Five S Words...

SNOWFLAKES

SPARKLE

SPOTS

STRIPES

SWIRLS

This was the challenge theme at Pollycraft's fortnightly challenge and I really wanted to take Paula up on on this - okay the thought of a free digi image for anyone who included all five in their card might have influenced me slightly!

I'm late posting this morning because I had to wake up, get up and make the card all in my jamas - what a scruff! At one stage I panicked thinking I had forgot the stripes, but no check out the bobble hat!

Another challenge I really didn't want to miss out on was Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge so I made sure I sneaked in some paper tearing (the snowy background for the cute girl) on my card.

The fabulous background with the swirls, snowflakes and dots (that made it so much easier to complete the challenge) is by Kanban. The image, Cherry Kisses Snowball, is one of the fantastic images that Paula at Tales from Pollycraft gives away each Friday. Wonder what today's treat will be?

My card is also for the challenge of Christmas at Creative Inspirations and at Pile it on where the theme is 3D (the layers of torn snow paper are raised).

Happy Anniversary...

Ahh not two love birds, but two owls madly in love! This is another of the stamps from the Hoot collection by Joanna Sheen. How sweet are they? Sorry about the reflection on the acetate - it's not a monster creeping up on the pair it's my fingers holding the camera!

Quite hard to describe this card in words so maybe I ought to let the pictures tell the story rather than me ramble on for ages.

The owls were coloured with Promarkers and then cut out and attached to acetate which I then fastened behind a heart shaped apperture cut in a brown Papermania scalloped edge square card.

I cut a matching apperture in spare card and attached this to the rear of the apperture so that there would be a neat finish inside.

The background for the owls is one of the sheets from Joanna Sheen's Hoot backing paper pad. I thought it would be something different to have the owls in a clear heart shaped space but with a scene behind them too forming the front of the card.

My card is for the challenge at Stamp with Fun where the theme is clear foil (acetate?) and also for the challenge 'Celebrate' at Creative Card Crew Challenges and the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

Halloween's Coming - Halloween's coming...

Witches will be after you! Big black bats and witches cats - ghosts and goblins too!

Oh we used to have such a good time singing that when my kids were little. Now they are all grown up and in pairs (well for the moment anyway). This card is for my daughter Shelley and her boyfriend, Tony. When I bought the set of Halloween clip art from PC Crafter the other day these two cats stood out as being purrrfect to use for their card.

The purple frame, cats and bat were from the set and cut out and decoupaged. The sentiment and names were created in Serif and then printed and embossed.

The sketch is from the challenge at Die Cut Dreams and I've also used their theme of Halloween and the suggested colours of Black, Purple, Orange and Green.

Halloween is also the theme at A Spoon Full of Sugar, Simon Says STamp , Two Red Bananas and at Fun with Shapes,

At My Time to Craft the theme is Purrrfect Pets and I reckon these two would be pretty cool pets to have around and last but not least at Pile it on the theme (as well as combining at least one other challenge) is 3 dimensional.