In our thoughts

   I used the oriel cardshape die from Carnation Crafts to make the shape of this card and discarded the third panel. The pieces that decorate the card were cut using a variety of dies from their Kind Thoughts collection.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   Let's Craft and Create - anything goes with optional vintage feel

   Creative Fingers - anything goes

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   Crafty Creations - anything goes

   Through the Purple Haze - anything goes with red, green and silver

Angel

 

   The fussy cut angel coloured here using Promarkers is a digi from MMedel Illustrations. I have added some loose glitter to the wings. I'm not sure which CD ROM I used to print the green snow flake backing paper; it had been in my box of stash for a while. The music sheets were cut from left over paper printed using a La Pashe CD ROM.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   Creative Inspirations - Christmas time

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional additional flower

   Winter Wonderland - anything goes

   Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes

   Passion For Markers - anything goes

   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

   The Paper Shelter - anything goes

   Creative Fingers - anything goes

   Creatalicious - anything goes with optional non traditional Christmas colours

   C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

   Sweet Stampin' - anything Christmas

   Creative Moments - anything goes

In the snow

   Another Lee Holland digi image. This one is called 'dragon sitting in the snow' and again is coloured using Promarkers.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Dream Valley - Christmas

   Digi Choosday - Anything goes

   Allsorts - anything winter

   Winter Wonderland - anything Christmas

   Scrapping 4 Fun - winter/Christmas

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   We Love Stamping - anything goes with optional CAS

   2 Craft Critter Crazies - anything goes

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

   Crafty Creations - anything goes

Dragon in hat

 

   A card using one of Lee Holland's Christmas dragons. This image is called dragon in Santa hat and has been coloured using Promarkers.

   I would like to enter it into the following challenges:

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional Christmas celebrations

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   Creative Inspirations - Christmas time

   We love Stamping - anything stamped with optional CAS

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with Christmas

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Allsorts - wings and/or tails

   Crafty Calendar - Christmas

   Winter Wonderland - anything goes

   Passion For Markers - anything goes

   Scrapping 4 Fun - winter/Christmas

   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   The Paper Shelter - celebrations

   Sweet Stampin - anything Christmas

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

   Jan's Digi Stamps - anything goes

Summer fruits

   Having made so many Christmas cards and the weather turning decidedly chilly I felt I needed to remind myself of summer for this month's Dragonfly Dreams anything goes challenge. The dies and downloadable vignettes for this card all come from Carnation Crafts summer fruits collection.

 

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Allsorts - use a die

   The Crafter's Cafe - anything goes

   CD Sunday Plus - anything goes

   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes

   Alphabet - r is for red

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

Winter snowman

 

   The final 2021 Send A Smile For Kids challenge has a winter theme. What could be more wintery than this snowman decoupaged using pages from Hunkydory's Little Book of Snowmen? I matted it onto green card and outlined it with silver peel off.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional fancy folds

   Creative Inspirations - Christmas time

   Creative Moments - anything goes

   Alphabet - r is for red

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Through the Purple Haze - anything goes with use only red, green and silver

   Dream Valley - Christmas

Holiday sleigh

 

   The digi stamp, which has been coloured using Promarkers, and sentiment on this card were taken from Jan's Digi Stamp collection 'holiday sleigh'. They are sponsoring this fortnight's challenge at Aud Sentiments the theme of which is Christmas, winter or New Year.

   

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with Christmas

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with something beginning with r

   Incy Wincy Designs - traditional Christmas colours and/or kraft card

   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   Createful Heart Cards - anything goes

   Creatalicious - anything goes with Christmas

   Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas present

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

   Jan's Digi Stamps - anything goes

Claudia's plant

 

   I have used the digi Claudia's plant from Sheep Ski Designs three times for this card and coloured them using Promarkers.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional Christmas

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Creations In Pink - anything goes

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

   Pink Gem - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

Christmas triple easel

 

   This triple easel cards uses three toppers from an old Hunkydory kit.

   I would like to enter it into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Let's Craft and Create - anything goes with optional twine

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

   Creative Moments - anything goes

   Christmas Craft Creations - fun fold

Z is for the colour zenith blue

   During the month of November I set myself the challenge of making a Christmas card which used a colour beginning a different letter of the alphabet. I have finally reached the 26th letter and have learnt the names of a lot of colours!!

   The digi from Lee Holland called 'dragon hugging a penguin' was coloured using Promarkers and the sentiment was cut from silver mirri using a Carnations Craft die. The backing paper, matted onto silver mirri, was printed using a Popcorn the Bear CD ROM from Crafter's Companion.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards 

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Allsorts - use stamp or digi

   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   Creative Fingers - anything goes

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   C.R.A.F.T. - winter

   Make My Monday - cute Christmas

 

Y is for the colour yellow

 

   This digi image called lamb of God from Beccy Muir has been coloured using Promarkers. The words for the sentiment were cut using Tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Cafty Catz - anything oes with non traditional Christmas colours

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional no patterned papers

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Allsorts - use stamp or digi

   Scrapping 4 Fun - winter/Christmas

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   Digi Doodle Studios - Christmas/winter

   Createful Heart Cards - anything goes

   Pink Gem - anything goes

   We Love Stamping - Christmas

X is for the colour xanthic

   

   I love these little dragons from Lee Holland. This one is called dragon in Santa hat and I have coloured it using Promarkers adding some loose glitter to the snow. 

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with non traditional Christmas colours

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with no patterned paper

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Allsorts - use a stamp or digi image

   Digi Designs - use a digi image

   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

   Creative Craft Cottage - add some sparkle

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   The Paper Shelter - Christmas card

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   Make My Monday - cute Christmas

   ABC Christmas - w for whimsical, x for xerox

   Crafty Animals - anything goes

Happy snowman

   

   Just a quicky using some odd scrapes of paper and a digi from Crafty Sentiments Designs coloured using Promarkers and Derwent coloursorft pencils. I used frostings on the snowman's hat and stickles on the snow and tree.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with non traditional Christmas colours
 

W is for the colour white

 

   I placed deep blue glitter card behind the white nativity die cut which had been cut using a Creative Expressions die. The part fir trees were cut using a Carnation Crafts die and I used Tattered Lace dis to cut the sentiment. I finished the card by sticking the waste stars onto the base diecut.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with glitter

   Christmas Cards All the Year Round - anything that starts with u, v or w (white)

   Scrapping 4 Fun - winter/Christmas

   Creative Craft Cottage - add some sparkle

   Creative Fingers - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

V is for the colour very light blue

 

   Another card using items from Hunkydory's Penguin Party kit and adding some silver mirri card and white recycled ribbon.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional metal

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Craft Rocket - winter/snow

   C.R.A.F.T. - winter

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Crafty Animals - anything goes

Figgy pudding

 

   I have taken part of a page from Hunkydory's third Little Book of Christmas and using several sheets of the same image decoupaged the figgy pudding.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Classic Design - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Crafty Calendar - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

U is for the colour ultramarine

 

   Another image where I just love the sky colour. I have added some narrow sparkly ribbon and gold mirri to this card which uses a page from Hunkydory's bitesize book 'A child is born' and a topper from the kit of the same name.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with glitter

   Christmas Cards All The Year Round - something that starts with u, v or w (ultramarine)

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

T is for the colour tangerine

 

   Another card using a page from Hunkydory's bitesize book of A Child is Born adding more recycled ribbon and a sentiment cut using Tattered Lace dies. I just love the colours in the sky of this image.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   Creative Fingers - anything goes

   Creatalicious - anything goes with ribbon or twine

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

S is for the colour sky blue

 

   The patterned paper was printer using a Popcorn the Bear CD ROM from Crater's Companion and the snowman was cut using a Papercuts die from Creative Expression and used ribbon to mask the join between the two.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes

   Creatalicious - anything goes with ribbon or twine

   Craft Rocket - winter/snow

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

R is for the colour rose

 

 For this card I have made an easel design and decoupaged a House Mouse image for the front of the card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   House Mouse and Friends - anything goes with optional Christmas

   Crafty Calendar - anything goes

   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes

   Creations In Pink - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

Q is for the colour queen blue

   For this card I have used die cuts from Dawn Wheeler's traditional Christmas pad and placed them in a circle to form a wreath. I added Stickles to the pin cones.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Classic Design - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Creative Moments - anything goes

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   Creative Craft Cottage - add some sparkle

   Christmas Cards All the Year Round - something beginning with u, v or w (wreath)

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with optional buttons

 

P is for the colour parakeet

 

     The theme for this fortnight's Aud Sentiments challenge is anything goes.

I have used a Popcorn the bear decoupaged image and put it on an easel card. The background paper which uses the same image was printed using a Crafter's Companion CD ROM and I used My Craft Studio to make the sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards 

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional sparkles and shine

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   CD Sunday Plus - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes

   C.R.A.F.T. - for children

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

   Creative Moments - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Crafty Animals - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

O is for the colour orchid

    The digi image from Lee Holland is called 'dragon present' and I coloured it using Promarkers. The backing paper is from Papermania and after matting it onto blue mirri I wrapped a narrow piece of ribbon round one of the corners and then matted it onto purple card. I then added a bow.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional sparkle and shine

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional no patterned paper

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Allsorts - Christmas

   Winter Wonderland - candy cane and/or for a child

   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes

   Passion For Markers - Christmas

   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   The Cutie Pie - anything cute

   Pink Gem - anything goes

   ABC Christmas - w for whimsical, x for Xerox

   Alphabet - p for patterned paper

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Crafty Animals - anything goes

   Classic Deign - anything goes

N is for the colour navy blue

  

   This card was made using offcuts from other card making plus a peel off sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Crafty Calendar - anything goes

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with optional buttons

M is for the colour marron

 

   I made this card using elements from Hunkydory's kit called  'A  child is born' and recycling some gold metallic twine from a gift.

  

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with sparkle and shine

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with optional buttons

   Allsorts - Christmas

   Let's Craft and Create - anything goes with twine

   Creative Craft Cottage - add some sparkle

   Creative Fingers - anything goes

   Creatalcious - anything goes with ribbon or twine

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

L is for the colour light blue

   I needed to make some quick cards so for this one I have simply wrapped ribbon around spotty paper to make it look like a parcel and added a tag from Hunkydory's Penguin Party tag pad with a bow.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with optional buttons

   Incy Wincy Designs - creatures and spotted paper

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Alphabet - p for patterned paper

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Crafty Animals - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

K is for the colour keppel

    I used a Paper Shelter digi called 'A cheerful snowman' for this card and coloured it using Promarkers. The snowflake frame was cut using a Carnation Crafts die from their Christmas time set and the sentiment was cut using dies from their A Christmas eve set.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional make it funny

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with optional buttons

   Allsorts - Christmas

   Stamping Sensations - Christmas

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   The Cutie Pie - anything cute

   Craft Rocket - winter/snow

   C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas

   Pink Gem - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

Snow globe

 

    The image I have used here is 'Reach for the star' from Little Darlings Rubber stamps. I coloured it using Promarkers and after cutting it out I inked the edge using distress ink.

   Using the snowglobe die from Tattered Lace and white, green and red card I made up the base card onto which I matted my image. I then added gold peel off stars and Happy Christmas sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Digi Choosday - anything goes

   Stamping Sensations - Christmas

   Winter Wonderland - candy canes and/or for a child

   Lemon Shortbread - anything goes

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   Createful Heart Cards - anything goes

   The Cutie Pie - anything cute

   Creatalicious - anything goes with stars

   Sweet Stampin - use red

   ABC Christmas - w is for whimsical, x is for xerox

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

J is for the colour jet

   The trees in the background are stamped. The card shape and frame were cut using the Christmas eve set of dies from Carnation Crafts and the decoupaged deer were cut from downloadable vignettes using dies from the same set. The sentiment was computer generated and cut out using Tattered Lace dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional tag

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Stamping Sensations - Christmas

   Incy Wincy Designs - creatures/spotted paper

   2 Crafty Critter Crazies - anything goes

   Through The Craft Room Door - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Crafty Animals - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

 

I is for the colour imperial red

   I used several pages from Hunkydory's Little Book of Father Christmas to decoupage the image and Tattered Lace alphabet dies to create th sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with something beginning with h

   Winter Wonderland - candy canes and/or for a child

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

H is for the colour harvest gold

 

   The dies and downloadable vignettes for the pine cone frame used on this card are from Carnation Crafts 'The glow of Christmas' collection as is the background paper. The robin was cut using a die from Two Red Robbins 'field of dreams' collection and the matching downloadable reflection. o finish the card I added a silver peel off sentiment.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - anything goes

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with something beginning with h 

   Incy Wincy Designs - creatures and/or spotted paper

   Creative Fingers - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Crafty Animals - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

Snow angel revisiteed

    This card is very similar to one that I have made before. This time I have omitted glitter. I have used a Paper Shelter digi called 'Snow angel' and coloured it using Promarkers. The sentiment  was cut using a Tattered Lace die.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   The Paper Shelter - Christmas is coming

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional tag

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive
   I Love Promarkers - anything goes with optional make it funny

   Digi Choosday - anything goes
   CCC Digi Creations - Christmas/winter

   Colour Crazy - anything goes

   Digi Doodle Studios - Christmas/winter

   Creatalicious - anything goes with optional stars

   Craft Rocket - winter/snow

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes

  

G is for the colour goldenrod

 

     The theme for this month's Dragonfly Dreams challenge is Christmas or winter.

    I have made a Christmas card using dies and downloadable vignettes from Carnation Crafts Glow of Christmas set. The sentiment was cut using dies from their A Christmas eve set.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

   Crafty Catz - anything goes with optional tag

   Creative Inspirations - wonderful winter/feeling festive

   Beccy's Place - holiday cards

   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - anything goes with optional something beginning with h 

   CD Sunday Plus - anything goes

   Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes

   A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

   Classic Design - anything goes