More Christmas cards!

I can't believe I didn't make enough LOL!!  So 3 quick makes, all the same style, but different colourways ... I simply embossed the card blank, added a panel of patterend paper and some ribbon, the image, colored with my pens and some gems ... very quick!

Challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Comtemporary Christmas colours

Addicted to stamps and more - bingo (embossing, ribbon, free) 

Challenges:

Divas by Design - use some red

Crafts and me - WHy so blue? no blues

 Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - snow white

Joanna Sheen- with love at Christmas 

Crafty Boots - Christmas

Cupcake Craft - Merry Christmas

Forever Friends - Christmas

Songbird - Merry Christmas

CRAFT - Christmas

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes

PaperPlay - Christmas is coming

Love to Create - anything goes

Bearly Mine - anything goes

Everybody Art - anything goes

 Supplies:

Image: Stempleglede Grungy Christmas

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Basic Grey Jovial, Aspen frost

 Embellishments: lace, ribbon, flat backed gems

Tools:

 

Primrose and the Snowman

I hope I am coming to the end of showing my Christmas cards - just 2 more to go after this one I think!!  I have coloured Primrose in using my pens and then added some stickles and pearl pen.  The white cardstock is simply embossed and I added some ribbon, snowflakes and gems.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments - Primrose and the snowman

Sentiment: Craftwork cards

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: 

Embellishments: punched and die cut snowflakes, ribbon, flat backed gems

 Tools: Marianne Creatible snowflake die, Martha Stewart snowflake punch, 

snowflake punch, embossing folders

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - snow white

Joanna Sheen- with love at Christmas 

Stampin for the weekend - snow

Fuss n Fancy - I love Christmas 

Totally Gorguss - oh no snow

One Stop Craft - Christmas Friends

Crafty Boots - Christmas

Cupcake Craft - Merry Christmas

Forever Friends - Christmas

Incy Wincy - Christmas with snowflakes

Songbird - Merry Christmas

CRAFT - Christmas

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes

PaperPlay - Christmas is coming
Sweet Stampin' - dies or punches

I Love Promarkers - anything goes

Love to Create - anything goes

Bearly Mine - anything goes

Everybody Art - anything goes

Passion for Promarkers - happy in the sentiment

 

Ellie's Birthday candy

On 7th December my baby is going to be 8 years old ... I really cannot believe that she is going to be 8!!!!  Anyway in honour of that I am offering up a little candy to someone.

 So what is on offer??

$12 Saturated Canary voucher

and

A suprise package.

All you have to do to win the goodies is ...

• post the picture of the gold present on your sidebar

• add your linky

• you don't have to be a follower 
• (I would rather you didn't follow, than follow and then remove yourself)

 Closing date is Monday10th December at 10pm and I will draw the prize soon after.

Cooking up a recipe

We have a recipe challenge for this week, over at That Craft Place - and not the cooking type!!  We want you to use1 image, 2 patterned papers, 3 colors (excluding skin tones, and 4 embellishments).

I coloured in the image using my pens and cut her out using nesties.  I have kept the layout simple, and added some mulberry flowers with button centres, a die cut corner and some ribbon - sticking to 4 types of embellishments was HARD!!!  Finally I stamped the sentiment in red ink and cut it out using my nesties.

Supplies:

Image: Kraftin Kimmie - Virginia

Sentiment: Kraftin Kimmie Holiday Trinkets

Colouring medium: promarkers

 Papers: Echo Park Very Merry Christmas

Embellishments: Joy die cut corner, prima flowers, buttons, ribbon

Tools: Cuttlebug, oval nestibilities, Joy metal shim

Challenges:

CRAFT - Christmas

Cute Card Thursday - red and green

PaperPlay - Christmas is coming

I Love Promarkers - anything goes 

 Color Throwdown - red riding hood, crumb cake, basic black, gumball green

Paper Pretties - Christmas inspired

Crafts and Me - anything goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes
Card Crafters Circle - December Celebration
Fussy and Fancy - I love Christmas

 

Basic Grey Challenge

 This week's theme is Its looking alot like Christmas ... and it is in our house - tree up, presents bought and wrapped, cards wrtten ... for once I am really organised!!

I have really enjoyed making cleaner and simpler Christmas cards this year - and I love this design, going to feature alot next year LOL!!!  It is all matted onto hammered gold card, and I coloured the mistletoe in using my pens.  Some lace, the obligatory gingham and some teeny gems to finish.

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Supplies: 

Image: Stempleglede Grungy Christmas

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Basic Grey Jovial

 Embellishments: lace, ribbon, flat backed gems

Tools: 

Challenges:

 Color Throwdown - red riding hood, crumb cake, basic black, gumball green

Paper Pretties - Christmas inspired

Crafts and Me - anything goes

Papercraft Star - include gold on a Christmas card

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes
CRAFT - Christmas

Cute Card Thursday - red and green

PaperPlay - Christmas is coming
I Love Promarkers - anything goes
Card Crafters Circle - December Celebration
Fussy and Fancy - I love Christmas

 

Totally Papercrafts Challenge

 The theme this week has been chosen by the lovely Sue and it is One for the Boys ...

I love this Lala land Crafts Luka image, great for those cheeky boys we know!!  I coloured it with my pens and then simply layered up a couple of layers and added the sentiment.  It is for one of the girls' friends, and to be honest he isn't going to appreciate anything fussy or embellished - he's a bit of a boy's boy!!!

Supplies:

Image: Lala Land Crafts Outlaw Luka

Sentiment: Lala Land Crafts Outlaw Luka

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Basic Grey Wander

Embellishments:

Tools: 

 Challenges:

 I love Promarkers - anything goes

Crafts and Me - anything goes

 

Christmas Dress

This is my neice's Christmas card - very girly!!!  I coloured the image in using my pens and then added sparkly glittery stuff and stickles to the hat, shawl and boots.  I layered up the ribbons and added a double bow.  The flowers are layered with a card candi centre, and I just had to add this gorgeous sparkly twig spray.  Finally some flat backed pearls to finish  A very sparkly, girl Christmas card - but I bet she'd be perfect for a winter birthday card.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Christmas Dress

Sentiment: Crafty Sentiments Christmas circles

Colouring medium: copics

Papers: Nitwits

Embellishments:  flowers, sparkly spray, ribbon, pearls, stickles

Tools: 

Challenges:

 Ribbon Girls - Christmas

Creative Stamp Friends - Christmas

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time

Challenges4everyone - anything goes

Bunny Zoe - winter

Cards Galore - Christmas
Everybody Art- Christmas 

2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle

Papertake Weekly- anything goes

Totally Gorguss - anything goes with glitter

Pile it On - pile on the embellishments

Sentimental Sunday - no traditional Christmas colours

Stamp with fun - sketch
The Paper Shelter - 2 of anything (ribbons, flower)
Stamp and Create - Sparkly Christmas

 

Sepia Father Christmas

This has got to be my favourite Father Christmas stamp, and I love colouring him n vintage, sepia tones.  Having coloured him in I added some glamour dust to his hat and coat, and a teeny bit of vintage photo to the edges of the cardtock, just to help him stand out a bit.  I embossed the cardstock using my snowflakes folder and then added flat backed pearls - very simple.

Supplies: 

Image: Sugar Nellie Old St Nick

 Sentiment: Craftwork cards

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: linen cardstock

Embellishments: flat backed pearls

Tools: 

 Challenges:

  Ribbon Girls - Christmas

Creative Stamp Friends - Christmas

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time

Challenges4everyone - anything goes

Cards Galore - Christmas
Everybody Art- Christmas 

2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle

Papertake Weekly- anything goes

Totally Gorguss - anything goes with glitter

Sentimental Sunday - no traditional Christmas colours

Without Words - monochrome Christmas

Creative Craft - WOW Christmas

 Cupcake Craft - It'll be all white on the night

Stamps and Creativity=fun - photo inspiration

Crafty Calender - White Christmas

Sugar Bowl- sketch

Bearly mine - Santa

Pasion for Promarkers - 'Happy' in the sentiment

 Tuesday Throwdown - white Christmas

 

Crafty Sentiments Challenge

 This week's Crafty Sentiment's challenge theme is Snowmen.  Our Challenge prize is a £10 voucher - you be in for 2 chances of winning if you use a Crafty Sentiments image but also why not join in the facebook challenge - anything goes as long as you use a Crafty Sentiments image there is another £10 voucher up for grabs there It can be found here but you only have 1 more day to enter new challenge over there starts friday.

I love snowmen, and how cute is this one with his 3 little friends?!!  Having coloured him in using my pens, i added some stickles and some Cosmic Shimmer glittery snow emossing powder.  I have kept the layout simple, just adding the ribbon and gems, and the sentiment.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments - Snowman and friends

Sentiment:: Crafty Sentiments Christmas circles

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: Basic Grey Jovial

Embellishments: ribbon, flat backed gems, stickles

 Tools:

 Challenges:

Ribbon Girls - Christmas

The Cupboard Trilogy - frosty winter

2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle

Sweet Stampin' ribbon and snowflakes

Craft your passion - snow

Creative Stamp Friends - Christmas

 Challenge up your life - 1st snow

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time

Challenges4everyone - anything goes

Bunny Zoe - winter

Cards Galore - Christmas
Everybody Art- Christmas

 

Blue and White Christmas

Hopefully these are the last of my Christmas cards - they are for hubby's work place, just got 6 left on my desk to matt up.

I used the same stamp for both, simply stamping the snowflake up in chipped Sapphire distress ink, before embossing it in clear embossing powder.  The white cardstock has been embossed using a couple of embossing folders and I simply added ribbon ... very easy peasy!

Challenges:

 Cupcake Craft - It'll be all white on the night

Stamps and Creativity=fun - photo inspiration

Crafty Calender - White Christmas

Ribbon Girls - Christmas

The Cupboard Trilogy - frosty winter

Without Words - monochrome Christmas

Creative Craft - WOW Christmas

Challenges:

2 Sisters - Christmas sparkle

Sweet Stampin' ribbon and snowflakes

Craft your passion - snow

Creative Stamp Friends - Christmas

 Challenge up your life - 1st snow

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas time

Challenges4everyone - anything goes

Come and Get it - blue Christmas

Bunny Zoe - winter

Cards Galore - Christmas

Make it Monday

Supplies: 

Image: Bo Bunny Snowflake

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: Distress ink, embossing powder

Papers: linen cardstock

Embellishments: ribbon

Tools: snow flake and swiss dots embossing folders