Monochrome Christmas Village...

Just a quick card today as guess what? I am busy getting ready for Christmas!!! Surprise - surprise!

I love the Christmas Village cuttlebug folder and have found it works very well with some of my smaller stamps. I have wanted to try this Santa and his sleigh stamp by Rubbadubbadoo for some time and the challenge of 'monochromatic' at http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ seemed to be the ideal opportunity.

Sorry that the photo is a little blurred - I did my best considering the lighting conditions.

Contemporary Christmas...

Hope this is contemporary enough for the challenge at http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ where crafters are being asked to design a 'contemporary' Christmas card.

I already had this image coloured and didn't want to waste him so quickly put this card together. A happy accident came about when the gap between the two striped paper triangles was toooooooooo white and to change it I decided to put ribbon but as a change and because there was nothing to fasten it to I added red star shaped eyelets and threaded the ribbon through. Then I tied in huge bow at front. I like the effect and it's certainly something I might do in the future - perhaps even planned!!!

If anyone is wondering why on earth I am still blogging and entering challenges so near to Christmas - the reason is that it keeps my sanity - well almost!!!

White, white, white...

Yeah I found another cuttlebug challenge site!!! There I was looking at some cards on a friend's blog and I found she had created a card for the Cuttle Bug Spot at http://thecuttlebugspot.blogspot.com/ so off I went to investigate. Their challenge this week is use WHITE!! This is not as easy as it sounds although the sentiment can be in black and as the team designer's have used some black ribbon on their cards so have I.

My design uses the Happy Birthday embossing folder at the top of my card and Swiss Dots for the bottom half. I will always be grateful to my friend Irene for the tuition she gave me on how to do this double embossing easily. Thank you once again Irene - it is so easy once you know how!
The sentiment 'Party Girl' is from a set by Studio G.
The gem stones from the word happy are going to be removed (carefully) - I just don't think they belong - keep reminding me of two eyes and I really don't think the card needs them.