These are my cards for my CHNC challenge 627 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'any Christmas or New Year creation'.
Two quick cards made before Christmas:
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 626 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'any Christmas or New Year creation'.
For my card I used supplies from a set by Echo Park Paper Co called O Holy Night.
These are my cards for my CHNC challenge 625 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use the word Merry'.
Three quick and easy cards with the word Merry, using supplies from Create and Craft from a couple of years ago.
These are my cards for my CHNC challenge 624 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'quick and easy'.
A set of cards made with the lovely silhouette stamp, inked and heat embossed:
These are my cards for my CHNC challenge 623 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'things with wings'.
A set of quick cards made using the lovely angel stamp, inked and heat embossed:
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper December 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
Having run the Patterned Paper blog for eight years, I've been thinking it's time for a break .... this isn't an easy or quick decision, but one that has been on my mind for some time and recent family situations and life in general has made me realise that this is the right decision. I've been through difficult times during those eight years and have never missed a challenge. So the December challenge will be the last one,
I've been so grateful for all those who have been on the design team over the years, including, of course, the present ones. So many have shared their inspirational designs and so many wonderful crafters have entered the challenges to share theirs.
This is a commissioned card using some papers and matching decoupage (bought a whole load of these a few years ago and am still using them up from time to time).
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 622 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'something beginning with the letter R'.
My card is with the theme of R for round:
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 621 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use some glitter'.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 620 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use a button or two or more'.
For my card I used supplies from a set by Echo Park Paper Co called O Holy Night.
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper November 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
For my card I used Kanban supplies and some flowers from The Works.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 618 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'make your own background'.
I think I've cheated a bit, but I didn't use any patterned paper, but just used stamping and colouring:
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 617 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'add a flower or two or more'.
I think the background paper for these cards was from a magazine freebie, but I can't remember - they were offcut pieces in my Christmas box, with the addition of the poinsettias and added sentiments.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 616 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'include a stocking'.
The background paper is from The Glory of Christmas pad with a sentiment square from long ago and some glittery stockings from The Works.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 615 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'sentiment as the focal point'.
Supplies from a set by Echo Park Paper Co called O Holy Night:
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 614 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'for someone special'.
This is similar to a digitally made card I showed over a year ago, this time making it suitable for a special couple:
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper October 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
This was a commissioned A5 card with insert using Kanban supplies, including the lovely background paper:
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 613 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use the word Joy'.
The central piece is from an Echo Park collection, mounted on to a tartan piece rescued from an old card, on to the background paper from the Enchanted Winter paper pad from Hobbycraft.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 612 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use some plaid, checked or gingham'.
The background paper is from the vintage Noel pad by Love to Craft, with a piece of fancypants winterland across the middle with an oval that was printed and glittered from a set long ago, with a copy of sentiment pieces.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 611 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use some patterned paper'.
For my card I used supplies from the Create and Craft Very Berry kit (bought at least 2 years ago ... and still got some left).
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 610 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'something beginning with the letter S'.
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper September 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
This was a commissioned card to be sent to a daughter-in-law who loves sewing, using Hunkydory patterned card, a page from a magazine on the right hand side of the insert and various bits and pieces from my stash, with the lovely picture of a lady and child that appeared in the Daily Mail.
The fancy ovals for the sentiment were die cut using todo dies, with the printed sentiment quickly covered with detail embossing powder and heat embossed.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 609 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'embossing (wet or dry)'.
This is very similar to a card I showed for my CHNC challenge 607. As before, I used one of my favourite embossing folders by Lisa Horton, which also die cuts, using gold mirror card mounted on to a black card blank, with the addition of the sentiment and a couple of Italian Options gold poinsettia.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 608 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'for a lady or girl'.
The background paper is from the Cosy Christmas pad from The Works, with a topper from a Kanban kit from long ago.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 607 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'no stamp or digital image'.
I used one of my favourite embossing folders by Lisa Horton, which also die cuts, using gold mirror card mounted on to a black card blank, with the addition of the sentiment and a couple of Italian Options gold poinsettia.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 606 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'include a penguin'.
The background paper is from a pad from The Works. The lovely image was stamped using the delightful 'carolling penguins' by Penny Black inked with Versafine onyx black and heat embossed with detail black powder, coloured with chameleon alcohol pens, with the hat trimmings covered with glue from a pen with t the addition of Art institute glitter.
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper August 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
This was a commissioned card to be sent to a lady, with the request not to feature flowers. All papers (the squares cut from offcuts, having used some for other cards) are from a Colorways orchid collection from Paper House.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 605 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'include a reindeer'.
The background paper is from Dovecraft Festive Wonder, with the lovely Inkadinkado reindeer stamped on o a piece of black sparkly card (much darker than it looks in the photo) with versamark and heat embossed with Wow gold, matted on to gold card, with the addition of the washi tape and sentiment circle.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 604 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use some twine or ribbon'.
For amy card I used papers from Crafter's Companion Decorative Christmas with some silver bows, snowflakes and the Merry Christmas sentiment.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 603 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use a die cut or punch'.
Unfortunately, not a good photo - the background is an embossed piece of purple mirror card with an offcut of card across the middle with three die cuts from a Hunkydory art deco kit.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 602 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use some red'.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 601 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'for a man or a boy'.
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper July 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
This was a commissioned 8 x 8 card using Crafter's Companion papers and vellum, with flowers from The Works.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 600 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use some washi tape'.
For my card I used a paper from Crafter's Companion Decorative Christmas pad, adding the lovely Kanban topper which I bought some years ago, a couple of black sparkly snowflakes from Italian Options and, of course, for the optional theme of the challenge I used some Merry Christmas washi tape top and bottom.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 599 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'include a snowflake or two or more'.
The background is a paper from Crafter's Companion Decorative Christmas, with sparkly snowflakes, with the lovely topper from a Kanban kit from long ago, with the centre raised a bit with 3D foam, with the addition of the gold foiled Merry Christmas circle and with four sparkly black Italian Options foam snowflakes.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 598 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'winter fun'.
A very quick and easy card created digitally with a snowflake background that I've had for ages with the lovely Snow fun free download that I found on the internet.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 597 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'non traditional Christmas colours'.
I used supplies from Echo Park from The first Noel collection.
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper June 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
This was a commissioned 8 x 8 card using supplies from The Paper Boutique, flowers from Hobbycraft and a sentimental panel from Dovecraft.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 596 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'use some silver'.
I used part of the set from a kit by Hunkydory - plenty of silver - raising the inner piece and the sentiment with 3D foam.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 595 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'include a tree or two or more'.
I used card, topper and sentiment from a kit from Crafter's Companion, adding the sparkly little stockings from The Works.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 594 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'candy canes'.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 593 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'include a bell or bells'.
My simple card was put together digitally with a free download background and a free Christmas download that featured bells, with the addition of the sentiment.
This is my design card for my Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper May 2022 challenge. If you make anything that includes some patterned paper or card you can link your entries. Please click on the challenge link to find out more and join in the fun.
Hunkydory supplies for the background paper and image, sparkly washi tape and a stitched flower and birthday greeting panel.
This is my card for my CHNC challenge 592 - please click on the link to find out what it's all about and I hope you'll be able to join in with your Christmas designs - anything goes as long as it's Christmas with the optional theme of 'for a child'.
The background paper for my card is an unknown piece that I think came with a magazine. Sadly, I can't remember where the image came from - I mounted this on to a piece of blue mirror card, having added the sentiment on computer. I dotted a few snowflakes around.
