What are H and I for?

Good morning!
It's Carissa here and I hope you are all having a wonderful week.

 Over on the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog we

have two wonderful new themes to choose from...or combine...this month:

'H is for Home'

 

and

 

'I is for Informal'

 

(But don't forget the Christmas theme!)

As you can see below, I went for the Informal theme. I opted to use this sweet image from LOTV, coloured it up and simply matted it before placing it atop a store purchased card blank with a bold pattern.  How easy is that?

 

 

 

 We have some generous sponsors for this challenge

 

Craftyribbons
 

Visit our blog http://blog.craftyribbons.com 

Inspiration Blog http://craftyribbonsinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/

 

and 

Sponsor
Wild Rose Studio

One lucky entrant will win this lovely Snowman Family Stamp Set and a Birds and Berries 6x6 Paper Pack. 

Thanks so much Dulcie and Matthew, owners of the Wild Rose Studio

 

Now its your turn. I hope you'll join us!

U for Under the Pile

Good Morning, I hope your week is off to a great start. Its hard to believe that we are already almost half way through October, the big day is inching closing and closer. To help you get prepared, we have another great theme starting today over on the ABC Christmas Challenge Blog.

 

U for Under the Pile

(we want to see some of the oldest creative goodies in your stash)

 

 

I can't claim that this was a hard one for me. Most of my stash is more than a year old at this point. This adorable little Edwin stamp that I think is about 2 years old now has been coloured up to match a card blank that I assembled using some scraps from an old Basic Grey Christmas collection. Only a few simple embellishments were added keeping the card nice and flat for the holiday mail.

 

We do hope that you will play along.

 

Our generous sponsor this time is Bugaboo Stamps

One lucky Random winner will win 7 Digi images for their choice

 

Happy Crafting!

Rip it Up

Where oh where has the summer gone. I can't believe that it is the last day of August already which means that we are now less than 4 months to Christmas.

 

Over on the ABC Christmas Challenge blog we have another new challenge starting today. The theme this time around is

 

R for Rip it Up

 

 

For my  card, I decided to dig into the inks and play.

 

 

I started by embossing the snowflake design and then rubbing on Distress inks in various shades of teal and purple. After tearing off the edge of the matted piece I played around with some embellishment and finally came across these old acrylic snowflakes so I pulled out the alcohol inks and dabbed them up to match with the background.

 

A few simple gems and a sentiment finish the whole thing off nicely.

 

I hope that you will join in on the fun.

 

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is

http://www.digistampboutique.co.uk/catalog/

http://digistampboutique.blogspot.co.uk/

and they have provided a £10.00 Voucher for one lucky participant.

 

Happy Crafting!