My favourite Things

 

The challenge over at Natalie and Amy's this week is to show some of your favourite things, and for me, House Mouse is ranking right up there at the moment.

 

Here is a card that I made for my mother in law, using a House mouse decoupage set from the Joanna Sheen project CD. My MIL's favourite flower is a poppy, so this image was just perfect for her.

 

This is an A5 card as the image is quite big, and I have kept it really simple so that the focus is on the image. I was tempted to glitter it a bit., but managed to hold back!!

 

Also, no prizes for my photography here - as you can see there is a wooden duck peaking over the top of the card!!!

 

Here are the challenges that I am entering today......

 

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Natalie and Amy - Favourite Things

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Card Crafters Circle - Anything Goes

Make it Monday

 

Thanks for stopping by today

 

Sharon x

 

 

 

 

 

Oh Christmas Tree

I couldn't resist one more quick post, whilst sitting here in my PJ's blogging!!

Here is a card that I made using a Denami Mimi stamp, which I water coloured for a change. I have mebellished with another gorgeous holly die, cut from pearlescent card and embellished with peal paint for the berries.

The base carda nd marring has all been made suing my Grands Nesties, and I could'nt let this one go without a bit of last minute glitter sprinkling!

And here are some more challenges:

Papertake - Pick of the Year - Anything Goes
Ecclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft - A Christmas Carol  Oh Christmas Tree
Make it Monday

That's all from me for now!

Sharon x

Something 'tweet'

Well, despite my best intentions, my plan to blog profulsely over the Christmas period never came to pass......there was just too much to do!

If you have seen my older posts, you will know that I had quite a list of crafty activities to complete ready for Christmas, and so I ended up still finishing up at midnight on Christmas Eve (or would that be Christmas Day once the clock struck 12!) - so it was a pretty close call.

I didn't help myself by deciding that I would make two more necklaces on the 23rd......I guess I just can't help myself!

So here is one of my cards which I made using  this cute Robin miage from Digistamp Boutique. I coloured him in with Promarkers and added some glitter (which for once you can actually see in the photo), before matting him up on some paper which I already had in my stash.....I think they were magazine freebies, but they are quite nice don't you think?

I finally topped it up with some gorgeous delicate die cuts..........I have to say I still have a momoent of amazement when you see how beautifully these come out when they are run through the machines,

So it's time to enter a few challenges again......here goes:

Papertake Pick of the Year - I chose 'Anything Goes'
Make it Monday
Ecclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
The paper Shelter - Anything Goes
My Time to Craft - Animals in the Snow
One Stop Craft - A Christmas Carol - Inspired by 'The Holly and the Ivy'

So that's my post for today. I would like to wish a Merry Christmas to all my visitors. I hope that you had enjoyed the festive season and I look forward to a Crfty New Year with you all.

Sharon x

We could be doing this soon!

 

Rumour has it that there could be some snow on the way in these parts, in the not too distant future.......and if that's the case, we could see a bit of sledging activity going on!

Aside from all the problems of getting on with daily life, a decent snow fall can work wonders for getting the kids outside....and my son is no exception. For once he is willing to put down his PC game controls in favour of some fun the old fashioned way........sledges, snowballs and freezing yourself to pieces, but not really caring!

This image really puts me in mind of that. It came from Digi Stamp boutique and is one of the last things that I printed before my old printer gave up the ghost.

I coloured it really simply with flat colouring and then mounted it on to some lovely papers from the NitWits Winter Mittens set.

Finally I have finished of with someglitter and a snow flake border cut from my Memory Box die.

Simple but sweet, I hope you will agree!

So here are the challenges that I would like to enter today:

The paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Make it Monday
Stamptacular Sunday - Christmas Time
Come and Get It - Merry Christmas
Ecclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
The Squirrel and the Fox - Christmas
Papertake Fav' Challenge - Anything Goes

So that's the end of another post. Only a few days of Pre Christmas panic left now! Hope your plans are are working out  - I'm off now to do some more wrapping.........fa la la la laaaaaa!! :o)

Sharon x