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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It's All About You....eh.....Shoe!

Good morning everyone!

Wednesday signals another Fab 'n Funky Challenge and I absolutely love this week's theme, dreamed up by my DT buddy Rachel: "Include some kind of shoe on your project"! I certainly needed to put my thinking cap on for this one, but I love the whole process of going through my stash and coming up with some ideas as I go.

I fancied using up some of my enormous stash for this card and ended up deciding on some decoupage. I've tried to create a little scene of the flip flop with a pebble beach and sea, but am not sure I've completely pulled it off. Oh well, never mind, I still like the card :) Have a look on the challenge blog to see what all my teamies have done with the theme, I can guarantee you that there is a wide variety of interpretations and projects!

Materials:
* DL card
* DCWV The Photo Stack 2 DPs
* Studio Light images and sentiment
* Gems, brad & ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Forever Friends (Birthdays)
* Challenges 4 Everybody (Anything Goes)
* Love to Create (Anything Goes with a Sentiment)
* Craft Your Passion (Colour Combo)
* Shelly's Images (1-2-3)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Crafts 4 Eternity (TicTacToe) I've used circle (sentiment), ribbon, birthday
* Dutch Card Lovers (Use at least 5 colours from the inspiration sheet) My card has colours such as Tender Shoots, Monaco Blue, Poppy Red, Lemon Zest and Dusk Blue
* Robin's Fetish (Use Some Brads and Ribbon)
* Forever Friends (Use Ribbon or Lace)

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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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