ooooooooooh I'm all sparkly!!

Yes there is glitter in my hair, on the carpet and even some on the rabbit!  How it got there I don't know, but it's all in a good cause as this week at Humbug Hall we are glittering and sparkling everything.  If you have time do pop over to the hall as alongside Max's fab creation you may even see the family heirloom tiaras being worn - you never know!  Also, as it's a new month we have a new guest designer and a prize on offer.  Please visit Bah! Humbug! to get the full story.

Card recipe...

• Green sparkly foam - oooooooh really lovely and textural - from Poundland I think!
• Huge snowman stamp by and American company but picked up at car boot sale for a pound
• Black basic card
• Fake brads made using hole punch
• Promarkers for colouring 
• and of course tons of glitter!

Challenges...

• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - bright colours
• Simon Says Stamp - sparkle and bling
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Crafty Ann's - a Christmas Song - 'Noel' and 'Let it Snow'

Have a great weekend everyone.  I'm working most of it - seem to be doing way too much of that lately.  Must cut it out - it's seriously affecting my crafting time.

Ann xxx

I'm back!...

Sheesh where did September go?  Well, I suppose I spent most of it on holiday and I must admit I had an absolutely wonderful in time in the Dominican Republic - sigh - so missing the sunshine and palm trees.  The rest of the month was taken up with washing, packing and work and it just flew by.  Thank goodness my super buddy Max was able to keep Bah! Humbug! running single handed.  I owe her big time!

Anyway, I'm back now and ready to be challenged by our weekly Christmas theme at Humbug Hall.  This week sees us thinking about the 'Navity'.  My card uses an image from a sheet I printed years ago when I was on the Design Team at Ooh la la Creations.  See if you keep your print outs long enough they do eventually get used!  The card I made at that time using the largest image on the sheet can be seen here.  For my new card I used one of the smaller images and matted it on to an embossed layer made using the Swiss Dots folder.  To get the size I had to feed the card through the machine 4 times -eeeeeeeeek!  The sentiment was printed on to one of the scraps of green card left over using my Xyron Design Runner.

Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to both join in and check out the fabulous work by my team mates.

My card is also for the challenges at...

• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• The Sisterhood of Crafters - Love that silhouette
• Celebrate the Occasion - any occasion - must use ribbon
• Shopping our Stash Weekly - Black and White plus one other colour.

Have a great weekend everyone.  I'm going to be making some Halloween cards with the ladies at work using some fabulous plastic skeletons I found at Poundland - so cool and 24 in the pack so quite a bargain.  Fingers crossed that the idea I have for using them works - if it does watch this space.

Ann xxx

Bah! Blast from the Past Humbug!...

Card making - Crafting - what's that?  Where are days going and why am I meeting myself coming back all the time?  I really don't know and as to the silly person who decided to rearrange all her craft stuff (yet again) and now can't get it all back in the cupboards or find her desk I really don't know what to say about her.

I guess by now you will have sussed why I've decided to display a 'Blast from the Past' for this week's challenge at Bah! Humbug! I'm showing two cards made some time ago, but ones which I really both enjoyed making at the time and also still like, because let's face sometimes when we look at things made a while ago they don't look too good.

Our theme this week at Bah! Humbug! is 'TEXT'. I love playing with text especially when you can use the 'o' in words to create a shaker/apperture effect as in my first 'Blast from the Past' card.

On my second card I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on thick vellum to create a frame for the text.  I haven't used that folder for ages - must use it soon.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to see what my talented buddies have been up to.

Ann xxx