Snowflake angel

For this card I've used one of my favourite Christmas stamps 'snowflake angel' by Inkadinkado inked with versamark and heat embossed with silver detail embossing powder. The card on the right side is an offcut punched with the mini 8 snowflake punch.

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 56
Natalie & Amy January: your favourite things - the stamp, the punch and heat embossing
The artistic stamper creative team: your favourite stamp
Simon says stamp and show: what are you known for? - making lots of Christmas cards!
Loves rubber stamps 36: Kirklands inspiration - I chose angel from here
One crazy stamper: anything goes
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Card caravan (the hybrid chick) 36: winter
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Allways something creative 46: winter
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
Hanna and friends 163: snowflakes
Milkcoffee: snowflakes plus sparkle and/or glitter
Dare to be sassy Thursdays: glitter and sparkle
Glitter n sparkle 16: sentimentals
Kaboodle 155: ribbon
Ribbon carousel 76: winter spirit
Daring cardmakers: embossability
Penny's 111: embossing
Totally papercrafts: it's embossing time
Pink gem 63: emboss it
Craft room challenge: monochrome
Perfect sentiments 63: blue, silver & white
The stamping chef: blue, white & silver
Crafts4eternity R107: punch it
Lady Ann'es 5th stamp challenge: anything goes
Eureka 23: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
The paper shelter 96: 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

From our house to yours ...

... this is the sentiment on this card, for which I've used two Christmas offcuts, a recycled mirror card door from a card received, a piece of gold glittered ribbon and a Craftwork cards sentiment:

Over the past few days (and more to come) I've been showing cards that include recycled elements - I'm still sorting out my stuff and trying not to put things away that I can use now ... although I admit it's getting a bit boring really. I've got out my H2Os after seeing Sheena Douglass on Create & Craft and also my Radiant rain colour concentrates in the hope that I can do something soon other than use up  my bits and pieces, but meanwhile:

As usual with mirror card I had to take the photo at an angle to avoid glare:

Just to prove that it's mirror card!:

And so you can see what the sentiment says:

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 56
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Card caravan (the hybrid chick) 36: winter
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Allways something creative 46: winter
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
ABC Christmas: B for bows or boys
Dare to be sassy Thursdays: glitter and sparkle
Little red wagon: text me
Glitter n sparkle 16: sentimentals
Kaboodle 155: ribbon
Ribbon carousel 76: winter spirit
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
The paper shelter 96: 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

Patchwork pal

Four or five years ago I bought a Patchwork Pals kit from QVC, used a bit of it, put it away, out if came again a couple of years ago ... and the rest had been in a box left alone until yesterday. While I was having my sort out (which must continue later today) I opened up the box and thought that I ought to use some of these supplies, so here is my card with the little cheeky chappy just about to through a snowball:

And here is his back view on the inside:

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 56 - some of the pieces used were offcuts from previous makes
DRS 56: tri-fold cards
Artistic inspirations 25: more than one fold/anything goes
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Card caravan (the hybrid chick) 36: winter
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
Glitter n sparkle 16: sentimentals
Deep ocean 43: anything but square
Sparkle and glitter 8: anything but a square
Willow sketchie: cute
Nana Vic's challenge
Stamp-n-doodle: 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.

Anyone for cocoa?

Part of my strategy in sorting my craft stuff at the moment is to actually use some of the bits and pieces that tend to be put back in a box and then neglected. Having used a couple of chipboard shapes from Poundland on the previous card, I decided it would be stupid to put this one away, so I've used it with a couple of design papers from my Christmas offcuts box, the left hand one was free with a magazine. The right hand one was punched with a mini 8 snowflake punch.

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 56
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Card caravan (the hybrid chick) 36: winter
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
City crafter 142: winter blues
My Sheri 102: got snow?
Creative moments bloggers network 8: monochrome/anything goes
Pinspirational 40
Fussy & fancy 80: coffee, cocoa or tea
Alphabet challenge: Y for yummy
Totally Gorjuss 167: KISS
Kaboodle 155: ribbon
Crafts 4 eternity R107: punch it
Glitter n sparkle 16: sentimentals
Paper pretties 241: ribbon
Ribbon carousel 76: winter spirit
ATCs and cards with attitude 31: add a tag or sentiment/anything goes
Delightful: tag you're it
Hiding in my craft room 81: tags
Stamp-n-doodle: 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.

Neglected embossing folders

It's a while since I've used any of my embossing folders (and I do actually have a few ... or more than a few - lol!) So I got out a snowflake folder (think it's docrafts, not sure) and embossed an offcut of linen finish lilac card which I then brushed with stormy sky distress ink (although it doesn't show up as much here as irl). The chipboard shapes were bought from Poundland long ago and were on my workspace to be used instead of putting back into a box. The glittery ribbon is actually purple, although it doesn't look so here. I used a stardream sparkly card blank.

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 56
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Daring cardmakers: embossability
Totally papercrafts: embossing
Pink gem 63: emboss it
Love to create 49: share your 3 favourite colours - purple, blue and white (well, purple with anything else really!)
Card caravan (the hybrid chick) 36: winter
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Cutie pie 36: use 3 different textures - the embossed snowflakes, the glittered ribbon and the pompoms on the hat
Allways something creative 46: winter
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
My Sheri 102: got snow?
Totally Gorjuss 167: KISS
Creative Belli 161: purple and blue - embossing folders and the chipboard shapes had been neglected
Glitter n sparkle 16: sentimental
Paper pretties 241: ribbon
Ribbon carousel 76: winter spirit
Lady Anne's 3rd anything goes
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
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.

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

No patterned papers

My cards are clean and simple, using recycled pictures from Christmas cards received - all mounted on to offcuts of gold mirror card, with some peel off sticks and glitter strips added. The sentiments on the middle one say: Peace Joy Hope.

As they didn't take long to make there are three of them:

These are also for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 56
Christmas card challenges week 7: silhouettes
CRAFT 190: Christmas in January
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Victorine 50: sparkle and shine
Totally Gorjuss 167: KISS
Challenges 4 everybody 12: anything goes
Bunny Zoe: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 24: anything goes
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 92
52 card pick up 2.3

Third card for CHNC challenge 108

This is my third card for CHNC challenge 108: recycle or use something free.

The third sponsor of CHNC challenge 108 is Cedar Chest Designs - please click on the link to find out more about them and also follow the link to my challenge and, hopefully, join in and be in with a chance of winning a prize.

Cedar Chest Designs kindly supplied me with the 'O little town' digital image that I've used in this card. The background striped paper is an offcut from long ago from a Gorjuss Christmas kit. The silver mirror with the charcoal glittered berries and the piece of  sparkly black card across the top were from one of my Christmas crackers (the same one that the leaves came from that were used on my first card for CHNC challenge 108). I coloured the image with alcohol pens and mounted on to a snippet of Hunkydory white and silver card.

This card was based on the sketch for Critter 147:

The foiled card with the glittered berries is silver mirror (although it looks gold here) and the sentiment strip across the bottom is 'Just for you at Christmas' - very difficult to get a photo because of the reflection of mirror card.

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 55
CRAFT 190: Christmas in January
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 15: use a digi
Drunken stampers 112: all that glitters
Victorine 50: sparkle and shine
Allways something creative 45: winter
Di's digi designs: winter challenge
Lady Anne's 3rd anything goes
Bunny Zoe: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 24: anything goes
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 92
52 card pick up 2.3

Second card for CHNC challenge 108

This is my second card for CHNC challenge 108: recycle or use something free.

There are three sponsors for CHNC challenge 108 - please click on the link to get more info and, hopefully, join in and be in with a chance of winning a prize.

One of the sponsors this week is Crafts 4 eternity who kindly supplied me with the SnowRag image of the snowman - they also supplied me with some digital vintage tag images, so I used an empty one and added the text to it. Instead of colouring in the buttons on the snowman's coat I decided to use some little real ones. The background papers cut into squares were from free ones that came with a magazine well before Christmas and the image is mounted on to an offcut of blue mirror card.The snowman was coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers.

The card was based on Maria's sketch for Sunday sketch & stamp 139:

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 55
Passion for Promarkers181: theme: whatever the weather
I love promarkers 151: layer it up
CRAFT 190: Christmas in January
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 15: use a digi
Going grey with Scrap creations: snowmen
Crafting by designs: getting ready for Christmas - snowman/snowmen
Sparkles  Christmas January 24: snowmen
My Sheri 102: Got snow? snowman or woman
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
QKR stampede 22: cold and frosty
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Delicious doodles 19: winter themed makes
Allways something creative 45: winter
Creative Friday: winter
Squigglefly: I've got the winter blues
City crafter 142: winter blues
The paper shelter 95: winter blues
Di's digi designs: winter challenge
Sandy's crafty creations January: anything goes + twist: include blue and/or white
The stamping chef: blue, white & silver
The stamping shack: child's play - card for a child
Happy campers 8: buttons, beads or bows
DCC & friends: button up
Lady Anne's 3rd anything goes
Live laugh stamp: word play Saturday: anything
Simply create too 29: anything goes
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb 68: anything goes
Bunny Zoe: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 24: anything goes
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 92
52 card pick up 2.3

CHNC challenge 108: recycle or use something free

Today's CHNC challenge 108 is to use something recycled or something that was free. This is my first card for that.

The lovely bauble on my card was part of a card with an M & S gift card - far too good to waste. The leaves at the top of the bauble were retrieved from a Christmas cracker - I have to confess that I bought the crackers with the thought of being able to recycle bits of them (more to come!) - and the good thing is that they were half price.

The silver and blue mirror card panel was from my offcuts box, mounted on to an A5 dark navy blue cardblank.

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 55
CRAFT 190: Christmas in January
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Victorine 50: sparkle and shine
Crafty creations 205: snowflakes
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Allways something creative 45: winter
Creative Friday: winter
Squigglefly: I've got the winter blues
City crafter 142: winter blues
The paper shelter 95: winter blues
Di's digi designs: winter challenge
QKR stampede 22: cold and frosty
Sandy's crafty creations January: anything goes + twist: include blue and/or white
Cardmakinmamas: clean & simple
Hotshot 14: clean and simple
Nana Vic's challenge
Simply create too 29: anything goes
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb 68: anything goes
Bunny Zoe: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 24: anything goes
Bearly mine 69: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 53: anything goes
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 92
52 card pick up 2.3

Santa dog

This is a very quick card using offcuts of papers and a framed embossed picture that I've had for ages (originally from a Kanban kit, I think):

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 55
CRAFT 190: Christmas in January
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
ABC Christmas: A for animal
Top tip Tuesday 93: fur or feathers
Jellypark friends: winter animals
Emma's crafty challenge 12: animals
Tuesday throwdown 130: frame it
Crafty creations 205: snowflakes
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Allways something creative 45: winter
Creative Friday: winter
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
Squigglefly: I've got the winter blues
CASology 27: blue
City crafter 142: winter blues
The paper shelter 95: winter blues
QKR stampede 22: cold and frosty
Sandy's crafty creations January: anything goes + twist: include blue and/or white
Elke Kaart een Feestje 150: clean and simple
Cardmakinmamas: clean & simple
Hotshot 14: clean and simple
The stamping shack: child's play - card for a child
Baffies shop 16: almost anything goes
Simply create too 29: anything goes
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb 68: anything goes
Bunny Zoe: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 24: anything goes
Bearly mine 69: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 53: anything goes
DL.ART anything goes
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 92
52 card pick up 2.3

Happy Anniversary, Darnell

I heard on the internet grapevine that it's Darnell's wedding anniversary today, so here is a card for you and Kevin, Darnell:

The picture is a Dottie & George Anniversary download from Charmed card and crafts.

I'm adding one of our wedding photos because there is a special link here to do so:

Winter fun

This little skier and his faithful little friend are having fun in the snow - rather them than me. We had a little snow yesterday, but it soon went - hoping we won't get any more.

Anyway, for this card the central panel was rescued from a card received and mounted on to an offcut piece of mirror card. The Merry Christmas background card is an offcut of some Hunkydory card used earlier.

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 55
Hiding in my craft room 80: super scraps Saturday
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Perfect sentiments 61: winter wonderland
Allways something creative 45: winter
Creative Friday: winter
Crafty sentiments: winter fun
Simply create too: let it snow
Creative card crew 27: snow and ice
Papertake: baby it's cold outside
My Sheri 101: all sports
ABC Christmas: A for animal
Jellypark friends: winter animals
Fairytale 58: animals and pets
Emma's crafty challenge 12: animals
Top tip Tuesday 93: fur or feathers
More than favors wacky Wednesday 79: banner
Hotshot 14: clean and simple
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Mayzy art: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 91
52 card pick up 2.2

Sparkly tree ...

... this sparkly tree was too good to discard - a friend received a card with it on and passed it on to me. It didn't need me to do much to it other than put some silver glittered strips down the sides, mounted on to a black card blank and I added the 'with love' circle because there was a bit of a smudge mark on the card!

This is for:

Catch the bug Birthday bash Monday: black and white with a pop of colour
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Party time 102: sparkle, glitter and shine
Desert island 45: I chose: glitter, gems, black & white + one colour
Little red wagon 167: bring on the bling
Art impressions 95: bling it on - all things sparkly
Hotshot 14: clean and simple
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Mayzy art: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 91
52 card pick up 2.2

Fun on the ice

This is a quick card made with an offcut of background paper (My craft studio) and a picture cut from a card received which was then matted on to a snippet piece of gold mirror card and then a piece of deep brown card that was recycled from a frame for a wedding photo. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't look too good hear - it's been printed on a textured card.

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 55
Hiding in my craft room 80: super scraps Saturday
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Fab n funky 153: winter
Perfect sentiments 61: winter wonderland
The sisterhood of crafters: winter
Pixie dust studio: winter
My Sheri 101: all sports
Daisy doodles 75: fresh and simple
Hotshot 14: clean and simple
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Mayzy art: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 91
52 card pick up 2.2

Fantasy revisited

Before Christmas I made some stamped shaped cards for a group of crafting friends - in the end I had one spare that I'd made a mess of inside, so I decided to cut and mount it on to a card blank of purple majestic card. The stamped tree is Penny Black fantasy inked with versamark and heat embossed with detail gold powder.

This is for:

A card a day facebook
That craft place: Christmas
Addicted to CAS 4: let's get embossed
Crafting when we can 35: favourite things - one of my favourite Penny Black stamps - and I love stamping and embossing
Stamps & fun = creativity 134: favourite stamps (difficult to have one favourite stamp, but this is definite one of my top favourites)

Two from one

Earlier today I decided I needed to tidy my craft stuff and on the work surface I had some Christmas cards that we'd received and quite a few offcuts and bits and pieces - it seemed silly to put them away, so I've had a session making a few cards - you can't really call it crafting, it's more like 'stick the bits together', but it's a few more cards done. Mind you, my craft space is just as cluttered as when I started because I've added to the mess!

These two cards were made from one recycled one cut in two pieces and mounted on to blue card blanks, adding some silver glittered strips and peel off sentiments:

These are for:

Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Gingerloft 55: winter let it snow
Kreative Bastel 13: snow/winter
Fab n funky 153: winter
Perfect sentiments 61: winter wonderland
The sisterhood of crafters: winter
Pixie dust studio: winter
QKR stampede 21: snowman or snow
Simply create too: let it snow
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: winter blues
Squigglefly: I've got the winter blues
Cute card Thursday 251: beat the blues
Crafts4eternity R106: moody blues
Sandy's crafty creations 1: anything goes + twist: blue and/or white
Daisy doodles 75: fresh and simple
Hotshot 14: clean and simple
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
The squirrel and the fox 35: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Mayzy art: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 123
Inspire me Fridays 91
52 card pick up 2.2

Pink inspiration

I went over to Order of the opus gluei a while ago to see what the challenge is for the next fortnight and found that it's a pink colour challenge. So this is for Order of the opus gluei 148.

I love tinkering around on the computer with pictures, so, when I saw what Gini had to say and saw her pink example, I was inspired to go back to a favourite My Craft Studio CD 'Tinkering with steampunk' to create something pink. Thank you, Gini, for the inspiration that nudged me to get on with something I love doing, but often forget about.

The project was also inspired by the photo given  for Digitally sweet 18:

Having added items and playing around with various elements, colours, fades, etc I came up with this picture which I can then use on a card:

This is also for:

A card a day facebook
Pink by design: Inspiration is everywhere
Glitter n sparkle 15: use a digi
Daisy doodles 75: fresh and simple
The sweet pea stampers January: clean and simple and NO embellishments
One stitch at a time 146: anything goes
Top tip Tuesday 93: fur or feathers
For fun: flying south for the winter - birds
Chocolate, coffee & cards 30: for the birds
613 avenue create 2: anything goes
The squirrel and the fox 35: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Penny's 109: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Mayzy art: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 91
52 card pick up 2.2

Doily birthday

For this card I've followed the sketch for The craft's meow for January:

I have a subscription for Papercraft Inspirations monthly magazine and I keep meaning to cancel it - only got it in the first place because there were some useful goodies if you joined - anyway, every month that it arrives I think 'Oh well, perhaps I'll keep getting it' ... today it arrived and there was a free pack of doilies - three different sizes, so I thought it wouldn't be extravagant to use all three sizes on a card. The lovely patchwork background paper had been in my offcuts box for some time - can't remember where it originally came from. It is a shiny paper (you can't tell that here). The felt flowers have been in a pack on my work surface for a couple of weeks or more and just seemed to be crying out to be used with the patchwork paper. The epoxy hearts and sentiment from stash.

This is also for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 55
Daring cardmarkers: the 'frill' of it all
Use your stuff: The circle game - feature a circle
Avadares 7: Valentine's day or love
Paper creators 3: love is all around
Moving along with the times: floral delights
Crafty bloggers network January: flowers
Catch the bug Saturday: anything birthday
Forever friends January: birthdays
Ooh-la-la 121: happy birthday
Quirky crafts 27: something new with pink (the doilies and flowers are new)
Incy wincy: something new
LEJ designs 35: something new
Tuesday throwdown 129: shiny and new
Crafting for all seasons 43: something new
Crafty creations 204: something new
613 avenue create 1: anything goes
Dream valley 48: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 52: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Divas by design 67: anything goes
Penny's 109: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Cardmakin mamas: anything goes
Mayzy art: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Make it Monday 122
Inspire me Fridays 91
52 card pick up 2.2

CHNC challenge 107: Rudolph is resting

Those of you who follow my blog and my CHNC challenges might remember that the challenge for last week was 'Santa has gone into hiding' - well, this week CHNC challenge 107 is 'Rudolph is resting' - make any Christmas card that doesn't feature Rudolph or any other reindeer.

CHNC challenge has three sponsors, one of which is Bugaboo Stamps who kindly supplied an image called 'snow friends window' which I printed out and coloured with copics. The background paper on my A5 card is Basic Grey Dasher 'flannel shirt' - I used two offcuts that have been in my Christmas box for some time - I didn't have a piece that would cover the whole card front, but it was good that I knew I was going to use ribbons across the card so they filled the gap between the two offcuts. The paper behind the image is another from my offcuts box, this time from Docrafts.

My card is based on Freshly made sketches 68:

Ribbons and buttons from stash:

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 54
Hiding in my craftroom 80: super scraps Saturday
Kort o mania 77: potpourri - using leftovers
Anything goes 83: just good friends
Gingerloft 54: Christmas or winter
Kreative Bastel 13: snow/winter
Crafting by designs: getting ready for Christmas - snowman/snowmen
Christmas at sweet stampin 2: cold and frosty
Christmas cards all year round January: anything goes
Sparkles Christmas challenge January 24: snowmen
Love to create 47: winter wonderland
Creative Belli 160: winter/snowmen - forgotten embellishments: ribbons and buttons
Fab n funky 153: winter
The sisterhood of crafters: baby, it's cold out here
Pixie dust studio: winter
Ribbon carousel 76: winter spirit
Eclectic Ellapu 11: snow much fun
The ribbon reel 44: winter wonderland - snowman or snowflake + ribbon
All kinds of cards 71: snowflakes
Creative card crew 27: snow and ice
Dare to be sassy 159: let it snow
Pattie's 59: fun in the snow
QKR stampede 21: snowman or snow
Simply create too 28: let it snow
Take time for you 83: ribbons and bows
Totally papercrafts 149: ribbon
Totally stampalicious: buttons & bows
DRS 55: buttons
Happy campers 8: buttons, beads or bows
Crafty catz 165: buttons & bows
DCC & friends: button up
613 avenue create 1: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 11: anything goes
Dream valley 48: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 14: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
Robyn's fetish 141: anything goes
Lexi 81: anything goes
My Grafico 143: anything goes
Platypus creek digital 23: anything goes
Inky chicks 1: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 52: anything goes
Let's craft and create 61: anything goes
Divas by design 67: anything goes
Penny's 109: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Cardmakin mamas: anything goes
Stampin with the dragon: anything goes
Catch the bug January: anything goes
Mayzy art: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Word play Saturday 1 (January): anything
Make it Monday 122
Inspire me Fridays 91
52 card pick up 2.2