Saturday Secret...

I've got a secret and it's something good!

Some clues are ....

It involves a prize for one lucky person.

It's connected to something that was featured on my blog last week.

and it involves my followers and the comments they make.

OOOOOoooooooooh bet that has got you thinking if you happen to be passing by and reading this.

All will be revealed tomorrow.

An abundance of cards...

Three cards on display today so I better not ramble on too much about any of them! My first card is made using that oh so cute stamp set from Your Next Stamp , our sponsors at The Pink Elephant this week. If you haven't had chance to enter our challenge yet do try over the weekend as the prizes are just gorgeous.

Now if you remember a certain member of the design team (me)wasn't paying attention when she read the details for the challenge and went a little bit wrong!! So to make amends (and have some fun) here is my second attempt with...

dots (cuttlebugged Swiss Dots), punches (circles and snowflakes) and tag (hiding under the ribbon)

The front of the card features the large penguin stamp and inside there is Fhiona pulling him on his sledge. Both the large penguin on the front and Fhiona are included in the stamp set with some snowflakes too, which I didn't get round to using on this card.

My card is also for the challenges at...

Pollycraft - spots and snowflakes (still working on the card that contains all five attributes!)
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Christmas
My Time to Craft - snow buddies
ABC Challenge - embossing

My next two cards have been made really quickly using Kanban materials. I've promised to help raise some cash for Sheffield Children's Hospital by selling some cards at a Christmas fair organised by a friend. So I need to get a bit of a production line going and mass produce - not me at all, but needs must!

Anyway first two done and dusted thanks to Kanban and also to Fab at Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge. Gosh I hadn't realised until I went to his blog to collect the link that I have used exactly the same image and background as him for my cards - great minds think alike heh?

Fab's challenge this week is to use green and (if possible) to make more than one. Great idea for getting those cards done ready for Christmas. It's getting closer!!

Hope you like today's cards and thanks again for the really lovely comments being left for me. Have a fantastic weekend and see you Monday for the new Pink Elephant challenge. I will try to do it correctly this week.

Christmas Snow Buddies...

I do hope nobody is tired of seeing Messy Rabbit yet!!

This time my card is a scenic one, where Messy is playing out with his Snowman buddy underneath the 'Merry Christmas' signpost.

I created the scene using several different stamps...

the signpost is the lower part of the Flower Soft unmounted lamp post
the door is by Dimension Fourth
the wreath (on shrink plastic) and Messy with Snowman buddy are by Joanna Sheen.

I built the whole scene up on a 8" x 8" base card. The brick patterned background was created using a Fiskar's embossing plate run through my wizard and then touched up with a hand embossing too on areas that had not been embossed as clearly as I would have liked.

The door was stamped on very light brown coloured card and then I coloured some areas deeper using Promarkers. A gold brad forms the door handle and the edge of a peel off sheet was cut to form the letter box.

The wreath is one of the stamps from the new Messy Rabbit Christmas range by Joanna Sheen and luckily when shrunk down it was the perfect size to hang on the door.


I decided to really go for it and have the door opening with a Christmas message inside.

The card's inner has a Christmas greeting printed on it and using the stamps again and masks I created another picture of Messy and the lamp posts. This card certainly kept me out of mischief for longer than most!!!


Luckily my card fits in with quite a few challenges this week...

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Christmas
My Time to Craft - Snow Buddies
La-La Land Crafts - embossing
ABC Challenge - embossing

Thank you once again for looking and leaving such amazing comments. I've been blown away by them this week. Have a great day everyone.