Snow Friends

Today's card features something new...the 'Christmas Sentiment Background' stamp by Chloe Creative Stamps that I received for Christmas...paired with something old...a digi stamp by Prairie Fairy called 'Snowman Friends' that I won in 2010. I stamped the background stamp on to a snippet of paper from the 'Mystery Marbles' pad by Craft Sensations using white pigment ink, then heat embossed it using white embossing powder. I coloured the image using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut around the top of it, before adding it over the top of the embossed background. I matted it all on to a snippet of lilac card before adding it to my card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
• Crazy for Challenges - Something New
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
• Pixie's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets
• Simon Says Stamp (Mondays) - New Products
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Something New
• Sweet Stampers - Snow/Winter

Roocat Sliding

Today's card features a really old digi image by Prairie Fairy called 'Roocat Sliding', which I coloured using watercolour pencils. The papers are from the 'Bundled Up' pad by Crate Paper...I distressed the edges a little, then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen. The sentiment stamp is from the 'Tattered Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for  Stampers Anonymous.

Challenges for this card:

• Cardz for Guyz - Transport
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
• My Time to Craft - Christmas in July
• Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas Goes

ABC Christmas Challenge - March 2017...E, F & G are for?

We have a fun new ABC Christmas Challenge starting today, and this month we have not one...not two...but three themes for you to choose from....or combine!

'E is for Edge'

'F is for Family'

AND

'G is for Girls'

Are sponsor for this challenge is Wild Orchid Crafts

Prize - a £10 gift certificate!

And...that's not all...there's also a little prize from me too:

A set of Sizzix Christmas dies!

A made a card for each of the three themes. For the 'E is for Edge' theme, I stamped a selection of snowflakes (from sets by Papermania, Lakeland and Prima) using Versamark Ink off the edge of a kraft card blank, then heat embossed them in 'Sparkling Snow' WOW embossing powder. The sentiment is from a set by Lili of the Valley.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Stampavie & More - Embossing
• Sweet Stampin' - One Layer

My second card is for 'F is for Family' and features an adorable Prairie Fairy image called 'Snow Family', which I coloured using watercolour pencils. The paper is from the 'Happy Day' pad by My Mind's Eye...I added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen, and combined a couple of Lili of the Valley sentiments.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Christmas with the Cuties - Snowmen
• Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
• Creative Corner - Winter Wonderland

My third card is for 'G for Girls' and features an older Lili of the Valley stamp that came as part of a set called 'Skating Along' and papers from the 'Silent Night' pad by First Edition. I distressed all of the edges, then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a silver gel pen. The sentiment stamp is from the same Lili of the Valley set.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
• Hiding in my Craft Room - Any Holiday (Christmas)
• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

For more inspirtion from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the ABC Christmas Challenge.

Snow Family

I had a bit of a festive crafting session yesterday afternoon, and made three more Christmas cards for the pile...the first one features a cute snow family from the Prairie Fairy. I coloured them using watercolour pencils, then added some sparkle to the snow using a Wink of Stella pen. Inspired by the gorgeous colour combination on 'Turquoise & Lilac' for this week's Less is More challenge...I used Distress Inks in those colours (Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, Dusty Concord & Wilted Violet) 'smooshed' on to my craft mat to create the 'sky' background. I then heat embossed my Simon Says Stamp 'Falling Snow' stamp using WOW 'Sparkling Snow' powder, and laid it behind the snow family. I matted it all on to some purple card, then added a sentiment from the 'Scribbly Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous.

Challenges for this card:

• Crafting When We Can - Christmas Comes Early
• Crimbo Crackers - Snowmen
• Less is More - Turquoise & Lilac
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes
• Sparkles Forum Christmas - Snowmen

2013 Calendar - Part 3

I have another installment of my little 'birthdays' calendar to show you today:

July:

Images - 'Wonderful Day' set 

Papers - '72 & Sunny' (We R Memory Keepers) & Unknown (Heidi Grace)

August:
Image - 'Critter Party' set
Papers - 'Tea Party' (Dovecraft)
Die - Nestie Circle

September:

Image - 'Hugs' set

Papers - 'Prairie Hill' (Pink Paislee)

Die - Nestie Circle

If you're interested, you can see the January to March on this post...and April to June here...I'll be back tomorrow with the rest of it.

Snow Friends

Another Christmas card today...this time using a digi from the Prairie Fairy called 'Snow Friends', which I coloured using watercolour pencils. I embossed the background using my Cuttlebug 'Swiss Dots', 'Ice Crystals' and 'Snowflakes' folders - the border strip is a Papermania folder. The snowflakes were cut using a mixture of Marianne Designs Creatables and Cuttlebug dies...then coated with some 'Crystal' Stickles.

Challenges for this card:

• Bah! Humbug! - White on White
• Stamp Something - August Digi Day
• Totally Gorjuss - Sketch
• Winter Wonderland - White on White

Pile It On! Challenge - Fur or Feathers

Our theme for you this week at Pile It On! is:

'Fur or Feathers'

We are sponsored by Prairie Fairy for this challenge, who have also very generously supplied the DT with images to use. The image on my card is 'Deer Lenny'...isn't he adorable!? I coloured him with watercolour pencils, and added some Glossy Accents to his nose. For the background, I embossed plain card with my Cuttlebug 'Snowflakes' and 'Ice Crystals' folders, then lightly inked over the raised areas with a chalk inkpad. The scalloped border was cut using my EK Success 'Scalloped Diamonds' punch, and the snowflake cut using my Cuttlebug 'Ice Crystals' die.

Here are the challenges I've Piled On!:

• Pile It On! - Fur or Feathers
• Midnight Madness - Sketch (I used the simple one)
• Bah! Humbug! - Feeling the Blues
• Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Anything Goes
• Crafts & Me - Christmas & Snowflakes
• Crafty Catz - Christmas
• Crafty Sentiments - Christmas
• DCD Christmas Club - Use a die cut (I've used Nesties & a Cuttlebug snowflake)
• Fab 'n' Funky - Anything Goes
• Fussy & Fancy - Christmas without Red or Green
• Incy Wincy - Blue & White
• One Stop - Christmas Cuties
• Pollycraft - Blue
• Scrapbook Sisters - Let it Snow
• Simon Says - Let it Snow
• Spoon Full of Sugar - Anything Goes
• Totally Papercrafts - Untraditional Christmas

For more inspiration, please check out the fabulous samples by my lovely Pile It On! DT buddies.

ABC Christmas Challenge - W is for...

It's Annie's turn to host the ABC Christmas Challenge this fortnight, and she has chosen the theme of:

'W is for Winter Wonderland'

(optional extra of 'All White')

We are sponsored for this Challenge by Simon Says Stamp...and the prize is a $15 gift certificate...and they'll pay the shipping too!

Thw 'Winter Wonderland' theme conjurred up images of snow and snowmen for me...so I've used a cute Prairie Fairy digi stamp called 'Snow Friends' on my card. I love all white cards (especially for Christmas), so I went with optional extra, but decided to try something a little different and inked the edges of all the layers with an icy blue to add definition. I used the following Cuttlebug folders for the embossing: 'Swiss Dots', 'Ice Crystals', 'Snowflakes' and 'Snow Dots'. The large snowflake was cut using my Cuttlebug 'Ice Crystal' die, then coated with Glamour Dust.

I'm also going to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Friday Sketchers - Sketch (I've rotated it)
• Craft Your Days Away - All White
• Critter Challenge - Christmas
• DCD Christmas Club - Use a Christmas Digi
• Fussy & Fancy - Winter Wonderland
• Simon Says Stamp - All White

My lovely ABC Christmas Challenge DT buddies...including our three lovely new members Carissa, Delphine & Dorte, and equally lovely guest designers Paula & Tanja...have really excelled themselves this week, so please stop by the challenge and check out their fabulous cards!

So Many Snowmen!

This card follows the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday...and also uses the themes of the DCD Christmas Club 'Snowmen' challenge, and the Sir Stampalot Challenge to 'Bring on the Bling'. The image is a digi stamp by Prairie Fairy called 'Snow Family', and the papers are from the 'Wonderful Winter' glitter pad by My Mind's Eye. The ribbon is by Dovecraft, and the snowflakes were cut using a Cuttlebug die. I got a bit carried away with the Glamour Dust...but you can never have too much sparkle on a Christmas card! lol

Snow Friends

I love all white Christmas cards, so I just had to join in with the DCD Christmas Club Challenge which has that as it's theme this week. I followed the Card Pattern's sketch, and used a Prairie Fairy digi image called 'Snow Friends'.

I used my 'Snowflakes' and 'Snow Dots' Cuttlebug folders for the embossing...distressing the edges so that the layers would stand out a little. The snowflakes were cut using a Cuttlebug die, and I couldn't resist adding a little bling to their centres! lol

 

 

Susie & Vikki's Christmas Club - Guest DT Card

I was so excited last weekend, when I saw that I'd been chosen as the next guest designer for Susie & Vikki's Christmas Club...as you all know, I love making Christmas cards!

The theme for their challenge this week is:

 'Baby's Christmas'

They are sponsored this week by Roberta from The Prairie Fairy...and the prize is 5 images of the winner's choice...and she has some really fabulous images to choose from! She also kindly gave the design team one of her images to play with...the adorable 'Bundeer'.

I decided to make a card for a baby boy's first Christmas. I watercoloured 'Bundeer', and matted him on shapes cut using my Nesties. I decided to keep the background really simple, using my 'Swiss Dots' and 'Snow Dots' Cuttlebug folders to emboss plain white card. The snowflake was cut using the Cuttlebug 'Ice Crystal' die, then I sprinkled it with lots of Glamour Dust. The sentiment is computer generated.

 

 

Snow Friends

I'm having a festive kind of day...this is my second Christmas card post today! This one uses a Prairie Fairy digi stamp called 'Snow Friends' that I won a while ago...but this is it's first outing on a card...I love the little 'snow dog' with his twig tail and gloves for ears! lol
I followed the sketch from Sketch & Stash...and am also entering this card into some other challenges...but I'll link them all at the end of this post, as there's quite a few.
The papers are all BasicGrey (from the 'Figgy Pudding' collection)...and I distressed the edges with inks and my distressing tool, before adding some faux stitching. I used my 'Scalloped Diamond' EK Success border punch for the border down the central strip, the sentiment stamp is by Cuddly Buddly, and the snowflake was cut using my Cuttlebug 'Ice Crystal' die.


Bah! Humbug! - Punched Borders
BasicGrey - Punch It!
Dare U 2 Digi Stamp - Anything Goes
Susie & Vikki's Christmas Club - Christmas Stitching
Winter Wonderland - See Amid the Winters' Snow

ABC Christmas Challenge - J is for...

It's Annie's turn to host the ABC Christmas Challenge this fortnight, where the theme is:

'J is for Jingle Bells'

And the optional extra that Annie has chosen for this challenge is to include something 'punched' on your projects.

We are sponsored by the fab Simon Says Stamp Store for this challenge...who have very generously donated a $15 shopping spree for the lucky winner!


I took inspiration from the words of the song 'Jingle Bells' for my card...but I couldn't find any images of anyone riding on a 'one horse open sleigh' amongst my stash...so I've used this adorable sledging digi stamp called 'Roocat Sliding' by Prairie Fairy that I won a few weeks ago. The glittered papers are from the 'Wonderful Winter' stack by My Mind's Eye, the sentiment stamp is by Studio G, and the little jingle bells (tied on to the ribbon) are from Hobbycraft. I used my Cuttlebug 'Ice Crystal' die to cut the big snowflake...which I then coated with lots of Glamour Dust...and I used my EK Success 'Scalloped Diamond' punch to make the scalloped border underneath the horizontal panel across the centre.

I followed the sketch from the Sunday Sketch & Stamp Challenge to make my card...although I flipped it so that Roocat was facing into the card.

Don't forget to check out the fab 'Jingly' cards by the rest of the ABC Christmas Challenge DT...and see if you made it into the Top 3...or were the lucky prize winner of our last challenge.

Gerry's Birthday

I won some cute digi stamps from Prairie Fairy on the Cards for Men challenge blog a couple of weeks ago...the one I've used on this card is called 'Gerry's Birthday'...doesn't he look sweet in his little party hat?! I followed a sketch from Sunday Sketch & Stamp, who are celebrating their 1st birthday this week...Happy Birthday girls! They are letting us choose from all of their previous sketches...I went for number 5. I've also managed to squeeze in a couple of other challenge themes: Creative Card Crew - 'Happy Birthday'; and Paper Sundaes - 'No People'. The stripey paper is from the '360 Degrees' pad by Pink Paislee, I used my Cuttlebug 'Spots & Dots' folder for the embossing, and the sentiment stamp is by Studio G.