Thursday, 19 March 2026

C.R.A.F.T. #776 - Guest Designer


Hi everyone, I was thrilled to be asked to be guest designer on this fortnight’s C.R.A.F.T. Challenge, where the theme for the next two weeks is 

*** Christmas - Children ***

The fabulous sponsor for this challenge is



The prize is 2 images from their online store.

The design team have made some fabulous projects to inspire you, so please do visit the challenge blog to check them out, and to link up your own entries. 

Here is my card for the challenge. I will hold my hand up that I did struggle a bit with this - I have absolutely no requirement for children’s Christmas cards so my stash is not really geared that way; but I decided a glittery, fantasy Christmas tree and fairy might work for a girl, so that’s what I went with!


I die cut a stitched rectangle of white stamping card, then stamped the Christmas tree in pink and heat embossed with holographic glitter embossing powder. I stamped the fairy with the lantern she normally carries masked off, then coloured her wings with Sakura Stardust pens. I hand drew a bauble in her hand using my White Orbs stencil,, which I also coloured with Stardust pens along with the baubles on the tree. I added a stamped sentiment and a few stars, then matted onto turquoise glitter card and a 7” x 5” card blank. To finish I added the absolute last star gem that I could find in my stash to the top of the tree!

This card is really VERY sparkly - here’s an angled picture.


Stamps: Lavinia White Pine, Dragonfly Keepers; sentiment and stars free with craft magazine; 
Media: Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Baby Pink, Bali Blue); Sakura Stardust pens (pink, turquoise, clear);
Tools: Hunkydory Moonstone Duo-Stitched rectangle die; Lavinia White Orbs stencil.

Challenges I would like to enter:

12 Months of Christmas #132 - Anything Goes Christmas
613 Avenue Create (March) - Anything Goes with option Things With Wings
ABC Christmas  - G is for Gems

(I have chosen column “I” - Christmas / Pink / Stamping)

Crafty Catz #709 - Anything Goes
Merry Little Christmas #67 - Anything Christmas Goes
Outlawz Christmas (March) - Anything Christmas Goes
Peace On Earth #108 - Anything Goes Christmas
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Clean and Simple
Word Art Wednesday #744/745 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Thanks very much to the C.R.A.F.T. challenge Design Team for asking me to be guest designer this time.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,

17 comments:

Aquarius said...

Perfect Christmas card for a girlie girl and a clever idea to have the fairy hanging a bauble on the sparkly tree. Congratulation on the guest designer spot, a beautiful result.

crafty-stamper said...

Congrats on your GDT spot, Beautiful card and embossed pink Christmas tree, love the Fairy hanging the bauble.
Carol x

Inkyfingers said...

What a gorgeous sparkly tree, Pauline and I love your clever masking trick for adding the bauble.

Hugs,
Carol x

Darlene said...

Just precious Pauline! You always create magic with these stamps! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Peace on Earth challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Peace on Earth Co-Owner

Chris said...

How pretty this is with the beautiful fairy and pink sparkly tree- would definitely appeal to my youngest granddaughter so I think you hit the mark Pauline! Congrats on your GDT spot.
xx
Thanks for sharing at Crafty Catz.

Helen said...

Beautiful card, Pauline - love the colours and all the sparkle.

Just spotted your comment on my blog post and I've sent a message through to the team on our DT blog x

Sheryl said...

Thank you for joining us as a GDT, your beautiful card is now on the challenge blog.
Sheryl CRAFT DT

Jackie C said...

Lovely inkwork!
We're always thrilled to see every entry arrive in our mailbox at 613 Avenue Create.
We hope you'll return!
Wishing you the very best of luck with your entry.
Warm wishes, Jackie,
DT member at 613 xx

Sarn said...

Brilliant Christmas card and I love how you added the bauble in the fairy's hand instead of her lantern. Great Lavinia tree too.
Congrats on your GD spot. xxx

Ellibelle said...

Such a beautiful card and and loving the sparkly paper, wings and spots on the tree! Definitely perfect for a girl! Congrats on your guest DT spot, so well deserved!!

Liz said...

Beautiful Christmas card Pauline, I love the colour combination.
Liz xx

Alyson Mayo said...

This is so pretty in non-traditional colours. Thanks for sharing with us at HQCOL :)

Deanne Saunders said...

Awesome card!!! Thanks so much for participating in our CHRISTMAS CRAFTS ALL YEAR 'ROUND challenge!!! I appreciate that you play along and I enjoy visiting your blog!! Have a happy crafty day!! Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper.Psst!! I want to let you know about a NEW scrapbooking blog called One More Page Check it out!! I started it in March!

Barb Finnical said...

This is a very fun and magical card, Pauline! I love your color choices too. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Word Art Wednesday. We appreciate your participation!

Elaine aka Ellapu said...

Beautiful design Thanks for sharing over at Peace on Earth Christmas and hope to see you in future challenges.
Elaine DT

KraftiKards (my blog)
Peace on Earth Christmas DT
Simply Clean and Simple DT

Becca Sadler, owner and manager of HQCB and FQCB said...

Pauline: your Christmas card is stunning! The sparkle and sheen plus fairy adds the magical wonder and delight for the occasion! Thanks for this awesome interpretation of Column Ii's elements using the #18 bingo board at Christmas or not Bingo Challenges!

Fabiola said...

oh quel amour Pauline, j'adore cette poésie magique, merci de jouer avec nous chez ABC Christmas Challenge, biz