A Vintage Christmas

Hi everyone,

Another month has come and gone, can you believe it? I was just trying to recap what happened in this month but with everything I thought of it was: No, that was the month before or before that. What DID I do in May? I really couldn't tell you, except that we have revamped our garden with new soil, planted a little fruit & vegetable garden and took out some old manky bushes that weren't very pretty and basically in our way. It's still an ongoing project, but it's already looking way better than before, so that we already have so much more joy from our garden then we did last year.

Anyway, I'm babbling now, let's get to the point shall we? A new monthly challenge is starting @ CCAYR, sadly this will be my last. But I'm glad I got to do this challenge, as the theme is :"VINTAGE". I am not a real vintage crafter, I love the style and seeing others' projects who are really going the whole hog, but when I craft I am giving it my own twist by keeping it fairly CAS (for vintage anyway). I love this little image, it's so incredibly cute!

Materials:
* Ooh La La Baking Day image for the Yesterday's Memories CD
* DCWV The Natural Stack CS
* Dovecraft Noel & Echo Park For the Record DPs
* Pebbles Chips Black Glitter Chipboard Swirl
* Studio Light sentiments
* Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Hope you can join me and the rest of the team for my last challenge!

Challenges:
* Alota Rubber Stamps (Childhood)
* Forever Friends (For a Child)
* Tammy's Scrappin' Corner (Vintage)
* Crafting by Designs (Anything Goes)
* Crimbo Crackers (Cute)
* Hobby Vision (Christmas)
* We Love Vintage (For a Baby or Child)
* ABC Christmas (Kept Safe) The Christmas paper with the playing children
* Kaboodle Doodles (Anything Goes)
* Shelly's Images (Show Us What You Got)

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Gingerbread Buttons

Hi everyone,

I had some lovely extra days off, we didn't do much as I still had my cold but is was nice to just be hanging around. I still did a little work, as I am falling a little bit behind after our holiday but I still got to sleep in and do a little crafting too.  But, today I'm back on my daily commute to work, coinciding with the new CCAYR Challenge for this month, the theme this time is "Use a Gingerbread image on your project, together with ribbon and at least 3 buttons". A little more complicated theme this month, but I am sure you will be able to create a project for it!

I had a little difficulty finding a ginger bread image in my stash, but in the end found one in a decoupage magazine, meant as part of a small gift tag. So I decided to use a tag on my card to fill out the front of the card a little more; I think it works but am curious to what you think.

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Dovecraft Noel & Let it Snow DPs
* K&Co Christmas Cheer Tag Pad
* Peacock Feather Distress Ink
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Vintage Buttons
* Dark Cocoa Sew Easy Floss
* Eline's Winterhuis sentiment stamp
* Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Charisma Cardz (Polka Dots)
* Southern Girls (Buttons, Badges or Flair)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (At least 3 patterned papers)
* Crafty Ribbons (Anything Goes with Ribbon)
* Crimbo Crackers (Anything Goes)
* Robin's Fetish (Spots or Stripes)
* Cutie Pie (Lots of Layers)
* Celebrate the Occasion (Anything Goes)
* Bearly Mine (Anything Goes)
* LEJ Designs (Anything Goes)

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Oh Christmas Tree

Hi all,

This is my third post today, one more to come after this! As it is the first of the month, a new challenge is also starting @ CCAYR, asking you to share your Christmas cards featuring a "Christmas Tree". When looking through my stash, I found this cute decoupage image that fit the bill exactly for this challenge, so I decided to use it.

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Helz Cuppleditch Pepper Christmas Party and Echo Park For the Record DPs
* DCWV Brights Textured CS scraps
* MS Snow Men border punch
* Sew Easy Quick Sand Floss
* Daisy & Dandelion Red Ink
* Eline's Winterhuis stamp set (sentiment inside the card)
* Peel offs from stash

As usual, you have an entire month to come and play with us, get your Christmas card stash early this year and come join us!

Challenges:
* Happy Campers (Add Dimension)
* Flourishes Timeless Tuesday (Sewing or Stitching Technique)
* Shelly's Images (Show Us What You've Got/Anything Goes)
* My Grafico (Anything Goes)
* Creative Moments (Animals)
* Whimsy Stamps (Stitch It Real or Faux)
* Jingle Belles (Bling)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (Cute as You Like)
* Simply Create Too (Animals)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)

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Sparkly Christmas

Hi everyone,

It's Friday, almost the weekend! I have a busy weekend and week ahead of me with an enormous crafty project due at the end, I am looking forward to it but also feel a little daunted. Fingers crossed I make it in time!

As today is the first day of March, I am here to share my CCAYR DT make with you, this month the theme will be "Sparkle & Bling". Shouldn't be too hard to think of a creative way to use that theme for a Christmas card me thinks, we hope you can make the time to participate!

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage image, sprayed with Crafter's Companion Multicolour Glitter Spray
* Art Talent & Hely Coppledich Pepper's Christmas Party DPs
* Eline's Winterhuis Sentiment Stamps
* Joy Craft Flower Punch
* Tumbles Glass Distress Ink & Colour Box Black Ink
* Sakura Glitter Gel Pen
* Metallic thread from local store (Pipoos) & Sew Easy Quick Sand Floss
* Pearls from stash

Challenges:
* ABC Christmas Challenge (D for Designer Paper)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Use 1 Word)
* Allsorts (Animals)
* Come and Get It (Just add Water) Snow
* Glitter 'n Sparkle (Bling It On)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Any Bling)
* Crafty Sentiments (1 image/stamp,2 papers, 3 embellishments) 3 pearls, 3 flags, 3 types of embellishmenbt
* Flourishes Timeless Tuesday (All that Glitters)
* Ruby's Rainbow (In the Garden)
* Joanna Sheen (Layer It Up)

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Christmas with a Heart

Hi everyone!

Already one month has passed in the new year, it all went by in a flash! But it really is February and time for another CCAYR challenge! For this month, the challenge theme is "RED & WHITE, FLOWERS & HEARTS". Yes, another Red & White project for me :) You have the whole month of February to participate, just make sure you adhere to the theme and make it a Christmas project! I've used up another couple of decoupage images that were waiting on my desk being left over from last-minute Christmas card making. They were perfect for the red & white theme!

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage images
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP
* DCWV The Glitter Cardstock Brights CS
* Fiskars Star Border Punch
* Joy Craft Flower Punch
* Ribbon, Heart gem, Border Peeloffs and Peel off sentiment from my stash

Challenges:
* Inky Chicks (Bingo) I've used Ribbon, Sentiments, Flowers
* Creative Craft Challenges (Bling It Up)
* Little Miss Muffet (Hearts & Flowers)
* ATCs with Attitude (Ribbon/Lace)
* Whimsy Stamps (Fancy Edges)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Scrap Cards (Hearts)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Winter)
* Bearly Mine (Hearts Galore)
* Shopping Our Stash (Love, Red, Hearts, Valentine) I've used Red & Hearts

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Anything Goes for Next Christmas

<<< For my Fab 'n Funky DT make, scroll down to the previous post of today!>>>

Hello again,

Another Christmas card today, as CCAYR opens 2013 with its first challenge: "Anything Goes". Nice and easy one to get you back into Christmas crafting, right? Don't worry, it will come back to you :)

I've used up a decoupaged image that had been lying on my craft desk waiting to be used, along with some scraps that seemed to go with it pretty well and so the card came together quite quickly and easily. I love the paper tearing here, as it resembles snow......well, in my mind at least :) Hope to see you and your lovely makes at the challenge!

Materials
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Crafters Companion CS scraps
* Marianne Design Scandinavian Christmas DP scraps
* Assorted scraps from my scrappy shoebox
* Silver & Black Inks
* Scalloped circle, Star Border & Rounded Corner punches
* Eline's Winterhuis & Eline's Vintage Sentient Stamp Sets
* Gems, ribbons from stash

Challenges:
* ATC's with Attittude (Anything Goes/Celebrations)
* Card Mania (Winter Wonderland)
* Cards Galore (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Any Christmas Card that doesn't feature Santa)
* Card Crafter's Circle (There's No Business Like Snow Business)
* Crimbo Crackers (Decoupage)
* Simply Create Too (Let it Snow)
* 2 Sisters (Anything Goes)
* Joanna Sheen (With Love at Christmas)
* Gingerloft (Christmas or Winter)

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Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Happy Saturday my fellow crafters!

Yes, it's December, Christmas is coming soon! Do you have all your Christmas projects finished or are you still working on some? If so, perhaps you'd like to participate in our monthly challenge @ CCAYR, themed "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". I've taken a contemporary take on this theme, using up some of my SMIRK decoupage.

Materials:
* Create & Craft CS
* SMIRK Christmas Decoupage pad & mini topper from SMIRK Christmas Paper Pack
* Studio Light Christmas tree
* Numbers from local store (HEMA)
* Letters from my stash
* Eline's Winterhuis stamp set, stamped in silver and black ink

Where will you take this theme, will you also take it in a more modern direction or more traditional and vintage? There's plenty of options with the main man in red!

Challenges:
* Crimbo Crackers (Anything Goes)
* Dream Valley (Non-Traditional Christmas)
* My Sheri's Crafts (T'is the Season)
* Little Claire's (Christmas)
* SJ Paper Crafts (Christmas, optional Mix those Alphas)
* Sparkles Forum (Christmas is Coming)
* Wags 'n Whiskers (Christmas)
* Love to Create (Non-Traditional Holiday Colours)
* Lexi's Creations (Christmas)
* The Scrapbooking Queen (Christmas)

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A Shapely Christmas

Hi all!

I can't believe it's November again, where does the time go? I say that with every passing month though :)
Nevertheless, I don't think any of us can deny that Christmas is coming fairly close and we all need to get a move on with the Christmas card. Perhaps the November challenge @ Christmas Cards All Year Round can help you out with some inspiration? This month, the challenge is "Shapes or Fancy Folds". I've made an Easel card, I love making this fold! Our sponsor this month is Beccy's Place, who also provided us with some great digis for our DT projects. I've used Quilt Puddings:

Materials:
* Create & Craft CS
* Beccy's Place Quilt Puddings, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Basic Grey Jovial & Dovecraft Noel DPs
* Delightful Challenges Winter Tickets Sentiment Set
* Cart-Us Cutlery stamps
* Black & Red ink
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles
* Ribbon from stash

What will you be making? Share it with us, we'd love to see!

Challenges:
* Creative Card Crew (Fancy Folds)
* Crafty Ribbons (Christmas)
* My Heart Pieces (Use Ribbon)
* Paper Crafting Journey (Ribbon or Twine)
* Crafty Ann's Challenge (Christmas in October)
* Stampin' For the Weekend (Anything Goes)
* Hot Shot Craft (Bling It On)
* Sweet Stampin' (What's Cooking/Something to Eat)
* Basic Grey (Anything Goes)
* Fussy & Fancy (Anything Goes)

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A non-traditional Christmas

Good morning all!

Well, it's official, it's autumn! Well, in my book anyway :) Another month means another CCAYR challenge, our theme for October is "Use Non-Traditional Christmas image or colour scheme". I seemed to manage to do both!

Here's my card:

Materials:
* Create & Craft CS
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Studio Light DPs
* Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
* Eline's Winter Huis Stamp Set
* Ribbon, pearls and snow flake peel-off from stash

What do you think, Christmassy enough? I think so! Why not join us, I think it's a great challenge theme! Besides, you do have a whole month to link up :)

Challenges:
* Jingle Belles (Dashing Through the Snow)
* Guylou Inimitality (Weather)
* Crafty Ribbons (Anything but Square)
* Crafting for All Seasons (Things with Wings)
* Inky Impressions (Animals)
* Perfect Sentiment (Vintage Christmas) Vintage image
* Bearly Mine (Add a Sentiment)
* Deep Ocean (More than 2 colours) Pink, Purple & Blue
* Oldie but a Goodie (Show us Your Ribbons) All elements except the CS is more than 6 months old
* Shopping Our Stash (Fur or Feathers)

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More Christmas Presents

Hi everyone,

Halfway through September already, time really is flying! There's only about two weeks left for you to enter the monthly Christmas challenge @ CCAYR, the September theme is "Presents". Here's another of my makes to hopefully inspire you, I've again raided the scraps shoebox for this one:

Materials:
* Giftful Lily, drawn by my former CMM teamie Lizzie, coloured with Promarkers
* Studio Light and assorted scraps, Studio Light sentiment
* Tiny scrap of ribbon, just managed to tie it into a bow!
* Gem earring, gem peel offs from stash
* MS Doily Lace border punch
* SEI Christmas Mint Vanilla Icing Accents
* Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

I love using up scraps, gives me a very satisfied feeling, are you the same? I'd love to see you all at the challenge!

Challenges: 
* Anything Goes (Christmas)
* Nutcrafters (Countdown to Christmas)
* Stampin' for the Weekend (Starting Christmas Early)
* De Creatieve Zeba (Anything Goes)
* Sparkles Christmas (Sparkle & Bling)
* Creative Card Crew (Trees)
* Paper Pretties (Paper Punches)
* Ladybug Ink (Inspiration Photo) I've used the tree and the wintery/Christmas feel
* LEJ (Winter Wishes)
* Tuesday Throwdown (You're a Gem) I've used gem peel off stickers

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Christmas Presents, Ribbon and Bows

Hi everyone,

Well, my August holiday is almost over and come Monday it is time to go back to work :( I've loved being away for so long but I guess the fun is over :( Nevertheless, I can look back on a great month with lots of crafting, hurrah!

Since it is the beginning of another month, it's also time for a new Christmas Cards All Year Round Challenge and this time the theme is "CHRISTMAS PRESENTS with an optional extra of RIBBONS AND BOWS". Remember, it has to be Christmassy too! I hope you can join us, you have the entire month of September to link up.

Here's my make, using SMIRK decoupage. I'd purchased this SMIRK decoupage pad a few years ago and I have to say I'm a little disappointed in the quality of the pad. Not a whole lot of thought seemed to have gone towards layering the layers up, as each layer is surrounded by white, which makes the image look a bit funny when completed. I ended up ditching a few layers and fuzzy cutting around the others to tie in properly with the base image. It ended up more work then just cutting out decoupage, as that is usually geared toward making it possible to cut the image out without white edges. Such a pity, because I love the SMIRK characters. Also, I had also bought the matching DP pad, thinking that they would look so good together. Unfortunately, it didn't work at all, colours and images didn't really compliment each other and the card just looked to darn busy with all the different patterns, I hate it  when that happens! Sorry, I'll stop ranting now :)

Materials:
* Docraft SMIRK Christmas Decoupage image and sentiment on front on the card, using foam pads
* Studio Light DP scraps, some of them distressed with a green ink pad
* MS Presents border punch
* Ribbon, peel off borders and sentiment from stash

Challenges:
* Polka Doodles (Stitching)
* Sentimental Sundays (Stitching)
* LEJ Designs (Anything Goes)
* Use It Tuesday (Use That Ribbon; Hoarded supplies = the Decoupage image)
* Emerald Fairies (Punches & Dies)
* Crafting For All Seasons (Stitching)
* Creative Card Crew (Christmas)
* Perfect Sentiments (Anything Goes with a Sentiment)
* Sassy Studio (Christmas Carol, Twelve days of Christmas: all the presents that were given)
* Cute Card Thursday (A Stitch in Time)

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Candy Cane Christmas

Hello everyone!

First of all, I keep forgetting, but a special hello to my new followers, I'm really pleased you could join me and I hope you like my creations :) And a hello to my 'old' followers too of course, thanks for sticking around :)

It's August, people! Can you believe it? Not long now and it will be a year ago since we bought our first house, it feels like we've been living here forever though , soooooooo comfortable! Anyway, a new month obviously also means a new challenge at CCAYR, Tracey's chosen the theme of  "KIDS CHRISTMAS". In other words, make a Christmas themed card for a child. Tracey give us some of her own digis to work with, I've used Candy Cane Oliver. Lovely fella to colour in, love the candy cane too! I've printed out a smaller version of the digi to incorporate in the sentiment inside to tie it in with the rest of the card, which worked out pretty well I think.

I will see you all tomorrow with my first Delightful Challenges DT card, see you then!

Materials
* Platypus Creek Candy Cane Oliver Digi, coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs
* Basic Grey Jovial DP, distressed
* Joy Flower punch (I'm using it as a snow flake!)
* Round corner & Scalloped Circle punches
* Purple Holographic card, silver brads from stash
* Sentiment stamp from Daisy & Dandelion All Wrapped Up Stamp set
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles (inside card)

Challenges
* Cutie Pie Challenge (Christmas in July)
* Digi Days Challenge (Christmas in July)
* ABC Christmas Challenge (Open It Up)
* Let's Craft & Create (Scrapbuster --> Used up the leftover scraps for decoration inside the card)
* Sassy Studio (Holiday card with 3 type of patterned papers --> 2 DPs and holograhic card)
* Pixie Challenge (Christmas theme)
* Sweet Stampin' (Christmas in July)
* Splendiferous Creations (Christmas in July)
* Platypus Creek Digitals (Traditional Christmas)
* Clear It Out (Christmas in July)

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Christmas Foliage

Hi everyone!

The last couple of weeks have been almost craft-free, as I had my parents over for the weekend and now my FIL and cousin are staying for a week! Of course we are showing them all the sights, we have already been exploring caves and visited a car museum, and today we are trying a bike ride! The weather is absolutely gorgeous, so I am sure we will be having another great day.

Anyway, yet another month has passed and it's time for a new challenge over at CCAYR. The July challenge is "CHRISTMAS FLOWERS".You need to use flowers or holly somewhere on your Christmas cards to be able to participate. Last month, I won some lovely Delicious Doodles digis and decided to use the Poinsettia for my card. One of the great things about digis is of course that you can print them any size you want and that's exactly what I did here. Before I actually stuck all the elements on my card, it has actually been lying on my crafty desk for a week, with me shuffling things around just about every time I walked past it! Still, I am very happy with the result, hope you like it too!

I hope you can join us this month, I for one am looking forward to see all the loveliness you can come up with :)

Materials:
* DL cream base card
* Delicious Doodles Poinsettia digi, printed out in different sizes and coloured with Promarkers, added brown flatback pearls to their centres and then glossed with Crafter's Companion Spray & Shine
* Helz Cuppleditch Pepper's Christmas Party & Basic Grey Jovial DPs, some of it distressed with TH distressing tool
* Scalloped Circle Punch, smudged with red ink
* Ribbon, silver peel offs, gems, sentiment and silver card from stash

Challenges:
* Holly Jolly Christmas (Bingo, I've used Red and Ribbon)
* Crimbo Crackers (Anything Goes)
* I Love Promarkers (Anything Goes)
* 52 Christmas Card Showdown (Anything Goes)
* Allsorts (In Bloom)
* Crafty Calendar (Flowers in Bloom)
* Saturday Challenge (Christmas)
* Totally Papercraft (Can You Digi It?)
* Charisma Cardz (Anything Goes)
* Sassy Studio (Christmas)

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Christmas Lights

Hello everyone!

While you are reading this, I will be off on a mystery trip organised by my dear hubby! We started this yearly tradition when we first got together, doing something fun around our anniversary with the other not knowing what until we get there. I think it's really fun in years when I am the one planning and I like it even better if I get whisked away in the year afterwards :) This is our second wedding anniversary, so we are officially a cotton couple ;)

Anyway, I have a Christmas Card to show you, as the new CCAYR monthly challenge is starting on the 1st of June. This time, the theme is "CHRISTMAS LIGHTS"

I really loved the theme, but once I had looked through all my crafty stash I came to the conclusion that I don't have anything with Christmas lights in/on it. So, I just HAD to go shopping for a lovely digi @ Meljen's Designs, such a hardship! I found this crazy moose entangled in Christmas light and thought it would be perfect for this challenge:

I hope you can join us in our challenge, you have the entire month to come up with something really nice, can't wait to see what you make of the challenge!

Materials:
* Basic Grey Jovial DP
* Meljen's Design Moose Lights digi, coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs
* Wide red ribbon recycled from a bunch of flowers
* Scalloped circle punch, coloured with Promarkers
* Sentiment from the Internet
* Gems from Ebay

Challenges:
* Basic Grey (Diamond Jubilee - I've used lot's of diamond gems on the sentiment)
* Bearly Mine (Animal Kingdom)
* Christmas Card Challenges (Bling)
* Cooking it Up with Katie (Celebrate with ribbon and die-cut)
* Crimbo Crackers (Colour Theme)
* Delicious Doodle (Diamonds are Forever)
* I love Promarkers (Use a Digi)
* Stamping for Pleasure (Rudolf Day)
* Totally Papercraft (Animals)
* Divas by Design (Anything Goes)

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Let It Snow!

Good morning everyone!

I had a lovely long weekend, yesterday it was Queen's Day here in the Netherlands and we had absolutely beautiful weather! We had a lovely walk into the town centre, had a short look around all the stalls of people selling the content of their attic and had a lovely ice cream in the sun :)

My card today is about a totally different kind of weather though, namely lovely winter snow! As it's the 1st of May, a new challenge started at Christmas Cards All Year Round and this time it's "CHRISTMAS CAROLS"! Or basically Christmas songs, so plenty to choose from. The prize this month is a gorgeous set of Christmas ornament stamps, go check it out! Hope to see you there :)

This is my card, inspired by the song Let It Snow:

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Dovecraft Let it Snow DP (how appropriate!)
* Eline Vintage Sentiment stamp
* Spellbinders shape
* Silver snowflakes from my stash

Challenges: 
* Crafty Hazelnut (Greeting without the word Christmas - My sentiment says: Happy Holidays)
* Sparkles Christmas Challenge (Christmas Tree)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* LEJ Designs (Anything Goes)
* Christmas Inspirations (Bingo, I've used Tree - Glitter (DP) - White (Card and pearls)
* Always Crafting (Anything Goes)
* Lollipop Crafts (Anything Goes)
* 4 Crafty Chicks (No Stamping)
* Crafty Catz (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Sentiments (Spots or Stripes)

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Inspirational Christmas

Good morning everyone! A lovely sunny day it seems, maybe time to sit in the garden for a bit.

It's the 1st of April and it's time for the new monthly challenge at Christmas Cards All Year Round! No joke, people! We have an inspirational photo for you to work with this time:

Isn't that beautiful? And so many details to choose for your card, I used the stitching and the colours for my card:

Hope you can join us, as usual you have the entire month to participate!

Materials:
* Scalloped base card
* Studio Light DPs, sentiment and Decoupage image (Sarah Kay)
* Peel offs from stash
* White gel pen to create faux stitching

Challenges:
* Paper Pretties (Use Bling)
* Pixie Cottage (Cuddly Critters - Kitten in the Front)
* Bearly Mine (3, 2, 1 - 3 strips of DP, 2 peeloffs, 1 image)
* Tuesday Throwdown (Outside the Box)
* Crafty Hazelnut (Get Sentimental)
* Totally Stampalicious (Critters)
* Party Time Tuesday (Anything Goes)
* Simon Says Stamp (Anything Goes)
* Soutern Girls (Something to Say)
* Wishcraft (Waste not Wednesdays - The peeloffs have been a bit neglected recently)

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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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