Christmas Coffee Cup

Hi! And Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a lovely break! I'm back to share one of the Christmas cards I made before yet another challenge deadline passes ;-) This one was for my brother. We're chalk & cheese but share a love of Starbucks so I knew I wanted to use the 'Red Cup' somehow.
I've used the Freshly Made Sketches sketch and the Colour Me... colour scheme from Challenge #51. I'm also going to enter into this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge of Anything Goes and Just Us Girls Winter challenge. I hope you like it!

Snowman gift tag

Hello and happy weekend! I hope you've had a good week! I found a bit of time this morning to make this simple little gift tag using this weeks MFT Sketch. All the dies are Die-namics. As I had stamped the snowman's eyes, mouth and buttons, I wanted to stamp his carrot nose but didn't have anything suitable, so I cut out the carrot die from some scrap paper and sponged it on - problem solved! :-) I've used this weeks Fab Friday colour scheme, this weeks Simon Says Stamp Christmas challenge and also this fortnights Card Concept challenge of Snowman and/or a Tag. I hope you like it, have a good weekend!

Supplies;
Dies - MFT Tag Stax, Notched Tag (heart), Fishtail Flag Stax & Snow Globe and Nestabilities Circles
Cardstock - Stampin' Up Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake & Old Olive
Stamps - Hero Arts Tiny Star Background, Simon Says Stamp Lots of Dots & Waltzingmouse Nordic Winter
Other - Christmas Red Stickles, red twine

Making Spirits Bright

Hi! I'm back with this simple card, I'm not too sure about it but thought I'd share it anyway. I wanted to use up some patterned papers so I used this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch. Instead of a flower I used this little penguin, he's actually part of a little group of penguins but I masked around him to make him star of the show :-) I'm entering this into this weeks Simon Says Stamp challenge of Christmas (I'm over the moon - I won the last challenge and now have some spends for their lovely shop!! So exciting! Hee hee!) Also, it's for this weeks Merry Monday challenge of A Bird and the AAA Cards challenge of Blue Christmas. Thanks for looking, I hope you like it!

Supplies;
Paper - Echo Park Winter Wishes
Stamps - Stampavie Penguin Pile & Simon Says Stamp Lots of Stars
Cardstock - Stampin' Up Night of Navy
Sentiment - Paper Smooches Joyful Greetings
Other - white embossing powder, Copics & Silver Stickles

Seasons Greetings

Evening! I'm back with my card in my own little challenge of CASEing Kristina Werner's 2014 Holiday Card Series, today is my card for Day 4. I used all the little images from the Simon Says Stamp Ugly Sweater stamp set along with the Appliqué set to make my embossed background then coloured parts in with a VersaMark pen and then a gold Wink of Stellar glitter pen. I've used this weeks Freshly Made sketch and combined it with this weeks Paper Players Tic Tac Toe challenge (I've used the top left to bottom right diagonal row; Trees, Embossing & Glitter - there's a few trees buried in there!). I'm also going to enter into Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge.
I'm back to work tomorrow after my maternity leave so I'm off to bed :-( Thanks for looking! Night!

Supplies;
Stamps - Simon Says Stamp Ugly Sweater & Sweater Appliqué
Cardstock & ink - Stampin' Up Crumb Cake
Sentiment - Paper Smooches Swanky Snow Dudes 
Other - jute twine, white embossing powder & gold glitter tape

Reindeer tag card

Hi! Back from another unintended break. I've been making loads of cards for loads of challenges but blogging seems to take me ages and they've always ended by the time I get round to it! Haha! So here's one that's still open...just! It's for this weeks Muse challenge combined with the Fusion challenge photo and the Just Us Girls & Simon Says Stamp challenges of Anything Goes. I used embossing paste and glitter with a Dreamweaver tree stencil. I added a few pops of red with some die cuts and twine. By the way, if anyone knows of a good ipad blogging app (I find Blogger is really hard to use and Blogsy makes my photos blurry) please let me know :-)
Thanks for stopping by xx

Supplies;
Cardstock - Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate & Basic Grey
Dies - MFT Tags Stax, Memory Box Leaping Deer & Resting Birds
Paper - Echo Park Winter Wishes 
Sentiment - Waltzingmouse Compliments of the Season
Stencil - Dreamweaver Bare Trees
Other - twine, white embossing paste, glitter & silver brad

Two more Christmas cards!

Evening! This is going to be very quick, it's my bedtime and I'm knackered! Haha! I'll add all the links & details and hopefully take better piccys in the morning, but for now, here they are;
This first one is for this weeks Less is More One Layer Starry Night theme and CASology's Festive challenge. It's also my interpretation of Kristina Werner's Day 3 card in her Holiday Card Series.

And this one is using this weeks Just Add Ink colours theme of Early Espresso, Lost Lagoon, Very Vanilla & Gold. (I didn't have Lost Lagoon so I went with Bermuda Bay) And also this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch. Thanks for looking, I'll be back in the morning to fill in the gaps. Zzzzzz ;-)

 

Rustic Christmas Wreath

Hi! I hope you've had a good weekend! I'm back with another Christmas card - properly in the flow now! ;-) It's using this weeks Case this Sketch, Festive Fridays photo challenge and the Pals Paper Arts colour challenge. I made the wreath by cutting a few different sized poinsettias in a mix of greens then cutting them apart and glueing them in a wreath shape. I used gold Wink of Stella on the bow but it only shows up in a photo when turned at a weird angle into the sun! Thanks for looking, I hope you like it :-)

Supplies;
Card stock - Stampin' Up 'Naturals white', 'Cajun Craze', 'Always Artichoke', 'Garden Green' & 'Pear Pizzazz'
Paper - My Minds Eye 
Dies - Spellbinders 'Poinsettias' & Taylored Expressions 'Basic Bow'
Other - Wink of Stella 'Gold' & pearls

Red & Kraft Christmas cards

Hiya! I hope you've had a good week! This is another long post warning. I think a lot of future ones might be as now my crafty time is scarce I'm trying to make more than one card with the supplies I have out rather than tidying everything away and starting from scratch the next time. Just realised my rambling is making this post even longer so I'll cut to the chase - 2 more Christmas cards :-)

This first one is for Day 2 of my challenge to case Kristina Werners Holiday Card Series cards. I used the idea for a Kraft base and a reindeer peeping through a circle cut out this time. It's also using this weeks Freshly Made Sketch as well as this fortnights Festive Friday challenge photo and the Simon Says Stamp challenge of Anything Goes. All the red presents made me think of this paper pad.

My second card is also using the Festive Friday photo and the Simon Says challenge but I've combined it with this weeks Retro Sketches sketch. I made a subtle shaker card with some vellum and large sequins. I die cut and stacked up 4 or 5 cardstock rings to make the holder for the shaky bits, much neater than a load of foam pads ;-) Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

Supplies;
1st card -
Papers - Papermania 'Home for Christmas'
Stamp - Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer'
Dies - Nestabilities 'Circles' & Hero Arts 'Holiday Cheer'
Sentiment - Paula Pascual 'Essential Christmas' 
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Real Red' & Memento 'Rich Cocoa'
Other - Copics & a white gel pen
2nd -
Papers - Papermania 'Home for Christmas'
Sentiment - Mama Elephant 'Peace on Earth'
Ink - Stampin' Up 'Cherry Cobbler'
Embossing powder - Wow! 'Neutral Shimmer'
Dies - Nestabilities 'Circles'
Other - white gel pen & assorted sequins