Stars at night...

The stars at night is the theme at http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ this week. I chose to do a Christmas theme (yes I'm getting pretty fed up of Halloween now!).

I decided to use this brilliant sketch from the new challenge site at http://thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/. I only found the site recently when blog hopping but it does look like they have had some interesting challenges over the last few weeks.



Materials used:

• Penny Black stamps from Christmas clear set
• Circular sentiment stamp from Papermania clear set
• Patterned papers (Dovecraft??)
• Dark blue card
• Gems and organza ribbon from stash

Can you spot the happy accident ...

If you can see it please let me know in your comment!!!

Spooky...

Another Halloween card - this time for my mum so it's a gentler image. Infact I used 6 stamps to create this picture and as one of them is a Penny Black it fits the criteria for the challenge at http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/.

The balloon is handrawn and had to be that big to go round the sentiment.

Materials used:

• white base card
• orange plain and patterned paper (Papermania?)
• Penny Black hedgehog in flower pot stamp
• grass, pumpkin and clump of grass Art Impressions stamps
• bats stamp unknown ebay purchase (but poor quality cause fell off wooden mount)
• sentiments magnetic stamps by Making Memories

Halloween Pumpkin Pet Holder...

Halloween is a popular challenge subject at the moment. This pumpkin cage fits the bill for the challenge at http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/.

Inside lurks a scary spider and there will be tons of sweets as soon as I can get to the shops. The idea came from http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/ where they are having a 'Cuttlebug Camp' this weekend. Many very talented designers are presenting tutorials on using the cuttlebug. Loads of fantastic ideas so do go and have a look.

As well as the spider I had a go at developing the idea and came up with ...

A snowflake table decoration or gift holder.

For those who are following the instructions on the camp carefully - hmmmmmmm I know I should have had 9 strips but my computer was being used by the Guild Wars fanatics (daughter and boyfriend) and I had to make the pumpkin and snowflake from memory.