Christmas in Unusual Colours

Good morning everyone!

Told you I'd be back ;) It's about halfway through the month of January (Where does the time go? Honestly!), perfect time to share my card with you for the January challenge at Christmas Cards All Year Round, which has the theme NON-TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS COLOURS. I've chosen pink and brown, because I just love the combination of the two colours, and used it to make an easel card:

You can still join us for this challenge for another two weeks, so hope to see you there! 


Just wondering, has any of you girls have any experience with colouring on Neenah card? I was driven to despair with my current colouring medium (I think it's Magnolia paper), it keeps running! I've ordered some, but am just curious to know what any of you think of the product. Thanks!


Materials:
* Champagne base card
* Studio Light image as well as the polka dot paper and pink sentiment
* Rozette and torn paper from ?
* Making Memories Rouge Button
* Round sentiment, pearl, purple mirror card from stash


Challenges:
* Christmas Crafting (Easel Card)
* Heart Song Inspirations (Border Punch or Torn Paper)
* Lexi's Creations (Anything Goes)
* DYSU (Pink)
* Hanna & Friends (Easel Card)
* Bunny Zoe (Inspiration Photo)
* Crafts & Me (Christmas)
* Truly Madly Crafty (Anything Goes)
* Ge-We (Square Card)
* Moving Along with the Times (Spots and/or Stripes)

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Christmas Stockings

Hi everyone,


The weekend is near, are you looking forward to it? I know I am! We'll be up to see my mum and dad this weekend, it's my mum who's turning 75 this time around! I hope the train ride is going to be smooth, I hate delays as it's such a long trip.


Anyway, I've got a Christmas card to show you today. Yes, I know, a bit early perhaps, but better to start now and have plenty of cards come December! Anyway, I love making Christmas cards, so it suits me fine :). For this card I've tried to use up some of the scraps I had lying around, I'm sure you all have plenty of little leftover that get dumped into the scrap pile too. It's actually worthwhile to have a little rummage in there once in a while, there's so much gorgeous stuff in my pile too good not to use. Besides, I need to make room for new stash, right? I actually went to a hobby store today for the first time in months, as to be honest with you I don't really need anything new. But they were having a sale on and I came away with a Basic Grey paper pad, some chipboard and a SMIRK decoupage pad for a grand total of 10 euros! Had I bought these items earlier on, I would have had to spend 18 euros more than I did! Now you can't really argue with a bargain like that, right? Anyway, here's the card:

I'm pretty happy with, not in the least because my scraps pile is a little less high now :) Although the bow I made really turned out lovely in my opinion, it's not often that those work out for me. Hope you all enjoy your upcoming weekend, I might be back tomorrow or it will be Monday. See you all then!


Materials:
* Champagne base card
* Studio Light Sarah Kay image & sentiment
* DPs from scrap box: Basic Grey Jovial, Echo Park For the Record, Marianne Design Old-Fashioned Christmas, all sides inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* KARS X-mas Collection Ribbon
* Pearls, gem, peel offs and stocking from stash


Challenges:
* Sparkles Christmas (Christmas Stockings)
* Incy Wincy (Vintage)
* Gingersnap (Ribbon)
* For Fun (Anything Goes)
* ABC Christmas (Anything Christmas)
* Crazy Challenge (Lace and/or Pearls)
* My Mum's Craft Shop (Here Come the Girls)
* One Stitch at a Time (Lots of Embellishments)
* Creations by Gill M (3D Decoupage)
* Top Tip Tuesday (Anything Goes)

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CAS Baby

Good morning everyone!

Did you all manage to play along with the latest challenge at Friendship's Garden? Well, there's a new challenge starting today, so you might want to add your cards or other projects! The theme this time around is CAS (CLEAN AND SIMPLE). You can use and make anything, except stamping your main image (or using a digi that is not pre-coloured. Now, I do simple, but not clean, so it was mighty hard to make this card and not stick a million different things on or use lots of backing papers! It really felt like the card wasn't finished, but then again, this is CAS....you be the judge:

I made this card for a colleague of mine who just had her first child. There were some complications during the pregnancy, but thankfully both mother and daughter are completely healthy. Since she has quite a modern taste, I think she might like this style of card. We'll shall see!

Materials:
* White Scalloped Base Card
* Studio Light DP (I used a Crafter's Companion embossing board)
* K&Company Dollhouse Alphabet Chipboard
* Spellbinders shape
* Karen Foster Baby Words Rub-on sentiments

Challenges:
* Get Creative (CAS)
* Crafty Boots (New Beginnings)
* Crafty Ribbons (New Beginnings)
* Bling It On (New Beginnings)
* By the Cute & Girly (New Beginnings)
* Craft Your Days Away (New Beginnings)
* Ooh La La (New Beginnings)
* Dream Valley (Anything Goes)
* Unstampabelles (Anything Goes but no Stamps!)
* Papertake Weekly (Die Cute)

Hope you like my card, maybe I'll see all your lovely creations at the Challenge Blog!

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Kitty Cat Birthday

Hello everyone!

Well, I'm back at work.........so less time to craft. But on the other hand it's good to get into a little routine again, I was all over the shop in the last week! However, I was glad to be off for a little longer, because now we have most boxes unpacked and our bikes can now comfortably stand in the garage! It was such a mess before....

Anyway, I have a birthday card to show you, this time it's for my Mother-in-Law. She has her birthday on the 13th, but because she doesn't know about this blog I think I can get away with showing it to you now. I made the card with another so far unopened Hunkydory card kit that my OH bought me for my birthday a while back, I think it's just so gorgeous that I was a little overwhelmed as to how to use it. And to be honest, I've stuck with what was in the card kit, because it all complements each other so well.

My hubby, who makes all my pictures for this blog, said this card was so difficult to photograph because all the foiling is so shiny. It's really in your face in real life, you only get a bit of it on the photo. You can barely see the sentiment, as that's covered in foiling too. Another first again, making a stepper card. It was really easy, as these come with the card kit, already scored:

Don't you love the little cat on the right, stretching? How do you guys work with card kits, do you manage to combine it with other stash you might have? I'm very curious to see how you guys do it.

Materials: Hunkydory Cat's Meow Card Kit & some DP scraps (Docraft Country Companions) from my scrap box.

Challenges:
* Crafty Cardmakers (No Floral Embellishments)
* Anything Goes Challenge (Anything Goes)
* CES (Anything Goes)
* Cupcake Craft (Something New) -> New Card Kit/Stepper Card
* Cupcake Craftroom (Anything Goes)
* Cute Card Thursday (What's New) -> New Card Kit/Stepper Card
* Delicious Doodles (All Things New) -> New Card Kit/Stepper Card
* Make My Monday (Animals)
* Fairy Tale Challenge (Something New) -> New Card Kit/Stepper Card
* Little Miss Muffet (Something New) -> New Card Kit/Stepper Card

That's it from me, see you all later!

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Motor Bike Birthday

Morning everyone!

Tomorrow is my first day at work again and I'm really lucky because the first day is going to consist of one long meeting.....sigh......oh well, I have to get back to work sometime right? Today I have another card to share with you that I made for a family friend's birthday. He is crazy about motor sports, so I thought this card would be very suitable for him. He must have received it by now, fingers crossed, so I hope he likes it:

Materials:
* Champagne base card, gatefold
* Studio Light image, most DPs and sentiments
* Border punch starts cut-outs (frugal or what?)
* Some blue scraps from my scraps pile

Challenges:
* DYSU (Let it Snow) -> Tyres in the Snow
* Aud Sentiments (Any sentiment & Using Scraps)
* Creative Card Crew (Snow)  -> Tyres in the Snow
* Pollycraft (Punch it)
* Simply Create Too (Layers)
* The Paper Shelter (Anything Goes)
* Sentimental Sundays (Snow, Blue and/or Glitter)
* Paper Sundaes (Saturated Colours)
* Dream Valley (Anything Goes)
* Birthday Sundaes (Birthday Card)

This is my last day off, tomorrow I will be starting work again, just when I got used to sleeping in and playing around in my crafty room :( I still have a couple more cards to show you, I will post them during the following weeks. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and good luck come Monday morning........;)

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New Year Challenge

Hello Everyone,

Jeez, how bad can the weather be? It's been raining cats & dogs and gale force winds are blowing around the house (well, maybe I'm exaggerating just a teensy bit) throughout the week. However, that does give me every excuse to stay in and craft, right? ;)

This is a birthday card I made for my mum, hope she won't have a look on my blog before her birthday (no chance!). Oh well :) My card coincides well with the new Card Makin' Mamas Challenge: NEW YEAR! Use something that is new to you, whether it's a new technique, new stash you received over the festive period or anything else new! I've used the Hunkydory Classic Cameo card kit, my hubby gave it to me for my birthday, but since then it has been sitting quietly in its wrapper waiting to be used. Not anymore I say, time to break open the new stash :) Hope you like the card, it's one of those accordion cards (is that the official term for it? I don't know), I think it looks pretty classy and vintage. What do you guys think?

Materials: Hunkydory Classic Cameo card kit

Challenges:
* Fussy & Fancy (Animal Print OR Birthday)
* Incy Wincy (Anything Goes)
* Paper Creations (Die-Cuts and/or Punches)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* Polka Doodles (Through the Window)
* Sentimental Sundays (Anything Goes)
* Simon Says (Use Something New)
* Tuesday Throwdown (Shiny New Year)
* Sparkle Creations (Something New)
* Joanna Sheen (Celebrations)

Come on and join us for this challenge, we would love to see you makes! Well, I better get into the town, I am due at work on Monday and I need to pick up a few things and go to the hairdressers. Yuk, I hate shopping, but it has to be done sometime, better now than after work later on.....wish me luck! :)

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First ATC ever - Friendship's Garden Bonus Week

Hello everyone,

Did you enjoy the New Year's Celebrations? We certainly did, I cooked a great meal, we drank some lovely wine and around 12 there was an absolutely spectacular firework show courtesy of our neighbours. Since we had to stay up for another hour so that we could also ring in the new year with my parent's in law, I was absolutely exhausted on the 1st and we just vegetated on the couch for the day.

But now I'm back in business and here's my first project to share with you! Friendship's Garden is challenging you to make an ATC with a vintage children theme! I had never made an ATC before, so first had to look up what it was, but I think it worked out pretty well. I even managed to rip the paper a little bit!

I hope you can find the time to join us this time around, it's great to see more and more participants in our challenges! Just remember, we don't "do" stamps/digis for the main image, unless they are pre-coloured! For more information, just visit our challenge blog. Hope to see you there!


Materials:
* White base card, cut to ATC size
* Studio Light image
* Marianne Design Paper Pad (Eline's Vintage Blue & Green)
* Scalloped circle punch, smeared with Distress Ink and Clear Stickles
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink, smeared on just about every element
* Studio G sentiment stamp
* Flat-backed pearls from my stash

Challenges:
* Craft Your Passion (Anything Goes + Distressing)
* Heart Song Inspirations (Anything Goes)
* Ooh La La Creations (Anything But a Card)
* Cutie Pie Challenge (Use a Sentiment)
* Let's Craft & Create (Anything Goes)
* Hiding in My Craft Room (Freestyle)
* Robin's Fetish (Anything Goes)
* Pecreativ (Anything Goes)
* The Pink Elephant (Anything Goes)
* Stamp & Create (Vintage)

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