Silver bells

It was Asha's turn to choose the theme for this fortnight's CCC challenge and she said:

'It's Advent Sunday, and the countdown to Christmas begins now. The theme of the challenge is
"Silver Bells", inspired by the famous carol. Create a Christmas project based on this festive tune.'

I found some free sheet music of the carol and digitally added the bells and the street scene, fading them around the edges because I didn't want them to have white rectangles on the music. After printing, I coloured the bells silver.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
My perfect life festive 48 week 47
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Craftin desert divas 45: Christmas
Just inspirational: winter
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Ooh-la-la 170: Christmas
Try it on Tuesday (Tuesday taggers): Christmas is coming
Creative inspirations 291: season's greetings
Fussy & fancy 128: happy holidays
Divas by design: jingle bells
Moving along with the times: inspired by a song
ABC Christmas: X for Christmas music
Delicious doodles 112: let's face the music
Digitally sweet 116: anything goes - everything is digital except the colouring of the bells
613 avenue 100: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 240: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Penny's 205: anything goes
Crafty catz 257: anything goes
The pink elephant 278: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 145: any winter holiday
Sister act 85: anything goes

CHNC challenge 205: Santa is on his way

It's getting nearer to Chistmas and soon 'Santa is on his way', which is the theme for my CHNC challenge 205 - I'd love to see you there.

My cards are very quick and easy ones made with pictures from LOTV art pads:

These are also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Craftin desert divas 45: Christmas
Craft your passion 241: baby it's cold outside
Just inspirational: winter
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Ooh-la-la 170: Christmas
Try it on Tuesday (Tuesday taggers): Christmas is coming
Creative inspirations 291: season's greetings
Fussy & fancy 128: happy holidays
The sisterhood of crafters: Santa Claus
CRAFT 287: Christmas present
Fairytale 105: Christmas with animals
The cutie pie 81: festive furry friends
Paper Pretties 338: snow much fun.
Simply create too 75: snow
Crafting for all seasons 91: 'tis the season
Bunny Zoe November: snow
The speed craft challenge 7: anything goes - about 5 minutes each card
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Penny's 205: anything goes
Crafty catz 257: anything goes
The pink elephant 278: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 145: any winter holiday
Sister act 85: anything goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 57

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 57: anything goes with a twist ... clean and simple. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and we would love to see your entries.

I made three very simple cards using images from a LOTV art pad. These were made to sell cheaply at my Tearfund sale.

These are also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Craftin desert divas 45: Christmas
Just inspirational: winter
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Ooh-la-la 170: Christmas
Try it on Tuesday (Tuesday taggers): Christmas is coming
Fussy & fancy 128: happy holidays
DRS 150: I pine for you
Creative inspirations 291: season's greetings
Fairytale 105: Christmas with animals
The cutie pie 81: festive furry friends
Crafting for all seasons 91: 'tis the season
Bunny Zoe November: snow
The speed craft challenge 7: anything goes - about 5 minutes each card - 14 minutes altogether
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
The pink elephant 278: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 145: any winter holiday
Sister act 85: anything goes

Completely Christmas 40

For Completely Christmas 40 the theme is 'anything goes with a twist ... something beginning with S'. Please click on the link to see what the other design team members have come up with - and we hope you will join in the challenge.

I decided to feature a Snowman, so I used Paper Pretties 'warm winter wishes', kindly given by the sponsor of the challenge, colouring with spectrum noir pens and matting on to various die cuts. - so this is also for Paper Pretties 338: snow much fun.

nPapers are Echo park 'winter wishes'.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Moving along with the times: inspired by a song - Frosty, the snowman
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Eureka 116: non traditional Christmas colours
Craftin desert divas 45: Christmas
We do doobadoo: get festive
Christmas at sweet stampin November: snow people
Craft your passion 241: baby it's cold outside
Just inspirational: winter
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Ooh-la-la 170: Christmas
Try it on Tuesday (Tuesday taggers): Christmas is coming
Try stampin' on Tuesday 195: snow is coming
Simply create too 75: snow
Sweet stampin: let it snow
My time to craft 269: snowmen
Vandicrafts artistry 19: anything goes with a twist ... snowman or snow
Crafting for all seasons 91: 'tis the season
Digistamps4Joy 105: Christmas
As you like it: favourite Christmas style & why - I like traditional and non-traditional because I just love making all sorts of Christmas cards
Cut it up 59: non-traditional Christmas card
Spectrum noir facebook November: Christmas/winter
Fussy & fancy 128: happy holidays
Corrosive 213: happy everything
Hobbyhome 16: winter
Creative corner: winter wonderland
Bunny Zoe November: snow
Jingle belles: Christmas feast - drink
Cardz 4 guyz 46: food and drink
Graph it markers week 28: two colours - blue and lilac
Robyn's fetish 239: use a digi
Winter wonderland: dies and punches
Digi sketch: use die cuts/punches
4 crafty chicks 222: die cuts
A creative romance: something old (the papers)
The speed craft challenge 7: anything goes - 13 minutes
Just us girls 269: anything goes
Brown sugar 122: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Creative fingers 58: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Penny's 205: anything goes
Crafty catz 257: anything goes
613 avenue create 99: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 32: anything goes
The pink elephant 278: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 85: anything goes

Sale of flowers/stamps at Buckwells Craft Supplies

At the minute over at Buckwells Craft Supplies, for the arrival of flowers/stamps, there's a 10% off all flowers/stamps in shop until the 28 November - so be quick and grab yourselves some bargains. There's a super selection to choose from:

Lots of lovely stamps here and flowers here.

Don't miss out on these lovely bargains.

The last Rudolph Day this year

Can you believe it - it's time for the last Rudolph Day this year ... where does time go to?!

Two simple, but elegant cards, very similar to some shown before, made from a Hunkydory kit (I bought two or three of these because they are handy as good sellers for charity) - and I love the fact that they show the true meaning of Christmas.

Also for Pinspirational 129:

These are also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Craftin desert divas 45: Christmas
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Ooh-la-la 170: Christmas
Aud sentiments 120: use a sentiment for any December holiday
Crafting by designs: get ready for Christmas
Scrappers delights 36: anything goes or traditional Christmas
Delicious doodles 111: traditional Christmas
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
613 avenue create 99: anything goes
The pink elephant 278: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 84: anything goes

Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 63

This is my design card for Fan-tastic challenge 63: anything goes with a twist ... add a tree or trees. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

The lovely image with sentiment is Stitchy Bear's whispering trees, I changed the colour of the black and white image into brown and white in Publisher and cut out with one of the Spellbinder marvellous square ties run through the eBosser. The background was created with acrylic paint and a stencil with my gelli plate, using some patterned grid paper. Flowers from Poundland.

This is also for:

Digi sketch: use die cuts/punches
Crafty sentiments: use die cuts
Moxie fab world: tree-mendous trees
PumpkinSpice 93: brown and/or black
Seema crafs November: monochrome
One stitch at a time: 224 (used a Stitchy Bear image)
Stitchy Bear facebook challenge
Order of the opus gluei 196: reflection (on life and nature)
City crafter 239: techniques - using gelli plate with stencil and acrylic paint
Robyn's fetish 239: use a digi
Card mania 60: use a digi
Karleigh Sue 3: autumn/fall colours
The pink elephant 278: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
DL.ART November linky
Sister act 84: anything goes

Cheerful stamp pad challenge 100

The cheerful stamp pad challenge 100 is to use digital paper and images.

My design creation was produced digitally using the lovely poinsettia background paper kindly given by Stitchy Bear Coosty Creations, together with other digital images that were cropped and adjusted to mount on to the backing which was then faded at the edges.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Craftin desert divas 45: Christmas
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Ooh-la-la 170: Christmas
Merry Monday 136: red green and white
Robyn's fetish 239: use a digi
Aud sentiments 120: use a sentiment for any December holiday
Card mania 60: use a digi
The pink elephant 278: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 84: anything goes

The glory of Christmas challenge 47: Mary and Joseph

This is my design card for the Glory of Christmas 47: Mary and Joseph. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and we would love it if you were to join in our challenge.

I used the lovely Penny Black 'the manger' stamp, colouring the image with spectrum noir pens and mounting on to gold mirror card. The background paper is a digital print out.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
My perfect life festive 48 week 46
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Crafting by designs: get ready for Christmas
Oddball: any winter holiday
Hiding in my craft room 175: any holiday
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Scrappers delights 36: anything goes or traditional Christmas
Stamping sensations November: simply Christmas
One crazy stamper November: anything goes
The artistic stamper creative team November: Christmas is coming
Timbro scrap mania 105: Christmas is coming
Cute as a button 3: Christmas/winter
Corrosive 213: happy everything - any holiday
Penny Black November: all wrapped up
As you like it: favourite Christmas style and why - 'traditional nativity picture' - one that depicts the true meaning of Christmas
Aud sentiments 120: use a sentiment for any December holiday
Winter wonderland: let's get sentimental
Vandicrafts artistry 18: anything goes
Christmas stampin all year long 38: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 32: anything goes
613 avenue create 99: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 84: anything goes

Little angels

These are some of the simple cards that I made for my recent sale (those that I sell cheaply), using some LOTV pictures.

These are for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Scrap-cards 69: a Christmas card with an angel on it
The vintage challenge 91: angels
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Crafting by designs: get ready for Christmas
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
The paper shelter 184: a card for a child
Aud sentiments 120: use a sentiment for any December holiday
Winter wonderland: let's get sentimental
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 84: anything goes

A sweet birthday

I recently made a card using some glittered stickers and a punched out Happy Birthday using a Martha Stewart punch - I was asked by a friend if I could make a similar card for her to give to someone, so here it is. The punched strip is made from bright pink mirror card:

The mirror card and glitter doesn't show up well in the photo - this gives a little idea:

This is for:

In the pink 57: keep it sweet and simple
Polka doodles 47: clean and simple
A little bit crafty November: clean and simple
The speed craft challenge 7: anything goes (took ten minutes)
Red carpet studio 83: Julie & Julia - inspired by food
Make my Monday: glitter
Creative moments 56: anything goes/make it sparkle
Totally Gorjuss 263: sparkly/bling/glittery
4 crafty chicks 221: make it sparkle
Crafting for all seasons 90: birthdays
Fab n funky 237: happy birthday
Craft for the craic 10: birthday
Allsorts 286: no design papers allowed
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
Sister act 84: anything goes

Woman's way

Not a clue where I got the Woman's Way vintage little card to put on this altered notebook - the card it's matted on to was part of a kit ages ago.

This is for:

Pile it on 46: vintage
Creative inspirations 290: something vintage
Frilly and funkie: a gift from the heart - something vintage
The pink elephant 277: anything but a card
That's crafty: anything vintage
Corrosive 212: girly
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
Sister act 84: anything goes

Kraft and black notebooks

These are three notebooks that I recently altered for my Tearfund sale. The backing paper is some that I've had for ages and I haven't a clue where I got it from - a few Poundland stickers added. Black notebooks from Tiger (I do love that shop).

These are for:

Pink gem 133: kraft + one other colour
The pink elephant 277: anything but a card
PumpkinSpice 93: brown and/or black
Country view crafts November: bugs bees & butterflies (middle notebook)
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
Sister act 84: anything goes
DL.ART November linky

Getting ready for Christmas

I really find it hard to believe that December is fast approaching and there is a Christmas buzz in the air! Mind you, I think it starts too early in the shops, but I don't want to sound like Scrooge!

For my CHNC challenge 204 this week I'm asking to see any creation that shows 'getting ready for Christmas'. Please click on the challenge link to join in - I'm sure that most keen crafters are making things in readiness for Christmas, so it should be easy to enter the challenge.

I wonder how much baking you do for Christmas. Do you make or buy a Christmas pudding? Or perhaps you give it a miss. I'm not a lover of Christmas pudding (or Christmas cake, come to that) - don't really like the dried fruit - I can only eat it if it's plastered with come cointreau or brandy butter, enough to take the full flavour of the pudding away - lol! John loves Christmas pudding and as he's a diabetic I've always made ours. In recent years, because of the strain on his poor kidneys, he's had to be on a low potassium diet (as well as watching other things like sugar, salt, fat ... it can be a bit of a nightmare sometimes). Anyway, I digress. There's potassium in mixed fruit, so he rarely has any, but has a treat at Christmas (and a mince pie or two as well). So I will be getting ready for Christmas, making Christmas pudding, mince pies (can't stand those either), cookies, cakes etc.

My card depicts a mixture of a Christmas cupcake and Christmas pudding - now there's an idea ... combine the two!

I used one of the Christmas cupcakes images kindly supplied by Crafts 4 eternity, one of the sponsors of CHNC challenge 204, coloured with spectrum noir pens and mounted on to a piece of deep green velvet paper (lovely to touch, although not much around the edge). The background paper is an offcut piece of Papermania, mounted on to a piece of red mirror card. The holly berries on the paper are red foiled, although most of them look almost black here because of the difficulty of taking a photo of foiled card.

I based the card on the sketch given for Atlantic hearts 82:

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Sparkles Christmas 46: Christmas candy
Red carpet studio 83: Julie & Julia - inspired by food
Crafting by designs: get ready for Christmas
Digi sketch: food
Jingle belles: Christmas feast
Stamp and create  November: ribbons or bows
Digistamps4Joy 104: preparing for the holidays
Scrappers delights 36: anything goes or traditional Christmas
Delicious doodles 111: traditional Christmas
Without words November: preparing for Christmas
Oddball: any winter holiday
Hiding in my craft room 175: any holiday
3 girl jam November: Christmas/holidays
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Creative moments 56: anything goes/make it sparkle
Clear it out: anything goes (had the papers for ages)
Treasured time 29: anything goes
Creative fingers 57: anything goes
Penny's 204: anything goes
Fitztown 62: anything goes
613 avenue create 98: anything goes
Dream valley 95: anything goes
Crafter's cafe 91: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 84: anything goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 56

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's bloomin' challenge 56: anything goes with a twist ... new home. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and we would love to see your entries.

I thought it might be nice to make a new home card that could be used around Christmas time, so I chose The Stamping Boutique 'gingerbreadman with buttons' (kindly supplied by them, sponsor of the challenge). I coloured with spectrum noir. The background paper is an offcut piece from a magazine freebie.

This is also for:

Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Sparkles Christmas 46: Christmas candy
Red carpet studio 83: Julie & Julia - inspired by food
Digi sketch: food
Jingle belles: Christmas feast
Vandicrafts artistry 17: home sweet home
Glitter n sparkle 111: cute
Treasured time 29: anything goes
Creative fingers 57: anything goes
Penny's 204: anything goes
Fitztown 62: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 84: anything goes

Completely Christmas 39

It's time for a new challenge on Completely Christmas and for challenge 39 we're asking for 'anything goes with a twist ... let's see some embossing'. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in the fun.

For my design card I used the Sparkle n Sprinkle 'a winter wonderland' image kindly supplied by the sponsors of Completely Christmas 39. I coloured with spectrum noir pens. I used two scrap pieces of copper mirror card which I embossed using a polka dot folder. The snowflake panel was created using a Sheena Douglass ornamental snowflakes embossing folder, using a snippet piece of card that I'd sprayed with Spray and sparkle iridescent glitter. The embossing was then brushed with salty ocean distress ink. The gold foiled panel was bought ready embossed.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 151
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Crafter's companion November: Christmas/winter
Spectrum noir November: Christmas/winter
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Crafting by designs: get ready for Christmas
Digistamps4Joy 104: preparing for the holidays
Oddball: any winter holiday
Hiding in my craft room 175: any holiday
Card and scrap 86: Christmas card
Let's craft and create 99: Christmas
Aud sentiments 120: use a sentiment for any December holiday
Winter wonderland: let's get sentimental
Perfectly rustics 36: embossing
A song in your He{ART} 20: let it go from Disney's frozen
Divas by design: let it snow
Simply create too 75: snow! snow! snow!
The east wind 19: baby it's cold outside
Craft a scene November: trees
Crafty catz 256: winter theme
The cutie pie 81: festive furry friends
Crafts4eternity R203: furry friends
Fairytale 105: Christmas with animals
Glitter n sparkle 111: cute
Bunny Zoe November: snow
Hobbyhome 16: winter
Time out 19: embossing with the optional twist of sparkle
Creative moments 56: anything goes/make it sparkle
4 crafty chicks 221: make it sparkle
Allsorts 286: no design papers allowed
Scrappy hands 26: textures
Fitztown 62: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 84: anything goes

A 'thank you' for thanksgiving

This is my design card for today's Sweet pea stampers challenge: thanksgiving. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in with the challenge which, as usual, will last for two weeks. After that the Sweet pea stampers will be taking a break and will be back in February 2015.

I used a Sweet Pea Stamp by Ching-chou kuik, although I can't remember the name of it and it seems to be retired now as I can't find it on the Sweet Pea Stamps website. I'd love to know if any of my visitors know what it's called. This was stamped on to a lightly coloured piece of card, sort of a cloudy look to it, and coloured with spectrum noir pens.

The background was created with Spectrum noir aqua tints using a mixture of autumnal colours, reds, orange and yellow, brushing and then spritzing with water. When dry I stamped twigs lots of times at different angles using stazon black with Rockin' Renaissance tattered textures stamp.

Colours for the color sisters November color palette 14:

This is also for:

Lacy sunshine 46: harvest/thanksgiving
One stitch at a time 224: anything goes with giving thanks
Going grey with Scrap-creations: give thanks
Sweet stamps 196: thanks
Paper pretties 337: thanksgiving/be thankful
Simon says Wednesday: thanks/thanksgiving
The sisterhood of crafters: thank-ful
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: alternative thank you
Great impressions November: thankful thoughts
Little tangles 49: giving thanks
Meljen's 237: thank you
Fresh brewed November 2: give thanks
Eureka 115: give thanks
Jo's scrap shack funday 67: happy thanksgiving
Aloha Friday 37: thanks/thank you
Brown sugar 121: use 2 or more colours
Di's digi designs: colours of autumn
Hiding in my craft room 174: think fall
Craft and smash November: autumn
Scrappy hands 25: autumn colours
Corrosive 212: girly
Papertake weekly: sooo girlie
Red rubber inspirationals 147: repeat yourself - I used the same stamp again and again - at least ten times
Crazy challenge 184: your favourite technique - playing with inks (including my new aqua tints) and stamping
Clear it out: anything goes (have had all the stamps for some time)
A creative romance: something old (the stamps)
Daring cardmakers: something old, something new (old stamps, new aqua tints)
Aurora wings 9: anything goes
Use your stuff 162: stamps
Dream valley 95: anything goes
Fitztown 62: anything goes
613 avenue create 98: anything goes
The paper nest dolls 23: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Stampavie and more 225: anything goes
Treasured time 29: anything goes
Fairies in time November: anything goes
One crazy stamper November: anything goes
Penny Black and more at Allsorts November: anything goes
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 159: anything goes
Penny's 204: anything goes
Crafter's cafe 91: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
My crafty creations: anything goes
Sister act 84: anything goes

Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 62

This is my design card for Fan-tastic challenge 62: anything goes with a twist ... for a male. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

I used part of Sparkle n Sprinkle 'digital camera set' kindly supplied by the challenge sponsor, adding some filmstrips, Crafty Individuals 'by the sea' in the background.

This is also for:

Clear it out: anything goes (have had the CI film strips for some time)
Fitztown 62: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 159: anything goes
Penny's 204: anything goes
Crafter's cafe 91: anything goes
Dream valley 95: anything goes
613 avenue create 98: anything goes
The paper nest dolls 23: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
My crafty creations: anything goes

Little tiggy tiger

This is my design card for Cheerful stamp pad challenge 99 second week - please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and we would love it if you would join in our challenge here.

For my card I've used Stitchy Bear's 'little tiggy tiger' kindly supplied by the challenge sponsor, coloured in copics and mounted on to an offcut of copper mirror card. The paw print twill ribbon and the computer printed sentiment were also mounted on to other snippets of copper mirror card and everything matted on to some animal print card that I've had for a long time ... just waiting for a 'tiggy tiger' to come along!

What a pity the copper mirror card doesn't show up in its full glory!

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 151 - all pieces of copper mirror card were snippets
Inky impressions 185: animals
Let's craft and create 98: animal antics
Stamp and create November: ribbons or bows
Glitter n sparkle 111: cute
Card mania 60: use a digi
Fitztown 62: anything goes

Crafting musketeers challenge 19: anything but a card

This is my design project for team B's mid-month design inspiration for Crafting musketeers challenge 19. You can see the lovely designs by the rest of team B here and can join in with your entries here - we would love to see you there.

The challenge is being sponsored by Delicious Doodles and I have used their 'penguin family' for my project.

Recently I bought a box of Belgian chocolate sticks and was taken with the fact that there was an inner box within the main packaging and I thought this would be good if altered and decorated to be used for housing a Christmas gift.

This is the original packaging:

And this is the altered project. I split the original image in two to create two panels (the back two panels are the same). I punched out a lot  of silver snowflakes from scrap pieces of silver mirror card, dotting them around above the images and also putting some on the gold fold down pieces of the inner box.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 151
Recycle, re-purpose & re-invent: anything goes
Nutcrafters 81: anything but a card
Allsorts 285: anything but a card
The crafting cafe November: not a card
The paper shelter 182: snowflakes
A song in your He{ART} 20: let it go from Disney's frozen - snow
Bunny Zoe November: snow
Digistamps4Joy 104: preparing for the holidays (Christmas)
Ruby's rainbow 92: non traditional Christmas
Emerald faeries 61: Christmas non-traditional colours
Crafty calendar November: it's all about Christmas
DL.ART 144: anything Christmas
Baffie's creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Animal friends 20: it's cold
Let's craft and create 98: animal antics
Polka doodles 45: recycle it
Scribbles designs 23: penguin paradise

Hope you have a yummy Christmas

A year or two back I had a pack of Webster's Pages 'Waiting for Santa and Sweet Season', but most of them got used. I liked them so much that I've bought another pack of them this week and couldn't wait to use one of the papers. They are all double sided, so this enabled me to cut diagonally across the middle and reverse that piece when sticking to the card blank. It's a simple card with just the printed sentiment strip and three accordion sticker flowers from Helz Cuppleditch's Santa's workshop. The reason I chose to use these is a bit of a cheat because Karen chose the theme for this fortnight's Christmas Card Club challenge: teabag fold/origami. I hang my head in shame because it really isn't either and I didn't even make the accordion flowers, but they do have lots of folds, so I hope I will be forgiven.

It's difficult to see here, but the larger accordion flower has some yummy goodies on it, that fit in with the theme of the card.

This is also for:

The 12 months of Christmas card link up
My perfect life festive 48 week 45
Squigglefly 45: make a Christmas card
CRAFT 285: Christmas
Baffies creative 38: time for the approaching Christmas season
Sparkles Christmas 46: Christmas candy
Red carpet studio 83: Julie & Julia - inspired by food
A creative need November: button up
Sentimental Sundays 233: brads, buttons and/or bows
A crafty mess 1: anything goes
My craft creations: anything goes
Crafting by designs November: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday 144: anything Christmas
Sister act 83