Festive Deco Folllies

This year for Christmas, as I like them so much, I decided to make some more cards using the stunning graphics from the very talented  Nancy Watt.

"The Festive Deco Follies" from MCS are so classy and make great quick and easy cards that look so effective, which is a great attribute if like me you've left your Christmas card making to the last minute this year!

The software that comes on each CD is very easy to use and enables you to add an assortment of Deco ladies and gentlemen to all types of different backgrounds (supplied) or you can even add your own, you can also add a plethora of embellishments and text too.

The "Happy Christmas" stamp is from a series of stamps by the amazing Paula Pascual

Hope you like them!

Vince x

PA RUM PUM PUM PUM DUCK

I've been wanting to use Amanda's little drummer DUCK for some time and thought he'd make the perfect "Drummer Boy" for a Christmas card.

The background paper was just text taken from the song printed onto a dull green sheet of paper.

The background to the duck was printed off and matted with red card and the duck himself was coloured digitally cut out and mounted on foam pads, I then added some gold highlights on his hat, drum and drumsticks using gold foiling. added a couple of feathers to his hat and topped it off with a little gold emblem with a red gem.

I hope you like him!

Vince :0)x

Duck Digi Stamp - Amanda Marks
Card Design - Vince Ballard
5"x7" White Card
Background paper - MCS
Christmas Sentiment - Paula Pascual

FROM HOME TO HOME

Well not long until Christmas now and so I'd better get a start on my cards.

I know I'm leaving it a bit late especially as a lot of crafters made theirs back in August, but I always seem to leave it to the last minute. (I do tend to procrastinate)

I do love this little OWL by Amanda and decided to make an easel card to show him off!
I kept the colours traditional and coloured the owl the same. Cute isn't he!

I hope you like it.

Vince x

Card designer - Vince Ballard.
Digi Owl designer - Amanda Marks.
Coloured digitally.
Owl background image by - MCS.
Merry Christmas stamp - Paula Pascual



Boo !!

Well it's almost Halloween again, so what else would I make but another Halloween card!

I really enjoyed making this 7"x5" card using Amanda's Digi orange Web Background and Mrs. Frankenstein Digi.

I matted the background onto black card then went over the whole of the web with a glitter Sakura (which sadly doesn't show up in this photo) I added a web peel off in the top right hand corner then coloured over a piece of white card with various Promakers in autumn colours, punched out some small leaves then added them with glue and foam pads around the edge of the card.

The Owl image was coloured with Promarkers and postioned with foam pads as was the plastic spider and finished off the card with the "Boo" peel off!
I hope you like it!

Vince x

Card Design - Vince Ballard.
Digi Stamp and Background paper - Amanda Marks.
Image coloured with - Promarkers.
Peels offs - Hot Off The Press.

HALLOWEEN BACKING PAPERS

I  had a go at making some 6"x6" Halloween backing papers for card making and thought I'd share them with all my blogger friends.
Simply LEFT click on one of the pictures above to open the JPG then right click on the opened image to save it to your computer.

I left the bottom pictures black and white so that they can be printed onto coloured paper or card (Orange, Green and Purple make a great spooky background colours)
I hope you like them!

Vince x

Monster Bash!

These super little MONSTER DIGI'S from Amanda are SO cute!

I decided to take the "Monster Bash" sign (also from Amanda's "Monster" range) quite literally and show them after they've all have a bit of a scrap! Isn't that just what those rascally little monsters often do? Always fighting amongst themselves! Looks like none of them got off scott free!

I made a black "step Up" card and added the torn orange paper then drew in some orange shapes using an orange glitter pen. I then just added the little monsters and various coloured metal stickers.

I hope you like it!

Vince :0)x

Card Designer - Vince Ballard
Digi Stamps - Amanda Marks.
Coloured Digitally.
Metal Stickers - Paperchase.

Halloween Owl Close Up Card

Halloween is on the way once again so I decided to use Amanda's wonderful OWLS to make another Halloween card.

Halloween and Christmas cards are my favourite cards to make.

After printing the owls out onto card I coloured them using Promarkers and added glitter to the eyes, cloak and collar of the owls.

The BACKGROUND PAPER was cut to size edged with a black ink pad to make it darker and added it to the black 5"X5" card, finally I foam mounted the owls and sentiment.

Thank you for looking.

Vince :0)x

Card Designer - Vince Ballard.
Digi images & Background paper - Amanda Marks.
Coloured with Promarkers.
Sentiment Stamp - Stamps of life - "Owls2love".