Ho Ho Ho!

Hands up all those first time Grandma's who can resist buying the gorgeous Christmas outfits there are in the shops for babies these days.  Hmmm, not a single hand in the air!  I certainly can't resist and have already bought a Santa suit and an elf outfit that are just too cute for words.  When Eli came for a few hours the other day the poor wee man just had to try this outfit on.  

I have a feeling that in years to come I may not get away with this sort of thing so I better make the most of it now.

I created my 12" x 12" page on Serif Craft Artist using a fantastic sketch from Stuck on U Sketches.

My page is also for the following challenges...

• Pollycraft - Christmas Fun
• 2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Christmas
• Crazy4Challenges - It's Santa

Hope you have all had a fantastic weekend.  I've been working, but I've now got 5 days off in a row.  Wow, how great is that?  Maybe I will finally be able to finish making and writing Christmas cards and wrapping presents.  Only 13 days to go - eeeeeeeeeeek - need to get organised.

Ann xxx

Happy Christmas Auntie...

Eli may be only 6 months old, but already he knows that Grannie Annie will make him all the cards he needs to send out at a very good price - FREE!.  He's even conned me into buying all his gifts too, but he's just so cute I really don't mind at all.

This card is for him to send to Auntie Laura, who is quite famous for being rather fond of pink and bling so I'm hoping she will love this 8" x 8" card.

The stamp is a Nellie Snellen cutie that I treat myself to last week from the Joanna Sheen Special Offers section.  I'm always popping in there as you can pick some amazing bargains.  At the moment she has some fabulous silhouette stamps on offer at way less than half price.  I coloured the stamp with my new Fleximarkers alongside original Promarkers.  I must say I love the new brush tip.

Other materials used...

• DCWV papers from way back when
• organza ribbon and gems
• Xyron Design Runner to create personalised sentiment
• snowflake dies 

Challenges...

• Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Christmas Wishes
• Crafty Ann's Challenge - Bingo and my line is glitter, presents and ribbon (the present is the star for the squirrel)
• Raise the Bar - Christmas
• Hanna and Friends - the sketch.

Thank you for looking and for all the very kind comments.  It so great to know that somebody out there likes what you create.

Christmas hugs - only 22 days to go!

Ann xxx

Friday again...

Oh my the week's are just flying by and I really don't seem to have much spare time at all.  I really need to have some hours for some fun crafting soon.  

At Bah! Humbug! this week our theme is Cute Critters - I'm thinking there will be thousands of entries as it's a theme everyone will love.  For my card I chose to use a House Mouse decoupage sheet by Joanna Sheen.  I'm not over keen on printed decoupage but this set came free with a mag subscription so I thought I would give it a go.  The images are really large so unless you're doing a massive card they don't need much else adding.  This card is an A5 so as you can see the image almost fills the front.  I used Pepper and friends papers to go alongside the image as they seemed to match up well.

A Marianne die cut holly branch and tag with ribbon completes the card.

Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to see the fab work of our guest designer and my pal Max.  

Have a great weekend.

Ann xxx