Rudolph Day Card for May

Evening Everyone,

I hope you have all been enjoying the same glorious sunshine as we have been here ... it's been an absolutely fabulous all day :)

We took a trip over to Dunelm Mill over in Kilmarnock, in search of fabric to make some cushion covers - an easy project to begin with on my new sewing machine. Returning, we hit traffic queues - everybody seem to heading to Dobbies, the massive garden centre near our house ... the sun comes out and it's time to garden :)

I did take a bit of time out from sewing to make this month's Rudolph Day card.

And just for a change it's an easel card. The base is a 4.5" square card with another 4.5" square of card for the topper. The stamping includes the same Christmas pudding as yesterday's card but instead of stamping and then colouring, it has been coloured with Memento Markers before stamping. For the the stamping that frames the topper, I found a 'candle' stamp that had lots of greenery around it, inked it up, avoiding the 'candle', and stamped around the edge. The greeting is from the same stamp set. It's finished off with Xmas Red Stickles on the 'berries'.

For the patterned paper, I stealed myself and used another sheet of my precious Christmas Emporium from Graphic 45 ... I'll be desolate when it's all gone :( It's layered on to some shiny green mirri card ... I have to confess that I'm not at all keen on mirri card but, as I know a lot of folk love it, I feel I have to include it in some of my cards, just occasionally. The stopper is simply another layer of mirri and patterned paper embellished with paper poinsettias and a domed brad.

Materials:

• white 4.5" square card for base 
• scraps of smooth white card for easel and topper 
• green mirri card for matting and layering 
• stamps from Christmas set from Let's Get Crafting, Issue 26 
• Memento Markers - Bamboo Leaves, Lady Bug, Cantaloupe and Rich Cocoa 
• Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium patterned paper 
• embellishments - Stickles, Xmas Red; Wild Orchid Crafts small Poinsettias; brad - Docrafts, Papermania, A Silent Night

Sarn, over at Stamping For Pleasure, hosts a Rudolph Day challenge every month so this is one for her. If you haven't joined in yet but would like to give it a whirl - you have until the last day of the month to make a start on your Christmas cards. If you start now and join in with one card each month, you will have, at the very least, 7 cards before the big day :)

My plan for the rest of the evening is to get back to playing with testing out the sewing machine. There's a Lewis on too so it will be 'whodunnit while you sew' tonight :))

Another episode of Springwatch at Casa Worthington - I've just seen one of our starling fledgings take a dip in our birdbath, he must be feeling the heat too. He  clearly loved the experience but then found that he couldn't fly far at all with wet feathers and just made it to the deck railing in time. I'm going to miss them all when they've gone.

Okay, I'm off. Hope your weekend is going well thus far and that tomorrow will be another lovely day.

Happy crafting,