Friday, 19 November 2010

It can't be Friday already...

Sheesh, where are the weeks going?  Time is just flying by and it's getting nearer and nearer to Christmas.  I know I've said this before, but thank goodness I've been a part of Bah! Humbug! over the last year, because we may not have a cake yet or a hundred and one other essentials, but at least the cards are well and truly underway. 
Plus I've got my Christmas hat too!  Have you checked out my new profile picture? 
I shall be wearing it to do all my commenting for Bah! Humbug! from now on.  Both my team mates, Max and Irene, are hoping to get one too.  Irene says I look like Maria out of 'The Sound of Music'.  I think she's jealous cause they haven't got them at her Poundland store.  LOL!
Our challenge this week is entitled 'Lovely in Lilac' and we would love to see creations in many different shades of lilac.  Now one of the Bah! Humbuggers! (see card above) got the wrong idea completely and just did a card with a touch of lilac.  Oh dear, I really must pay attention in future!
Anyway no worries as my card did give me chance to use my lovely new embossing folder, by Papermania, given to me by my dear friend Susan.  I love it.  Thank you so much Susan.  Think I will be using this one often.
My card is a very easy one to create and is a style of card I have used many times before.  It's larger than the normal cards of this shape as I have some envelopes that measure 9" x 4.75" which I was given by my local Hallmark shop.  They were throwing away all the old card stock and envelopes.  How wasteful is that?  Anyway they allowed me to salvage all the envelopes and some of them have been so useful.  This particular size is great, because it allows enough space for the whole width of embossing folder and enough to matte and layer too.
I've used lilac gems to embellish the embossing and a sizzix bauble tag die cut for the sentiment.
My card is also for the following challenges...
Have a great weekend everyone and do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to check out the samples by my team mates and our super talented Guest Designer Pat.
Ann xxx
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Friday, 12 November 2010

Bah! Humbug! Day... Rudolf and Reindeer...

Friday has come round again.  I just can't believe how fast the weeks seem to fly by and Christmas is looming every nearer.  Thank goodness I have been making cards each week for the Bah! Humbug! Challenge since the beginning of the year.  I still can't believe that this year there will no last minute rush to get things finished.  So smug I could almost smack myself!!
This week our theme is Reindeer either the famous red nosed variety or maybe an elegant deer such as mine.  When I first started to think about this challenge I was going to make some Reindeer Poop bags similar to the ones I did last year as I need to do some for the Christmas Fair at Laura's Nursing Home, but this year I'm adding raisins instead of marshmallows and I haven't really had chance to get them yet.

Oh okay confession time - I ate the raisins, but I am gonna buy some more - honest!
Anyway the less said about my chocolate addiction the better!  
On to more important things.  My reindeer contribution to this week's challenge was just such a quick and easy creation I felt like I had cheated big time.  
The gold metallic reindeer is a die cut from a Create and Craft set that I won in a recent competition.  The white embossed and glittered background was one of the cards from the same set.  I'm afraid I cut the 'pretty' part of the card off and used it as you would use designer paper matting and layering onto silver mirri card and then on to a base of gold swirl embossed card.  To finish the card off I added a gold sentiment peel off and three gold 'mock' brad peel offs in the top left corner.  
In the words of the famous meerkat 'Simples', but while it may not be one of my favourite cards I do quite like it and much as I love making cards you just can't spend a whole morning or day on every card.

In addition to Bah! Humbug! my card is also for the following challenges...
Have an amazing weekend everyone and do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to see the work of my team mates and our brilliant guest designer Pat.
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Oh Baby...

Yeah, this week I'm one of the Guest Designers at the Raise the Bar Challenge and the theme is the fun title 'oh baby'.  New Baby, Christening or maybe baby's first Christmas were all ideas that came to mind, but as I had bought the full sheet of LOTV stamps that features this cute baby at the NEC last week I decided to do a new baby card for a boy.  Already got a couple of baby girl cards in my box so now I'm covered for all eventualities - well maybe not twins!
As I was putting the card together I was thinking about how fab the Cuttlebug embossing folders that feature words are and how it's such a shame that so many of the words get covered up when we add our images and other papers and embellishments.  This line of thought got me thinking about cutting the image out and mounting it on the embossing, but that wasn't quite the look I wanted.  After quite a bit of head scratching it dawned on me that if I mounted the image on acetate and then framed the acetate in the blue card the embossed writing would still be visible and the frame would mean that there was still an eye catching focal point.
As you can see in the close up picture although the frame covers some of the words you can still see enough of the writing to get a sense of the meaning.  I think I'm going to give this a try out with some of my other word folders as I really like the effect.  The frame was made using a Spellbinder die.
My baby card is also for the challenges at...
Have a fab Friday everyone and do pop back later as it's Bah! Humbug! day too so I'll be adding my latest Christmas card.
Ann xxx
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