Winter Friends

I have yet another Christmas card to show, but first I just wanted to share some news that I have been bursting to tell - from the challenge starting on 13th January I will be joining the Joanna Sheen DT, I'm very excited & honoured to have been invited to join their talented team and can't wait to get started!

Today's card has been made using a very cute stamp from Crafter's Companion, I have made some 'grown up' cards this year, but I'm such a sucker for cute images! I wasn't sure if I'd made these cute chappies too orange, but I think it works with the Kraft card.

Image - 'Giving' - Crafter's Companion coloured with Promarkers
Papers - 'Annabelle's Christmas' paper pack - Wild Rose Studio
'Snow' done using my 'Ice White' Viva pearl pen
Ribbon, Kraft card & candi from stash
Dies used: SB 'Circles' & 'Scalloped Circles', Marianne Designs 'Swedish Ice Star' and border cut using Martha Stewart's PATP 'Layered Arches'

Challenges:

’Anything Goes’ – Divas By Design 

’Christmas’ – Dream Valley 

’Anything Christmas’ – Come & Get It 

’Anything Goes’ – Tammys Scrapin Corner 

It’s Your Choice’ – Penny Black & More @ Allsorts 

’Anything Goes That’s Festive’  – Whimsy Stamps Inspirations 

'Winter Friends' - Crafter's Companion

Thanks for looking!
Natx

Mistletoe Kids

Well, it's a gloomy old day here in Kent, hope it's better where you are! I have another Christmas card today, but firstly I wanted to remind everyone that the Mega Christmas Challenge over at Passion For Promarkers is only half way through and will end January 1st.  

Team 1 are showing their cards today, so please pop over for some inspiration.  There are some wonderful prizes up for grabs and with 2 weeks still to go you have plenty of time to get your entry in! 

There are several challenges this week asking us to make Christmas cards with traditional images or colours and seeing as my last few Christmas cards have all been pink or blue or brown, I thought it was time to make one using good old red and green, this one is for my Mum and Dad. I had a very lucky run of winning prizes back in the Autumn and bought this lovely stamp with an LOTV voucher won at Divas By Design. It's been sitting on my desk for ages waiting to be used! I tend to be inspired by the wonderful creations made using these stamps, but am a bit afraid of using them myself as I'm not sure I can do them justice, lol! But I'm glad I took the plunge with this one, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Image - 'Under The Mistletoe' - LOTV coloured with Promarkers
Papers - Fizzy Moon 'Traditional Christmas' decoupage & paper pad
Kraft card, candi, peel offs & ribbon from stash
Lace - The Ribbon Girl
Gems - Anita's
Dies used: SB 'Circles' & 'Scalloped Circles', Marianne Designs 'Christmas Tree' & 'Swedish Ice Star'
'Star Dust' Stickles
'Bundled Sage' & 'Walnut Stain' distress inks - Tim Holtz (for the edges)

Challenges: 
’Use Some Red’ – Divas By Design 
’Oh Christmas Tree’ – Allsorts 
’Christmas’ – Dream Valley 
’Anything Christmas’ – Come & Get It 
’Traditional Christmas Cards’ – Whoopsi Daisy 
’Holly Or Mistletoe’ – Incy Wincy Designs 
’Traditional Colours’ – Anything Goes 
’Anything Goes’ – Tammy's Scrapin Corner 
’Anything Goes’ – Crafty Bloggers Network 
It’s Your Choice’ – Penny Black & More @ Allsorts 
’Anything Goes That’s Festive’  – Whimsy Stamps Inspirations
'Anything Goes' - Christmas At Sweet Stampin 

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Natx

Sledging Fun

Gosh, Christmas is really getting in the way of my crafting! Thank goodness I will have some time off soon to sit and make some cards, perhaps I'll make next year's Christmas cards and get in front of myself for a change, lol! I made this card using one of the stamps I was so lucky to win at the Crafter's Companion Challenge recently. It's a really fun image, oh that I were a bit younger to enjoy sledging, I'd be too afraid of breaking something these days!!!

Image - ‘Winter Wonderland’ – Crafter’s Companion coloured with Promarkers
Papers – from ‘Humphrey’s Corner’ decoupage & paper pad – Crafter’s Companion 
Ribbon – Papermania Capsule Collection
Candi, glitter & Kraft card from stash
Dies used: Martha Stewart’s PATP ‘Layered Arches’, Marianne Designs ‘Swedish Ice Star’, SB’s ‘Circles’ & ‘Scalloped Circles’

Challenges:
’Anything Goes’ – Crafty Bloggers Network
’Winter Friends’ – Crafter’s Companion
’It’s Your Choice’ – Penny Black & More @ Allsorts
’Festive Anything Goes’ – Whimsy Stamps Inspirations 
’Dies & Punches’ – Sweet Stampin
’Christmas’ – Dream Valley
’Anything Goes’ – Christmas At Sweet Stampin
’Christmas With Snowflakes’ – Incy Wincy Designs
’Winter’ – C.R.A.F.T
’It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Christmas’ – Little Miss Muffet

Thanks for looking!
Natx

Mega Christmas Challenge at Passion For Promarkers

This week at PFP we are launching our very special Mega Christmas Challenge which runs for a whole month and ends on January 1st 2013.  The design team has been given a little holiday,  however to make up for the lack of challenges we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs. Our theme for the Mega Christmas challenge is a nice easy one “include the word HAPPY in your sentiment”, so basically we want to see your creations for any type of occasion that include the word “happy”, i.e. Happy Christmas, Happy birthday, Happy anniversary etc.  We are limiting the number of entries you can make to just 3 for this month long challenge. Team 2 are showing their cards this week, so please pop over to their Blogs to see what they've been up to and then on 18th December we will be giving you more inspiration with cards from Team 1. So now for the exciting bit – the prizes!
Letraset are generously offering 3 x Season’s Gift Sets – so that means 3 winners!

Joanna Sheen is generously offering one lucky winner a £10.00 voucher to spend in her online store.

DigiStamp Boutique are generously offering one lucky winner a prize of 6 digi images of their choice from her store.

Bugaboo stamps are generously offering a prize of 7 digis (which we are going to split into 2 prizes)

Michele R Designs are offering one lucky winner a prize of $15.00 worth of digi papers, which are available at Whimsy Designs.

and a brand new sponsor for us - Clearly Besotted Stamps are generously offering a prize of 1 stamp set of the winner's choice.

WOW! What fantastic prizes, what are you waiting for, get those Promarkers out and start creating, we can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

So, onto my DT card. I have chosen to use an image from DSB called ‘Skating Hattie’, she is just adorable and so easy to colour.

Image – ‘Skating Hattie’ – DigiStamp Boutique coloured with Promarkers
Sentiment printed on my pc
Kraft card from my teamie Jen 
Fiskars Snowflake embossing plate
Dies used: Martha Stewart Punch Around The Edge ‘Layered Arches’, Marianne Designs Creatables ‘Swedish Ice Star’ & Christmas Tree, Memory Box ‘Frostyville Border’
Clear dewdrops on snowflakes – The Ribbon Girl
’Frosted Lace’ Stickles for tree, coat & hat trim &  I used a Viva ‘Ice White’ pearl pen for the snow
Ribbon & glitter card from stash

Challenges:
’Snowflakes’ – Cute Card Thursday
’Anything Goes’ – Crafty Bloggers Network
’Christmas Cards’ – Whoopsi Daisy
’Non-Traditional Christmas Colours’ – Incy Wincy Designs
’Anything Christmas’ – Tammy’s Scrapin Corner
’Anything Goes’ – I ♥ Promarkers
’Glitter & Sparkle’ – Divas By Design
’Advent’ – Allsorts
’Ribbons & Snowflakes’ – Sweet Stampin
’Non-Traditional Christmas’ – Dream Valley
’Color Challenge Blue Christmas’ – Come & Get It

Don't forget to check back on the PFP Challenge Blog on the 18th for more inspiration!

Thanks for looking! Natx

Coffee & Cream Christmas

My mojo has up and left for a holiday! I have discovered that there are disadvantages to working for your husband, one of them being that a cold is not a good enough excuse not to go to work :( so by the time I’ve got home in the past few days all I’ve wanted to do is curl up on the sofa and feel sorry for myself! However, I hate not posting at least once a week, so I’ve got a card to show today that I made for J & C Creations a little while ago on the theme of ‘Contemporary Christmas’. I had already made a pink & blue card for their monthly challenge and so decided on a brown & cream colour scheme for this stepper card.

 

Stamp from Penny Black’s clear stamp set ‘Christmas Fashion’ coloured with Promarkers
Snowflakes cut using Marianne Designs Christmas Creatables ‘Swedish Ice Star’
Sentiment cut using Spellbinders ‘Fleur de Lis Rectangles’ die
Stickles ‘Frosted Lace’ Brown card, brads paper & ribbon from stash

 
Challenges:
’Christmas Anything Goes’ – Crafty Bloggers Network
Anything Goes’ – I ♥ Promarkers  
’Non-Traditional Christmas’ – Dream Valley 
’More Than 1 Fold’ – Come & Get It  
’No Square Allowed’ – That Craft Place  
’Fancy Fold’ – Dutch Dare  
’Anything Goes’ – Creative Card Crew  
’Shaped/Fancy Folds’ – Christmas Cards All Year Round

Thanks for looking!
Natx

Christmas Box Card

Today’s card is one that I made for J & C Creations . Having time to craft is a real problem for me and so I don’t tend to do many ‘fiddly’ projects, however being on the design team at J & C I like to try and do something other than a square card all the time, so here is my Christmas Box Card (still square though, lol!) – I’m afraid I went a bit overboard on the photos! 

 

Image - Wild Rose Studio's Annabelle 'Posting Letters' coloured with Promarkers
Papers - Wild Rose Studio 'Annabelle's Christmas' 6x6 pad
Snowflake charm, die cut trees & pearls
Dies used - Spellbinders 'Classic' & 'Scalloped Circles', 'Labels 2' and 'Floral Doily Accent' (corners)
’Frosted Lace’ Stickles
All the above are available from the J & C Creations Website

Ribbon from stash
Fiskars Daisy Border punch

Challenges:
’Christmas Anything Goes’ – Crafty Bloggers Network
’Traditional Christmas Colouring’ – Whimsy Stamps Inspirations
’Hip To Be Square’ – Incy Wincy Designs
’Anything Goes’ – Creative Card Crew
’It’s A Gift’ – Allsorts
’Cold & Frosty’ – Joanna Sheen
’Anything Goes’ – Dream Valley
’It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ – The Crafty Pad
’Snow People’ – Sweet Stampin
'Use 2 Or More Patterned Papers' - Divas By Design

Thanks for looking!
Natx

Krafty Colouring

Today sees the start of another Challenge at Passion for Promarkers and this week we are being sponsored by Joanna Sheen who is offering a fantastic £10 voucher to the winner.

The theme this week is Colouring On Kraft and I must admit this one had me stumped! I had only just found out what Kraft was and had never coloured on it before, but my PFP teamie Jen came to the rescue. She sent me some sheets of Kraft card and a little sample card that she had used her Promarkers on, so THANK YOU Jen!!! I decided to keep it simple as it was a new thing for me and I was reasonably pleased with the finished card, although the edge of the bib came out too dark!

Image - ‘Koetie With Bird’ by Nellie Snellen from J & C Creations coloured with Promarkers
Paper - ‘Back to Basics II’ – Dovecraft
Clear dewdrops – The Ribbon Girl
Ribbon from stash
Dies used: SB ‘Circles’, ‘Scalloped Circles’ & ‘Floral Doily Accents’ (border) & Cheery Lynn ‘Deco B' (corner)

Challenges:
’Die Cuts & Punches’ - Whoopsi Daisy 
‘Hip To Be Square’ – Incy Wincy Designs
’Anything Goes’ – Divas By Design
'Anything Goes' - Creative Card Crew
'Anything Goes' - Dream Valley


Thanks for looking!
Natx

Floral Delight

Today is the start of another challenge at J & C Creations Challenge & this month the theme is ‘Floral Delights’. Denise & Jenny are offering another fantastic £20 voucher to the prize winner which will be only too easy to spend in the online shop as it is packed with all sorts of lovely crafty stuff! 

 

So, onto my card – no cute image for this card, so a little out of my comfort zone, but these stamps & dies work so well together, it really wasn’t a very hard card to make!

Stamp - ‘Daisy Patch Bouquet’ by Heartfelt Creations coloured with Promarkers
Dies used: Spellbinders Heartfelt Creations ‘Daisy Patch’ & SB ‘Circles’, ‘Scalloped Circles’ & ‘Fleur De Lis Rectangles’ & Cheery Lynn ‘Exotic Butterflies’ small
Papers – Docrafts Me To You ‘Spring Chic’
Gems – Anita’s
Clear Dewdrops - The Ribbon Girl
Kraft card & ribbon from stash
Available at J & C Creations Website

Challenges:
’Any Die Will Do’ – Penny Black & More @ Allsorts
’My Favourite Things’ – Dutch Dare (dies, butterflies & my new favourite - Kraft card!)
’Anything Goes’ – Dream Valley
Sketch – Cute Card Thursday
'Anything Goes' - Tammy's Scrapin Corner
'More Than 1 Punch and/or Die Cut' - Crafty Cardmakers
'Anything Goes' - Sweet Stampin

Thanks for looking!
Natx

In The Garden

Gosh Tuesdays seem to come around so quickly now that I’m on the Passion For Promarkers DT! This week the theme is In The Garden and we are being sponsored by Letraset. They are offering a fantastic prize of a New Promarker Collector’s Set, wow, wish I could enter!!

Team 2 are doing the honours this week, so please pop along to their Blogs to see what they have been up to. I haven’t used any Penny Black critter stamps for a while (thought I was getting a bit twitchy, lol) so I decide to use this cute image, just what I’d like to imagine going on down at the bottom of my garden!

Image - ‘Surprise’ – Penny Black coloured with Promarkers
Paper – The Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady free with Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine
Lace – The Ribbon Girl
Gems – Anitas
Leaf charm won on the Joanna Sheen Blog Hop
Peach card, ribbons & wooden ladybird from stash
Dies used – Spellbinders ‘Floral Ovals’, Cheery Lynn’s ‘Fancy Flourish’ & small ‘Exotic Butterflies’

 
I kept the cut outs from smaller SB die & glued tiny gems on to make some flower heads. I was quite pleased with the lighting on my photo, but I should have arranged the background better!

Challenges:
’Anything Goes’ – Anything Goes
’Cute’ – I ♥ Promarkers
’Birthday’ – C.R.A.F.T
’Tic Tac Toe’ – That Craft Place (ribbon/lace/dies)
’Anything Goes’ – The Crafty Pad
’Any Die Will Do’ – Penny Black & More @ Allsorts

Thanks for looking
Natx

Moving Day

Gosh I'm really on a roll at the moment, my mojo is having a field day! This card is for a lady who is leaving her job after 17 years & is moving to Norfolk, not sure if I could cope with that much change in one go, lol! I just love LOTV stamps & this one is just so sweet & really makes me smile, so I hope the card has the same effect on her!

Image – ‘Moving Day’ – LOTV coloured with Promarkers
Sentiment – LOTV
Pink card – Coredinations Tim Holtz Ranger Collection
Papers – Craft Creations
Lace, flowers & hat pin – The Ribbon Girl
Ribbon & pearls from stash
Dies used: Cheery Lynn ‘Fancy Flourish’ & ‘Deco B’ corner

Challenges:
’Anything Goes’ – Anything Goes
’Cute’ – I Love Promarkers
’Tic Tac Toe’ – That Craft Place (ribbon/lace/dies)
'Anything Goes' - The Crafty Pad

Thanks for looking
Natx!