Just a quick post this morning before I head out to see my Dad who is in the hospital at the moment. I wanted to share with you the new ABC Christmas Challenge.

Our challenge for you this time is:

 

Q is for Quilting

Make a patchwork 'quilt'effect for your background

 

We have two fabulous sponsors this time:

Prize from Lili of the Valley:

and

Prize from Crop Stop: a $15 Gift Certificate!

 

 

My card features one of the newest LOTV Christmas images a special treat that I bought myself a few weeks back when they first came out. She is beautiful and so much fun to colour too. I've added some glitter to her wings and used liquid applique for the snow for extra detail.

 

For the quilt base of my card, I have used some older MME papers that pick up on the blues and reds from the image. I am thinking that it might have looked more quilted if I had pulled out the sewing machine and stitched the edges but I don't have the time for that right now. To embellish I have dug through my flower stash and found some flowers that are just the right colours. This card has so much texture and such a joyful feeling to it.

 

I hope you have been inspired to join us.  Be sure to stop by the main challenge blog and see the rest of the gorgeous DT creations.

 

I will try to stop back later and link this up to a few challenges.

Hugs!

 

Red Christmas

Hello again! I hope that you are all well.

Today is the start of another great challenge over at Charisma Cardz.

We have some wonderful sponsors this week.

PRIZE ONE

The Paper Shelter is generously offering one lucky winner a $20 voucher to spend in their online store!! PRIZE TWO

Stamp Fairy is generously offering our second lucky winner a $10 voucher to their online store!!

This week the chosen theme is MonoChrome so I have worked with shades of red and coloured this sweet little Patches Teddy from StampFairy to go with it.  As I really love these busy papers from Basic Grey, I have chosen to go embellishment free for this card which means that this one will be perfect for mailing when the holiday season rolls around.

Be sure to stop by the Charisma Cardz challenge blog and see the rest of the wonderful DT creations. Then I hope that you will join us with some fantastic monochrome creations of your own.

I would like to enter my card in the following Challenge:

Stampin' for the Weekend - Monochrome

P for Paper Piecing

Good Morning. So nice to have you stop by and visit today. It has been a while since I have posted anything. I got hit with one of those summer colds last week and have not been in my craft room in what feels like forever.

There is still 1 week left for the current ABC Christmas Challenge where the theme is

P for Paper Piecing.

This is the card that I had intended to share last week but I did not get it finished in time for the start of the challenge so I am sharing it for the mid way reminder instead.

I bought this sweet little Mo Manning Elf  with the full intention that  I would be paper piecing the Christmas bauble. This time around, I have coloured her up in traditional holiday colours and used some patterned papers from  a couple of seasonal Basic Grey collections for both the background and the paper piecing.

This is a 6 inch square card. The image is quite large and really stands on its own. All I needed to finish it off was a little sentiment

I hope that you will join us for the challenge.

We are generously sponsored by the lovely Heidi at  Simon Says Stamp who is offering one luck entrant

A $15 voucher to spend in her store

and

with an awesome £10 voucher

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 

Totally Papercrafts - Frame It

Love to Create - Sparkle

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Basic Grey - Bright and Bold

 

 

 

 

 

Fashionista Birthday - GDT

I am running a day late with this post as I was off at the lake over the holiday weekend and just got back last night. I was asked to be a GDT over on the Fashionista Challenge and of course I said yes. The theme is Birthday or Baby and as you can see, I have chosen to go with a Birthday theme.

This little cutie Tilda from Magnolia was coloured up in shades of purple and pink so I dug through my stash and came up with these gorgeous K and Company papers to match. As I was going for a real girly look, I have also dug through my Wild Orchid flowers stash to embellish. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Lovely Hanglar/Sweet Magnolia - Flowers

Incy Wincy - Sugar and Spice

Songbird Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Stamp N Plus - Flowers

Pink and Black

Just a quick post today, we have just got back from our little camping trip at the beach and I have not yet done much crafting but I do have a card for the start of today's challenge at Charisma Cardz.

This week our theme is Pink plus 1 other colour.

We have some wonderful sponsors who have generously provided prizes for some lucky participants. Prize One
Simon Say Stamp are offering one lucky winner a $20 voucher to spend in their online shop!

Prize Two
 Pink Cat Studio are offering our second Winner 5 Digi's of their choice!
Prize Three

Crafty Ribbons are generously offering these sweet Owl ribbons to a third lucky winner!  

I chose to work with black as my plus one colour and I have dug out this wonderful Magenta silhouette stamp from my collection. I stamped  and embossed the image with  black embossing powder. The frame did not stamp properly in all places but I love the worn look that it created. I've inked the background with Distress ink and then matted the card adding just a little black ribbon accent to finish it all off.

Thanks for stopping by. I am off to work now but I will try to come back later and link to some challenges.

 

Through a Winter Window

Good Morning, today marks the start of another ABC Christmas Challenge. It is hard to believe that we are already more than half way through the year. This week we have reached the letter O and our theme is

O for Open it Up

We want you to see you decorate not just the outside of your card but the inside too.

We have two fabulous sponsors for this challenge who have generously offered prizes for some of our lucky participants.

Bugaboo

Challenge Blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

 

who are offering

 

and

Ribbon Girl

who have offered up this gorgeous selection of holiday goodies.

 

I decided to try something a little different this week,

 

I've made a trifold, shaker, window card. Try saying that 3 times fast. For the main image on my card, I have used this sweet little James bear who can be seen through the window behind a mountain of snow.

Here is a close up of the image.

On the inside panels, I have added a sentiment and a panel to write a little message to the recipient.

This card did have its challenges (lining up the window cut outs and running out of    

co-ordinating papers) but I do love the end result. That said, I think that it will be a while before I try another one of these. I do hope though that it has inspired you a little bit and that you will join our challenge. I look forward to seeing your wonderful creations.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Christmas Card Challenges - Window Cards

2 Sisters - Christmas in July

Addicted to Stamps - Christmas in July

Delightful Challenges - Christmas in July

Holly Jolly Christmas - Non Traditional Colours

Ladybug Crafts - Christmas in July

Speedy Fox and Friends - Christmas in July

FORE Your Birthday!

Hello there! I hope that you are all managing this heat okay. I have checked the forecast and the weatherman is saying that we get a bit of a break today. Only a balmy high of 27C! If the humidity has actually dropped like they are predicting, that will be considered beautiful golf weather to some.

I have been having some fun with another Teddy Bo image. masculine cards usually do not come easy but I have been loving these fun little bears. I have coloured him up in some nice bright shades and them matched him with some of the great MME papers from the Lime Twist collection.Shhhh, don't tell but I have even stolen some matching golf tees from the golf bag in the garage for embellishments.

This card will probably make its way to my neighbour for his birthday. I have left room to add a sentiment when I find one that is just right. If you have suggestions, please send them my way.  The guys love to play golf on the weekends but I can't count how many times I have heard the line "we will never speak of this game again" so I have a feeling that it will need to have a play on words around the score and age.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Olympics/Sporty

Pink Elephant - Summer

One Stop Crafts - Olympics/Sports

Dream Valley - Summer

Fashionista Top 5

I got some exciting news this week, I made the top 5 on the Fashionista Challenge with this card

There is a lovely prize from the up for grabs and I would really like to have a shot so if you have a moment, do you think that you could pop over and vote for me? 

I should mention that there is also a lovely prize up for grabs to one lucky voter!

Thanks so much!

Hugs

Carissa

Favorite Animals with Charisma

Good Morning, I have not been around much lately. My back has spazzed out on me and it has been enough for me just to go to work so I have not been busy in my craft room. I did have a chance a few days back though to make my card for the start of today's new Charisma Cardz Challenge.  This week the challenge is to show us your favorite animal.

We have been sponsored this week by two wonderful sponsors

Crafty Ribbons and Joanna Sheen

who are both offering up some wonderful prizes.

For my card this week I have used one of my favorite little James Bear stamps from LOTV however, I have coloured him up in shades of pink and grey as I was going for a soft and girly look. When I was done colouring I discovered that this image went perfectly with some older Basic Grey papers that I had in my stash. As the paper is rather busy, I have kept the embellishment rather simple adding just a few snowflake details.

I have even finished the inside of this one so that it will be ready to go. My Christmas card pile is slowly building and it will be nice when late November comes and I will just be able to sit down and fill them out before having to mail them away.

I hope that you will join us for the challenge. I can't wait to see all of your favorite animals.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

 

PaperPlay - Christmas in July

Going Grey With Scrap Creations - Christmas in July

Quirky Crafts - Christmas in July

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

2 Sisters - Christmas in July

Totally Gorjuss - It's Christmas

N for Not a Card

Good morning,it been almost a week since my last post. With the weather being they way it is I have been enjoying the summer sun and taking a bit of a break from my craft room.

Today over on the ABC Christmas Challenge blog we have another fun, new challenge for you.

Our theme is N for Not a Card.

We have two generous sponsors

Simon Says Stamp

Simon Says Stamp is offering a $20 gift voucher to spend in their store!!

In business since 2002, Simon Says Stamp is striving to offer you the best selection of Rubber Stamps, Altered Art, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards, and Paper Crafting Supplies in the world. We stock over 100,000 items in our warehouses so that we can offer you quick service and one stop shopping at a great price!

Happy customers are the heart of our business.

We work hard to find and deliver to you the latest in stamping and paper crafting supplies! Attending classes, workshops, and sales meetings around the world, our goal is to keep our product offerings fresh and current. Make us your one stop easy shop - and we'll deliver right to your door!

Stamp Fairy

"Stamp Fairy officially launched on November 5th 2010. Gerda Burghardt, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls, fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters. Stamp Fairy has new releases along with a free image every Friday and Guest Designers each month. Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images. We hope StampFairy’s images inspire YOUR creativity."

For My project I have created this little easel card box inspired by some of Norma's creations. It will be perfect for giving someone a little treat at Christmas. Maybe I will tuck some homemade candies or cookies inside.

I coloured the image with Copics and accented with liquid applique and stickles to as some sparkle and dimension and just give the image that little extra.

I have used some of my favorite dies from Tim Holtz along with a new Marianne die to create the background details and embellish.

I hope that you have been inspired. Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure to head on over to the main challenge blog and see the rest of the beautiful DT creations.

I will come back tonight to link this to some challenges.