Ho, ho, ho!

 Here I am with yet another Christmas card! I told you I was on a roll. 

Today, I'm playing along with ABC Christmas Challenge where the themes are: 'C is for Cats' & 'D is for Dogs'.

I really do love the little critters from Jane's Doodles set O Christmas Tree and decided to pair it with Darkroom Door's Word Block Stamp Christmas, which I masked to create a square background. I added some lovely snowflakes using a stencil that's missing it's packaging. 

I'm also playing again at Christmas Craft Creations where the theme is:

 Little Red Wagon, where it's all about Stencil Power for Challenge #745

And there's just one more day to squeeze in my card at Helen's Rudolph Days February Challenge.

I hope you're all having a happy day wherever you are! 

I Saw a Mouse...

 Hey, just look at me posting for the second day in a row! I'm really enjoying my crafting at the moment and seem to be unusually productive. Long may it continue!

A while back I bagged this little Stampin' Up! mouse, and his equally cute buddies, from a Facebook sale site. Isn't he adorable? 

He was great fun to colour, although I didn't mean to stamp him in brown ink. I decided to stick with the brown and I have to say that I think it works with the kraft background. 

I stenciled with white Distress Ink through a TH/Stampers Anonymous Merry Christmas Layering Stencil and then added a sentiment from another bargain buy, which I think is from Hero Arts. 

I'm delighted to linking-up at a few challenges, having created my card using inspiration from:

Steph and Lauren are Getting TEXT-y With It for their current challenge.

The lovely crew at Christmas Craft Creations are looking for Stencils and Embossing Folders.

Edited to Add:

Thanks so much!

It's all about Christmas at Addicted to Stamps and More.

Just Us Girls are having an Anything Goes Stencil Week.

And finally, I'm tickled pink to see that the lovely Helen from Made by Helen has reopened The Rudolph Days Challenge! Congratulations, Helen, I hope this goes well for you. It's great to have a later in the month challenge with which to play along.

Time for a cuppa now. I hope you're all having a happy day and possibly even managing to squeeeeeeze in some crafty fun!

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Technique

Happy Monday, folks!

Over the weekend I was looking through a few different challenges and spotted that it was Technique Week over at 52CCT and they were playing with RETIFIORM. I'm not sure which rock I've been hiding under but this was a new technique to me and I decided to give it a go.

As I'm a CAS girl at heart, I decided to attempt a cleaner look for my card. I used blue Versafine ink and Distress Ink, and stamped images from Jane's Doodles into each cell. 

This is very much a first attempt, but I really enjoyed creating a card with a very different look from those I usually produce. Thanks to the DT at 52CCT for all the inspiration - they've created some gorgeous cards using this technique and each member of the team, and their guest, Kath, have really made this technique their own and used it in different ways.

Thanks for dropping by, and happy crafting!

It's Cake O'Clock!

Congratulations to the gang over at Time Out Challenges where they are celebrating 10 fabulous years of creativity and inspiration! 

Their challenge for the next two weeks is Birthdays! Happy birthday to all at Time Out - what an achievement!

My card features one of my gel prints and a favourite cake image and sentiment from Jane's Doodles set It's Cake O'Clock. 

I'm also playing along with

The Daring Cardmakers - Let's Have Cake

and

Challenge #461 - Make Your Mark

However you spend your day, I hope it involves crafting and cake!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #83 - Reminder

 

It's the 15th of February and that means Reminder time over at Christmas Kickstart.

We're in great company this month with Gail from Crafty Nomad as our elf as we go 

Out on a Limb

to create cards featuring things you'll find on trees at Christmas.

Here's a reminder of the gorgeous, fun card Gail made for our challenge:

And here's my creation as inspired by Gail's card...

I really wasn't concentrating when I made this card, and before I noticed I'd given the owl a green and red candy cane, and used a red layer instead of pink. At least I did echo Gail's bold black sentiment and cute hearts. I liked how Gail created a cut out centre with the big candy canes and hung her owl over the top layer, so tried to get a similar look with my card.

The owl comes from AALL Create and Craft set Owl you need is love. The candy cane and sentiment are from Holiday Sweets by Jane's Doodles. This is now discontinued, but this set has a similar candy cane by Jane. Sizzix Holiday Greens created the owl's perch. 

My second card was great fun to colour. I'm a big fan of Anita Jerman's images for CCC and am especially found of this set. 

Rudolph has two rather nice stencils on offer as his Random Raffle prize for this month.