From our house to yours

Morning everyone... are you all busy, little bees?

I can tell you, I don't know if I'm on me arse or me elbow!!

I have lists everywhere - 

if I lose one, I'm in trouble :-)

Here's my last Christmas card of the season.

I didn't want to cover up that gorgeous digi paper (Pink Petticoat)

so I kept the design simple,

just adding my favourite red twine and felt reindeer,

and of course, a touch of sparkle around the sentiment.

 

Challenges.

Papertake - Christmas Creatures

Crafty Girls - Anything Goes

Cute Card - Christmas Catch Up

xxx

All I Want For Christmas Is You

Just a quick post from me today.

I am knee dip in gift wrap and sellotape,

but I wanted to show you the card I made for Mr Kiss.

This gorgeous digi paper is from a terrific Nordic set at Pink Petticoat,

and I used it to follow the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.

I made the sentiment up on my computer, then I just added

a felt reindeer and a sprinking of bling.

 

Hope you're all having a good weekend.

xxx

Challenges.

CAS(E) this Sketch - #56

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Any Past Challenge.  Theme Challenge #15 Christmas Animals.

ABC Challenge - A For Almost Christmas

Snowmen melt my heart

Does anyone go caroling anymore?

I remember going door to door as a kid

and being caught out, when people actually wanted us to sing!!!

I think we only knew rude words to most carols. Ha ha!

Here's a cute group of caroling snowmen.

 I went with bold, traditional colours so that my snowmen would stand out - 

a touch of bling and a strip of ribbon.

I have struggled with sentiments this year - making do with what I have.

This one had to be masked off, in order to print it in a line.

I've promised myself a whole new set for next year's cards :-)

 

Challenges.

Stamping Sensations - Free & Easy

My Mum's Craft Shop - Winter/Christmas

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (Optional CAS)

Sentimental Sundays - Traditional Christmas Colours.

Digi Stamp 'Caroling Snowmen' from Meljen, coloured with Copics and Glamour Dust.

Sequins, Gems & Ribbon.

Sentiment Stamp, Wld Rose Studio Set 'Pickle with Tipple'.

 

Let's Chill

This is my 2nd post of the day

and I'm sharing another Christmas card with you.

I thought this would be a good 'guy' card,

with it's cool, blue tones.

I still managed to add plenty of bling though,

using a gel glitter pen on the tree and reindeer's jumper,

and a scattering of sequins and gems.

Challenges

Seize the Sketch #9 ( I just flipped it)

CAS-ual Fridays - Create with 8  ( I used 8 gems/sequins)

Addicted to Stamps - Holidays

Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer' Stamp and Die Set, coloured with Copics .

Sakura Glitter Gel Pen.  Sentiment from Stampendous 'Cool Yule' Set.

Digi Paper was a fabulous freebie from Mel Stampz

Sequins and Gems

 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's December... and that means time for the Griswold family tree.

Ha ha!

Here's what I have been up to all morning. 

We considered geting a fake tree this year -  for about 2 minutes!!

Excuse the pics - 

it's the devil of a job to get a good tree pic.

 The tree in the living room is decorated with white and silver

 

 Look who sneaked into the picture

  

This artificial tree has seen better days, but it's fine for now,

in the corner of the kitchen.

 Hope you're all having a good weekend.

Hopefully, I will be back with a card later, but now

I've got to go and help Mr Kiss string the outside lights up.

xxx

 

I Like Big Bows And I Cannot Lie

There's just over a year between my 2 daughters,

so, when they were growing up, I got used to making 2 copies of everything,

It's a habit I can't seem to break :-)

Here's their Christmas cards.

 I know they love this wide, stripy ribbon, so that was my starting point.

Then I kept things simple by adding the fussy cut penguins, coloured in traditional red and green,

with a sprinkling of glamour dust.

If you're a fan of ribbon, and let's face it, who isn't,

then check out Crafty Ribbons. 

They are having a Christmas Advent Event, starting on Dec 1st.

There will be lots of inspiration from their DT

and the chance to win some fabulous prizes along the way.

xxx

Challenges.

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes With Ribbon

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Simon Says - Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts - Add A Bow

Stampendous 'Yule Penguins', coloured with Copics and Glamour Dust.

Wide Ribbon. Sequins.

Merry and Bright

Now, be honest, do you blog your disasters?

Here's one of mine.

Ok, it's not a 'bin it' card, 
but I will be happy when it has slipped off the page.

 I got so carried away with glittering and sticking the little letters on
that I forgot to add the 'merry &' sentiment on the bottom  layer.
Adding it on the top, doesn't really look right, does it?

I did have fun playing with glitter though 
and found an easy way to make the letters.
I covered small squares with double sided tape,
peeled the backing off and pressed the glitter onto the sticky tape.
Then I die cut the letters.

Challenges. 

CAS(E) this Sketch - #55

Allsorts - Bring On The Bling

Crafty Cardmakers - Clean & Simple

One Frosty Morning

I am so behind today.

I should have been doing the washing and ironing,

but I got sidetracked.

Fed up of rubbish photos of my cards, I decided to play with the white balance on my camera.

3 hours and hundreds of photos later, I think I might be getting the hang of it!!

Can you see a difference?

The answer you're looking for is 'yes'  ;-) 

 This is my take on this week's Sketch Saturday.

I cut out a circle, and created a snow scene with my landscape die

and some dp.

I sprinkled some glamour dust on the landscape and then added a felt reindeer, a little sentiment, some bling and twine.

Challenges. 

Sketch Saturday - #286

Make It Monday - #168

Sentimental Sundays - Winter Wonderland + A Sentiment

CAS on Sunday - Winter Theme

Memory Box Landscape Die.   Circle Nestie Die.   Glamour Dust.

Sentiment from Woodware 'A Winter's Day' Set

Red Felt Reindeer.  Pearl, Sequins, Gems

'av a reyt good Christmas

Hooray... it's the weekend.

Today I am sharing a fun card with you, 

that I made for my SIL and her hubby.

They live in Castleford - hence the sentiment ;-)

My jolly Santa is a digi from Make It Crafty.

He's coloured with Copics and glitter, cut out and popped up on foam pads.

I saw the semtiment on the net somewhere and it stuck in my head.

I knew it would be perfect for them, so I made it up on my comp.

and printed it onto Kraft card.

I just want to say a HUGE thanks to all my visitors.

I have had such a lot of really lovely comments recently

and I appreciate you taking the time.

I see some of you have added Google+,
I have no idea how that works,

and it's proving difficult to find your blog link on some of your pages,

but I will get round to you all, eventually :-)

Challenges.

Winter Wonderland - Photo Inspiration (a cheery Santa)

Aud Sentiments - Any Sentiment (2nd entry)

Sweet Stampin' - Cause for Celebration. Congrats on your 4th Birthday xxx

Stampin' for the Weekend - Feeling Festive

Holiday Cheer

Afternoon everyone.

I hope something has made you happy today - 

for me it's been the little things - 

like smuggling in an almond croissant, when I'm supposed to be dieting (shhh..)

actually being in when a parcel arrived and not having to treck to the parcel depot,

but most of all, it's for my new Tescos having hand held scanners - 

no more unpacking and repacking a trolley full of groceries :-)

 

Here's another simple reindeer card for the pile.

 

I know a lot of you make this size card, (approx 106 x 148mm) 

and I bought some Papermania cardstock especially to make some.

The trouble is the card is just too flimsy - it's 216gsm.

Which cardstock do you use?

I ended up trimming down a larger card base that I had, 

and used my papermania card as a strip, down the side.

  

 

Challenges.

Crafty Girls - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Any Sentiment

Charisma - Christmas

ABC Christmas -  W for Winter Wishes

Less Is  More - Use Designer Paper in a CAS Way

Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer' Stamp and Die Set.

Red Papermania Cardstock.  DP Prima 'North Country.'

Twine, Button, Sequin

 

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

I had real fun making this card,

despite all the fiddly cutting and sticking.

Although, I admit, by the time I was finished

me, the desk, the floor and the dog were covered with Glamour Dust :-)

 I used the fab digi Christmas wreath from Bird's Cards,

printing it out in 2 shades of green card.

I cut out some of the leaves from the lighter green, sprinkled them with glamour dust

and added red gems, as berries. 

Then attached them to the darker base with foam pads.

I also added some punched, glittered snow flakes and tiny silver stars.

I finished the wreath with a satin bow and red jingle bells.

Challenges.

City Crafter - Use a wreath

Make It Monday

Christmas Card Challenges - Bling

Stamping Sensations - Christmas (2nd Entry)

 

Reindeer Rock

Hello everyone.

Today I'm showing you a card made with my new 'Holiday Cheer' set, from Hero Arts.

This is a great stamp and die set with a couple of reindeer, trees and snowflakes.

I wish it had a seperate die for the little reindeer's jersey,

but, I guess I will have to try paper piecing that bit.

I played along at Seize the Sketch, substituting their star for my reindeer and tree.

I tried stamping my sentiment with white ink, 

but because the card is textured it didn't come out too well.

It filled in nicely with a sparkly gel pen and IRL it's pretty and glittery. Honest :-)

Challenges.
Seize the Sketch - #8
Dream Valley Challenges - Clean & Simple
Created with Love - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Christmas