Monday 8 November 2021

Rugby and another Christmas card

My great nephew celebrated his 12th birthday recently and asked us for a rugby ball for his birthday present.   This seemed the perfect image to use for his birthday card.

The image is an old Jolly Nation stamp, coloured with Promarkers. The patterned papers are from a Papermania 'True Blue' paper pad.


 I am joining in the following challenges with this card.


My second card is Christmas card, another Bay Window card, this time with a gnome.  Gnomes seem to be very on trend again this Christmas.
The image and sentiment are from the Chocolate Baroque 'A Tomte Christmas' set of stamps.  I coloured the image with Promarkers and the patterned paper is from a paper pad from the The Works.  The panel on the right is raised up with foam tape to enable bay window to stay in place.  I finished off my card with a few red pearls round the image and three Memory Box 'Twilight Snowflakes'.
 







31 comments:

  1. Great rugby birthday card. That's very thoughtful of you. [Bunny]
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  2. The gnomes make a fun card and I love the bay window shape which you obviously enjoy making Liz, and more bright and pretty papers. The card for Gilby is great with the rugby theme to go with his present and using this fun JN image and finished with a lovely personalised CG sentiment. x

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  3. You created two fantastic folder cards using great images and papers,love the rugby player and gnome

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  4. Great cards Liz, I love the folds! I'm sure Gilby will enjoy the footy card you made for him, it's the perfect accompaniment for his gift. Great colour combination on the bay window card, and the little gnome is very sweet. Well done!
    Cheers,
    Beccy

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  5. Two great masculine cards Liz and super shape on the Tomte Gnome card, many thanks for joining in at Allsorts and Stamping Sensations challenges.

    B x

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  6. Yes Liz - gnomes keep popping up everywhere right now - and I love them! Your shaped cards are fab and special.

    Thanks for sharing at Allsorts this week.

    Hugs, Sarn xxx

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  7. Gosh, I'd forgotten all about Jolly Nation images but this one is just right to match the gift. Like the way some of your patterned paper echoes the rugby ball shape. Who doesn't just love a gnome - this is a great card too.

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  8. Two fantastic cards Liz, I love them both. Jolly Nation thats a blast from the past.

    Sue xx

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  9. You are brilliant at these folded cards Liz! Another great make!

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  10. Love both your cards Liz...I remember the Jolly Nation images...your gnome card it great like the design as well

    Anne

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  11. Super cards Liz and I love the folds! hugs Sue x

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  12. The great nephew card is so delightful and he will be so pleased with it. Gnomes seem to be here to stay and they are cute. This is a great one on a great card.

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  13. Both are fabulous Liz, I love the Rugby player, so will your GNephew I'm sure. Love your Gnome card too, great design (again).
    Faith x

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  14. Two awesome cards Liz. Love those folds. Been raking for hours to get dimensions for the bay window fold, but they are all on videos! LOL

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    1. My Bay Window card starts with two 7” x 5” pieces of card. The front piece is scored at 1/2”. I then work out how wide I want the main panel with the image and adjust the other two panels depending on the size of the main panel. So, supposing your main panel was 3” wide, from left to right the panels would measure 1/2”, 1 3/4”, 3”, 1 3/4”. Just the 1/2” panel is attached to the back piece. Here is a link for the instructions for making a Bay Window Card. https://creativemindskindhearts.blogspot.com/2021/07/karen-watling-shows-how-to-make-bay.html

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  15. Such fabulous card fold and each one beautifully done! Thank you so much for joining us at Allsorts challenge!
    Ellie
    Ellibelle's Corner

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  16. Great card, ,love the card design and your images. Thanks for joining Stamping Sensations and Beccy's Christmas Challenge. Anesha x

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  17. What great fun fold card here, Liz! I just love all of the details to them. Thank you for playing with us at the Alphabet Challenge and hope you can join in again soon.
    Debbie
    Secrets To Stamping
    PS. Please join my Creative Creases Challenge for fun folds on my blog!

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  18. Your ruby card is an adorable masculine card Liz! I love the papers you used and the image is so cute colored up. I'm sure the little guy loved this card! Your gnome Christmas card is fabulous, I love the papers you used on this one too. You colored this gnome up so great, he is almost "Father Christmas" looking. Love it! Hugs, Brenda

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  19. A fun footy card!
    I still doen't get is what gnooms have to do with x-mas...and sorry most of them I just don't like...I love the ones in fairytales and fairytale books...
    Hugs, Gerrina

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    1. The Christmas gnomes in Sweden are the Tomte, who look a lot like the Santa Claus that many of us know today. These gnomes usually wear grey clothing, and they’re always watching over you to see how well you behave.

      You can only meet the Tomte during Christmas time, and often they’ll share rhymes when handing out presents.

      Even Iceland has its own version of the Christmas gnome in the form of the 13 Yuletide lads who come to the town bearing gifts and sweets. These creatures appear one a day on the 13 days before Christmas and leave one by one too — making the season last a full 26 days.

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  20. Hi Liz.
    I had no idea; so thanks for the info!
    Now I get it why they keep coming up the x-mas cards...
    Hugs, Gerrina

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  21. What great folds Liz and both of these are fantastic!

    Thank you for joining us last week for our Lots of Layers challenge over at Creative Knockouts, I hope you will play along with us this week for our Snow Much Fun challenge!

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  22. Two super cards Liz! Shabneez x

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  23. Fabulous folds and I bet your your great Nephew loved his special card? x.

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  24. Such fun fold cards! One for your great nephew is too cute! And, the Christmas gnome card is just as sweet! Great cards!!

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  25. Two great cards Liz, love the designs Haven't seen the Bay Window design before, it works so well with the little gnome.
    Thanks for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations.
    Avril x

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  26. Wonderful cards. Great design and images/papers. So glad you shared over at Alphabet challenge.

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  27. Two brilliant cards Liz, you really are the Queen of the folds when it comes to cardmaking!
    Janice x

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  28. I'm returning to repeat my comment on your Gnome card Liz, which is a real delight and a wonderful design. Thank you so much for joining us in our Gnomes challenge at The Male Room Good Luck and I hope you will join us in our next challenge.
    Faith DT

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