Festive 48 - Week 46

Only two more weeks to go!

This week I used a Polkadoodles CD, 'Magical Wishes', printed the pre-coloured image twice, decoupaged the sign post, added liquid pearl snow and mounted it onto red card.  I used a scrap of patterned paper and made a sort of misty frame using white pearl embossing powder. The circular sentiment is a Lily of the Valley stamp , with glitter added.

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me by linking up ONE card each week. 

This link up is always 'Any Christmas Card Goes'. 

Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards. 

I'd like to enter:

CD Sunday p is for (penguin, pole)
Scribbles penguin
Time Out  embossing (round the patterned paper) and sparkle ( on the sentiment)

An InLinkz Link-up

Dog and Bird

The dog and bird stamps were in a set that I got free with a magazine (Docrafts Creativity, I think), probably years ago , and only just opened!  The word stamps are by Mama Elephant.

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash something you got free
Addicted to Stamps holiday
Winter Wonderland sentimental
Fantasy Stampers Cute Christmas
Try it on Tuesday  Christmas is coming

Pinspirational Challenge 129

We've a new challenge for you at Pinspirational, and here's the inspirational picture:

For my DT card I used a pre-coloured image kindly provided by our sponsor, Doodle Pantry. I die cut and mounted it and layered it onto Kraft card, decorated with gold stars. I cut out an over-sized star and placed it over the stable. 

I hope you'll come and join us at Pinspirational - you could win a prize! 

Stop me if you think you've seen this one before ...

...to misquote The Smiths.

This is probably my favourite vintage Christmas image and I have used it several times.  This time I used it with torn and distressed patterned paper scraps, ribbon, a brad and a big snowflake. I made the snowflake as part of an online course in designing your own electronic cutting files.

I'd like to enter:
That's Crafty vintage
Lunagirl  holiday children
Sugar Creek vintage non trad colours
Crafty Cardmakers distress it

Sledge

Here's a 'hybrid ' card ..the image is a border from the digital version of Echo Park 'Sleigh Ride' and I printed it onto card, trimmed it to fit a card blank, drew a border round the edge with Marine Promarker and stuck it on with 3d foam.

Using Silhouette Studio software I made the banner shape, filled it with a woodgrain pattern and typed in 'have fun'. I printed and cut by hand. Finally I added 3 gems.

I'd like to enter:

Just Us Girls  photo - inspired by the woodgrain floor and the sledge.
Love to Create colours
Casology flag
Crafting when we can  cas
Less is More jingle all the way.

Make My Monday - black, white and hint of red.

This week at Make My Monday  we'd like you to make a project which is black and white with a hint of red.

For my card, I used an electronic cutting file to cut out the woman, dog and gifts, and coloured parts of them red with a marker pen. The town silhouette is also a cutting file but I removed the cut lines and printed it onto the card. The sentiment is a Clearly Besotted stamp.

Hope to see you at Make My Monday.

I'd like to enter:
Allsorts no designer paper
Crafty Hazelnuts getting ready for Christmas
Come and Get It  winter

Into Space

Seeing as I'm on top of my Christmas cards (smug smirk!), I thought I'd look around to see what other challenges are out there.

I decided to join in with the 'Time and Space' challenge at My Time to Craft  and use the colour challenge 'yellow and purple' at Incy Wincy . (I hope my yellow is not too orange-y).

I stamped the sentiment (Clearly Besotted) and sponged the card with lilac Distress Ink. I stamped the stars (Clearly Besotted and a mag freebie) . The digi is from Paper Shelter and I coloured it with markers.

I'd also like to join in with Cute Card Thursday  'stars' , That Craft Place 'anything goes' and Sweet Stampin 'birthday'.

Inkspirational Challenge - Christmas - no red or green

So exciting at Inkspirational this fortnight...we have a prize! The prize will be randomly drawn from all those entries who make a Christmas card and use our twist of No Red or Green. 

£10 Gift Card Uniko Studios

Bo Bunny die cuts

Bo Bunny rub-ons

Bo Bunny dimensional stickers

A TCW(The Crafters Workshop) stencil

3 different ribbons

I wish I could enter! 

But instead I get to share with you my DT card . I picked two colours I thought were very unchristmasssy and cut two triangle Christmas trees using electronic cutting files I made a few weeks ago. I used a crimper for the back panel and added spray glitter to the sentiment and a bling flourish. 

Please come and join us at Inkspirational . We have a fabulous Guest Designer , Janet , great inspiration from the DT  AND the prize!!! 

I'd like to enter:

Crafty Catz winter theme 

QKR Stampede bling it on

Addicted to Stamps bling

City Crafter single word sentiment. 

Festive 48 - week 45

Only three more weeks to go! 

Here I used an A Day For Daisies digi , which I coloured as a robin using distress ink.  The background is a Kaisercraft stamp and lots more ink. I embossed the base card with a music design.

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me by linking up ONE card each week. 

This link up is always 'Any Christmas Card Goes'. 

Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards. 

I'd like to enter:

Delightful Sketches  happy holidays 
Chocolate Coffee and Cards fave holiday 
Crafty Catz Christmas is coming
Christmas Stampin anything goes 

An InLinkz Link-up

Creative Cutting Challenge - Christmas Not a Card

It's time for a new challenge at Creative Cutting  and this time we want you to make a Christmas project that is NOT a card.

For my DT project, I used Creative Pointe Gingerbread Set and I created a roof, back and sides for it to make it 3d. I will use it as a decoration with a battery-operated tealight inside.

We'd love you to join our challenge at Creative Cutting  - all you need to do is use an SVG or similar electronic cutting file to make a Christmas project, and tell us what you've used.  See you there.

I'd like to enter:
Try it on Tuesday  homemade
Craft-room Challenge  3d
Winter Wonderland  decoration 
Allsorts  anything but a card 

Make My Monday - Glitter

This week's challenge at Make My Monday is Glitter.

The elephant is a digi stamp from Bugaboo and I 'coloured' the white bits in the paisley design with pink and purple glitter.

I made a birthday card, but with Christmas on its way, you might make a glittery Christmas card - whatever you make , if it's got glitter, join us at Make My Monday. 

I'd like to enter:
Scrapping4Fun bling
Card Mania use a digi 

Two Charming

Here's a little graduation present for my daughter.

I'm currently doing an online course learning how to make electronic die-cutting files for the Silhouette and this 'pinked petal envelope' was the first lesson.

Most of what I've used here is by Stampin Up but I'm not a demonstrator or anything!  The label was punched on the reverse of the main paper and stamped with the sentiment. I think the owl charm was a freebie.

Why have I called this post 'two charming'? Inside the envelope is a silver grad hat charm for her charm bracelet.

I'd like to enter:
Crafty Cardmakers  charm
As you like it  this is my current favourite wrapping as I have just learnt how to make it.

Dino

For this child's birthday card I used papers and stickers from Basic Grey 'Archaic' range and a sentiment stamp (Hero Arts?) and some googly eyes. How could I resist the googly eyes?

I'd like to enter:
Ooh LaLa  more than one fold
Crafting for All Seasons  birthday
Eureka Stamps  4 legged friends
Fab n Funky  birthday

Let it Snow

I've taken this photo with the card laying flat on the table in an attempt to a) show the glitter and b) not show myself reflected in the mirror card!

The scenery and the snow are Stampin Up stamps and the sentiments are Mama Elephant stamps. Then I added liquid pearl and glitter.

I'm going to enter this into a couple of cas challenges, I just hope it's cas enough. I wish there was some sort of measuring tool for cas-ness. Should I have held back on the bling?

I'd like to enter:
A Song in your Art let it go
Moxie Fab World  treemendous
Less is More more than one tree
Casology festive

Festive 48 - Week 44

As I reach week 44 of my self-imposed challenge I can self-righteously announce that I have never cheated! For example, last weekend I was away with my scrapbooking group and made some Christmas cards then that I could have uploaded today. But that would have been cheating because the challenge was to make one per week. If only I was this conscientious about cheating on diets!

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me by linking up ONE card each week. 

This link up is always 'Any Christmas Card Goes'. 

Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards. 

I'd like to enter:

City Crafter  my deer 

Christmas Cards All Year Round no patterned paper

An InLinkz Link-up

Make My Monday - Berries and Foliage

This week at Make My Monday  the theme is 'Berries and Foliage'. I used a Penny Black wreath stamp and I stamped it three times, on top of each other, using different shades of ink. The berries are liquid pearl and the sentiment is a magazine freebie. The stamp I used in the corners weas another, different magazine freebie and I stamped it repeatedly , as I'd done with the wreath but it looks different because the card is textured.

We'd love to see your projects on theme of 'Berries and Foliage' at Make My Monday . 

I'd like to enter:
Time Out photo
Eclectic Ellapu leaves and foliage
Penny Black and More anything goes
Craft Your Passion  beginning with b - berries, branches

Look how they SHINE for you...

I hope you like this card as I think it is my favourite card I have made this year, although I guess some would find it a bit plain!

The polar bear is by Stampin Up and I masked him and stamped the scenery (all one stamp, also by Stampin Up). The stars and the sentiment are by Sarah Hurley. I added glitter and liquid pearl.

 As soon as I saw the sentiment I recognised it as the first line from 'Yellow' by Coldplay. I saw Coldplay perform at Glastonbury about ten years ago . My brother and I were in a dark, waterlogged field watching the band and it was quite magical except that my brother kept saying things like 'I think Coldplay are over-rated.'!

If I wasn't on the DT there, I'd enter this into the 'shine' challenge at Inkspirational .

I'd like to enter:
Fashionable Stamping Challenge  animal
Red Carpet Studio  animal
Moving Along with the Times sparkle or shine
Stempelgarten animals
Jingle Belles The Great Outdoors

Baubles

Here I've used a Paper Artsy stamp of some baubles - now I do craft blogging I more often hear them called 'tree ornaments', but I had never heard of that term before! It's probably an American English term.(?) Like burlap, which we call hessian. And it's a long time since I called a brad by it's British English name of 'paper fastener'.

Okay, ramble over...I'd like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps photo
Sir Stampalot  Christmas
Creative Card Crew Christmas Joy
Colour Me  Monochromatic red - Thanks Anita for alerting me to this challenge.

Inkspirational Challenge - Shine

If you came over here from the Inkspirational Challenge blog, you may have noticed that the photo I had on there is at a slightly funny angle - here it is:

..because it is so hard to photograph shine! I felt this angle best showed the shinyness!

The stamp is one of my new-this-year Christmas stamps; it's by Paper Artsy and is already a hot favourite of mine. I coloured the dress grey and covered it with Glossy Accents. The wings were covered in glitter glue and I used a star stencil with glitter texture paste in the corner.

Come and join us at Inskpirational  for our word prompt - shine. There is also a great Guest Desgner, Rocky - don't miss her tutorial. 

I'd like to enter:
Crimbo Crackers  CAS
Moving  Along with the Times sparkle and shine
Scrapping 4 Fun Christmas
QKR Stampede Christmas
Christmas Stampin All Year Long  ag

Festive 48 - Week 43

Although I could have cut this triangle Christmas tree by hand, I created a cutting file for it, so expect to see it in different colours and patterns. The circular sentiment is a Papermania stamp. On the tree, the floral panels are coated with glitter. 

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me by linking up ONE card each week. 

This link up is always 'Any Christmas Card Goes'. 

Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards. 

I'd like to enter:

Holly Jolly Challenge bingo - diec uts, 2dp, glitter  

An InLinkz Link-up

Penguin

I have been shopping! Here are my new Christmas stamps. The penguin is from a set by Taylored Expressions, and the 'Jolly' is by Mama Elephant.  The star and lights are glittery in real life.

I'd like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps  cas
Less is More Christmas , no red or green
Bearly Mine Christmas
Christmas Cards All Year Round no patterned paper

Creative Cutting Challenge - Thanks

At Creative Cutting we have a new challenge - Thanksgiving or Thanks.

As I'm in the UK, we don't have Thanksgiving, so I made a 'thank you' card using the 'Oscar' cutting file from the Movie Set by The Creative Pointe. 

We'd love you to join our challenge at Creative Cutting  - all you need to do is use an SVG or similar electronic cutting file to make a Thanksgiving or thank you project, and tell us what you've used.  See you there.
I'd like to enter:
Crafty Cardmakers  cut it out
Quirky Crafts  Charades - A star is born
Sentimental Sunday  anything goes

Make My Monday - Vintage

This week at Make My Monday  we want to see your vintage style cards.

I used a vintage image from Joanna Sheen Crafter's Year CD and I inked and distressed it and stamped the sentiment. I created a background with ink and a music stamp and added embellishments.

I hope you'll come and join in at Make My Monday. 

I'd like to enter:
Craft-Room Challenge vintage Christmas
Crafter's Cafe things with wings
Winter Wonderland  Pearls , Lace, flowers