Here comes Frosty the Snowman again...

Just had to use the snowman image from Your Next Stamp more than once - he really is a cutie. This time I used a scalloped acetate circle folded in half to make a semi circular card. The acetate has a blue pearlescent circular card attached to the inside of the acetate and a white paper overskirt attached to the outside, which means that all the DST is hidden sandwiched between the two layers.

I must admit I went a little crazy with the snowflakes and gem stones, but hey it's nearly Christmas!!

My card fits some of the same challenges as yesterday...

• Paperplay - Christmas without red or green (shhhhhh don't look at the candy cane!)
  
• Stamp Something - Glitzy
• Crafty Calender Challenges - Winter Sparkle
• Caardvaarks - use digital images and sentiments
• Pile it on - Tinsel Town
• Cupcake Craft Challenge - a Christmas song or Carol
  

Have a great day everyone - and spare a thought for those of us facing job interviews - eeeeeeeeeeek!

In all the panic (see interview note above) I totally forgot to mention that Karen at Your Next Stamp is offering 10% discount this week to The Pink Elephant participants so if you fancy treating yourself pop over there and use the discount code TPE when placing your order. Yeah - Happy Shopping.

Ann xxx

Pink Elephant Day...

It seems to be the season of favourites at The Pink Elephant as last week our challenge was 'favourite colouring medium' and this week we have 'favourite colour combo'. It's really hard to choose actually as there are so many gorgeous combinations around, but I went for one I haven't used for some time...

Lilac, white and silver.

Our sponsor for the week is Your Next Stamp who do some really cute stamps in both rubber and digital format. The image and sentiment on my card are from the Christmas Digital package, which is both bargainous and such fun to work with. Watch out for this snowman being around a lot this week - I really must get my Christmas cards done!!

I used the great sketch from this week's Friday Sketchers challenge and my card also fits the challenges at...

• Paperplay - Christmas without red or green
• Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog - Texture
• Stamp Something - Glitzy
• Allsorts - Purple (hope lilac counts for this)
• Crafty Calender Challenges - Winter Sparkle
• Caardvaarks - use digital images and sentiments
• Pile it on - Tinsel Town
  

Thanks for looking and do check out what my team mates have created using their favourite combos.

Ann xxx

An abundance of cards...

Three cards on display today so I better not ramble on too much about any of them! My first card is made using that oh so cute stamp set from Your Next Stamp , our sponsors at The Pink Elephant this week. If you haven't had chance to enter our challenge yet do try over the weekend as the prizes are just gorgeous.

Now if you remember a certain member of the design team (me)wasn't paying attention when she read the details for the challenge and went a little bit wrong!! So to make amends (and have some fun) here is my second attempt with...

dots (cuttlebugged Swiss Dots), punches (circles and snowflakes) and tag (hiding under the ribbon)

The front of the card features the large penguin stamp and inside there is Fhiona pulling him on his sledge. Both the large penguin on the front and Fhiona are included in the stamp set with some snowflakes too, which I didn't get round to using on this card.

My card is also for the challenges at...

Pollycraft - spots and snowflakes (still working on the card that contains all five attributes!)
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Christmas
My Time to Craft - snow buddies
ABC Challenge - embossing

My next two cards have been made really quickly using Kanban materials. I've promised to help raise some cash for Sheffield Children's Hospital by selling some cards at a Christmas fair organised by a friend. So I need to get a bit of a production line going and mass produce - not me at all, but needs must!

Anyway first two done and dusted thanks to Kanban and also to Fab at Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge. Gosh I hadn't realised until I went to his blog to collect the link that I have used exactly the same image and background as him for my cards - great minds think alike heh?

Fab's challenge this week is to use green and (if possible) to make more than one. Great idea for getting those cards done ready for Christmas. It's getting closer!!

Hope you like today's cards and thanks again for the really lovely comments being left for me. Have a fantastic weekend and see you Monday for the new Pink Elephant challenge. I will try to do it correctly this week.

Pink Elephant Day...

This week it's recipe time at The Pink Elephant and Ella wants us to use dots, tags and punches.

Well you would think that members of the design team would get it right wouldn't you, but a certain member (okay it was me) got so excited about using the fantastic image from Your Next Stamp and making a shaker card again with that fantastic Diamond Dust that the recipe went completely out of my head. What am I like?


Anyway all was not lost as I had already used a snowflake punch for my abundance of snowflakes. I managed to squeeze a tag into the act and okay this might be pushing my luck, but the diamond centres to the snowflakes could so easily be counted as dots couldn't they? Say yes, please!

Actually for this design I need to thank Sandra Dry for her inspiration. I saw one of her fantastic cards with a snowflake border and I just thought wow that would work so well around the apperture of a shaker card. I don't know about you, but I often think shaker cards can look a little rough around the edges so what a great way to mask that by using snow flakes.

You can see Sandra's fabulous card HERE. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing ideas
Sandra.

My image is Fhiona and Friend penguin, which I coloured using Promarkers. There is also a cute little button with Penguin on in this set of stamps. I must use that the next time I use this stamp - it's just so cute.

I do hope lots of people will join us at The Pink Elephant this week. It really is so great to visit everyone's blog and be inspired by the amazing talent out there in blog land.