Angels

A big welcome and thank you to all my new followers this week, I hope you pop in often and like what you see.

 Hubby has kindly shared his cold so I woke feeling awful yesterday then Lora arrived home from school early suffering from the same thing. My brain just felt totally addled all say. The kitchen is progressing in the right direction now though and hopefully by the end of next week we'll be shipshape.

My mojo has been hiding again and I've been struggling to get ahead with my DT work but I did manage this Christmas card for the neighbours.

I won this image recently from Mami Doodles, it's coloured with promarkers and highlighted with a gold gel pen and a Sakura glaze pen. I've die cut with an oval nestie and matted onto a gold mirri scalloped oval then used scattered straw DI around the image. Background is gold mirri card edges with a Martha Stewart PATP snowflake punch matted up with white card and gold foiled vellum. Large gold snowflake is a tree ornament, gold die cut poinsettias and sentiment are from a Crafty Bitz kit I've had for years. Computer generated sentiment has been die cut with a Spellbinders ironworks shapeability. Flourishes are from Marianne Designs. Ribbons and poinsettias are from my stash. Corner snowflakes are punch waste and I've added a gold pearl to each of them.

Challenges entered:

Heart Song Inspirations - gold or glitter

Incy Wincy Designs - tic tac toe (red, Chrismas sentiment, ribbon)

Stamps R Us - bling it on

Digital Tuesday - Christmas time

Truly Scrumptious - Christmas plus pearls

Bah! Humbug! - baby's first Christmas

Sew Many Cards - vellum

Craft Your Days Away - embellishment bingo (pearls, flowers, ribbon)

Bunny Zoes - Christmas with pearls

Creatalicious Challenges - sparkly Christmas

Desert Island Crafters - choose at least 3 (wings, ribbon, trees - on vellum)

Marianne Design - sparkle and shine

ABC DT - Christmas Card

Delightful Challenges - Bingo (patterned paper, punches/dies, flowers)

CCEE - use 2 die cuts or punches

C.R.A.F.T. - stars in your eyes

Shelly's Images - anything goes

Mami Doodles - Christmas

Carol x

Crafting When We Can #3 Bingo

Not so many entries for our sketch and fairytale theme but thanks to those of you entered. Our next challenge at CWWC is Bingo - just choose any line (horizontal, vertical or diagonal), four corners or a full house and let us know which you chose. We are being sponsored by Sew Many Cards  this time and the DT were given images to use. I chose Morty Christmas Sleigh:

This is our Bingo card:

I chose Christmas, distressing and anything but a card to make a Christmas decoration. Morty is coloured with promarkers then cut out and mounted 3d. The decoration is made using Grand oval scalloped nesties. I've cut the largest one twice in gold mirri card and stuck them together to form the back. The next size down was cut out of green card and this was distressed with gold ink around the edges before being mounted onto the gold mirri. The backing paper is tissue paper from Costco which I've crumpled then glued to a plain oval shape, the edges and crumples were all distressed with gold. 

The gorgeous ribbon is from Costco. I've finished off with poinsettias (from WOC), ivy leaves (from Joanna Sheen), various flower and leaf embellishments from Crafty Bitz, some holly flourishes from Spellbinders and some glitter to highlight.

Do pop over to the challenge blog to see the other DT makes, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

Challenges entered:

The Ribbon Girl - Christmas project

Heart Song Inspiration - use ribbon and/or tag

Ooh La La Creations - punches and dies

Party Time Tuesday - anything goes

Squigglefly - floral fantasy

Bows and Berries - glitter

Critter Sketch - anything goes

Digi Makover - re size digi (made smaller)

Craft Room Challenge - Christmas

Crazy Amigo Challenge - letter R (reindeer)

I love Promarkers - distressing

The Pixie Cottage - pop it up

Crafty Purple Frog - lots of layers

4 Crafty Chicks - anything goes

Emerald Fairies - punches/dies

Just Tracy - anything goes

Sparkles Forum - Christmas Songs (Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer)

Allsorts - use 5 flowers (4 red, 8 gold)

Sew Many Cards - anything goes

OSAAT - use a digi

Sparkles Forum - something that sparkles

Carol x

Christmas Stocking

Crafty Hazelnuts challenge this week is photo inspired. Image was a freebie and is coloured with promarkers then mounted with silicon gel onto a nestie mat cut from Christmas mirri card. Card is finished with a bow, some corner peel offs and pearls.

Carol x

Diecut Stocking

Sorry I've been a bit quiet for a couple of days, been getting ahead with some DT samples while the going is good and before the builders arrive to start knocking walls down. Made a couple of Christmas cards tonight and whilst the box is filling nicely there's still a bit to go before all my cards are done!

The challenge at CHNC this week is to use a diecut on your card. I've cut red foiled card with a square nestie and layered on some gold patterned paper from my bit box, followed by a piece of gold mesh. The stocking is from Crafty Bitz. Card is finished with a tag and some pearls.

Carol x

Quick Christmas card

Again I used an image and backing paper from my bit box (they are from one of Joanna Sheens Christmas CDs probably Enchanted Christmas). I have followed the sketch at Christmas Card Challenges. Card is finished with some adhesive ribbon and a Crafty Bitz star.

Carol x



Christmas Stocking

Bah! Humbug! are looking for Christmas Stockings this week and Jingle Belles theme is Die Cuts.

The die cuts are a mix of Kanban and Crafty Bitz.

Carol x

The Ghost of Christmas Present

is the title of this weeks challenge over at Jingle Belles - a recipe was included:

1 - as white as a ghost

2 - a present

3 - a bow or knot

4 - a touch of traditional Christmas colours

I hope this fits the bill. Stamp probably came from QVC in a set and is coloured with Promarkers and Sakura pens, the die cuts are all from Crafty Bitz.

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

Bah! Humbug! - Candy Canes

CHNC -Going around in Circles

Christmas Card Challenges - Bows