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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Being Festively Floral

Good morning all!

Just one more month until Christmas,can you believe it? But first, we are celebrating Sinterklaas on the 5th of December. Although mainly a children's celebration, my hubs and me still make a little occasion out of it, with a lovely meal and some Sinterklaar snacks such as chocolate letters and speculaas. I might do a little baking as well, always fun :) We don't do cards for that occasion though, so I am sharing another Christmas card with you instead. My card ties in beautifully with this week's Delightful Challenge, which is themed 'Festively Floral'. I'm sure that when you think of flowers at Christmas time, the poinsettia comes to mind, but I found these red flowers while I was combing through my stash that I thought might work just as well. I feel it does, but I'll let you be the judge!

Materials:
* Digital Delights Standing Santa & Be Naughty sentiment, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Create & Craft CS
* Clear Stardust Glitter Glue
* DPs and Ribbon from the scraps shoebox
* Flora Doodles Jeweled Florettes
* Eline's Winterhuis sentiment stamp
* Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink

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If you have time and crafty mojo, why not play along? We'd love to see your fabulous projects!

Challenges:
* AnMaCreatief (Christmas)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Christmas)
* Whimsy (Traditional Christmas Colouring)
* Desert Island (Use 3 items from the list) I've used Christmas, Flowers, Sparkle
* Little Claire's (Christmas)
* Sweet Stampin' (Flowers)
* Allsorts (Bring on the Bling)
* St Luke's Challenge (Traditional Christmas)
* One Crazy Stamper (Anything Goes)
* Paper Creator's Crafts (All about Christmas)

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Santa Baby

Good evening everyone!

Today I wanted to share a Christmas card with a slightly different shape. I was playing along with my scoring board and thought it might be nice to make a card with several little compartments and this is what I came up with:

Materials:
* White base card
* Studio Light 3D images and sentiment
* Basic Grey Jovial and Studio Light DPs
* Golden peel off bell from stash


Challenges:
* Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge (Santa)
* Crafter's Companion (Christmas Wishes)
* Basic Grey Challenges (Celebration)
* Charizma Cards (Inspired by a song: Santa Baby)
* Crafty Creations (Anything but a Square)
* Scrap Cards Challenge (Christmas)
* Scrap Creations (Winter Wishes)
* Scrapbook Sisters (Ho Ho Ho)
* Winter Wonderland (Santa)
* Christmas Card Challenges (Christmas)

I think it really works, I will be making more of these cards soon! Have a good weekend!

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Christmas Puzzle

Good evening everyone!

Tonight I've got a Crimbo card to share:

Don't you just love the puzzle pieces? 'The original design used it as little doors revealing the Santa image, but I thought it would work just as well as a background. I guess this design is also more "mantelpiece-friendly", as it stands on its own.

Materials used:
* Image, sentiments and puzzle pieces background: Studio Light
* Inside paper: Marianne Design Scandinavian Christmas (stitched with a little golden thread) and a little bit of scrap paper that I had left over from my last card
* Gems and silver base card from stash
* Flora Doodles Primary Colours flowers

I am submitting to the following challenges:
* Winter Wonderland (Christmas Presents)
* Jingle Belles (Santa Claus)
* Bah Humbug (Snow Flakes, on the backing paper)
* Creative Inspirations (Glitzy & Bling)
* By the Cute and Girly (Anything Goes)
* CES (Holidays, Christmas in my case)
* Craft us Crazy (Use Your Fave Embellishments or Use Something New: Gems are my favourite)
* Sisterhood of Crafters (Let it Shine)
* Reasonable Ribbon (Anything Goes)
* Paperplay Challenges (Anything Goes)

Hope you like it, see you later!

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