ANYTHING BUT A CARD AT CWTCUTIES

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you've had a good weekend.  We were out at a quiz on Saturday night, very enjoyable but didn't do very well I'm afraid.

Anyway, it's time for the start of another challenge over at Christmas with the Cuties and the theme is Anything But a Card, so as long as it's cute and is a christmas project, we would love you to join in

I decided on a small gift bag that I had and used an image kindly provided by our lovely sponsors at Crafty Sentiments. I've coloured him with copics, distressed the edges of the papers and added faux stitching with a gel pen on the blue paper, which was a freebie from a magazine.  I also glittered up 2 die cut snow flakes and cut them in half and added them as shown.  The little tag was made with a scalloped circle and glittered snowflake.  A small ribbon bow and that's it!

I hope you like and can join us this month, only one more challenge to go.  I can't believe how fast this year has gone.

I would like to enter:

Rudolph Days November Challenge - Anything Christmas

Pixie's Snippets Playground - snippets used were the white glitter card under the image and the tag.

Crafteezee Shop - Anything but a Card

That's Crafty - Winter Wonderland

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas is Coming

Thank you for visiting and I hope you can leave a comment, I do love to read them.

Lynne x

RUBBER OR DIGI AT AYLI

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well and warm now it's getting a bit colder.

It's time for a new challenge over at As You Like It and we are asking whether you prefer to use rubber or digi stamps (and don't forget to tell us why please).

I do have quite a few of both, but for this challenge I have chosen digi purely for the reason of being able to re-size them.

I have used a recently purchased Lee Holland digi and coloured him up with copics.  I have also used a rubber sentiment stamp as for Christmas cards I often like to heat emboss them.  The papers are from an old LOTV pad and the sentiment is from a Woodware set.  The snowflakes are two that I've stuck together from my little snowflake drawer.  I bought a bundle of them all ready die cut from Ebay once so not sure what make they are.

Gems, glitter, glossy accents and a sparkle pen have been added, but as usual this can't be seen on the photo.

The sponsor for this challenge is Crafty Ribbons with a £10 voucher for the lucky winner, so if you'd like to see the inspiration from the rest of the DT you can pop over here.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Square cards only
Addicted to Stamps - Anything Goes
Fab n Funky - Christmas
That's Crafty - Winter Wonderland
Aud Sentiments - Christmas or Winter Sentiment

Before I go, I would like to say hello and thank you to Bunny for being my latest follower. I hope you enjoy looking at my makes.

I will be back on Monday so, in the meantime,  have a good weekend.

Lynne x

SWEET SNOWMAN

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you are having a good weekend.  I have another just for fun Christmas card today, I seem to be on a roll with these at the moment.

It's a small A6 size as the stamp from the PB Jolly Friends set is quite small so I thought I'd make a quick card with him as he is so cute.  I've coloured him with copics, fussy cut and added him to the card with a silver embossed sentiment, also from Penny Black, from the Christmas Cheer set.
Three Tattered Lace mini snowflakes have been added to the corner with little gems in their centres.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Allsorts - CAS Christmas
Di's Digistamps - Include a sentiment
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Get Ready for Christmas
Crafty Friends - Pearls or Gems
Ellibelle's Crafty Weds November - Christmas


Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a good week.

Lynne x

REJOICE, REJOICE

Morning Everyone,

I have a quick christmas card to share today which is a small 5" x 5".

I have used a House Mouse mini stamp, which is the reason for it being a small card.  It just looked a bit lost on anything bigger.  I've coloured with copics and made the little bird into a robin. The rejoice stamp came with the the main stamp and I've embossed this in silver, added some white ribbon and a Spellbinders lacey circle in white glitter card.  The punched snowflakes, also in glitter card,  are a Martha Stewart punch and I've finished off with gems and pearls. I've also used stitched square and circle dies.

I would like to enter these challenges:

House Mouse and Friends - Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippets Playground - snippets were the white glitter card for the snowflakes and lacey circle
Dream Valley - Use dies and punches
Stamping Sensations - Get Ready for Christmas
Creative Craft Cottage - Christmas is Coming
Addicted to Stamps - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and have a good weekend.  I'm going to start my Christmas shopping I think, it's got to be done sometime!

Lynne x

AYLI DT - MONOCHROME OR BRIGHT COLOURS

Morning Everyone,

It's time for a new challenge at As You Like It and this fortnight we would like to see projects in either monochrome or bright colours (and don't forget to tell us the reason for your choice please).

I've chosen monochrome as I don't make many bright coloured cards, but I do love this style and I think monochrome shades make them look elegant.

I've hand stitched my papers, which are from The Promise by First Edition and added a Memory Box Catalina wreath die in 2 shades.  I heat embossed the sentiment in gold and added flowers in shades of cream, a Memory Box leaf die to match and pearls.

The sponsor of the challenge is

 with a gift voucher for the lucky winner

I hope you can join us in the challenge and that you can pop over and see the rest of the inspiration from the DT.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Sketchy Challenges - Anything Goes

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes

Creative Moments  - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Use Dies/Punches

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Lynne x

EMBOSSING - SPARKLES CHRISTMAS DT

Morning Everyone,

It's the beginning of a new month so the start of a new challenge at Sparkles Forum Christmas and this time we would like your Christmas project to include embossing,  either dry or heat.

For my card I've stamped a Creative Expressions Shaded Poinsettia onto red and green card for the leaves with versamark ink and heat embossed it with clear powder.  I fussy cut it out and layered it all up.  I've added three gold gems and some ferns from a Martha Stewart punch.  I've also heat embossed the sentiment in gold and the papers are from a First Edition pad. The stitched scalloped dies are MFT from Dies to Die For.

I hope you can join us in the challenge and if you'd like to pop over here you'll be able to see the rest of the DT inspiration.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

The Sketchy Challenges - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting and if you could leave a comment it would be much appreciated as I do love to read them.

Have a good weekend,

Lynne x