Father's Day

Hello all,

I hope you all had a good weekend? We celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary this weekend and went away for the night and visited the Amersfoort Zoo. It was the first time our girl visited a zoo and she enjoyed it so very much. It was great seeing her response to seeing an elephant and giraffe for the first time beyond seeing pictures or drawings. So much joy for her and us too :) Stay tuned for lots of pages from this experience!

Another (P)inspirational Challenge starting today and this is our inspirational photo:

 

Lovely bright colours! Again, the picture made me remember a paper in my stash that was just gathering dust, just hanging around; #Forever Young by BoBunny. Actually, I had several papers from that line still in my stash. So i started with the backing paper and pulled stuff in along the way. 

These are pictures from last year's (and my husband's first) Father's Day, as another one is due soon I thought this was the perfect time to scrap these. Yes, there is bright pink on a layout revolving around my husband, but it's quite bold and combined with lovely greens, white and black. Anyway, I prescribe to the idea that I use whatever I want whenever I want ;) I have included some ephemera in the shape of a moustache that our daughter 'made' at daycare and a business card from the place we had our Father Day's lunch. I am not planning to do this for every Father's and Mother's Day, but the first one is kind of special, right? I am thinking I can take pictures of the gifts our girl will make for the coming years and scrap them all together on a page. We shall see!

The sponsor this time around is Beccy's Place, have a look at her shop and see all the beautiful digi's available there!

Challlenges:

* Crafty Cardmakers (For a Special Man/Boy or Father's Day)

* Glitter 'n Sparkle (One for the Boys)

* Crafty Calendar Challenge (Boys will be Boys)

* Connie Can Crop (It's a Guy Thing)

* Come and Get It (Anything Goes)

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Exhausted

Hi all,

Christmas is coming near now, hope you are all prepared? Our last challenge this year at Pinspirational has this inspirational photo:

Lots of things to choose from; the theme, the colour scheme, the stockings, lace, rosettes.......I chose to use the colour scheme and the lace in my layout this time; these are two pictures before and after my daughter's 30 mins swimming lesson. As you can tell, that half hour took a lot out of her, so tired! But it was fun :)

Join us for one last challenge in 2016, we will be back in January with new challenges, but in the mean time will take some time off to celebrate the holidays with our families. See you on the other side in 2017!

Challenges:
* Lasting Memories (AG with photos from 2016)
* Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends (AG)
* Inspiration Destination (AG)

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Victorian Christmas

Hi all,

The weeks are flying by at the moment, but I'm glad I managed a card for this week's Fab 'n Funky challenge. This week's challenge is DISTRESS, I've used both a distressing tool and using ink to distress the papers. We are sponsored by Lacy Sunshine and the girls from the DT received some lovely images to work with. I decided to make a Christmas card, as the end of the year seems to be approaching so far right now and I need quite a lot of cards still!

Materials:
* Lacy Sunshine Curly Sue's Victorian Christmas digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* First Edition Up Up & Away & Authentique Remembrance DPs
* Forest Moss & Victorian Velvet Distress Ink & Distessing Tool
* Joy Craft Flower Heart punch (I use it for making snowflakes)
* Marianne Design Letters and More Backgrounds & Eline's Winterhuis Jingle Bells Stamp Sets
* Scraps, Sentiment Banner and Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Addicted to Stamps (Christmas is Coming)
* Crealing (Swirls) On the Paper
* Color Me Creative Classroom (Anything Goes)
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* Creative Fingers (Anything Goes plus Optional Twist: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)
* Creative Craft Challenges (Anything Goes)
* LadyBug Crafts (Anything Goes)
* Polka Doodles (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Anything Goes)
* Art Impressions (Anything Goes)

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Golf Detour

Good morning all!

Hope you all have a lovely week ahead of you. I will mostly be horizontal, as I just had a small operation last week and am still in recovery mode. However, Monday waits for no woman and another Ooh La La Challenge is on the horizon! Talking about Ooh La La, they will be presenting their latest CD on Create and Craft coming Saturday and it really is a gorgeous new release. The programme starts at 10.00 UK time, if you're interested! Anyway, back to the challenge, the theme this fortnight is "F is for.....", so use something on your card beginning with F! I've used a Funny image of a Fairway, which I've Framed and used some Foliage in the corner. Love to see what you can come up with!

Materials:
* Ooh La La Detour decoupage image & sentiment from the Boys to Men CD
* My Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus, K&Co Peter Horjus Sports & Ooh La La DPs
* Green Washi Tape
* TH Distress Tool & Forest Moss Distress Ink
* Leaf & rounded corner punch

Challenges:
* Whimsy Stamps (Male Cards)
* Inky Impressions (Sports or Hobbies)
* 2 Sisters (Anything Goes)
* Charisma Cardz (Decorate the Inside)
* Redd & Rosie's Challenge (Something for the Men
* Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes)
* Clear it Out (Theme: Boys/Men, Twist: Punches or Diecuts)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (Anything Goes)
* Creative Corner (The Great Outdoors)
* Ladybug Crafts (Anything Goes)

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Blingy Buttons

Good morning everyone!

Did you all have a nice weekend? We certainly did, we spent a couple of days in Zeeland, one of the Dutch coast provinces. We had beautiful sunny weather, but there was quite a lot of wind so it was still a bit nippy on occasion. It was wonderful though to get away for a few days :)

But now it's Monday again and there's plenty of fun things today was well, among which is a new challenge over @ Ooh La La, themed "Buttons & Bling". I managed to finish this card by the skin of my teeth, I was working on it yesterday evening when we came back! A case of bad planning on my part I'm afraid, but I managed to finish before my eyes fell shut somehow :) Such a beautiful flowers image, the CD Fleur D'Imagination is packed with them! I'm pretty happy with this card, I love the papers I found in my stash, very cheerfu making the card usuable for many occasions, always good to have in your stash :)

Materials:
* Ooh La La Pom Pom image from the Fleur D'Imagination CD, sprayed with Crafter's Companion Iridescent Glitter Spray
* My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow and Art Talent DPs
* Victorian Velvet & Forest Moss Distress Inks
* K&Co Brenda Walton Transfers to Go rub-on sentiment
* Button & twine from stash (I applied some crackle glaze on the button, but you can't see it very well)

Let's see what you can do with your glitter and buttons, please share with us!

Challenges:
*4 Crafty Chicks (Flowers)
* Allsorts (In the Garden)
* Simons Says Stamp & Show (Use a Button)
* Crafts & Me (Something Old) MME DP and rub on sentiment pack have been in my stash forever
* In the Pink (Anything Goes As Long As It's Pink)
* Card & Scrap (Flowers)
* Fussy & Fancy (Bling It On)
* Joanna Sheen (Spots and/or Stripes)
* Crealing (Flowers)
* Ladybug Crafts (Opposite end of the Colour Wheel) I've used Green-Yellow & Red-Violet

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Round Up Those Bots!

Hi everyone,

Another Thursday, another Delightful Challenge! Our theme this week is "Round Up" or use Circles in your project. I've used circles in a number of ways; first, I cut out a circle shape and made a patchwork design on it with some of my scraps from the scrappy shoebox. Then I used a circle punch & round gems,buttons and a washer. I wonder what you can come up with, please share your circle projects with us!

Materials:
* Digital Delights Diddibot set, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP and assorted scraps
* Scalloped circle punch
* Forest Moss Distress Ink
* Eline Vintage & Stampendous Changito in Space Stamp sets
* Papermania Mini Buttons Verde
* Ribbon & gems from stash + a washer from the toolbox

Our sponsor this week is

Offering a 15 dollar store gift card to the challenge winner

Challenges:
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Green & Orange

And there she is again!

Are you getting tired of me yet? ;) I have to agree, its a packed Monday this time around. But promise, this is my last project for today for the Ooh La La Design Team. For the next two weeks, we would like to see your projects in "Green & Orange". When I came across this image before, I knew I wanted to make a card with it and this was the perfect opportunity:

Don't you just love this image? So romantic and even though orange isn't usual my colour I love it here. It's really soft and pastel here. The image is from the Yesterday's Memories CD, which you can find here. There's lots of new things happening on the Ooh La La website and yet more to come so keep an eye on it!

Materials:
* Crafters Companion CS
* Ooh La La "Pretty in Orange" Topper & orange DP, from the CD Yesterday's Memories
* Assorted DP scraps
* Hunkydory Classic Cameo flowers die cut
* Studio Light sentiment
* Eline's Vintage Sentiment Stamp set
* Vine peel off, ribbon and gem from stash

Challenges:
* Incy Wincy (Use Pastels)
* Shelly's Images (Show Us What You've Got/Anything Goes)
* Forever Friends (One for the Girls)
* My Grafico (Anything Goes)
* Bunny Zoe (Girly)
* CRAFT (Mother's Day/Female)
* Crafty Ribbons (Anything Goes with Ribbon)
* Crafting by Designs (Vintage Easter/Spring)
* Brown Sugar (Flowers)
* Digi Haven (Spring)

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Challenging Colour Combo

Hi all,

It's Wednesday again, so time for another Fab 'n Funky challenge! Our lovely teamie Pat has chosen a colour challenge theme, so if you want to play along you should use "Pink, Green & Brown". We are sponsored by MayzyArt, which is quickly becoming one of my favourite digi companies. Such lovely fun images and a doddle to colour! I decided to make an Easel card, as I hadn't done that in a while.

Let's see what you can do with this challenge!

Materials:
* MayzyArt Swoopy Melva, coloured with Promarkers
* Docrafts Country Companions DP & K&Co Hopscotch Girl Tag Pad Tag
* Victorian Velvet Distress Ink & Dovecraft Cocoa Brown Ink
* Fairy Doodles sentiment stamp
* Rounded corner & Flower punches
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Art Impressions (Check Us Out)
* Addicted to Stamps (Easel Cards)
* Cute Card Thursday (Anything Goes)
* Totally Papercraft (Easel Card)
* Bunny Zoe (Girly)
* Allsorts (1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments)
* One Stop Craft (Anything Goes)
* Scrapbooking Queen (A Hint of Green)
* Aud Sentiments (Sentiment for a Girl)
* Colour Me Creative (Spring Colours)

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Indoors Decoration

Good morning everyone!

It has been very quiet on my blog this week and I haven't been able to visit all the other blogs I love as I have been struck down with the flu :( Thankfully I am feeling much better again now, as a new challenge is starting today at Fab 'n Funky themed "WHAT'S INSIDE", one of my teamie Beccy's ideas, meaning that we want you to decorate the inside of your card. I always do that anyway, a great way of using up scraps of paper, but thought I would make a bit more of an effort this time around. I got to play with my new purchase, Card Candi, which I really enjoyed, so versatile but it doesn't add much in terms of weight to your card (very important if you want to mail your cards, which I usually will).

Here is my Christmas-themed card, both inside and out!

We are sponsored by Stampfairy this week, it would be great if you could come and play along with us!

Materials:
* Stampfairy Gingerbread Babies Hoola Hoop, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Red Glitter
* Helz Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party DPs + some scraps
* Forest Moss Distress Ink & Silver Ink
* Vintage Berries Candi
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Button
* SEI Christmas Mint Vanilla Icing Accents
* Joycraft Snowflake punch
* Eline's Winterhuis Christmas Sentiment Stamps
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Mayzy Art (Anything Goes)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Use it Tuesdays (Fasteners) Hoarded items are the SEI Accents & Red Glitter
* Natalie & Amy (Something Old & Something New) Old: SEI Accents & Glitter, New: Candi
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* Tuesday Throwdown (Anything Goes)
* Craft Room Challenges (Make Your Own Embellishments) Rosettes
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
* Oozak (Anything Goes with Your Favourite Colours) For Christmas, it has to be Green & Red

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Traditional Christmas Nutcracker

Hi all!

Another week, another Christmas card, although I've used a slightly different image than I usually do. I like Nutcracker images, but to me they don't really associate with Christmas very much. So I've never really used them for Crimbo cards. But now that I have I might start using them a lot more, the image is just so cute and works well with whatever colour scheme you can throw at it. This project uses the most traditional colour scheme for Christmas in my eyes: Red and Green.

Materials:
* Digital Delights Mr Nutcracker & Winter Tickets Sentiment set, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Dovecraft Jolly Happy Christmas DPs
* Red and Green ink
* Joy Craft Flower punch
* Eline's Winterhuis stamp set
* Ribbon, gem from stash

And what a coincidence, that's exactly what the Delightful Challenge has as its theme! With Christmas on its way, I am sure you have a couple of Red & Green projects kicking about, why not enter them?

Our sponsor this week is

Hope to see you there!

Challenges:
* Card & Scrap (Christmas)
* Whimsy Stamps (Traditional Christmas Colours)
* SJ Crafts (Christmas with optional Mix those Alphas)
* Natalie & Amy (Colour me Happy) My favourite Christmas colour combo is still red & green!
* Mema's Craft (Anything Goes or Winter/Holiday themed)
* Little Claire's (Christmas)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Something older than 6 months) Just about everything on the card!
* Let's Craft & Create (Getting Ready For Christmas)
* Paper Creator's Crafts (Christmas)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)

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Let it Snow

Good morning my crafty friends!

Are you tired of making Christmas cards yet or haven't you started yet? I've been making loads of Christmas-themed cards recently and I have to admit I'm getting to a point where I will be glad if I have all my cards ready and can get to working with other types of images and themes again! Nevertheless, I have another Christmassy card to share with you, hoping to inspire you to participate in our Delightful Challenge themed "Let it Snow (Use Snowflakes)". I've made a snowy scene by cutting out some of the elements of my digi and rearranging them into a scene of my own. I've combined them with some deer stamps. I'm very happy with this card; nice clean lines :)

Oops, I just realised I haven't used any Snow Flakes! What a silly sausage :) In my defense, there IS snow ;)

Materials:
* Digital Delights Winter Background & Christmas Sentiments set, coloured with Promarkers
* Dovecraft Noel DP & some torn white CS to create the snowy scene
* Eline's Winterhuis Stamp set
* Clear Stardust Glitter Glue
* Gems & Pearls from stash

We are being sponsored by 

Prize = 20 dollar gift card to spend in their store 

Come and join us!

Challenges:
* Anything Goes Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Sweet Stampin' (All That Glitters)
* Creative Craft Challenge 2 (Any Special Occasion but not Birthday)
* Card & Scrap (Christmas card)
* St. Luke's Charity cards (Last Challenge - Traditional Christmas)
* AnMaCreatief (Christmas)
* Oozak (Winter Vibes)
* Live & Love Crafts (Christmas)
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Avadares Challenges (Christmas/Hanukkah)

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Christmas Greenery #5

Good Afternoon everyone!

Well, this is my last Green Christmas card for the March Challenge over at CCAYR! I have to admit I am getting pretty sick of making green cards, I've been using lots of other colours on other cards as a result! It's for a good cause though :) You still have the rest of the week to link up, so if you haven't why not give it a go, it's only 9 months until Christmas after all LOL

Materials:
* Studio Light DPs, image and sentiments
* Echo Park Walk in the Park DP
* Ribbon and peel off stickers from stash

Challenges:
* Crafty Purple Frog (Anything Goes)
* Whoopsi Daisy (Use Your Stash)
* One Stitch at a Time (Anything Goes)
* 52 Christmas Card Throwdown (Designer Papers)
* Crazy Challenge (Add a Sentiment)
* Cheerful Stamp Pad (Anything Goes)
* Lollipop Crafts (Anything Goes)
* Christmas Stampin' All Year Long (Anything Goes)
* Wags 'n Whiskers (Luck of the Irish - Use Green)
* Winter Wonderland (Inspiration Photo - I've used Green and Red, Christmas Tree, Red Ribbon Bow)

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Christmas Greenery #4

Good morning everyone!

Another Christmas card for the CCAYR March Challenge: Green! This was a card that came together pretty easily, I "rescued" an image from the back of one of my decoupage magazines and used it as the card's focal point. I love Poinsettias, don't you?

After this, I have one more card to share with you this month! If you would like to see all the cards I've made for this challenge as well as those of my teamies, have a look at the challenge blog!

Materials:
* Champagne base card
* Studio Light image, sentiments and DP
* My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow paper flower
* Peeloffs and black pearl from stash

Challenges:
* Sparkles Christmas Challenge (Use Peel-offs)
* Crazy 4 Challenges (Green)
* Always Crafting (Anything Goes)
* Crazy Challenge (Go Green)
* Outlawz (Flowers, Patterned Paper & Ribbon)
* Use Your Stuff (Anything Goes)
* Lia Stampz (Anything Goes + Sentiment)
* Mema's Crafts (Just the Two of Us - Two colours - I've used red and green)
* Scrap It Girl (Go Green & Recycle)
* Love to Create (Anything Goes)

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Christmas Greenery #3

Good morning everyone!

I've got another Green Christmas card to show to you today:

Come and play along with our Green Challenge at CCAYR, you have until the end of the month!

Materials:
* White square base card
* Basic Grey Jovial DP, edges inked with black ink
* Studiolight Decoupage image and sentiments
* Matted silver mirror card
* Ribbon and silver brads from stash

Challenges:
* That Craft Place (Anything Goes)
* Ladybug (Anything Goes)
* Paper Craft Star (Use Green as main colour)
* Celebrate the Occasion (Any Occasion but must use Metal)
* Sassy Cheryl (Green)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Green)
* Use it Tuesdays (Green - All items came from my stash!)
* Colour Q (Colour Challenge: Greens and Grey)
* Fab 'n Funky (Luck of the Irish - I've used Green)
* Just Some Lines (Use at least 2 things that are more than 6 months old; all of it is!)

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Christmas Greenery #2

Good morning everyone!

This my second Christmas card for the Green Challenge at CCAYR, you still have the rest of the month to participate. And there has been a change is challenge rules; you don't have to make 5 cards anymore to qualify for the prize, one will do just fine! :) Good news, right? I think I will keep it up though, so there will be a lovely big pile of Christmas cards ready to send come December. maybe you'd like to do that too, so a green challenge might be just the ticket to start you off :)

I love combining red and green on Christmas cards, it's a classic combination for a reason, right?


Materials:
* Studio Light decoupage image & sentiment, also green DP
* Marianne Design Scandinavian Christmas red DP (edged inked with black ink)
* SEI Christmas Mint Collection: Vanilla Icing Accents
* White and green ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Christmas Card Challenges (Christmas with optional Embossing)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Seeing Red)
* ABC Christmas Challenge (Evergreen)
* Perfect Sentiments (Christmas Trimmings)
* Inky Impressions (Luck of the Irish....Use Green)
* DYSU (Go Green)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* Divas by Design (Favourite things - Using Traditional Colours for Christmas Cards)
* Digistamps 4 Joy (Green)
* Scrapalicious USA (Anything Goes)
* Whimsical Designs (Green)

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Patrick's Green

UPDATE 8th of March ---------
Unfortunately, when I posted this message I didn't yet know that Friendship's Garden is closing its doors. This challenge won't be opened and no new challenges will start. You can read our head Garden Girl Becky's farewell message here. On a personal note, I want to thank all of you who have participated in the challenges or commented on my DT cards for Friendship's Garden. It's a shame to see it go, but as Becky says: Nothing lasts Forever. Thank you all.
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Hi Everyone,

Yet another challenge at Friendship's Garden is starting today, the theme is "ST. PATRICK's DAY"! We don't celebrate that in the Netherlands (funny how a lot of holidays aren't really celebrated here, I can assure you we are not all work and no play!), so I decided to go with a Green & Lucky theme. I thought a tag would be just the ticket for a colleague leaving or someone moving away, so that's what I did. Here's the tag:

Materials:
* K&Co Roam Tag Pad, edges distressed with my new TH tool and inked with green ink
* Studio Light Clover image
* Sentiment and horseshoes from Word Clip Art
* Ribbon and gems from my stash

Challenges:
* My Grafico (St Patrick's Day)
* Paper Pretties (Going Green)
* Incy Wincy (Something Old, Something New; Old = All of it, but especially my ribbon and gems, New = My Tim Holtz Distress Tool that I bought on Monday!)
* Creative Mondays (Anything Goes)
* Craft Your Passion (Anything Goes)
* There She Goes (Tag It)
* Stamps & Fun = Creativity (One Bow)
* Catered Crop (Ribbon)
* Paper SUndaes (Green or Good Luck)
* The Hybrid Chick (Lucky & Green)

I hope you can join us once again at Friendship's Garden, hope to see you there!

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Seeing Green

Good morning all my crafty friends,

Nice of you to stop by :) It's time for another Card Makin' Mamas challenge and this time the theme is "GREEN"! Seems to be going round a lot doesn't it (if you read my post from yesterday, you'll understand)! I've opted for another birthday card, this one's for my aunt who had been complaining that she hadn't received a handmade card from me yet. So here it is, I hope she likes it. I like like this card, it's so girly! :)

Why don't you join in the challenge? Have a look at the challenge blog to read the rules (cards only!), you will also find more details on the challenge there. Hope you all will have a great weekend, I will be visiting my parents and do a spot of shopping with an old friend :) See you next week!

Materials
* Champagne base card, gatefold
* Crissy's Digis "Birdie Friend" (a digi I won from Whimsey Stamps), coloured with Promarkers
* First Edition Hideaway DP
* Flower from stash, coloured with Promarkers
* My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow paper flower
* Flower punch
* Brad & gems from my stash

Challenges:
* Joanna Sheen (Spring is in the Air)
* Celebrate the Occasion (Birthday, Must Use Bling)
* Clear It Out (Birthday + Use Up Your Bling)
* Deep Ocean Challenge (Spring)
* Passion for Promarkers (Pastel Colours)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Spring Time)
* My Grafico (Flowers)
* Nettie G's Gems (Show Your Best)
* Cutie Pie (Flowers)
* Cute Card Thursday (Signs of Spring)
* Scrapbook Sisters (Spring Flowers)

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Christmas Greenery #1

Hello Everyone!

March already, my goodness, how time is flying by! A new month also means a new challenge over at Christmas Cards All Year Round, the theme this time in "GREEN". I am sure we all use a lot of green in our Christmas cards, so just up the dose and play along with our challenge. After all, you have all month! If you make 5 cards for our challenge, you get included in the draw for the prize, which this time is I have decided to attempt making 5 cards for each challenge too, so that I have a varied stash of Crimbo cards at the end of the year. I will be showing them throughout the month, the full set will be posted on the challenge blog!

Here's the first of my cards, I've been rummaging in the scraps box again to try and use up some of the lovely papers bits that are in there. I have been focusing on diminishing the scrappy pile for a while now, unfortunately I haven't really made a dent in it yet but will continue with my mission regardless :)

I'm loving distressing papers with distress ink at the moment, I really like the grungy look although I admit I sometimes take it a little too far, don't really know if it happened here too. You be the judge :)

Materials used:
* Champagne base card
* Paper scraps from my stash, most notably from Basic Grey (Jovial) & Marianne Design (Winter)
* Sarah Kay decoupage image
* Sentiment stamps for Daisy & Dandelion All Wrapped up Stamp set
* SEI Vanilla Icing Chipboard
* White gel pen to trace the poinsettia
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* Flatback pearls from my stash

Challenges:
* ABC Christmas Challenge (Distress It)
* Pixie Cottage (Anything Goes)
* Perfect Sentiment (Anything Goes + Die Cut)
* Allsorts (Anything Goes)
* Shopping Our Stash (Sentiments required OR use a Bugaboo image)
* Whoopsi Daisy (Spots/Dots)
* Partytime Tuesdays (Anything Goes)
* Sassy Cheryl (Are You Seeing Spots?)
* Christmas Card Challenges (Music or Anything Christmassy Goes)
* Crimbo Crackers (Female)

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Birthday Frog

Good evening everyone,

The beginning of another week and I have another card to share with you. A good friend of the family is celebrating her birthday on the 4th of October and she loves frogs. I personally can't stand the things, but as she likes them I almost always make a 'froggy' card for her. This is the one for this year:

I punched the holes with a normal office punch, the holes are then big enough to thread ribbon through. 

Materials used:

* Silver base card

* Studio Light 3D image, sentiments and DPs

* Silver matt mirror board

* MS Doily Lace border punch

* Silver corner peel offs, ribbon and gems from my stash

Challenges

* Birthday Sundaes (Ribbon)
* Aud Sentiments (Birthday)
* Celebrate the Occasion (Anything Goes, Must Use Ribbon)
* Cute Card Tuesday (Animal Crackers)
* Little Miss Muffet (Animals or Monsters)
* Our Creative Corner (Inspiration from another country (Ireland: green and shamrocks))
* Emerald Fairies (Punches and Dies)
* Creatalicious Challenges (Anything Goes)
* 4 Crafty Chicks (Anything Goes)
* Daring Cardmakers (Use a foreign language, Dutch)

I will be back on Wednesday with my first card for the Friendship's Garden, we will be doing a bloghop and have some great prizes for you to win, so stay tuned and check back in a few days! 

Have a great week! 

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Father's Day UK version

Hiya all!

Well, Father's day is just around the corner and because I am lucky enough to be able to make two cards, both for my dad and my father-in-law, I thought I'd get started with the first one. This one is for my father-in-law, he's an avid golfer so a golf theme seemed perfect. I often make a gold-themed card for him, this is in all likelyhood about the last golf image in my entire stash! I am actually pretty happy with this card, although it wasn't that hard to make. The grass papers on the front took a bit of measuring, but it now looks perfectly measured up. Well, perhaps not perfectly, but close enough :)

Materials used:
* Studio Light 3D image, sentiment and golf green vellum
* Grass paper and peel off sentiment inside from stash

I am submitting into the following challenges:
* Easy Craft Projects (For Dad)
* CYDA (Father's Day/Special Man)
* 2 Sisters (Anything Goes)
* Aud Sentiments (Card/Sentiment for a man)
* Charisma Cardz (Boy oh Boy!)
* Creative Card Crew (Anything Goes)
* The Paper Shelter (Anything Goes)
* Here Come The Boys (Father's Day)
* A La Card Monkey (Man Card)
* Samuel Taylor's Crafts Challenge (Male Theme), prize is a lovely Scrapbook kit!

Hope you guys like it, let me know!

Ciska

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