Rainbow Lady's challenge - Winter Sketch

Well gang what do you know, I know it's my second christmas card in one week!  Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog this week we have been given winter sketch.  I have used another from my new Penny Black stamp sheet and coloured with promarkers, the sentiment comes from the same sheet.  I know I have some snowflakes somewhere but could I find them? So I have used some clear flowers in the hope you could be persuaded that they look a bit like snowflakes.  If I carry on at this rate my Christmas cards will be done by August, now how good would that be?  Hope you like this one Cynthia!

Bah! Humbug! Challenge - Holly

Hello there, over on the Bah! Humbug challenge the ladies are being very kind to us this week, must be because they've had a break! They have given us a choice of either Holly  or Fairies, well I have a few things to chose from but today I got a new pack of stamps and look what was amongst them. A cute little cat with holly on her head, I just knew I would have to have a play with her so this is the result.

I stamped her and the sentiment in smokey grey versafine and coloured her with promarkers, I used Spun Sugar distress ink to do the edges and coloured a white ribbon with pink carnation promarker. Last year I did quite a few larger cards because I had the time but this year I will stick to the smaller ones as some of the ones I did were a little OTT for some of the people I send to, this is a 5inch square.

New Year - New to You CD Sunday Challenge

Good morning crafters, a new challenge over on CD Sunday this week and it's a New Year - New to You.  This week I have used the latest cd from Joanna Sheen, Enchanted Dreams.

One of my work mates was proposed to on Christmas Eve so I have made this card to celebrate with them, I have used some ribbon coloured with my Promarkers and added some pearls and a pin.

I am  entering this into the following challenges:
Rainbow Lady's - It's All New to Me
Sassy Studio Designs - Use Something New
Stampin for the Weekend - New and Blue
Fairy Fun Fridays - New Beginnings
Ellephantastic - New Beginnings

CD Sunday - Check it out!

Good morning all, over on CD Sunday this week we are asking you to Check It Out! This week we are also sponsored by Bearly Mine Designs so a prize is up for grabs.

 

One of the guys in work had a new addition to the family over the Christmas break so this is the card i have done for him, I have used an image that was first on the blog scene when another blogger had an accident and these were drawn for people to use to send a card to show her lots of support.  I have printed the donkey onto one of the backing papers given to us by our sponsor and also onto a plain background, I cut the image out and decoupaged it onto the plain one. The check backgound is also from our sponsor and works really well, my element from the cd is the outer frame which is punched with a MS punch onto a backing paper printed from the Baby Love cd from Joanna Sheen.

I am also entering this card in to the Sparkles 2nd challenge which is New Things.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Just a very quick post to wish everyone of my blogging friends a very Merry christmas and a Happy New Year.

It's been a fun year joining in wih challenges and showing off my creations so hopefully it will be more of the same next year!

It's going to be a quiet day for us so I'll probably be asleep sometime after dinner, hope you all have the kind of day you've got planned and enjoy yourselves. xx

CD Sunday - Tag it!

Good Sunday morning to you all, we've had a huge snow fall on Friday and that kept me in yesterday but I do need to get some shopping done so will have to venture out later and I'm not looking forward to it.

This week over on CD Sunday we have chosen the theme of TAG IT! Now as usual you can make anything you like as long as you use something from a cd so come on over and join us.

I was asked for a card for a couple who are celebrating their 1st Christmas since they got married so I chose to use these cute lilttle inuits from Mo's digital pencil, such a great image and although they are children I thought  it to be ok for what I wanted. The backing paper and the insert are from the Artylicious cd Seasons Greetings, I added a flourish and some pearls and then used the same cd to print the tag. Hope you like it!

I am entering this into the following challenges

Crafty Ann's - Anything goes

Sundays with Crissy - Christmas is coming

CD Sunday - Three of a kind

Over on CD Sunday this week we want you give us three of a kind, the design team have been thinking hard and have come up with some quite different ideas.  For my three I have used ribbon down the side on my mum's Christmas card, the image and backing paper come from Joanna Sheen's latest cd Enchanted Dreams. This is a really pretty cd and if you like something a bit different then check it out.

We hope you'll come and visit us and join in with us this week, we are looking forward to seeing your creations.

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

Ellephantastic Challenge - Christmas/Winter

Totally Gorjuss - Snow

Sparkles 1st challenge - Christmas

CD Sunday - Christmas Sparkle

Good morning all, it's Sunday so that can only mean one thing and it's a new challenge from us at CD Sunday.  This week we are back with another fabulous sponsor who is giving away a cd of the winners choice, so if you fancy a cd from the great Ooh La La range then come on over and join us.

This week we have chosen the theme of Christmas Sparkle, well I guess anything to do with Christmas will do because as soon as you add glitter and gems etc., you're sparkling.  My card is made from the Christmas Presence cd from Ooh La La as all the DT are this week, I have used one of the snowmen and there are a few fabulous ones on there, I have layered him up with some of my nesties (what did we do before they arrived), and the backing paper is just that bit different as it looks like it's been woven.  Abit of glitter and ribbon which was white until I used my Promarkers on them, another what did I do before them items.

I do hope you'll join us this week as we make our final preparations for Christmas, we look forward to seeing your great designs.

Christmas Animals

Over on Rainbow Lady's blog this week she has challenged us to do something with Christmas Animals. She couldn't have timed it better, I have just made an advent calendar from the Ivory Cats cd by Joanna Sheen. The calendar should be made on an A4 but I wanted something that would fit on my desk so I made it an A5, it was going to be an easel card but thinking about how much space I have on my desk in work decided to fold the base in half and stick it inside the front forming a base. I have used a glittery backing card to mat the calendar onto, and this is my input to Christmas in the office. 

CD Sunday - White Christmas

Good morning everyone and what a cold one it is! We haven't had any snow here but everywhere is white and very frosty. I think we need to stay in with a warm cuppa in front of the fire.

Over on CD Sunday this week we are having a White Christmas, now had I known what this weather was going to do I could have just popped outside and taken a picture but instead I had a play with MCS Walk in Winter Wonderland. I love this set of discs and didn't really need to do an awful lot to make this card, the backgrounds would make a card by just printing them out but I decided to pop the fairy on and put the wording on by using one of the newer features allowing you to use the shaping just by clicking a button.

I hope you'll go and have a look at the rest of the DT efforts and hopefully join in with us this week.

I am also entering this one into the Bah! Humbug! final challenge for this year and they are asking for a blue Christmas, now I didn't know what their challenge was going to be but as this card is quite blue it fits perfectly, nice one ladies.

Rainbow Lady's challenge - Edge it

Over on Rainbow Lady's challenge blog she has asked us to edge it, so I have used a couple of gold mirri strips and cut the pattern out using my nesest MS punch. I have attached acetate to the card which has made  it almost impossible to photograph but you can get the idea.
This is made with the latest set of cd's from Debbie Moore called the venetian collection, I am loving using them at the moment.

If you can, go and have a look at Cynthia's blog, she has some exciting news to share and she's thinking of having a DT so if you're interested in that then give her a shout, she has some exciting challenges and they do make you think a bit but are great fun.

CD Sunday - Shabby Chic

This week over on the CD Sunday challenge we want you to have a go at doing something with the theme Shabby Chic. Now the team have made some great stuff and hopefully you will pop over and have a go.

 My card this week was made for my sisters birthday, she was 60 this time but didn't want to be reminded of it so I made this, with no 60 in sight. This is from the Joanna Sheen cd Ivory Cats, it's a fairly new addition to my collection but so well worth the money as it's a fab cd.

Bah! Humbug! - Lovely in Lilac

Over on Bah! Humbug! this week the challenge is lovely in lilac, well I've just got the new Debbie Moore set of CD's  and these two were on the masks disc. I only wanted to print them fairly small so told the printer I was using A5 paper.  These two card are A6 made frm an A5 card cut in half so they open sideways.

The backing paper is from Season's Greetings from the Artylicious range and both the masks have had gold and diamond glitter added in fairly generous amounts and then had gems put on them to really bling them up. 

I cannot take credit for the idea of using the masks as Christmas card that came from a friend of mine but she doesn't have a blog yet so I can pinch the idea for myself.

CD Sunday - Lavender and Lace

Well guys you did us proud last week with our Natural World challenge so here's hoping you will all continue and join in with us this week.

The theme this weekover on CD Sunday  is Lavender and Lace and for this I have used the cd Ivory Cats from JoannaSheen, this is a fairly new purchase for me and now I wonder why I didn't just go for it when it first came out. The images are fab and what the team do with the backing papers needs to be seen.

Another Seraphina card

This is another of the Sepaphina samples done for the recent launch of the cd, this is an A4 folded lengthways and the flourishes were cut on the cricut.

Bah Humbug - Fancy Folds

This is my entry for the Bah Humbug challenge this week which is fancy folds, I don't know if this has a name but it is folded and I guess fancy so it fits.
This is the card done for the round robin we have over on Rainbows Forum, in this case it was a set of stamps to use and I decided to make a faux snow globe with the polar bears looking at the north star.  The backing paper is silver embossed vellum and I added just a bit of detail with the ribbons on both the edge pieces.  There is a sentiment on the actual card but I took this picture before I added it.

Over on Rainbow Lady's blog this week it's make a picture so I am entering this into that challenge too.

CD Sunday - The Natural World

Hello all and a very happy Sunday to you all, this week over on CD Sunday we have a very special sponsor for you, the lovely Joanna Sheen has given us a fabulous prize of £30 to spend in her shop.

Now I almost feel cheated here cos I can't be a winner, but not to worry because Joanna is very generous and has given the design team something to keep us happy and we get to work with one of her best cd's the Jayne Netley Mayhew Collection 2. 

This week our challenge is entitled The Natural World, now for us it was easy as we used this fabulous cd but you can interpret it in any way you choose.  As usual as long as you use something from a cd you can enter our challenge, it doesn't have to be a card, it can be anything you want and I  can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Just a quick note for all you new crafters, don't think we judge the entries and choose the best, we don't the winner is picked by our little froggy friend and is purely random, to be honest I don't think we'd want to pick a winner as every entry is worthy of winning.

Now onto my card this week, I don't really have to tell you much about it as you know which cd I used to create it and all I had to do was print the background on 160gsm paper and the images onto silk finish photo paper, I matted it onto some pale blue pearl card and used my Martha Stewart punch to make a lacy border across the middle of the page, a little white satin bow and it's done. Oh I almost forgot the sentiment is stamped and then I used a small die to cut it out.

I am including this card in the following challenges

Alphabet Challenge Blog - B is for bird

Fairytale Challenge blog - Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges - Square Cards

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Inspired by the letter B

More Seraphina

This is another of the smaples I did for the launch of the Seraphina cd, not sure if the decoupage shows very well.

Seraphina Through the Ages Samples

I made a few samples for the new cd Seraphina Through the Ages from Doolicraft, lovely images and so easy to work with. This is the first of a few I will be showing you over the next few days.

CD Sunday - It's Spooky

Good morning crafters all, this week at CD Sunday we are being very predictable and want you to
join us with a spooky offering.

I have used a backing paper that was freebie last year from Glenda over at Grapicus, I wasn't going to save it as I didn't use it last year but it has fitted our challenge so well I'm glad I did, the image is from A Card Makers Year by Joanna Sheen, this quite a useful cd as it has bits and pieces from different times of the year so there is always something you can use.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Rainbow Lady's Challenge

Ooh La La

Totally Gorjuss

Crafty Catz

Daring Card Makers

Create with Connie and Mary

Dutch Dare Card Challenge



All of these blogs have a halloween themed challenge this week so it's a bit of fun to join in.