Under the Mistletoe

Just when I thought I'd finished making all my Christmas cards for this year, a good friend asked if I'd make a special Christmas card for him to give to his wife.  Due to the pandemic, he was finding it difficult to go out and buy a shop bought card.  My friend decided on the sentiment, but the rest of the design was left up to me.  His wife absolutely loves penguins, so that was my starting point for the card.  

I decided to make a Tower Card which fold flat for posting..... although I knew it wasn't going to be posted.  It measures 6" x 6" when folded, but I put it into a 7" square envelope so there was a bit of wiggle room to get the card in and out.  Knowing that there are several penguin digi stamps in Beccy's Place, I popped over to the online shop.  When I saw the 'Finn and Molly' digi stamp I knew it would be perfect for my card and I decided to use the pre-coloured version.  After printing the image and sentiment, it was die cut and matted using dies from the Lisa Horton 'Stitched Scalloped Layered Squares' set.  The background was embossed with a Sue Wilson 'Snowflake Lattice' e/f.  A few white Memory Box 'Twilight Snowflakes' die cuts and three punched hearts finished off my card.

I love making this style of card as they are so easy to make. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Beccy's Place December Challenge 

Country View December Challenge ~ Anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #519 ~ Anything Goes without the option

Christmas with the Cuties Challenge #44 ~ Feature a Creature

Dream Valley Challenge # 238 ~ Christmas

Simon Says Monday Challenge ~ Favourite Technique (Fancy Folds)

My Time To Craft Challenge #446 ~ Christmas Animals

Decorated Notepad

Welcome to my two new followers.  I hope you can stop by my blog again soon. 

 

A decorated notepad today using lot of snippets.  I bought the notepad in The Range for 25p, with a very boring plain front cover!

I had a small piece of patterned paper left over from a Stampin' Up retreat I went on some time ago.  It was just big enough to cover the front of the notepad.  I stamped the image with a matching flower stamp and layered it on a green and a yellow mat. I used a Martha Stewart border punch with another snippet of green card, backed the holes with yellow card and attached it over the top of the notepad.  A strip of yellow card was added across the middle and I stamped a few tiny green flowers.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 601 ~ Anything but a card

Pixie's Snippets Playground  Challenge #392 ~ Use snippets

We Love Chocolate Baroque December Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge #536 ~ Week 1 Stamp Act

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper December Challenge

Polar Bear Easel Card

The Crafty Calendar Challenge begins today with the theme 'Christmas'.   We are kindly sponsored this month by Lili of the Valley and Crafty Ribbons.

 

Lili of the Valley kindly gave the DT digi stamps for our projects and I chose to use 'Polar'. I coloured the background and a little shading on the polar bear with Promarkers and covered the snow with a Wink of Stella glitter pen, before die cutting with a Memory Box 'Stitched Circle Layers' die.  The image was layered on a white glitter card die cut circle to add a little more sparkle.  Both the papers are from a Lili of the Valley 'Frosty Christmas' paper pad.  I love these papers and as the pad is no longer available, I save every little snippet left over.  I raised up the darker blue panel with foam pads to enable the card to stand up.  Five holographic Card Candi finished off my card. 

Please pop over to Crafty Calender Challenge blog to see all the wonderful cards the DT have made this month.  The challenge ends on 28th December and I'm looking forward to seeing all your Christmas creations.  The DT will choose a Top 3 and a randomly chosen winner will win a prize from Lili of the Valley. 

 

and Crafty Ribbons.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Country View December Challenge ~ Anything Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge ~ Y is for Your Favourite Things - Fancy Folds

I Love Promarkers #Challenge 424 ~ Anything Goes + Option of Christmas

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Shaped Projects

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #25 ~ Include a Critter

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper December Challenge

Sheepski Designs Challenge #45 ~ Feature a Creature

Passion for Promarkers Week 571 ~ Christmas

Christmas with the Cuties Challenge #44 ~ Feature a Creature

Winter Wonderland Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Silver Plaid

A masculine card today for a friend's birthday.

I used the SU 'Best Plaid Builder Dies' with silver mirror card and white card.  I offset the die cuts to create the plaid pattern and layered them on a black rectangle, before attaching them to a white card blank.  The sentiment is a stamp from the SU 'Humming Along' set, stamped with Versafine 'Onyx Black', punched out and layered on a handcut black mat. 

I am joining in the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Fun With Dies

The Male Room Challenge #145 ~ Tartan & Plaid