The Magic of the Season

 It's the Magic of the Season (Christmas) at Allsorts this week, as an alternative to anything goes if you fancy!!

I have been a little bit naughty and recently bought some Lavinia goodies that I wanted to try out. One being a ink brush and the other the gorgeous Christmas Joy tree. The lovely fox was already in my stash and he was crying out to be included in the scene.

I inked, glittered and splattered some snow about!! 

I hope that you have a good weekend.  The forecast looks good so we have some field jobs to do. I suspect the leaf blower will be involved!!

See you soon xx

Favourite Critter at AYLI

 I am the host at 

and I have chosen the theme of Favourite Critter (and tell us why)

I have many, many favourites but my most favourite has to be Barry the bear from the, much missed, Stamp Fairy. He really is the most versatile bear, he gets up to all sorts of things and added to that he is lovely to colour!! I have chosen to showcase him in spook wear as it's October 31st!!

I made a slidey type card, you know the ones with the carrier bag mechanism inside. Well I had trouble finding a carrier bag as bags for life are the thing these days. I did locate one eventually, in the spare room, that was holding old Christmas baubles!! It's been sliced up now though and the baubles have been put elsewhere!! Barry was coloured with Promarkers and matted on some suitably halloween coloured card and I added some sequins to jazz him up a bit. BOO was die cut using a Crafters Companion alphabet.

I do hope that you will share your favourite critters with us.

See you at the weekend xx

Christmas Pinks with the Cuties

 We are all pink and girly at

the theme is Pink Christmas

I made a sweet card using a digi from the long ceased Little Claire and some pink paper from a paper pad that came from The Range.

The little sentiment is from Clearly Besotted. Not too much colouring necessary on this one but plenty of festive sparkle though!!

That's another added to the Christmas card pile!!

See you soon xx

Anything Cute at Allsorts

Another Saturday and another new challenge at Allsorts.

The optional theme this time is CUTE.

That was no problem at all for me with my love of cuteness.

I still had some scraps left over from my Simple Stories pad that I used for my folio for last weeks' challenge so I used a piece as my inspiration. I printed a Digistamp Boutique image (I still miss that lovely range of images!!) that I coloured with Flexmarkers to match the stripey paper.

 I framed the paper with a couple of scraps that, I think, really makes the striped paper "pop". Liquid pearls were perfect for the mistletoe berries and Stardust Stickles, as usual, for the snow.

I am looking forward to seeing your cute makes this week xx

Patterned papers at Allsorts

 My name is Sarah and I have an unhealthy addiction to Patterned Papers!!

It's my turn to host so that's why the optional theme at Allsorts challenge this week is

Patterned Paper, it will also be lovely to see your Anything Goes projects too.

This year I've been dabbling in other kinds of papercrafts so for this challenge I made a folio to hold photographs. I found a lovely instruction sheet to accompany a You Tube tutorial by Karolinas Krafts and, using a WHOLE paper pad from Simple Stories, made this.

It's full of pockets, little tuck spots and hidden flaps. Such fun to make.

Three AALL and Create stamps

 

I hope you will support my theme and join in this week xx