GOLDEN CHRISTMAS

Hi Everyone,

A quick post from me tonight with a card made for the November Rudolph Days challenge.

It's the same layout as my previous silver combo cards using the Memory Box pine tree dies, but this time in cream and gold.  I've used snippets of gold mirri card for the trees and snippets of patterned paper for the little added inserts.  The sentiment has been heat embossed in gold and is from a Penny Black stamp set.

I would like to enter these challenges:

November Rudolph Days 

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky - Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Anything Goes

Pixie's Snippets Playground 

Aud Sentiments - Christmas or Winter Sentiment

Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a good weekend,

Lynne x

P.S. I've just noticed that I have a new follower, Sally, and would like to thank her and hope she enjoys seeing my makes.

SHOW US YOUR SANTA HATS

Good Morning Everyone,

A little late with my post for the new challenge at Christmas with the Cuties.  This month we would like you to show us your Santa hats, but it must be cute too.

For my DT card I've used these cute Gerda Steiner kittens from the Carol Kitten clear stamp set, I just love their expressions.  For the background I used 3 Distress Oxides  and a Lawn Fawn Forest border die.  I've coloured the kittens with copics and fussy cut them out.   Glitter has been added to their hats, a memory box star and a Lawn Fawn sentiment embossed in silver finish it off.

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with a prize for the lucky winner.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Penny Black & More - Christmas

Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday - Christmas

Penny's Paper Crafty 457 - Anything Goes

GSD stamps - Share your Designs November

Simon Says Stamp Weds - Starry Starry Night

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

Lynne x

FAVOURITE WAY TO ADD SNOW

Good Morning Everyone,

Its time for a new challenge at As You Like It and this time we would like you to tell us your favourite way of adding snow to your projects.

For my DT card I have used Snowbird by Stampendous on Desert Storm cardstock.   I stamped him in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and coloured with copics.  For my snow one of my favourite ways is to used a stencil with texture paste as I have done here and added a touch of glitter to the paste while still wet.  I like the randomness of the stencil.  It really depends on where the snow is for me as on the branch and berries I have used glossy accents and glitter.  I think the glossy accents gives it a bit more depth than normal glue.

I've distressed the edges of my paper and added ribbon and tags from Mama Elephant. The small plain red bow was used as when I tried to make a bow from the spotted ribbon, I thought it looked too bulky and big for the card.

The sponsor for this challenge is 

with a £10 voucher for the lucky winner

I would like to enter these challenges:

Penny Black & More - Christmas

Southern Girls Challenge - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Elliebelle's Crafty Wednesday - Christmas

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Winter

Crafty Friends - Christmas

Country View Challenge - Hand Stamped

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

Lynne x

XMAS POINSETTIA

Good Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well. A quick post from me with another traditional type Christmas card.

This is a lovely stamp from Stampendous called Curio Poinsettia.  I can't remember where I first saw it, but when I found it on Ebay I "had to have it".  I didn't realise at the time though that it was a wooden stamp, which I'm not really keen on as you have to get the first stamping just right, no help from Misti.

I've coloured with copics and added gold pearlescent card for the mats and a sparkly red and gold ribbon to finish.  

I would like to enter these challenges:

Penny Black & More - Christmas

Stamping Sensations - Traditional Christmas Colours

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Fall/Holiday

CCC Digi Creations - Christmas

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

Lynne x

CUTE OR TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS?

Good Morning Everyone,

It is time for a new challenge at As You Like It and for this one we would like you to tell us whether your prefer to make cute or traditional Christmas cards (and don't forget to say why please).

I do love making cute cards, but when I think about it, they are not that suitable for a lot of my older relatives and friends and, as I have an abundance of cute, I opted for the more traditional type this time.

I have used my Memory Box pine trees die and used snippets of glitter for the top one and green snippets from a Christmas paper pad for the bottom.  The outlines are in silver mirri and the sentiment which is from a Woodware set has been silver embossed. Clear sparkly gems were also added.  Quite fiddly to fit all the little pieces in, but I like the final effect.

We hope you will be able to join us in the Christmas challenge and look forward to seeing your makes.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes + a sentiment
Dream Valley - All that Glitters
CCC Digi Creations - Christmas
Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Christmas/Holidays
Tuesday Throwdown - Fall/Holiday
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

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

Lynne x

SANTA AT SPARKLES CHRISTMAS

Good Morning Everyone,

It's the start of a new month which means a new challenge over at Sparkles Christmas and this month the theme is Santa.

For my DT card I've used a Santa from the MFT set Jingle All the Way.  I've used a background stamp purchased on Facebook, which has been heat embossed with clear embossing powder and I've had a little play by colouring in some of the little objects.  This was a bit of an experiment using different types of pens to see which worked best.  I tried copics, glitter pens, coloured pencil and a metallic pen, but everything is so small it's too hard to tell the difference.

Santa was coloured with copics, fussy cut and attached to the card with added  glitter and a little pom pom on his hat. The sentiment, which comes with the set, was heat embossed in gold.

I think I will try this with white embossing next time.

If you have any Santa themed cards we would love to see them, it's certainly not long to go now before we have to start sending them out.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Fab n Funky - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp Weds - Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Craft wk 43 - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Challenge - Anything Goes

A very wet day here and I think it's going to continue over the weekend, but wherever  you are, I hope you have a good one.

Lynne x