Christmas Anything Goes

It's challenge day again over at MAWTT, and back to Team A and Christine is asking for

Christmas Anything Goes

So hopefully as well as Christmas cards, we'll get a variety of other Christmas makes!

That said, I just made a card, lol!  I really love the Pink Gem toppers at the moment, so I went back to their store and purchased these adorable snowmen - cute or what!!!

Lots of layers made up this beauty!

and I even decorated the inside!

It's just so easy with these files!

Challenges;
Cutie Pies - Cute with no designer papers - I no it looks like I have used papers, but honest - no I haven't it's all kit sheets!
The Crazy Challenge - Christmas
CHCC - Cute or Christmas
Winter Wonderland - Poinsettias or snow is falling - i chose the snow option!
ABC Christmas - X - Criss Cross - look closely now...the waistcoat buttons!
Jx

Cocktail Emma

Happy May Day everyone, anyone got anything nice planned?  Nothing much on the cards here, I was hoping to go for a run, but yet again I have woken to rain.  Think it's set to improve though so hopefully this afternoon I'll get out.

A new stamp purchase for me today after I was requested to make a cocktail themed card for a friend. Honest, I did check through all my stamps before I headed online and found this super digi from Pink Gem.

So said image was partially coloured with Promarkers, paper pieced and then given a good dose of glossy accents, which resulted in...

Think I'll do more like this for my card box as I have a feeling an image like this could sell quite well after all who doesn't like cocktails and this is a great party/celebration style image.

Challenges;
Pink Gem - Favourite colour combo - Black/white/grey
Allsorts - With a cherry on top!
Fussy and Fancy - Female Birthdays
Through The Purple Haze - Add a number
Crafty Creations - White, Black & a pop of colour
Paper Shelter - Pearls
Passion for Promarkers - Make it digital
Ribbon Girls - Anything Goes - May
Stamping Sensation - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Sketch Saturday - 191 - Moved things a bit but the sketch was my starting point

Cats R Best

The latest challenge over at As You Like It is pick your favourite animal and say why - clearly I couldn't sit this one out and clearly there is one obvious choice - well in my case anyway!

Cats win hands down, they are loving and cuddly, cute and funny, loyal when they want to be and easy to look after/co-exist with!

Currently I have two cats, Femo a 6 year old female and Merlot a 2 year old male.  Love them to bits and could never be without a feline companion...or two!

Anyway back to the challenge and my card,

It uses a Sami stamp, two sided papers and some die cuts.

Challenges;
As You Like It - Favourite animal - CATS - see above!
City Crafters - Balloons
Crafty Sentiments - Birthdays
Lemon Shortbread - Anything goes
Passion for Prpmarkers - Digital
ShowUsYour Pussies - Furrything goes
Sami Stamps - Add pearls or beads - pearls on hearts
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Jx

And finally just so there is no doubt, this is why I like cats best...

 Meet Merlot

 My one eyed cat!

 Here as a kitten before his op!

& my senior lady, Femo

Love ya lots Merlot & Femo xxx

Grown With Hedgehog Love

It's a long time since I've posted a card daily, but I've managed this week cause the weather was so rubbish at the weekend.  Instead of being out in the garden as I had hoped I was stuck in doors, so what else was there to do but craft!

So, another card using a pre-coloured Di's digi today - this time it's "Grown With Hedgehog Love", a sweet image which I've added to a kraft card base.  Now this time, I'm using papers which were sent to me by my lovely friend Sue, I've had them over a year now, and never quite got round to using them.  Obviously I was keeping them for best, and I'm glad I did cause I think the colour fits perfectly with this image and my kraft card - hope you agree!

Challenges;
Di's Digi Challenge - Embossing
Cutie Pies - Woodland Friends
Clear It Out - Springtime Stash - (papers in my case) & Flowers
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafting Friends - Anything Goes
Digi Chooseday Challenge - Embossing
Paper Shelter - Flowers everywhere
Cardz for Galz - Use an embossing folder.
Jx

Tiles

Card production is still on high as I'm managing to sell them for CRUK.  So to add variety to my sales box I decided to follow the slightly more unusual sketch over at Sketch Saturday.

I used some Hero Arts flower heads, mounted on stitched border tiles (cut using SSS dies), then set these tiles onto a tiled paper by Doodlebug, the result being...

Challenges;
Sketch Saturday
PB@Allsorts - Birthdays
Stamping Sensations - One for the girls
Dragonfly Dreams - Spring is in the air
Jx

...and thank you so much for my wonderful $25 Simon Says Stamp prize, Jx

Feathered Friends

There are so many great Ooh La La CD's out there, that I sometimes forget to flick back through the older ones when making my cards, but for the latest challenge that's just what I did!

Todays challenge, set by Wynn is...

Feathered Friends

and for my card, I wanted the bird to be the main image, not just a speck in the sky!  So I got searching, and found this lovely chap - Elegant Rooster by Shawn Jenkins and I thought he fitted the bill nicely - that's the rooster, not Shawn!!!

Again, most of the card elements are from the CD except the PB sentiment, the lace and pearls.

Challenges;
Allsorts - Wings
Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes
Wags n Whiskers - Wings
Craft Rocket - Anything Goes
Cre8tive Hands Friends - Anything Goes
Crafting by Designs - 3 or more layers
Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
CD Sunday - All Creatures Great & Small
Jx

Penguin Tree

Right, this will have to be my last Christmas card for a while as I'm wanting to get on and make more seasonal cards to fill up my card box.  Can't believe how many I've made so far, so hopefully that's me well on track for meeting my needs this year!

But before the Christmas stamps disappear, I thought I'd share this sweet image with you, it's by Great Impressions and I just love how the penguins create their own tree!

So, my stamp is by Great Impressions, colouring by Promarker and the sentiment tags by LOTV.

Challenges;
Winter Wonderland - Penguins
CHCC - Anything Goes/Cute
ABC Christmas - Frills or no Frills - Well it's a CAS card so No frills...but then again the pom-pom trim is kinda frilly, so I can't decide!
Holly Jolly - Use your stash - a new stamp but old embossing folder & pom-pom trim
Tuesday Morning Sketches - 344

Great Impressions - 2016 Gallery
Christmas at Sweet Stampin - Cute
Jx

In The Garden

Has Spring sprung in your neck of the woods? I think at last it maybe has with us!  Two consecutive days of sunshine, no snow and temperatures approaching double figures, almost tropical I'd say!!!

Today sees the start of a new challenge over at MAWTT and this time the theme is

In The Garden

So I used a lovely new Wild Rose Studio stamp for the job.  I say new, but I've had it for well over a year now as I got it Birthday time last year from a fellow blogger - thanks Mrs :) x.

So that's the stamp, the papers are old favourites, The Avenues Collection by Bo Bunny, and colouring as always by Promarker.  And I just want to say, that yet again a much better colour match was achieved by picking the papers then colouring the image!  I so got it wrong when I coloured first then struggled to get papers to match - thanks Sarah, I think that tip came from you!

Anyway, here's my card,

Now over to you...

Challenges;
Passion for Promarkers - Child's Birthday
Dream Valley - Birthdays
Penny Black & More - Feature a Creature
Stamping Sensations - Flower Power
Ribbon Girls - Spring/Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
Jx

Finally I'm chuffed to say that the Aberdeen Race For Life date has at last been announced and participants can now register, so I'm rallying the troops and hope to be reporting back to you that we have a team registered...hopefully!

Krafty Christmas

I've already entered this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 challenge with a birthday card, but I wanted to continue with my art pad Christmas cards using their challenges also...problem was, all the art pad images were too big for my selection of oval dies!

Not to be deterred I used my rectangular image with the corners rounded...almost an oval???

I then followed the sketch as best I could and came up with this...

Challenges;
SSW2 - Sketch 84 - 2nd entry - checked rules and it didn't say if you could enter more than once - delete if not allowed!

Winter Wonderland - Add some lace
CHCC - Vintage/ Anything Christmas
Holly Jolly - Lace
Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Old fashioned Christmas
Jx

Monica

I'm doing quite well with my card making this year - think I'm averaging at about two cards a week, which is down from my all time best, but up from last year again! (In case you wanted the statistics!!!)

This card however was made a while ago, and came to the surface when a neighbour wanted a card - I then realised it had not been blogged to here it is now!

The image is a gorgeous Hannah Lynn - although she is looking a bit pasty faced - think that's partly down to the flash but also my limited colouring skills.  Hopefully that will be resolved this year if I can find time to do a Kit and Clowder class - or two! (They are on my to-do list!)

Challenges;
Allsorts - Birthday Wishes
I Love Promarkers -Punch (Leaves) - Flower -Pearl
Passion for Promarkers - Luscious Locks
Ribbon Girls - Use any image
Lil Patch of Crafting Friends - Anything goes
Jx

Beautiful Baby Boy

Not a usual time for me to post a card, but needs must! I needed to make a baby card for a little boy, born last week on 18/2 - still not named so no birth details on my card!

My card uses a favourite PB stamp and my Craft Creations baby blue sheets.

Challenges;
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
Penny Black Sat Challenge- Red or with a heart
PB@Allsorts - Anything goes with a die - flower, circles & hearts
Tues Morning Sketch - 339
Cutie Pies - All you need is cutie love!
Chocolate Coffee & Cards - Anything goes
ABC Challenge - B you pick - Baby/Blue Jx

Tuesday Morning Sketches Winner - Thank you and thanks Sami Stamps for my great prize. Jx

Cat Scratcher

I made this card at the beginning of the week, but it has taken me all week to get it uploaded. Conflicts and unsupported program warnings kept flashing up on my computer, so hubby decided to give it an upgrade!

So it's official... I hate change!  He asked me if my computer was now running quicker, which it is, but everything else is running slower, he's moved things into folders to tidy up the desktop, he's put on a more recent version of Windows and Word, he's replaced my over heating hard drive and he's fixed the noisy fan... I know I should be grateful, but I'm such a grump, I can't do things I used to do in seconds, I can't find things and I hate change!!!

So this is my first post on the new system, here goes with uploading a photo...

assistance was needed, Microsoft Picture Manager had to be set up again, but hey, we got there!  So my card uses a Karen's Doodles image, won last year, Ooh La La papers from the Shawn Jenkins CD and a LOTV sentiment.

Challenges;
Sketch Saturday - Challenge 397 - Use an old sketch - I chose 228, but flipped the sentiment/pearls

Passion for Promarkers - Favourites - Cats/Ooh La La CD's/Layers/Pearls
Fab n Funky - All creatures great and small
I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Fancy - Lots of details - fancy paper/pearls/layers - maybe not fancy enough tho?
CRAFT - Picture Inspiration
Animal Friends - Cats

Thanks The Paper Shelter for my great prize, Jx