Happy Christmas Auntie...

Eli may be only 6 months old, but already he knows that Grannie Annie will make him all the cards he needs to send out at a very good price - FREE!.  He's even conned me into buying all his gifts too, but he's just so cute I really don't mind at all.

This card is for him to send to Auntie Laura, who is quite famous for being rather fond of pink and bling so I'm hoping she will love this 8" x 8" card.

The stamp is a Nellie Snellen cutie that I treat myself to last week from the Joanna Sheen Special Offers section.  I'm always popping in there as you can pick some amazing bargains.  At the moment she has some fabulous silhouette stamps on offer at way less than half price.  I coloured the stamp with my new Fleximarkers alongside original Promarkers.  I must say I love the new brush tip.

Other materials used...

• DCWV papers from way back when
• organza ribbon and gems
• Xyron Design Runner to create personalised sentiment
• snowflake dies 

Challenges...

• Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog - Christmas Wishes
• Crafty Ann's Challenge - Bingo and my line is glitter, presents and ribbon (the present is the star for the squirrel)
• Raise the Bar - Christmas
• Hanna and Friends - the sketch.

Thank you for looking and for all the very kind comments.  It so great to know that somebody out there likes what you create.

Christmas hugs - only 22 days to go!

Ann xxx

Friday again...

Oh my the week's are just flying by and I really don't seem to have much spare time at all.  I really need to have some hours for some fun crafting soon.  

At Bah! Humbug! this week our theme is Cute Critters - I'm thinking there will be thousands of entries as it's a theme everyone will love.  For my card I chose to use a House Mouse decoupage sheet by Joanna Sheen.  I'm not over keen on printed decoupage but this set came free with a mag subscription so I thought I would give it a go.  The images are really large so unless you're doing a massive card they don't need much else adding.  This card is an A5 so as you can see the image almost fills the front.  I used Pepper and friends papers to go alongside the image as they seemed to match up well.

A Marianne die cut holly branch and tag with ribbon completes the card.

Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to see the fab work of our guest designer and my pal Max.  

Have a great weekend.

Ann xxx

Yeah, it's Friday...

and I'm working all weekend - Booo!  Hiss!!

However, before I go I must show my card for our challenge at Bah! Humbug!  This week our theme is Fabric.  Hmm, something a little different and maybe more challenging perhaps.  I had so many thoughts for this including altering one of my thousands of bags for life into something far more Christmassy, but in the end I decided to make a card for a crafting friend.

My original idea was to use an organza bag as part of the card and fill it with charms for her to use in her craft projects, but the bags I had were either too big or too small so in the end the bag has just one item in it - a wine glass charm ring.  This way she can either use it on a glass or pull it apart and use the tiny corkscrew (how cute is that?) and beads on cards, etc.  I think she will love it.

To attach the bag I punched two holes in the front of the card and then threaded and tied the bag strings inside.  Then I added a ribbon to jazz up the front and hide the fact I made the holes too big - must do better next time!

I matt and layered the other papers on top after cutting an apperture in the front of each one and added a die cut frame to draw the eye to the focal point of the bag.  Bling and silver peel offs and sentiment finish the card off.

Other challenges...

• C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Unusual Christmas Card
• Charisma - Snowflakes

Have a good weekend everyone whether you are working or playing - it's all good!

Ann xxx