Allsorts Challenge #662

Good morning everyone,

It's Saturday so it's time for another weekly Allsorts Challenge. This week It’s Wendy’s turn to host the challenge, and she has chosen the theme

Anything Goes with option of Red Flowers

Perhaps you may want to take the opportunity to get ahead with a Valentine's card, or we would love to see your makes for any other occasion.

This week’s fab prize has been kindly donated by Craft Stash 

and is this gorgeous co-ordinating stamp set and paper pad

Here's my card for this week.

As soon as I saw this challenge theme, the first thing that came into my mind rather than romance and roses was Christmas and poinsettias. This idea really took hold when I won two fabulous stamp sets in Di's Pixie's Snippets Playground Christmas Grand Prize Draw - "Fabulous Festive Fashion" and "Fabulous Festive Footwear". These stamps truly are "fabulous dahling", so I decided to take this theme in a different direction, and made my first Christmas card of 2022.

I stamped my Christmas shoe on to a square of card, and coloured with my Promarkers. I added a couple of small holly swirls, and stamped my sentiment directly onto the card panel. I then matted and layered everything with my papers, added a die cut glittery poinsettia and holly flourishes attached with a sparkly brad. I applied holographic glitter to the shoe's "fur" and some heart gems to finish. The glittery poinsettia is actually a brighter red than the picture shows… I just couldn’t capture this no matter how I tried!!

Here's an angled picture attempting to capture the sparkle (I do love a bit of sparkle!!)

These stamps are really funky and a bit different from what I normally buy, so I was really thrilled to win them and have the opportunity to make something in a different style. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, so many thanks to Di for her fantastic efforts on the draw.

Stamps: Katy Sue Designs "Fabulous Festive Footwear" (shoe and sentiment), "Fabulous Festive Fashion" (holly swirl);

Media: Promarkers, holographic glitter;

Papers: LotV

Tools: large, medium and small poinsettia dies - Marianne Design Creatables LR0122 and LR0142; Cheery Lynn Designs - Holly Flourish;

Gems and brad from my stash.

Challenges I would like to enter:

ABC Christmas Challenge - A is for Anything Christmas

Addicted to Stamps and More #422 - Christmas

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge #5 2022 - Anything Goes with Colouring

Country View Challenges (February) - Hearts AND Flowers

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper (February) - Anything Goes with Paper

Creative Knockouts #438 - Lots of Layers

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday (February) - Hearts or Flowers

Penny's Challenge #514 - Anything Goes Using Paper

Sheepski Designs #59 - Use Some Red

The Holly and Ivy #108 - Anything Christmas Goes

Hope you can join us this week, and I look forward to seeing your entries. Don't forget to visit the challenge blog to see more fab inspiration from the rest of the team. Thanks for visiting, and hope you have a great weekend.

Hugs,