Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas to all my followers and visitors.

Hope you all have a wonderful  and peaceful day. Thanks so much for visiting my blog during the year, and hope you will continue to visit into 2013.

Today I would like to show you my very last Chirstmas card for 2012, and it is the 8" * 8" Christmas card I made for my darling husband ... I always make his card on Christmas Eve, and this year was no different.

I used this gorgeous LotV stamp "Feathered Friends" which I chose specially when I had a LotV voucher win, as I know he loves feeding the birds in the garden so I thought it would be romantic. I already used this stamp for another family member, but this time I have held off on the flowers and substituted some hearts and snowflakes instead with a big silver bow.  The sentiments were actually quite tricky - the "husband" sentiment was a combo from a Fizzy Moon stamp set; and the "Sending Love At Christmas" was another combo of two sentiments from a Crafter's Companion "Mulberry Wood" set .. it took me a few goes to get the relative positions right for the two stamps!

Stamps: LotV "Feathered Friends"; Fizzy Moon "It's All About Him"; Crafter's Companion Mulberry Wood;

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers; glamour dust on little girl's collar and hat;

Papers: LotV "Frosty Christmas";

Supplies: silver mesh ribbon and bells from The Ribbon Girl; gems from The Hobby House and Papermania; narrow silver ribbon from my stash;

Tools: Whimsy "Winter Jewel 3" snowflake die; Marianne D heart die.

Challenges:

Simon Says - Merry Christmas

Marianne's Design Divas - It's Christmas!

Kaboodle #151 - Christmas, Holidays or New Year

OSCC #210 - A Christmas Carol ("In The Bleak Midwinter")

Christmas Cards #4 - Jingle Bells
Crafts & Me - Winter Wonderland Bumper Christmas Challenge (2nd entry)

Sweet Stampin' - Seeing Double (2 hearts, 2 jingle bells)

Have a wonderful day everyone - I'll be back over the next few days with my fave Christmas cards of 2012 :-)

Hugs,

Feathered Friends

Hello everyone - hope you're having a good week. I'm off work so I have got plenty of time to potter around and get stuff done for Christmas .. though I don't reckon I'll get done half of the things on my "to do" list. Still, so long as I get the "must do" things done, I guess that's the main thing.

Today I'd like to show you the card I made for my husband's aunt - she is his closest relative. I actually won this stamp as part of a LotV prize on Papertake Weekly, and I chose it so I could make a romantic card for my husband (he loves feeding the bids in the garden). However I thought the traditional look would also work very well for his aunt who doesn't particularly like contemporary pictures or themes ... so I coupled it with a flower arrangement including  traditional Christmas rose, and a big red bow!  As usual the red has not photographed very true, and is actually rather darker than the pictures suggest.

Stamps: LotV "Feathered Friends", "Grungy Christmas Messages";

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers; glamour dust on hat and snow;

Papers: LotV "Frosty Christmas";

Supplies: flowers and lace fromWild Orchid Crafts; berries by Magnolia from The Glitterpot; pearls from The Hobby House; ribbon from Hobbycraft;

Tools: Memory Box "Snowflake Corner" die; Whimsy Snowflake die.

Challenges:
Simon Says - Merry Christmas

Crafty Mess #23 - Vintage Christmas

Crafty Calendar (December) - White Christmas

The Stamp Man (December) - In The Bleak Midwinter

Crafts & Me - Winter Wonderland
Bunny Zoe's (December) - Celebration

ABC Christmas - Y Is For Your Favourite Punch Or Die

(Whimsy Snowflake)
ABC - D is for Deck The Halls
(or in this case, deck the branch outside for the birdies ... how sweet is that??)

Sparkles Christmas #23 - Button or Bow (3rd entry)

Try It On Tuesday - Lucky Dip
(ribbon / sentiment / pearls / stamped image)
Papertake Weekly - Pick Of The Year
(November 20th - ribbons and pearls)
I ♥ Promarkers #148 - Anything But Square
Really Reasonable Ribbon #62 - Anything Goes + Ribbon

Christmas At Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

That's all for today - thanks for visiting.

Oldie But A Goodie #18 – Say It With Flowers

Good morning everyone, and welcome to a new Oldie But A Goodie Challenge. Hope you have enjoyed all the Bank Holidays over the past fortnight … I have been on holiday from work, just chilling, but alas I am back in the office today for the first time in nearly two weeks :-(

Thanks so much to everyone who entered last fortnight’s challenge .. fabulous entries as always :-) Don’t forget to check the main challenge blog to see if you have won!

This fortnight it is Tracy’s turn to choose the challenge, and she has chosen an easy peasy theme that I’m sure you’ll all love …

Say It With Flowers

Now you can interpret this however you choose, but please remember that in order to be eligible for the prize, you will need to use a stamped image (not a digi) that is at least six months old.

And talking of the prize …  Tracy has also provided this yummy paper pack and ribbons … lovely!

The rest of the DT have created some fab floral creations – here is my card, which is the second of my two wedding cards.

Recipe:
Main image: LotV “Wedding Couple” coloured with Promarkers and sprinkled with glamour dust;
Sentiments: Whiff of Joy “Mr & Mrs”; LotV “Stamp Calendars”;
Papers: Pink Petticoat “Vintage Rose”;
Supplies: flowers by Sweet Lilac (Crafts4U2Do); lace by Wild Orchid Crafts; Papermania heart gems;
Tools: small and large circles and labels 3 nestabillties; Cuttlebug “floral fantasy” embossing folder.

Challenges:
Die Cut Dreams #88 – Wedding
Stampin’ For The Weekend #8 – Wedding
Incy Wincy #92 – I Do 
Lili of the Valley #94– Love Is in The Air
Crafty Catz #80 - Congratulations
Dream Valley #6 – Flowers
My Mum’s Craft Shop Challenge #3 – Flowers
Stamp With Fun #109 – Ribbon or Lace 
Totally Gorjuss #78 – 1-2-3 (1 piece of lace, 2 papers, 3 flowers)
Totally Papercrafts #64 – Glitter
Cupcake Challenges – Something Beginning With C (circles, couple)
By The Cute & Girly (May) – Anything Goes
Pollycraft #91 – Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion #56 – Anything Goes 
Simon Says – Anything Goes (2nd entry)
A Gem of a Challenge #20 – Sketch

Hope you can join us this time, and look forward to seeing your creations.