Have a Christmas Heart

Good morning everyone! Once again I am a little late with one of my challenge cards, this entire month of February you can play along with our Christmas Cards All Year Round Challenge which has the theme of "Hearts". Some changes are being made to the challenge blog, so pop over to have a look. Make sure your card is Christmas or winter related to be eligible to win a lovely stamp set!

I am trying to scale down my scrap pile considerably, so once again I delved into my scraps and found some really beautiful cutoffs to use in my card. The peach card is so shiny and beautiful, perhaps the colour theme is a little unusual for a Christmas card but I think it turned out nice anyway.

How did I create those hearts? Fairly easy: I had a look through the junk mail :) There were some heart-shaped sticker coupons there, all I did was stick them to the back of the DP and cut around them. Works really well and you get a very sturdy embellishment :)


Materials:
* Champagne Crafter's Companion Pearl base card
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* K&Co Earth Tones Solid Mat DP & Crafter's Companion Pearl card
* Orange ink
* Scalloped circle punch (I've used what was left once I punched out the circle, cut it in half and used it to decorate behind the image)
* Brads and scraps of assorted card and papers from stash

Challenges:
* Crimbo Crackers (No people or animals - I hope snow men don't count as people!)
* Papercraft Star (Hearts)
* Sparkles Christmas (Anything Goes + Blog Hop!)
* Christmas Inspirations (Anything Goes)
* Pollycraft (Chill Out, I'd say snow men are pretty chilled!)
* Craft Your Passion (Anything Goes, but no patterned paper)
* There She Goes (Use a Negative Die Cut, hope my card qualifies!)
* Scrapbook Sisters (Anything Goes)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* Shopping Our Stash (Hearts, Valentines and/or Lace)

Hope you like my little Crimbo card, why don't you participate in the challenge, you still have a couple of weeks :)

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Valentine Sweetie Sleeve & Friendship's Garden Blog Hop

Hi everybody,

In addition to our challenge (with the same theme), we are doing a blog hop at Friendship's Garden people! Our hop is sponsored by Designs on Cloud Nine, we're calling it "ITS A LOVE THING"! You can win a 20 dollar gift certificate to their shop! Awesome, right? PLUS, some of my teamies are having their own little giveaways during the hop, so look out for those extra opportunities to win!

If you're hopping along with us, you should have arrived from Dena's blog, if you want to start the hop, please visit the challenge blog first! Chana is the next stop on this hop, tell her I said hello :)

Before you leave, here's my make. I made a gift sleeve for a box of heart chocolates I will be giving to my hubby. He deserves it, because he always does the photography and photo shopping for this blog AND I forgot to make him a Christmas card last December.....naughty me! We will be having some lovely tapas on Valentine's Day after work and I will take this prezzie along with me. It's a really easy project to do, especially if you have a scoring board.

Materials:
* Design on Cloud Nine Bee Mine images
* Me and My Big Ideas Fashion District Striped DP (which incidentally was a gift from my husband for our first wedding anniversary last year!) & Dovecraft Piece of Cake DP
* Sentiment stamp from Eline Vintage stamp set
* Clear Stickles on the bees' wings
* Brads and border peeloffs from my stash

Challenges: 
* Moving Along with the Times (Have a Heart)
* Little Miss Muffet (Valentine/Love)
* Sassy Studio (Love is in the Air)
* By the Cute and Girly (Love is in the Air)
* ABC (In pairs; my bees and two pairs of brads)
* More than Favours (Love)
* Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge (Love is in the Air)
* Truly Scrumptious (Love & Hearts)
* Ladybug Ink (Loves me, Loves me not)
* Creative Belli (Valentine/Hearts)

Right, that's it from me, hope to see you during the hop and at the challenge (which has a Love Theme as well, plus use at least 3 types of embellishments)!

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Moving House

Hello everyone!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend, it was pretty cold here so snuggled in front of the radiator in my crafty room just about the entire weekend :) They're even talking about organizing an Eleven-town natural ice skating marathon, an event that hasn't been organised since the early nineties (not enough natural ice)! So that's pretty exciting, even though I won't be skating it but might be watching it on the telly.

 Today I have another Moving House card to share, I hadn't posted it yet. I won't show you the inside, as the only thing there is our new address:

Just a simple card this time, but I really love the decoupage image and the lovely spring colours and flowers. Hope you guys like it too!

Materials: 
* Champagne base card
* Studio Light 3D image, sentiment and DPs
* Prima Daisy Doodles flowers
* Gems from stash

Challenges: 
* Lily Pad (Patterned Paper)
* Divas by Design (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Creations (Home Sweet Home)
* DYSU (Anything Goes)
* Craft Us Crazy (Anything Goes)
* Hotshot Craft (Anything Goes)
* Poodles Parlour (Anything Goes)
* The Stamp Man (Embellish It)
* Cupcake Craftroom (New Beginnings)
* Crafty Pad (Spring Colours)

Well, I'd better be off, busy day at work today, I am definately looking forward to making my deadline this Thursday and have a little breather :) See you all Wednesday for another Friendship's Garden challenge! We are doing a special blog hop too with lots of goodies to win, so stay tuned :)

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Bunny Valentine

Hi everyone,

Owwww, what a busy week, I can't believe it's Friday again! I am very sorry for not being around very much, hope this improves in a week or so when one of my deadlines has passed....

Are you ready for another Card Makin' Mamas Challenge? Yes? Well, what a coincidence, today starts our new challenge and guess what.....the theme is "VALENTINE".

We are sponsored by Meljen's Design for this challenge and if you win, you get some Meljen's Goodies as a prize! Check out all the details on the Challenge Blog! I personally love Meljen's, such cute and fun images, so I was pretty happy I got to work with one of their digis for my inspiration card :)

I made my hubby's Valentine's card for this challenge, which you can notice straight away as the photography is abysmal and let's not even talk about the shoddy photo shopping. Let's just say I'm glad he will be taking the reins again for the next card...........With this in mind, have a look at my photos:

I know, I know.....not quite straight and such......but I think you can still see the card well enough, right? What do you think of the sentiment? I thought it was very appropriate for this card, but maybe a little silly? Oh well, I like silly sometimes :)

Materials
* White scalloped base card
* Meljen's Design Cuddle Bun Love, coloured with Promarkers and faux stitching
* Dovecraft Piece of Cake DP, edged with Dovecraft Cocoa Brown ink
* K&Co Smitten Icons, Dollhouse Sweet Things and Dollhouse Alphabet Chipboard
* Banner using Crafter's Companion embossing board with computer-generated sentiment (it says: My Bunny Valentine)
* Stars border punch, matted with holographic mirror card
* Heart gems from stash

Challenges:
* Meljen's Design (Loving You)
* Simon Says Stamp (Animal Antics)
* Joanna Sheen (Love is in the Air)
* Paper Shelter (Love is in the Air)
* Fab 'n Funky (Use a Digi)
* Cooking It Up With Katie (Heart, Punch, Embossing)
* Crafty Pad (Valentine/Anniversary)
* Bling it On (Love is All Around)
* Elke Kaart een Feestje (For Someone Special)
* Emerald Fairies (Be My Valentine)
* My Time to Craft (Adorable)

Hope you like my card and it inspires you to participate in our challenge. You have two weeks to link up, so I am hoping to see all your beautiful makes over there :)

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Finally, Mary Poppins!

Good morning everyone! I promised I'd be back with my Card Makin' Mamas Inspiration card so without further ado, here it is!

After the first two disasters I had with colouring the image and the ink bleeding outside the lines, I decided to paper pie Mary and I have to say, I really love the final result! I had the perfect paper pad for vintage clothes and as the sheet was double sided I really didn't waste much paper. All materials except the image came from the old stash pile. I hope you like the card, let me know! The CMM challenge theme is 'USE SOMETHING OLD" this time, so dive in your stash and play along, you still have a week to enter! The prize up for grabs is 4 digis of your choice from the Sassy Studio Catalogue; they also provided the DT with their digis to work with.


Materials:
* White Scalloped base card
* Sassy Studio Mary Poppins digi, paper pieced and coloured with Promarkers
* K&Co Ancestry.com Mat Pad and DP from my scrap stash
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink
* RicRac ribbon, pearls and corner peeloffs from my stash
* Computer-generated sentiments

Challenges:
* Fairytale Challenges (The Cinema - Mary Poppins)
* Paper Sundaes (Paper Piecing)
* Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes)
* My Time to Craft (Favourite Embellishment - Pearls)
* Sassy Cheryl's (Light Blue and Brown)
* Critter Sketch (Use 3 embellishments)
* Mark Finest Papers (Birthday)
* Daisy Doodles (Anything Goes)
* One Stop Craft (Under the Weather - Clouds DP and umbrella)
* Stamp & Create (Anything Goes)

Right, one more busy day at work and then it's the weekend! I will be visiting one of my oldest friends, she has moved into a new house ages ago and we haven't been round to have a look yet! I guess that's what you get when you like so far apart like we do, we live in opposite ends of the Netherlands. But it will be great fun to see them and their little girl. I hope you all enjoy your weekend too! :)

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Hearty Sketch

Good Morning Crafty Friends!

Did you have a good weekend or can't you quite remember anymore? ;) We went out for dinner and saw a movie, something we hadn't done it aaaages! We saw Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which I thought was a pretty good film. How dishy is that Daniel Craig, even with the dodgy glasses! :) But I am digressing......

Anyway, it's time for another Challenge at Friendship's Garden, we are providing you with a sketch to work with. This is my card:

I had a bit of a crafty block this week, so I am really happy that I've created anything at all. Nevertheless, I am pretty happy with this card. When I saw the image I kept hearing Tom Jones in my head and thought that would be the perfect sentiment.............................I've just realised I quoted my song wrongly. What a pumpkin.....;) Hope it still counts!

Anyway, I hope you can join us for our SKETCH challenge!


Materials:
* Scalloped white base card
* Hunkydory Cat's Meow Die-Cut
* Echo Park For the Record & Dovecraft Piece of Cake DPs and red paper from my scrap pile, some of the edges smeared with some red ink (I drew the inside heart myself and inked it to match it to the theme on the front of the card)
* Gems from stash
* Computer-generated sentiments

Challenges:
* Crafty Boots (Inspired by a Songtile - What's New Pussycat by Tom Jones)
* Oldie but a Goodie (Have a Heart - All except the cat is more than 6 months old)
* Get Hippity with Ippity (Hearts)
* Corrosive Challenge (I {heart} you)
* Crafty Ribbons (Love is Red & Black)
* Dream Valley (Animals)
* ABC Challenge (Happy Birthday)
* Cutie Pie Challenge (Favourite Song -What's New Pussycat by Tom Jones)
* Stamp, Scrap & Doodle (Have a Heart)
* Crafty Ann's (What's New Pussycat - The cat die-cut)

Before I go, I stumbled across this website today and thought it would be fun to share it with you all. Just to be clear, it's not about the guy, it's about the quotes! If only men would say those things! ;) http://handmaderyangosling.tumblr.com/

Have a good day!

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Card Making Mamas Challenge and Moving House

Good morning all!

Card Making Mamas' new challenge starts today and the theme this time is "USE SOMETHING OLD". Yes, dive into your old stash (it should be older than 6 months) and start creating! We are being sponsored by  Sassy Studios this time around, and the DT received wonderful digi images to work with, have a look on the challenge blog later today!

Now, I wish I had an example card to show you today, but to be honest I started twice this week and both attempts ended up in the bin. So I will (hopefully!) show you my card for the challenges next week....I will be using Mary Poppins, so stay tuned.....:)

In the mean time, I though I would share a card I made a while back, when we were moving house, but never got around to posting it:

Materials:
* Scalloped white base card
* Studio Light decoupage sheet
* Gems and blue DP from stash

Challenges:
* Marianne Design Divas (In with the New)
* Crafty Purple Frog (Anything Goes)
* Little Miss Muffet (Blues and Creams)
* Shelley's Images (Anything Goes)
* Diva's by Design (New Beginnings and/or Thanks)
* Whimsical Designs (Anything Goes)
* City Crafter (Pretty Inside and Out)
* Crafty Sentiments (Anything Goes)
* Creative Craft Challenge (Use the Colour Blue)
* Paperminutes (Anything Goes)

Hope I will be back with a new card soon, but my inspiration seems to have flown out of the window recently and I can't quite get it back :( But don't worry, I'll keep trying ;) Enjoy your weekend, weather permitting of course :)

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