My fave five CHRISTMAS cards for 2014.

The ever so talented Debby Yates makes fun, colourful and well thought out cards, and she has shared her favourites with us again. These posts are always fun to read :)
HERE's the link to see Debby's favourite five Christmas cards for 2014.
She asked us to share ours too.
Here goes, oh, and if you like the Birdbrains, you'll like this post, lol...

Holly Jolly Christmas...

Original post is HERE.
This was made back in March and was my first Christmas card make for this year.
The image cracks me up! and I was really happy with the papers and bright colours I chose when I made this card.


Mistletoe Birdbrains...

Original post is HERE.
This was the first time that I made a diorama card, and I loved the end result!
It folds flat for posting, a great idea eh?


Let it snow... Somewhere else!...

Original post is HERE.
Hehehe, perfect for those peeps that don't like shovelling ;)



Christmas Gift Horse...

Original post is HERE.
*what? no Birdbrain?!* hehe.
Seriously though, I was really happy with this card. The colours, paper / mirror card combo, and fantastic Whimsy image.


It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Original post is HERE.
Ending with another Birdbrain, and I just LOVE this image! and I also love that it didn't need much else adding to make this simple yet fun Christmas card.

Hope you liked my fave five, and I hope you'll join in too :)

Christmas Gift Horse

Isn't this horse adorable? What a great image. It's from Whimsy Stamps (a Crissy's digi).
It's reduced at the moment because Whimsy have announced that they can't continue with digi stamps from 1st Jan 2015 because of the new VAT tax laws in the EU. So if you planned on buying any digi's from Whimsy, grab them now while you still can.

Here's the card recipe...

Image: Whimsy Stamps 'Christmas Gift Horse'. Coloured with promarkers.
Sentiment: DigiStamp Boutique 'Christmas Greetings set 3'
Paper: Jennifer Ellory 'Berry Merry'.
Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Decorative Elements 'Elegant Ovals', Marianne Creatables 'Mistletoe', & Dienamics 'By The Letter'.

I'm entering this card at:
Allsorts - Animal Magic
That Craft Place - Christmas
The Ribbon Girl - Anything goes
A Random Fan - Christmas
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
   

White Rabbits!

Well actually it's a lemon one ;)
Here's my first card for this month...

Whimsy Stamps gave away this cute bunny doll digi on facebook recently, if you missed it, don't worry, it's available to buy from their store HERE.
I coloured bunny doll with promarkers before cutting it out (easy with this image).
The patterned papers are both from the same 'sweet always' collection by Stampin Up.
'aunt' is die cut with sizzix dies I believe, I received these years ago in a RAK from a friend and found them in a ziploc bag at the back of my scraps drawer, and are perfect for this card, so glad I found them.
The sentiment is also by SU, from their 'fun & fast notes' stamp set, and punched out with their word window punch.
For a final bit of SU, I used my boho blossoms punch to make the yellow flowers.
The pretty border edges were made using my xcut 'sparkle' punch.

I made this card for Februarys colour challenge at Auntys Forum, and I'd like to also enter this card at:
Top Tip Tuesday - layers (my 3rd & final entry)
Creative Card Crew - girly (my 3rd & final entry)
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
MAWTT - punch it out
Cute Card Thursday - a different corner
Totally Gorjuss - flowers
ABC challenge - G for going dotty

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day xx

a few cards

Here are a few cards I have made as part of a large order I have been commissioned to make. I'd like to enter these cards into some challenges too, I have listed the challenges beneath each card...

card 1

using Whimsy Stamps 'love me anyway' and chatterbox 'chateau upholstery' cardstock teamed with kraft.

Bearly Mine challenges - all my favourite things (Chatterbox cardstock and eyelet border punch)

Simon Says Stamp challenge - anything goes

card 2

using the fabulous 'spit happens' by Mo Manning


Simon Says Stamp challenge - anything goes

card 3

using SU 'sweet always' DSP

Sketchy Colors - white and pink

Simon Says Stamp challenge - anything goes

card 4

using beautiful freebie paper and image by Ladybug Crafts

Stamptacular Sundays - Anything christmas

Craft Your Passion - Tis the season

Simon Says Stamp challenge - anything goes
The ABC challenge - E is for embossing (snowflakes)
Crafty Catz - colours of christmas

card 5

using Fizzy Moon ' with love' stamp

Stamptacular Sundays - Anything christmas
Squigglefly - winter wonderland
Kaboodle Doodles - bundle up for winter
Craft Your Passion - Tis the season
Simon Says Stamp challenge - anything goes
My Mums Craft Shop challenges - Keeping Warm
Prairie Fairy Fridays - beat the winter blues

Stamps R Us - Encore Presentations #1

This weeks challenge at Stamps R Us challenge blog is called Encore Presentations, to re-post a favourite card that we have made.

This card was originally posted 02/04/11

I love the image, it's called Love Me Anyway and is available from Whimsy Stamps.

I coloured kitty with promarkers and decoupaged the image to create depth. I think the layering really makes the image 'pop'

The cardstock used is double-sided and is by Chatterbox, it is called 'chateau upholstery' and is one of my favourites.

close up of image...

This is one of my favourite cards that I have made.

Awwwwwww!

Morning!

It's Saturday, so that means it's time for another sketch challenge over at Sketch Saturday. This week is Sem's DT week, and she has got a truly wonderful sponsor this week, Whimsy Stamps. Denise (Whimsy's owner) will be giving our challenge winner a stamp and die package worth $31 (amazing)!!!
Now I know you want to win that eh?!
so please join in with us this week using Sem's fantastic sketch.

Denise very kindly gave the design team a choice of an image to use (Thank you Denise! xx)
I chose this adorable kitty image... Love Me Anyway, one of Crissy's Digi's...

I love this image Soooooooooo much!
I want to scoop up little kitty in my arms for a cuddle.

Fiddly work cutting it out, but it was SO worth it!

I coloured Kitty with my promarkers. The patterned cardstock is called 'chateau upholstery' and is by Chatterbox, it's one of my favourites, it's double sided, both sides being shown on this card, i'm not sure if it's still available actually, as I first bought this cardstock years ago and quickly ordered me more soon after. I am down to my final 12x12 sheet now, so I hope it is still around when I need to buy more.

My SS teamies have made such wonderful cards as always this week, many using other whimsy images. Please stop by and see for yourself, links are in my sidebar >>>

Thank you for stopping by today, hope you have a great weekend and to all the Mommy's out in blogland (well the UK anyway!)... Happy Mother's Day for tomorrow xx

Even if you're photo phobic!!

If you are anything like me, you will hate to have your photo taken.
The challenge over at Sweet Stampin this week is to 'add a photo', the chosen theme by my teamie Alie.
First thought.... arrrrrgh!  I don't 'do' photos!
so I had to look elsewhere, I realised that I had bought a download from CraftsUprint a couple of months ago and hadn't yet made anything with it. The download was for 2 snow pictures.
So if you, like me, are 'photo phobic' ...don't panic! you can still play ;)
Take a piccy of scenery, or your dog, cat, hamster, rabbit, or anything else that you'd like to put on a card or scrapbook page and enter this weeks challenge.

Here's what I made (don't shout at me for making a crimbo card! i'm getting in early for xmas 2011) lol

the front

the back

I started by printing the snow pictures onto 220gsm cardstock.
I uesd acetate to make an A6 card blank.
The first image was matted onto pale blue paper and mounted onto the front of the card, I added the greeting (by Catslife Press) by stamping onto the same blue paper, then added 2 large felt snowflakes (by SU) and finished the front by using lots of crystal gems.
The other picture is inserted inside the card but 'back to front' so that the plain back of the picture can be used to write a greeting and the image itself can be seen from the back of the card as shown in the photo above.

Our sponsor this week is Tiddly Inks who are donating a $10 shopping spree to this weeks winner!

And remember we have a monthly sponsor too! This month it's Whimsy Stamps! but you need to take part in our weekly challenge to be in the draw to win.


Before I go, i'd like to enter this card into the challenge at Papertake Weekly, who have the theme 'cold and frosty morning'

Happy crafting, and have a lovely weekend :)