Bah! Humbug! Day...

This week our challenge at Bah! Humbug! may have everyone bursting into song as the theme is to create something inspired by a Christmas Carol or Song.

I chose the song 'Frosty the Snowman', mainly because it gave me chance to use one of the oh so cute snowmen on a sheet of Penny Black Stickeroos that have found their way into my stash.  The border across the middle of my card was also part of the set and led to me using the purple and lime green colour theme on my card.  Quite an unusual combination, but it is growing on me - I think!  After using charms for our challenge last week another 'made with love' silver heart found it's way on to the tag again.  I do like these little hearts - they may be appearing on loads of stuff from now on.

As our theme could be either a carol or a song I decided that perhaps I should burst with enthusiasm (oooooooh that doesn't happen often) and do both so (bearing in mind that I'm knee deep in washing and ironing here) I also managed a very quick Kanban kit card to go with the carol 'We Three Kings'.  The card kit was in a 'goodie bag' I bought recently and I wouldn't have normally chose it as I find die cut decoupage so annoying for so many reasons, but I suppose it was okay to create this super fast card.

So if you would like to join in do pop over to Bah! Humbug! and take a look at the fab designs by my team mates Irene and Max.
OOOOOoh nearly forgot to mention that while I was away the team at Bah! Humbug! had their 15 mins (well okay perhaps ony 5 but still) of fame and were featured in  Let's Make Cards magazine. How exciting is that? Click on the link to check out the details.

I'm back...and so is Popcorn...

Two weeks in wonderful Cape Verde - bliss - I will probably bore everyone to death with photos and maybe even some scrapping later, but for now I just want to say...

Anyone wanting to sign my 'Mosquitoes should be an Endangered Species!' petition please leave a comment here!  

Oh so many bites and all in the last three days of the holiday too - such a shame!

Good job I completed my card for my DT spot at Crafter's Companion before I went away.  As it was done in among the packing and shopping for the holiday it had to be quite a quick to make card.  Luckily this month's challenger features yet another superb sketch to use as a starting point.  I also decided to use one of the Popcorn bear Cd's to print off both the decoupage for the central image and the backing paper.  I must admit I really love to do my own stamping and colouring, but sometimes a CD can be just what you need for a quickie card.

How cute is Popcorn with his bag of presents rushing off to the party?  Perfect for a certain little boy I know who is two this weekend.

Well better get back to the huge amount of washing and ironing I have to get done before I go back to work.  I'm sure we didn't take all these clothes.  Maybe someone has sneaked their washing into our cases and just as I finish they will knock on the door wanting their clean clothes! 

Have a fab day everyone - even if it involves work or the dreaded 'h' word.  

Ann xxx

Bah! Humbug! Day...

How time flies! It doesn't seem two minutes since we started the challenges at Bah! Humbug! and now we are more than half way through the year and our collection of Christmas cards is growing at a fantastic rate.  I have never ever been so organised in all my life.  I've got so many cards that I'm starting to think about little gifts and extras to make ready for the season of goodwill.

This week our theme at Bah! Humbug! is ...

CHARMS!

I love charms, but sadly I don't use them often enough.  I think that's because being a bit of a manic collecter once bought I don't like to part with them, but really should as they add so much to a card and don't really cost that much.  

While thinking about what to do for the challenge I remembered that hidden away somewhere I had a bargain box of crackers bought in a sale the other year and not yet used.  Each cracker contains a silver plated charm so they are a little bit special, but I didn't like the way they were finished off.  See photo below showing how uninspiring the packaging and crackers were originally.

Quite expensive really for what they are.  Anyway I decided to take off the cheap gold ribbon and spice the crackers and the box up a bit.  I carefully removed the gold ribbon and replaced it with white organza before adding a diecut snowflake embellished with a gem stone to each cracker.  Hopefully far more stylish!

After removing the nasty sticky sale labels and cleaning the box with sticky stuff remover I fastened it with one off those fab stretchy cords and added a tag with peel off sentiment and a tiny silver charm attached with a brad.  The charm is printed with 'Made with Love' and was one from a huge pack of charms my daughter bought as a birthday extra.  She is very well trained.

My posting this week is a scheduled one and I'm so sorry I won't be around for a little while to check out the amazing entries, but please do take a look at Bah! Humbug! and the amazing work by my team mates Irene and Max.  Hope you have time to enter yourself and get way ahead on those Christmas cards.

Ann xxx