CHNC 172: make it square .... or include a square on your creation

This is my design card for today's CHNC challenge 172: make it square ... or include a square on your creation.

I've used a square card blank matted with papers from Echo Park's Winter Wishes by Michelle Coleman. The snowman digital image is Paper Pretties warm winter wishes (one of the sponsors of CHNC challenge 172), coloured with spectrum noir pens, cut out with a nestie die and edged on the inverted scallops with a spectrum noir. The big bold sentiment is from Beccy's Place digital 'snowman set'.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
My perfect life festive 48 week 13
CRAFT 254: Christmas
Christmas fun: Christmas card for a man/anything goes
Sparkles Christmas 39: inspired by Christmas carol/song: 'Let it snow! Let is snow! Let it snow!'
Merry Monday 103: use a snowman
Cupcake inspirations 255: monochromatic
Bunny Zoe : monochrome
Crafty bloggers network April: die cuts or embossing
That's crafty: you spin me right round (circle, dots)
Fitztown 30: spots and stripes
Inky impressions 154: dots & stripes
Papercreators 22: spots & dots
Love to create 110: anything goes for kids
Ooh la la 153: for a child
Spectrum noir April: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 28: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs April: anything goes
Sister Act 52: anything goes
DL.ART April: anything goes
Just B linky party April
Treasured times: mix it up
Just keep on creating April

Completely Christmas challlenge 7

Today's Completely Christmas challenge 7 is being sponsored by Lacy Sunshine and I have used the 'Bubbles ice skating' image kindly supplied. Please click on the challenge link to see the lovely creations of the rest of the team and join in the Christmas fun.

I coloured the image with spectrum noir pens, tearing around a perspex oval template and inking with one of the pens. The background card is Hunkydory, an offcut of purple card and I've used a mixture of stars and snowflakes.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
My perfect life festive 48 week 13
CRAFT 254: Christmas
Cupcake inspirations 255: monochromatic
Bunny Zoe : monochrome
Creative moments 40: anything goes/girly
Love to create 110: anything goes for kids
Ooh la la 153: for a child
Spectrum noir April: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 28: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs April: anything goes
Sister Act 52: anything goes
Treasured times: mix it up
Just keep on creating April

Suzy Bee's bloomin' challenge 24

Today sees the start of Suzy Bee's bloomin' challenge 24 - please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team, using images from our sponsor for this week, Lacy Sunshine and, hopefully, join in the challenge - it's 'anything goes' which is always popular.

For my design card I used Lacy Sunshine's 'Jack and Lily' image, coloured with spectrum noir pens and cut out with a scalloped nestie, brushing lightly with distress ink.. Papers are all from my offcuts box. The butterflies and vellum die cuts with silver foiled leaves are from a Dawn Bibby kit bought long, long ago (and I still have a load of similar items from the days when I used to avidly watch QVC and got hooked into buying things that I 'needed' ... so much so that they are still in boxes!). I used small remnants of pink gingham ribbon for the corners. The sentiment circle from Craftwork Cards is silver foiled, although it looks dark in the photo.

The card was based on this sketch for Sunday sketch & stamp 201:

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 119
The paper girls 53: birthday
Seize the birthday: anything birthday
Time out 3: happy birthday
Crafty ribbons 84: flower power + ribbon
Inky chicks 26: butterflies
Fairytale 89: butterflies
Whoopsi Daisy: things with wings
Digistamps4Joy 89: add wings
Crafty calendar April: things with wings
The stamping boutique 12: distress
Make something Monday 14: shine
Papercreators 22: spots & dots
Spectrum noir April: anything goes

Craftin desert divas 28: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs April: anything goes
Sister Act 52: anything goes
Treasured times: mix it up
Just keep on creating April