Christmas travel fun

Today's facebook Sunday's with Santa theme is 'travel' - the nearest I could get is to use some pictures left over from papers I bought a few years ago (think they were Dovecraft) of children travelling on a sledge. I've used up other offcuts that were in my Christmas box, so this is my first card of the week for Pixie's crafty snippets 21.  The trees and sentiments have been in my Christmas box for ages.The background papers are Papermania 'a Christmas carol'.

I've used the sketch for Sketch challenges 4:

and you will see that I made five cards with the same design - these will be another pack ready for my Tearfund sale in the autumn.

These are also for:


Sparkles forum Chjristmas challenge 16: Christmas tree
Woodware UK week 51: children's cards
Bunny Zoe 24: anything goes
Truly scrumptious 80: anything goes
Whimsy 39: anything goes
Just keep on creating 2: anything goes
Make it Monday 90
Inspire me Fridays 59
52 card pickup 20

Christmas birthday

'Christmas birthday' was the theme for last week's facebook Sunday's with Santa (yes, I'm a week behind - hope to do a card for today's challenge later). We have a lot of family birthdays around Christmas, so it's good to have the prompt to make some in advance.

I've used one of my favourite Greeting Farm Anya stamps that is just right for a winter birthday, colouring the image with copics and mounting on a piece of red polka dot card. I've put diamond stickles on the edges of the coat to add a bit of sparkle. The stamp is for All that scraps Wednesday challenge: anything goes.

I followed the sketch for Mojo Monday 241:

I used black, white and red for:

Farm fresh Friday
Addicted to stamps 30: white, black and ?
Lexi 65: black and white plus one other colour
Anything goes 67: colour combo - black with one other
Paper crafting journey 9: black + one other colour

Papers are 7 gypsies life noir and adore. The sentiment was generated on my dymo letratag and mounted on to a die cut label. The crocheted flowers have been combined with a couple of craftime flowers, the larger one held together with a material covered brad.

This is also for:

Flourishes timeless 169: alphabet letter - B - blooms, birthday, bling, black
The paper shelter 64: birthday cards with sentiment
Crazy 4 challenges 137: birthday card
Joanna Sheen: happy birthday
Stamp and create May: for the ladies
Crafty catz 133: girlie time
Sentimental Sundays 103: whimsical
Festive Friday 19 product challenge: glitter or glimmer
Stampin' sisters in Christ 140: build up your card - layers and stacked flowers
Hotshot craft 8: die cuts
Card caravan (the hybrid chick) 19: flowers
Critter 115: flowers
Tammy scraping corner 10: show me your flowers
Crafty ribbons 19: flowers
Die cuttin' divas 65: flowers
Stamp, scrap & doodle: flowers
Hooked on craft 20: flowers
Paper pretties Monday challenge: glitter
Cute card Thursday 217: a touch of sparkle
Di's digi designs: show us that bling
Let's ink it up 23: bling
Freshly brewed May challenge 94: tic tac toe - I chose: flowers, patterned paper, bling
Bunny Zoe 24: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Truly scrumptious 80: anything goes
Whimsy 39: anything goes
Just keep on creating 2: anything goes
Make it Monday 90
Inspire me Fridays 59
52 card pickup 20

Christmas aperture card

This is an aperture Christmas card for Zoe's challenge for this fortnight for the Christmas Card Club (for info about this please click on one of the names of my sidebar and contact for details). It's also another card for my own CHNC challenge 73: a touch of the blues.

I've used Patchwork Pals supplies from a kit that I've had for a few years now.

This is also for:

Stempelsonne 63: headgear
Glitter geeks 20: polkadots
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Truly scrumptious 80: anything goes
Whimsy 39: anything goes
Just keep on creating 2: anything goes
Make it Monday 89
Inspire me Fridays 59