Santa

I'm making a few of this design for some very special little people in our family.

The background is embossed with an Embossalicious e/f, 'Reindeer Forest'.   The dies I used were from eBay and the ribbon from my stash.

I am joining in the following challenges with this card:

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 391 ~ Where did you get that hat?

Country View Crafts December Challenge ~ Christmas

Deep Ocean Challenge Challenge #169 ~ Santa is Coming to Town

I made one more with Santa wearing the kit of our local football team for a friend.  Our rival team wears red and white, so I never put red on the cards I send her! LOL!

(The football fans are affectionately known as 'The Gasheads', due to the original stadium being in smelling distance of the gas works many years ago.)

I am joining in the following challenges with this card:

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge ~ Non Traditional Christmas
Pile It On Challenge #137 ~ Non-Traditional Holiday Colors
CHNC Challenge #362 ~ Anything goes as long as it's Christmas
CHNC challenge extra for December 2017
Addicted to Stamps and More!  Challenge #271 ~ Anything Goes
The Male Room Challenge #75 ~ Christmas/Winter Wishes/December Celebrations

Bunnies

I saved this as a draft post until I knew the card had been received, but somehow the photo and all the text disappeared, so I had to start again....but then I forgot to make the post live!!  So here's my post - better late than never! 

I made this card for Cara, a blogging friend. You can find her blog, Crafting Bunnies HERE.  When I mentioned in a comment on another blog that I'd been looking for this particular embossing folder for ages, but thought it had been discontinued, Cara very kindly said she had a duplicate one I could have!  Well, I just had a do a Happy Dance, thank you so much Cara!  The e/f is by Creative Expression, 'Heart Lattice'.  I knew I had to use bunnies on Cara's card and the Joanna Sheena 'Rabbit Family' dies were just a perfect size.  The grass is  MFT Die-Namics 'Fresh Cut Grass' die cut.  A strip of sentiment ribbon finished off my card.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 444 ~ Thank You

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #201 ~ Animal Magic

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge ~ Give Thanks

Handwritten sentiment

The Butterfly Challenge this fortnight is 'Butterflies + H is for Handwritten and/or the colour Lemon'.  The lemon bit is fine, but handwritten?! I've never handwritten anything on my cards before, apart from a bit of Zentangling, so this was a first for me.  I decided to make a 'thank you' card as I'll be needing a few after Christmas.  I wrote the sentiment with a green fineliner pen.

I started by die cutting a 6" x 4" card blank down the side with a Memory Box 'Kensington Border'  die.   I used the die again with snippets of lemon coloured card and cut off the butterflies before attaching them over the main card.  The embossing folder I used is Couture Creations 'Fireflies'.  I added a thin strip of lemon card on the edge of the green embossed card.  The matted, handwritten sentiment is attached with foam pads.

This photo shows the card open.

I am joining in the following challenges: 
Butterfly Challenge #90 ~ Butterflies + H is for Handwritten and/or the colour Lemon
Allsorts Challenge - Week 444 ~ Thank You
The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge ~ Give Thanks

Crafty Calendar ~ December DT Post

Today is the start of a new challenge over on Crafty Calendar Challenge, with the theme 'It's Christmas'. There are two prizes this month from our generous sponsors, 


 Crafty Ribbons

and


Bugaboo Stamps

For my DT card I used a pre-coloured image from Bugaboo 'Bugs Snowman 003'. The image was die cut and layered on dark blue, using MB 'Stitched Circles'.  The patterned paper is from a freebie paper pad which came with a magazine.  The snowflakes are MB 'Twilight Snowflakes' die cuts, cut from snippets of white card.

Looking forward to seeing all your Christmas creations over in the Crafty Calendar Challenge. You have until 28th December to join in the fun.

I am joining in the following challenges with my card:

Alphabet Challenge ~ Snow People

Cuttlebug Mania Challenge ~ Let  it Snow
Shopping Our Stash Challenge #331 ~ Snow Much Fun
Cards in Envy ~ It's Only Paper Card Challenge
Country View December Challenge  ~ Christmas