K for Kept Safe

Good evening, I hope that you have had a happy Wednesday.  I have a card to share for our final midway inspiration for the ABC Christmas challenge. Beginning with our next challenge there will only be the main challenge post. Just in case you have forgotten, the theme of this challenge is

 

Kept Safe

with the idea being to use something that you have been keeping tucked away for just that special project.

 

Our sponsor for this challenge is:

Kenny K with a prize of any 3 digital images from their shop

 

 

This week I opted to create a gift bag, you can never have too many come the holidays. The images from Tickled Pink have been merged together to create this darling Victorian couple who have been coloured using traditional holiday colours to celebrate the holiday season.

 

My Kept Safe item was the lace which I ordered from Wild Orchid Crafts some time ago now. I have been using it sparingly as lace like this has been hard to find locally but it seemed appropriate to use some vintage style lace with this image.

 

The poinsettia has been cut using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and then accented with glitter and a fuzzy center. The little banners could be considered another Kept Safe item, as they were assembled about 6 months ago and have been sitting on the corner of my desk just waiting for a project that suited them.

 

A Christmas Story

Once Upon a Time in a land far away... who didn't love a great Christmas story as a child.

This week our Papertake Weekly challenge is Christmas Crackers, that is (use a Christmas image that you are crackers about).

When I stumbled across this wonderful printed book box in Winners I immediately thought Lil Victorian Christmas Lolita Lylah , a wonderful image from Tickled Pink Stamps. Before I knew it this box was coming home with me and this challenge has been the perfect opportunity to bring the vision to life.

After colouring the image with Copics and cutting her out, I have mounted the image on the box and set to work embellishing.

To add the perfect Victorian touches I have used lots of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts layered over a piece of greenery from a Christmas pick and accented with lots of my favorite red pearls.

I hope you will join us for the challenge, I love stopping by your blogs for a visit and I am looking forward to seeing all of your favorite Christmas images.

Thanks for stopping by, be sure to stop by the Papertake Weekly blog for more inspiration.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy - Anything But a Card

Truly Scrumptious - Anything But a Card

Wild Orchid Crafts - A Child's Christmas

Bells Are Ringing

Good Morning, I hope that you are all well. Today is the start of a new ABC Christmas Challenge but before I tell you all about it, I must say that you do have a lot of gorgeous unused stash. We had over 200 entries for our last challenge and it was awesome to visit your blogs.

As of yesterday there were exactly two months until the big day.  Have you started making your cards yet. No, well don't worry, there is still time and this new challenge is the perfect reason to get started. Our theme this time around is 

V is for Vintage

I know some of you are probably groaning now (I know that I did) but I had a lot of fun with this card and I love the way that it turned out so I am sure that you will too. On top of that we have some great sponsors this week.

The Ribbon Reel

Has offered up this gorgeous Vintage Christmas  ribbon and lace Prize
 

and

Crafty Emma's Store who is offering a £10 voucher to spend in the store.

What is more vintage than Victorian especially at Christmas so for my card I have chosen to work with

 Lil Victorian Christmas Lylah from Tickled Pink Stamps. I have coloured her up in gorgeous shades of olive and red to match the papers from the MME Lost and Found Christmas Collection as the papers have a wonderful vintage quality about them.

The rest of the card is all about the details.  I have cut out the image and matted it on this music sheet paper which I have distressed and inked before stitching around it.  If you look close you will see part of a lace doily peeking out from behind. The scroll work along the bottom was punched with a Martha Stewart punch on top of which I have layered lots of flowers in rich Victorian Christmas colours and you will notice that the olive flowers have been given a spritz of glimmer mist for some shimmer.

This card will be entered into the following challenges;

Winter Wonderland - Vintage Christmas

Creatalicious Challenges - Distress your Edges

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Wrap Up Warm

Moving Along With the Times - Vintage

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Deck the Halls

Good morning. Today I have a card to share that I started quite some time ago. As I have not had much time for crafting this week I have been adding the finishing touches to some projects so that my poor blog will not sit empty.

Today I have an easel card featuring Lil Christmas Lolita Willow from Tickled Pink Stamps. This gorgeous gal is just full of fun Christmas spirit as she decks the halls and she needed a card that was just as fun. I have paired her up with some great papers from MME that really picked up on the colours in the image and then used some really bold, contrasting cardstock colours for matting to make it all pop.

As I would like to enter this into the Tickled Pink Challenge where they are having a GDT call, I went digging through my supply of chipboard and found these great snowflakes. After painting them red, I have enhanced them with loads of Stickles and then topped them off with some sparkly mini ornaments that I picked up last year.

I want to thank you all for coming by and for all of the lovely comments that you have been leaving lately, I really appreciate them. Have a great day!

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge - Chipboard

Crafter's Companion - Christmas Wishes

Christmas Crafting - Christmas Sparkle

Paper Playtime - Easel

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Inspired by a Song (Deck the Halls)

Cutie Sunday - Christmas Cards

Charisma Cardz - Inspired by a Song (Deck the Halls)

7 Kids College Fund - Easel

Stamp Something Embellished

Good morning, I hope that you are all finding a way to stay cool. For me that means staying indoors and playing with all of my crafty goodies. Our Christmas challenge had so many gorgeous Christmas cards so maybe we are all trying to think our way to cool.

Today is Friday and not only does that mean that it is the start of the weekend but it is also the start of another Stamp Something challenge. Our challenge this week is to Stamp Something Embellished.

Our Sponsor this week is Sugar Nellie Stamps and they have generously offered up 4 Sugar Nellie Stamps to one lucky participant.

I decided that this week I would try a vintage steampunk feel for my card which features Lil Victorian Lilith from Tickled Pink Stamps. The image was coloured with Copics and I have used some distress inks and along with a text stamp and a grunge floral to add so interest to the edges of the image block.

For the background I have used this great paper from the Basic Grey Curio collection which I tore and inked to give a burned  look to reveal the newspaper print below. I have stitched the layers and distressed the edges to add to the timeworn feel. If you look closely in the bottom left corner you will see where I have masked and inked a vintage compass onto my background papers.

There are so many different embellishments layered onto this card. All of the flowers are from my newly replenished supply from Wild Orchid Crafts. Behind the flowers on the left of the image there is part of a Prima rhinestone swirl. For some additional steampunk flair I have also added in some Tim Holtz sprockets and gears. There is also just a touch of ribbon and a birthday sentiment that I picked up in the dollar bins at Michael's.

I hope that you will join us with your own embellished somethings.

Before you begin crafting be sure to stop by the Stamp Something blog and see the great creations from the rest of the Design Team.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Use Newspaper

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Digi Stamp

Sarah Hurley Challenge - Colouring

Craft Your Passion - Text It

Try it on Tuesday - Steampunk
Crafty Catz - No Pink or Blue Allowed

ABC Christmas Challenge - L is For Love

Good Morning, it is time for another ABC Christmas challenge. This time the theme that was chosen is

LOVE !!

 we also have a colour requirement for this challenge, you must use the following colours on your creation.

We have 2 fabulous sponsors this week ,,,

 Simon Says Stamp with a $15 voucher for one lucky winner

 

and

 

 Stamp Fairy - 3 digital images of the winner's choice.

My card this week used Lil Christmas Lad Luca and Lil Birthday Kellita from Tickled Pink Stamps. I was inspired by their DT with all of the gorgeous pairs cards that they were showing last week. These images were coloured with Copics and accented with a touch of Stickles before I cut them out with my Spellbinders.

I have built my card using papers from the Basic Grey Jovial collection  with flowers from Wild Orchid and this weeks sketch from the Wild Orchid Crafts Challenge.

I hope that you have been inspired to join us for the challenge. Be sure to drop by for a visit at the 

ABC Christmas Challenge Blog to see the gorgeous creations from the DT and our Guest Designers.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Tickled Pink Stamps - Anything Goes

Wild Orchid Challenge - Sketch

Sketch Colours - Inspiration photo

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes

Wild Orchid Crafts - Sketch