Dottie in the snow

Papers are Artic frog ski bunny. As I've used a digi is - a Charmed download: 'dottie in the snow', part of the bumper Christmas collection - this is for City crafter 29: 'get your digi on', Bee crafty 41: Christmas 1 and Die cut dreams Christmas 41 to 'use a Christmas digi'.


It's also for:

One stitch at a time 37: 'Christmas traditional or modern
ABC Christmas: W for winter wonderland
Critter 38: Christmas
Crafty Ann 27: 'Christmas card using non-traditional colours
Quixotic: Christmas is coming
No time to stamp 163: 'tis the season for clean and simple
Speedy the cat (Mark's finest papers) 27: holiday card
Everybody art 115: untraditional Christmas
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes
Pattie's creations 3: Christmas card
Fairytale: everything goes

Christmas buttons

These challenges call for buttons to be used:

Gingerloft 5 and Stamp, scrap & doodle.

The paper is Craft Creations and there is a strip of gold foil near the top (difficult to see here). The surrounds of the sentiment are gold and green.

This is also for:

Polka doodles 44: quick & easy Christmas card
One stitch at a time 37: 'Christmas traditional or modern
Critter 38: Christmas
Quixotic: Christmas is coming
No time to stamp 163: 'tis the season for clean and simple
Speedy the cat (Mark's finest papers) 27: holiday card
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Cards for men 22: anything goes (think this is manly enough)

Gold cream and red

This Christmas card is for Allsorts 76: gold and cream with a hint of red - the gold doesn't show up very well, unfortunately, but it is there.

It's also for:

One stitch at a time 37: 'Christmas traditional or modern
Critter 38: Christmas
Quixotic: Christmas is coming
No time to stamp 163: 'tis the season for clean and simple
Simplicity one layer 27: Christmas kindness
Charisma cardz: with love @ Christmas (the FF bear is carrying a heart with mistletoe)
Speedy the cat (Mark's finest papers) 27: holiday card
Everybody art 115: untraditional Christmas
Created by hand: words of love/friendship
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes
Pattie's creations 3: Christmas card
Fairytale: everything goes

Candy canes

'Candy canes' is the theme for this week's challenge 48 on Sparkle creation Christmas 2010.

I've used DCWV papers and chipboard with a black bow. There are no embellishments on the first one - the papers speak for themselves - so this is good for today's 'no embellishments' Town scrapper challenge.

Sorry about the wonkiness of the scan! (the card is straight).


This is also for:

Polka doodles 44: quick & easy Christmas card
Crafty catz 57: spots and stripes
One stitch at a time 37: 'Christmas traditional or modern
Critter 38: Christmas
Quixotic: Christmas is coming
No time to stamp 163: 'tis the season for clean and simple
Speedy the cat (Mark's finest papers) 27: holiday card
Everybody art 115: untraditional Christmas

Old olive and ivory notebook

The treehouse challenge 74 asks for 'old olive and beige' to be used, allowing the addtion of one more colour if needed. This notebook was made with K & co papers, some blooms and some ribbons - using my BIA once more.

It's also for:

For fun: metal (the wire binding)
One powerful hour: Nancy's previous theme: favourite flowers
Spoon full of sugar 128: relish to embellish - I love adding flowers and ribbons
Mami doodles 13: anything but a card
There she goes 79: anything gifty
Craft and me 16: make a Christmas gift
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes

Notebook for a boy

Another notebook that I made the other day using my BIA machine, this time using some K & Co background paper, sticky ribbons and a couple of die cut shirts.

This is for:

Paper sundaes 42: for the boys
Crazy amigo: boys
Papertake: penny for the guy (hope it's OK that it's not actually a card)
For fun: metal (the wire binding)
Mami doodles 13: anything but a card
There she goes 79: anything gifty
Craft and me 16: make a Christmas gift
Ellephantastic 18: blue
Moxie Tuesday trigger: a study in blue - inspiration photo (I've gone for the colour, not the theme!):

Post it note request

I had a request from a friend to make a post-it note holder for one of her grandsons who is mad keen on Arsenal football club.

This is very simple, but it fits the bill - a die cut Arsenal footie outfit that's been in my 'masculine' box for some time and the football is a big brad.



I'm linking this for:

Paper sundaes 42: for the boys
Crazy amigo: boys
Papertake: penny for the guy (hope it's OK that it's not actually a card)
For fun: metal (the brad)
Mami doodles 13: anything but a card
There she goes 79: anything gifty
Craft and me 16: make a Christmas gift

Fairies notebook

Another notebook made with my BIA - can't remember what the background paper is. The metal buckle and ribbon were recycled from a card.

This is for:

Crafty creations 92: fables and fairy tales
Flutter by Wednesday 129: open theme - with fairy
Alphabet: A for angels and fairies
Secret crafter Saturday 107: anything that flies
For fun: metal
Pixie cottage 43: recycled elements
Cupcake inspirations 83:
ECP 24: autumn
Sisterhoood of crafters: fall and incorporate leaves
Double dutch 55: fall has fallen
Stampavie and more 115: orange
Play date 54:
Curtain call 54:
Mami doodles 13: anything but a card
There she goes 79: anything gifty
Craft and me 16: make a Christmas gift
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes

Post it with Pooh

Anotherpost it note holder, this time featuring Pooh bear, who, of course, loves his hunny!

The background paper is DCWV pocketful of posies and the Pooh dimensional stitckers are some that I've had for ages.


This is for:

Pile it on 43: 'beary good friends'
Mami doodles 13: anything but a card
There she goes 79: anything gifty
Craft and me 16: make a Christmas gift
Secret crafter Saturday 107: anything that flies
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes

Make a note ... it's teatime!

A couple of post-it note holders, using some white glitter card, Craftime stickers etc.


They are for:

Whoopsi daisy: sparkle
Our daily bread: sparkle
Cowgirl Sunday: tons of bling
ABC: G is for glitter
Paper romance 30: everything but the kitchen sink - lots of glitter
Other lovelies 30: G - glitter
Other lovelies 31: H - hearts
Creative inspirations 46: glitter, glamour, girlie
Die cut dreams 71: no colouring plus feature a heart
Ann's creative nook 110: think pink
Mami doodles 13: anything but a card
There she goes 79: anything gifty
Craft and me 16: make a Christmas gift
Theme Thursday: favourite colour combo - black, white and hot pink is definitely one of my all-time favourite combos
2 sisters 11: no designer paper
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes
Jazzy paper designs15: blue note jazz - inspiration from webpage (the colours)



Flourishes timeless 91: choose a print that inspires you from Cafe Baudelaire - I chose the theme from:

Just for a change ...

... this has nothing to do with Christmas (well, except that it can be given as a little Christmas gift)!

It's a notebook made using my BIA. The spiky circle has been cut with a nestie. The 'notes' letters are thickers chipboard, which is good for If the shoe fits Fashionista Friday challenge 52.


It's also for:

Crafty pad 95: stitching (on the ribbon down the left side)
PaperPlay 44: circles
Our daily bread: dies
Mami doodles 13: anything but a card
All things unity 18: monochromatic
There she goes 79: anything gifty
Craft and me 16: make a Christmas gift
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes

Noel embossing

Five more embossed cards, this time using a Crafts Too embossing folder on texture card, which I then sanded to distress:

These are for:

Aly's Sunday 28: distressed
One stitch at a time 37: 'Christmas traditional or modern
Critter 38: Christmas
Tip top Tuesday 8: Christmas inspired
Quixotic: Christmas is coming
No time to stamp 163: 'tis the season for clean and simple
Speedy the cat (Mark's finest papers) 27: holiday card
Creative cottage 26: embossing
C.R.A.F.T. 75: dry embossing
Our daily bread: texture it
All things unity 18: monochromatic
2 sisters 11: no designer paper
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes

O Christmas tree

Five more very simple cards - simply green mirri card embossed with a cuttlebug folder:



These are for:

One stitch at a time 37: 'Christmas traditional or modern
Critter 38: Christmas
Tip top Tuesday 8: Christmas inspired
Quixotic: Christmas is coming
No time to stamp 163: 'tis the season for clean and simple
Frosted designs: holiday treats
Speedy the cat (Mark's finest papers) 27: holiday card
Italy on Sunday 56: trees and roots
Creative cottage 26: embossing
C.R.A.F.T. 75: dry embossing
Our daily bread: texture it
2 sisters 11: no designer paper
All things unity 18: monochromatic
Paper players: anything goes
Craft your passion 30: anything goes
Incy wincy 66: anything goes
Lexi's creations 26: anything goes
Freshly brewed: anything goes
Fun at fairy knoll: anything goes
One stop craft 104: anything goes
Wee memories 29: free for all

I've been a bad blogger

I didn't blog much of my craftiness last week - just the essentials - because I was getting ready for the church mini market (I did very well there - thanks to everyone who supported). I thought that things would then be back to normal - but, oh no! Having managed to blog about my new Christmas challenge site and, fortunately, schedule a post for my card as GD on Ooh La La, our broadband (and cable TV) went on the blink on Sunday afternoon and went completely on Monday.

It has now been put right, but I feel all out of gear - I've got quite a few cards etc to show and hardly know where to start now. So today I'm going to try and catch up with a few challenges and blog some of my new crafting.

Guest Designer on Ooh La La

I was very surprised and delighted when Anne from Ooh La La got in touched and asked me to be a Guest Designer on for November and December.

The theme of today's challenge 66 for the next fortnight is 'Remember, remember'. Please visit Ooh La La to see the lovely crafting of the regular Design Team - and it would be lovely if you could make something for the challenge.

As it's Remembrance Sunday in the UK on 14 November - the nearest Sunday to 11 November - I thought I would focus on poppies.

I've used papers and images from Ooh La La's Watercolour memories CD 'Poppy farm'. I've stamped with two PM poppy stamps and sentiment and coloured with Copics. I thought the 'thinking of you' tied in well with remembering someone at a time of special need. The spotted ribbon is Miss Elizabeth's.

I'm also linking this for the Craft Garden's November challenge where they have given this picture as inspiration:

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog candy

To launch my new Christmas Challenge blog I'm giving away some blog candy - some super papers from the My Mind's Eye signature Christmas glitter book - you can read all about it here.


Don't forget: you've got to be in it to win it!

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog

It is with great excitement (and some trepidation) that I'm launching my new Christmas challenge blog. You can read all about it here.

There's a blog button on my sidebar that will take you there too - and you might like to use it to put a link in your sidebar.

Salt: who is my neighbour

It was Lythan's turn to choose the topic for this fortnight's Salt challenge. She chose 'Who is my neighbour' and you can read what she wrote here.

My LO is based on the words of Jesus recorded in Luke 10:27:

'He answered: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbour as yourself.'

When the man asked Jesus 'Who is my neighbour', Jesus went on to tell the parable of the Good Samaritan. He ended with this question in Luke 10:36-37: 'Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?' The expert in the law replied, 'The one who had mercy on him."'

Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise.'

For my LO I used a piece of DCWV textured white card, with a few strips of coloured card. The rows of people are Sandylion horizons stickers (I bought them ages and ages ago and have never thought of a use for them till now).

The strip of torn paper is Bo Bunny love bandit tweetheart - I thought the use of some hearts was appropriate for the theme.

The typewriter keys letters were some miscellaneous ones I found in my box (thankfully I had all the necessary letters) and the 'neighbour' letters are thickers chipboard. The other wording was done on my dymo letratag.

If you can spare a few moments to have a look at the Salt blog, you won't be disappointed - the team always come up with beautiful artwork as a response to the theme - and perhaps you will join in by creating something - please leave us a comment so we can come and see your artwork.

It's Wednesday again

and that means it's WOYWW day (anyone who doesn't know what that is - is there anyone left who doesn't know? - should head over to Julia's blog and find out. The idea is to take pictures of your workspace and show them so that fellow crafters can have a nosy.

Today, I'm showing you what's on my dining table instead of the usual workspace. As I explained here yesterday, I'm getting cards etc ready for our mini market at church on Saturday.

So here are the boxes of cards, post-it note holders and notebooks that I'll be taking for the mini market on Saturday (the boxes won't look so tatty then and lots of the cards will be put out on display stands).

Lack of blogging

Lack of blogging doesn't mean that no crafting is going on. It's just that available time is being given to crafting rather than spending time to blog as well.

It's the church mini market on Saturday, so I'm trying to fill the gaps in stock with some more post-it note holders, notebooks and cards.

I'll be showing some of these soon, but in the meantime I need to get on with the crafting.

Secret garden CJ

The last month has gone by very quickly and it's time to have Jane's CJ ready for posting as part of the group on BF forum.

Dragonfly Jane chose 'the secret garden' as the theme for her CJ, saying:

'Your garden can either be a dream based in reality or fantasy, it's your garden to be as you wish, so please step forward and through the little gate or door to your own secret garden and give me a glimpse of what is hiding there.'

I used K & Co daisy embossed paper, some prima gems and pearls, butterflies from stash and PM sunflower border stickers. The writing was done on my dymo letratag.


I'm linking this for:

Alphabet: 'Y is for yellow'
Something completely different: 'green and yellow'
Three muses 73: 'things with wings'
Flutter by Wednesday 127: 'open - include butterfly, fairy or angel'
Penny's challenges 40: 'so long as it flies'
Craftalicious 10: 'anything goes'
Tuesday throwdown 22: 'anything goes'
Meljen: 'anything goes'