Another blue Christmas...

I seem to be using blue a lot this week - Laura will not be happy!

Talking of Laura she has ordered a House Mouse stamp for me that she wants me to make her Christmas cards with. I've no idea which stamp she has chosen, but a package arrived today that looks the right shape and squeeks when shaken so I can't wait to see what it is. She has said it's a tricky one to use so it's to be hope my mojo comes back!

My card for today has one of my all time favourite Pollycraft images on. It's the one I saw being used on friend's blogs last year and first led me to Pollycraft. Even though I have loads of Pollycraft images now I still love this one.

Additional materials:

• DCWV snowflake paper
• dark pearlescent card and plain blue paper
• silver peel offs for sentiment, borders, corner and trims on clothes
• gems and glitter from stash
• Promarkers for colouring + Sakura stardust pen to get spikes on hair and clear stardust for detail on branch

Challenges:

• Pollycraft - Wonderful Christmas Time
• Creative Inspirations - the sketch (which I had to tweak slightly due to size of image and size of snowflake paper)
• SophistiCat Challenges - Snowflakes and Sparkle
• Stamp with fun - Christmas
• A Spoonful of Sugar - Non Traditional Christmas Colours
• Creative Card Crew - Christmas
• Two Red Bananas - Christmas

Thank you for looking and taking the time to leave such great comments.

Sheesh done it again - clicked post before scheduling - oh just pretend it's Wednesday!!

Ann xxx

Bah humbug...

I don't really mean that - I love Christmas, but having decided to stay in yesterday and get on with those desperately needed cards why oh why did my inspiration go on walkabout.

By the end of the day I had made only one card - how bad is that? Having said that my recent craze on trying out different soup recipes did take some time up and then there was a bit more craft room sorting to do, but even so!

Anyway the card I did make is another card using that gorgeous Swiss Pixies Nora image by C. C. Designs. I really like the clean lines of these stamps and digis. Oh my - having just popped over there to get the link I've spotted the cutest stamp in the new December range - uh oh - isn't Sugarplums Santa just wow? Very tempting!

Additional materials:

• Blue pearlescent paper and silver mirri board
• blue snowflake paper by DCWV
• Swiss dots cuttlebug folder
• silver snowflake bradlet, gem brad and silver sentiment peel off from stash
• X-cut snowflake punch

Challenges:

• Sketch by Cutie Sunday
• Stamp with Fun - Christmas
• The Cuttlebug Spot - Brrrrrrr Winter
• ABC Challenge - Indigo Blue
• Two Red Bananas - Christmas

Have a great day everyone.

Whoops was supposed to be scheduling this and clicked post by accident - ah well it's been one of those sort of days!!!
Ann xxx

Pink Elephant Day...

I really can't believe Monday is here again and we have a new challenge at The Pink Elephant.

This week is a colour theme and wow it's a super easy one...

Use your favourite colouring medium - how fun is that? For my card I used Promarkers - since buying the new colour range I just can't stop using these pens. I just love them.

I decided to make an acetate card and this may be the last one I ever do as it was just so hard to take a photo of. Some of the shots had a reflection of me on complete with camera - some had the windows etc - oh it was so tricky. I must try to find out how the experts manage as this card is really quite nice in real life (honest) and yet the photo does not do it justice at all.

The image I've used is Swiss Pixies Nora by C.C. Designs and oh my do they do some gorgeous stamps? I hadn't heard of them until my friend Irene won a challenge in the Summer and received a couple of beautiful stamps. Check out her cards here and here. Aren't they just fabulous?

Each month at C. C. Designs there are new designs and the great thing is you can get the images in both rubber and digi versions. I love my rubber, but for us over here in England it can take a long time for stamps to travel over the pond and the postage makes them more expensive too. Buying the digi version solves both those problems.

The fancy border on my card and 'snow' sentiment are all rub ons which were very kindly sent to me as part of some lovely blog candy from Fab at Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge. Thank you again Fab - I love these rub ons.

Have a great day everyone and hope you are able to join in our challenge at The Pink Elephant this week.

Ann xxx