloween

This is the card that I made for our swap at our October Club meeting.

All supplies are Stampin'Up.

Stampin'Up Club Projects - October 2010

Here are the 2 projects that we did this month.

Christmas card (snowman) - Une autre carte de Noël avec Bonhomme de Neige

Here is another Christmas card for Penny black Octoberfest challenge.

Advent calendar - calendrier de l'Avent

A workshop I will be doing at Bonnidée on Saturday November 20th.

Christmas Wreath- Couronne de Noël

Here is a card that I forgot to post.  I made it for National Card Making day at the beginning of the month.

Voici une carte que j'ai oublié de publier.  Je l'avais fait pour la Journée Nationale des cartes au début du mois.

Les étampes sont de Hero arts; le papier est de K& Co. et le carton et ruban sont de Stampin'Up.

The stamps are Hero Arts, the patterned paper is by K& Co and the cardstock and ribbon are by Stampin'Up.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Merci de votre visite.

Louise

Mademoiselle Noël

Here is a card that I made for a challenge on the Penny Black blog.

Dis you see her nice Patent leather boots?  I used Crystal Effects to make them so shiny!

Here is the recipe for this card:

The image was coloured with Copics markers.

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps:  Penny Black Mademoiselle Noël 4109K, Christmas Flourish 3900H

Spellbinders Long Ovals plain and scallop

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Stampin'Up Snowflakes Background Embossing Folder

Stampin'Up Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Stampin'Up Crystal Effects

Patterned paper:  Imaginesce

Cardstock:  Bazzill

Thanks for your visit!  Merci de visiter mon blog!

Louise

More Christmas cards - D'autres cartes de Noël

Voici 2 autres cartes de Noël faites avec les étampes de Bonnidée.

Here are 2 more cards made with Bonnidée stamps.  Aren't they cute!

All the stamps used are by Bonnidée.  The cardstock, glitter on the branches and ribbon are by Stampin'Up.  The images are coloured with Copics Markers.  The edges of the image were distressed with Tim Holtz Distress ink.  The Christmas ball was first covered with Stampin'Up Crystal Effects, then covered with SU Dazzling Diamonds Glitter. Much more glittery in real life! The snowflakes on the Navy Blue Cardstock were stamped with the new Stazon Metallic Platinum ink.  I also applied Crystal Effects to the eyes of the cat.

All the stamps on this card are also by Bonnidée.  The image was coloured with Copics markers.  

The glitter is Stampin'U Dazzling Diamonds and the red cardstock is Stampin'Up Real Red.

Thanks for your visit.  Merci de visiter mon blog!

Louise

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our beautiful table and hostess for our Thanksgiving dinner!

Christmas Cards class - Ateliers de cartes de Noël

Here are 3 new cards I will be teaching at Bonnidée on November 6th.

Voici 3 nouvelles cartes pour un atelier chez Bonnidée le 6 novembre.

This card was designed by Jennifer McGuire of Hero Arts at CHA. (I modified it s little bit.... changed the snowflake and the trees are shorter, but the design is basically the same...).  The trees are colored with Tim Holtz Distress inks. 

The tree in this card was also inspired by  card I made at CHA with the Hero Arts Ladies.  I redesigned the rest of the card, but kept the colours that they had used.

I saw these trees on a display board in the Hero Arts booth at CHA.  They are fun to make!

If you are interested in taking this class, let me know or call Bonnidée directly.

Si vous êtes intéressée par cet atelier, laissez-moi savoir ou addressez-vous à la boutique Bonnidée directement. 

Little Mimi class - Cours de la Petite Mimi

I had a class at Bonnidée yesterday.  We did Christmas card with the Penny Black Little Mimi's stamps.  I promised the Ladies that I would post the photos of the cards.  So here they are!
Thanks Ladies - it was a fun class!  and thanks for visiting my blog!

J'avais un atelier chez Bonnidée hier.  On a fait des cartes de Noël avec les étampes de Penny Black et la petite nouvelle: La petite Mimi....  J'ai promis aux participantes de mettre les photos des cartes sur mon blog.  Alors, les voici!

Merci Mesdames, j'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir à partager mes cartes avec vous... et merci de visiter mon blog!

Louise

This card is my entire design (I already posted it last week....)

For this card, I copied the design of  card that I saw at CHA in the Penny Black booth.  The background is embossed in a grid, using the Scor-Pal.  The snowflakes are done with a white gel pen.

This card is not my design.  I did it as a Make n Take at CHA with Kathy Racoosin, who is now a Designer for Penny Black. Here is  photo of Kathy with her card.  You can find her blog here:   http://thedailymarker.blogspot.com/

Go visit her!  She is very talented!! 

Thanks for visiting my blog!  Merci de votre visite!

Louise

Lst of the Leaves in the Miata

Today (Saturday)  Jim and I spent the day on the road on a Miata trip with the Ottawa Miata Club.

What a beautiful day!  See the beautiful scenery we saw all day.  The leaves were at their best!
(and the cute little cars in front of us are not bad to look at either).

Great weather, great roads, great scenery, great company - a very nice day!

Louise

A cat's Christmas

I made this card as a sample for Bonnie from Bonnidee (my local stamp store)  for a show she is attending in Toronto.  This cute set of stamps (the tree, cat and mice) is her own design.. Aren't they cute? The paper is Basic Grey (last year's Christmas paper).

The snow is chunky glitter by Stamin'Up. The image was colored with Copics markers. The tree sits on a Nestability Label die.

Thanks for your visit.  Merci de visiter mon blog!

Louise

Christmas Belle for Birthday card

So here are a few more cards:

This is a card I made with Penny Black Christmas Belle (a class I gave at Bonnidee last week).  This card was not my design, it was a card designed by Elizabeth from Penny Black.  I did it as a make and take with her at CHA.

I modified it a little bit (my mats are different and I pop dotted the tree that she is holding)....

I really like this elegant lady so I wanted to use this stamp for more than just Christmas, so I came up with this card for a Birthday.  (The card is intended for a Lady who loves "mauve"... Isn't she elegant! (Notice her red soles...)

So the stamp is by Penny Black.  The cupcake is by Stampin'Up.  She was coloured with Copics markers and glittered with a Quickie glue pen and Stampin'Up Dazzling Diamonds.  The gray ribbon is by Stampin'Up, so are the crystals (they are really sparkly in real life.  The Happy Birthday was hand written.  The image was cut with Nestabilities (plan oval and scalloped oval).  The patterned papers are  by K & Co.  

Thanks for your visit!  Merci de visiter mon blog.

Louise

New cards for Card Making Day

Today is Card Making Day, so I have a few cards to share:

First another card with Little Mimi from Penny Black.  This card will be in a set of 3 that I am teaching next Saturday (the 9th) at Bonnidée.  I think that there are one or two places left...

I am also submitting this card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog (anything but square...).

The image is colored with Tombo markers.  The music sheet by Penny Black also is embossed in black. The background paper is by Imaginesce, the Snowflakes are Spellbinder dies.  The image itself was cut with a new Nestabilities die (the ornament).  The top trim is cut with an EK Success punch in 2 colours.  And there is glitter here and there on the image (of course, have to use glitter... :)  ).  The ribbon is from my stash, I think that it is by May Arts.

Thanks for looking!  I'll come back with more cards shortly!

Louise

Little MImi Christmas card - carte de Noël

I started making Christmas cards....

I used Little Mimi, from Penny Black.

I coloured the image with Copics Marker.  The circles are cut with Nestabilities.
The paper is Imaginesce.  The snowflakes were cut with a Spellbinder die.

Thanks for your visit.  Merci de votre visite.

Louise

Last one- the bride and groom and cortege

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The bride and groom and Julie, my daughter

The mother and son dance...

The Hall and the bridesmaids......

The Hall and the bridesmaids

Pretty maids in a row.....

Lots of handsome!!!!

The bridesmaids and the Mother of the Bride

The beautiful bride!

The bride and her cortege!

The groom and his guys

Mom & Dad with the groom!

A few new cards

A few cards I made for my sister-in-law Cherie for her sisters....  Thanks Cherie!

(My cards are always for sale if any of you are interested - just email me! (louisecharlton@videotron.ca))

So let's look at the cards Cherie chose.  A few are repeats of older cards, but it was fun doing them again!

The first one is almost all  Stampin'Up supplies. I redid the "black out" technique. (Not sure anymore that's what it's called.... You stamp a solid image on black cardstock with white craft ink (the embossing type). You dry the image with a heat gun, then you color over the white with Prismacolor crayons, taking care to leave a little of the white for contrast.

The second is a repeat of an Hero Arts card, using the watercolour technique with Distress inks and Perfect pearls.

The third one was done with new Stampin'Up stamps and embossing folder. (It is a repeat of a card I made for a swap at my Stampin'Up Club, but because I'm so late in my blogging, I haven't posted it yet).

This last one was an extra in case Cherie did not like the others...  It was also done with the Hero Arts technique, but in the Fall colours.

Thanks for your visit.  (and I promise I will be blogging more often after the wedding! - next week....)


Louise

My friend Bonnie is blogging

She did it!!!  She started a blog for Bonnidée!

Go visit her here

Good luck in the blogging world Bonnie!

Louise