Creative Card Crew - Ribbons and Gems

It my turn to set the challenge this week at Creative Card Crew......ribbons and gems sprang to mind with Christmas racing towards us!



I've had this blue ribbon in my stash since I started card making years ago, it has been much stroked but never cut and put onto a card until now! With my colour scheme set all I had to do was decide what stamp to use. I heard Maggie calling from the cupboard, the stars on her dress fit in pretty well with the stars on the ribbon so all I had to do then was pick my papers - mmmmm, so many papers but only 1 pack that would fit in nicely with my colours, last years Dovecraft Christmas pack. Image coloured with copics and gelly roll pens and MS punch used on some of the borders. Added a tag with greeting on, a few gems and there we have it!



Trying to keep on decorating the inside of my cards, so far so good, but you will have noticed that it has slowed down the number of cards I've made recently ROFL - most like brought it to a standstill!!!
I've just noticed that I haven't put a white panel inside this card for the greeting etc to be written, must do that before I seal it up.

The challenge this week is sponsored by The Creative Cottage, not sure what the prize is so you'll have to visit the CCC blog to find out more....

Snowflakes on your card - Creative Card Crew

The challenge this week at Creative Card Crew is to use snowflakes on your card.
We are sponsored this week by Simon Says Stamp, there is a £20 gift certicate for one lucky crafter out there, so come on, lets see your snowflake cards....



I used the cheeky Charlie with snowballs image from Whiff of Joy for my card and Basic Grey Wassail papers. I coloured the image with copics, just loving these babies, need to get some sketch markers now ;-) The snowflakes are made with MS and Punch Bunch punches. You can just about see some snowflakes on one of the backing papers too. Loving these challenges, I have never had so many Christmas cards made so early....

I meant to decorate the inside of the card before I posted it but spend a couple of hours making my son's birthday card which we needed for today.... I will post a picture later.

Looking forward to seeing your snowflake cards.

Winter Wonderland GDT spot

Sorry I'm a bit late posting this. I meant to do it first thing, but after a long lie-in having been playing catch up all day and have only just realised that I hadn't posted it...

I've been lucky enough to be chosen for a 2 week guest design spot for Winter Wonderland. The challenge this week is 'Hot Chocolate'



My immediate thought was of the image of Willow with Hot Chocolate but as I don't have that stamp I had to improvise - so thought I would use chocolate coloured papers and the Willow with Cookies image.
I coloured the image with copics and used Stampin' Up! papers. The square punch is also SU! and sentiment is one from a 99p set from The Range.
Why not check out the Winter Wonderland blog and see what the very talented DT members have created.

Late again....

I was going to enter this card for the Passion for Promarkers challenge this week but didn't manage to get it finished in time - went out with friends last night and wasn't up to making cards when we got in ;-) Was up bright and early this morning and thought I would give it a go but didn't manage it get it finished in time. I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday so all is not lost and its one less card to make at Christmas!



Stash used
Image - Miss Anya Snow
Inks - Memento Paris Dusk, Promarkers
Papers - DCWV & hOTP
Glitter board and mirri card from stash
MS snowflake punch.
Still trying to catch up on challenges that I missed while we were away last week....
Have a lovely day, the sun is shining now so off to have a cuppa in the garden while its still there!

Congratulations - Tilda with Roses

Thought I would make a Congrats card today with the sketch by Beatrix from Friday Sketchers.



I used one of the cute Tilda with Roses images Paula kindly sent me earlier this week. I coloured them with copics, practising my shading - been watching some You Tube videos this week, and finished off the roses with a bit of icicle stickles.
I decided I wanted a bit of white space on this card so didn't put my usual first layer on the base case, quite pleased with how this turned out, not looking to bare as the other layers are quite large.
The papers are from an old DCWV stack, (A Pocket Full of Posies), flowers made from offcuts and an X Cut punch. Sentiment is from a Stampin Up! set, which was free in a promotion earlier this year. Ribbon and brads from stash.

Probably won't get round to any crafting tomorrow as its my oldest son's 15th birthday, so am off to my craft room to make up for it tonight!