Tickling the ivories

'Tickling the ivories' is the name of the House Mouse stamp I've used for this card - I love this stamp, but haven't used it for a while, but when I saw that House mouse 111 was to make a black and white card I thought of it. It was simply stamped with memento tuxedo black and mounted on black card. The background music paper was taken printed My Craftwork Studio tinkering with steampunk CD, changing it to black and white. I then used a couple of strips of Tim Holtz tissue tape mounted on to black card across the top - this is another card for this week's Daring cardmaker's wishi washi challenge.

It's also for:

Crafts4eternity R56: clean and simple
Card and scrap 24: clean and simple
Crafters cafe blog: CAS challenge
Totally gorjuss 116: K.I.S.S.
The craft garden January: monochrome

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

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Simply thanks

This is a simple card using scraps that were still out from making previous cards - they didn't even make it into my offcuts box (although there are still some scraps left that will). Anyway, it's for the sketch for Mojo Monday 225:

 As I used scraps this is my first card of the week for Pixie's Crafty Snippets 5:

It's also for:

Take time for you 59: blue and white
Creative craft: we're talking the colour blue
Crafting for all seasons 19: blue & white
Kaboodle 103: thank you
Challenge up your life 60: thanks
Crafts4eternity R56: clean and simple
Card and scrap 24: clean and simple
Crafters cafe blog: CAS challenge
Totally gorjuss 116: K.I.S.S.
The craft garden January: monochrome

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

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In the pink for Christmas

Today's challenge on Facebook's Sunday's with Santa is to use unconventional colours for our Christmas cards. Christmas cards all year round for January are also asking for non traditional colours, so these are also for that.

Paper is DCWV plus Kanban topper, for Catered crop: print, also for Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: text me :

Paper is Basic Grey eskimo kisses plus Kanban topper - colours for Dancing in pajamas TCP 193:

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These are also for:

Crafts4eternity R56: clean and simple
Card and scrap 24: clean and simple
Crafters cafe blog: CAS challenge
Totally gorjuss 116: K.I.S.S.
The craft garden January: monochrome
Dare to be sassy Thursday 109: Christmas/winter

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

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Christmas critters

It's time for a challenge among the Christmas Card Club girls and this time Pinky has asked us to include a critter on our card. Mine is a very simple card, using a Kanban topper. The background paper is another delightful one from Websters Pages (I'll be really sorry when I've used the last of these ... although it will be a good excuse to buy more).  Please click on the links on my sidebar to see what the rest of the CCC girls have been up to with this challenge.

This is also for:

Dare to be sassy Thursday 109: Christmas/winter
Dream valley 24: animals
Blog-a-doodle: include an animal
Freshly brewed 80: snow/winter
Little red wagon 117: winter wonderland
Jellypark friends: winter wonderland
Gingerloft 32: let it snow
Crafty boots: inspired by a song title: We wish you a merry Christmas
Cutie pie 20: favourite song (for Christmas)

Stamp, scrap & doodle: anything goes

Bizzy Becs January: anything goes

Victorine: anything goes

Simon says: anything goes

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