The Little Drummer Boy

Anyone whose child has ever been given a drum for Christmas may wonder why I've used the sentiment 'Peace on Earth'!  Well, it's in tribute to a Christmas classic hit  The Little Drummer Boy/ Peace on Earth, by David Bowie and Bing Crosby.

My 'drummer boy' is a My Favorite Things stamp and the trees and sentiment are by Neat and Tangled. The base card is embossed with a folder from Taylored Expressions.

Parupapumpum, rupapumpum......

I'd like to enter:
Seven Hills Craft Christmas song
Deep Ocean  Inspired by a song
Sparkles Forum  Christmas is coming
ABC Challlenge 3 trees
Double D Challenges trad Christmas colours

Little Things

I made this card for Less is More - One-layer-card - books challenge.

The Alice stamp is from an unmounted set, don't remember the brand,  The mushrooms and caterpillar are from a Paper Artsy set and the sentiment is from a different Paper Artsy set. I coloured in with markers and a white gel pen.

BTW - the book is Alice in Wonderland - just in case you couldn't tell!

Pia's Christmas Kit - Snowman

Here's the final card from my card kit swap with Nonni and Pia.

Funnily, of all the cards I made this is the one that reminds me the most of Pia, who put the kit together - I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the cute image with the traditional colour scheme, and the use of die-cuts (but Pia uses die-cuts far more cleverly!).

This kit was the last of the three Christmas kits we made and I can't wait to see what Pia and Nonni did with the kit  and I hope you will go and look too,  I'm hoping I can persuade them to do another round of card kits in the new year.

I'd like to enter:
Sparkles Forum  holly

Pia's Christmas Kit - Kitschy Deer Head

Here's another card from my card kit swap with Nonni and Pia. 

The items from the kit are the wreath , deerhead, embossed background and die cut 'christmas'. When I was thinking of what to do with these items I saw the inspirational photo at Time Out and got inspired!

I painted the deer head with 'blush' acrylic paint and added lots of fine clear glitter,  I coloured the wreath with a very pale gold gilding wax. The stamped 'hugs' is by Avery Elle.  I think this has quite a 'Disney' look that I quite like for a change!

I'd like to enter:
Time Out  photo
Cardz 4 Galz contemporary Christmas
Eclectic Ellapu  let sparks fly

Pia's Christmas Kit - Brusho Background

Here's another card from my card kit swap with Nonni and Pia. 

This was the last card I made and some of the elements were torn off a previous attempt that I really was not happy with .

The deer, trees and merry are fron the kit, The background is Brushos and starch  and I added a stamped sentiment (Mama Elephant) and punched snowflakes.

I'd like to enter:
Try it on Tuesday trees
Happy Little Stampers Christmas  watercolour

Pia's Christmas Kit - Black and White

Here's my first card from the kit swap with Nonni and Pia .

This is a bendy (or flexi) card that I cut out on the Silhouette and embossed with a folder. The sledge silhouette and Dymo sentiment are from the kit and I used a Memory Box die for the houses and trees.

I'd like to enter:
Love to Scrap  fancy my fold
Let's Create winter

Card Kit Swap - Pia's Christmas Kit

Time to reveal the results of another card kit swap with Pia and Nonni. 

Here's the wonderful kit Pia sent us:

Unfortunately, the kit coincided with a great big crafter's block I suffered from recently. Whenever I found time to craft, my ideas were lacking and I hated most of what I made! During this time I managed to wreck some of my favourite items from the kit - some patterned music paper and a dry embossed panel of trees,  I think I've got my mojo back now though.

Anyway, I will blog each card separately so I can link to some challenges when I get back from work.

I hope you'll go and see how Pia and Nonni used the same kit.

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Beach Colours for Christmas

Stella has chosen this week's challenge at City Crafter  and she wants us to use 2 elements from this photo:

For my DT card I chose a colour and the wood. I used polar bear stamps from Avery Elle and a sentiment from Neat and Tangled. 

Our Guest Designer once again is the talented Danielle , so I hope you will come over to City Crafter and see what she and the rest of the DT have made and enter your own project inspired by the photo. 

I'd like to enter:
Crafty Creations animals
Alphabet Challenge  stars
Allsorts feature a creature
Crafty Purple Frog the magic of Christmas - good luck with your new challenge blog

Triangles

Here's a layout  made recently at Scrapbags retreat, using a sketch . The triangles make it perfect for the challenge at Lasting Memories - in fact, I think one of the DT has used the same sketch.

The photos were taken when I visited Finland - I am the shorter woman and the other person is my friend  and fellow crafter, Nonni .

Telescope

Another 'simple' card that took several attempts! I tried this on several dark background colours but thought it looked best on navy,  I stamped and embossed the stars (Concord and 9th) and sentiment (wish by Concord and 9th and 'upon a star' part of a Sarah Hurley stamp). Then I added a telescope cut from a Miss Kate Cuttables svg.

I'd like to enter:

Male Room  science
Where Creativity Meets C9 sparkle and shine
Just Us Girls  metallics