Rats forever

This card features my favourite papers and my favourite animal. This stamp's part of a set and I wouldn't have known it existed if it wasn't for a comment on my blog, so even strangers are encouraging me in my stamp buying habit!

Image stamp - Katzelkraft 'Les Rats Des Villes'
Sentiment stamp - Paula Pascale 'Big Sentiments'
Papers - Basic Grey
Colouring medium - Prismacolour Premier soft core pencils
Extras - Spellbinders Nestabilites circle dies, Crafter's Companion 'Superstars' dies and dew drops

Brown Sugar - Masculine
Crafty Friends - Animals
Pile It On - Small and/or pencils (I use Prismacolour Pencils to colour stamped images) *Sweet Sprinkles Award*
Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Animal magic
That's Crafty - A stitch in time
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - Patterned paper
As You Like It - Favourite animals (my favourite animals are rats. I had them as pets, almost continuously, from 1994 up until September last year, when I lost my last girly, Luna. They're the cutest, most intelligent and affectionate wee creatures and I really miss them)
Aud Sentiments - Masculine + a sentiment
Sweet Stampers - Too cute *Favourite*
Crafty Creations - Anything goes
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

'Tis the season to be jolly...

..fa la la la la, la la la la. Not long to go now! Just under nine weeks, or almost exactly two months. I'm not sure which of those sounds worse, the time's just whizzing by, eek!

 

Image stamp - Penny Black 'Xmas Treat!'
Sentiment stamp - Lili Of The Valley 'Christmas Grungy Messages' set
Papers - Crafter's Companion 'Just For Men - Urban Collection'
Colouring medium - Prismacolour Premier soft core pencils
Extras - Card Candi

Crafting From The Heart - Anything goes
Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas
Crafty Friends - Cute
Creative Craft Cottage - Use a sentiment
Through The Purple Haze - Untraditional Christmas colours
Little Miss Muffet - Anything goes
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - Anything Christmas
Christmas At Sweet Stampin' - Anything Christmas goes
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes

Skating Fun

Another Christmas card. This is technically a new stamp to me because I bought it either just before or just after my mojo left me, but this is the first time I've used it. When our mojo goes why doesn't the compulsion to buy stamps also go?

I've just noticed that the angle of the photo makes it look as though I've stuck the Card Candi on wonky.

 

Image stamp - Lili Of The Valley 'Skating Fun'
Colouring medium - Prismacolour Premier soft core pencils
Extras - Spellbinders Nestabilities circle die, Crafter's Companion Embossalicious folder, Glamour Dust, Glossy Accents and Card Candi

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - Anything Christmas
Crafting From The Heart - Anything Christmas
Ooh La La - Anything goes
Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Christmas goes *Top 3*
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas
Crafty Friends - Christmas in July
Brown Sugar - Anything goes
Polkadoodles - Anything goes
Through The Purple Haze - Anything goes
Little Miss Muffet - Anything goes
Aud Sentiments - No sentiment on the front *Top 5*
Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes
Creative Craft Cottage - Anything goes
Crafty Creations - Anything goes
Creative Inspirations - Anything goes
Craft Rocket - Anything goes

Good old Snowy again

Thank goodness I didn't get rid of my favourite stamp, during my craft stash purge, because I recently discovered there's a die for it! Wahay! I don't suppose it's one of the hardest stamp images to cut out, but I don't have the patience for that which is probably why I never took to decoupage. Please excuse the photo, I found this card a right pain in the bum to get a half decent photo of and this is the best of a bad bunch.

   

Image stamp - Penny Black 'Snowy'

Sentiment stamp - Lili Of The Valley 'Christmas Handwritten Phrases'

Card - Core'dinations
Colouring medium - Prismacolour Premier soft core pencils

Extras - Crafter's Companion Embossalicious folder (name unknown), Penny Black Creative Die 'Frosty's Snow', Glamour Dust, Glossy Accents and gems

Christmas Card Challenge - Create a Christmas card
Stamping Sensations - Use your favourite stamp
Incy Wincy Designs - Sparkle or shine
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas
Brown Sugar - Anything goes
Crafty Catz - Anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - Anything Christmas
Christmas At Sweet Stampin' - Anything Christmas
Winter Wonderland - Add snowflakes (the embossing)
Crafting From The Heart - Anything goes
Moving Along With The Times - Embossing
The Crafty Addicts - Anything goes, with an option of using die cuts
Crafty Creations - Anything goes

'Moo'ry Christmas

Guess what? Yep, another Christmas card. I lost my mojo for a while but I think I've found someone else's.

Image stamp - Penny Black 'Xmas Moo'
Sentiment stamp - Lili Of The Valley 'Christmas Grungy Messages' set
Papers - Crafter's Companion 'Just For Men - Brights Collection' 
Colouring medium - Prismacolour Premier soft core pencils

Crafty Catz - Anything goes
Jingle Belles - All bundled up (at least three layers)
Cute Card Thursday - Boys/men
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes
Fab 'n' Funky - Marvellous men
ABC Christmas - M is for More Than One (papers and stamps)
Crafty Creations - Anything goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything goes
Crafting From The Heart - Anything goes
Penny Black And More - Anything goes
Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas
Penny Black Saturday - Masculine
As You Like It - Favourite reason to make cards. My favourite reason is Christmas. For years they were my least favourite cards to make and I think it was because I used to stick to Christmas papers, which I found boring as they were usually red and green, but now that I use almost any papers I find them much more enjoyable to make *Top 3*
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - Anything Christmas
Through The Purple Haze - Animal
The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas *Top Pick*
Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Use non-traditional colours