Christmas Hugs

It's time for our mid challenge reminder at the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and the theme is Anything Christmas NO RED or GREEN.  Alternatively you can enter an Anything Goes project just as long as you use a House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image.

I have used an adorable image from Joanna Sheen's Cardmaking Collection Christmas 2015 Pad to make my card and added a sentiment tag from LOTV.

I cut the image out with a Spellbinders Circle Die and the embossed background is from the Crafter's Companion Nordic Christmas collection.

Our sponsors for this challenge are:

House-Mouse Designs

Simon Says Stamp

and

Di's Digi Stamps



We also have this fabulous stamp for a third lucky winner

Make sure you visit the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Blog for full details.

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

November Rudolph Days Challenge - Christmas
Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 283 - Christmas

Paper Shelter Challenge 229 - A Christmas Card

Simply Create Too Challenge 99 - Snow/ Use Mostly White

Fairy Tale Challenge 131 - Christmas without Red/Green

Crafting By Designs Challenge - Get Ready For Christmas

Alphabet Challenge - U is for Under the Weather

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 257 - Die Cuts or Punches

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge 108 - Anything goes with a twist: use a Die Cut

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 NO RED or GREEN challenge.

Right and Left

It's time for a new challenge at CD Sunday and the theme for the next two weeks is Colours of Autumn, you must use something from a CD somewhere, however small, in the making of your card or project and give the CD credit.

I can't believe this is my last card as Guest Designer, I have really enjoyed my two months with the CD Sunday team, thank you very much for having me ladies.

I have used an image from the LaPashe The Best of 2012 CD and papers from NitWit Collections.

It is a decoupage image but I printed it a few times and cut some extra layers of decoupage along with some little items for embellishments.

I inked the edges of the image and papers and added a strip of corrugated cardboard from an old box.  The sentiment was also from the CD.

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

Allsorts Challenge Week 339 - Colours of Autumn
Star Stampz Challenge - Lots Of Layers

Thank you for calling today, make sure you pop over to the CD Sunday challenge blog and join in with our Colours of Autumn Challenge. Don't forget you must use something from a CD somewhere, however small, in the making of your card or project and give the CD credit.

Pauline
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Made in Britain

This is another of the samples that I made using the masculine themed Designer's Directory USB.

Again everything came from the USB with the exception of the red card stock.

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

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge 274 - Masculine
Crafty Catz Challenge 303 - Masculine
Kraftyhands November Challenge - Need for Speed

Crazy 4 Challenges Challenge 314 - Square card or elements

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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Car

This is another of the samples that I made using the Designer's Directory USB that was launched on Create & Craft last Monday, it is packed with over 15,000 printable designs with a masculine theme.

This card is suitable for a child and uses several images that I reduced and arranged on some dark blue card stock.

I kept things quite simple just adding a computer generated sentiment cut into a banner shape and another layer of blue paper.

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

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge 274 - Masculine

The Crazy Challenge 211 - Everything Goes

Send a Smile for Kids Challenge - Anything Goes for Kids

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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Parcel Post

Did you see the Designer's Directory USB on Create & Craft on Monday, it is packed with over 15,000 printable designs with a masculine theme.  I was asked by Craft Channel Productions to make some samples for the shows and this is another of the cards that I made.

Everything comes from the USB with the exception of the brown card stock.  I printed the image and then flipped it so that they were both facing different ways before printing a second time.

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

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge 47 - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon Challenge 317 - That's How I Roll

Kraftyhands November Challenge - Need for Speed

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge 61 - Always Anything Goes
Archi-scraps November Challenge - Transport

Thank you for calling today, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline
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Winter Birthday

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting for all Seasons and the theme for the next fortnight is Brr, it's Cold Outside.

I have used a gorgeous image and papers from the Polka Doodles Octavia CD.

The flowers and the hearts are also from the CD, the sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and the ribbon and gems are from my stash.

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

Digi Choosday Challenge Week 47 - Winter Birthdays

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 152 - Winter Birthday

Get Creative Challenge 28 - Birthday

Creative Corner Challenge - Happy Birthday

Crafty Friends Challenge 19 - One For The Girls

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Tic Tac Toe (Flowers, Free, Girly)

Karleigh Sue Challenge 6 - One for the girls

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Thank you for calling today, make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons challenge blog and join in with our Brr, it's Cold Outside Challenge.

Pauline
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Birthday Numbers

This is my card for this weeks Less is More Challenge, it's theme week and the theme is Numbers.

I've made a 21st Birthday card using my favourite Marianne CrafTables Happy Birthday die and my Die-namics star die.  The 21 is also a Die-namics die and I cut the oval piece of paper with a Tonic die.

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

Less is More Week 251 - Numbers
Creative Corner Challenge - Happy Birthday

Allsorts Challenge Week 338 - At least three die cuts

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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Be Lucky!

Did you see the Designer's Directory USB on Create & Craft yesterday, it is packed with over 15,000 printable designs with a masculine theme.  I was asked by Craft Channel Productions to make some samples for the shows and this is one of the cards that I made.

This is a twisted pyramage image from the Decoupage section, everything comes from the USB with the exception of the black card stock.

It was so difficult to decide which of the thousands of fabulous designs to work with, there is something for every occasion,

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

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge 22 - Anything Goes

Scrappers Delights Challenge 50 - Always Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge 173 - Anything Goes

Digitally Sweet Challenge 144 - All About The Title

Left of Center Creative Challenge 105 - Use a Sentiment

Aud Sentiments Challenge 145 - Anything Goes + A Sentiment

Thank you for calling today, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline
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Warm Christmas Wishes

This is my second post today, if you are looking for my Ooh La La Creations DT card you can find it HERE.

We have a new challenge at the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge and the theme is Anything Christmas NO RED or GREEN.  Alternatively you can enter an Anything Goes project just as long as you use a House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image.

I have used a fun image from Joanna Sheen's The Gruffies and Happy Hoppers CD Collection to make my card.

The papers are from NitWit Collections and the poinsettias are Sue Wilson dies with lots of glitter.

Our sponsors for this challenge are:

House-Mouse Designs

Simon Says Stamp

and

Di's Digi Stamps



We also have this fabulous stamp for a third lucky winner

Make sure you visit the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Blog for full details.

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

Crafting When We Can Challenge 108 - Don't forget the Animals

Quirky Crafts Challenge 24 - Anything Christmas
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 338 - Christmas Present

Inky Impressions Challenge 277 - Our Furry Friends

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas
Fairy Tale Challenge 131 - Christmas without Red/Green

Craft for the Craic November Challenge - Something Glittery

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 NO RED or GREEN challenge.

Winter Sled

It's time for a new challenge at Ooh La La Creations and the theme for the next fortnight is Let it Snow.  The prize for one lucky winner is 2 digi downloads from the Ooh La La Creations shop.

I have used a fabulous image and papers from the Ooh La La Creations The Shawn Jenkins Collection CD to make my card.

I decided to go a bit vintage with this card and used white paint to distress the edges of everything , I used Kraft card stock and some corrugated card from an old box.

The sentiment is a Marianne CrafTables die and the snowflake die was free with a magazine.  The ribbon is from my stash.

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

Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge 48 - Christmas/Add Ribbon

My Time to Craft Challenge 309 - Let it snow

Alphabet Challenge - T is for Tis The Season
Crafty Catz Challenge 302 - Shades of Blue

Scrap & Craft Challenge 15 - Shabby Chic or Vintage

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

Craft-Dee BowZ November Challenge - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge 8 - Your Favourite Christmas Colour Combo (Winter Blues)

Make sure you pop over to the Ooh La La Creations Challenge Blog and check out the DT inspiration, we would love for you to join us for our Let it Snow challenge.

Thank you for calling today, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline
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I've Moved ...

I found a couple more of the cards that I made for my Mum when she moved in with us, I had completely forgotten to post them!

I used the same image and papers for both cards, the image is from the LOTV English Charm Art Pad and the papers are from NitWit Collections.

I cut one of the Art Pad toppers out with a Spellbinders circle die and left the second one as it is in the pad.  I used a blank LOTV tag stamp and computer generated the words on the first one. The twine is from my stash.

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

Brown Sugar Challenge 173 - Anything Goes

Crafting-With-Friends Challenge 11 - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft Challenge 18 - Always Anything Goes

Thank you for calling today, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline
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And the winner is .....

What a wonderful response to my little giveaway, a big thank you to everyone that joined in, it was lovely to see so many of my regular followers and I hope my new followers will continue to visit often.

I have used RANDOM.ORG to select the winner and this is the number it chose:

#14 - Jane Willis

Jane would you please contact me at cotnob@hotmail.co.uk with your details so that I can pop your prize in the post.

Many thanks.

Pauline

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It's Christmas Time

It's time for a new challenge at Di's Digi Designs and the theme for the next fortnight is Cute & Cuddly.

I chose to use the cute Hark the Herald Micey Sing image and some papers from NitWit Collections.

I coloured my image with ProMarkers and added lots of glitter. The sentiment is from my stash and I'm not sure where the die that I used for the snowflake is from.

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

Inky Impressions Challenge 277 - Our Furry Friends

Creative Card Crew Challenge 100 - Sprinkle

Stampavie and More Challenge 250 - Snowflakes

Inky Chicks Challenge 59 - Christmas

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Critters

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Let It Snow

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

Thank you for popping in today, don't forget to take a look at the Di's Digi Designs Challenge blog to check out the fabulous DT inspiration and join in with our Cute & Cuddly challenge.

Pauline
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Birthday Hat

This is the final Birthday card that I recently made using one of my many Hunkydory kits.  I think this image is one of those pictures where different people see different things - when I first looked at it I saw a slice of cake on a plate, my Mum saw a hat on a hat stand, the more I look I think it is a hat!   What do you see at first glance?

The pattern was just on the top of the card stock, so I cut it in half and joined it in the middle before covering the join with a punched border.  I have decoupaged the image and decorated the inside

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

Aud Sentiments Challenge 145 - Anything Goes + A Sentiment

WordArt Wednesdays Challenge 210 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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Josephine Wall Giveaway

Joanna Sheen has an offer on in her shop at the moment, if you spend over a certain amount you will receive a free gift with your order.  As those of you who follow me will know I love Joanna's products and have most of them - unfortunately for me I already have all of the free gifts so I thought I would give this Josephine Wall Project Book with CD Rom away to one of my followers.

If you would like to win this Project Book with CD Rom then this is what you need to do:

You must be or become a follower of my blog with Google Friend Connect

Add the candy picture to your sidebar with a link back to my blog

http://craftingwithcotnob.blogspot.co.uk/

Add your link to the linky

I will post worldwide

My giveaway will remain open until 8am on 20th November when I will use RANDOM.ORG to choose a winner.

Thank you for taking part and good luck.

Pauline

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Ho! Ho! Ho!

It's One Layer week over at Less is More and the theme is Santa. I have used this fun image from the Better Not Pout Ultimate Kit available at Paper Creator's Crafts to make my card.

The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat and I have used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the edges.

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

Less is More Week 250 - One Layer Week: Santa

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 282 - WOW

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

Clear It Out Challenge - White + 1 Colour, Stash: Embossing Folder

Thank you for calling today, please leave a comment so that I know you've been and will be able to come and visit you.

Pauline
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To a Special Person

This is the final card that I made for Papercraft Essentials Magazine on behalf of Crafter's Companion, I created all four cards using the fabulous Downton Abbey collection.

The images, sentiment and papers are from the CD and I also used the Downton Abbey Champagne Saucer Die.

I think this card would be suitable for either a male or female.

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

Get Creative Challenge 28 - Birthday
The Crafty Addicts Challelnge 4 - Anything Goes/ Use A Die Cut
Crafting By Designs Challenge - Times 3 (3 small images)
Inspiration Destination Challenge 60 - Always Anything Goes
Creative Moments Challenge 81 - Anything Goes/Winter Birthday

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 152 - Winter Birthday

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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Embossed Snowflakes

The theme for the current challenge at Crafting for all Seasons is Embossing, I didn't manage to make a card for the start of the challenge but I have made one now as a mid challenge reminder.

The snowflake embossing folder is a very old Cuttlebug one and the sentiment is from Pink Petticoat.

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

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Let It Snow

Come and Get It Challenge - Winter Holiday

Alphabet Challenge - T for Tis the Season

Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge 166 - Embossing

Pile It On Challenge 95 - Any Holiday/Celebration

The Glory of Christmas Challenge 72 - Clean and Simple

Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

A Snowflakes Promise Challenge 10 - Anything Goes with a Winter or Christmas Theme

Thank you for calling today, make sure you pop over to the Crafting for all Seasons challenge blog and join in with our Embossing Challenge.
Pauline
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Birthday Treats

I am sharing a couple of Birthday cards today, both were made with Hunkydory kits.

This one was for my niece from me, hubby and the boys.

This second one was for my mum to give to my great niece, the inspiration for this one came from the design sheet that came with the kit.

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

Get Creative Challenge 28 - Birthday

Karleigh Sue Challenge 6 - One for the girls

Creative Knockouts Challenge 115 - Something To Say

Not Just Cards Challenge 26 - Always Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations Challenge 144 - Anything Goes with Twist of Feminine

Thank you for popping in today, your company is much appreciated.

Pauline
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