Pink Gem Santa...and 3 challenges

Hello everyone, yet another Christmas card.............I've got a real shortage of Santa stamps this year, in fact I only have this one....sob sob.. It's from Pink Gem and I got it last year . I was hooked on Snowmen for a while and didn't think I wanted Santa's.....and now I've changed my mind Typical!!!... I'll have to get a good Santa stamp .......I wanted to do something in traditional colours today and came up with this. It fits the Everybody Art challenge .. Christmas---the Creative Card Crew which is favourite things...Easel cards and Christmas are mine. and the Colour Create challenge which is Red Green and White.

Here's what I used.....Papers Dovecraft, Image Pink Gem Santa, Tree punch and Snowflake punch and the Poinsettia is cut on my Craft robo. I put it together with a gold brad and then I soaked it in water so that I could scrunch it up a wee bit. I haven't done much card making this weekend so I'll have to get my skates on tomorrow and get some birthday cards done. Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

CHARISMA WK #47... CHRISTMAS plus WOJ

Here we are again another fab challenge over at Charisma. This week it's the lovely Sally to set the challenge and she wants to see anything Christmassy..... so that should be quite an easy one this week as I'm sure you're just like me and up to your eyes in Christmas cards....the prize this week is from Your Next Stamp. To find out what it is pop over to the blog and you can also see the DT's inspiration for you this week.

Here is my DT card and the recipe........ I am also entering this card for the WOJ challenge which is Christmas.

Papers Forever Friends

Image WOJ Herb

Sizzix snowflakes

Flower Soft Polar White

Dovecraft Ribbon

Oval Nesties

Dovecraft stamp Let it Snow

Hope you enjoy our challenge this week, have fun.....

Beer drinking Santa for a 19 yr old guy

Hi again, I managed another couple of Christmas cards tonight, one for a 19yr old guy , hence the beer...... and the other one is for a Special Gran and Grandad for my friend Susan in work. It looks so much nicer in real life. It's really difficult to photograph mirri card as you probably know, I don't know how many I took just to get one that didn't glow with the light...

Thanks for stopping by.

Gaelic card.....

Hello again, another card this time for a very patriotic guy who speaks Gaelic. I was asked to put the Gaelic on the card for Congratulations which is on the front and Happy Birthday which is inside...ooops forgot to take a photo.... and either a Saltire, which is what I've used (the Scottish flag ...) or the Lion Rampant. I decided on the Saltire as I thought it was a better colour for the card. People ask me for the strangest cards....lol
I'm on a roll today...catch you later...

TEEN BIRTHDAY... 3 CHALLENGES...

Good morning everyone hope you are all well and having a good start to the week.

Monday is my day off Yippeee!!! and I'll be crafting all day today as I've got loads of cards to get done. The card above fits three challenges today.. Sketch Saturday.....Creative Inspirations, Sparkle....Claudia has sparkle and so have the shoes, and Cute Card Thursday, a Teenage card.

So here's what I used....

Easel card, just love these....can't stop making them..lol

DP Wild Asparagus

PB Sentiment...top right..

Image is Claudia the Artist one of my favourites by Elizabeth Bell , coloured with Copics...

Woodware shoe punch, and flower punch..

Label 2 Nesties and Circle and Oval Nesties..

Bottom sentiment is computer generated

Ribbon from stash..

Hope you all have a great Monday, see you later with more cards....

Ruby Red.....

Hello everyone, I finally made it back to my craft room to post this card. Ive had a very lazy day today, just couldn't be bothered doing anything, not like me at all.....

My friend Maureen asked if I would make her a 40th Anniversary card for her to give to her Husband. I've used the FF celebration bear, Martha Stewart punch,Oval Nesties inside and out. The white card is satin Water Taffeta effect.The red card has a satin effect and is embossed with hearts all over, It's really lovely,I think you can see it if you zoom in on the inside pic. The ribbon is Dovecraft and the charm is from Craft Creations. The silver 40th was cut on my Craft Robo. The rest is from my stash. I gave her the card last night and she was really pleased with it.

I've got loads to do this weekend so I'd better get on with it, I think I might do a little colouring to get me started. Have a great weekend.

APOLOGIES....

I've been working on orders all afternoon and evening and just realised I never posted my DT card for this weeks Charisma challenge, with apologies here it is. This week the lovely Joanne has a fab sketch for you to play with and as always there is a great prize to be won. We had a record 151 fabulous entries last week for my Merry and Bright challenge so I would like to thank everyone for all the fab cards and projects. Looking forward to seeing all your lovely creations this week.

Twilight card...

Mmmm delish Edward Cullen, this is the vampire card I spoke about yesterday. Got it finished last night but never had time to put it on here, so here he is. The birthday girl Danielle is into Vampires and Twilight hence the card. I hope she likes it. At first I thought it was going to be too dark being purple and black, but surprisingly I really liked it . I really enjoyed making this one and I think it's because I was using totally different colours...

All the papers I've had for years in my stash. The flowers are poppicraft. I used Glimmer mist on them but I don't think you can see it very well in the pic. I really like this double image photo I don't think it would have looked as good with just an ordinary picture. Well I'm off to bed now. I'll be back tomorrow with more cards. TTFN

Tatty Bouquet......

Here we are again second post for me today with another card for the same retirement. This time I chose a lovely soft pink and Raspberry papers. The girl in work who asked me to do the card asked for "Something nice and pretty" I hope she likes it. Well I'm off now to do a Vampire card...lol...the delish Edward Cullen from the Twilight series, I really enjoyed sourcing those images...lol.. I'll post it later if I manage to get it finished.

thanks for popping in....

Just Blue........

Hi there I was asked to do a few retirement cards this week and this is the first. Hadn't any ideas at all colour wise, then I saw a beautiful card on Sassy's blog which just gave me the inspiration I was looking for. I loved this shade of blue the minute I saw it. I've been really short of blue papers lately and went hunting through my stash but unfortunately I had nothing suitable. So I made some striped paper on Publisher I staggered the stripes. I quite enjoyed making my own backing paper I must try and get the time to do more....Then I matched up the roses and ribbon, eventually it all came together. So a great big thanks to Sassy . Please go and visit her blog it's really beautiful, her work is so inspiring.
Thanks for taking the time to visit my little corner of blog land.....