Cold penguins

   My elder brother's birthday is next week and as the weather is a little chilly at the moment especially coming after a warm October I thought this image from Pollyanna Pickering's snow and ice collection was appropriate.
   I attached triangles of textured paper to the corners of a piece of square white card to form a central square. In this square I glued a mixture of polar white flower soft and glitter. I added peel off to the outside edges of each triangle and card candi together with a peel off sentiment to the body of these shapes. I matted the topper onto black card cut out using a Spellbinders scalloped oval die and attached this to the flower soft centre using glue gel.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Bunny Zoe's Crafts - animals
   Suzy Bee's Blooming - anything goes with the twist make it male
   Creative Moments - anything goes/celebration
   Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - creative corners
   Pile It On - feeling cool
   Animal Friends - it's cold
   The Paper Shelter - for the man in your life

A study in brown

   The challenge this week at Creative Corner is to make a Christmas card. So come and join us and get one step nearer to completing your cards.
   As this Lili of the Valley image is of a vintage looking character I thought I would just use browns on my card. I printed the background paper using the La Pashe CD ROM 'Christmas with the Wrinkles' and the added vintage photo distress ink to it. This was then matted and layered onto brown mirri card and white card.
   I coloured image called 'Festive Lantern' using Spectrum Noir pens, added distress inks to the edges and glittered it. I then matted it onto brown mirri card fixing it at a slight angle.
   The words for the sentiment were cut from brown mirri card using Tattered Lace dies and glued to gold mirri card which had been cut using a Spellbinders label 4 die. I then added glitter to the top of the letters to simulate snow before attaching it to the card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Without Words - preparing for Christmas
   Lili of the Valley - merry Christmas
   Dream Valley - getting ready for Christmas
   Allsorts - masculine
   Stamping Sensations - Christmas
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - anything goes
   Crafty Sentiments Designs - make it sparkle
   Ribbon Girl - Christmas card
   Bearly Mine - Christmas card
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Sparkle N Sprinkle - anything goes
   Beccy's Place - holiday cards
   Make My Monday - vintage
   ABC Christmas - v is for very merry Christmas
   Catch the Bug - anything goes

Happy Anniversary

   It is my step-daughter's wedding anniversary next week and I just had to use this stamp from Lili of the Valley when I found it was called 'Meant to be'.
   I matted and layered paper from Kaisercraft and core'dinations cardstock onto white card. I cut four corners from the same cardstock using a Tattered Lace victorian corner die and glue one in each corner and then glued a tiny gem in each. The sentiment was also cut using Tattered Lace dies.
   I coloured the image using Promarkers and mattted and layered it onto core'dinations cardstock and gold mirri. I then edged the design with gold peel off. After fixing it to the card I glued a card candi into each of the four corners of this mount.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Whoopsi Daisy - add a sentiment
   Inky Impressions - creative corners
   Crafty Cardmakers and More - cut it out
   Papertake Weekly - anything goes
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper - anything goes
   Suzy Bee's Bloomin' - anything goes with the twist layers
   Lacy Sunshine - include a hat
   Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes
   Creative Moments - anything goes/celebration
   Penny's Paper-Crafty - creative corners

Collecting the tree

   Another Christmas card completed! I made use of left over scraps of Papermania designer paper for this one. I matted them onto mauve mirri card and where the two papers met I wrapped ribbon round:- 1cm wide oganza ribbon and narrow satin ribbon on top. This was then matted onto white card.
   The stamped image, collecting the tree from Lili of the Valley, was coloured using Promarkers and I added glitter to the upper side of the tree. I then matted this onto mauve mirri card cut out using a Spellbinders classic scalloped circle dieand attached it to the card using thin foam pads.
   I cut varies snow flakes out of centura pearl card using Tattered lace dies. Three of them I covered in pale blue glitter and layered together. After attaching to the bottom right hand corner of the card I glued a pale blue gem stone in the centre. The other snowflakes I covered with purple glitter, layered and attached to the blue designer paper. A purple gem was glued to the centre of this.
    Finally I cut a piece of blue mirri card using a Spellbinders lacy oval die, attached a peel off sentiment to it and fixed it to the card using thicker foam pads.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Without Words - preparing for Christmas
   Lili of the Valley - merry Christmas
   Dream Valley - getting ready for Christmas
   Crafty Cardmakers and More - cut it out
   Winter Wonderland - pick and mix (snowflakes, gems, ribbon)
   Brown Sugar - anything goes
   Ribbon Girl - Christmas card
   Animal Friends - it's cold
   Beccy's Place - holiday cards
   Crafty Catz - anything goes

Bird on rose

   It is a long time since I have used mulberry paper, so I thought I would dig it out again. I roughly tore the larger sheet and randomly stamped dog roses over it using one of the stamps from Chocolate Baroques 'Pretty birdcage' set. After lightly colouring the rose petals using Spectrum Noir pencils I matted it onto white card, attaching it with invisible glue dots.
   The main image is stamped from another stamp in the set  and I coloured this using Promarkers. I then cut it out and matted it onto the darker mulberry paper before fixing it to the card.
   I cut anoyher piece of white card in the shape of a tag, stamped it, coloured using Promarkers, threaded a ribbon through a hole I made and attached it to the card using foam pads. I then attached copper peel offs for the sentiment.

   I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
   Penny Black and More - anything goes
   Whoopsi Daisy - add a sentiment
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   Papertake Weekly - anything goes
   Crafty Ribbons - tags and ribbon
   Brown Sugar - anything goes
   Glitter n Sparkle - anything but square
   Chocolate Baroque - colour palette
   Creative Fingers - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Simon Says Stamp Monday - good ol days
   Penny's Paper-Crafty  - anything goes
   Word Art Wednesday - anything goes

Feeding the birds

   This is another Lili of the Valley image. This stamp is called 'Seeds and greetings' and again I coloured it using Promarkers and added glitter to the snowman. However, this time I added polar white Flower Soft to the falling snow. I then matted it onto metallic green card and added the mirri card wishes cut using Tattered Lace sentiment dies.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Passion For Promarkers - add some sparkle
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - sparkle
   Christmas Cards All the Year Round - no patterned paper
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra - anything goes
   Addicted to Stamps and More - clean and simple
   Sparkle N Sprinkle - anything goes
   Becky's Place - holiday cards
   Party Time Tuesday - anything goes
   Completely Christmas - anything goes with twist add a robin
   A Little Bit Crafty - clean and simple

Snowman and friend

   Back to making Christmas cards.This image from a Lili of the Valley stamp called 'My snowman friend' was coloured using Promarkers. I then added glitter to the snowman. I used Tattered Lace Christmas sentiment dies to cut the greeting from mirri card and then applied Fluffy Stuff to the words and background to form snow. I then matted the design onto grey card.

   I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
   Little Claire's Designs - Christmas
   Passion For Promarkers -  add some sparkle
   Crafty Catz - anything goes
   Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas
   Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
   Addicted to Stamps and More - clean and simple
   Scribble and Scrap - anything goes
   Lacy Sunshine - include a hat
   The Pink Elephant - anything goes
   Craftyhazelnut's Christmas - sparkle
   Allsorts - masculine
   Crafty Calendar - it's all about Christmas
   Crafty Cardmakers and More - cut it out
   Christmas Cards All the Year Round - no patterned paper
   ABC Christmas - V is for very merry Christmas