Confession time

John got me a lovely card and a bowl with red tulips for Valentine's Day:

We had planned to go out for lunch, but we had  to go up to Guy's for an early appointment for John's foot and by the time we got back to Orpington Station it was lashing with rain once again, so we got a taxi home and ordered  pizzas etc to be delivered. We then sat over a late lunch for ages, enjoying a glass of wine each.

But ... I hadn't made a card for John. I can make the excuse that life has been difficult for the past few weeks and I've only really been doing necessary crafting (although perhaps a Valentine card for John should have been included in the 'necessary'). Anyway, I had the card that I made last week that you can see and read about here, but it had an image of a little boy and wasn't appropriate. I carefully peeled off that image and added two wooden spotted hearts and the sentiment pieces instead - job done!  And I did buy him a mug!

Message inside:

I'm linking this for the following challenges:

Pinspirational 94

The  pink elephant 237: happy Valentine's day
Fan-tastic Tuesday 22 romance
Flourishes timeless 258: wood you be mine (the hearts are wooden)
Going grey with Scrap-creations: Valentine's day
Tuesday throwdown 182: roses are red ...
Crafting for all seasons 70: show us some romance
Fab n funky 203: love/Valentine theme
The paper shelter 145: be my Valentine
Dare to be sassy Thursday 216:  Valentine's day
Alphabet: A for always and forever
Craftitude 58: anything goes or Valentine love
Fussy & fancy 107: be my Valentine
Jo's scrap shack funday 37: Valentine
The stamping boutique 4: Valentine love
Totally papercrafts 206: Valentine/love
Wags n whiskers  122 bingo: middle line down: die cuts, hearts, flowers (also lots of red)
Scrap-cards 58: Valentine hearts
Sunflowers 1: Valentine's day/hearts
LEJ 86: Valentine/love
Crafting from the heart 6: anything goes/use red
Papertake: with a heart
Pause dream enjoy 3: hearts
Crafter's cafe 50: must have hearts
My heart pieces: red is the symbol of love
Mema February: who or what makes your heart smile - John!
Shelly's February: use two hearts and red
Bunny Zoe February: hearts/love
Red carpet studio 63: love actually
The squirrel and the fox 63: love
Card mania 40: love is all around
Crazy challenge 164: love is in the air
Love to create 102: colour - red and/or pink
Make my Monday: love is in the air
Cardz 4 guyz 5: truly, madly, deeply
City crafter 198: love bug
Clear it out: love is in the air (with flowers)
Deep ocean 71: love is all around
Ladybug: for the one I love
Paperminutes 308: love is in the air
Creative moments 36: anything goes/love
Divas by design: with love
Rhedd and rosies 26: love is in the air
Scrappers delights 16: all you need is love
The sisterhood of crafters: love is in the air
Little tangles 30: celebrate love#
Paper-crafting journey: love is in the air
LiaStampz 59: add a heart
Frosted designs: love is
Polka doodles 7: love/romance
Just for fun February: love is in the air
Natalie and Amy 17: love is all around
Crafty calendar February: love is all around
Whimsy 68: love is in the air
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Crafting by designs February
Sister Act 44: anything goes

Crafting Musketeers 10: butterflies

This is my design team card for Crafting Musketeers challenge 10: butterflies (my team provides inspiration mid-way through the challenge - to see the beginning of the month and join in with the link please click here.

The challenge is being sponsored by Dreamees and I have used an image from their topper set girls 7, tearing round a perspex oval template and colouring the torn edge with a spectrum noir. The background paper was a magazine freebie which i randomly stamped with a Dawn Bibby swirl stamp inked with stazon vibrant voilet. The butterflies were another magazine freebie, the sentiment circle from Craftwork cards and the bow from Papermania.

This is also for:

Take a word: butterflies
Come and get it:: butterflies or dragonflies
Top tip Tuesday: girly
MilkCoffee: girly
Little miss muffet 79: happy birthday
Catered crop: good birthdays
Wordplay Saturday February: swirls
Crafty ribbons 76: ribbon n bows
One stitch at a time 200: use a digi
Whoopsi Daisy: include a sentiment
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Crafting by designs February
Sister Act 44: anything goes
Make it Monday 177

The glory of Christmas 27: snow

This is my design card for the Glory of Christmas challenge 27: snow.

I've used images from Beccy's snowman set. The background was created with a piece of Hunkydory card that already had snowflakes on it which I then ran through my eBosser with the Embossalicious 'star of wonder' embossing folder, brushing the embossed effect with stormy sky distress ink, which I also brushed around the image. Just the addition of a couple of pieces of spotty ribbon and the card was done.

This is also for:

CRAFT 246: Christmas
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Robyn's fetish 199: add lots of snow
Whoopsi Daisy: include a sentiment
One stitch at a time 200: use a digi
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Crafting by designs February
Sister Act 44: anything goes
Make it Monday 177

White Christmas

It was my turn to set the challenge for the Christmas Card Club for today.

Anyway, my challenge to the team was:

I love seeing snowflakes on Christmas cards (although I don't actually like snow in reality) and I love seeing 'white on white' cards, so please make a card that either features snowflakes or that is all white.

Well, I went for both - snowflakes and all white (well a bit of silver crept in, but I think that's allowed - lol!).

I used some beautiful pearlescent paper that has a spotted look that changes a bit according to the way the light shines. I used some to cut the snowflakes using a set of Die'sire snowflakes dies run through my eBosser - these are quite fiddly dies, but work well if wax paper is used between the die and the paper (and the paper is free from a cereal pack - I now have John well trained to hand them over when the box is empty!).

The organza ribbons with silver gems were from Hobbycraft and I used matching gems to decorate the centres of the snowflakes.The sentiment was rescued from a card received.

As is always the case, it was very difficult to get a photo of all the white - and I've just realised that the way I cropped the photo has made  the  sentiment look crooked, whereas it itsn't really.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Crafting by designs February
CRAFT 246: Christmas
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Robyn's fetish 199: add lots of snow
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Penny's 164: monochrome
Open-minded crafting 4: monochrome
Little Claire 42: monotone
Whoopsi Daisy: include a sentiment
Aud sentiments 100:  bingo - I chose the top  line monochrome colours, 'two word sentiment', use texture of some type
Brown sugar 81: use a die cut or punch
Sparkles Christmas 37: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 12: anything goes
DL.ART February: anything goes
Sister Act 44: anything goes
Make it Monday 177

More blue and white for CCAYR mid-month inspiration

To read about the CCAYR mid-month inspiration and the February challenge please scroll down or click here for details.

For this card I used an offcut of striped Hunkydory card, rounded the corners and matted on to the dark blue card blank, again rounding the corners. I used a very old Kanban silver foiled frame, using a silver littered snowflake in the middle with hearts within that.

This is also for:

CRAFT 246: Christmas
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 11: silver and blue
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Squigglefly 6: square pegs - square card
Scribbles 14: frame it
Whoopsi Daisy: include a sentiment
Penny's 164: monochrome
Open-minded crafting 4: monochrome
Oozak 31: anything goes/white with one colour
Artistic inspirations 78: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs February
DL.ART February: anything goes
Sister Act 44: anything goes
Make it Monday 177

Christmas fairy for mid-month inspiration on CCAYR

It's already mid-month, so it's time for some inspiration from the team for the February challenge on Christmas cards all year round. Please click on the link to be inspired. And click here to get details and join in the challenge which has the theme of 'blue and white' with the optional addition of a heart.

The challenge is being sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs, who kindly supplied the digital image, 'Little Honey's Tinkerbell', that I've used for my first card for mid-month inspiration. I coloured with spectrum noir pens and streaked some quickie glue on her wings and sprinkled some Art Institute glitter - and some on her hair as well.  I die cut with a Nellie Snellen die, brushing the edges with stormy sky distress ink. The background card is some old Kanban Christmas stock, with the addition of a piece of stitched ribbon and a padded white heart.

This is also for:

CRAFT 246: Christmas
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 11: silver and blue
A creative romance: let's get sentimental
Whoopsi Daisy: include a sentiment
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Squigglefly 6: square pegs - square card
Little blue button 2/14: using only image rubber/clear or digital stamp
Stempelsonne 108: fairytale/fantasy
Winter  wonderland: fairies
Cute card Thursday 308: clever cutting
Brown sugar 81: use a die cut or punch
Feeling crafty 25: dies
Top tip Tuesday: girly
MilkCoffee: girly
Delicious doodles 75: ribbon and bling
Cards galore 2: add glitter (or any bling)
Scribbles 14: frame it
Oozak 31: anything goes/white with one colour
Artistic inspirations 78: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Polka doodles digi choosday: anything goes
Creative fingers 23: anything goes
Sparkles Christmas 37: anything goes
Inky linky 44
Crafting by designs February
DL.ART February: anything goes
Sister Act 44: anything goes
Inky linky 44
Make it Monday 177

CHNC challenge 164: Christmas love

As it was Valentine's Day yesterday (more about that later), I thought for CHNC challenge 164 we would have the theme of Christmas love - however you wish to interpret that. Please click on the link and join in the challenge.

For my card I've used Eureka Stamps' 'caroling bunnies' (one of the three sponsors of CHNC challenge 164) coloured with spectrum noir pens, mounted on to silver mirror card and then on to some Kanban pink paper with silver foiling (been in my Christmas stash for ages). The eyelash fibre wrapped around the inner edge gives the simple card a bit of sparkle.

This is also for:

CRAFT 246: Christmas
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Merry Monday 95: animal
Lacy sunshine 26: use a sentiment
A creative romance: let's get sentimental
Whoopsi Daisy: include a sentiment
Savvy: it's love challenge
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Squigglefly 6: square pegs - square card
Little blue button 2/14: using only image rubber/clear or digital stamp
613 avenue create 58: anything goes
Crafting by designs February
Inky linky 44
DL.ART February: anything goes
Sister Act 44: anything goes
Make it Monday 177

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 16: mid-month sketch

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 16, which is to make a card based on this sketch:

The sponsor for the challenge is Lacy Sunshine and I used her 'keiko' image that was kindly supplied. Please click here to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and to join in the challenge.

I used some long neglected papers from a Far East stack by DCWV that I remember receiving as a Christmas present some years ago. I used quite a lot of the papers soon after that, but for a long time it's been in a box with lots of other papers. I cut into a new piece for the background, but used a couple  of offcuts for the two strips, brushing all edges with fired brick distress ink. I printed the keiko image directly on to a piece of the Far East paper (well, it's more like card than paper really), which is textured and coloured it with ordinary colouring pencils (made quite a change to alcohol pens). I even found a few chipboard stickers to use that had come with a matching pack from DCWV (it just shows that it's worth keeping all those little bits and pieces). I tore around the image using a perspex oval template and used another larger one for a background piece, lightly brushing the torn edges with some of the fired brick.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's snippets week 111
Hiding in my craft room 136: super scraps Saturday
Lacy sunshine 26: use a sentiment
A creative romance: let's get sentimental
Whoopsi Daisy: include a sentiment
Bloggers challenge: two or more pattern papers
Squigglefly 6: square pegs - square card
Little blue button 2/14: using only image rubber/clear or digital stamp
613 avenue create 58: anything goes
Crafting by designs February: anything goes
Inky linky 44
DL.ART February: anything goes
Sister Act 44: anything goes
Make it Monday 177

The Sweet pea stampers vintage challenge

This is my design card for the Sweet pea stampers vintage challenge that starts today for the next fortnight. Please click on the link to see the wonderful crafting of the rest of the team and to join in the challenge.

I used Ching-chou Kuik's 'Flowing in Blue' rubber stamp (but I decided not to use blue!) coloured with spectrum noir pens, tearing around the edges. The background paper is a piiece of Core-dinations ColorCore cardstock embossed with Jenni Bowlin Studio design, which was sanded to reveal a yellowy beige colour, brushing lightly in places with vintage photo distess ink. The stitched pleated card down the side is Bazzill and the felt flowers were from Poundland.

Colours are for Sketchy colors 197: brown, orange, yellow:

This is also for:

DL.ART thankful Thursday 126: vintage
Stampavie and more 205: lots of flowers
The artistic stamper creative team February: use distress
Cardmakin mamas 80: make it sparkle
Take a word: butterflies
Stamping sensations February: wings, fantasy and fiction
Let's craft and create 88: fabric or felt
Addicted to stamps and more 82: make your mark - using markers

Cheerful stamp pad challnge 79: Love/Valentine week 2

This is my design card for second week of the Cheerful stamp pad challenge 79: Love/Valentine. This is being sponsored by Stitchy Bear Outline. Please click on the link to see the lovely creations of the rest of the team. We would love you to join in with the challenge - you can do so here, where you will see the team's crafting for the first week of the challenge.

I covered a red card blank with lots of different washi tape strips, such from Paperchase and some Tim Holtz tissue tape, added some Craftime flowers and the love Stitchy Bear BB Kakes Balloon Boy 1, coloured with copics, addiing the I LUV U.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Catered crop: heart of the matter
Corrosive 192: feel the love
Cupcake inspirations 247: love
Eclectic ellapu: from the heart
Glitter n sparkle 71: Valentines/add some red
Love to create 102: colour - rd and/or pink
One stitch at a time 199: with love
Order  of the opus gluei 176: let me call you sweetheart in red, white and pink
Red carpet studio 63: love actually
The squirrel and the fox 63: love
Stamp dreams 30: Valentine - hearts
Addicted to stamps 75: hearts
Paper makeup 127: hearts
Make it Monday love is in the air
Lexi 109: Valentines day/love
Melonheadz friends: Valentine's/love challenge
Cutie pie 62: my cutie Valentine
Hobbycuz 35: Valentine
Everybody art 264: Valentine
Crafting for all seasons 70: show us some romance
Paper pretties 296: Valentine/love
MilkCoffee: Valentine's/love
Brown sugar  80: Valentines
Craftitude 58: anything goes/Valentine love
Crafts 4 eternity R162: with love
Crafty catz 217: love is in the air
Digi haven: happy Valentine's day
Fussy & fancy 107: be my Valentine
Graph it markers: lovey dovey
Di's digi designs: love and/or Valentine's
My Sheri 126: Valentine
Open-minded crafting 3: show some love
Pink gem 112: all you need is love
PumpkinSpice 58: hearts
Scrap-cards 58: Valentine hearts
Sunflowers designs 1: Valentine's day/hearts
Copic marker Europe: Valentine
LEJ 86:  Valentine/love
Kaboodle 210: to my sweetheart
Crazy challenge 164: love is in the air
Fairies 19: love is in the air
Flourishes timeless 257: red & love
Bunny Zoe February: hearts/love
Little red wagon 223: love
Nutcrafters 61: a little bit of love
Crafty little fairies: love
Cute card Thursday 306: lots of love
Little tangles 30: celebrate love
Delicious doodles 74: love
Polka doodles 6: love is in the air
Stampin with the dragon: love is in the air
Catch the bug: love
Just for fun February: love is in the air
Eureka 76: hearts 'love is n the air'
Natalie and Amy 17: love is all around
Crafty calendar February: love is all around
Card mania 40: love is all around
Creative craft cottage 15: love
Ooh-la-la 150: use a heart
Cuttin and stampin 5: sweethearts
Pause dream enjoy 3: hearts
Digistamps4Joy 85: hearts
Simon says Wednesday: have a heart
Hanna  and friends 189: hearts
Kreativeinkauf 11: hearts
Ribbon carousel 90: washi tape
Dare to be sassy 215: stop and smell the flowers
Pile it on 6: stripes and/or dots
Ruby's rainbow 72: spots & stripes
Sqquigglefly 6: square pegs - square card
Little blue button 2/14: using only image rubber/clear or digital stamp
Crafting from the heart 6: anything goes/use red
Artistic inspirations 78: anything goes/Valentines day
The pink elephant 237: happy Valentine's day
613 avenue create 58: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 38: anything goes
4 krafty girls 11:anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 36: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 21: anything goes
Crafting by designs February: anything goes
Inky linky 43
DL.ART February: anything goes
Sister act 43
Make it Monday 177

CHNC challenge 163: use a die cut or a punched shape

It's Saturday again (and I can't believe that I haven't blogged since Monday, but had been feeling really poorly and just not up to much and then found that I couldn't concentrate even when I was beginning to feel better). Anyway, here is my card for my CHNC challenge 163: use a die cut or a punched shape. You can use any die cut, even one that is commercially ready made, so it's an easy challenge.

For my card I used four Die'sire snowflake dies running them through the eBosser with various offcuts of paper that toned with the background and the snippet band across the bottom taken from Echo Park Winter Wishes. I joined two lots of snowflake dies together with little brads.

There are four sponsors for CHNC challenge 163, so that means four chances of being picked randomly as a prize winner, so I hope you'll click on the link and join in the fun. One of the sponsors is a regular, Bugaboo Stamps, who kindly provided AKV reindeer skate image that I coloured with spectrum noir pens and tore around a perspex template, edging with one of the spectrum noirs. The greeting is recycled.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Pixie's snippets 110
Hiding in my craft room 136: super scraps Saturday
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Timbro scrap mania 87: winter inspirations
Use your stuff 121: song inspiration: 'winter wonderland' - using up papers
Divas by design: die cuts
Feeling crafty 25: dies
Totallly papercrafts 205: hey cute
Christmas fun: Christmas cuties
Crafty bloggers network February: all about boys
Spectrum noir February: masculine
Inky chicks 22: cute animal stamp
Fab n funky 202: calling all brads
Allsorts 245: colours beginning with B - blue and brown
Mark's finest paper speedy fox and friends 198: torn paper
The paper shelter 144: at least  designer papers
Penny's 163: something old and something new - old papers and new set of snowflakes dies
Sparkles 52: show us your new stash - the set of snowflakes dies
Whimsy 67: something new (the set of snowflakes dies)
Polka doodles digi choosday 5: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 38: anything goes
4 krafty girls 11:anything goes
Delightful: anything goes
Creative fingers 22: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 36: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 21: anything goes
One stitch at a time 198: anything goes
613 avenue create 57: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 11: anything goes
Paper make up 126: anything goes
Crafting by designs February: anything goes
Inky linky 43
DL.ART February: anything goes
Sister act 43
Make it Monday 177

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 15 : anything goes

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 15: 'anything goes' is being sponsored by Di's Digi Stamps. For my design card I've used one of Di's images called 'poorly pup'. I coloured this with copics, framing with copic lines and matting on to a piece of kraft card before adding the 3D stickers and the sentiment.

This is also for:

CRAFT 245: get well/sympathy/sorry
Basel-traum: get well soon
Totallly papercrafts 205: hey cute
Inky chicks 22: cute animal stamp
Allsorts 245: colours beginning with B - brown
Polka doodles digi choosday 5: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
4 krafty girls 11:anything goes
Delightful: anything goes
Creative fingers 22: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 36: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 21: anything goes
One stitch at a time 198: anything goes
613 avenue create 57: anything goes
Paper make up 126: anything goes
Crafting by designs February: anything goes
Sister act 43
Make it Monday 177

Cheerful stamp pad challenge 79: Love/Valentine's

This is my design card for today's Cheerful stamp pad challenge 79: love/Valentine's.

I used lots of elements from the BBKakes - Holiday bundle - Valentine 1 kindly supplied by the sponsor, Stitchy Bear Stamps, arranging them digitally, printing and colouring with spectrum noir alcohol pens, adding some gems and mounting on to a red card blank.

The pink elephant 236 inspiration:

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
One stitch at a time 198: anything goes (using Stitchy Bear stamps)Corrosive 192: feel the love
Catered crop: heart of the matter
Artistic inspirations 77: anything goes/hearts
Craft your passion 199: love is in the air
Crazy challenge 164: love is in the air
Kaboodle 209: Valentine themed
Lexi 109: Valentines day/love
Melonheadz friends: Valentine's/love
Ooh-la-la 150: use a heart
The cutie pie 62: my cutie Valentine
Whoopsi Daisy: show us love/Valentine's 
Fairies 19: love is in the air
CRAFT 244: love/Valentine's
MilkCoffeee: Valentine's/love
My heart pieces: love is life
A creative romance: show us soome love
Jellypark friends: lots of love
Allsorts 244: love is in the air
Di's digi designs: love and/or Valentine's
Stamp and create February: love is in the air
Open-minded crafting 3: show some love
Pink gem 112: all you need is love
Scrap-cards 58: Valentine hearts
Sweet stampin: love/Valentines
Natalie and Amy 17: love is all around
The cupboard trilogy 19: love
Tok bobok 9: hearts
Just for fun February: love is in the air
Crafty calendar February: love is all around
Creative craft cottage 15: love
Addicted to stamps 75: hearts
Everybody art 263: heart
Hanna and friends 189: hearts
Sunflowerfield designs 1: Valentines day/hearts
Kreativeinkauf 11: hearts
Crafts and me 144: use a heart
Robyn's fetish 197: Valentine's day cards
My Sheri 126: Valentine
Paper make up 126: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 179: anything goes
Sister act 42
Make it Monday 177

The Glory of Christmas 26: candles

This is my design team card for the Glory of Christmas challenge 26: candles.

Supplies are from a Hunkydory kit and use an 8" x 8" card blank. Flowers are by Docrafts Papermania, with brad centres.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Fab n funky 201: Christmas
The squirrel and the fox 62: use embellishments - 2 or more (flowers)
Going grey with Scrap-creations: favourite embellishment (flowers)
ABC: E for embellishment (flowers/brads)
The 12 days of Christmas card link up
Scribble and scrap 11: anything goes
Stamp-n-doodle 4: anything goes
Dazzling divas 10: anything goes

Hearts of joy

This is my card for the CCC group - the theme of 'feature a heart/the colour red' was chosen by Mary. This is an A5 card, using Hunkydory supplies and papermania flowers.

This is also for:

Fab n funky 201: Christmas
Inspiration avenue: hearts and flowers
The 12 days of Christmas card link up
Scribble and scrap 11: anything goes
Stamp-n-doodle 4: anything goes
Dazzling divas 10: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 179: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 38: anything goes
Sister act 42

CHNC challenge 162: stripes and/or spots

I've used stripes and spots for my card for CHNC challenge 162 (please hope on over there and take part if you can - don't put those Christmas supplies away!)  The background papers are DCWV and I've used some snippets of striped Kanban card, sticking a peel off greeting on to one piece. The Santa image is a favourite Hero Arts stamp with a bit of copic colouring. The lovely felt reindeer with gems were from Poundland.

This is also for:

Fab n funky 201: Christmas
Christmas card challenges 9: anything goes
Pile it on 4: animals
Artistic inspirations 76: anything goes/animals
Stempelsonne 107: pets/animals
Animal friends 11: dots
Penny's 162: spots and dots
Card and scrap 69: use stamps
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your passion 198: spots and stripes
The 12 days of Christmas card link up
4 crafty chicks 179: anything goes
Sister act 42
Make it Monday 176

Another card for CCAYR February

This is my third design card for Christmas cards all year round February. You can see details of the challenge by clicking the link or by looking at my previous post here.

I used a ready shaped card blank on to which I put an offcut of text paper from Echo Park winter wishes paper pad, matting the Kanban glittered topper and frame (these have been in my Christmas box for ages and ages), adding a couple of silver sentiments and the little silver heart.

This is also for:

Fab n funky 201: Christmas
Christmas card challenges 9: anything goes
Jingle belles: text me
Clear it out: we're singing the blues (cleared out all supplies from ages ago)
Hiding in my craftroom 135: I'm blue without you
Challenges and candies 26: monochromatic
Kaboodle 208: baby it's cold outside
Crafting by designs: think warm thoughts
Sparkle n sprinkle February: anything goes - used glitter
Cards galore 2: add bling - glitter
Robyn's fetish 196: lots of glitter
Whoopsi Daisy: bring on the bling and sparkle
The 12 days of Christmas card link up
4 crafty chicks 179: anything goes
Sister act 42
Make it Monday 176

With love and Christmas kisses

This is my second design card for Christmas cards all year round February challenge. You can see details of the challenge by clicking the link or by looking at my previous post here.

For this card I've used an offcut of Hunkydory card to cover the card blank. The image inked with versamark and heat embossed with silver is one that I received in a swap long ago. I matted this on to an old Kanban frame and added the ribbled snowflakes from Hobbycraft, the Kanban sentiment and a couple of little padded hearts.

This is also for:

Fab n funky 201: Christmas
Christmas card challenges 9: anything goes
Cupcake inspirations 245: snowflakes
Paper make up 125: shades of blue
Cutie pie 61: cute January blues
Clear it out: we're singing the blues (cleared out all supplies from ages ago)
Hiding in my craftroom 135: I'm blue without you
Stamp and create: winter wonderland
Pile it on 4: animals
Squigglefly 4: have a heart please
Everybody art 263: heart
Tok bobok 9: hearts
Kreativeinkauf 11: hearts
Crafts and me 144: use a heart
Artistic inspirations 76: anything goes/animals
Inky impressions 144: monochromatic
Challenges and candies 26: monochromatic
Nightshift stamping: winter potpourri
Hanna and friendss 189: hearts
Card and scrap 69: use stamps
The rubber buggy 15: anything goes
Stempelsonne 107: pets/animals
The 12 days of Christmas card link up
One crazy stamper February: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
4 crafty chicks 179: anything goes
Crafty catz 216: anything goes
QKR stampede 73: anything goes
Sister act 42
Make it Monday 176

CCAYR February

It's the first day of the month and that means there's a new challenge on Christmas cards all year round. The February challenge is all about blue and white - no other colours, with the exceptions of skin, hair, fur, feathers, but try to keep everything else to blue and white only. Optional: add a heart - this would be an embellishment, charm etc. Please click on the link and see the inspirational crafting of the rest of the team.

The challenge is being sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs, who kindly supplied the digital image, 'Little Honey's Tinkerbell', that I've used for my first card. I coloured Tinkerbell with spectrum noir pens and dotted her wings with quicky glue, put a few glue streaks in her hair and then added some Art Institute ultra fine glitter. I die cut the image with a Nellie Snellen die, brushing the edges with stormy sky distress ink. The sentiment was computer generated and printed. The ribbled snowflakes were from Hobbycraft and I added a little padded heart. The background paper is a  piece from a magazine freebie.

This is also for:

Fab n funky 201: Christmas
Christmas card challenges 9: anything goes
Frosted designs: winter blues
Hiding in my craftroom 135: I'm blue without you
Cupcake inspirations 245: snowflakes
The sisterhood of crafters: winter snowflakes
Jingle belles: text me
Card mania 39 angels and/or fairies
Crazy challenge 163: fairytale
Deep ocean 70: fantasy
Paper make up 125: shades of blue
Cutie pie 61: cute January blues
Clear it out: we're singing the blues (cleared out the background paper that I'd had for ages)
Inky impressions 144: monochromatic
Challenges and candies 26: monochromatic
Feeling crafty 25: dies and/or punhces
Graphi it markers: anything goes/different coloured hair
Sparkle n sprinkle February: anything goes - used glitter
Cards galore 2: add bling - glitter
Robyn's fetish 196: lots of glitter
Whoopsi Daisy: bring on the bling and sparkle
Winter wonderland: digi days
The 12 days of Christmas card link up
Creative moments 35: anything goes/add some sparkle
Papercreators crafts 19: anything goes
Sparkles Christmas 37: anything goes
Polka doodled digi choosday: anything goes
Dazzling divas 10: anything goes
Rhedd and rosies 25: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 179: anything goes
Crafty catz 216: anything goes
QKR stampede 73: anything goes
Digitally sweet 73: anything goes
Sister act 42
Inky linky 42
Make it Monday 176

CHNC challenge extra for February

This is my design card for CHNC challenge extra for February (apologies for being late). Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the design team and of the guest for this month.

I used 'AKV Nativity - wise men' kindly supplied by Bugaboo Stamps, the sponsor for CHNC challenge extra for February, combining the three digital images into one picture and adding the words. The image was coloured with spectrum noir alcohol pens. This was then matted and layered on to some Hunkydory card with the addition of an old Kanban sentiment.

This is also for:

Fab n funky 201: Christmas)
The 12 days of Christmas card link up
AnMaCreatief February: 3 of something
Stamp-n-doodle 4: anything goes
Dazzling divas 10: anything goes
Catch the bug: February anything goes
4 crafty chicks 179: anything goes
Sister act 42