Cute & Christmassy

 It's the final Christmas Party for 2024 at

and we would love you to join us and bring with you a Cute and Christmassy card.

Here's mine...

I heat embossed the lovely Uniko Framed -  Snowflakes stamp for the background. Stamped up a super cute doggo from PB Wintertime Cheer, coloured him and his tractor with Promarkers and fussy cut. I found some super sparkly holographic sticky paper in my stash so backed the card with that and die cut a lovely little Tonic sentiment to finish it off. Oh and used some stickles for the snow too!! I think that Jackson will be getting this one as he LOVES tractors.

Thank you for taking the time to pay a visit today. See you later in the week xx

Christmas at Allsorts

 We are feeling festive at Allsorts Challenge today where the optional theme, chosen by Lynn, is

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Having had a little spend at LAvinia I then went to Aall & Create and bought a lovely die set that I just had to use. What better to team it with than Santas Elves from MFT that come out every Christmas.

The paper is a real pad from LOTV that is still available but in digi form here. I coloured the little elf with Promarkers and filled all the other mats with other stamps from the set. 

I hope that I have tempted you into entering as there are

2 prizes of AALL and Create A 6 stamps

That's all from me today. I hope that you have a lovely weekend outside of the UK. For those of you here, I Hope you all stay safe from harm in the path of storm Darragh xx

Winter Flowers & Fauna

   

 Hello friends. We have a wintry optional theme at Allsorts this week

Winter Flowers & Fauna chosen by Brenda and the prize is this

2 prizes AALL and Create A5 stamp sets

I love being on this Design Team they are such an inspirational bunch and I have tried to extend my  repertoire!! It's working and these days I don't always go for "cute".

I have had the Cheery Lynn poinesttia die for many years and normally use it as an embellishment on the aforementioned "cute" cards. This time I wanted it to be the star so cut it in some lovely satin board that came from Joanna Sheen a long time ago and stuck them on a heat embossed hessian Wow stamp (also very old). The die cut sentiment is one of Sue Wilsons. To finish off I splattered gold watercolour paint. The card is actually a lovely clotted cream colour but the glare from the gold has lightened them somewhat.

As we kiss goodbye to November I thought I would share some pics of the last couple of weeks where we seem to have had ALL the weather thrown at us!!

Sunny days

Frosty Days (and kisses)

                            

Snowy Days

Rainy Days

Thank you for paying me a visit today. I hope you have a good weekend xx

Gold, Silver or Glitter

 Hello everyone. 

The new theme at As You Like It is a perfect one for Christmas makes, so that's what I did.

I did a little bit of inky smooshing first and added some powdery shimmer that I can't remember the name of!! I used a Crafters Companion stamp and die bauble set and heat embossed the stamps in silver and gold, used mirri card  or glitter card to die cut the shapes and layered them up. My good old LOTV Christmas sentiment stamps were used for the sentiment. I made ten in all for my work colleagues.

See you on Saturday!!

Sparkle & Shine

 Morning All!! Only a month to go but there's time still to add to your festive cards.

The new challenge at

is Sparkle and Shine so I dug out a gorgeous glitter card and holographic mirror card to make this...

I used a super cute stamp from MFT and coloured him with Promarkers. Mounted him inside a snowflakey die frame (Lawn Fawn I think). the sentiment is a Sue Wilson one from several years ago and one that I've used a lot. I layered it with some black card so that it stands out a little bit.

I hope that you will come along and join the party!!

Thank you for stopping by and paying a visit, it's much appreciated xx