The wolf and the seven little geislein

When I saw the challenge for The tiny fairy tales: the wolf and the seven little geislein (I think this translates as 'kids'), I thought of the lovely 'wolf in snow' picture that I had saved long ago from animal galleries.

So I used this within a digital composition for Digitally sweet 52: anything goes, combining with some pictures of stamps with the fairy tale creatures and also the title.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day

Fairies 12: animals

Simon says Wednesday challenge: animal antics

Brown sugar 58: animals
Allways something creative 58: beastly
Hiding in my craftroom 113: freeystle
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Bearly mine 102: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 48: anything goes
Sister act 23: anything goes
DL.ART thankful Thursday September linky
Inspire me Fridays 119
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Wedding gazebo

I wanted to use  my new Spellbinders D-lite gazebo die and what better than to make a wedding card, but the dilemma was: what to put in the middle of the gazebo. I had some die cuts of bride and groom, but they were too big. So I dug out some old shrink plastic and took a gamble. I stopped with my old Anita's favourite wedding stamp and then used the heat gun to shrink the plastic. I couldn't believe it when it fitted the space, although I did have to chop off the sides a bit (not sure whether it's done the blade much good on my guillotine).

It would have looked much better if the shrink plastic had been pure white instead of the cloudy version, but I'll know that for another time - and I'm going to experiment so I cut out to a size that will shrink perfectly (think that will need a few sessions to get the correct measurement).

I used an offcut of gold mirror card to die cut the gazebo, using my eBosser to cut and emboss.

The sides of the gazebo looked a bit too bear so I hit upon using some tiny rosebuds that I've had for ever and a day.

If you look at the wedding card I made here, using the same sort of card blank, you'll get a good idea of how much the stamped image shrunk.

This is for:

Facebook A card a day
Stamp-n-doodle: wedding
Brown sugar 57: wedding
Delightful: make the cut
Oozak 21: anything goes/die cuts/punches
Whimsical designs: something old (the rubber stamp, flowers etc), something new (the D-lites gazebo die)
Whoopsi Daisy: show us texture
Totally gorjuss 199: texture
Art impressions 117: people parade
Alphabet: O for one word sentiment

It just gets more exciting!

I've been fortunate enough to have been accepted as part of the Design Team for Crafting Musketeers. I enjoyed being their Guest for challenge 4 and am now thrilled to accept a permanent position.

You can get to know the new members of the Design Team here and follow links to their blogs.

I feel very privileged and proud to be joining such a talented group.

For a while I said that I wouldn't join any Design Teams. I set up my own Christmas challenge blogs, but thought I'd leave it at that. But I'm very excited to now have the opportunity to join some teams, including Crafting Musketeers. The time is right to do so and I feel it will give me the spur I need to go on and develop as a cardmaker.

My first project as a team member will be for the October challenge. Meanwhile, there's September challenge 5: vintage - I hope you will join in.

The cheerful stamp pad challenge 68

This is my card for today's challenge 68 on The cheerful stamp pad, which is this inspiration picture:

Please click on the link and see what the rest of the team have created and, hopefully, join in the challenge - let us see what the picture inspires you to create.

I was inspired by the cherries. The stamp is G-1286 by PSX, inked with memento tuxedo black and coloured with spectrum noirs. The background card and the strips of cherries are from Kanban. I used a Martha Stewart punch on some offcuts of red card and added a Craftworks cards sentiment circle. Everything was mounted on to a cream card blank and the front was cut away to reveal the red punched edge underneath.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's crafty snippets week 88 (all red pieces of card were offcuts)
Addicted to stamps 63: anything goes
Happy campers 21: use a stamp
Nadia 63: stamp
Lacy sunshine 16: dies and/or punches
Delightful: make the cut - punch
Oozak 21: anything goes/die cuts/punches
Docerela (Bee crafts and cards) 44: use a border
Crafty boots: last days of summer
Tammy scraping corner 78: end of summer
Stampin' for the weekend: colours of summer
Aud sentiments 88: any sentiment
Country view 7: layers
C is for challenge 5: lots of layers
Woodware UK: layers
Red carpet studio 52: anything goes
Parade your crafts 3: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 35: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 48: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Inky linky 28
Inspire me Fridays 118
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4 x 4 cards

In one of those moments when I thought I would use lots of them, I bought some small cards (envies included) thinking that I would use them to make up packs of 5 Christmas cards, but I confess that up until now I've had no enthusiasm for using them, preferring to work with a bigger surface.

However, I saw the sketch for Fat-tastic Tuesday 9: should have gnome and I thought I should use some of those cards. This is the sketch:

When I first saw the sketch I thought that I would never get all of that on to such a small surface, but, with a bit of tweaking that I hope is allowed, I managed to make five cards.

The pictures of the cats are decoupaged - I bough these years ago (another of those moments!) and thought it was about time they were used. I used scraps of silver mirror card to mount them. The bling gems were from Poundland, silver glitter border from Paper Cellar and the red and white snowflakes from Hobbycraft (no, I've never seen any red and white snowflakes either ... but I think anything is allowed when being creative!).

There are two of one cat and three of the other (didn't have five all the same):

A closer look at one of each:

Some of the silver looks a bit gold because of the flash, but the backing of the images are definitely all silver mirror.

These are also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 88
Let's craft and create 77: animal antics
Totally papercrafts 182: decoupage
One stitch at a time 179: make one for Christmas
ABC Christmas: Q for quick
Christmas stampin all year long 31: mini cards
Country view 7: layers
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 35: anyhing goes
Red carpet studio 52: anything else
Challenges 4 everybody 28: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 48: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 118
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Christmas fairy with sparkle

This is my third card for today's CCAYR September challenge: Christmas fairies with a little sparkle.

I've used another internet freebie fairy picture on to which I added some polar white flower soft and some Art Institute blue angel glitter. I mounted the image on to a piece of mirror card and added the Anna Griffin sentiment. I chose the shaped card blank to pick up the colour tones of the deer. The sparkly net is a couple of snippet pieces and sparkly rhinestones from Poundland.

This is also for:

Let's craft and create 77: animal antics
Craft-Dee BowZ September: anything goes and include a handmade bow
Creative craft 17: not a square
Flutter by Wednesday 250: shaped card + fairy
Cute card Thursday 284: things with wings
Red carpet studio 52: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 35: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 48: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 118
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Golden fairy

This is my second card for CCAYR September: Christmas fairies with a little sparkle.

I've used another internet freebie that I came across, using a quickie pen to add some Art Institute Florida orange glitter (looks more like gold than orange). I used an offcut of Graphic 45 'we wish you a merry Christmas' paper on to which I mounted a piece of gold pearlised card that had been run through my eBosser with a Embossalicious folder. The piece of sparkly holly ribbon is an offcut (only got a small piece of this left now - shame). The sentiment circle is actually gold with red lettering: with love. Everything has been mounted on to a kraft card blank.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 88
Let's craft and create 77: animal antics
Cute card Thursday 284: things with wings
Paper makeup 103: embossing
Natalie and Amy 12: embossing
Moxie fab world: all that glitters is gold
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 35: anyhing goes
Glitter n sparkle 48: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 118
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First card for CCAYR 'Christmas fairy' challenge

As it's 1 September, it's time for a new challenge on Christmas Cards All Year Round and this month's challenge is 'Christmas fairies with a little sparkle'.

I've based my card on the sketch given for Fetch a sketch 57:

I used a ready shaped dotted card blank on to which I stuck a gorgeous fairy image that I found online, mounted on to a piece of lilac mirror card. I highlighted some of the snow using polar white flower soft and used stickles lavender for the fairy's wings.The gingham ribbon was from Hobbycraft and the silver metal charm and the sentiment were from stash.

This is also for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 33: ribbon and charms (I'm late with this one)
Crafty boots: Christmas in August
Ooh--la-la: inspired by a song: Walking in a winter wonderland
Card mania 28: ribbon
Creative craft 17: not a square
Flutter by Wednesday 250: shaped card + fairy
Cute card Thursday 284: things with wings
Winter wonderland: how charming
It's all about the vintage and beauty 51: use metal embellishments
Daring cardmakers: heavy metal - use metal in some way
PanPastel UK 35: spots and dots
Craftin desert divas 13: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 35: anyhing goes
Red carpet studio 52: anything else
Challenges 4 everybody 28: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 48: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 118
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The Glory of Christmas: anything goes

It's time for a new challenge on The Glory of Christmas: anything goes. Please visit and see what the rest of the team have created and, hopefully, join in - please make sure you acquaint yourself with the rules first - there is a rule change: you can now combine with more than 4 other challenges.

I based my card on the sketch for Always playing with paper Merry Monday 72:

I created the background by inking Papermania Urban stamp 'home for Christmas (homespun)' with memento cottage ivy. This is such a large stamp (larger than the card blank, that I laid the card on to the stamp and brayered it. The flowers are from assorted packs of Holiday Elements by Little Birdie, layered on to a die cuts. Sentiment and ribbon from stash.

This is also for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 34: flowers
Happy campers 21: use a stamp
Nadia 63: stamp
Card mania 28: ribbon
One stitch at a time 179: make one for Christmas
One crazy stamper September: Christmas
De creatieve zebra 1: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 35: anything goes
Red carpet studio 52: anything else
Addicted to stamps 63: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 28: anything goes
Glitter n sparkle 48: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Inspire me Fridays 118
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CHNC challenge extra for September

Can you believe that it's now September? Where is the year going to? I'm glad that I've been making Christmas cards throughout the year, but I'm very conscious that time is becoming even more precious and ticking by fast. As many of you know, I sell cards to raise money for Tearfund and will be having an 'at home' day at the beginning of October ... and that's not far away now!

I usually make some packs of cards that I sell quite cheaply - five simple cards in a pack. So I thought I would make five using the lovely 'raggedy angel - lay on star' kindly supplied by Bugaboo Stamps, the sponsor of CHNC challenge extra for September. Please click on the challenge link and join in - it's always 'anything goes as long as it's Christmas' - I'd love to see your Christmas creations there.

The card blanks are some landscape opening ones that are kraft card with a bit of a golden sheen to them. The gold foiled card with star patterns is some that I've had for longer than I can remember. The lovely sentiment was an internet freebie (I changed the colour digitally).

These are also for:

Facebook A card a day
Crafty boots: Christmas in August
Fashionista 19: Christmas
Holly jolly Christmas: monochromatic
Festive Friday 16: trigger: peace
ABC Christmas: Q for quick
Cute card Thursday 284: things with wings
A creative romance: CAS style cards
Aud sentiments 88: any sentiment

Sarn's Rudolph day

I knew I shouldn't have left it - I should have made something for Sarn's August Rudolph Day earlier than this - in fact, I'm going to have to link my cards and then finish the blogpost afterwards otherwise I might be too late!

I made five simple cards all the same using coloured images from the Lili of the valley set 14 festive foliage - I'm in love with these already and I only received the package this morning. I know it's cheating, but sometimes I need to cheat with the amount of cards I make. I mounted the images on to red mirror card before putting on to white card blanks. The sentiment circles are from Craftwork Cards.

This is also for:

A creative romance: CAS style cards
ABC Christmas: Q for quick
Bizzy Becs August: clean and simple
Created with love 55: anything goes
Charisma cardz 34: one  one of everything - for each card: one card blank, one image, one piece of red mirror card, one sentiment circle

Exciting news!!

It's always exciting to see a new challenge blog get started, but I'm doubly excited about this one.

Suzy is starting her Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge Blog soon - if you click on the link you can read all about it.

And I'm doubly excited because Suzy has invited me to join her on the Design Team. If you would like to apply to be with us on the team, then please visit the blog and see the details and get in touch with Suzy.

CHNC challenge 140: let's get inky and/or painty

Can you believe that it will be September tomorrow. If you haven't yet started your Christmas cards, perhaps you should seriously consider joining in a few Christmas challenges this week. My CHNC challenge 140 today is to get inky and/or painty.

This week there are four sponsors, so there's more opportunity to win a prize - please go over to the challenge and see what's on offer and also to see the card that my guest from Limited Runs Digital Stamps has shared.

I used a digital image kindly supplied by Limited Runs Digital Stamps - Because this week has been busy and quite difficult at times, I had limited crafting time so I cheated really because it's a pre-coloured one - 'Santa this way cupcake', but I've made up for it by using acrylic paint and distress ink on my background papers.

I distressed all papers, including the image card, with fired brick distress inks (one of my favourites that I seem to use a lot). The piece of paper with the diamonds on it was produced by using acrylic paints with my gelli plate. It's a shame that the photo doesn't show the gold pattern that was created with a stencil prior to using the red acylic for the lattice work. The paper is actually a piece of My Mind's Eye Andrea Victoria which has a grid pattern on it. The die cut label shape has been upcycled from a Christmas cracker from a couple of years ago (I think this is about the last piece now). All pieces of paper were from offcuts, so this is also for Pixie's crafty snippets week 87.

I based the card on the sketch given for Christmas challenges with sketches 88, keeping the same size of card as the sketch. To see the sketch, please click on the link.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Crafty boots: Christmas in August
Fashionista 19: Christmas
Hobby cutz 13: create your own background (the piece made with the gelli plate print)
Stamp with fun 221: checkered
DRS 85: mad about plaid
Eureka 54: be sentimental
Aud sentiments 88: any sentiment
Flourishes 235: in distress
Just us girls 204: use distressing on your creation
Delightful: make the cut (die cut)
Cuttlebug mania: anything goes - die cuts (nestie run through my cuttlebug)
Creative inspirations paint: anything goes
Hiding in my craftroom 113: freestyle
Little scrap pieces fun Friday linky party: any card
PumpkinSpice 35: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 135: anything goes
613 avenue create 34: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 13: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Inky linky 28
Make it Monday 155
Inspire me Fridays 118
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The sweet pea stampers: fantasy challenge

Today sees the start of a new challenge on The Sweet Pea Stampers and it's all about fantasy ... mermaids, fairies etc. Please click on the link and see the wonderful crafting of the rest of the team and, hopefully, join in with your own fantasy creations - we'd love to see you there.

For my design team card I used Elaine Cox's Little Jasmine mermaid digi, colouring with spectrum noirs I tore the edges and brushed with brushed concord distress ink. The background paper is from Basic Grey urban prairie, stamped randomly with a Dawn Bibby Personal Impressions swirls stamp inked with vibrant violet stazon. I used the same ink and stamp for the lilac panel, this paper taken from the Basic Grey Lilykate pad., tearing and brushing with peacock feathers distress ink. Ribbons are from stash, sentiment is from Craftwork cards and the flowers are Prima.

Colours were inspired by Oozak 20: anything goes/sea colours photo inspiration, concentrating on purple and aqua:

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Order of the opus gluei 164: dive deep
Crafty bloggers network August:  favourite things - flowers, ribbons, paper tearing, colour with alcohol pens
Artistic inspirations 56: swirls/anything goes
Kort o mania 91: flowers
Delicious doodles 51: anything floral
Card mania 28: ribbon
Hobby cutz 13: create your own background
Eureka 54: be sentimental
Aud sentiments 88: any sentiment
Flourishes 235: in distress
Party time Tuesday 135: anything goes
Tammy scraping corner 77: anything goes
De creatieve zebra 31: anything goes
613 avenue create 34: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 13: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 22: anything goes
Seize the birthday: anything goes
Inky linky 28
Make it Monday 155
Inspire me Fridays 118
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Birthday cake and balloons

This card is for Crafting muskateers challenge 4, which is also a DT call. Crafting muskateers are asking applicants to enter this challenge and also tell a little about themselves.

'For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in crafting of some sort or another, hence the name Craftyhazelnut! As a child I was often ill and off school, so my time was often taken up with some form of crafting – embroidery, knitting, sketching and anything that involved cutting and sticking.

As an adult, for a few years, with work commitments, etc., crafty things fell into the background a bit, but until fairly recently I always had some knitting, crocheting or cross stitching on the go.

Cross stitching is how I got into cardmaking, then I started to produce cards on the computer and then papercrafting itself about twelve years ago, mainly cardmaking, but I also do some scrapbooking, altering etc.

About 18 years ago, I early retired from teaching because of ill-health. Crafting is such a good way of relaxing and trying to forget about the aches and pains! I find that entering challenges keeps me up to date with trying new things that perhaps I wouldn't otherwise try. I sell cards to raise money for charities – this includes Christmas cards, so I need to make a lot throughout the year, which is why I started my own Christmas challenge blog.

http://craftyhazelnut.blogspot.com
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/'

I had the privilege of joining Crafting musketeers as a Guest Designer for challenge 3 and would love to have the opportunity of joining their team on a more permanent basis.

The Crafting muskateers challenge is being sponsored by Delicious Doodles, so I thought I'd use one of their digital images, which I digitally coloured in Paint.

This sketch was given to be used for the challenge:

The background sentiment card was from Create and Craft and so was the lattice, which was originally white, here painted with red acrylic paint. All papers, including the mirror card backing the image are from my offcuts boxes. The striped washi tape was from Paperchase and the red gems from Pounland, sentiment from Craftime. I used a little bit of Art Institute glitter with a quickie glue pen to add a little bit of sparkle to the balloons.

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:

Creative inspirations paint: anything goes
Sweet stamps 132: birthday
Chocolate, coffee & cards 46: sweet treats
Sparkles 47: up, up and away - balloons
One stop craft 240: spots and dots
Eureka 54: be sentimental
Card crafters circle 89: bright colours
ABC 42: no flowers
One stitch at a time 178: anything goes with a twist - only use titchy Bear digis - I used the DD 'slice of cake' available here from Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

Shades of red

It's the second week for The cheerful stamp pad 'your choice' challenge - please click on the link and see what the rest of the design team have created and join in the fun.

For my card I used one of the images of the Indian Warrior digital set kindly supplied by Bombshell. I coloured this with spectrum noirs, keeping mainly to lots of different shades of red. I tore round the image using a perspex oval template and brushed with fired brick distress ink. The background paper is Basic Grey Indian summer. The beaded ribbon is a left over piece from some I bought some time ago. Everything was then mounted on to a stardream sparkly red card blank.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Graph it markers 9: red hair
Rhedd and rosies 13: use red
Sunday stamps 57: we're seeing red
Pile it on 34: designer paper
Lacy sunshine 15: girls, girls, girls
Going grey with Scrap-creations: girls just want to have fun
Paper pretties 272: girly girl
Left of center 13: girly
Simon says Monday challenge: dotty
One stop craft 240: spots and dots
Card mania 28: ribbon
Crafty ribbons 58: anything goes with ribbon
Crafter's cafe 25: bling and sparkling things (the beads on the ribbon really do sparkle)
Tammy scraping corner 77: anything goes
De creatieve zebra 31: anything goes
Pattie's creations 74: anything goes
613 avenue create 34: anything goes
Papercreators 13: anything goes
A random Thursday 11: anything goes
QKR stampede 53: anything goes
Digistamps4Joy 74: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 13: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Handmade harbour midweek papercraft party 1: anything goes
Sister act 21: anything goes
Inky linky 27
Make it Monday 155
Inspire me Fridays 117
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Rocking festive visitor

The theme for our fortnightly CCC challenge tomorrow (blogging a bit early because time could be limited tomorrow) is 'anything goes', so this was an opportunity to make up a rockin' snowglobe from a Hunkydory kit, this one being called 'festive visitor'.

As there is an acetate globe covering the decoupaged scene, it's one of those creations that is awkward to get a photo particular in the evening with a flash. Might try again in daylight in the morning.

There's not any actual crafting involved, but it was fun to make and will be something a bit different to try and sell when I have my 'at home' to raise money for Tearfund. There are eight in the kit, so another seven to be made up.

Photo taken outside - not sure this is any better:

This is also for:

Allsorts 221: use acetate
Jellypark friends: things that fly
The paper nest dolls 11: shaped cards
Deep ocean 58: odd shapes
Love to create 79: fancy folds - there are folds within the base to make it rock
ABC 41: lots of layers
Little red wagon 199: layers
Creative inspirations 228: Christmas in August
Crafty boots: Christmas in August

Alice in Wonderland

I created this digital collage in response to Lunagirl Moonbeams 'Alice in Wonderland' challenge.

The background is one from Dezinaworld. I used the Art Freebies Art2clock image in the left hand corner, fading the edges to blend in with the background.

I used a round image of Alice with the Cheshire cat, distorting it digitally. I then added the text for the quote.

This is also for:

Digitally sweet 50: summertime colours - created 100% digital
Craft your passion 176: summer flowers
Animal friends 5: summer
AnMaCreatief 23: summer
Challenges and candies (izazovi) 15: summer
Papercreators 13: anything goes
A random Thursday 11: anything goes
QKR stampede 53: anything goes
Digistamps4Joy 74: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 13: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Handmade harbour midweek papercraft party 1: anything goes
Sister act 21: anything goes
Inky linky 27
Make it Monday 154
Inspire me Fridays 117
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Caroling bunnies

This is for my CHNC challenge 139: cute. Please click on the link to see details of the challenge and, hopefully, join in - I'd love to see you there.

I've used the lovely cute 'caroling bunnies' digital image kindly supplied by one of the sponsors, Eureka Stamps, colouring with promarkers and flexmarkers.

This is an 8 x 8 card. Background papers are from my Christmas offcuts box, stitched ribbons from Hobbycraft. It was only after I'd stuck them down that I realised that I could have used up some pieces rather than use two lengths of 8" - nevermind! The image is mounted on to a lilac mirror card before being mounted on to the label die cut. The sentiment panels were with some free magazine papers. I brushed the edges of the label shape and the image picture with dusty concord distress ink.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's crafty snippets week 86
Tuesday throwdow 161: use your scraps
Crafty boots: Christmas in August
Fashionista 19: Christmas
Perfect sentiments 88: Christmas without red or green
Stampin with the dragon: Christmas in August
Passion for promarkers 212: theme: use your favourite colour combo: purple/lilac with anything!
Nightshift stamping: favourite colours - purple/lilac with anything!
Collage obsession: colour challenge: purple
613 avenue create 33: anything goes with option: stitching
All kinds of cards 87: stitching
Crafty catz 195: stitching
Hiding in my craft room 111: thread/stitching
Bunny Zoe August: bingo - I chose die cuts, sparkle, stitching (also used ribbon)
Penny's 141: die cuts and/or punches
Southern girls 76: the warm fuzzies
Crazy 4 challenges 200: animals
Crazy challenge 152: animals
There she goes 221: fur friends
Let's craft and create 77: animal antics
Pink gem 94: anything with a B - bunnies
Happy campers 21: use a stamp (can be digi)
Creative Belli 176: glitter
Stamp and create August: glitter
Crafter's cafe 25: bling and sparkling things
Squigglefly 3313: use ribbon, twine or floss
Crafty ribbons 58: anything goes with ribbon
Nutcrafters 50: spots and/or stripes
Little red wagon 199: layers
Crafty sentiments: colourful
2 sisters 158: square cards
Great impressions August: square card
Papercreators 13: anything goes
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: anything goes
A random Thursday 11: anything goes
QKR stampede 53: anything goes
Digistamps4Joy 74: anything goes
Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Pattie's creations 74: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 13: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Handmade harbour midweek papercraft party 1: anything goes
Sister act 21: anything goes
Inky linky 27
Make it Monday 154
Inspire me Fridays 117
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The glory of Christmas challenge: gifts

This is my card for the challenge starting today on The glory of Christmas: gifts. Please click on the link and see what the rest of the team have created and join in with the challenge - we'd love to see you there.

I've used the 'penguin with presents' digital image from Delicious Doodles.

 I copied this into Paint and coloured it digitally. The background paper is an offcut. The striped piece across the bottom is washi tape.

This is also for:

Crafty boots: Christmas in August
Stampin with the dragon: Christmas in August
Crazy challenge 152: animals
Let's craft and create 77: animal antics

Male birthday card

A CAS male birthday card for Less is more 133: round and round - any image that implies movement. The map paper is from an old K & Co Pad.and the stamp is a Papermania one inked with memento tuxedo black. Lines rules with a sharpie pen. I used an ivory card blank.

This is also for:

Catered crop: maps
Artistic inspirations 55: CAS
Bizzy Becs August: clean and simple
Fashionable stamping 54: clean & simple