Disco Santa

This Santa is from a stamp set by My Favourite Things. I thought he looked like he's disco-dancing (night fever, night fever-er..) so I decided to put him under a mirrored disco ball. I had to search to find a disco ball and eventually found one on My Craft Studio Crafty Characters CD. I printed it in greyscale and added glitter glue. I stamped Santa and the sentiment, coloured him with Promarkers and then covered his hat ans coat with irrediscent glitter. Then I mounted it all on red glitter paper. 

I'd like to enter:

CD Sunday  bling or glitter

Jingle Belles Rock  santa 

Natalie and Amy  Christmas 

Addicted to Stamps  holiday 

That's Crafty  all that glitters 

Jingle Shopper

I do find colour swatch challenges difficult. I wanted to try the colour combo for this week's theme at Christmas Card Challenges  (see below) . All the time I was making it I thought I was doing it right, but now I see it together with the swatch, I can see the blue's far too bright and the brown too red. Ah well!

The image here is an A Day for Daisies digi - I coloured it with alcohol markers and paper pieced her coat and bags. The JINGLE stamp is Pink Paislee and the sentiment is MFT.




As well as Christmas Card Challenges, I'd like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps holiday
ABC Christmas Challenge lyrics (Jingle Bells)
Come and Get it paper piecing
Crafting when we can  paper piecing

Walk in the Evening Sun

Recently, I bought a set of Lawn Fawn stamps thinking I would use them a lot, but they're sat on my desk and I have absolutely no idea what to do with them.  The Stampscapes trees stamp on this card, however, was an impulse buy that I wasn't sure I would use - and I've used it loads.

The other stamp, of the couple and the dog, was made using Stamp Material in the Silhouette cutting machine. I cannot remember whether the image was a shape I've bought somewhere, or whether I just traced an image from the internet.

I also use lots of sunshine/sunset colour inks, and a Sizzix /Tim Holtz embossing folder.

I'd like to enter:
Fashionable Stamping Challenges people
Crazy 4 Challenges  sunshine
Less is More  sunset colours
Vintage Stamping Challenges hot sunny colours
Eclectic Ellapu  anything goes

Winter Owl

This owl was cut from cream and white card on my electronic cutting machine. I coloured the semicircle with dark blue ink and stencilled stars in glitter texture paste. I added a little glitter to the leaves. The sentiment stamps are Paper Artsy.

I'd like to enter
Use your Stuff sentiment
That's Crafty glitter
Cupcake Inspirations glitter
Let's Craft and Create add some sparkle
That Craft Place  anything goes

Make my Monday - Shabby Chic

This week's theme at Make My Monday  is Shabby Chic.

When making my DT card I asked myself 'What is the difference between vintage and shabby chic?'. So I tried to make a card that was shabby chic but NOT vintage. If only I would apply my mind to the world's great problems!!!

The bird and leaf stamps are Kaisercraft and I used paper scraps, embossing folders, gliding wax (the dirty look on the base card is actually pewter colour wax, Wink of Stella on the wing and a big net flower.  When I chose this flower I think I must have been looking at it upside-down or something because I could see it had a bit of a pattern in the middle but I didn't think it was anything in particular. But then I must have accidentally put it on right way up, as I can now clearly see there's a bunny on there! Hope I haven't accidentally made an Easter card!

Anyway, hope you will join in at Make My Monday .

I'd like to enter:
Country View  shabby chic
Penny Black  wings

Out to Sea

I do love a nautical theme!

The boat and ship's wheel stamps were from a magazine and the sentiment is, I think Hero Arts. The papers and anchor are from a Samantha Walker digital collection.

I'd like to enter:
Tuesday Throwdown out to sea
Fusion  sketch and photo below
Simply Create Too masculine
My Time to Craft male
Love to Scrap male call

Inkspirational Challenge - Photo/ Book Mark

I do have a Kindle ereader, but actually I prefer a paperback book , which means I still need bookmarks. (Nothing worse than finding you've run out of battery at the start of a long train journey!)

This tag is my DT project for Inkspirational , and here's the Inlspirational picture:

I used a stamp from Stamping Bella, coloured with Promarkers , and the words are by Clearly Besotted. 

I hope you will visit Inkspirational , see the work of our Design Team and Guest Designer, Kylie, and join  in!!

I'd like to enter:
Fashionable Stamping Challenges   use a person
Addicted to Stamps make your mark
Brown Sugar anything goes
Sweet Stamping  Something old something new ( the tag is from a big pack I bought on ebay years ago, but the stamps are new) 

Snowman with Freebies

This is thoroughly sprinkled with glitter which, of course, doesn't show up in the photo.

Hobby Art stamp coloured with Promarkers. The papers and robin are a My Mind's Eye free gift with a magazine from a few years ago. The sentiment is chipboard and, I think, another freebie.

I'd like to enter:
Glory of Christmas snowman
Christmas Cards All Year Round  snowmen
Wags n Whiskers seeing spots
Addicted to Stamps make your mark

Creative Cutting Challenge- Teacher Gift

Over the summer Creative Cutting Challenge is going monthly, and asking people to make anything with a Creative Pointe Cutting File. You can buy them from the online store but there are also freebies  available to try.

For my DT project I used two Creative Point files : pillow box (so easy to make! ) and the apple from 'school set two'. The sentiment was cut using a font on my computer.

I'd like to enter:
Crazy 4 Challenges teacher appreciation
Silhouette Challenges  anything goes using a silhouette

Make My Monday - Photo Inspiration

I chose this week's challenge at Make My Monday. and it's a photo inspiration and here's the photo:

For my DT card I printed off an A Day for Daisies image of a woman holding balloons and cropped off everything except one arm! Then I watercoloured it with Twinkling H20s. 

How does the photo inspire you? I hope you'll join us at Make My Monday .

I'd like to enter:
Eureka Stamps - special occasion
Seize the Birthday  anything goes