A Peacful New Year to You All ....

Whatever you're doing tonight, I hope you all have a safe and peaceful New Year!

This is one of the cards I've made today - I used a Sizzlit die and some red snowflake paper.  A very simple design but I like it!

Some challenges for my card:

Winter Wonderland - 'red and white'

Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - 'use a sentiment'

Less is More - 'just one word'

Happy New Year and I'll be back in the next couple of days with a brand new challenge at The Squirrel and the Fox and the January club stamps from Little Claire!

Silhouette Cats

Here's a very simple card made with one of the Little Claire stamp sets called "Silhouette Cats" - it's one of their older sets but it's new to me as I've not worked with these particular stamps before.

My card was made using Cool Peri Adirondack ink which I applied with some Cut and Dry foam over the stamped image - I put a mask over the lamp to create the white circle.  Very simple but I was pleased with the result!

A few challenges for this card:

The Poodles Parlour - song titles ("Cool for Cats" from Squeeze)

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - blue plus one other colour

Samuel Taylor Crafts - 'anything goes'

A Little Thank You

I hope everyone is still enjoying the Christmas break!  I've been busy sorting out my crafting stuff but have still had time to make some cards.

This card was made using a Pink Gem stamp called 'Sitting Chloe' - it's one of the latest ones I bought and I really like it.  The papers are from a pack I bought a while ago from the Clas Ohlson shop in Liverpool - I hadn't realised they sell craft stuff but they actually have quite a nice little selection!

Some challenges for my card:

Winter Wonderland - 'thank you with a recipe' (3 papers, 3 flowers, ribbon and an image)

Paper Creations Ink - 'something old, something new' (new stamp and old papers!)

I Love Promarkers - 'anything goes'

Stampin for the Weekend - 'anything goes'

DYSU - 'stripes'

Blog Candy Winner!

I've just used the random.org number generator thingie to choose the winner of my blog candy from the post on 17 December for the Craft Your Passion Holiday Havoc Blog Hop.  I can't work out how to copy and print the result I'm afraid but .......

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ......  Doreen!

 

Please e-mail me (address in my profile details at the side of this page) with your postal address and I'll get the candy posted out to you.

Happy Christmas!!

Happy Christmas to everyone - hope you're having a fabulous day whatever you're doing!!

This is my last card for Christmas 2011 and is the card I made for my Mum and Dad.  I found an odd piece of kraft card when I was sorting out my 'bit box' a couple of days ago - I've got lots of kraft paper but this is card stock - so decided to have a go at stamping on it.  The stamp is a new one from Lili of the Valley called 'Christmas Baubles' and the paper is from Craft Creations.

Just spotted a few more Christmas challenges for this one:

Crafty Hazlenut's Christmas Challenge - end of year candy!

Papertake Weekly - 'last Christmas .... card of the year'

Crafty Purple Frog - 'Happy Christmas'
Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Christmas

Fairy Lights

Here's my card for the latest Nutcrafters Challenge which is 'Happy New Year'.  I've used the 'Fairy Lights stamp' which is a really sweet little stamp.  The paper I've used is from Making Memories and I also used some lace, some adhesive gems and computer generated sentiments.

Some challenges for this card:

Nutcrafters - 'Happy New Year'

Crafters Companion Monthly Challenge - 'new beginnings'

Corrosive Challenge Blog - 'anything but Christmas'

The Crafty Pad - 'anything but Christmas'

And Some More Christmas Cards!

I've almost finished making my cards for Christmas (still a few more to go!) and here are two that I made yesterday.  They were made using a Lace template in my Cuttlebug - so much easier (and more accurate!) that cutting the templates by hand!

The first one uses blue and silver - Craft Creations paper and a circular sentiment from Craftwork Cards.

Next, the same card using a red and green colour scheme:

Craft Creations paper again and a sentiment from Craftwork Cards too.

Some challenges for these cards:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - 'anything goes for Christmas'

Divas by Design - 'Merry Christmas'

Charisma Cardz - 'last minute Christmas'

Saturday Challenge - 'celebration'