Some quick christmas cards

Here are some quick cards I have made today the images are all from Pollycraft.

Christmas Countdown Calender

Here's my version of the Christmas countdown calender.

random cards

Here's a couple of cards I have made not sure if I like the fairy one, and the tatty teddy one was made after seeing rusty's tatty teddy cards a few days ago.

Pollycraft challenge 25 - 5 s words

This weeks challenge was to use at least 2 of the 5 s words - SNOWFLAKES, SPARKLE, SPOTS, STRIPES, SWIRLS. With a bonus of a free download image if you include all 5.

The image is one of the friday freebies,layered on to coredinations whitewash card which I have run throught the cuttlebug in the swiss dots folder and sanded to bring the blue through. Not sure what the background paper is as it was sent to me in a stash swap as was the snowflake brad. The ribbon is from anitas and the silver netting is from my stash. The swirls were cut on my cuttlebug again cordinations card sanded and finished with blue pearls and the greeting was sent to me in a stash swap.

I have managed to use all 5 in my card I have stripes on the background paper, snowflakes are also on the background paper and there's a snowflake brad, the card behind the image has spots, I used swirls on the sentiment and lastly sparkle on the fur trims on the image.

Wags n Whiskers stamps

Have a look at this fab new stamp company the characters look so cute. There's going to be a blog hop to celebrate the launch in a few days.

Crafty place ATC swap

Here is the ATC and card I made for Gemma this month the theme was red & green.

Crafty Place swing card

Here's the card I sent to Furrypig for this months challenge which was to make a swing card or a card with a swing on it.

MSE scrap paper and die cut challenge

The challenge this week was to make a card using bits of scrap paper and diecuts.

The paper is didtressed vines from funky fairys they were bits left from another card I made I joined the pieces with some silver peel off borders. The image is a new stamp I bought called Lily - I Love Shopping by Rachelle Anne Miller and coloured with promarkers. The flowers are the new eline ones from prima coloured with promarkers, I have highlighted the embossed bits with a silver gel pen and finished with silver card candy. The swirls are cut from a left over piece of mirri card with my cuttlebug.

Fab ATC from Gemma

Here's the fab ATC I recieved from Gemma today for the swap on Crafty Place.

Quick cards

Here's some quick cards I have made today for the box to go in the school office, when I was sorting some cards out I realised I had no male cards to put in it.

Quick cards

Here's some cards I made quickly last night using my new nesties.

The first one is a wallet to hold some photos.

Matchbox advent calender

Here's my first attempt at making an advent calender out of match boxes. The papers I have used were from the christmas stash swap on crafty place, the brads were from my stash and the sides are decorated with peeloffs. So 1 down 2 left to do now I just need a good use for all the hundres of matchs I have got lol.

Ribbon Tub

Look what my fab hubby made me today.

A ribbon tub, he drilled holes in the sides of a candy floss tub for the ribbon to come through.

Birhday cards I recieved

Here are the lovely cards I recieved from some ladies on MSE.

The forever friends is from Bunbun, the next one is from Flourgirl, The dragon one is from Padster who also sent me loads of stamped images, and the ribbon one is from Oap. The ones in the bottom row are from Melissa to say thankyou for her baby gifts and the fat page she sent me for last months swap.

Thankyou ladies they are all fab and it was lovely to recieve some handmade cards.

anniversary card

Here's a quick card that I made tonight for my Dad's wedding anniversary on Tuesday almost forgot it.

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Thankyou card

I made this card to say thanks to a lovely family who helped us out when we broke down last weekend in the middle of no where.

MSE challenge

Marg set this fortnights challenge over on MSE to make christmas cards to be sent to the troops to send back to their family.

Thankyou cards

This was a sample to see if the bride and groom liked the design. I have used my cuttlebug to emboss the card for this thankyou card. The stamp was one I got from my local shop stamped in silver and mounted on some silver card. A piece of blue ribon tied at the top and finished with a silver heart brad and then the ribbon at the bottom should be blue to but didn't have enough to make this sample card so used white again finished with a brad. Just got to make 40 of them now.

Wedding towel cake

I have made this as a present for the wedding we are going to at the weekend. The bottom tier is 2 bath sheets, the middle tier is 2 bath towels and the top tier is 2 hand towels though I had bought flannels to but must have forgotton those lol never mind. Inside is a vase and 2 candles. The blue flowers are coloured with my promarkers as it looked a bit blank with all white flowers against the white towels. Hope the happy couple like it.

Funky Fairys challenge 30

This weeks challenge was this lovely sketch to follow. The papers are FF distressing vines. The fairy is a greetings farm one mounted on some patterned vellum. The large flower and the ribbon were coloured using my promarkers to match.