More Christmas

I still have a couple of Christmas cards that I didn't manage to blog, so I thought I'd share this CAS one with you today.

The papers were from my Simon Says Stamp December card kit, the little bird is from a Lawn Fawn stamp and die set and the sentiment is a Clearly Besotted stamp.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

CHNC Challenge 157 - Starting all over again?
CHNC Challenge Extra for December - Anything Christmas Goes
Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Anything Christmas
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - A Liitle Bird told me ...
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge - Christmas
Christmas Card  Challenge 5 - Anything Goes
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 12 - Winter/Christmas
Southern Girls Challenge - Christmas wishes

Thank you so much for joining me today and many thanks to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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Let's Party

It's time for our mid challenge reminder at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and our theme this time is Silver and/or Gold hosted by Sue Drees, you still have until 11th January to join in our month long challenge.

I used my Simon Says Stamp Falling Stars Stencil and embossing paste to create the star background - I added silver glitter whilst the embossing paste was still wet.  The silver glitter card stock is from the DCWV Neutrals stack and the sentiment is from LOTV, stamped in silver and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The heart button and twine are from my stash.

We have two fabulous sponsors for this challenge:

House-Mouse Designs®

Offering one lucky player a $25 Gift Certificate

and

Joanna Sheen Ltd

Prize:  £10 Gift Voucher

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Delicious Doodles Challenge 68 - Let's Party!
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge 55 - New Beginnings
Clear it Out Challenge - Warm Fuzzies and Texture (embossing paste)
Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 192 - Happy New Year
Daring Cardmakers Challenge - This Little Light of Mine (star background)
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge 156 - Something New (new stencil/New Year)
PanPastel UK Challenge Blog Week 52 - Anything Goes

Red Carpet Studio Challenge 60 - New Years Eve (new stencil/New Year)

Thank you for popping in today, don't forget to take a look at the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge blog to check out the fabulous DT inspiration and join in with our month long Silver and/or Gold challenge.

My Favourite Five Christmas Creations

The lovely Debby is hosting her fabulous 'My Favourite Five Christmas Creations' challenge again this year and I thought I would join in the fun and share my Five Top Picks with you.

I don't know why but I thought it would be easy, well it certainly was not - it took me absolutely ages to choose.  There is a link after each card to take you to the original post.

Red and White Christmas

Let it Snow

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas

Christmas Poinsettia

Well that's it - My Favourite Five Christmas Creations, I think!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and leave a comment, your company is much appreciated..

Pauline
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A gift for Christmas

This is a mirror that I decorated to give to my eldest son's girlfriend for Christmas.

I apologize for the reflection in the mirror, my craft room ceiling and lampshade are much better than the reflection of me and my camera that I had originally!

I bought the mirror on ebay and the flowers are from Craftwork Cards.  I sprayed the flowers with Spray and Shine from Crafter's Companion to make them a little more hard wearing and then attached them to the mirror with my hot glue gun.

I would like to enter this mirror into the following challenges:

Miriam's Crafting Blog 7th Monthly Challenge - Home Made Gifts

Sparkles Monthly Challenge 51 - Anything but a Card

Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge 56 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Paint - Inspired by Anything Goes

That Craft Place Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart Challenge 3 - Anything Goes

Melonheadz Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

LEJ Designs Challenge 84 - Anything Goes

Little Claire's Monthly Challenge 40 - Make a Gift!

Thank you so much for joining me today, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to my latest followers and say a huge thank you to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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All dressed up ...

It's time for a new challenge at Winter Wonderland and this week our theme is Fashion- we want to see you cards including clothes, bags or shoes that are fashion related.  This can be a non Christmas card, we think you all might need a break from the Christmas cards for a couple of weeks.

This is my card using a fabulous image and papers from the Crafter's Companion Frou Frou collection.

I have coloured my image, which is from the stamp set called Two Of A Kind, to match the papers using a selection of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers, the sentiment is from the same stamp set.

For this challenge we are sponsored by Crafters Companion

Who are offering one lucky winner a £10 voucher to spend in their online store.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

CASology Challenge Week 76 - Party

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Pick of the Year (Two By Two)

Party Time Tuesdays Challenge 152 - Anything Goes

Passion for ProMarkers Challenge 228 - Include a Sentiment

Paper Pretties Challenge 290 - Ring in the New Year

Whimsy Stamps Monthly Challenge 66 - Party Time!
Charisma Cardz Challenge 49 - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies Challenge - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 301 - Anything Goes

Sassy Studio Designs Challenge 209 - Ring in the New Year

Make sure you pop over to the Winter Wonderland Challenge blog and take a look at the fabulous DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our Fashion challenge - don't forget it can be a non Christmas card this week.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and leave a comment, your company is much appreciated..

Pauline
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Penguin Wishes

This is my card for the Less is More Challenge 151, we can choose any previous challenge as our theme and I have chosen Challenge 147 - Christmas - Use a Bird.

This is the card that I made for my youngest son this Christmas, it is quite similar to the card I made for the original challenge, you can see it HERE if you would like to take a look - only this time I used a Clearly Besotted Penguin stamp and die.  I have used my favourite Memory Box Merry Christmas die and papers from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Christmas Project Book.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Less is More Challenge 151 - Use any previous challenge (Challenge 147)
Dream Valley Challenge 72 - Christmas
Hobby Cutz Challenge 30 - Anything Goes
C ... is for Challenge 13 - Modern Xmas
Ladybug Crafts Challenge - Keep it Clean (and Simple)

Thank you so much for joining me today, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to my latest followers and say a huge thank you to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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Little Robin Redbreast

These are the cards that I made for my Mum and Dad this year, I made them one each as Dad is now in a nursing home.

Both cards are very similar, I have used two gorgeous Robin images - sorry I don't know where they came from.  The papers are from the Docrafts Little Red Robin Collection and the sentiments are LOTV stamped and embossed with silver embossing powder. The punched border is an X-cut punch and the ivy is a Die'sire die cut.  The poinsettias have been made with a Spellbinders die and the paper bows are a Lil' Inker die.

This is Dad's card:

and this is Mum's:

I have decorated the inside of both cards the same:

I would like to enter these cards into the following challenges:

Card Mania Challenge 36 - Winter Wonderland
Lexi's Creations Challenge 105 - Snow

My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 12 - Winter/Christmas

Ooh La La Creations Challenge 146 - Winter Wonderland
Songbird Challenge 30 - Merry Christmas Everybody
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Cold and Frosty
The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge 59 - Christmas or Hanukkah
CHNC Challenge 156 - Last minute cards or any not shown already
Crafts-Too Challenge You - Natural World with Any winged creature

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and leave a comment, your company is much appreciated..

Pauline
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Happy Birthday Matt

This is the second card that I made for my eldest son's 18th Birthday, this one is a little more simple than the first one.

The papers are from the Crafter's Companion Camden Town collection and I have inked the edges with distress ink.  The tags are a Lawn Fawn die, the stars are an X-cut die, the Happy Birthday Matt was cut using Britannia Dies and the 18 is a Die'namics die.  I have heat embossed the 18 and the stars with clear embossing powder to make them shine and stand out a little, the ribbon is from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Let's Craft and Create Challenge 85 - Let's Celebrate
The Male Room Challenge - Celebration

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 300 - Celebrations!
Charisma Cardz Challenge 49 - Anything Goes
Delightful Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge - W for Whatever You Wish
Brown Sugar Challenge 73 - Anything Goes
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge 155 - Anything Goes
Drunken Stampers Challenge 155 - Embossing (heat embossed stars and numbers)
Polkadoodles Challenge Week 51 - Anything Goes/Christmas Birthday

Thank you so much for joining me today and many thanks to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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Happy 18th Birthday

It was my eldest son's 18th Birthday yesterday and this is one of the cards I made for him.

I always find making cards for my eldest difficult, but cards for his 18th Birthday have to be among the most difficult I've ever made.

I used an Indigo Blu stencil and silver embossing paste to make the musical notes and cut the three circles with my Lil' Inker dies. The stars are an X-Cut die and the 18 was cut with Die-namics dies.  I computer generated the sentiment and the headphones are also from Indigo Blu.

I have decorated the inside of the card,

and made a matching tag.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations Challenge 72 - Anything Goes
Crafting from the Heart Challenge 2 - Anything Goes
Love to Create Challenge 6 - Anything Goes
My Craft Creations - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine Challenge 119 - Anything Goes
Everybody Art Challenge 258 - No Christmas Cards
LEJ Designs Challenge 84 - Anything Goes
The Male Room Challenge - Celebration
Through the Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge 67 - Something Old (papers and dies)

Thank you so much for visiting today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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Monster Birthday - Take 2

This is a card that I made with an image that I coloured up some time ago, I have gotten into the habit of making two different cards using the same image and this is the second one that I have made with this Bugaboo image:  Birthday Monster - Sign.

This one is a little more CAS that the other one that you can find HERE if you would like to take a look.

I coloured my image with a combination of ProMarkers and FlexMarkers and my papers are from the Teresa Collins - Every Day Moments collection. I have added 3D Crystal Lacquer to the balloons and some ribbon, twine and a button from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Emergency Crafters December Challenge - Anything but Xmas!!!!
Crafty Girls Challenge 8 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Challenge 211 - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge 37 - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations Paint Challenge - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create Challenge 50 - Anything Goes/Optional Twist: CAS
Here Come The Boys Challenge 66 - Anything Goes for the Boys!
Creative Fingers Challenge 15 - Anything Goes (papers, ribbon, button and twine all old stash)

Thank you so much for joining me today and many thanks to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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Keeping Warm

It's time for a fabulous new challenge at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and our theme for this fortnight is Silver and/or Gold hosted by Sue Drees, for my card I've used a decoupage image from Joanna Sheen's House-Mouse Christmas Project Book.

My papers are from the Crafter's Companion The Snowman paper pack and I used silver Mirri card stock.  The scalloped circle is a Spellbinders die cut, the border is a Fiskars edge punch and the snowflakes are a Simon Says Stamp die.  To embellish I added some ribbon, silver twine and a sentiment from my stash.

We have two fabulous sponsors:

House-Mouse Designs®

Offering one lucky player a $25 Gift Certificate

and

Joanna Sheen Ltd

Prize:  £10 Gift Voucher

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Challenge 72 - Christmas
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge 54 - Happy Holidays
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge 154 - Christmas Chaos
Delicious Doodles Challenge 66 - Hairy Legs!
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 197 - Christmas using Non Traditional Colours
ABC Challenge - B for Blue, Bows and Bling
Allsorts Challenge Week 237 - Snowflakes
Dream Valley Challenge 72 - Christmas
Lexi's Creations Challenge 105 - Snow
PanPastel Challenge Week 50 - Snowflakes

Thank you for popping in today, don't forget to take a look at the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge blog to check out the fabulous DT inspiration and join in with our Silver and/or Gold challenge.

Christmas Poinsettia

It's time for a new challenge at Winter Wonderland and this week our theme is Ribbon and Pearls, this is my card using a gorgeous Poinsettia image from Jayne Nestorenko's Decoupage Sheets and Papers from the Papermania First Noel Collection.

I layered the image onto a gold circle, followed by a red circle and then a gold scalloped circle, the border is an X-cut edge punch and the corners are a Spellbinders die cut.  Pearls have been added to the corners and the berries on the image.  I made a chocolate box bow with some ribbon from my stash.

This week we are sponsored by Iva Nova Chest with a fabulous goody bag for our lucky winner.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew Challenge 51 - Holly or Poinsettia
Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Anything Goes - Christmas
Ribbon Carousel Challenge 88 - Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday Challenge 65 - Cutting Corners (hand cut decoupage)
Creative Inspirations Challenge 244 - Traditional Christmas Colours!
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge 69 - It's Christmas
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge 12 - Winter/Christmas
Scrapper's Delights Challenge 13 - Christmas Time
Rhedd and Rosie's 21st Challenge - Use Old Stash (card stock, ribbon, pearls all old stash)

Make sure you pop over to the Winter Wonderland Challenge blog and take a look at the fabulous DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our Ribbon and Pearls challenge.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and leave a comment, your company is much appreciated..

Pauline

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Christmas Wreath

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and this time the theme is Anything Christmas but a Card.  To give everyone a little rest and time with their families over Christmas this will be a month long challenge ending on Monday 6th January.

This is a bit of a sad post for me as I have made the difficult decision to step down from the design team, I've had a fabulous time creating alongside some wonderful ladies but I really feel the need to take a bit of a break - I will be guest designing for several of the challenges next year though, so not a complete break.

I have made a Christmas wreath using some fabulous Poinsettias from Craftwork Cards and a wreath that I bought from our local £1 shop last year and didn't get around to doing anything with.

I  made some rolled roses to add to the poinsettias and sprayed everything with Spray and Shine to make them a bit more hard wearing, the sentiment is also from Craftwork Cards.

We have three fabulous sponsors this time:

Whoopsi Daisy



Prize 2 sheets of images

Robyn's Fetish



Prize 4 digital images

Rick St Dennis



Prize 3 digital images

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Stampin with the Dragon - Gifts & Decorations
Unstampabelles Challenge 30 - Christmas
Dream Valley Challenge 71 - Anything but a Card
Anything But A Card Challenge 30 - Anything you can dream up
Polka Doodles Challenge Week 49 - Make a gift for Christmas
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 196 - Anything Christmassy but a Card

Make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog and check out the DT projects - some more of our new DT ladies are joining in this week, we would love for you to take part in our Anything Christmas but a Card challenge.

Thank you for calling this morning, please come back and visit again soon.

Pauline
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Snowflakes

This my entry for the Less is More challenge this week, it's a colour challenge - Metallic Element plus One Other Colour.

I have heat embossed a fabulous sentiment stamp from Stamps by Chloe with platinum embossing powder for my metallic element, my other colour is Pink.  The snowflake paper is from the DCWV Christmas multi stack and the ribbon and snowflake charm are from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Less is More Challenge - Metallic Element plus One Other Colour
CAS on Sunday Challenge 23 - Christmas!
Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge 74 - Clean and Simple
That Craft Place Challenge - Christmas
Addicted to CAS Challenge 28 - Snowflakes

Thank you so much for joining me today, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to my new followers and say a huge thank you to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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We three mice

It's time for our mid way reminder at the  House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and our theme for this fortnight is Anything Christmas hosted by Tracy, for my card I've used a decoupage image from Joanna Sheen's House-Mouse Designs Christmas Eve Decoupage Sheets.

The striped papers are from Joanna's House-Mouse Designs Backing Papers and the papers with the holly on are from the House-Mouse Triple CD, everything has been layered onto Kraft card stock.  I cut the holly embellishment from the striped papers and clear embossed them to add a little shine.  The sentiment is from the decoupage sheet and the button and twine are from my stash.

Don't forget we have two fabulous sponsors again this week:

Simon Says Stamp

Prize: $25 Gift Voucher

and

Di's Digi Downloads

Prize : $12 Gift Voucher

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Natalie and Amy's Challenge 15 - Cute and Cuddly Christmas!
Cards Galore December Challenge - Christmas

Card Makin' Mamas Challenge 77 - Merry Christmas

Creatalicious Challenge 57 - Christmas Time
Feeling Crafty Challenge 23 - Christmas

The ABC Challenge - A for Almost Christmas

Little Claire's Monthly Challenge 39 - Christmas Theme
Mema's Crafts December Challenge - Winter or Christmas or Holiday

My Time to Craft Challenge 226 - Cute & Cuddly Christmas Animals

Thank you for popping in today, don't forget to take a look at the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge blog to check out the fabulous DT inspiration and join in with our Anything Christmas challenge.

The Joy of Christmas

I'm a bit late posting this today, I was rather poorly this morning - had a really bad headache, felt sick and one minute really hot, the next freezing.  I managed to take my youngest to school and then came back and went straight to bed, I didn't wake up until 1 pm. I feel a little better now but still have a headache and feel rather washed out - just what I need at this time of year, I don't have time to be ill!

This is a CAS Christmas card that I have made to pop in the post to a friend, I have quite a few of these to send so I am trying to keep them simple to avoid extra postage.

The image is from the Ooh La La Creations Christmas Presence CD, I love the whimsical images on this CD.  The small piece of paper is Pink Petticoat along with the sentiment and I have added a button and twine to complete my card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Designs Challenge 115 - Christmas Sentiment

LEJ Designs Challenge 82 - Christmas is Coming

Digi Sketch Challenge - Sketch and/or Christmas Theme

Lexi's Creations Challenge 104 - Christmas

Robyn's Fetish Challenge 188 - Christmas Cards

The Corrosive Challenge 188 - Happy Holidays
Paper Pretties Challenge 287 - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Stamp 'n' Doodle Challenge - Christmas is coming!!!

Thank you so much for joining me today, I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that takes the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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Merry Everything

The Less is More Challenge this week is 'Sparkle' and this is the card I have made.

There is certainly plenty of sparkle isn't there.  I have been playing with my embossing paste again, this time I used a translucent one and added glitter whilst it was still wet, the mask that I used was in one of my Simon Says Stamp Card Kits.  The snowflakes are both Spellbinders dies and the sentiment is a stamp from another of my Simon Says Stamp Card Kits.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Less is More Week 148 - Sparkle
Crafty Card Makers Challenge 105 - Clean and Simple
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge 120 - Sparkle & Shine!
Through The Purple Haze Challenge - Christmas Makes
CAS on Sunday Challenge 22 - Winter Theme

Thank you so much for joining me today, it is so kind of you to take the time to visit my blog and leave a comment.

Pauline
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Bird Chorus

It's time for a fabulous new challenge at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and our theme for this fortnight is Anything Christmas hosted by Tracy, for my card I've used a decoupage image from Joanna Sheen's House-Mouse Triple CD, have you seen the new Gruffies and Happy Hoppers CD - it looks brilliant.

My papers are from the DCWV Christmas multi stack and the sentiment is from the CD.  I have embellished my card with some Lawn Fawn die cut hearts that have had a liberal coating of 3D Crystal Lacquer.

You can see some of the decoupage layers in this photograph.

We have two fabulous sponsors again this week:

Simon Says Stamp

Prize:  $25 Gift Voucher

and

Di's Digi Downloads

Prize :  $12 Gift Voucher

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Creative Craft Challenge 24 - Non Traditional Christmas Colours
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge 152 - Non Traditional Christmas
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge 103 - Hearts
Jo's Scrap Shack Fun Friday Challenge 28 - Get in the Spirit
Totally Papercrafts Challenge 195 - Ho, Ho Hollidays
CHNC Challenge 153 - Light it up
My Sheri Crafts Challenge 124 - Funky Christmas
Sparkles Monthly Challenge #50 - Animals
Heck of a Challenge December - Colourful Christmas

Thank you for popping in today, don't forget to take a look at the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge blog to check out the fabulous DT inspiration and join in with our Anything Christmas challenge.