Snowflakes and Crafting Resolutions

White Christmasses seem to only happen on TV and in films nowadays sadly. I know some people had some snow late on Boxing Day but we just had pouring rain that evening. So onto my card using the groegous Tim Holtz snowflake die and embossing folder I bought at the NEC. I am definitely going to be using this more next year. The paper is First Edition Gilded Winter, sentiment LOTV and the border die is Memory Box. 

Challenges

Winter Wonderland Fussy and Fancy 

Papertake Pick a fave (To die for)

Now I don't really make New Year's Resolutions but I thought I would make some crafting ones.

1  Use some of my older stamps, buy less new ones.

2  Do more scrapbooking

3  Indulge myself in colouring sessions so that I have some coloured images ready to make cards
4  Keep using up all my old papers. I have been doing well with that this year

5  Keep making Christmas cards all year

6  Batch make some cards especially for selling

7  Make more cards using dies and no image

8  Try more cas cards ( not as easy as they look)
9  Experiment more
10 Do more embossing, dry and heat
11 Use things I haven't used for a long time, like some of my punches
12  Schedule more blog posts ahead once the cards have been made.

So they are mine, care to share yours?

More snowmen

Just as you thought you were safe from Christmas cards up pop these fab snowmen from Pink Gem. You get the uncoloured and the coloured digi. I chose to use the precoloured for a quicker card this time.

Image - Pink Gem  Cheers Chilly

Papers - Dovecraft 'Tis the Season

Sentiment - LOTV

Snowman button - Crafty Ribbons

Challenges

Bunny Zoe Buttons 

Crafty Creations Who wants to build a snowman 

Simon Says anything goes 

Papertake pick a fave (Last Christmas card)

I am hoping to have some more crafting time today, need to get ahead with DT makes and get some stock made ready for next year's craft fairs. 

Best Wishes

I hadn't realised this Woodware stamp was quite so big when I bought it but it is rather gorgeous and looks great either paper pieced or coloured with Copics as I have done on this one.  I haven't made many of this shape card which I shall be rectifying I think as I really like it.

The papers are Crafter's Companion Scruffy little cat and I had fun making the fishtail circle with a doily on top. I added a diecut circle to write on. I know my friend has opened her card so I can share this you now.

Challenges

Simon Says anything goes 

Scribble and Scrap anything goes 

Papertake Pick a fave (Lovely layers) 

Penny Black and more at Allsorts Special occasions 

Sweet Stampin' anything goes

Up early this morning to go into the city for a look round the shops. Hubby wants to get a blu ray recorder and they have it for a good price in the sale. Nothing I particularly want but I do have a Next and a Hobbycraft gift card to spend.

Reindeer

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas. We had a lovely time Christmas Eve meeting up with friends, great carol concert and then a little shopping. I got some trousers in Laura Ashley's sale and a pair of long black boots in Jones's footwear sale. I had some lovely pressies including some Go Kreate frilly square dies I have been trying to get for ages.

Another Christmas card to share with you today. I do love this style of card and reindeer have been really popular this Christmas. I used Dovecraft krafty Christmas paper with a Curiosity Corner doily, Craftwork Cards tag and sentiment and a Tim Holtz diecut reindeer.  I used DI vintage photo, some red ribbon and pearls and a white gel pen on the deer.

Challenges

Scribble and Scrap anything goes 

Creative Inspirations Christmas 

Simon Says anything goes 

Crafty Sentiments anything goes 

Papertake Pick a fave (2 or 4 legs) 

Country View Nostalgic Christmas

Well I got back in the craftroom for a short while yesterday mainly to schedule some posts and do a little colouring. We are out with friends for lunch today and tomorrow we are venturing to the shops for a while so it will  be Tuesday before I really have a lot of time for crafting unless something else crops up of course. I want to share this picture with you. My good friend Lynsey bought me this personalised ceramic sign for Christmas and I am absolutely thrilled with it.

Another calendar

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, so time to get back to normal blog posts. I think this is my favourite of all the calendars I made this year. I love the Inkylicious sentiment so much that you will be seeing it again soon I am sure. The papers and doily are Dovecraft Curiosity Corner and I added a calendar tab, lace and hearts from Hobbycraft. I wish I had bought more of these as they sold out quickly and not sure why they thought they were a Christmas embellishment! I love the different textures of the wood, burlap and button.

Challenges

Bunny Zoe Buttons 

Allsorts Last minute gifts 

Not just cards anything goes 

Creative Card Crew anything goes

Simon Says anything goes

5 Favourite Christmas cards of 2014

Every year I play along with Debby's 5 favourite Christmas card of the year and every year I deliberate which to choose. Although Debby will allow a bit more than 5 I did manage to narrow my choice down to just 5 and that was tough.

I am showing them in date order as I couldn't possible rank them.

I love Sugar Nellie as you know and was thrilled to join The Sugar Bowl DT for 4 months. Time will tell if my time there is extended. I also love these deep pinks and have used them on several cards this year. The LOTV sentiment on kraft is also a favourite of mine.

This is the card I sent to Debby as she is a huge Penny Black fan and I loved the way this card turned out. I love the soft colour and oops, there's that sentiment again I have just realised.

I was so pleased to be asked to join the Little Claire DT in January. This came as a complete surprise and this is my favourite of the stamps I have used this year. Such a fun image and I love red, white and blue cards. Gorgeous ribbon from Crafty Ribbons too.

I do like making cards without images and this year have discovered some wonderful sentiments to use as the main focus. I have always wanted to design for magazines and this year I have been lucky enough to contribute to Making Cards and Cardmaking and Papercraft online. This is one of a set of 5 I made for CM&PC and my favourite. I love using banners, burlap and wooden embellishments.

Lastly my hubby's card which he loves. I could have chosen so many LOTV cards I made this year but made myself choose just one so it had to be this one. It has my favourite Christmas tree dies, glitter, penguins and a snowman.

So hope you will play along. It isn't easy I can tell you. I could have chosen far far more and another day my choices may have been different. I tried to choose a range, not just one company or all snowmen for example. Thanks Debby for a fun challenge.

Merry Christmas

Wishing you all the merriest of Christmasses, have a wonderful day everyone xx

Christmas Carol

Christmas Eve once again, one of my favourite days of the year. We will be out early this morning for breakfast and then we are going to a carol concert in one of the large churches in the middle of Norwich. It is a fun service and features the pantomime cast. We went last year for the first time and loved it. Really set the festive mood. Just a couple of fresh foodstuffs to buy and then back home, probably to watch a festive film.

So onto my card which was my last Christmas card I made as we had a meal out with them on Monday. The couple have 3 daughters who all sing and dance so when I saw this image from All Dressed Up I had to get it. I coloured it in the girls' favourite colours, with Copics of course. The papers are MME Merry and the gorgeous little hat and mittens are Joy dies from Noor Designs UK. You can't really see the embossing on them on this card but the dies emboss at the same time as they cut, rather than having to run them through again with the embossing shim.

Here are the girls in more detail and the lovely sparkly glitter shows up well for a change.

Challenges

All Dressed Up anything goes 

All Dressed Up Facebook group Glitter and sparkle 

Dream Valley Christmas 

Creative Card Crew anything goes 

Deep Ocean Christmas is all around Cute Card Thursday Sparkles 

Southern Girls Christmas cheer 

Craftyhazelnut Happy Christmas 

Di's Digis Any Winter Holiday 

Without Words Christmas (modern look) 

Noor Designs UK Merry Christmas

Not a Christmas Card!

Time for another challenge at The Sugar Bowl. Yes we are 2 days early this month as we didn't want the challenge to start on Christmas Day. You will all be too busy to check out the challenge I think. Our theme is anything goes with a Sugar Nellie stamp and I decided to make a Birthday card this month. Sadly this is my last card of the 4 month term, which has flown by. I have applied again for a further 4 months so fingers crossed. If not I will enjoy playing in the challenges.

Image - Leanne Ellis tell me something from Funky Kits

Medium - Copics

Papers - Crafter's Companion Scruffy little cat

Die - Marianne Designs birds on a wire

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Other - gauze, crispy ribbon, wooden bird

Challenges

Divas by Design anything goes 

The Paper Shelter anything goes 

Creative Card Crew anything goes 

Bizzy Becs anything goes 

Penny Black and More at Allsorts Special occasions 

Sparkles anything goes

A day at home today. Need to have a final clean of the house before Christmas and hopefully a little crafting time this afternoon.

Feed the birds at Christmas

I made this card for my Mum's husband to give to her. I bought this stamp a while ago and it has been waiting to be coloured, along with a few others which will now get used next year.

Image - LOTV

Medium - Copics

Papers - LOTV Winter Wishes

Dies - Doohickey love lamp, Joy snowflakes

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Other - Crispy lace and pins from Live and Love Crafts, Martha Stewart snow, pearl pen, glitter and pearls

This is my card for today's 12 day of Christmas event at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog where our lovely sponsor today is Kenny K. Hop over and enter for the chance to win.

Challenges

Live and Love Crafts With Love 

Sparkles Christmas It's a blue, blue Christmas 

Stamping Sensations Winter Wonderland 

Papertake Last Christmas card of the year 

Noor Design UK Merry Christmas 

Dies R Us Anything goes

Winter Wonderland Fussy and fancy

Third meal out in 3 days tonight. There are 8 of us going to Giraffe for a meal before going to the pantomime. Oh yes, we are. I am not a fan of panto but it is Peter Pan, which is a story I love and our friend's youngest daughter is in it.

Christmas wreath from Balsam Hill

I had a lovely surprise email from Balsam Hill  asking if I would like to receive a 24" Norway Spruce Christmas Wreath in exchange for a review on my blog. I was delighted and of course said yes. This is the wreath once we had decorated it with a large gold bow, small orange baubles and gold parcels. We tied them on using green garden wire so that the fixings don't show.

This is the wreath before we decorated it. As you can see it is beautiful quality and much thicker than any others I have seen for sale. It is suitable for indoor or outdoor use too. The lights are battery powered and the power block is easily hidden underneath the wreath whilst still being easily accessible. It comes with 6 spare bulbs and a tool for changing them so it should last for many years.  

Here it is in our dining room in place of one of the pictures that usually hangs there. We don't use the main light when we eat, just a lamp so having the wreath lit too is really lovely and festive.

Once lit it stays on for 6 hours and then goes off for 18 hours unless you manually switch it off. I absolutely love it and am very lucky to have it. They have a sale on at the moment so hop over to their website and check out all the other lovely goodies for sale especially the Christmas trees, which I would love to have.

Looking forward to visiting my good friend Lynsey and her family today and going out for lunch.

Hubby's Christmas card

So this is the card I made for my hubby. I bought this stamp a little while ago and knew he would like it. I love red, white and blue cards and when he chose those colours for a friend's Christmas card I knew he would like them on his.

Image - LOTV

Medium - Copics

Papers - LOTV Frosty Christmas and Echo Park Bundled Up

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Dies - MB sentiment, Doohickey slender firs, Dees' tree, Spellbinders fleur de lys square

I used some lovely sparkly glitter film from Little Claire on the trees and added Stickles and pearl dots to the image.

This is also my inspiration card for today's 12 days of Christmas event at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog where our lovely sponsor today is Bugaboo offering 7 images.

Challenges

Papertake Last Christmas card of the year 

Dream Valley Christmas 

Simon Says Monday Anything goes 

The Ribbon Girl Lovely Lili anything goes 

Crafting Musketeers Use bling 

Natalie and Amy Cute and cuddly Christmas 

Penny Black and more at Allsorts Special Occasions 

Dies R Us Anything goes

Winter Wonderland Fussy and fancy

Well, last weekend before Christmas. We have a meal out with friends tonight but nothing special planned for today so mainly crafting and computer work for me I think. Enjoy your weekend x

One for the postie

I love this traditional scene from Delicious Doodles and I wanted to make a card for our postie as he is very good, even leaving parcels with our friends across the road for us if we are out. I love just colouring the postbox and the front door with Copics. The papers are Papermania Home for Christmas and I added some ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and a postbox topper from Hobbycraft.

This is my inspiration card for today's 12 days of Christmas post at Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog. Today's prize is a massive £15 voucher to spend at Crafty Ribbons so hop over, check out the DT inspiration and enter your name, as simple as that.

Challenges

Allsorts White Christmas 

Craftyhazelnut Urgently needed Christmas creations 

We Do Doobadoo Festive 

Scribble and Scrap Anything Goes 

Simon Says Monday Anything goes 

Inky Chicks Winter Wonderland 

Stamping Sensations Winter Wonderland

Simon Says Winter inspiration photos

Must say the food shopping this week has been very easy surprisingly. We were going to M&S this morning but we have a new M&S food shop opened on the ringroad so we went there on the way home yesterday which means a morning free for crafting yippee and we have friends round for coffee and cake this afternoon.

on the 6th day of Christmas

Yes we are up to the 6th day of Christmas at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog 12 days of Christmas. I remembered I had this image in one of the LOTV art pads and as there are 6 geese in the picture it was just what I needed for my card. The papers are Echo Park Keepin' Cozy and the ribbon is Crafty Ribbons Vintage Christmas Past Holly Basket. I added some holly made with green spotted card and a Woodware punch with pearls for berries.

Challenges

Sketch n Stash Great sketch (new art pad)
Sister Act anything goes
The Ribbon Girl Lovely Lili anything goes
Country View Nostalgic Christmas
Sparkles Christmas It's a blue, blue Christmas
Papertake Last Christmas(card of the year)

No crafting today, housework this morning, then off out to visit my Mum and her husband to deliver cards and presents.

Santa's Been

 This card is for my Mum to give the 2 children who live next door to her. She told me the little boy loves trains so when I was lucky enough to win the Little Miss Muffet challenge and I saw this little boy image I had to get him along with the little girl as they go so well together.

Images - Little Miss Muffet Christmas Morning and Snuggly

Medium - Copics

Paper - MME Merry

Die - Impression Obsessions Santa and sleigh

Sentiments - computer generated

Other - Stickles

Challenges

Little Miss Muffet Anything goes 

Dream Valley Christmas 

Incy Wincy Christmas 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Anything goes 

Dies R Us Anything goes 

Simon Says Bling it on 

Graph'it Festive wishes 

Winter Wonderland Christmas presents 

Send a smile 4 kids Winter fun 4 kids

Lots to do today, chores at home and food shopping so don't think I shall have much time for crafting today or indeed for the next 3 days as we have a lot of other things to get done. Hopefully I can fit in a little though, just one more Christmas card to make for people we are seeing on Monday so I have a few days left yet to make it.

I know how busy everyone is so I really really appreciate you taking the time to visit and especially thank those of you who leave me comments x

On the 4th Day of Christmas

Just 3 Christmas cards left to make now, hoping to get those made today. My Mum suddenly asked me to make three so that is why I still have some to make.

So are you playing along with the 12 days of Christmas at the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog? Today is the 4th day and Crafty Ribbons are giving away a massive £15 voucher to spend in their online store. All you have to do is head over there, check out the DT inspiration and enter your name. 

I have made a simple card to represent 4 calling birds. The background paper is an old mag freebie and the image is a freebie from a challenge blog. The gorgeous ribbon is a Crafty Ribbons exclusive from the Vintage Christmas past collection. I added some Woodware punched holly leaves, card candi and glitter.

Challenges

Craftyhazelnut Urgently needed Christmas creations

Looking forward to a meal out with friends tonight, the second of our Christmas meals out and tonight I just might go for the Christmas turkey meal for a change.

Calendars for Making Cards Magazine

Do you have your copy of the January edition of Making Cards magazine yet? If you do then you will have spotted these two calendars of mine in there. These have been very popular on my craft stall and I particularly love these two as I love the quotes.

Stamps - Inkylicious

Papers - Dovecraft Curiosity Corner

Die - Doohickey lace border

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Paper bows - Hobbycraft

Other - lace, calendar tabs

Challenges

Not just cards anything goes 

Bearly Mine Anything but a card 

ALBC Anything goes not Christmas 

Whimsy Anything goes

On the 2nd day of Christmas

Are you playing along with the 12 days of Christmas at Crafty Ribbons? Today is the 2nd day and I know these aren't turtle doves but it is artistic licence. Our sponsor today is Inky Impressions who are offering a $10 gift voucher. I used papers and topper from Craftwork Cards Christmas Post, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and Joy snowflakes with DCWV gauze paper and pearls.

Challenges

Noor Design UK Merry Christmas 

Country View Nostalgic Christmas 

Papertake Paper Play
Fussy and Fancy Snowflakes and ribbon
We do Doobadoo Festive
Craftyhazelnut Urgently needed Christmas creations

So I will be off about 9.30 this morning to set up for my final craft fair from 11-2.30, which is in aid of the Air Ambulance. Wouldn't it be lovely if Prince William  and Kate dropped in as he works for them now. Enjoy your Sunday and I will catch up later.

Special card

New challenge time at Little Claire and we are looking for a special Christmas card. I had an order for 2 cards and had limited time to make them so using one of the precoloured toppers from Little Claire was ideal and I really love how the card turned out. The papers are First Edition Vintage Noel and the ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.I used my corner rounder punch for a change, should use that more often as I love the effect. I added some scrabble letters and a wooden tree from Hobbycraft. Here is the fabulous prize on offer which includes one of my favourite stamps from the latets Christmas release.

Challenges

Not just cards anything goes 

Scribble and Scrap anything goes 

That Craft Place Christmas 

The Ribbon Girl anything goes 

A Creative Romance anything goes
Divas by Design Seeing red

Nothing special planned today so looking forward to a restful day at home, probably with lots of crafting and getting ready for my last craft fair of the year tomorrow.

Ready for the weather

Today is my turn to post a project on the Little Claire blog and I chose to use the dinkie wellies stamp to show that you can use the dinkie stamps on a 6x6 card. They have been coloured with Copics and I added some faux stitching with a fineliner pen. The paper pieced umbrellas were die cut with a Memory Box die.  Don't forget Little Claire have a massive 25% sale on everything until 14th December so you could buy this stamp for just £1.50!

Some more exciting news is that on 15th December Little Claire will be looking for DT members for a new Digi DT so if you would like to join this lovely friendly business then check the blog on Monday for details. This will be a separate team to the current rubber stamp team.

Challenges

Not just cards anything goes 

Papertake Paper Play 

The Ribbon Girl anything goes 

Bizzy Becs anything goes 

ALBC Anything goes (not Christmas)
Whimsy anything goes

Let it Snow

Brr we are certainly having a cold week but no snow yet thank goodness. I bought this cute snowman stamp at the NEC and have only just managed to use him. I can see me using him a lot next year though. He would look good paper pieced too.

Image - Woodware

Medium - Copics

Papers - Echo Park Winter Wishes

Dies - Joy snowflake on snowflake embossed card, IO fir trees

Other - rub on sentiment, pearls

Challenges

Sketchy Colours Great sketch
Crafty Cardmakers Christmas 

Crafty Sentiments Christmas 

Papertake Paper Play 

Aud Sentiments Holiday bingo (diecut, rubber stamp, bling) 

Crafty Catz Snowmen 

Delicious Doodles Non traditional Christmas 

Dies R Us Winter Wonderland 

The Ribbon Girl Anything Goes 

Sparkles Christmas It's a blue blue Christmas

Noor Design UK Merry Christmas

Penguins

I made 5 Christmas cards yesterday which I was very pleased with so I don't have many more to make for this year. I seem to have images though that I haven't used yet or like this little fella, have only been used once so here is being used for a second time.

Image - LOTV

Medium - Copics

Papers - Doivecraft 12 days of Christmas

Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Punch - Wodware holly

Other - red liquid pearls, Viva pearl pen, Stickles, sentiment from stash, TH distress tool

Challenges

Crafty Cardmakers Christmas 

Papertake Paper play 

Crafty Little Fairies Holly and/or ivy 

Natalie and Amy Cute and cuddly Christmas 

Stamping Sensations Winter Wonderland 

Winter Wonderland North or South Pole 

Allsorts Animal Magic (I hope a bird counts) 

Sweet Stampin' Things with wings

Off out early today for a lovely facial and massage. We will either have breakfast or lunch out too which is a  nice treat so I will link up later and catch up on some blogging. 

A sale, 12 days of Christmas and blogger!

An extra post from me again today, please scroll down for my card.

So firstly I want to tell you about a fabulous sale at Little Claire
25% off
What a fabulous offer, and that is off everything in store.
Just quote DD2514 at checkout.

Secondly over at Crafty Ribbons Inspiration Blog we will be inviting you to play along with the 12 days of Christmas. We have some wonderful sponsors lined up as well as prizes from Crafty Ribbons of course. The fun starts on Saturday 13th December and there will be inspiration from the DT every day and a chance for you to win every day too.

So grab the badge (there is a sidebar sized one in my sidebar) and link it to the inspiration blog.

Lastly an update on commenting. I have reverted back to a pop up box as you can comment without filling in the numbers on the word verification box which Blogger has decided to add to everyone's blog despite it being turned off. I am assuming this will be corrected at some stage. I much prefer pop up boxes for commenting and it appears many of you do too.

Winter White

We had the first of our Christmas meals out with friends last night so apologies that I wasn't home to comment. Photographing white cards is never easy and with the awful light at this time of the year it becomes even more of a challenge but I am impressed with how much the sparkle shows up though it does look gold and white but the card is actually all white. This was an ordered card after my friend saw a previous white on white card I made. I used some snowflake embossed card, pearl spray from Wild Orchid, Marianne poinsettia dies and Woodware holly leaves. I also embossed some of the holly leaves, thanks Coops for that idea. The sentiment was made with the new Sizzix Tim Holtz dies and thank goodness for Stick It making it so easy to stick them down.

Challenges

Dies R Us Winter Wonderland 

The Ribbon Girl anything goes 

Divas by Design feeling festive 

Simon Says Christmas/holiday 

DelightfulTwinkle twinkle 

Crafty Calendar White on white 

Crafty Little Fairies Holly or ivy 

ABC Y is for Yuletide

Commenting

Please scroll down for today's card. Apparently Blogger is playing up again and although word verification is switched off, if like me, you have a pop up box for comments, it has switched it on word verification. It seems the way around it is to change the setting for comments to embedded. I much prefer a pop up box but I don't want word verification on my blog as nobody has the time for that and it is such a nuisance.

Hopefully it will sort itself out at some point and I can change back to a pop up box.

Winter Wedding

I made this card for an order and used the Inkylicious sentiment again but this time with a new Spellbinders die I bought at the NEC. I printed the sentiment and cut that with one of the smaller dies. Do you find you use the larger dies far more than the small ones? The edges were distressed with DI tattered Rose.  The paper is Santoro and I added some gauze, vintage lace from Crafty Ribbons, Charm from The Ribbon Girl and cherry blossom and roses.

Challenges

The Ribbon Girl anything goes 

Scribble and Scrap anything goes 

A Creative Romance anything goes 

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Add a charm 

Sister Act anything goes 

Bizzy Becs anything goes

Happy Hanukkah

A first for me, a Happy Hanukkah card which I made for Cardmaking and Papercraft online magazine. I don't know much about Hanukkah other than it is called The Festival of Light and they light a menorah so I set about finding a suitable image. This is Max with Menorah from Mo Manning. He has been coloured with Copics and I used First Edition Gilded Winter papers as I though the gold appropriate. The die is Memory Box and I added some gold pearls.

Challenges

The Paper Shelter Special celebrations 

Cute Card Thursday Little angels 

Papertake Anything goes 

ALBC Anything goes not Christmas 

Whimsy Anything goes

Yet another snowman!

Great craft fair yesterday. It started slowly but by lunchtime sales were picking up and my last customer made my day buying 9 cards and one of my decorated boxes. I was so pleased to sell both boxes and a picture as well as lots of cards, noteholders, money wallets etc. I have some orders to complete this weekend and plan to get my cards written tomorrow. So time for our last challenge of the year at A Gem of a Challenge and it is a nice easy one which will last for a month, anything Christmas. All of the DT have been playing along for this one as it is our last challenge. We hope to see a lot of entries this month but just to let you know the DT won't be commenting on this one.

Image - Chilly with Candy

Medium - Copics

Paper - MME Merry

Sentiment - LOTV

Wooden trees - Hobbycraft

Other - Stickles, Viva pearl pen

Challenges

Simon Says Monday Holiday cards 

Papertake Anything goes 

Fussy and Fancy Happy Holidays 

We Do Doobadoo Get festive 

CCAYR No squares or rectangles

Simon Says Christmas/holiday 

As well as a lot of snowman stamps I have a lot of snowmen Christmas decorations. Day off today so we are popping into a couple of craft fairs today and I should be picking up a new hand painted snowman from one of my fellow crafters. This evening we are going to Cafe Rouge for a meal and to the theatre to see The Full Monty which should be fun.

Modern colours for a traditional scene

I really love this stamp from Stamposaurus and decided to go for a clean and simple look with modern colours. The image has been coloured with Copics with added sparkle from Sakura pens. The sentiment comes with the stamp. I simply added some faux stitching with a fineliner pen to keep the emphasis on the gorgeous image.

Challenges

Without Words Christmas (modern look) 

Sister Act Anything goes 

Paper Creator's All about Christmas 

Simon Says Monday Holiday cards 

Papertake Anything goes 

Country View Nostalgic Christmas 

Vintage Stamping A Christmas song (O little town of Bethlehem)

Today I have had a very early start as I am at the quarterly craft fair at the hospital which is usually a good one. It was going to be my last fair this year but I was asked to do another one next Sunday 14th in aid of Air Ambulance so I though well why not. I will be back to link up this evening.

Making Cards Magazine needs readers cards

This is my second post today. Please scroll down for today's card but I just wanted to let you know about an opportunity to feature on the reader's page of  Making Cards Magazine.

Sally at Making Cards Magazine has a shortage of cards for the ‘Your Cards’ page for the February onwards editions of Making Cards magazine so she is  looking for cards to feature.  You need to send the cards in to be photographed  at the address below and you will be in with a chance of being chosen as star card and getting yourself a crafty prize.

Your Cards, Making Cards, Warners Group Publications, West Street, Bourne, Lincs, PE10 9PH

So what are you waiting for, get making.

Mono Christmas

We had a lovely day yesterday. I bought a retro 60's style coat which was half price, we had lunch at Bella Italia, 2 for £10 and finished the Christmas shopping. I did sneak in some crafting when I got home too and finished off with a brilliant episode of The Apprentice. So onto my card today. A new challenge today at Crafty Ribbons and our theme is Mono Christmas. I really love the new black and white range of ribbons so I decided to go for a white on white card mounted on black card. I used some embossed snowflake card I bought at the NEC with various dies. The snowflakes are Joy, birch trees and cardinals IO and the deer are MB.

Challenges

Noor Design UK Merry Christmas 

Simon Says Monday Holiday cards 

Papertake Anything goes 

Fussy and Fancy Happy Holidays

Money wallets

Have you seen these cute money wallets available at Pink Gem. I decided to print some off and make them up to sell at craft fairs and have been really pleased with how well they have sold. I added lots of glitter and some wooden embellies.

This is the back of the envelopes, so cute.

Challenges

Papertake Anything goes option decoration or gift 

TTCD Anything goes 

Paper Creators All about Christmas 

Bearly Mine Anything but a card

Like most of you at this time of year I am very busy. Hubby is painting the bedroom and I have been busy with some card orders and making stock for Friday's craft fair. Day off today as we are going to into Norwich for the day, which means coffees, lunch out and some shopping. 

Snowballs

I love the Pollycraft children as they are so cute and this one is no exception. They are also so lovely to colour and I have gone for a clean and simple style today. I am really enjoying challenging myself to do some cas cards and was thrilled to get a top 3 at Without Words for my cas robin cardin the last challenge.

Image - Pollycraft Swings n Slides Snowballs, now available from Little Miss Muffet

Medium - Copics

Papers - Dovecraft 'Tis the Season

Other - wooden snowflake, Sakura goldtsar pen, Stickles

Challenges

Sketch n Stash Sketch 152 

Little Miss Muffet Clean and simple 

Di's Digis For kids 

Graph'It 2 colours Fussy and Fancy Happy Holidays 

Creative Knockouts All that glitters

  Delightful It's a kid's world 

Bunny Zoe Snow
Sweet Stampin' Let it snow

Without Words Christmas (Modern look)

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So the lucky winner is......

That's you, Lorraine aka Rainey's Craft Room. Please email me so I can get your prize to you.

You're bloomin' marvellous

The first of the month means a new club stamp set for Little Claire and this set is called Men of My Dreams. There is a knight, handyman and gardener. Each one comes with an appropriate sentiment too. These will be great for Birthdays, Valentines, Father's Day and Anniversaries so I can see a lot of uses for this set.

Image and sentiment - Little Claire

Medium - Copics

Papers - from my scrap pile

Dies - Doohickey fence, Memory Box birds, Spelbinders circle

Other - pearls, flower from I am Roses

Challenges

Simon Says anything goes