Daffodils for Easter

Another Easter card using the same sort of scalloped card blank as the last one with a background paper from my offcuts box, some 3D daffodil stickers, a peel off cross sticker and a stamped sentiment.

This is for:

Red carpet studio 29: the secret garden - flowers
Crafty boots: flowers
Forever friends March: lots of flowers
House of gilli 51: anything goes with flowers and/or ribbon
Happy campers 13: add dimension (3D daffodils)
Crafty sentiments: Easter
Going grey with scrap-creations: Easter
Use it Tuesday 52: all about spring (used up daffodil stickers I've had for ages )
Cupcake inspirations 203: Easter
The squirrel and the fox 40: Easter or Passover
Cute card Thursday 261: Easter parade
2 sisters 136: Easter/spring
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 152: bunnies or Easter
Chocolate coffee & cards 35: bring on spring
Fussy & fancy 85: spring days
Little red wagon 177: Easter
Ruby's rainbow 50: Easter
Simon says: Easter/spring
Bloggers challenge: Easter
The cutie pie 40: Easter
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party 2: Easter eggstravaganza
DL.ART thankful Thursday 105: Easter
My Sheri crafts 106: Easter
Allways something creative 50: Easter
Creatalicious 46: lovely Easter
Inky linky 8
Party time Tuesday 113: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
613 avenue create 11: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got - anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 133
52 card pick-up 2.12

Another Easter card - background paper K & Co from a long-neglected 6 x 6 pad, the 'floral cross' is digital image by Daisy doodles coloured with copis and mounted on to offcuts. I wish now that I'd rounded the corners of the image and the mats it's on, but, nevermind, 'tis done now.

The insert says 'Happy Easter'

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets 65 (offcuts used to mat and layer the image)
Daisy doodles 80: Easter
One stitch at a time 156: use a digi
Whoopsi Daisy: use a digi
Digital Tuesday 203: spring colours
Oldie but a goodie: Easter (had this image for ages)
Digistamps4Joy 63: celebrating Easter
Digi haven: Easter
Pattie's creations 64: Easter
Di's digi designs: Easter/spring
Sweet stampin: lots of layers
The sweet pea stampers March: spring colours
Can you digi it 32: pick a season - spring
Going grey with scrap-creations: Easter
Tuesday alchemy 53: over the pastel rainbow
Incy wincy: use pastels
Love to create 58: pastel colours
Use it Tuesday 52: all about spring (used up old supplies of K & Co and a digi image I've had for ages )
One sweet challenge March: spring
Cupcake inspirations 203: Easter
The squirrel and the fox 40: Easter or Passover
Cute card Thursday 261: Easter parade
2 sisters 136: Easter/spring
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 152: bunnies or Easter
Chocolate coffee & cards 35: bring on spring
Fussy & fancy 85: spring days
Crafty bloggers network 9: spring or pastel
Mad for markers March: Easter (used copics)
Lady Anne's 6th stamp challenge
Little red wagon 177: Easter
Ruby's rainbow 50: Easter
Simon says: Easter/spring
Bloggers challenge: Easter
The cutie pie 40: Easter
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party 2: Easter eggstravaganza
Victorine 55: anything Easter
DL.ART thankful Thursday 105: Easter
My Sheri crafts 106: Easter
Allways something creative 50: Easter
Creatalicious 46: lovely Easter
Inky linky 8
Ladybug: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 113: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
613 avenue create 11: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got - anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 133
52 card pick-up 2.12

Orange script

For this card I've used a cuttlebug script embossing folder, tearing the edge, mounting on to an orange card blank with the addition of a spotted ribbon and flowers from Poundland.

Colour for PanPastel 12: photo inspiration (I've gone for the orange colour):

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Catered crop: flower power
Red carpet studio 29: the secret garden - flowers
Crafty boots: flowers
Desert island 50: I chose: flowers, ribbon, torn or roughed-up edges
Really reasonable ribbon 68: flowers & ribbon
House of gilli 51: anything goes with flowers and/or ribbon
Paper-crafting journey: ribbon or lace
Pile it on 12: dots
The pink elephant 192: clean and simple
613 avenue create 11: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes
Inky linky 8
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got
Brown sugar 34: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 133
52 card pick-up 2.12

Simply birthday

A CAS birthday card I made the other day with a slightly textured card blank which I embossed with a folder and then distressed with a mix of dusty concord and chipped sapphire distress inks, inking the Funstamps birthday sentiment stamp with stazon azure blue.

This is for:

The pink elephant 192: clean and simple
Crafty creations 214: embossing
Polka doodles 12: embossing
Stamps & fun = creativity 144: monocrom
The house that stamps built DCC2313: brayering or sponging
Eureka 32: it's in the words
Lady Anne Friday sentiment challenge 7: anything goes
613 avenue create 11: anything goes
My Grafico 148: anything goes

Getting 'krafty' for Christmas

It was Clare's turn to choose the theme for this fortnight's CCC card and she asked us to use 'kraft'. I've used a kraft card blank on to which I've added offcuts from my Christmas box, including some flocked papers from Anna Griffin - stamping the Personal impressions 'peace on earth' on to one piece with memento rich cocoa, mounting on to gold mirror and then on to the other piece of textured flocked paper. The chipboard snowflakes were free with a magazine some time ago - I was tempted to paint or ink them, but think they fit in with the rest of the card left as they are.

Having been very late for the last CCC challenge I was determined to get this one done on time, especially as I won't have any time tomorrow as we have company coming and I'll need to prepare lunch.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 65
A card a day facebook
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): kraft
Holly jolly: sentiment as focus
Christmas at sweet stampin 4: no red & no green
Jingle belles: neutral Noel
Lady Anne Friday sentiment challenge 7: anything goes
Happy campers 13: add dimension
Sweet stampin: lots of layers

Roll up, roll up ... very late ...

Almost two weeks ago Sue W's challenge for the Christmas Card Club was 'Roll up, roll up, snowballs and glitter'. On this occasion, because of other commitments, I just wasn't able to make a card at the right time, so here is my very late effort, although I'm not happy with it.

I chose a stardream sparkly, glittery card blank in a rich deep blue, stampin the top with an Indigo Blu stamp from the 'Here comes Santa' collection - bought this set a while ago and this is the first time any of it has seen ink. I inked with versamark and heat embossed with silver super sparkle powder. I did the same with the Stampavie Rachel Anne Miller snowman stamp and a selection of Wild Rose Studio snowflakes stamps. The sentiment stamp is from a Forever Friends collection. I thought the snowman should at least have some white so I used a Sakura pen, but am not happy with the grainy result, but, hey ho, 'tis done now.

The silver embossed areas are a lot more glittery in real life.

This is also for:

Crafty creations 214: embossing
Polka doodles 12: embossing
Wow! embossing powder challenge March: anything goes
Always playing with paper merry Monday 54: snowman
Christmas at sweet stampin 4: no red or green
Christmas stampin all year long 8: anything goes
Christmas cards all year round March: sparkle & bling
Emerald faerie garden March 41: bling
Paper pretties 250: great big gobs of glitter

CHNC challenge 117: 3 of something

For my CHNC challenge 117 I'm asking to see '3 of something' on your Christmas cards - 3 of anything. I thought I'd make a start with probably the most well know 'three' of the Christmas story: the three wise men - although actually scripture doesn't say how many wise men there were - we assume there were three because there were three gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

I've used the '3 wise men' image kindly supplied by Floppy Latte Designs, one of the three sponsors for this week's challenge.

The card is based on Catherine's sketch for Sunday sketch & stamp 148:

The top two papers are Teresa Collins Christmas Home and the middle one is an offcut from a Gorjuss kit bought long ago. The strip down the side was taken from the cover of the Christmas Home pad (don't waste  anything - lol!).

As usual, the white doesn't look consistently white (perhaps I'll get a better photo in the morning):

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 64
A card a day facebook
Inky linky 8
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Brown sugar 34: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132
52 card pick-up 2.12

Purple Easter

Another simple Easter card, distressing the fancy edges and some of the rest of the card by brushing with dusty concord distress ink and also using this to stamp the Hobby arts 'dove and cross' and also one of my favourite Penny Black stamps 'sparklers'.

Because of being busy with my charity sales, I have got behind with what's happening on craft forums etc so have just realised that for TTC013-3 on Crafts by Carolyn Kath has chosen the theme of 'purple'. I just love crafting with purple.

This is also for:

A card a day facebook
Little red wagon 177: Easter
Ruby's rainbow 50: Easter
Simon says: Easter/spring
The paper shelter104: let it be spring
Everybody art 228: spring
Flourishes timeless Tuesday 212: spring
Order of the opus gluei 152: spring has sprung
Bloggers challenge: Easter
The cutie pie 40: Easter
The pink elephant 191: Easter
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party 2: Easter eggstravaganza
Victorine 55: anything Easter
DL.ART thankful Thursday 105: Easter
My Sheri crafts 106: Easter
Allways something creative 50: Easter
Creatalicious 46: lovely Easter
Stamp dreams 8: Easter
Oldie but a goodie: Easter (both stamps are old but well loved)
Stampavie and more 189: Easter
Alota 103: springtime
Stampotique 92: spring theme
Little miss muffet 57: happy Easter
Inky linky 8
No matter which 7: anything goes
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday: show us what you got - anything goes
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132

For birthday boys

A couple of quick boy cards using alternate chipboard and card squares, one with a kraft card blank and the other white.

These are for:

A card a day facebook
Pile it on 11: circles and/or squares
Creative craft 6: for the kids
Ooh-la-la 126: it's a man thing
Creative card crew 32: masculine
Let's craft and create 66: one for the boys
Crafty ribbons 41: one for the boys
Delightful: here's one for the boys
Inky linky 8
DL.ART anything goes
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132
52 card pick-up 2.11

Some bunny loves you at Easter

Another simple shaped card with a doily, pearlised circle die cut and a foam bunny sticker (from Poundland a couple of years ago), plus a couple of foam daffodils and a sentiment:

This is for:

Card caravan (the hybrid chick): shaped card
Forever friends 57: shaped card
Incy wincy: create a shaped card
Pile it on 11: circles and/or squares
Creative craft 6: for the kids
Clear it out: Easter - anything but a rectangle card (the Easter bunny sticker is a year or two old)
Jellypark friends: bunny hop challenge
My time to craft 213: bunnies
Deep ocean 47: cute and cuddly
Little red wagon 177: Easter
Ruby's rainbow 50: Easter
Simon says: Easter/spring
The paper shelter104: let it be spring
Everybody art 228: spring
Flourishes timeless Tuesday 212: spring
Papertake: Easter treats
Order of the opus gluei 152: spring has sprung
Bloggers challenge: think spring
Papercreators crafts 6: spring has sprung
The cutie pie 40: Easter
The pink elephant 191: Easter
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party 2: Easter eggstravaganza
Victorine 55: anything Easter
DL.ART thankful Thursday 105: Easter
My Sheri crafts 106: Easter
Pink gem 71: Easter/spring
Allways something creative 50: Easter
Creatalicious 46: lovely Easter
613 avenue create: anything goes with green
Inky linky 8
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132
52 card pick-up 2.11

Pink Easter

A simple card made with a fancy edged card blank with the addition of a doiley, a sentiment from a past kit and a decoupaged bunny from Poundland.

Photo inspiration from Fairytale-challenge 63:

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Card caravan (the hybrid chick): shaped card
Forever friends 57: shaped card
Incy wincy: create a shaped card
Pile it on 11: circles and/or squares
Creative craft 6: for the kids
Bunny Zoe March: girly (for a small girl)
Clear it out: Easter - anything but a rectangle card (the Easter bunny sticker is a year or two old)
Jellypark friends: bunny hop challenge
My time to craft 213: bunnies
Deep ocean 47: cute and cuddly
Little red wagon 177: Easter
Ruby's rainbow 50: Easter
Simon says: Easter/spring
Nutcrafters 39: spring is here
The paper shelter104: let it be spring
Kreativeinkauf 1: spring
Everybody art 228: spring
Flourishes timeless Tuesday 212: spring
Papertake: Easter treats
Glitternsparkle 24: Easter/spring colours
Order of the opus gluei 152: spring has sprung
The squirrel and the fox 39: autumn or spring
Bloggers challenge: think spring
Cardmakin mamas: it's springtime - spring colours
Papercreators crafts 6: spring has sprung
The cutie pie 40: Easter
The pink elephant 191: Easter
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party 2: Easter eggstravaganza
Victorine 55: anything Easter
DL.ART thankful Thursday 105: Easter
Sincerely yours creations 3: Easter
Broken box stock 22: Easter
Simply create too 33: Easter
My Sheri crafts 106: Easter
Pink gem 71: Easter/spring
Crafty calendar March: Easter
Allways something creative 50: Easter
Creatalicious 46: lovely Easter
Inky linky 8
Stamp-n-doodle: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Bearly mine 78: anything goes
Nana Vic's 4th challenge: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Oozak 12: anything goes with spring
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132
52 card pick-up 2.11

Green Easter

This card uses some Forever Friends patterned paper, some lovely flowers from Create and Craft, sentiment ribbon and 3D strip of butterflies etc from Hobby Craft. The ribbon has since been stuck properly on the right hand side!

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Kreativeinkauf 1: spring
Everybody art 228: spring
Flourishes timeless Tuesday 212: spring
Celebrate the occasion 104: happy Easter
Papertake: Easter treats
Glitternsparkle 24: Easter/spring colours
Order of the opus gluei 152: spring has sprung
The squirrel and the fox 39: autumn or spring
Ladybug: it's springtime
Moving along with the times: spring is in the air
Bloggers challenge: think spring
Cardmakin mamas: it's springtime - spring colours
2 sisters 135: flowers for spring
Ribbon carousel 78: spring is in the air
Papercreators crafts 6: spring has sprung
The pink elephant 191: Easter
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party 2: Easter eggstravaganza
Victorine 55: anything Easter
DL.ART thankful Thursday 105: Easter
Sincerely yours creations 3: Easter
Broken box stock 22: Easter
Simply create too 33: Easter
My Sheri crafts 106: Easter
Pink gem 71: Easter/spring
Crafty calendar March: Easter
Allways something creative 50: Easter
Creatalicious 46: lovely Easter
613 avenue create: anything goes with green
Gingerloft: green
Robyn's fetish 151: must use green
Creative belli 165: green - old supplies: paper
Jen's digis: going green
More than favors wacky Wednesday 82: something green
The sisterhood of crafters: make 'em green with  envy
Dare to be sassy Thursday 168: seeing green
MilkCoffee: go green
Wags n whiskers 99: go green
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 151: green
Sandy's crafty creations March: anything goes with green
Great impressions March: going green
Scrappy frogs: green
Craft your passion 154: ribbon or lace
GoFish 37: ribbon
Really reasonable ribbon 68: flowers & ribbon
House of Gilli 51: anything goes with flowers and/or ribbon
Crafty boots: flowers
Forever friends March: lots of flowers
Fussy & fancy 84: flowers
LEJ 45: add a flower/s
AnMaCreatief 18: butterflies
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Bearly mine 78: anything goes
Nana Vic's 4th challenge: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 16: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 146: anything goes
Love to create 57: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 260: anything goes
No matter which 7: anything goes
Oozak 12: anything goes with spring
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132
52 card pick-up 2.11

Green get well wishes

This is a simple card made with a green card blank on to which I put an offcut of green card that had been run through my new eBosser using a folder. The main image and layers were from We R memory keepers (had this for ages) and sentiment from stash.

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 64
613 avenue create: anything goes with green
Gingerloft: green
Robyn's fetish 151: must use green
Critter 156: monochromatic green
Clear it out: use green supplies (everything used is old)
Creative belli 165: green
Jen's digis: going green
More than favors wacky Wednesday 82: something green
Papercraft star 136: green
The sisterhood of crafters: make 'em green with  envy
Dare to be sassy Thursday 168: seeing green
MilkCoffee: go green
Wags n whiskers 99: go green
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 151: green
Crafter's cafe 14: green
Sandy's crafty creations March: anything goes with green
Great impressions March: going green
Scrappy frogs: green
Card mania 16: lots of layers
Natalie and Amy 7: diecuts
Totally Gorjuss 175: something old (everything)
DL.ART anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 16: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 146: anything goes
Love to create 57: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 260: anything goes
One stop craft 220: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132
52 card pick-up 2.11

Thinking about Easter

Over the past couple of weeks I've made a lot of Easter cards and thought, now that my charity sales are over, I'd start to show some.

I used a card blank that already had a fancy cut edge which I dusted with a mix of tattered rose and worn lipstick distress ink, using the same to ink up the Tim Holtz script stamp. The Penny Black sparklers stamp and the sentiment were inked with memento tuxedo black. Cross and dove are from unknown stickers bought long ago.

Colours are for The play date cafe 173:

As usual, difficult to get the white to look white on the photo.

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Vintage stamping (flonz craft) 6: spring is in the air
Alota 103: springtime
Penny Black March challenge: spring into spring
Live laugh stamp word play Saturday March: springtime
Kreativeinkauf 1: spring
Melonheadz friends: Easter or spring
The pink elephant 191: Easter
Kreative Bastel 18: happy Easter
Stamp dreams 8: Easter
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party 2: Easter eggstravaganza
Take time for you 88: Easter
Tammy scraping corner 54: Easter
Victorine 55: anything Easter
Bearly mine 77: Easter
The paper shelter 103: Easter
Stampavie and more 189: Easter
DL.ART thankful Thursday 105: Easter
Sincerely yours creations 3: Easter
Broken box stock 22: Easter
Liastampz 37: Easter or spring
Simply create too 33: Easter
Stempelsonne 84: Easter
Di's digi designs: Easter/spring
My Sheri crafts 106: Easter
Pink gem 71: Easter/spring
Sweet stampin: Easter
Avadares 9: Easter
Crafty calendar March: Easter
Allways something creative 50: Easter
Stampin shack: Easter
Creatalicious 46: lovely Easter
One stitch at a time 155: white or no designer paper
Anything goes 88: seeing double - used the PB sparklers stamp twice
Lady Anne's stamp challenge
Totally Gorjuss 175: something old (everything except the card blank)
Playing in paradise 108: what's your favourite - stamping (using one of my favourite stamps), distressing
By the cute and girly March: favourite things - stamping, distressing
Challenges 4 everybody 16: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 146: anything goes
Love to create 57: anything goes
My Grafico 147: anything goes
Stamp with fun 23: anything goes
The shabby tea room 158: anything goes
There she goes 199: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 260: anything goes
One stop craft 220: anything goes
No matter which 7: anything goes
One crazy stamper March: anything goes
Oozak 12: anything goes with spring
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 132
52 card pick-up 2.11

CHNC challenge 116: merry and bright

I can't believe that I've turned into a weekly blogger. I'm usually showing lots of cards almost every day, but the past couple of weeks have been so hectic with making cards for charity sales that I just haven't had time to blog any of them. Also, John has had quite a few hospital appointments - I'm pleased to say that all is well following the eyelid op - stitches were taken out yesterday and the only sign of anything wrong now is a coloured patch on his cheek from the bruising.

I have a sale today to raise money for Tearfund ... after today I hope to get back to normal (whatever that is!), although I'm so behind with a few things that blogging might still have to take a bit of a back seat for a while.

Anyway, on to today's CHNC challenge 116: merry and bright - please click on the link and go and have a look and, hopefully, join in. If you haven't started making Christmas cards yet, by the time this week is over nearly a quarter of the year has gone, so it does make sense to get ahead now while you can.

For my card I've used 'snowman bird house' pre-coloured digi image kindly supplied by rafty Sentiments and the background paper is one kindly supplied by Bearly mine designs - I chose this background paper because it has 'Merry Christmas' all over it, so it qualifies for 'merry' and I hope 'bright' as well! There are silver snowflakes on the white grosgrain ribbon (I know they don't look silver in the photo) and the image and the stamped snowflake are matted on to a bright blue mirror card. I tore around the snowflake and chalked the edges.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 63 - offcuts of blue mirror card
Crafty boots: old, new, borrowed or blue - the ribbon and snowflake image are old, the snowman digi and digital paper are new and, of course, there's lots of blue
City crafter 150: inspired by a song - Frosty, the snowman
Creative card crew 31: ribbon
CRAFT 198: Christmas in March
Nutcrafters 38: something beginning with B - blue
Chalknstock March: anything goes with chalk (used around the torn snowflake image)
De creatieve zebra 10: everything must
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 52: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 260: anything goes
One stop craft 220: anything goes
One stitch at a time 154: anything goes
Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party - anything goes
My grafico 147: anything goes
Paper playtime 5: anything goes
DL.ART March anything goes
Inky linky 7
Make it Monday 131
52 card pick-up 2.11

CHNC challenge 115: Santa and/or his helpers

It seems like ages since I blogged, which is very unusual for me. Lack of blogging isn't because I haven't got any cards to show, it's because I've been making too many cards and haven't had any time left for blogging about them. I have a charity sale today (when this goes live I will be going out of the door!). I have an 'at home' event next week, so I will still be busy this coming week. Added to that have been hospital appointments for John - he had an operation on his eyelid on Monday and this coming week has three hospital appointments.

Anyway, back to CHNC challenge 115 that goes live today, which is to make a card with Santa and/or his helpers.

For my card I've used the 'Santa in chimney' image kindly supplied by one of the sponsors, Digistamps4Joy. I coloured this digitally in Paint just adding a touch of a Marvy le plume alcohol pen on the bricks to give the look of a bit of dimension. The designer paper is My mind's eye Bohemia Christmas 'believe', with the addition of a gold mirror card backing mats, some red bling gems from Poundland and a gold foiled sentiment.

This is also for:

Craftin desert divas: craft it up & link it up party - anything goes
Paper playtime 5: anything goes
DL.ART March anything goes

Let's make music

This is a card that could be used for a variety of reasons - perhaps 'just a note'.

The silver card blank was run through my new eBosser with a tri-boss boofle embossing folder - lots of lovely patchwork texture, with just the additon of some stickers.

This is for:

Crafty Ann 84: the sound of music
Drunken stampers 117: the sound of music
Cards galore March: music
CRAFT 196: use embossing
My time to craft 211: embossing
Crafting by designs: silver, black and white
Challenges 4 everybody 15: anything goes
Hobby cutz: anything goes
That craft place: anything goes
ABC 19: anything goes

The Lord is my rock

This is a CAS sympathy card (insert says: with deepest sympathy), using a pearlised white card blank, a printed scripture verse matted on to silver mirror card, on to a piece of card upcycled from a craft item pack (can't remember what it was, but saved the card because I thought it too good to discard), with the addition of the little flowers.

This is for The shabby tea room 156: frame it, where this photo inspiration was given with the challenge to make something with white plus one other colour (grey) and include a frame:

Sorry, not a very clear photo:

This is also for:

A card a day facebook
Catered crop: framed
Elke kaart een feestje 156: use a frame
Sarah Hurley 78: recycle
Word art Wednesday 69: anything goes
Use your stuff 74: embracing white space (using up old supplies)
Milkcoffee: white on white
DRS 61: sympathy
Scrap-cards 43: roses

CHNC challenge 114: ribbons, ribbons, ribbons

For today's CHNC challenge 114 I'm asking to see ribbons - at least one, on your Christmas card.

For my card I've used lots of offcuts of DCWV papers that I've had in my Christmas box now for some years (still got bits left), an unknown mini snowman stamp (think I got the image in a swap), a greeting and a piece of grosgrain white and silver snowflake ribbon:

This is also for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 61
Inspiration avenue: breast cancer awareness - think pink
Make my Monday: pink & black
Fussy & fancy 83: pink & black
Robyn's fetish 148: use ribbon or twine
Crafty ribbons 40: anything goes with ribbon
Platypus creek 26: black, white and one other colour
Cards in envy 2: polka dots and/or stripes
Cute card Thursday 259: something old - all the papers
ABC Christmas: D for designer papers
Addicted to stamps and more: anything with stamping
Fairy-tale 62: mini stamp
Stampin with the dragon: anything goes
Craft us crazy 38: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Divas by design: anything goes
613 avenue create 8: anything goes
The pink elephant 188: anything goes
My grafico: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 129
Inspire me Fridays 98
52 card pickup 2.9

CHNC challenge extra for March

It's hard to believe that it's already 1 March - which means there's a new monthly challenge on my CHNC challenge extra blog. This is once again being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamp - please hop over and join in if you can - it makes sense to get on with some of those Christmas cards without the end of year rush that can creep up on us.

For my first card for CHNC challenge extra for March I've used 'skates', a Bugaboo image with the addition of a WordArt sentiment using Publisher, matted on to an offcut of red mirror card. The black and red textured mirror card on the left is an offcut from long ago and the white panel (another offcut piece) was embossed with a folder (quite hard to actually see the snowflakes here, unfortunately).

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Pixie's crafty snippets week 61
Merry Monday (always playing with paper) 51: tic tac toe - I chose the diagonal: red, digital, designer paper
Christmas at sweet stampin 3: snowflakes
Platypus creek 26: black, white and one other colour
Creative belli 164: red/black/white (used up old offcuts)
The house that stamps built DCC227: black, white & red
Inky impressions 99: splash of red
CRAFT 196: embossing
Stampin with the dragon: anything goes
Craft us crazy 38: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Divas by design: anything goes
613 avenue create 8: anything goes
The pink elephant 188: anything goes
My grafico: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 7: anything goes
Make it Monday 129
Inspire me Fridays 98
52 card pickup 2.9

Easter eggs and butterflies

Another Easter card using a piece of K & Co daffodil paper - the paper is so pretty that it doesn't need much added, so a couple of Easter eggs and tiny flowers from Poundland and three lovely shiny butterflies with pearls added for a bit more bling, plus papermania sentiment stamp.

This is for:

A card a day facebook
Aud sentiments 75: Easter
Ruby's rainbow 48: in the garden
Whoopsi Daisy: add a sentiment
Totally gorjuss 172: happy
Craft us crazy 38: anything goes
613 avenue create 8: anything goes
The pink elephant 188: anything goes
My grafico: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 6: anything goes
Make it Monday 129
Inspire me Fridays 97
52 card pickup 2.8