Bear with a Glittery Mug

That's right - the mug (that looks so insignificant in the photo) is actually gold and glittery. I stress this because I actually made it specifically for Christmas Kickstart, where the theme is  'hot beverage' and I wouldn't want you to miss my beverage!

I'd also like to enter the Christmas challenges at Little Red Wagon and The Male Room. 

Snowflakes and Buildings

Here's a very cas Christmas card using stamps from several different sets, a dark blue ink and some clear gems.

I'd like to enter:
Winter Wonderland - buildings
Less is More
CAS Christmas 
AAA Cards
Addicted to Stamps 

Tropical Thanks

Has this worked? I'm not sure. It's not quite as I envisaged it but I do like that it's colourful.

I used stamps from lots of different sets but the bird, leaves and flowers in the foreground are all Flora and Fauna and the thanks is Happy Little Stampers.

I'd like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps  cas summer
Double D
My Time to Craft seaside
Addicted to Cas 
Make My Monday  thank you

The Library Challenge- Five Weeks in a Balloon

The new book at The Library is Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne , chosen by Visiting Librarian,  Martina.

I've not read this book - I've heard of some of his other books and they seem to be old-fashioned (maybe not at the time!) adventure stories. I did think of making something vintage travel-themed but in the end just went with the balloon - I do love hot-air balloon images! 

This image is by A Day for Daisies and I added a sentiment, paper-pieced the balloon, stencilled the clouds and coloured with Promarkers. 

I hope you'll join in the challenge and also, pop over to Martina's blog.

I'd like to enter:
Papercraft Challenges stars
Fab n Funky  stars
AAA Birthday 
Watercooler 
Simply Create Too pattern paper

Identity Crisis

I created this one-layer-card to send abroad to a blog friend - I thought she'd like the little hamster on the front but it seems her own hamster thought it was a mouse!  Isn't a hamster just like a mouse without a tail??!!

Joking aside, I stamped and coloured the 'hamster' and house (Heffy Doodle) and then gave him a balloon to hold.

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash one layer card
Crafty Animals 

Library Reminder - The Rainbow

Time for a reminder at The Library. 

I made an 'encouragement' card for my daughter and coloured it using Zig Clean Colour markers. The hippos have a special relevance to my daughter and me - I won't go into it! But she got it.

You can enter the challenge here

I'd like to enter:

Little Red Wagon 

QKR Stampede

Crafty Creations 

Go Bananas

Did I tell you I'm on a stash diet? It's going pretty well so far. I'm trying to make an effort to use the stuff I already have.

The Lawn Fawn set with the blender, milk and peeled bananas for example - I can only remember using it once and then only the blender. Here I stamped , masked and coloured with Promarkers. The unpeeled banana is from a Woodware set and the stamped sentiment is Avery Elle. I designed and cut Go Bananas on the Silhouette.

I'd like to enter:
Make My Monday b for blender, bananas, blue and birthday
Shopping Our Stash  punny
Watercooler 
Give a Crafter a Cookie inspired by the fruity theme.

Inkspirational - Three or Five of Something

Our new challenge at Inkspirational  is to use 3 or 5 of something. 

For my DT card I stamped three birds (Justrite), selectively coloured with pink shimmer pen . I stencilled the background very lightly and added sentiment and sequins. 

 Milla is still our Guest Designer, so please do come and see what she and the rest of the DT have made. 

I'd like to enter:

Watercooler 

Addicted to Stamps 

Sisterhood of Crafters

Put a Ring on It

Well, along with cleaning, washing, ironing and helping clear out the shed , I've actually made three cards today! I blogged one earlier and here are the other two.

I was inspired, by a visit to Sherri's blog  to try the embossed black magic technique, which I've used on the right hand card. The other card was just a practice for the embossed card - just seeing how well the Paper Artsy flower fit inside the circular sentiment (brand unknown).  But when I'd finished the first card I just decided I might as well make it into a card too!

I'd like to enter:
Casology 
AAA Cards

Brilliant Skater

glitter shot 

Hooray - it's Sunday and I've got time to craft and join in some challenges.

Here I used a Penny Black skater, stars and big word from Pink Fresh, small sentiment stamps by Avery Elle and lots of glitter pens. 

I'd like to enter:

Penny Black Saturday  partial stamping (off the edge) 

Christmas Kickstart  glitter, sparkle, shine 

Fab n Funky  Chrismas 

Cas on Friday  people