Saturday, 8 November 2025

Allsorts Challenge ~ Christmas

A new Allsorts Challenge begins today and Christine has chosen the theme of 'Christmas'.  A perfect theme for anyone like me who is behind with making their Christmas cards this year.  As always there is also the Anything Goes option.

I bought this nativity die in a charity shop recently and thought it might be a good die for batch making cards.  There was no packaging, so I suspect it may be an unbranded die. It's quite small, so I decided to make a 5" x 5" card.  I found a piece of navy card in my snippets drawer just the right size for a square mat slightly smaller than the card blank, with some left over for the die cut.  The white rectangles were cut from a white snippet.  I layered the navy die cut on the larger rectangle.  The sentiment is a stamp from the Stampin' Up 'Snow is Glistening' set, stamped with SU 'Night of Navy'.  I finished off my card with three clear gems to add some sparkle.

There are two prizes this fortnight of stamps, stencils and dies.

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Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Christmas Gnomes

A Christmas fancy fold card inspired by a demo I saw on the Nifty Noodles Crafting page.

The papers are from The Works and the image is from the same paper pad.




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Monday, 3 November 2025

Christmas Full Star Border Card

I've seen this style of card on several blogs lately, so I went in search of a tutorial.   I found this video HERE by Iced Images.  It was surprisingly easy to make.

The papers are from The Works and are stiff enough to make the star section. The sentiment is a stamp from the Stampin' Up 'Perfect Plaid' set, stamped with Versafine 'Crimson Red'.  I used a SU punch to punch the sentiment shape and an inverted corner punch on the red mat. The card folds flat for posting. 

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Saturday, 1 November 2025

Crafty Calendar Challenge ~ Add a Button

The November Crafty Calendar Challenge begins today and the theme this time is 'Add a Button'.

For my DT card I used an embossing folder which was a magazine cover gift many years ago.  I layered the embossed card on a green mat and used buttons for the centres of the larger flowers.  The sentiment is a stamp from the Stampin' Up 'Humming Along' set and stamped with Versafine Clair 'Rain Forest'.  The layered sentiment is raised up on foam pads.

The Crafty Calendar Challenge ends on 28th November, so plenty of time to dig out those buttons and use them on your creation.

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