Getting diverted ...

... I'm going through some of my craft stuff to have a sort out (seems to be something I do quite often) and came across more and more bits that I saved 'just in case' - some has gone in the recycling bin, but some have ended up on cards that I've made as I go along ... so the sorting is a slow process that is interrupted with the cardmaking.

This is one that I made with some background paper by Kaisercraft that was free with a magazine. Everything else was taken from a card that mum received a couple of years ago.

While I had the Kaisercraft free papers out I used the snippet left from the previous card along with another paper from the pad for the background of this next card, using two squares that had come with a Kanban kit long ago - a few toppers like this were lurking near the old cards and I thought it was about time I used some of them. The greetings are from Anna Griffin:

As well as the two squares I used on the previous card, there was a longer version featuring the three wise men which I mounted on to some background paper that had long been neglected, but which matched some of the colour of the image, and mounted on a cream DL card. I tried to get a picture without reflection from the flash, but still caught some on the edge - oh well!:

I had very little input into the first and third card, so I am only entering the second one into these challenges:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 56
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Totally Gorjuss 167: KISS
Glitter n sparkle 16: sentimental
Kreative Bastel 14: dots
A & T 21: polka dots
Guylou's inimitability: I see dots
Paper playtime 2: use some brown
Challenges 4 everybody 12: anything goes
Bunny Zoe: anything goes
My Grafico 144: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 124
Inspire me Fridays 92
52 card pick up 2.3