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

A touch of teal ...

... for this card I've used papers and elements from a Docrafts 'touch of teal' kit that I bought a long time ago - probably four or five years. The card was made from offcuts, one piece being cut with a scalloped nestie and then brushed with black soot distress ink.

The card is based on the January: between the lines sketch on Kathy's waffle sketch file:

Colours are for Daring cardmakers January colour challenge:

This is also for:

A card a day on facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 54
Kort o mania 77: potpourri - using up leftovers
Emergency crafters: new year - use something you've had for more than a year (much longer!)
Live & love crafts 7: something old
Corrosive 165: out with the old
Whoopsi Daisy: die cuts and punches
Unstampabelles 19: one or more die cuts

Another one for Mema's crafts favourites of 2012

As I said in the previous post, Mema's crafts are asking us to show our favourite card of the year and they are allowing us to make two choices, so now I've had another hard decision to pick my next favourite from my original Top twelve of 2012.

I'm choosing a digital project I did in February 2012, which I had great fun creating - this was the original post: You are my queen of hearts:

Favourites of 2012 for Mema's crafts

Regular visitors to my blog will know that at the beginning of the year I post my 12 favourite cards of the previous year - one for each month, which I did for my Top twelve of 2012.

Mema's crafts are asking us to show our favourite card of the year - it was difficult to choose one for each month, but much more difficult to choose one for the whole year, but I think it has to be the birthday card that I made for mum in November, partly because I was really pleased with the card, but also because it was for my mum. This is the link for the original post Mum's birthday.

From our house to yours

This is another card using a recycled element - the lovely sparkly tree, to which I've added a bit of red colour with a copic pen and also used this for the edges. papers are Christmas Home at Teresa Collins, the band of black flowers and the sentiment are from stash. This is an A5 card because the tree image is quite large.

This is for:

That craft place: Christmas
Pile it on 1: black, white and another colour
Hiding in my craft room 79: black & white + 1
Desert island 45: I choose glitter, gems, black & white + one colour
Paper pretties Wednesday 239: bling
Crafty mess 24: show some sparkle/bling
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 141: take a Christmas card you received and use part of it to make your card
Mayzy art: anything goes

And, of course, it's another Christmas card for my CHNC challenge 106 and also for my CHNC challenge extra for January - why not make an early start on your Christmas cards and join in - I'd love to see you there.

Christmas Home

'Christmas Home' is the name of the Teresa Collins background paper that I've used for this card. The main image is one recycled from a card received - the holly berries have been glittered - backed on to red card and the spiked circle was also recycled from another card and matted on to another nestie die cut. The little 'merry Christmas' sentiment is one that has been in my Christmas sentiments box for ages. The strip of black gems were from Poundland.

This was based on the square sketch for Mojo Monday 274:

This is also for:

A card a day on facebook
Paper pretties Monday 72: winter creation
Aud sentiments 71: winter
PaperPlay 1: celebration
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Jen's digi 1: let's celebrate
Blogger challenge: celebrate (still celebrating Christmas!)
Allsorts 188: CAS
Paper pretties Wednesday 239: bling
Crafty mess 24: show some sparkle/bling
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 141: take a Christmas card you received and use part of it to make your card
Mayzy art: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 11: anything goes
Dream valley 48: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 14: anything goes
Robyn's fetish 141: anything goes
613 avenue create 1: anything goes
Little scrap pieces: anything goes
2 sisters 125: anything goes
Catch the bug January: anything goes
QKR stampede 20: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Freshly brewed 2013 challenge 1: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
The pink elephant 180: anything goes

Wags n whiskers 94: anything goes

Inspire me Fridays 90
52 card pick up 2.0 week 1

And, of course, it's another Christmas card for my CHNC challenge 106 and also for my CHNC challenge extra for January - why not make an early start on your Christmas cards and join in - I'd love to see you there.

CHNC challenge 106: Santa has gone into hiding

It's time for the first CHNC challenge of 2013 - for challenge 106 I'm asking you to create any Christmas card that doesn't feature Santa because he was working so hard before Christmas 2012 that he has now gone into hiding! The chance to win a prize this week has tripled because of the generosity of so many sponsors I am now able to offer at least two prizes a week and sometimes three - this week there are three.

Don't forget that any card that you enter into my CHNC weekly challenges can also be added to my CHNC challenge extra monthly challenge which is being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.

For my card I've used a new stamp that I received in the post a yesterday. When we were away in Maidstone  about three months ago I saw this stamp in a craft shop, but hesitated to buy it - when I went back it had gone, so I searched on the internet and managed to get one nearly half price in a sale - result!

The stamp is from Stampendous called 'snowy postcard' - I inked with memento rich cocoa and it stamped beautifully first time. I torn the edges of the white card and brushed with vintage photo distress ink. For a change I've not used any designer paper, just a snippet strip of foiled brown and gold down the side (because only top and bottom showed I got away with using a small offcut) and a gold sentiment, both of which have been in my stash for years and needed using.

This is also for:

A card a day on facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets 53
Lady Anne's stamp challenge
The house that stamps built DCC12: make it snow
Art impressions 93: let it snow
Simply create too 28: let it snow
Stempelsonne 79: snow
Gingerloft: Christmas or winter
Lexi 80: snow
Broken box stock 17: winter/snowflakes
Card mania 11: winter wonderland
Paper pretties Monday 72: winter creation
Aud sentiments 71: winter
PaperPlay 1: celebration
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Jen's digi 1: let's celebrate
Blogger challenge: celebrate (still celebrating Christmas!)
Crafty calendar January: what's new
Jingle belles: new crafting goodies
Di's digi designs: try something new (a new stamp from a company I've not used before)
CASology 25: new
Allsorts 188: CAS
Crafty sentiments: new
Going grey with Scrap creations: something new
For fun: something new
Simon says: new something
Cute card Thursday 250: something new
Pixie dust studio: it's all new to me
Crafts 4 eternity R105: something new
LiaStampz 32: something new
Playing in paradise 98: use something new
Totally papercrafts 148: something new
Bearly mine 67: something old and something new
Dare to be sassy 158: something old and something new
Jellypark friends: old and new
Lady Ann's stamp challenge
Little scrap pieces: anything goes
2 sisters 125: anything goes
Catch the bug January: anything goes
Fashionable stamping 38: surprise us
Loves rubber stamps 32: anything goes
Inky impressions 91: anything goes
QKR stampede 20: anything goes
Stampin' for the weekend: anything goes
Stamping with the dragon: anything goes
Crafters cafe 12: anything goes
One crazy stamper January: anything goes
Crafty catz 164: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate
Freshly brewed 2013 challenge 1: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
The pink elephant 180: anything goes

Wags n whiskers 94: anything goes

Kaboodle 152: anything goes
Willow sketchie: anything goes
Make it Monday 121
Inspire me Fridays 90
52 card pick up 2.0 week 1

Guest Designer for Playing in Paradise 98

I was honoured to be invited to be a Guest Designer for Playing in Paradise 98 where the challenge is to use something new.

I decided to make a tri-fold square card, using new papers from Authentique peaceful collection.

For the front I used new stamps that I had purchased while on holiday in Eastbourne but hadn't previously inked them. The doorway is from PaperArtsy HP1011 set, the script from HP1007 and the flower shapes from HPXT02, all inked with memento tuxedo black. Black soot distress ink was used to brush the edges and across the doorway. The corrugated flower shapes are from Hobbycraft.

 I stamped the middle panel with elements from PaperArtsy HPXT02, again inking with tuxedo black and brushing edges with black soot.

So everything used was new. Please visit Playing in Paradise 98 to see the wonderful creations members of the regular team have made.

The final Guy's life card ...

... the fourth card made with a piece of the Guy's life earthtones vellum - yay! I used up the snippets without them going in the box! I've used some of the brads again and a cut out of a car that's been lurking for ages and ages (think it was part of a magazine freebie originally) and a sentiment.

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 53
Sandy's crafty creations 1: anything goes with a twist - must have blue and white on it
Card and scrap 46: use metal ornamental
PaperPlay 1: celebration
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate
Crafty creations 202: anything goes
Freshly brewed 2013 challenge 1: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
The pink elephant 180: anything goes

Wags n whiskers 94: anything goes

Kaboodle 152: anything goes
Willow sketchie: anything goes
Make it Monday 121
52 card pick up week 52

Guy's life again ...

... I thought I ought to use up the other two 6 x 6 pieces of Guy's life earthtones vellum rather than put it in my offcuts box, so here is another card, once again using up some brads I've had for ages and a Sizzix die cut car in red mirror with silver headlights (although they look black here) - I hardly ever use my Sizzix dies nowadays, which is silly because I have boxes of them - must try and remember them (or at least some of them).The addition of a sentiment and the card was done.

This is for:

A card a day on facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets 53
Perfect sentiments 60: metal embellished birthdays (metal brads)
Card and scrap 46: use metal ornamental
PaperPlay 1: celebration
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Jen's digi 1: let's celebrate
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate
Crafty creations 202: anything goes
Freshly brewed 2013 challenge 1: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
The pink elephant 180: anything goes

Wags n whiskers 94: anything goes

Kaboodle 152: anything goes
Willow sketchie: anything goes
Make it Monday 121
52 card pick up week 52

Guy's life ...

... having made a card earlier using some Guy's Life earthtones vellum which has been in my pile of 12 x 12 papers for what seems like forever I decided I ought to try and make cards with the offcuts rather than banish those to a box never to see the light of day.

So I've dug out some deckle edged stamped images of motocrycles - this one is embossed, although it doesn't like it here - I inked the edges with a Marvy alcohol pen - and I found a sentiment that matched up. Once again I've used some of the brads I've been hoarding for years, so all in all, I'm quite pleased with using up some old stuff.

I've discovered that vellum is nearly as difficult to photograph as mirror card!

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 53
The squirrel and the fox 34: party time - celebrations
Perfect sentiments 60: metal embellished birthdays (metal brads)
Card and scrap 46: use metal ornamental
Emerald faerie garden 39: celebrations
Party time Tuesday 101: celebrate
Creative moments bloggers network 7: emboss it/anything goes
ABC challenge: E for embossing
Creative inspirations 195: celebration
Fashionable stamping 38: surprise us

I just had to use it ...

... as soon as I saw an M & S gift card that John had received for his birthday, I just had to demolish the card that it came in and recycle it on to a card with a Guy's Life earthtones vellum that I've had for years and never used. I've also used some brads that have been hoarded for years. I've covered up the M & S wording on the pocket of the shirt with the birthday greeting. I'm so impressed that this gift card even has real buttons on it - what crafter could resist using this? Not me!

This is for:

The squirrel and the fox 34: party time - celebrations
Perfect sentiments 60: metal embellished birthdays (metal brads)
Artistic inspiration 21: celebrations/anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate
Emerald faerie garden 39: celebrations
Party time Tuesday 101: celebrate
Creative inspirations 195: celebration
Dutch dare 97: celebration

Winter wonderland

For this card I've used a background piece of My Paper Stash 'red snowflakes', added a decoupaged image etc at the base - this was recycled from a card received. Crystal ice stickles was added to the centres of the snowflakes and across the bottom. I had to take the photograph at an angle because the background is mirror card which reflects so much head-on with flash.

This is another card for both my CHNC challenge 105 and my new CHNC challenge extra for January (where monthly challenges will always be 'anything goes') - if you haven't discovered these Christmas challenge blogs yet, please click on the links and join in.

This is also for:

A card a day on facebook
Sunday's with Santa on facebook week 1
Lady Anne's Friday sentiment challenge
Gingerloft: Christmas or winter
The hybrid chick card caravan 34: snowflakes
Lexi 80: snow
Broken box stock 17: winter/snowflakes
My time to craft 202: animals in the snow
GoFish 32: winter
Card mania 11: winter wonderland
Paper pretties Monday 72: winter creation
Aud sentiments 71: winter
Cutie pie 33: cutie Christmas
More than favors wacky Wednesday 78: Christmas
Craft us crazy 33: merry Christmas
MilkCoffee: Christmas or winter holiday
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: winter
Fussy & fancy 79: furry friends
QKR stampede 19: let it shine
Craftymess 24: show some sparkle/bling
Drunken stampers: all that glitters
Paper pretties Wednesday 239: bling
Bloggers challenge: sparkle and shine
Jen's digi 1: let's celebrate
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Emerald faerie garden 39: celebrations
Party time Tuesday 101: celebrate
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate
Catch the bug: holiday/winter
Forever Friends 52: anything goes
Crafty creations 202: anything goes
Freshly brewed 2013 challenge 1: anything goes
Hiding in my craft room 78: freestyle
Papertake: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
The pink elephant 180: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 30: anything goes/celebrations

Wags n whiskers 94: anything goes

Artistic inspiration 21: celebrations/anything goes
Kaboodle 152: anything goes
Make it Monday 121
52 card pick up week 52

Extra! Extra! Read all about it ...

... today sees the launch of my CHNC challenge extra for January - a new blog that is a spin off of my CHNC challenge blog that has now been running for two years. Weekly challenges will continue on CHNC and will usually have a specific theme to follow, whereas monthly challenges on my CHNC challenge extra blog will always be 'anything goes'. So please don't pack away your Christmas stash - keep it available and start making cards for next Christmas. Those of you that did this last year will understand how beneficial this is and those of you who didn't ... perhaps you need to consider that it would make sense to make Christmas cards throughout the year to ease any panic towards November and December. I hope to see you there!

This is the card I've made for CHNC challenge extra for January, using Bugaboo 'AKV Santa' and 'stocking mouse' coloured with copics - all of my CHNC challenge extras are being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps. I have a Guest Designer joining me for the January challenge, so please go over and visit her too.

All papers were from my Christmas offcuts box (one of my crafty resolutions last year was to use up offcuts - I've been trying to do that all year, so how come I seem to still have as many in my boxes?

Stitched ribbon and strips of gems from stash, as well as sentiment banner.

I'm also linking this for:

A card a day on facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 53
Lady Anne's Friday sentiment challenge
Gingerloft: Christmas or winter
Cutie pie 33: cutie Christmas
Cards und more 72: Christmas
More than favors wacky Wednesday 78: Christmas
Craft us crazy 33: merry Christmas
MilkCoffee: Christmas or winter holiday
Di's digi designs: Christmas
Fussy & fancy 79: furry friends
QKR stampede 19: let it shine - difficult to see, but the lines of gems really shine and there is shine on the background paper too
Craftymess 24: show some sparkle/bling
Bloggers challenge: sparkle and shine
Pixie dust studio: any celebration will do
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate
Catch the bug: holiday/winter
Lady Ann's stamp challenge
Here come the boys 42: anything goes - suitable for a young boy
Hiding in my craft room 78: freestyle
Cute card Thursday 249: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 51: anything goes
Cards galore January: anything goes
Spark your creativity 5: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 10: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 147: free for all
Simon says: anything goes
The pink elephant 180: anything goes
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 30: anything goes/celebrations
Mark's fiuest papers simple salutations 25: anything goes (with a sentiment on the front)

Wags n whiskers 94: anything goes

Artistic inspiration 21: celebrations/anything goes
Kaboodle 152: anything goes
Paper make up 69: anything goes
Make it Monday 121
52 card pick up week 52

Top Twelve of 2012

Wishing all my visitors a

Happy New Year

While blog-hopping  four or five years ago I found that quite a few crafters had shown their Top Ten makes for the year and so, at the beginning of January each year, I've done the same, except I changed my choices to twelve, one for each month of the year and that's what I'm doing again this year.

If you click on the links, you can go to the original posts and read more about each item. The items shown aren't just my favourites, but are reminders of various techniques and things I enjoy doing.

Update: the recipe swap challenge for January on Catered crop is to show our top 12 for 2012 - I hope it's OK that I'm back linking (which I normally wouldn't do) because I'd already done mine as you can see here.

My top twelve of 2012

January 2012: Favourite things - using some favourite Basic Grey papers:

February 2012: You are my queen of hearts - a project put together digitally:

March 2012: Two special dogs - I just couldn't leave them out! pages from a CJ:

April 2012: Wow! what a day - a reminder of a lovely time spent with crafting friends:

May 2012: ATCs sewn up - this was part of a swap - reminds me to do some sewing!

June 2012: Steampunk ballet - a reminder to sometimes do something a bit different:

July 2012: Just a note - I love the simplicity of this and also I've used one of my favourite Penny Black stamps:

August 2012: Miss Anna Autumn - I love the autumnal colours of this:

September 2012: Autumn birthday - a reminder to get the PanPastels out again!

October 2012: No patterned paper - I love patterned paper (I have rather a lot of it!), but it's good to sometimes craft without it:

November 2012: Mum's birthday - I just couldn't leave this out - a special card for a special person:

December 2012: Have a cool yule - no review of the year would be complete without a Christmas card - regular visitors will know that I make a lot of Christmas cards and have a CHNC challenge blog - also from today I have started monthly challenges on my CHNC challenge extra blog:

I have found it quite helpful doing this review of 2012 - it has brought back many memories, but has also reminded me of some techniques etc that I haven't tried for a while, not just in the items that I've chosen to show here, but in many other items that have been blogged over the months.

It's over to you

Perhaps you would like to do your own 'top twelve of 2012' - if you do I'd love you to leave me a comment with a link so that I can come and look at your choices.

And then encourage others to do the same.

By the way, just in case anyone thinks I've spent  New Year's Eve preparing this - no, I haven't - it was prepared and scheduled much earlier!

And don't forget to also link to Catered Crop's recipe swap challenge.

Sentimental Sundays favourite

The challenge for Sentimental Sundays 135 is to show our favourite Sentimental Sunday entry - I've chosen this one featuring these cards:

Five favourite Christmas cards

Debby of A Scrap Journey is asking us to show our five favourite Christmas cards. I found this such a challenge. I make loads of Christmas cards - I wouldn't say that any of them are wonderful, but I had a hard job to narrow my choice down to five.

So here we go:

This was first shown here - I used one of my favourite Penny Black stamps for this:

Next is a simple black and gold card using some favourite snowflake background stamps and a Christmas mosaic stamp by Amy Wilson - you can read about it here:

My third choice is Sassy Suzi in red - read about it here - using one of my favourite Greetings Farm stamps:

The next one here is a clean and simple black and white card using a lovely three kings Clarity stamp and a Kanban image stamped a couple of times down the side:#

And my last choice here is a very recent card that I made at the request of a friend to give to his wife  who loves seeing cards with the Inkadinkado angel stamp on them, adding some of my favourite Inkadinkado snowflakes stamps randomly:

Why not join in the fun and link for Debby's My Five Favourite Christmas Cards.

Name those stamps - Christmas Quiz

When I came across Jules' 'name those stamps - Christmas Quiz' I just had to take part. I love Penny Black stamps and it was a joy to find all the stamps that Jules had provided teasing snippet pictures for. If you'd like to join in then click here.

Jules is adding prizes to the box of goodies every day for the 12 days of Christmas.

Why is it so difficult ...

... to make a card for someone special.

It's John's birthday tomorrow - I really should have made his card before Christmas, but I kept putting it off ... and today realised that I needed to get on with it!

The first thing I tried was a disaster - colouring went wrong and it ended up in the bin.

In the end I've resorted to using some fancy chipboard letters that I've had for so long that I can't remember where they were from. One or two of them had little flowers on them, so I changed those for gems. As John has very little sight this actually is the kind of card he will love.

The card blank is 8" x 8" to accommodate all the letters. I printed the sentiment and cut out with a nestie, edging with an alcohol pen.

This is very different to what I first had in mind, but I think John will like it because it isn't cluttered with anything other than the lettering and a few little gems.

I'm linking this for:

Tuesday morning 178: anything goes - challenge yourself - it certainly was a challenge trying to decide what to do for John's card - happy in the end!
Here come the boys 42: anything goes
Charisma cardz 51: anything goes
Dutch dare 197: celebration
Card crafters circle 55: anything goes
Pixie dust studio: any celebration will do
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate

CHNC challenge 105 ...

... here we go, starting Christmas cards now for next year - please come and join in my CHNC challenge 105 and avoid the panic that tends to set in as December looms. This week you can show any Christmas card that you haven't shown before or make a new one to start off your collection for 2013.

For my card I've used an offcut of some mirror card that I used last week, wrapped around with a piece of blue and silver ribbon, topped with a sentiment strip. The topper and snowflakes have been in my Christmas stash for years - it's about time I used up things like this. The topper is very glittery.

If you happen to be reading this after 1 January, then please also come and join my on my new CHNC challenge extra monthly 'anything goes', where you might be randomly chosen to win $21 to spend on Bugaboo Stamps.

My card is also for:

A card a day on facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 52
Nutcrafters 33: lots of layers and sparkle/bling
Craftymess 24: show some sparkle/bling
Bloggers challenge: sparkle and shine
QKR stampede 19: let it shine
Pixie dust studio: any celebration will do
Bunny Zoe: celebration
Whoopsi Daisy: celebrate
Order of the opus gluei 146: baby it's cold outside
Lexi 80: snow
Raise the bar 124: let it snow
Papercraft star 125: snow
The hybrid chick (card caravan) 34: snowflakes
Catch the bug: holiday/winter
Crazy amigo: merry Christmas
Cutie pie 33: cutie Christmas
Creative Belli 159: Christmas
Craft us crazy 33: merry Christmas
Milk coffee: Christmas or winter holiday
Kaboodle 151: Christmas, holidays or new year
Victorine 49: non traditional Christmas
Creative craft challenges: non traditional Christmas
Broken box stock 17: winter/snowflakes
Tanda teaser 204: chilly colours
Hiding in my craft room 78: freestyle
Cute card Thursday 249: anything goes
Challenges4everybody 10: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Crafts and me: winter wonderland bumper Christmas challenge
Penny's 107: merry Christmas
Crafts 4 eternity R104: 1 - 2 - 3 - 1 ribbon, 2 characters, 3 snowflakes
Ribbon carousel 75: holiday spirit: Christmas
Fab n funky 152: add ribbon and/or lace
Really reassonable ribbon 62: anything goes and ribbon
Party time Tuesday 100: anything goes
The pink elephant 180: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 50: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 46: anything goes
Little Miss Muffet 51: anything goes
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
DL.ART: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 30: anything goes/celebrations
Mark's fiuest papers simple salutations 25: anything goes (with a sentiment on the front)
Spark your creativity now 4: anything goes
Hooked on craft 27: Christmas
Allways something creative 44: Christmas
Gingerloft: Christmas or winter

Natalie and Amy December: winter wishes

A & T 19: anything goes
Cards galore December: Christmas
Card and scrap 45: anything goes
Wags n whiskers 94: anything goes
House of gilli 48: add sparkle
Make it Monday
52 card pick up week 52

CASology 25: favourites week

It's favourites week on CASology, so I've chosen this card that I originally showed on 8 July 2012 - details here:

As it's Christmas I've got no new crafting to show ... should be back soon once the festivities are over, although it looks as if I'll be busy till the end of the week.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas Day and enjoy the rest of the holiday season.