One down, one to go...

Evening All,

Yes I'm sooooo close to finishing my Christmas cards I can almost taste it, lol!!  Especially as I know exactly what I'm going to make for my last one (pretty similar to this one, lol!).  Hopefully I can get started on it later and finish it off tomorrow, phew!  But I'm jumping ahead, here's my penultimate Christmas card (yaaaaay!) and this one is for my Brother-In-Law and Sister-In-Law who got married in October.  I thought this image was perfect!...

A close up of Digistamp Boutique's 'Alex & Felicity with Mistletoe' (although on my card it's Michael & Angie' lol!)...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

So, one down and one to go.....bring it on!!

Hope you're all well and more organised than me.  From reading some of your posts though it seems like Christmas has sneaked up on a lot of us again this year, how does that always happen?!...

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Stampalot Challenge ~ December Challenge ~ Bingo (my line is 3 accross, Punch - Tags - Ribbon)

Papertake Weekly ~ Last Christmas.....Card of the Year (well almost!)

Digistamp Boutique ~ December Customer Competition

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations 'Dhalia', Hero Arts Kraft Card, Bo Bunny Winter Joy 'Brrr' and 'Stripe'

Stamps / Images ~ Digistamp Boutique 'Alex & Felicity with Mistletoe', Elzybells 'Love at Christmas', Sentiments on Tags are computer generated by me

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Standard Circles, Go Kreate 'Concentric Tags #1', Cuttlebug 'Ice Crystal' snowflake die, Woodware snowflake punch

Embellishments ~ Wooden snowflake and Pearls from Hobbycraft, Ribbon and Twine from The Ribbon Girl, Button from stash

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R000;  Hair ~ E51, E50, E27, E25, E23;  Clothes ~ E27, E25, E23, BV02, BV00, BG000, BG0000, B95, B93, YG95, YG93, YG91;  Other ~ B00, B000, B0000, YG06, YG03, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansosdor ~ Dark Brown, Pale Brown, Royal Purple, Grey Green, Indigo, Lichen Green

Only a couple more to go!...

Morning All!

And as my post title suggests I only have a couple more Christmas cards to make, wahooooo!  I'm really going to get organised next year, I can't stand all the panic and stress and I've woken up again today with another migraine  :o(  I'm trying to ignore the burning in my left eye and the feeling of nausea as I type this - I HAVEN'T GOT TIME TO BE SICK lol!  Hopefully it'll wear off soon...  It's crazy getting stressed over cards isn't it, what a nutter!  But last night I went through my list and wrote them all out, I only have two more to make and I'm done, phew!  So on with my post and then I can get cracking and send them, AT LAST!!  I do love this time of the year honest, I just hate my lack of organisation!  Next year things will be different.....didn't I say that last year?!

So anyway, here's the card I made for my youngest nephew and my Pollycraft DT card.  This week's challenge is.....

PUNCH IT

...and it will run until 8th January 2012.  Here's my card...

A close up of Pollycraft Swings and Slides 'Perfect Christmas'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Head over to the challenge blog to see my wonderful teamie's inspiration (and more punches!)...  This time we're sponsored by...

...who are offering 2 sweet pea stamps to the lucky winner  :o)

Right, sorry it's short and sweet today, think I need some more tablets and then a lie down, god I hate migraines!

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Cute Card Thursday ~ Challenge 195 ~ Stripes

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Hero Arts Kraft Card, MME 12 Days of Christmas

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Swings and Slides 'Perfect Christmas', Elzybells 'Love at Christmas'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Lacey Circles, Woodware Snowflake Punch and Circle Punch

Embellishments ~ Twine from The Ribbon Girl, Charm from Mad Cow Beads, Pearls from Hobbycraft, Letraset Rub-Ons

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Antique Linen Distress Ink, Doodling, Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50;  Hat ~ E27, E25, E23, E33, E31, E51, E50, R37, R35, R24;  Clothes ~ E27, E25, E23, R37, R35, R24, YG95, YG93, YG91, E40;  Other ~ W3, W1, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Dark Brown, Pale Brown, Deep Red, Lichen Green

Well at least it's still Saturday!!...

Yes I know, late again but at least it's still Saturday right, lol!!  So here I am with my Sketch Saturday DT card, and this one is hubby's Christmas card...

A close up of 'Tilda with Snowheart'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

Here's this weeks fabby sketch...

And this week we're sponsored by...

Crafters Companion who are giving the lucky winner a £15 voucher to spend in store!!  And better still, you have two weeks to play with this one as there's no challenge next week (and you can enter up to 3 new projects too!).  Cool huh  :o)

Apologies for not being around much this week, it has just flown by and I have no idea where it's gone!!  But I have been busy trying to get the old crimbo cards finished.....nearly there!!  Hope you're all good?

See you all soon guys,

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Just Magnolia and hAnglar sTanglar ~ Week 137 ~ White plus one other colour
Totally Gorjuss ~ Challenge 111 ~ For Someone Special

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Bazzill Bling, Magnolia Sweet Christmas Dreams 'Sweet Flurry Blue' and 'Sweet Flurry White'

Stamps / Images ~ Magnolia 'Tilda with Snowheart', LOTV 'Greetings - Postcard', Pink Gem 'With Love at Christmas'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Lacey Circles, George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge

Embellishments ~ Cheesecloth from Wild Orchid Crafts, Twine from The Ribbon Girl, Charm from Mad Cow Beads, Pearl Hearts from Hobbycraft

Other ~ Sizzix Big Shot, Cricut Create, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, E0000, R20, R00;  Hair and Boots ~ E27, E25, E23;  Clothes ~ B23, B32, B21, E41, E40;  Other ~ B00, B000, B0000, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Indigo and Pale Brown

Back so soon?!!

Morning All,

Yep I'm back again so soon, lol!  Today with a Christmas Card I made for my Mum, Dad and Bro last week but didn't get around to posting yet.  I used my new Sugar Nellie 'Old St Nick' stamp, he's just such a perfect Santa isn't he?!...

A close up of 'Old St Nick'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

I love this stamp!

I'm feeling much better today after my self inflicted hangover yesterday, so I plan to get into my craft room for a big session!  I still have loads of cards to make, and this year I thought I was organised, lol!  Still, I have some ideas in mind so fingers crossed I can get busy today  :o))  

I promised you all some photo's of Daemo's birthday celebrations, so here they are (warning, photo heavy!!)...

Daemo with the Maserati GranCabrio he borrowed for the day...

Daemo's birthday cake...

And the guests cakes...

Daemo with his Dad and Brother-In-Law...

Daemo and his best mate Steve, the envelope was his present, a track day in a Lamborghini!!  Thanks Steve  :o)) ...

Daemo blowing his candles out...

Me and Daemo...

It was such a fun evening  :o)  They had a live singer on in the restaurant so that really added to the atmosphere.  I made some trivia cards for the tables, one on Sport, one on Movies, one on Music and a General Knowledge one to see how well everyone knew Daemo, the singer even read some of the questions out, lol!  We also had a little raffle with some of Daemo's favourite films to give away on DVD and the grand prize was.....an Arsenal Rubber Ducky, lol!  Well we had to have something Arsenal related as Daemo is a huge fan!  All in all it was a great night and I think everyone enjoyed themselves  :o)

Ok, that's it from me, I'll see you all soon,

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

The Sugar Bowl ~ Challenge 73 ~ Cathy's Sketch

ABC Christmas Challenge ~ Y is for Yipee Christmas is almost here!

Allsorts Challenge Blog ~ Week 133 ~ It takes two

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Hero Arts Kraft Card, Glittered Cardstock from Doodlebug, MME The Merry Days of Christmas Paper Pack

Stamps / Images ~ Sugar Nellie 'Old St Nick', Pink Gem 'With Love at Christmas'

Dies / Punches ~ Nesties Lacey Ovals, Cuttlebug 'Ice Crystal' snowflake die, Woodware Snowflake punch

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from Waitrose, Twine from The Ribbon Girl, Buttons from Doodlebug, Sentiment from Craftwork Cards

Other ~ Sizzix Big shot, Bow Maker, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers: Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ C1, C0, C00;  Clothes ~ R39, R37,R35, R24, Y17, E27, E25, E23;  Other ~ E23, E31, YG93, YG91, BG01, BG000, W3, W1, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Black, Dark Brown, Lichen Green, Grey Green

Teenage Christmas!

Morning All,

And a Happy Monday to you!  I hope you all had a good weekend?  Were you happy with the result of I'm a Celebrity?  And the finalists of the X-Factor?  Poor Robbie and Ola being voted out of Strictly  :o(  Although they did deserve to go really but it was still a shame!

Today I have another Pollycraft Challenge Mid-Way Reminder for you, now we're half way through the challenge.  This time it's a card for my oldest Nephew who's 14, aggghhh a dreaded teenager lol!  But luckily for me Paula has created a perfect Casper Silvermist just for the occasion, 'Too Cool for Christmas'.  Here he is...

A close up of the super cool Casper...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

I'm also going to make a money gift wallet for my Nephew too as that's what he wants for Christmas, nice and easy!

So you still have 2 more weeks to join in the Christmas Fun challenge, see you over at Pollycraft!

I'll be back during the week as I actually managed to make a couple of cards over the weekend (wahoooooo!) so I'll share them later on.  I also have some Christmas Tree piccies for you, ooooo don't you just love a twinkling light or two!!  Here's the tree in my front room (sorry for the blurry piccies!)...

     

And here's the tree in my kitchen...

LOVE IT!!  If only I had a bigger house, I'd have a tree in my bedroom lol!

I hope you all have fab weeks this week and I'll see you all soon,

Much love,

Challenges I'm entering my card in:

Friday Sketch Challenge ~ Sketch #6 By Tracey

Simon Says Stamp ~ Anything Goes

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Hero Arts Kraft Card, MME 12 Days of Christmas 6x6 Paper Pad, Glittered Cardstock from stash

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Casper Silvermist 'Too Cool for Christmas', Printworks 'Ho, Ho, Ho', Pink Gem 'With Love at Christmas'

Dies / Punches ~ Woodware Snowflake Punch (which I broke, booooo!)

Embellishments ~ Pearls from The Hobby House, Ribbon from Waitrose

Other ~ Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50;  Clothes ~ YG95, YG93, YG91, R39, R37, R35, R24, E27, E25, E23, E34, C7, C5, C1, Y17, E40;  Other ~ 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Black, Dark Brown, Pale Brown, Lichen Green.

Christmas Fun over at Pollycraft!!

Morning Campers!

Happy Monday to you all!  Grab yourself a cuppa and take a seat, this is your 'long post' warning lol!

Over at Pollycraft we have a SUPER SPECIAL 4 week long challenge for you, yep that's right, 4 WEEKS LONG!!  And what on earth could the super special theme be?...

CHRISTMAS FUN

...but of course!!  Perfect for this time of year if like me you have tonnes of Christmas cards to make and not enough time to make them all, lol!  So you can all play along with us for the next 4 weeks when sharing your Christmas makes  :o))  We also have some Super Duper new Christmas releases too and today I've used 'Snowballs'!  Here's my card...

A close up of Swings and Slides 'Snowballs'...

Inside of card...

And a side view...

I've made this for my nephew and for Christmas this year we're giving him money to put towards the netbook he wants.  As I'll give him his Christmas card at the beginning of December I thought I'd make a money pocket for Christmas Day, here it is...

Inside of pocket (I snaffled an extra £10 into it after I'd shown hubby, lol!)...

And the two together...

Over the next 4 weeks I'll be showcasing the other new releases but if you can't wait until then, head over to my Pollycraft teamies blogs.  Now as it's such a mammoth super special challenge, we have some super special prizes up for grabs too!...

Rainbow Studios are offering a Musical Amelia Stamp Set

Bunny Zoes Crafts have a £10 gift voucher to spend in store

The Ribbon Girl are giving away a Green Mini Kit

Crafty Emmas Store have a £10 gift voucher to spend in store

WOWZERS, amazing prizes or what?!  You know what to do!!...

So on Saturday I had a trial run for Hubby's birthday cake and I made a Giant Cupcake!  Well.....it was massive!!  The cake tasted delicious but the icing around the bottom of the cupcake was a bit of a disaster  :o(  Just means I'll have to practise some more ay, lol!  Think I'm going to google it to see how the pro's do it!!  Here's how it looked (just ignore the collapsed icing, lol!)...

You can't tell the size from the picture but it's actually sitting on a dinner plate!  It tasted lovely, in fact we're still munching through it he he he!!

Ok, time to get on!  I have sooooo much catching up to do with you all and I plan to do it today...although I did say that Saturday didn't I!!  See you all soon peeps  :o)

Much  love,

Challenges I'm entering my card / money wallet in:

Pink {Ink} Sketch Challenge ~ Sketch #10 ~ Kathrin's Sketch (I rotated it)

Papertake Weekly ~ When is a card not a card?

CES Challenges ~ Challenge #62 ~ Snowflakes

Card Ingredients:

Card / DP's ~ Core d'inations 'Harbourside', Craft Creations Ltd 'Turquoise Gingham', My Minds Eye 'Be Merry' Paper Pad, Doodlebug Glittered Card, Papermania Kraft

Stamps / Images ~ Pollycraft Swings and Slides 'Snowballs', Penny Black 'Special You', LOTV Clear Sentiment Stamps

Dies / Punches ~ Cricut George and Basic Shapes Cartridge, Nesties Standard Circles, Martha Stewart 'Alpine' Snowflake punch, Woodware 'Snowflake' and 'Corner Rounder' punches

Embellishments ~ Ribbon from Waitrose, Pearls from The Hobby House

Other ~ Cricut Create, Sizzix Big Shot, Doodling and Glamour Dust

Colour Mediums ~ Copic Markers:  Skin ~ E21, E00, E000, R20, R00;  Hair ~ E51, E50;  Clothes ~ B97, B95, B93, B91, R29, R27, R24, R05, YG95, YG93, YG91, BG05, BG01, E33, E31, E41, E40;  Other ~ B00, B000, B0000, 0.  Derwent Coloursoft Pencils blended with Sansodor ~ Pale Brown, Indigo, Electric Blue, Deep Red, Pimento, Lichen Green.