Party at Which Craft in Doncaster...

Had a lovely couple of hours today helping Paula and her team celebrate at Which Craft in Doncaster.  She is celebrating being established for 10 years and to mark the event there were all kinds of 'make and take' activities, glasses of champagne and a tombola too.  I actually won some fabbie Christmas bauble buttons and of course I had to try the champagne.

The money raised by the 'make and takes' is going to be donated to local charities such as Bluebell Wood so it was all in a very good cause as well as a celebration.

I did the make and take with Sandy, who always seems to have some real cool gadget type cards to make.  She had chocolates too just incase our energy levels were running low.

As you can see I made a cool stand up/fold up card.  The penguins are from a clear set by Stampendous - I was tempted, but resisted as I already have some cute penguins.  I think the instructions for this type of card are probably on Split Coast Stampers somewhere.  It's a card style that would make great table setting place cards.  I can't wait to try out some more versions.

This photo shows the stand up mechanism slightly better.

Think my 'make and take' card fits the bill for the challenges at...

•  Die Cut Dreams Christmas Challenge - furry things (ouch - think baby penguins are more downy than furry, but I might get away with it!)
• One Stop Craft Challenge - Snowflakes (check out the stamped background and gem embellished peel off)
• Raise the Bar - Bundle up (my penguins are bundled up in their scarves and hats.)
• Pollycraft - Cute and Cuddly
• Crafty Emma - Animal Antics

Got to go to work tomorrow till Monday so unfortunately more versions of this type of card will have to be put on hold.

Take care everyone.

Love and hugs 

Ann xxx

Bah! Humbug! Day ... seeing Stars...

 

Yeah it's Friday and that means a new challenge at Bah! Humbug! This week we want to see stars!  Think I had better rephrase that before tempting fate as none of the team want to see the kind of stars you get after a head bump, but we do want see them on Christmas projects.  I got quite carried away with this theme and made two cards.

My first card uses that adorable Woodware clear stamp set that I've been using on and off all week.  I just think this polar bear and baby looking up at the star is just so magical.  I can't believe it's took me so long to get round to using it.  Perhaps I buy too many stamps - eeeeeeeeek - no it can't possibly be that!

The misty tree paper is from a Christmas pack by Dovecraft and perhaps not so obvious in the photo is the frosty acetate that I've embossed with Swiss Dots to add texture and even more mistyness without hiding the trees too much.

Additional materials...

• riboon and gems from stash
• Marianne snowflake die
• Blue/green card
• 6.5" square card from Square card set by QVC 

Additional challenges...

• Sketch and Stash - sketch (new stash snowflake die - old stash - polar bear stamp set)
• Charisma Cardz - anything goes
• The Pink Elephant - aqua - designer paper and an embellishment
• ABC Christmas Challenge - trees

Here comes card number 2 also with the theme of stars.  This time I used a new Marianne die bought special for the theme and to be truthful now I'm not so sure whether I like the die or not, but oh well love the fir branch that came in the same pack.

The sentiment is computer generated and I found it on the verses section on the Imag-e-nation site.  The designer paper was some in a magazine I bought at the NEC earlier this year.  

This card is for the following challenges...

• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - the sketch (had to miss out the embellishment at top right as it just wouldn't gel)
• Fab n Funky - use a quote or long sentiment as focal point
• Ooh la la Creations - use a sentiment as focal point

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.  I'm going to my local craft shop's birthday party tomorrow so that should be good plus I have to pass Poundland on the way there.  Eek that always costs me a fortune!  Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to check out Max and Irene's creations and Anne, our guest designer's work too.

Ann xxx

Variation on a theme...

Same idea - same stamp set, but a different word.  After seeing Lorraine's fab entry for our challenge at Bah! Humbug! I just had to use the word 'snow'.  I love Lorraine's use of a snow man in the letter 'O', but I needed to use my polar bear Woodware stamp set again for a forum challenge I'm involved in.

Again the glittery letters were cut out on my Cricut.  I don't know whether anyone else has had this problem, but I found I had to cut the S at the next size up from the other letters to get the proportion looking right.

For details on materials used please see my earlier post.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• A Spoonful of Sugar - Anything Goes
• Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - Text Only
• Winter Wonderland - Monochromatic Christmas Card
• Alphabet Challenge - unused stash (Had this polar bear stamp set for ages and not used and then suddenly 3 cards in a week!)
• Aly's Sunday Challenge - Sparkly and glittery

More polar bears will be appearing on a card for the new challenge at Bah! Humbug! on Friday, but don't panic our new theme is neither the Artic or polar bears you'll have to wait and see to find out our new challenge.  Irene and Max would kill me if I gave the game away early!