Snow angel

Hello and welcome back to my little corner of the world. Hope you had a good start of the week and is ready for what ever will come your way. Once again I have a sick kid at home and it drives me nuts that they catch everything there is to get from day care. I am so looking forward to when Philip starts going to school instead of day care.

It's a new week and time for a new challenge over at Crafty Card Makers. This time our theme is "Winged things". As I have been fairly busy I wasn't sure that I had the time to make a card and then I couldn't find any dp and... You know how it can be sometimes. The mojo isn't really there even if you want to.

Luckly for me I have a (now tiny) stash of coloured images that I make when I have the time and feel like colouring. But it's not much left in that pile that I feel like using. But at least this card got done. The image is from Magnolia. I believe it's from last years Christmas release. It's a cute image anyway and I love colouring miss Tilda with distress inks so that's what I have done here.

She is paired up with some dp's from raspberry road and Carta Bella I believe. I normally don't mix and match like that but as first printed one, then another. Nothing worked and I just threw it all on my desk and the dp's kind of picked themself after all that frustration. That's the bad part about colouring a head, it never matches anything. LoL

A few die cuts is used as embellishments. The snow flakes are from Whimsy stamps and the ivy die is from Joanna Sheen. The quality of that die is amazing! I need to get some more from her range. Some flower soft in white, big pearls from Bunny Zoe where I also got the snow flake die by the way. Also a few gemstones from Magnolia is used to decorate this creation of mine. Ops! Forgot that I used a Prima swirl and some lace from WOC as well. A white set of frantage is also used around the image.

This week we are sponsored by
CRAFTS AND ME

with three digis of the winner's choice from their great range

AND ALSO BY

WOODWARE CRAFT COLLECTION

With a prize of £12.00 to spend at your favourite Woodware Stockist, either in store or on line.

 

Love n hugs
Marie

Challenges for this card
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes
Christmas card Challenges - Music (Music paper in the middle...)
lovely hÄnglar or Sweet Magnolia - Favourite embellishments (lace and pearls)
That craft place challenges - Things with wings
Paper Creators craft Challenge - Chrismassy (Hope that a blue christmas card counts as christmassy)
A creative Romance - Dies or punches¨

Snow and ice at Christmas time

Good afternoon everyone! I am back again, having a little break from the on going dt-call work over at the Paper Shelter to give you some new inspiration from the Crafty Card Maker's design team. Still quite stable when it comes to my shoulder and neck pain. Can it be cause I phoned the doctor? LoL Had a dentist appointment today and got the whole mouth cleaned up with a splitting headache as the prize for that. Oh well, it will pass. And got tons of painkiller...

My card then, because I actually managed to make on this time. I am so happy about that. Hate to let my teams down. Well, I had to make two cards as my first one wasn't Christmassy enough and therefore  something in a style I normally wouldn't use on my cards as my first love is coloring, not the card making it self. Why I don't paint pictures instead? Well, it takes to long and I am easily bored. LoL I used to paint in oil and has taken a few classes. The last one was different and we had to paint with really broad brushes. I think I lost the join and old technic there. Maybe it comes back to me who knows?

The image is from IndigoBlu. They have some fantastic stamps and I love this even if it's just first time out and I bought it way before last Christmas. I think I will use it a few more time this year as the cards get done really fast and I don't have to colour with my bad shoulder, on the other had the stamp is big and need it's strength to give a good print. 

I have embossed the image in detail white embossing poweder that has been laying around for ages. For the extra snowing effect I used some of the Frantage embossing enamel and some champagne flakes. Maybe I over did it a bit, but hey it was my first time and it was fun. You actually should try it out yourself sometime. Also don't forget to take a look at what my fellow teamies has been up to. You will be singing Christmas carols any minute now. :)

This week's challenge is "Christmas snow and Ice", and this is what Lin has written in her blog post over at CCM. 

"Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Josephine, who has chosen the theme of 'Christmas Snow and Ice'. 

As the hot weather draws to a close, Josephine would like to see us preparing for Winter with some  
Christmas Snow and Ice!

Your creation must be both Christmas related And have snow or ice on it in order to qualify for the Winner or Top 5 slots
 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 

We are sponsored by
DI'S DIGISTAMPS 
with a $10 GIFT VOUCHER

HOBBY ART

with these two gorgeous stamps:-

Archie and Pals

Bertie The Snowman 

 

As a family business we're a friendly, helpful, bunch at Hobby Art.  All our stamps are designed by us and manufactured in Britain.
Look at the gallery on my blog - jennymayes.com - for lots of card ideas using the Hobby Art range.
We're pleased to sponsor the Crafty Cardmakers Challenge and look forward to seeing the entries.   
Good luck everyone.  Jenny and all. X"

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card

Make it Monday - Always anything goes

Addicted to stamps challenges - Anything goes 

Challenges4everybody - Anything goes

Christmas Card Challenges - Something new (The Frantage embossing stuff)

The Kraftyhands challenges - Anything goes
Created with love challenges - Christmas snowflakes

Good Morning!

Yet another Christmas card has came out from my crafting room. What will I do with all of these? But hey, as long as I have fun that's fine. This time I've gone all digital with both stamp and papers. The digi stamp is from Mo's digital pencil. I bought it way back to use at another challenge but got sick and never finished it, so it has been laying around for a while. I adore this image as it is how it has looked here the last couple of X-mases. Two young cats loving to play with the baulbs. They have so much fun, and look so totally surprised and silly when stuff comes down from the tree.

The designer papers is from Bearly Mine Designs new Christmas digi set (Christmas Dream) that goes on sale this Friday 12th. It's a great set that Donna has put together and you really should go and check it out together with the rest of her lovely digi papers.

I have followed the sketch from the Totally gorjuss challenge and will also enter this card to the new challenge at Fairytale challenges where the theme is "Anything Goes" as this is their first challenge. At Christmas card Challenges there is a inspirational picture to use. (I went for the X-mas tree).

I used my big shot to make a few buttons and a star with dies from Sizzix and Spellbinders. They are also made out of Donna's DP. I just added a star pin from Wild Orchid Crafts to match it all up.

Now I have planed for a little work out at the gym so I better prepare myself for that. Take care and I look forward to see you again!

Hugs,
Marie