Make it sparkle...

Another Christmas card - oh my I'm going to have more cards than friends this year!  I do love making Christmas things though.  A chance to bring out the glitter and so many gorgeous images. 

This card came into being as I wanted to use the bits left after cutting something out on my Silhouette machine.  They were quite small bits really so not much scope although as you can see from the photo below I managed to mat and layer my image on a scrap with a hole in the middle.  LOL.  After cutting out the pine branches there was very little left and that can go in my grandson's scrap box.

Materials...

• DCWV scraps left after using 12 by 12 sheet in Silhouette machine
• Backing papers by HOTP 
• sentiment stamp by Papermania 
• Owl by Hero Arts - tiny little clear stamp set
• Santa hat by Stampin Up
• Glamour dust

All the items I've used are really old things from my stash - I really need to use what I have more often rather than keep buying and buying more.  Hmm, famous last words!

Challenges...

• Crafty Cardmakers - Make it sparkle
• Pixie's Snippets Playground - use your snippets
• Crafty Hazlenut's Challenge - something beginning with P - pine branch
• Allsorts - make it sparkle
• Penny Black and More - anything goes

and don't forget our challenge at My Time to Craft is themed Owls and there is still time to enter as the challenge doesn't close till Friday.

Thank you for visiting my blog - have a great day whatever you are up to.
Annie xxx

I love my Silhouette machine!

It's just so much fun making vinyl stickers for stuff.  This is a special request label for the bins and recycling box at my daughter's new house.  The cut file was from the Silhouette Store and I added the house number.  Now my other daughter wants ones with dinosaurs on - oh my this is going to be fun.
Haven't decided what to have on my bin yet - maybe butterflies and flowers - will have to think about it.

Challenges...

• Brown Sugar - anything but a card
• Crafty Time - anything but a card

Hope you are having a great weekend.

Annie xxx

Oldie but Goldie..,

Our challenge this time at Aud Sentiments is anything goes as long as you add a sentiment.  Oh my you can't get easier than that one and so far we've had some stunning entries.  There is a great prize on offer from Great Impressions who do some fabulous stamps so it's really well worth having a go if you have time.
Does anyone else buy digi stamps (and masses of other stash) and then just not get round to using it? I do and even more so when I was working and money rich and time poor.  Now I'm just short of both sadly!
Any hows I've just discovered an amazing challenge where you are encouraged to dig out the 'Never Before Used Schtuff'  -  NBUS !

How brilliant is that?  I need to join this challenge loads - maybe even do a nbus stamp day, a nbus embossing folder day and so on - oh my I could fill a whole week with different items for a few years at least!  However, sadly I've just homed on the rules and it's an event that only happens twice a year - I'm gutted!!
Oh well onto my card and the schtuff used - LOL!  The digi is one from way back by Whimsie Doodles I think and it has been lurking on my computer hard drive unloved which as it's a real cutie this should not have happened.  I printed one image on to white card including the sentiment and also one image onto acetate so that I could overlay the cocktail glass part to give it a real feel.  The sheep was given a furry touch using some of that blow up white stuff that has also been in my stash sometime unused.  If you're wondering how the acetate is being held in place the glass has a slot in the top so the sheep is holding the top in place and the decoupaged cherries are hiding the attachment at the bottom.  The acetate is also folded around the original piece of printed card to hold it in place.

If you are like me and a bit slow at finding great challenges and want to join this one be quick I think the last day is tomorrow!!

Have fun - see you soon.
Annie xxx