I Spy With My Little Eye #32

Hi everyone, Christmas is fast approaching, it’s the third Wednesday of the month and it’s time once more for another I Spy With My Little Eye... challenge over at Ellibelle's Corner. Thanks so much to everyone who joined in last time - please do check over on Ellie’s blog to see if you are one of our top picks. 

This is our last challenge for 2025 as we will be taking a little break over Christmas - it will end at the usual time but then we will be back in January. Please see the end of this post for full details.

Ellie chose the challenge theme this month, and it is

I Spy With My Little Eye 

*** Something Festive for Christmas ***

For those of you who (like me!) are behind with your Christmas makes it’s the perfect opportunity to make up for lost time; and if you’re in the fortunate position of having already got Christmas 2025 done and dusted, you can always get ahead for next year! 

We look forward to seeing your festive makes! Please don’t forget to pop over to Ellie's blog to see her fab creation and link up your entries here.

Here’s my card for the challenge. It’s quite a simple card this time as I’m starting to feel the pressure to complete my Christmas makes; but I did my best to incorporate a couple of magical and whimsical elements with the mice celebrating around the decorated tree.

I die cut a base panel using one of my new die sets from Craft Addiction UK - they recently got some new styles, and I thought a couple of them would be very useful to use as an alternative to my stitched squares. I stamped the focal Christmas tree then created landscape by blending Della Blue Elements ink using torn paper. I blended more Elements for the sky using a circle mask for the moon, then coloured the tree using fine brushstrokes of Olive Elements, Wink of Stella and Sakura Stardust pens for the baubles. I stamped the mice using Pinecone VFC and added accents with a white Posca pen and pastel pencil, then stamped the little fairy. Finally I stamped the sentiment then added some sparkly highlights with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen and some faux snow spatter. Sadly the sparkle doesn’t show up on photos - probably a reflection of the awful and very dull weather here!

Stamps: Lavinia Christmas Joy, Basil and Bibi, Fairy Foragers, Christmas Greetings;

Media: Lavinia Elements inks (Olive, Della Blue); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Rainforest, Pinecone, Medieval Blue); Sakura Stardust pens (blue, green, yellow, clear); Wink of Stella (clear); Spectrum Noir sparkle pens (clear); Posca pen (white);

Tools: Craft Addiction UK Scallopstack Squares die.

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #128 - Anything Goes Christmas

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Theme: Winter Scene 

ABC Christmas - W is for Wings

Addicted to Stamps & More #506 - Make Your Mark

Crafty Animals #100 - Include an Animal 

Die Cut Divas (November) - Critters plus Use a Die Cut (3rd entry)

Dream Factory #145 - Anything Christmassy Goes

FarmQuest Country Christmas #26 - Anything Farm or Country Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Girlz Creative Christmas #151 - Christmas Tree

Heart’s Quest Fantasy #11 2025 - Anything Goes Fantasy

Just Us Girls #801 - Winter

Lavinia Creative Challenge (November) - Snow Flurry

Merry Little Christmas #65 - Anything Christmas Goes (2nd entry)

Peace On Earth #100 - Anything Christmas Goes

Try It On Tuesday - Get Ready for Christmas

Word Art Wednesday #726/727 - Anything Goes

Don’t forget - this is the last I Spy Challenge for 2025. The challenge will end at the usual time on Sunday December 14th at 23:59 US Central Time, but there will be no new challenge in December so we will be back with you on Wednesday January 21st 2026, when we will also announce our December top picks.

In place of a challenge in December there will be a I spy a crafty year in review: Favourites of 2025 linkup on Ellie’s blog starting Wednesday December 17th which will be open until Sunday January 18th 2026 -  the Sunday before the January challenge starts.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,