Monday, 9 December 2013

Picture Perfect Christmas

Salutations, crafty traveller. Thank you for stopping by the Guild Hall. In a mere fortnight, we shall be celebrating the great Winter Festival. With another fresh blanket of snow, the smallfolk of the village are getting more excited for the big day. All the holly the Lady Commander of Copics and I collected from Holly’s Gulch has now been transformed into Christmas decorations and hung around the village. 

This card was designed for the Creative Card Crew “Poinsettia or Holly” challenge that is happening now. This fortnight we are sponsored by Delicious Doodles. Play along to win some delicious digis!

I started this card by printing the Delicious Doodles “On a Winter’s Day” image three times. I then stamped out three polaroid images using the Lawn Fawn “Say Cheese” set. Because the Delicious Doodles image isn’t square, I chose three different squares of the image to use in each picture (for example the one I lined up on the left, one I lined up on the right and the last one I cut the square right from the middle). That way it looks kind of like someone was just snapping a bunch of different pics of the same scene in front of them and the birds are actually flying rather than in the same spot in three different shots.
I distressed the edges of the photos using Antique Linen Distress Ink, earning me +183 vintagey exp points. I used the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge to cut out the holly on some shiiiiiiiiny paper and the sentiment I stamped using the Bug Bites “Mistletoe” set.


On the inside I cut the shape out using the Art Philosophy cartridge and stamped the two sentiments using the “Say Cheese” set and the Echo Park “Holly Jolly Christmas" set.

 This holly jolly card will develop in the following challenges:

There is still much to be done before the big day - crafts to make, gifts to wrap, decorations to hang. I may need a few more stamina potions to get through these next couple weeks.


~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Sunday, 8 December 2013

Messages Gone Astray

It seems my inscription for today was lost and didn’t get entered into the log yesterday as it should have. Apparently the raven carrying my entry to the scribes in Script’s Sanctuary went missing. I suspect it was shot down by the evil Hi-Tak, a menacing wizard who has seemed to make it his mission to impose as many problems on the Crafters Guild as possible. My suspicions were confirmed when I received a message from a remote clan of penguins living in the north. They had found my raven along with the inscribed parchments meant for Script’s Sanctuary.

This card was created for the Just Some Lines December challenge (which actually started yesterday). Our theme this month is Christmas or winter. Come play along with us using a Just Some Lines image for your chance to win!
I started this card by colouring the Just Some Lines “Penguin Oh Christmas Tree” image using Prismacolor pencils. I then traced the outline of the tree and penguins and cut it out to create a mask so I could colour the background with Distress Inks. After the background was good and coloured, I spritzed it with Perfect Pearls mist for some shine and to make it look as though it was snowing and icy out. I cast a glitter spell on the star of the tree to make it nice and sparkly and then added some ice Stickles to the ends of the branches for +444 bonus shimmer exp points. Finally I stamped the sentiment which came from the Unity October 2013 KOTM, and added some sparkly twine.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment and frame using the Unity “Everything Christmas” kit. The sparkles all around the sentiment were stamped using the Lawn Fawn “Winter in the Park” set.

On the envelope I stamped a few snowflakes using a cheap-o Recollections brand set, earning myself +234 frugality exp points.

These penguins will stare off into the following challenges:
The penguin clan sent my parchments on their way at my request and they made it safely to Script’s Sanctuary (so that you can now read this entry). I owe them a great debt...perhaps some fresh fish under their tree?
~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Friday, 6 December 2013

The Tale of Sad Boy

If you’ve visited us here at the Guild Hall before, you know that I am a weaver of stories. As every craft allows us to level up, so is every craft accompanied by a tale. This year, upon receiving my brother’s name in the family gift swap, I decided to combine the two - crafts and stories - into this epic gift for the most impossible to shop for human in the realm. I give you...The Tale of Sad Boy.

Here’s the front cover. It’s a storybook/gift card holder (because what else do you purchase for the most impossible to shop for human in the realm other than gift cards). I stamped the title with the Lawn Fawn “Jessie’s ABCs” set. I then used the Stampotique “Oh... Tree” and “O Joy” and the small ornament cube for the front cover. I quickly coloured it in with Prismacolours, not really spending a whole lot of time (Hey...this was being given to a boy...it was probably going to be thrown out after).

Here we go. First part of the story. (You can click on the picture to make it BIGGER if you can't read the story). On the left side I used the Stampotique “Tangled Enthusiasm” and a small tree that came with Kraftin Kimmie’s “Willard”. The right side was stamped with The Greeting Farm’s “Cheeky Geeky”. I paper pieced her hair and headband to save on colouring time.

K...next page. On the left I stamped Stampotique’s “Hunk” and the foodstuffs from the Lawn Fawn “Love ‘n Breakfast” set. The right hand side was “O Joy” again along with the tv stomach portion of the robot from Technique Tuesday’s “Tin Man” set. So now comes the gift card part…

The way this was folded, there were kinda like pockets in the tops of the pages. I made little paper tabs and taped them on the gift card that cooresponded to what was happening in the story. This page got a tab stamped with the toast from the “Love ‘n Breakfast” set and went on a Subway gift card.

This tab just got a little present and went on a Future Shop gift card (which is a big box electronics store...like Best Buy).

Here’s the next page. The left side was stamped with the Stampotique “Karin” and then I drew on the angry eyebrows to make her more ragey. The steam (showing just how mad I was gonna be) was stamped with the Lawn Fawn “My Cup of Tea” set. The RAWR was stamped with “Jessie’s ABCs”. On the opposite page I stamped the cute girl cuddling a kitty with The Greeting Farm’s “Furever” set. The fruit all came from Lawn Fawn’s “My Silly Valentine”. Ready to see the gift cards in these pages?

First up is an itunes gift card.

Next is for a grocery store (this is what happens when you are the most impossible to shop for human in the realm). I actually wanted to get way more gift cards in smaller denominations - like $5 - (just to be extra obnoxious...cuz what are sisters for?), but it was surprisingly hard to find ones that came in small amounts.


This gift card holding story book will creep around in the following challenges:


This storybook/gift card holder was fun to make and super easy. Hopefully it will teach my dear brother to be a little more cooperative come Christmas time and give people ideas of what to get him…...but...I doubt it.


~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Stuff a Little Joy In There

Today I visited the market square in the village to procure some new small clothes. I’ve been wearing tattered ones with holes and rips which were causing me to suffer -3 to my defence roll. I picked out some new underthings and headed back the Guild Hall, glad I wouldn’t be losing anymore encounters because of my holey undies.  

One of my favourite things this year has been using “non-Christmas” stamps on Christmas cards. I’ve had the bra stamp from the Unity “Lifting Me Up” itty bitty for awhile and have never used it, but when I got the “Stuffed With Joy Stockings” itty bitty in the mail...well...how could I not pair that sentiment with this image - lol. I STILL laugh everytime I look at this one. The bra I paper pieced with some snowflake paper and then stamped the background, which was cut with the Art Philosophy cartridge, with a snowflake. The main background panel was embossed with a snowflake folder and my Cuttlebug. I used the Tim Holtz embossing diffuser to leave a smooth space to stamp the sentiment, earning me +99 shadow magic exp points.

On the inside I stamped the stockings which actually came with the sentiment and paper pieced them using the same snowflake paper. Underneath I stamped a simple Merry Christmas using the Lawn Fawn “Cozy Christmas” set.

The envelope was stamped with Christmas lights from the “Cozy Christmas” set and coloured in using Distress Markers to make it match the front. I also added the same snowflakes from the front earning me +329 coordination exp points and allowing me to level up!


This Christmas card will hang out in the following challenges:

When I unwrapped my new purchases to put them away, I noticed something strange about one of the pieces. It was emitting a magical radiance, glowing a soft ice blue. Upon closer inspection, it seems I had inadvertently purchased a new frost brazier, granting me +999 power to all ice attack spells. Who doesn’t love a good deal?! Ummmm….score!

~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Monday, 2 December 2013

Holly, That's a Lot of Demons!

Welcome to the Guild Hall. As we enter the final moon’s cycle of the year, the preparations for the Winter Festival are in full swing across the realm. Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I travelled to Holly’s Gulch to collect some of the red berried sprigs that grow there. The area is known to be overrun by vicious mustak demons, so we loaded up on weapons and elixirs for the quest. Although dangerous, Holly’s Gulch has the most abundant source of holly trees in the realm, and we weren’t about to let some pesky demons stop us from acquiring Christmas decorating supplies.  

I made these Christmasy post-it note holders for the girls in my office (which I’ll be giving them tomorrow so they can use them throughout December). These were super fast to make and a good way to use up scraps of paper. 
Ooooo...shiny.
I cut the scalloped circles out using the Art Philosophy cartridge and embossed the white part with my Cuttlebug. The holly I cut using the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge and added the lines with a white gel pen. I stamped the banners using the Lawn Fawn “Bannerific” set and added the sentiment (which is a Unity stamp). That’s it. Then just pop in the post-it notes and call it a day. This project earned me +888 speed exp points, which will surely help me in my other quests.

These post-it note holders will stick themselves in the following challenges:
Since we were last in the gulch, it seems the mustak demons have tripled in number. Luckily, the Lady Commander and I were able to fend them off long enough to collect the holly we needed. We battled our way to the exit of the ravine, our health tonics running low. We were just about out of the gulch when a hoard of mustaks appeared, cutting us off from the exit. As we were now boxed in, I decided to take a chance and use my remaining mana points to cast an escape spell. Luckily I rolled high and the spell was a success, transporting us safetly back to the Guild Hall.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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