Crafting musketeers March challenge 11: art deco

This is my design card for team B's inspiration for Crafting Musketeers art deco challenge. You can join in the challenge here - we would love to see your art deco crafting. This challenge is being sponsored by Debbi Moore and I have used a background paper download and the images. The image on the front has been printed three times and decoupaged. The gold mirror card matting looks so much better in real life, as does the gold sentiment circle.

I made this for my stepson's girl friend and I think she liked it.

This is an A5 landscape card used as an upright tent card. And I used another image inside the card and wrote on the upper inside.

This is also for:

Craftin desert divas 26: birthdays
Whoopsi Daisy: birthday
Digistamps4Joy 87: add a birthday sentiment
Paper pretties 301: birthday cards
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
Fussy & fancy 109: birthdays
Bloggers challenge: they say it's your birthday
Pink gem 115: mother's day/female birthday/special lady
Simon says Wednesday challenge: mother's day/special girl
Cute card Thursday 312: girls, girls, girls
Digi choosday: all about the girl
One stitch at a time 204: use a digi
Little red wagon 228: truly dimensional
Treasured times 14: anything goes with layering
Craft room: 20th century
That's crafty: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 48: anything goes
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Glory of Christmas challenge 29: cocoa, hot drink

When I knew what challenge 29 was going to be for the Glory of Christmas, I remembered that ages ago I had made a tag using Meljen's 'Christmas cocoa' image. I hunted through all of my Christmas stash ... and I couldn't find it, but I had the image saved on computer, so I printed it, cut round it, mounted on to an offcut of spotty Hunkydory card and then matted on to another piece of Hunkydory card with the lamp post image, adding lots of silver snowflakes and the sentiment.

Please click here to see the crafting of the rest of the team and to join in our challenge - we'd love to see you there.

While I was looking for the Hunkydory card with the lamp post, something suddenly felt out from between two other pieces of card (I had looked right through that box earlier) and it was, of course, the tag that I had made ages ago, so I decided I would make a second design card for the Glory of Christmas challenge 29. This time the background card  is an old Kanban offcut. I used a couple of scraps of Hunkydory and papermania papers to form the border near the bottom. The background of the tag had been stamped randomly with snowflakes using stazon cactus green and the torn edges of the image had been brushed with chalk. The clumps of berries are from a Kaisercraft turtle dove pack of various elements.

These are also for (mainly the second card):

Meljen 201: use green
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Inspiration avenue: green
Crafty sentiments: lots of green
Inky impression 150: go green
Delightful: wearing of the green
Digi haven: at least 3 different shades of green
Pattie's 87: green
Jingle belles: the holly and the ivy
One stitch at a time 204: use a digi
Treasured times 14: anything goes with layering
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Sister Act 48: anything goes

Christmas angels

It was Christine's turn to choose the theme for the Christmas Card Club challenge for this fortnight and she said she would like to see wings. So I've used two lovely glittered stickers raised up with 3D foam mounted on to a piece of Hunkydory card. The ribbon with bow is one that I rescued from someone - it might have been a box of chocolates, I can't remember, but it is definitely recycled. The sentiment is one that got left over from an old Kanban kit.

The photo has made the right hand side of the card look lighter than it actually is, but it's the best I could do.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Ecelctic ellapu::wings
Crafting by designs: things with wings
Crafty little fairies: things with wings
Crafty ribbons 80: ribbon n bows
Card and scrap 72: us lace and/or ribbon
Paper minutes 312: brown with glitter
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Sister Act 48: anything goes

Mother's day card for Hyacinth

I was asked to make a card for a mum with the name Hyacinth (love that), so I found a copyright free picture of hyacinths on the internet and played around a bit digitally till I got the effect I wanted and added the text. I then printed stuck the pieces of ribbon down the side, matted and layered on to a piece of lilac/blue mirror card and than a piece of pearlescent card before matting on to the very light lilac card blank.

This is loosely (I hope not too loosely) based on the sketch for Cardabilities 95 (flipping it horizontally):

Sadly, the mirror card looks darker here than it is irl.

This is also for:

Crafting from the heart 9: anything goes/favourite colours - I love anything with a lilac tinge
Creative inspirations 256: favourite colour combination
Simon says Wednesday challenge: mother's day/special girl
Polka doodles 11 mum's the word
Pink gem 115: mother's day/female birthday/special lady
The cupboard trilogy 20: mothers
Card and scrap 72: lace and.or ribbon
Treasured times 14: anything goes with layering
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Aud sentiments 102: anything goes

More inspiration for CCAYR mid month

This is my second design card for mid month design team inspiration on CCAYR. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in with the challenge here - please make a step card and, of course, it must be for Christmas.

It's made with another Kanban card blank, using scrap pieces of  Echo Park winter wishe and strips of red Hunkydory card on the sides and bottom. The picture on the inner panel is one from a set I bought ages OK - still have loads of them. This is shiny and glittery although that doesn't show here.

Looking down on the card, you can see the inner panel better:

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets 115
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Totally papercrafts 210: shaped cards
Crafting with dragonflies 21: make a shaped card
Treasured times 14: anything goes with layering
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Sister Act 48: anything goes

Christmas cards all year round mid month inspiration

As we are already now midway through March (it doesn't seem possible, does it?!) it's time for some mid month design team inspiration on CCAYR. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in with the challenge here - please make a step card and, of course, it must be for Christmas.

This is my design card for CCAYR mid month inspiration, using a Kanban card blank, using some scraps of Hunkydory card on the sides and across the bottom. The frame around the opening is an old Kanban one that I've had for ages, as is the scalloped edged picture which is encased in an acetate dome and then mounted on the inner panel of the card.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets 115
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
CRAFT 250: Christmas
Creative knockouts 28: border time
Treassured times 14: anything goes with layering
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Sister Act 48: anything goes

Really going green for CHNC challenge 168

For my second card for CHNC challenge 168 'going green ... a little or a lot' I used 'snowy Christmas tree' kindly supplied by Eureka (another sponsor), changing it from black and white to green digitally and printing on to a piece of Authentiuque peaceful collection paper. I used a couple of sheets of toning paper from the collection and some scrap strips together with a couple of sentiments.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
CRAFT 250: Christmas
LiaStampz 61: green
Crafty boots: green
Inspiration avenue: green
Crafty sentiments: lots of green
Inky impression 150: go green
Delightful: wearing of the green
Delicious doodles 79: mainly green
Digi haven: at least 3 different shades of green
Pattie's 87: green
Stampin with the dragon: let's go green
Miriam's crafting: shades of green
Stamp dreams 32: tree
4 crafty chicks 185: trees
Oddball art stamps 1: use a digi
Treasured times 14: anything goes with layering
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Aud sentiments 102: anything goes
Sister Act 48: anything goes
Make it Monday 182

CHNC challenge 168: going green ... a little or a lot

Saturday has come round very quickly again and it's time for CHNC challenge 168: going green ... a little or a lot. It's St Patrick's Day on Monday, so I thought it would be good to 'go green' this week.

For my first card for CHNC challenge 168 I used 'Rudolph letter blank'kindly supplied by one of the sponsors, Melonheadz. For this card I haven't used very much green, but it is there. I cut out the outer part of the digital image and matted on to a piece of Kaisercraft paper, adding the gold foiled sentiment from Craftwork Cards. It's a simple card, but it actually took me ages to do all the cutting out by hand.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
CRAFT 250: Christmas
Crimbo crackers 60: cute Christmas
Jingle belles: the holly and the ivy - foliage
Corrosive 194: animals
Use your stuff 126: animals (old paper)
Fab n funky 207: animals
Simply create too 57: animals
Crafty calendar March: animal antics
Craftitude 60: anything goes or add a little green
Dare to be sassy 220: anything goes with a touch of green
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Aud sentiments 102: anything goes
Sister Act 48: anything goes
Make it Monday 182

Reindeer silhouette for Completely Christmas challenge 3

It's time for an other 'anything goes' challenge (as long as it's Christmas, of course) on Completely Christmas. Please click the link and see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in the Christmas fun  (and, of course, you can enter anything Christmas for my own CHNC challenge extra for March at the same time). Today's challenge is being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.

For my design card I've used the lovely 'reindeer silhouette' kindly supplied by our sponsor, putting the image digitally on to a piece of Bugaboo's 'blue frosty words 2' digital paper (I changed this digitally to black and white) and then on to a background created with Bugaboo's 'blue snowflakes' digital paper (again changing it to black and white). I created the sentiment digitally and printed everything out, matting on to a black card blank and adding a few Express Yourself glittered snowflakes.

Also for Festive Friday 27 photo:

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
CRAFT 250: Christmas
Inky chicks 24: monochromatic
Bunny Zoe March monochrome
Kort o mania 103: colour contrasts - black and white
Corrosive 194: animals
Use your stuff 126: animals (using digital papers I've had for a long time)
Fab n funky 207: animals
Simply create too 57: animals
Crafty calendar March: animal antics
Sweet stampin Christmas March: brrr it's cold outside
Sparkles Christmas 38: more than 3 embellishments (4 glittered snowflakes)
Treassured times 14: anything goes with layering
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
Aud sentiments 102: anything goes
Penny's 168: anything goes
QKR stampede 79 anything goes
Sister Act 48: anything goes
Inky linky 47
Make it Monday 182

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 20: emboss it

This is for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 20: emboss it. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in with your embossed designs. This challenge is being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps who kindly supplied the 'Penny paisley 4' image that I used, colouring it digitally in Microsoft Paint. This was mounted on to an offcut of red mirror card.

The embossed card on the left was an offcut of cream pearlescent paper that had been run through my eBosser with an embossalicious folder and bushed with spiced marmalade distress ink. The piece on the right was another offcut, this time a piece of cream card glittered with gold, using another embossalicious folder and brushing the raised embossing with fired brick distress ink.

The sentiment panel is one that I've had for ages and the silk flowers originally came from Create and Craft. I used two small snippets of ribbon that had been saved for 'a rainy day', raising the image panel with foam tape.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 115
Craftin desert divas 26: birthdays
Whoopsi Daisy: birthday
Digistamps4Joy 87: add a birthday sentiment
Paper pretties 301: birthday cards
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
Fussy & fancy 109: birthdays
Bloggers challenge: they say it's your birthday
Pink gem 115: mother's day/female birthday/special lady
Oddball art stamps 1: use a digi
Melonheadz friends: bright colours
Cute card Thursday 312: girls, girls, girls
Bearly mine 120: one for the girls
Crafter's cafe 54 flowers
MilkCoffee: at least 2 flowers
Challenges and candies 29: flowers
That's crafty: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 63: anything goes
613 avenue create 62: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 82: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Aud sentiments 102: anything goes
Penny's 168: anything goes
Craftitude 60: anything goes
QKR stampede 79 anything goes
Stampin' for the weekend: anything goes
Creative fingers 27: anything goes
Crafts and me 146: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 48: anything goes
Inky linky 47
Make it Monday 182
Just B creative crazy March linky party

CHNC challenge extra for March mid month inspiration

This is my card for the mid month inspiration for CHNC challenge extra for March. You can see the delightful crafting of the rest of the team here and take part in the challenge here.

I used Bugaboo 'stocking line' - Bugaboo Stamps are always sponsors for CHNC challenge extra and give $21 worth of digital stamps to the randomly chosen winner. I coloured the image digitally in Microsoft Paint. The papers are from magazine freebies.

This is also another card for my own Craftyhazelnut's Patter Paper March challenge - if you haven't yet discovered this challenge blog, please click on the link and join in the fun - use up some of that hoarded patterned paper that most of us seem to have.

Btw, the photo is a bit crooked, not the card!

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
CRAFT 250: Christmas
Crimbo crackers 60: cute Christmas
Jingle belles: the holly and the ivy - foliage
Cardz 4 guyz 9: typography - words
Melonheadz friends: bright colours
Through the purple haze 32: anything digital
That craft place: anything goes
Love to create 106: anything goes

Sweet pea stampers Easter challenge

This is my design card for the Sweet pea stampers Easter challenge. Please click on the link and see the gorgeous crafting of the rest of the team and join in the challenge.

I used the lovely Bunny Bouquet digital image by Karen Middleton, colour with spectrum noir pens. The background paper and the large mat of the die cuts are offcuts from Raspberry Road paper used earlier for another card. The die cuts were made with Spellbinders marvellous squares. The chipboard flower and the eggs have been around for ages - thought it was about time they were used.

This is also for:

Pile it on 10: Easter joys
DRS 113: you're a good egg
Whimsy 69: Easter
AnMaCreatief 30: spring/Easter
Tok bobok 10: spring flowers
Lacy sunshine 28: use spring colours
The squirrel and the fox 65: autumn or spring
Make my Monday: spring
Crafting for all seasons 72: spring
Great impressions March: spring
Crafty bloggers network March: nature
Corrosive 194: animals
Use your stuff 126: animals (paper and ribbons are old)
Fab n funky 207: animals
Crafty calendar March: animal antics
The stamping boutique 8: use bunnies
LEJ March: favourite die cuts
Crafting from the heart 9: anything goes/favourite colours
QKR stampede 79 anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 26: anything goes
613 avenue create 62: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 75: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 13: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 82: anything goes
Love to create 106: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Aud sentiments 102: anything goes
Penny's 168: anything goes
Craftitude 60: anything goes
Creative fingers 27: anything goes
Just for fun March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 48: anything goes
Inky linky 47
Make it Monday 182
Just B creative crazy March linky party

More inspiration for the Cheerful stamp pad 'anything goes' challenge

This is my design card for the second week of the 'anything goes' challenge on the Cheerful stamp pad. Please click here to see the lovely inspirational crafting of the rest of the team and click here to go to last week's post to link your entries.

I matted this beautiful Easter image from Gecko Galz (challenge sponsor) on to an offcut of striped paper. I covered the card blank with a piece of Raspberry Road Designs paper and simply added two golden yellow flowers that were left from a pack that I bought years ago from Early Learning Centre (how I wish they had continued to stock them).

I'm sharing this on my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper March challenge - if you haven't yet discovered this challenge blog, please visit and join in the fun - and you could be the randomly chosen prize winner of two packs of 6 x 6 papers.

Colours for the Shabby tea room 209: spring is near - include baby blue, birds and spring flowers:

This is also for:

Gecko Galz March: Easter challenge
Pile it on 10: Easter joys
AnMaCreatief 30: spring/Easter
DRS 112: for the birds
Tok bobok 10: spring flowers
Kreativeinkauf 12: spring flowers
Bloggers challenge: fabulous flowers
Challenges and candies 29: flowers
Lacy sunshine 28: use spring colours
The squirrel and the fox 65: autumn or spring
Fairies 21: spring
Make my Monday: spring
Crafting for all seasons 72: spring
Great impressions March: spring
Crafty bloggers network March: nature
613 avenue create 62: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 75: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 13: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 82: anything goes
Love to create 106: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
The paper shelter 148: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 122: anything goes
Crafty girls 13: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack 40: anything goes
Just for fun March: anything goes
Wordplay Saturday March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Make it Monday 182
Just B creative crazy March linky party

CHNC challenge 167: spread your wings

For CHNC challenge 167 I'm asking for any Christmas cards that feature wings in any way.

This is my card, using a Kanban step card on to which I've matted the  'winter bird 1' image, kindly supplied one of this week's sponsors, Bugaboo Stamps, coloured with spectrum noir alochol pen and adding a few dots of stickles crystal ice. The spotted papers are some old DCWV papers and the little Merry Christmas tag with brad is from stash.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Pile it on 9: bold/bright
Sweet stamps: fun folds
4 crafty chicks 184: shaped card
DRS 112: for the birds
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 219: make it fly
Ladybug: one for the boys
Divas by design: let's hear it for the boys
The sisterhood of crafters: one for the boys
Paper-crafting journey: make it manly/boyish
Inky impressions 149: 3D projects
Wags n whiskers 124: sports
Allsorts 249: sport
Artistic inspirations 81: sparkles/anything goes
Brown sugar 84: make it sparkle
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
Crafty sentiments: spots or dots
Crafty girls 13 anything goes
The paper shelter 148: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
Jo's scraps shack 40: anything goes
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Left of center 1st anniversary: anything goes
Make it Monday 181

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 19: buttons and bows

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 19: buttons and bows. The beautiful rose image is Crafty Girl Creations Rose Stitchy Bear, supplied by the sponsor the challenge. Please click on the link and see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and enter the challenge with your creations with buttons and bows.

I've used Raspberry Road Design papers, cutting with image and surrounding papers with Spellbinders Marvellous squares dies run through my eBosser. Buttons were from Poundland long ago and the sentiment and bows are from stash. I coloured the image with spectrum noir pens.

Colours for De creatieve zebra 7: colour or photo:

This is also for:

Craft your passion 203: birthday bonanza
Craftin desert divas 26: birthday
The pink elephant 240: birthday
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
Sunflowerfield March: birthdays and/or flowers
Crafty creations 258: happy birthday
Fussy & fancy 109: birthdays
Digistamps4Joy 87: add a birthday sentiment
Totally papercrafts 209: female birthday - must have a number on or a birthday sentiment
Handmade harbour 27: celebrate
Alphabet: B for buttons & bows
Whoopsi Daisy: lots of flowers
Bloggers challenge: fabulous florals
Challenges and candies 29: flowers
Scrapping4fun 12: flowers
Paper pretties 300: lots of layers
Left of center 26: die cuts
Card and scrap 71: use dies
LEJ 87: favourite die cuts
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
Squigglefly 9: use your two favourite colours - purple/pink
Top tip Tuesday: 3, 5 or 7 - 3 buttons
My time to craft 238: frame it
Allways something creative 70: bright colours
That's crafty: anything goes
Wordplay Saturday March: anything
Hobbyhome: anything goes
Creative fingers 26: anything goes
Crafty girls 13 anything goes
The paper shelter 148: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
One stitch at a time 202: anything goes
Jo's scraps shack 40: anything goes
Eureka 79: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 201: anything goes
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (papers are old)
Challenges 4 everybody 39: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Make it Monday 181
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Completely Christmas challenge 2

The week has gone by very quickly and it's already time for the second 'anything goes' challenge on Completely Christmas. It was great to see so many people joining in for the first challenge. Please click on the link and see what the rest of the team have made and join in with the challenge - anything goes, as long as it's Christmas (and, of course, you can enter anything Christmas for my own CHNC challenge extra for March at the same time).

Completely Christmas 2 is being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and for my design card I have used 'holly berry with ribbon' that they kindly supplied. This image had a white background, so I played around digitally with transparency features until I was able to layer the image on to part of a fairy image that I had found free on the internet, originally using it for the purple creation you can see here, changing the colours and adding the text before printing out and layering on to a card blank.

I coloured the holly berry image with a mix of copics and spectrum noirs and then added glossy accents here and there (and  waited impatiently for the GA to dry!).

I've used at least three of the colours for 52 Christmas card throwdown:

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
Through the purple haze 31: use a digi
Just inspirational March: anything goes
Sister Act 47: anything goes
Left of center 1st anniversary: anything goes
Make it Monday 181

Guest designer for Crafting by designs

This card is for a guest designer slot on Crafting by designs, where it is an 'anything goes' challenge for the month of March, sponsored by Beccy's Place,

I used the coloured 'snowman with bird' image by Beccy Muir of Beccy's Place. The card blank is an A5 landscape one with a piece cut off the front with the mounted image overlapping. All papers are DCWV. The flowers and buttons were from Hobbycraft. The tartan strip on the left is an offcut from a Hunkydory kit and the circle behind with flower came from another Hunkydory kit.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 114 (Hunkydory bits)
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Sparkles Christmas 38: more than 3 embellishments - flowers + 3 buttons
Get inky: buttons, buttons, everywhere
DRS 111: button up
Whoopsi Daisy: lots of flowers
Jo's scraps shack 39: floral
Natalie and Amy 18: flowers
Digi sketch: cute
Sweet stampin: cute
Papertake: anything goes
Eureka 79: anything goes
Roby's fetish 201: anything goes
Paper makeup 130: anything goes
One stitch at a time 202: anything goes
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (DCWV papers are old)
Challenges 4 everybody 39: anything goes
Just inspirational March: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 181

Birthday roses

A quick card made from one that has been recycled (bits taken off the background card before using it) with the addition of some lovely embroidered flowers and butterfly that were carefully taken off another card. The Hunkydory sentiment fitted in perfectly.

This is for

Craft your passion 203: birthday bonanza
Crafting desert divas 26: birthdays
The pink elephant 240: birthday
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
Totally gorjuss 225: happy birthday
Crafty creations 258: happy birthday
Sunflowerfield designs March: birthdays and/or flowers
Come and get it:: flowers galore
Jo's scrap shack funday 39: florals
Natalie and Amy 18: flowers
In the pink 38: pink plus one (green)
Papertake: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 181
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Cheerful stamp pad challenge 81: anything goes

This is my design card for today's first week of the Cheerful stamp pad challenge 81: anything goes, which is being sponsored by Gecko Galz. Please click on the challenge link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and to enter our challenge - everyone loves 'anything goes'.

I was so impressed with the images of our sponsor, Gecko Galz, that I couldn't resist buying some. I initially found the script background that was a freebie, but, when I looked further on the Etsy site, I found a wonderful 'sew and sew collage sheet' from which I used the picture on the right and also a 'retro style collage sheet' from which I took the pattern picture at the top. I changed all the images digitally to black, grey and white, printed out and matted on to a black card blank and added three pearl rosettes from Poundland.

This is also for:

Digitally sweet 77: anything goes (everything is digitally produced except the addition of the rosettes)
Creative moments 37: anything goes/swirls and pearls
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Deep ocean 72: just for a girl
Penny's 166: guys and girls (either)
DL.ART thankful Thursday 127: use an image of a girl or lady
Bearly mine 120: one for the girls
Totally papercrafts 208: make it shine/sparkle
Artistic inspirations 81: sparkles/anything goes
My Sheri 128: bling it on
Feeling crafty 26: use a digi and bling
Stampin' for the weekend: sparkle and shine
Soartful March: dressforms
Dream valley 76: vintage
Eclectic ellapu: vintage
Kort o mania 103: colour contrasts
Sugar creek hollow 81: sew fashionable
Try it on Tuesday: include some writing
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (DCWV paper is very old)
Just for fun Mar:anything goes
Eureka 79: anything goes
Paper make up 130: anything goes
Just inspirational March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Make it Monday 181
Just B creative crazy March linky party

Feature a robin (and blog anniversary)

Before I start this post I've just realised that I've just gone past by blog anniversary - I started this blog seven years ago yesterday! Since then I've been blessed to have 486 followers and I've made 5056 posts! Since starting sitemeter on 29 April 2007 (didn't figure it out till then!) I've had 220,487 visits to my blog. I just want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who visits and leaves me comments - it is so appreciated. Very soon, I'll be back with some celebratory candy - watch this space!

It was Margaret's turn to choose the theme for the Christmas Card Club's fortnightly challenge for today and she asked us to feature a robin. I received a lovely card for Christmas that had a cute little robin with a fuzzy wuzzy feelie red breast and I couldn't help but recycle him on his card. I hope that whoever eventually gets this card will love him as much as I do.

Spotty paper is DCWV - not wide enough as it was only 6 x 4, so I joined two pieces and put some tartan washi tape over the join. Flowers are from Hobbycraft.

As there is twine and washi tape on this card I'm also showing it on my own CHNC challenge 166 (why not go and have a look and join in?!).

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Pile it on 9: bold/bright
Oozak 31: anything goes/white with one colour
Come and get it: flowers galore
Jo's scrap shack 39: florals
Natalie and Amy 18: flowers
Paperminutes 310: in flight
Jellypark friends: things with wings
Ribbon carousel 90: washi tape
Ruby's rainbow 73: texture
Crafts4eternity R165: texture
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (DCWV paper is very old)
Just inspirational March: anything goes
DL.ART March
Sister Act 46: anything goes

The glory of Christmas 28: ski or sleigh

This is my design card for the Glory of Christmas challenge 28: ski or sleigh.  I used AKV snowman ski 2 by Bugaboo Stamps - I love the simplicity of this and decided that colouring his hat and carrot nose was enough. The blue card with white spots is a scrap left over from some Hunkydory card used earlier in the week. The snowdrifts were created with torn offcuts of card that had been embossed with an Embossalicious folder and the eBosser. The sentiment was generated on computer and printed.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 114
Our creative corner March: use scraps
Catch the bug March: anything goes (with this wonderful Bugaboo stamp)
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Winter wonderland: winter Olympics (although I don't think this skier would win a medal!)
Crafts galore March: using a stamp or digi stamp anywhere on your project
Crimbo crackers 59: blue and white
Oozak 31: anything goes/white with one colour
Let's craft and create 89: embossing
MilkCoffee emboss it
Ruby's rainbow 73: texture
Crafts4eternity R165: texture
Glitter n sparkle 74: add a sentiment
One stitch at a time 202: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 201: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 13: anything goes
613 avenue create 61: anything goes + option: use your stash (using up bits!)
Just inspirational March: anything goes
Creative fingers 25: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Just B creative crazy March linky party