A Challenge card

This is the sketch for this weeks challenge over on the Allsorts challenge blog

As I wanted to join in the challenge over at Dotties World which is Anything goes - Red I have combined the 2 challenges & used red mainly on my card.

I coloured the cute image with my copics & mounted it on the scalloped circle cut with my nesties & used my gel roller pen to do the faux stitching round the edge.

I added white buttons

and die cut snowflakes along with the merry christmas sentiment matted again in red card & raised on sticky fixers

and added the ribbon bow & pearls to finish ...............


I'd also like to enter this for the PB at Allsorts challenge - thanks Brenda for the heads up :-)

I've finally done it!

Made my first Xmas card of the year!

Most of my Xmas cards are quick to make as I have a lot to make & send out.

I'd like to enter this in the Quick & cute challenge over on the mytimetocraftchallenge blog

Just love this Santa image - it really doesn't need a lot of anything & lends itself to simple treatment :-)

Well blogger won't let me post any more images this evening ......

So - this is it for now folks ................

Clarification

Hope this photo clarifies what I was talking about with the choc's 

There are two squares of delicious choc's per box

And ............yummy they are!

It's a wonder any make it to the pressie stage with a choc'a'holic like me!!

Chocolate box

Hmmm - did I fool you into thinking that this was it!

I found this box of gorgeous chocs - yes they are, well I had to test them! *giggle*

The packet contained 2 sections ......

which I made into a Xmas box of special chocs......

Firstly I made the box & lid............

so that it was a snug fit so that the choc's didn't rattle around

Then I decorated the box lid...........

I used die cut snowflakes & tree which were enhanced with stickles & my Sizzix   

embossing folder snowman, again enhanced with stickles.

The sentiment was stamped, cut out & mounted with sticky fixers, as was the snowman.

I finished with the cheerful red spotted ribbon - in keeping with the Spots & Stripes theme.

I'd like to enter this for the Allsorts challenge blog challenge, which this week is Spots & Stripes.


and the Dotties World Anything goes Xmas challenge


and Top Tip Tuesday Anything goes challenge 

Birthday card

It's my friends birthday on Friday - here is her card

I used my friend stamp & my Martha Stewart butterfly punch. there is a butterfly on the stamp & I popped the punched butterfly on top.

Some stripey ribbon & co-ordinating blooms......

And a punched scalloped circle with the circular happy birthday sentiment mounted on sticky fixers to raise it slightly ...................

Love these Papermania papers that I bought on a recent crafty shopping expedition with my mate Maddy .............

Must get this in the post! ............ 

Another New Home card

For a girlie this time

A crafting friend Carole over at Camcraft Creations reminded me that my nesties could be used slightly differently - there are so many different techniques for everything that the brain sometimes has overload & forgets........

They are embossed straight onto the card rather than cutting & embossing as I've got into a rut doing lately :-)

I stamped the cottage straight onto the card & coloured it with my copics. 

I used ribbons & blooms & matted the card so that it has the contrasting boarder round it.

The blooms had purple jeweled centers which I covered in gold stickles which toned in better.

Crafty Cardmakers challenge No 32

The challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is to use a freebie

So I used the freebie visage image that came with Craft Stamper Magazine.

I inked it using timber brown stazon ink.

The bottom edge was cut using my new Tim Holtz die & I used my Martha Stewart edge punches for the strips above, finished off with the strip of heart lace. The with love sentiment I matted using my circle & circle scallop punches & added silver stickles to the edge.

Using the timber brown ink again I stamped the motif  straight onto the background paper & added the blooms over the top.

The butterfly is a Martha Steward punch & I again edged it with silver stickles & popped little dots of silver stickles into the holes at the bottom for added 'bling' when the card is closed.