Santa and a Lantern

Morning Folks!

Hope everyone is OK? I'm feeling like hibernating, I hate the cold dark winter months. If only I could stay under my duvet until Spring!!

This week, the new challenge at Passion for Promarkers has been chosen by yours truely so I hope you like my choice: 

USE 3 OF SOMETHING

I think this is quite simple so I hope we get lots of entries.

Here's my card, I've used 3 designer papers and 3 pearls and added another Christmas card to the box!

Card Details

Image - Sugar Nellie coloured with promarkers, pencils and some wink of Stella to add some sparkle.

Papers - First Edition and Dovecraft Little Red Robin

Die cut - Marianne

Pearls and ribbon from stash 

Don't forget to pop over to

 to see what the rest of the design team have made!

This week we have 2 fabulous prizes on offer:

A stamp set from Uniko and a pack of 6 Promarkers in mid tones. Get creating with your Letraset / Winsor & Newton markers and join us!! Remember you can enter any type of creation, it doesn't have to be a card.

Thanks for visiting today xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:
The Holly and the ivy Challenge - Anything Christmas goes
Stamping Sensations - Get ready for Christmas
CHNPP - anything goes with patterned paper
CHNXmas - Anything Christmas goes
Creatalicious challenges - A/Goes optional layet it up
Cute card Thursday - Stars - on paper, image and tree
A Gem of a Challenge - Anything goes
Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything goes

Best Friends and Toadstools

Morning Folks!

Hope you're all well, I'm just getting over a nasty bug so I'll keep this brief so I don't spread my germs!!

The new challenge is just starting over at Sparkles Monthly Challenges. This month our theme is 

THINGS OF FALL / AUTUMN

I think autumn is lasting a long time this year, the trees around us still have some fantastic colours on show. 

Here's the card I made using a recent Penny Black purchase called Best Friends. The papers are very old My Minds Eye papers which were a magazine cover gift years ago! The flowers are by prima and the Die cut is from Memory Box.

 Love this cute pair sat on their toadstools:

Please visit the main blog

to see the inspiration from the rest of the design team!

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

CHNPP - Anything goes with patterned paper

Pearly Sparkles - Autumn colours  - pearls in flower centres

Crafty Friends - 2 or more patterned papers

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Fab N Funky - With an Animal

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

Crafting by Designs - Give Thanks / Autumn colours

Penny Black and More - make someone smile 

Carol Singing Hedgehogs!

Evening Folks!
I'm afraid this post is rather late, I should have posted this Saturday but I have had a stinking cold for the last few days and haven't felt like doing anything. Pleased to say I'm feeling better today, just wish I could get rid of the cough!! 

Anyway, better late than never I hope, here is my DT inspiration for the latest Penny Black Saturday Challenge :

As usual ANYTHING PENNY BLACK GOES

The optional 'Extra' challenge this time is

ANYTHING BUT A CARD

I still need a few more Christmas cards to send to special family members so I've gone for the anything goes option. It's not showing up too well on the picture but the image is mounted on gold mirri card and there is some glitter in the red background mount. The die cut holly is a memory box die (I think) and the poinsettia are a Britannia die from Joanna Sheen. The papers are an assortment of old and new, by First Edition and The Works. 

The super cute stamp is called  Joyous Hymn.

There is some wink of Stella to sparkle up the lamp and some Doodlebug crushed velvet on the santa hat!

I do hope you'll pop over to the main blog, just click on the picture below, to see the fabulous cards from the rest of the design team. 

We're also looking forward to seeing your entries, we are generously sponsored by

The prize is a $20 voucher.

Thanks for visiting today and for any comments you leave. 

Chill day

Morning Folks!

Goodnes me, how has it got to be November already? 

It will soon be Christmas - don't PANIC!!

To help you with your Christmas makes, we have a new challenge starting over at SPARKLES CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE today and the theme is nice and easy:

EMBOSSING

(Wet or Dry or Both!!)

We'd love you to join us!

Here's my card, I decided to play safe and go for dry embossing, I always get mixed results with heat embossing. I used a Crafter's Companion Texture Embossing folder, called Snow (no surprise there!) , as my embossing element, the card is slightly irredescent and sparkly. The PB stamp is called Chill Day.

One of my most used die cuts at this time of year - Memory Box Snowflake corner:

Other items - 

Promarkers to colour and versamark ink

Doodlebug crushed Velvet for hat, cuffs etc

Ribbon - Dovecraft

Gems - Hobbycraft

Dies - Memory Box Snowflake corner and border and Simply Creative Snowflakes

Please click the piccy below to visit the main blog and see the inspiration from the rest of the design team! You have a whole month to join us, we'd love to see what you make! 

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

Winter Wonderland - Colour It

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything goes

Allsorts - Pearls and gems

CHNC - Anything Christmas goes

Christmas with the cuties - Wrap up warm

The Holly and the Ivy - Anything Christmas goes

Crafting by Designs - Get ready for Christmas

Simon says Stamp - Anything goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Animal Friends - Winter

Crafty Animals - Anything goes

CRAFT - Winter

Craft Rocket - Christmas is coming

Cute Card Thursday - Anything goes

Thank you so much for visiting today and for any comments you're kind enough to leave xx

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