Happy Christmas...

Just popped in to say Happy Christmas to all my blogging buddies.  Hope you all have a brilliant Christmas and Santa brings you lots of goodies (I've got my fingers crossed on that one as I haven't been that good lately!) - tee hee.


Don't forget that in the New Year Irene, Max and I have a great new venture planned - Bah! Humbug! Christmas Card Challenge.  We're so looking forward to this - it will make next Christmas an absolute breeze for all of us.  No mass panic next year - we'll all be able to sit back with a mince pie and a glass of red wine watching 'Miracle on 34th Street'.  Bliss!!!

Last Two Christmas Cards...

Phew I was really cutting it fine this year - so glad I have finished and next year I am going to be far more organised.  Hopefully running the Bah! Humbug! Christmas challenge site will help - I certainly hope so.  If you haven't had a look at that yet please do.  We've got 25 followers already - I'm so giddy with the excitement.  It's going to be so much fun.

This is the House Mouse stamp that Laura bought me to make Christmas cards for her to give to special people.  I love the stamp - it's so cute, but oh my did it take some time to colour!?  Each of the beads needed hightlighting and then just when I thought I'd finished I'd find a bit of mouse that I'd missed.  Great fun especially when you're in a hurry!

I used Promarkers to colour the images and then matted and layed on to my papers.  I really don't know who the papers are by as they were sent to me by a blogging friend and I've used them so often.  Thank you Elaine if you see this - I just love these papers - the colours are scrummy.
Both my cards fit the challenges at...

• Crafty Calender Challenges - Winter Sparkle (not sure how much it shows in photo, but mice are standing in layer of sparkly snow)

• SophistiCat Challenge - Christmas
• House Mouse - Winter Wishes

Now entering the following challenge is a little cheeky - well more that a bit, but I have missed out on the last two challenges at Rainbow Lady's Challenge blog so I'm hoping I can get away with this...

Cynthia's current challenge is to use an image of a stag or other large animal on your card!  Hmmmmm mice - well House Mice are very big news in the stamping world and size is only relative after all.  If you were knee high to a grass hopper a mouse could seem huge.
Hmmmmmmm will I get away with that?  Is Christmas hysteria setting in big time - I think it maybe!

Have a good day everyone.
Ann xxx

There's Snow Friend like you...

A card for a special friend, who I know has received this now so it's okay to post it here.
I tried so hard to resist buying this digi image and sentiment by Whimsie Doodles as I have so many different snowmen both rubber and digi in my stash, but it was a loosing battle!  This one is just so cute and I love the sentiment too!
Anyway I am blaming Sheri at PaperCrafty's Creations for my spending cause she just keeps making the most fantastic cards using Whimsie Doodles and has just been asked to be a permenant member of the DT there. Yeah brill news Sheri - you deserve it.
My card is a shaker card with Diamond Dust behind the acetate apperture - love the swishing sound that stuff makes in shaker cards - it's just so realistic.

My card fits the challenges at...

• Crafty Calender Challenges - Winter Sparkle
• SophitiCat Challenges - Christmas
• Die Cut Dreams - Snowflakes
• Simon Says - Merry Christmas
• Tanda Stamps - A square card
• Crafty Ann's - anything but red or green
• Alphabet Challenge - J = jewels (each of the snowflakes has a diamond stuck in the middle)
• No Time to Stamp - Snow
• The Corrosive Challenge - Blingy

Wow that was a long list of challenges! Not a record, but pretty good going.  Hmmmmmm talking of challenges I have some exciting news... 


Check this out - BAH! HUMBUG! - yep if you are one of the crafters like me who is meeting herself coming back then this new challenge may help.  
I seem to think that quite a few new challenges are starting in the New Year, BUT you can never have too much of a good thing and anything that helps to get us more organised for next Christmas has got to be good.
Do pop over there and maybe become a follower - we would be so excited if you did.  I may even sort out some blog candy!!!

Blingtastic Pink Elephant Day...

This week sees a Sketch challenge at The Pink Elephant.  Fantastic easy sketch - just what we all need when we are so close to Christmas (and still making Christmas cards - eek!).  In Style Stamps have very kindly sponsored us this week and each of the DT were given digi images to work with.

I received the fantastically blingy Fairy Cynthia on her swing. So cool check - out the others in the range - there are some really cute ones.  I coloured Cynthia with Promarkers to match the glitter card and then added tons of glitter and gemstones - I felt like going way over the top with the bling.

In addition to The Pink Elephant challenge my card also fits the bill at...

• Creative Card Crew - Anything goes!! 
• Digital Tuesday - Birthday card (my inner has the 'Have a birthday filled with magic'.
• CRAFT challenge - free for all
• Alphabet Challenge - decorate with jewels

Have a fantastic day everyone - hope you can find time to check out the samples by my fellow DT members at The Pink Elephant and even better join in the fun.

Ann xxx

The Stamp Man...

This looks interesting!!!

This is what Jill has to say on her blog...

'I decided we should have some crafting fun between Christmas and New Year so from Sunday 27th December until Sunday 3rd January 2010, I'm going to host a New Year Award/Blog Hop/Giveaway, so something a little different!!

There are 2 things to join in with, the first is for the Award, and the 2nd is the Blog Hop, they are separate events but I hope you will be able to join us for both.

The instructions will all be given here, the start point, from Sunday, 27th December, both events will run for a week to enable everyone to fit it in sometime over the Christmas/New Year holidays.  It won't take a week to complete, but it will enable you to stop and rejoin the hop whenever it is convenient!

For now, it would really be appreciated if you could add this picture to your sidebars and possibly mention it on your blogs to advertise the events as the more people that know about it and join in, the more fun it will be!'

Sounds like it's going to be good fun - I will certainly be popping over here on the 27th to join in.