My Time to Craft Day...

I am so enjoying my time as guest designer at My Time to Craft.  This week's challenge of all white except the image really stretched my brain as I had loads of ideas, but couldn't decide which one to go with.  In the end I used my Silhouette machine to create this star shaped card and then added a cute stamped Penny Black hedgehog to the middle.  
The fancy cut out part of the star was attached to the main body with foam strips to give it depth.  A bit fiddly, but worth it I think.
The image was coloured using Spectrum Noir pencils and then chalked around the edges.  I seem to be doing quite well lately in getting ahead with my Christmas cards.  Hope to continue as last year was a bit hectic to say the least.

Additional Challenges...

• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Christmas
• ABC Christmas Challenge - a Christmas song lyric - Star of Wonder
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - white on white - colour your image only
• Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Christmas animals
• Natalie and Amy - Christmas

Have a good weekend everyone and do pop over to MTTC to see the fab projects by the rest of the team too.

Annie xxx

Aud Sentiments Day...

This fortnight's challenge at Aud Sentiments is a Bingo type one where you can choose three items from one of the lines to use on your card.  I chose to use a digi stamp, flowers and embossing.  
We are being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and I have used their 'Little Girl with a Stroller' digi stamp in my project.

Other challenges...anything goes at

• Crafters Cafe
• I love Promarkers (image coloured using them)
• Inspiration Destination
• Doodle Pantry

Ooops forgot to say I used the sketch at Sketch Saturday to plan the design.

Have fun whatever you are up to.  Party day today for my grandson - bring on the cake and jelly!

Annie xxx

Triceratops on the prowl...

and looking very angry.  I think this one must be protecting it's young as it is definitely about to charge at something or someone.  This is another card made for my gorgeous dinosaur loving grandson who will be 4 on Thursday.  Oh my how time flies?
Again I've used the Krafty Hands dinosaur CD for both the image and the backing paper.  I use Craft Artist to plan my design on the computer and only print out the elements and size of paper I need.  The dark green circle, the scalloped circle and the red lacy circle were all cut out using dies and then layered up.

Challenges... none of which are featuring dinosaurs as a theme!!

• Brown Sugar - anything goes
• Fairytale Challenge Blog - birthdays for children
• Simply Papercraft - anything goes.
• Crafty Sentiments - for a man card

Enjoy the sunshine everyone.

Annie xxx