CHNC challenge 155: whatever is urgent to make

Can you believe that we are rapidly getting nearer and nearer to the Big Day?!?! If you haven't finished making your Christmas cards yet ... or perhaps, like us, you have lots of family and friends with birthdays around Christmas ... then, hopefully, my CHNC challenge 155 will spur you on to get everything finished. Please click on the link and join in - and, of course, anything you make for Christmas can also be linked for CHNC challenge extra for December.

So here is my first set of CAS cards, using LOTV art pad pictures mounted on to offcuts of green mirror card and on to some gold 7 x 5 card blanks (and still trying to use up the ancient peel off greetings):

These are also for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa for next week's: presents
Brown sugar 72: Christmas
Chocolate, coffee & cards 54: happy holidays
Challenges and candies 23: winter magic
Dare to be sassy Thursday 207: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Cute card Thursday 299: Christmas catch up
DL.ART thankful Thursday 123: Christmas
Craftin desert divas 21: Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Scrappers delights 13: Christmas time
A little bit crafty December: Christmas cheer
Songbird 30: merry Christmas everybody
Crafty sentiments: Christmas
Ruby's rainbow 69: it's Christmas
Cards galore December: Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Card and scrap 66: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
Challenges 4 everybody 35: anything goes
Crafts and me 143: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Digistamps4Joy 82: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 2: anything goes
Divas by design: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 71: always anything goes
4 krafty girlz 8: anything goes
DRS 100: anything goes
Crafty catz 211: anything goes
Polka doodles 50: anything goes
Wags n whiskers 119: Christmas
Pink gem 109: anything goes
Sister act 37
Make it Monday 170

The cheerful stamp pad challenge 75: signs of Christmas

This is my design team card for today's Cheerful stamp pad challenge 75: signs of Christmas. This challenge is being sponsored by Vintage Image Craft who have the most amazing images. They have a facebook page here where you can download some of their images for free.

For this card I've used the lovely Vintage Image Craft ' 'mistletoe ensemble' image. For the background I secured some vellum on to gold mirror card with brads and added an Anna Griffin sentiment panel, all mounted on to a red card blank to use traditional Christmas colours of red, green and gold.  This was based on the sketch given for Moving along with the times: time to get sketchy:

Colours are for CAS colours & sketches 54:

Also for:

Hiding in my craft room 127: holiday colours

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Heck of a challenge December: colourful Christmas
Alphabet: V for vellum
CAS on Sunday 23: Christmas
Fan-tastic Tuesday 12: clean and simple
LiaStampz 54: CAS
It's all about the vintage and beauty 58: winter foliage
Craft room: vintage Christmas
Creative moments 31: anything goes/vintage
Sugar creek hollow 75: vintage Christmas
Digi sketch: Christmas
Fairies: Noel/Christmas
Everybody art 256: winter
Party time 149: merry Christmas
Paper pretties 287: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
CRAFT 236: Christmas
Hanna and friends 186: Christmas
Paper-crafting journey: it's Christmas time
Bloggers challenge: joyeux Noel - Christmas
Crafty hands 4: season's greetings/winter theme
Left of center 20: winter or holidays
Cards galore: Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday December: welcome winter
Card and scrap 66: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
Craftin desert divas 21: Christmas
Crafty boots: Christmas
Parade your crafts 10: Christmas projects
Melonheadz friends: Christmas
Crafting from the heart 2: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 71: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 7: always anything goes
613 avenue create 49: anything goes
Corrosive 189: anything goes
Pink gem 109: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Crafts and me inspiration 143: anything goes
Sister act 36: anything goes
DL.ART December: anything goes
Make it Monday 170

The Glory of Christmas 22: snow

This is my design card for The Glory of Christmas 22: snow. Please click on the link and see the other lovely creations and join in with the challenge.

I've used an A5 landscape opening black card blank, cutting away some of the right hand piece of the front. I embossed silver mirror card using the 8 x 8 Embossalicious 'star of wonder' embossing folder with my eBosser. Ribbon with gems is from Hobbycraft.

I inked the IndigoBlu 'stag night' stamp with Elzybells sugar candy pigment inkpad on to black card heat embossing with detail white powder. I then tore round the black card, mounted on to white and tore around that before sticking on to the front of the card slightly overlapping on the right hand side.  I won a £20 voucher for the Lisa B Designs October challenge and the 'stag night' stamp was one of the items I chose, along with the 'bare forest' IndigoBlu stamp and Vive la Plume by June Gill.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Sunday's with Santa week 42: for the man in your life
Here come the boys 66: anything goes
Crafters companion December: ribbon, thread or twine (embossing folder bought from Crafters Companion)
Pixie's snippets 102 (black and white pieces of card were offcuts and one piece of the mirror card)
Paper makeup 117: snow fun
Dazzling divas 3: embossing (dry and wet)
Winter wonderland: embossing
Delightful: you're a gem - add gems
Scrappers delights 12: make it sparkle
My heart pieces: sparkle
Joanna Sheen: make it sparkle! Christmas challenge
Order of the opus gluei 171: brrrring it on
Crazy challenge 159: snowy winter
Digi sketch: Christmas
Fairies: Noel/Christmas
Victorine 73: Christmas with nontraditional colours
Everybody art 256: winter
Going grey with Scrap creations: holiday
LEJ 82: Christmas is coming
Party time 149: merry Christmas
Divas by design: feeling festive
Fab 'n' funky 196: a touch of frost
Inky impressions 137: winter or snow
Paper pretties 287: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
CRAFT 236: Christmas
Hanna and friends 186: Christmas
MilkCoffee: Christmas in nontraditional colours
Paper-crafting journey: it's Christmas time
A creative romance: sparkle at Christmas
Bloggers challenge: joyeux Noel - Christmas
Crafty hands 4: season's greetings/winter theme
Left of center 20: winter or holidays
Cards galore: Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday December: welcome winter
Card and scrap 66: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
Cardmakin mamas 77: merry Christmas
Di's digis: show us Christmas in nontraditional colours
There she goes 236: Christmas critters
Kreativer bastel 37: Christmas
Sparkles 50: animals
Korttikarkuri 1:  stamping
Digistamps4Joy 81: distressing
PanPastel UK 49: all about paper/card
The ribbon girls: ho ho ho Christmas challenge
Sweet stampin: ribbons
Simon says Wednesday: make your own background
Great impressions December: glittery and sparkly
Sparkle n sprinkle December: anything goes with glitter, embossing powder and/or flocking
Christmas card challenges 2: black and white
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 7: always anything goes
613 avenue create 49: anything goes
Corrosive 189: anything goes
Animal friends December: anything goes
Pink gem 109: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Stamp and create December: anything goes
Ribbon carousel 88: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafts and me inspiration 143: anything goes
Sister act 36: anything goes
DL.ART December: anything goes
Make it Monday 169

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 6: upcycle

This is my design team card for today's Suzy Bee's Blooming challenge 6 which is all about upcycling. This challenge is being sponsored by Lacy Sunshine and I used their 'Anastasia with daffodil' coloured with spectrum noir pens. The background paper is Teresa Collins everyday moments and the acetate panel on the left was recycled from some Prima flowers packaging - I overlayed this on to the background paper securing on the right with the piece of ribbon. The flowers are prima.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Lacy sunshine 22: anything goes
Let's craft and create 84: say it with flowers
Crafty bloggers network December: girly
One stitch at a time 192: use a digi
Allsorts 236: anything but Christmas
Emergency crafters December: anything but Christmas
Crafty creations 251: anything except Christmas
Graph it markers 24: anything goes

It's cold outside

This is my design card for today's Sweet Pea Stampers challenge: it's cold outside.  Please click on the link and see the wonderful creations of the rest of the team - and please join in the challenge - there's always a voucher to be won!

The image is 'snow fae' by Rachel Anderson. I printed this digital image on some light aqua card and then brushed over it with a mix of peacock feathers and broken china distress inks.

I used a couple of offcut strips of aqua/turquoise mirror card on the sides with an embossed piece of card brushed with the distressed inks in the middle - I used the A4 'star of wonder' Embossalicious embossing folder with my eBosser. Ribbon with gems was from Hobbycraft. Snowflakes were punched from scraps.

It is do difficult to get a photo of a card that has mirror card on it - I tried and tried and this is the best I could do. Unfortunately, it doesn't show the image as well as it is in real life.You need to look at it 'head on' to see it clearly.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's snippets 101
Lunagirl: snow angels
Flutter by Wednesday 264: any winged creature
Wags n whiskers 118: things with wings
Stampavie and more 200: angels
Totally gorjuss 212: snow's the way to go
Paper makeup 117: snow fun
Addicted to stamps 70: embossing
Dazzling divas 3: embossing
Winter wonderland: embossing
Delightful: you're a gem - add gems
Glitter n sparkle 61: add some sparkle
Scrappers delights 12: make it sparkle
My heart pieces: sparkle
Joanna Sheen: make it sparkle! Christmas challenge
Order of the opus gluei 171: brrrring it on
The squirrel and the fox 58: summer or winter
Ribbon girls: ho ho ho Christmas challenge
Crazy challenge 159: snowy winter
Digi sketch: Christmas
Fairies: Noel/Christmas
Kaboodle 200: start of winter
Victorine 73: Christmas with nontraditional colours
Everybody art 256: winter
Going grey with Scrap creations: holiday
LEJ 82: Christmas is coming
Party time 149: merry Christmas
Polka doodles digi choosday 7: Christmas cheer
Divas by design: feeling festive
Fab 'n' funky 196: a touch of frost
Inky impressions 137: winter or snow
Paper pretties 287: it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
CRAFT 236: Christmas
Hanna and friends 186: Christmas
MilkCoffee: Christmas in nontraditional colours
Paper-crafting journey: it's Christmas time
A creative romance: sparkle at Christmas
Bloggers challenge: joyeux Noel - Christmas
Crafty hands 4: season's greetings/winter theme
Delicious doodles 65: Christmas/New Year
Jo's scrap shack 9: winter wonderland
Left of center 20: winter or holidays
My Sheri 124: funky Christmas - non traditional colours
Pink gem 108: winter wonderland
Cards galore: Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Mema December: winter or Christmas or holiday
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday December: welcome winter
Card and scrap 66: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
Cardmakin mamas 77: merry Christmas
Digi haven: Christmas cards
PumpkinSpice 47: old scraps or leftovers
Korttikarkuri 2: scraps, old stash
Rhedd and rosies 21: old stash
One stitch at a time 192: use a digi
Use it Tuesday 68: anything goes - old stash: offcuts of card and ribbon is old
Clear it out: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Stamp and create December: anything goes
Ribbon carousel 88: anything goes
Scrapping 4 fun: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Oozak 27: anything goes 'let's celebrate'
Crafts and me inspiration 143: anything goes
Sister act 36: anything goes
DL.ART December: anything goes
Make it Monday 169

Christmas foliage

Another set of quick cards using Art pad pictures from Lili of the valley and some gold embossed card blanks and offcuts of green backing.

These are for:

Make my Monday: Christmas flowers and foliage
Robyn's fetish 188: Christmas cards
Sentimental Sundays 183: traditional Christmas colours
Fairies: Noel, Christmas
Whoopsi Daisy: Christmas using traditional colours
Crafting by designs: Christmas or winter
4 crafty chicks 170: Christmas
Jo's scrap shack 28: get in the spirit (hang up the Christmas wreath)
Cards galore: Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Just for fun December: merry Christmas
Mema December: winter or Christmas holidays
Unstampabelles 30: Christmas
Christmas card challenges 1: no stamping
Card and scrap 66: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Sister act 35: anything goes
Make it Monday 169

Winter fun

Five simple cards (made these a while ago when I had my sale for Tearfund), using some small card blanks I'd had for ages and some Lili of the valley Art pad pictures, mounted on to some offcuts of mirror card - and still trying to use up the dreaded peel offs.

These are for Cupcake inspirations 239: winter fun:

These are for:

Order of the opus gluei 171: brrring it on
Robyn's fetish 188: Christmas cards
Sentimental Sundays 183: traditional Christmas colours
The squirrel and the fox 58: summer or winter
Collage obsession: all bundled up
Fairies: Noel, Christmas
Crazy challenge 159: snowy winter
Whoopsi Daisy: Christmas using traditional colours
Crafting by designs: Christmas or winter
4 crafty chicks 170: Christmas
Jo's scrap shack 28: get in the spirit (of Christmas fun)
Pink gem 108: winter wonderland
2 creative chicks 9: Christmas/winter
Cards galore: Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Feeling crafty 23: Christmas
Just for fun December: merry Christmas
Mema December: winter or Christmas holiday
The cupboard trilogy 18: Christmas
Unstampabelles 30: Christmas
Kaboodle 200: start of winter
Christmas card challenges 1: no stamping
Card and scrap 66: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
The pink elephant 228: winter
Oozak 27: anything goes 'let's celebrate'
Here come the boys 66: anything goes (suitable for a young boy)
AnMaCreatief 27: everything
613 avenue create 48: anything goes
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Sister act 35: anything goes
Make it Monday 169

Silent night, holy night

This is another design team inspiration card for the Glory of Christmas 21: turquoise and brown. The background is a piece of Kanban striped card on to which I've layered a piece of brown ribbon that was upcycled from a box received, matted on to an offcut of gingham card. The image was rescued from a Christmas card received a couple of years ago.

This is also for:

Pixie's playground 101
Friday mashup 137: gingham and/or kraft
Dare to be sassy 205: R U green - recycle
Allsorts 235: inspired by a Christmas song or carol - Silent night

Crafting musketeers 8: layer it up

This is my design card for Crafting musketeers 8: layer it up, which is being sponsored by Hunkydory - this is the prize you could win:

Please click on the link and see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in with our challenge.

I used card and elements from the Hunkydory Stylish Season 'polar bear pullover'. The main circle on the card has the decoupaged bear layered up.

This is also for:

Crafting when we can 58: winter
Through the purple haze: Christmas
Charisma cardz 46: Christmas
ABC: A for almost Christmas

The Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 74: decorating continues

This is my design creation for the second week of the Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 74: decorating continues. Please click on the link and see the lovely creations of the rest of the team and join in the challenge - perhaps you might want to show a card with embellishments decorating it, or perhaps a Christmas decoration ... the choice is yours - it would be great to see what it prompts you to make. You can link up your entries here. The challenge is being sponsored by Floppy Latte.

This time I decided to decorate my craft room window.

I used Floppy Latte 'angel' digital image, printed on to a sheet of heat resistant acetate and then quickly heat embossed with clear powder. I then used alcohol inks to colour - butterscotch, terra cotta and currant. This 'stained glass' angel now decorates the window of my craft room.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Dream valley 71: anything but a card
Crimbo crackers 55: anything but a card
Wags n whiskers 118: things with wings
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
4 crafty chicks 170: Christmas
Crafting by designs: Christmas or winter
2 creative chicks 9: Christmas/winter
Country view crafts December: bah, humbug - Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
De creatieve zebra 4: Christmas
Emerald faeries 50: Christmas
Feeling crafty 23: Christmas
V's sweet 18: holiday theme
Stamps & fun = creativity 180: Christmas decoration
AnMaCreatief 27: everything
Tok bobok 7: anything goes
613 avenue create 48: anything goes
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Sister act 35: anything goes

Stocking friends

This gate fold card is my third design creation for Christmas cards all year round December, where the theme is 'Christmas stockings'. The background card used on the fronts is from an old Kanban kit and the inside card and other elements are from the Hunkydory 'stocking friends' from the Snowy Days kit.

Colours and now papers for Kort o mania 98:

This is also for:

Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
4 crafty chicks 170: Christmas
Crazy challenge 159: snowy winter
Fairytale 81: photo inspiration: snowflakes
Festive Friday 22: snowflake
Crafting by designs: Christmas or winter
Robyn's fetish 188: Christmas cards
Fab 'n' funky 195: cute critters
Order of the opus gluei 171: brrring it on
Corrosive 188: happy holidays
Pink gem 108: winter wonderland
2 creative chicks 9: Chrstmas/winter
Cards galore: Christmas
Country view crafts December: bah, humbug - Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Jo's scrap shack 28: get in the spirit (of Christmas - hang the stockings)
De creatieve zebra 4: Christmas
Emerald faeries 50: Christmas
Feeling crafty 23: Christmas
Just for fun December: merry Christmas
Natalie and Amy 15: cute & cuddly Christmas
V's sweet 18: holiday theme
Card and scrap 66: Christmas
Allways something creative 64: boots parade
Oozak 27: anything goes 'let's celebrate'
Animal friends December: anything goes
Here come the boys 66: anything goes (suitable for a young boy)
AnMaCreatief 27: everything
Tok bobok 7: anything goes
613 avenue create 48: anything goes
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Sister act 35: anything goes

Simply Christmas stockings

My second design contribution for Christmas cards all year round December: Christmas stockings is a set of five very simple cards using images from Lili of the valley festive foliage art pad. The images have been layered on to green mirror card before matting on to the card blanks with the addition of peel off greetings (try to use these up from years ago):

These are also for:

There she goes 235: Christmas card sets
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
CAS on Sunday 22: winter theme
Woodware UK: quick Christmas
Crafty cardmakers 105: clean and simple
Paperminutes 297: Christmas - clean and simple
Corrosive 188: happy holidays
Lexi 104: Christmas
Crafting by designs: Christmas or winter
Cards galore: Christmas
Country view crafts December: bah, humbug - Christmas
Creative craft cottage 11: Christmas
Sentimental Sundays 183: traditional Christmas colours

Christmas cards all year round December: Christmas stockings

It's nearly time to hang up those stockings for Santa to fill them - that's of you've been good enough - lol! The December challenge on Christmas cards all year  round is all about Christmas stockings. This is my first design card, using elements from Hunkydory Classic Christmas 'Christmas stockings' set. I've used one of the remaining offcuts of the lovely glittery holly ribbon that I bought some time ago - it will be a shame when this has all gone (think I have just one piece left).

This is also for:

Shopping our stash 129: holiday or winter
Crafting by designs: Christmas or winter
Totally papercrafts 195: ho ho holidays
Allsorts 235: inspired by Christmas song or carol - O Christmas tree
4 crafty chicks 170: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
Left of center 19: no people
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes

Oh Christmas tree

The theme for this fortnight's challenge for the Christmas Card Club is 'oh Christmas tree'. I've made five clean and simple cards using pictures from Art pad 14: festive foliage by Lili of the Valley. These were mounted on to offcuts of red mirror card, matted on to deep green 7 x 5 card blanks. The greetings are peel off stickers (still trying to use up some that I had years ago).

These are also for:

Facebook A card a day
Jellypark friends: Christmas
Totally papercrafts 195: ho ho holidays
Allsorts 235: inspired by Christmas song or carol - O Christmas tree
Woodware UK: quick Christmas
Paperminutes 297: Christmas - clean & simple
Crafting by designs: Christmas/winter
4 crafty chicks 170: Christmas
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
Left of center 19: no people
There she goes 235: Christmas card sets
Hiding in my craft room 126: freestyle
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 34: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 1: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Bearly mine 114: anything goes
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 148: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafter's cafe 39: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
4 krafty girlz 7: anything goes
Sister act 35: anything goes
DL.ART Novembe
Make it Monday 168

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 5: anything goes

It's time for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 5: anything goes - where did the past week disappear to?! This is being sponsored by Eureka Stamps and I have used their 'heart tree' image that they kindly supplied, colouring the hearts with a spectrum noir pen. Please click on the challenge link to see what the rest of the team have created - and I hope you will be able to join in - it's an easy one this week, with 'anything goes'.

I decided to keep to a black and white theme with a touch of red. Papers are My Mind's Eye Dilly Dally with a strip of Tim Holtz tissue tape and a piece of Hobbycraft ribbon. The sentiment is Craftime.

This is also for:

Fussy & fancy 103: hearts
An inky situation 19: trees
Sweet stampin: black, white & just one other colour
Left of center 19: no people
Hiding in my craft room 126: freestyle
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Crafter's cafe 39: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
4 krafty girlz 7: anything goes
Sister act 35: anything goes
DL.ART Novembe
Make it Monday 168

CHNC challenge 153: light it up

It's almost December, so, if you haven't made those Christmas cards yet, it really is time to get serious ... and perhaps my CHNC challenge 153 will help you - please click on the link and join in ... and, as usual, there are some great prizes to be won.

For my card I used the lamppost digital image supplied by one of the sponsors, Cedar Chest Designs, stamping alongside with 'caroling penguins' by Penny Black, colouring with copics. This was then mounted on to a piece of red mirror card with just the addition of a Craftwork cards sentiment, all matted on a gold card blank.

Colours inspired by The shabby tea room 194: Christmas is coming:

52 Christmas card throwdown: pick a previous theme challenge - I've chosen - Christmas carol: We wish you a merry Christmas ...

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Korttikarkuri 1: let's got inky - stamp a Happy Christmas
Jellypark friends: Christmas
Pattie's 81: Christmas card
QKR stampede 66: it's starting to look a lot like Christmas
Stempelsonne 103: merry Christmas
Totally papercrafts 195: ho ho holidays
Allsorts 235: inspired by Christmas song or carol - We wish you a merry Christmas ...
Pink gem 108: winter wonderland
Sentimental Sundays 182: winter wonderland
Eureka 67:  Christmas theme - Santa is on his way
Woodware UK: quick Christmas
Paperminutes 297: Christmas - clean & simple
Sweet stamps 145: the holidays
Crafting by designs: Christmas/winter
Stampavie and more 199: Christmas
4 crafty chicks 170: Christmas
Lexi 104: Christmas
Nadia 69: stamp - winter
The artistic stamper creative team November: Christmas
Designed to color 23: Christmas/winter
Creatalicious 57: Christmas time
Kreativeinkauf 9: Santa Claus and helpers
Copic marker Europe: everything about Christmas - I used copics to colour
Little blue button 11: Christmas is here
Jo's scrap shack 28: get in the spirit (of Christmas carolling)
Nightshift stamping: so cute
Fab 'n' funky 195: cute critters
Left of center 19: no people
Sparkles 50: animals
Hiding in my craft room 126: freestyle
Creative fingers 13: anything goes
2 sisters 172: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 297: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 34: anything goes
Lacy sunshine 22: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 69: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 1: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Bearly mine 114: anything goes
Crafty sentiments: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 148: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Use it Tuesday 68: anything goes (hoarded supply: the gold card blank as well as using an old stamp)
Crafter's cafe 39: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
4 krafty girlz 7: anything goes
Sister act 35: anything goes
DL.ART Novembe
Make it Monday 168

Haiku poem

The challenge for Collage obsession today is to create a Haiku poem and combine with an illustration. The poem needs to have 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the third.

So I went into the garden and took a photo and created the Haiku potem:

Autumn is here now
The leaves are gold and orange
Falling from the trees

This is also for:

Soartful November: trees - orange plus one other colour
Craft a scene November: trees, trees, trees
Digitally sweet 63: anything goes - this is 100% digital
Challenges 4 everybody 34: anything goes
613 avenue create 47: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 6: always anything goes
Artistic inspirations 69: anything goes
Fab 'n' funky: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 169: anything goes
Sister act 34
DL.ART November
Make it Monday 168

The Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 74: let's decorate

This is my design card for the Cheerful stamp pad challenge 74: let's decorate. This challenge is being sponsored by Floppy latte and I have used one of their digital images, 'Christmas prayer silhouette', coloured with copics. I decorated my card with 16 different pieces of ribbon stuck diagonally to a piece of card, mounting on to a piece of red mirror card and then on to gold. The image was matted on to red mirror card. Some glittered flowers with prima gold spacers were then added.

This was based on the sketch given for Unscripted 232, which I turned to the right:

Because of the reflection of the flash on the mirror card it was difficult to get a good photo - this is the best I could achieve - the card looks so much better in real life.

As this is a Christmas card, this verse from Floppy latte is on the insert:

This is also for:

Facebook a card a day
Pixie's snippets week 100 (quite a few of the ribbons were snippets, although I did also cut into some new ones)
Korttikarkuri 2: scraps and old stash
Christmas card challenges week 52: faith
Lexi 104: Christmas
Crafty ribbons 71: stitching
Crafting for all seasons 65: stitching
Digistamps4Joy 80: stitching
Emerald faeries 49: ribbons/lace & bling
Allsorts 234: bring on the bling
Pink gem 107: sparkles
Crafty hands 3: sparkle and bling
Happy campers 24: glitter it
Paper-crafting journey: bling it up
Ribbon carousel 87: holidays and celebrations
Corrosive 188: happy holidays
Polka doodles 47: anything goes as a theme for Christmas
Victorine 73: Christmas with nontraditional colours
Simon says Monday challenge: countdown to the holidays
Love to create 93: 3 of your favourite embellishments - ribbons, flowers, prima spacers
Challenges 4 everybody 34: anything goes
613 avenue create 47: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 6: always anything goes
Come and get it: anything goes with a twist (use a digital stamp)
Crafting from the heart 1: anything goes
Paper playtime 24: anything goes
Artistic inspirations 69: anything goes
Fab 'n' funky: anything goes
Penny's 154: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 169: anything goes
Sister act 34
Inky linky 37
DL.ART November
Make it Monday 168