Christmas Fairy

It doesn't seem possible but this is the last Crafting for all Seasons Challenge before Christmas and surprise, surprise we've all been making Christmas Cards.

We have two great sponsors again this week, Meljen's Designs and The Stamping Boutique and this card  has been made using the gorgeous Holly Christmas Fairy image from Meljen's:

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and added some glitter to her hat, dress and wings.  I then cut her out with a Spellbinders Labels Fifteen die and inked the outside before mounting it on a mat made by drawing around the outside of the die and cutting it out.

The papers are Berry Merry by Jennifer Ellory, they were free with Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine and everything has been layered onto Core'dinations card stock.  I cut the sentiment from a piece of Willow Designs backing paper and mounted that on Core'dinations to match, the ribbon is from my stash.

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

Sketch Saturday Week 185 - Sketch
One Stop Craft Challenge Week 161 - Traditional Christmas Colours
Meljen's Designs Challenge 88 - Use Green
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe 49 - Red/Green/Cream
One Stitch at a Time Challenge 92 - Use a Digi

Thank you for looking, don't forget to pop over to Crafting for all Seasons and take a look at the wonderful creations the other DT members have made and enter the challenge.

Please leave me a comment, I'd  love to know what you think.

Pauline

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Quick Christmas

The challenge at Polka Doodles this week is 'Quick Christmas Card', well the thing that took the longest about making these cards was cleaning up the glitter afterwards.  In total I made six cards, but I can only show you four of them as I had to get two in the post.

This is a close up of one:

The image, papers and sentiment on all of them came from one of the Polka Doodles Magical Winter Cd's, I just love these Cd's there is so much on them and they're so flexible.

I also used papers from the Cd's to decorate the inside of the cards:

I used craft base cards, glittered the edges of the papers, image and sentiment and just layered them up.  Some simple punched and glittered snowflakes are the only embellishments, the images are so detailed they don't need anything else.

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

Polka Doodles Week 49 - Quick Christmas Card
Dream Valley Challenge 22 - Christmas
Moving Along with the Times Challenge 127 - Last Minute Christmas
Paper Sundaes Challenge 99 - Anything Christmas
Paper Crafting Journey - Christmas
Phindy's Place Challenge 85 - Clean and Simple

Thank you for looking, please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Pauline
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Pretty in Pink

The challenge over at Ooh La La Creations at the moment is Anything but a Card so I thought I'd make another of my little desk calendars.  They were a great success at the Christmas Fair that I sold at earlier this month, they completely sold out, people bought them as gifts.

For this one I've used one of the cute images from Joanna Sheen's Furry Friends CD, I teamed it up with Henbury Lane papers by docrafts that have been in my stash for ages and layered everything onto some matt gold card stock.

The calendar is made in an easel card design with the calendar as the stopper.  I added a Spellbinders Floral Flourishes swirl cut from the same gold card stock and embellished it with some small pink roses, a pink bow completes the project.

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

Ooh La La Creations Challenge 95 - Anything but a Card

Just Some Lines Challenge - Handmade Gifts

Charisma Cardz Challenge 48 - No Cards

The Crafty Pad Challenge 151 - Send someone a Smile - No Birthdays or Christmas

The Crazy Challenge 97 - More than one fold (my calendar is an easel card design)

Totally Papercrafts Challenge 96 - Anything but Christmas

Scrap-Creations - Make it a present

There is still time to enter the challenge over at Willow Sketchie, pop over and have a look, the prize this week is a voucher to spend in the Willow Designs Shop.

Thank you for looking, please leave me a comment I would love to know what you think.

Pauline
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Winter Wishes

Well, another week has flown by and it's time for a new Willlow Sketchie Challenge .  This week it's Anne-Marie who has provided us with this great sketch:

 and this is my interpretation of it:

As you can see I've had fun this week and really played around with the sketch.  First I turned it upside down and then I decided to use trees and a fence in place of the rectangles.  The image is Winnie in Earmuffs from the Walter and Winnie does Christmas CD and the trees and fence are from Polka Doodles Magical Winter.  I coloured the trees, fence and Winnie with Spectrum Noir pens and then cut them all out.  I've edged the trees and fence with glitter to represent snow and mounted everything onto a Crafter's Companion Snowman card blank.

I used another card blank and some more trees to decorate the inside of my card:

Make sure you pop over to the Willow Sketchie Challenge Blog, have a look at what the other DT members have created and enter the challenge, the prize this week is a voucher to spend in the Willow Designs Shop.

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

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 63 - Let it Snow

Crafty Calendar - Cold and Frosty

Creative Card Crew - Tis the Season

One Stop Craft Challenge 160 - Let it Snow

Sweet Stampin' - Snow

Craft Your Passion Challenge 87 - Anything Goes + Glitter

Hooked on Craft - Winter Wonderland

Ooh La La Challenge 94 - Lots of Sparkle

Crafts and Me Challenge 64 - Winter (Snow/Snowflakes)

PanPastel UK Challenge 11 - The Great Outdoors

Thank you for looking.

Pauline

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Wild English Flowers

I made this card at the request of a neighbour.  She wanted to send a card to her elderly Father who lives in Australia with wild English flowers on it, well that was a challenge in itself but fortunately Joanna Sheen came to the rescue with her Jayne Netley Mayhew Collection Part 2.  My neighbour wanted a decoupage card but unfortunately this image was not in the decoupage section so I printed it several times and created the decoupage myself.  The backing paper is also from the CD and is layered onto dark green card as is the image.

I printed an insert from the CD and layered that onto the same dark green card stock to decorate the inside of the card.

As the card is for an elderly gentleman I just added some card candy as an embellishment.

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

I did it Creations Challenge 84 - Flowers
Glitter Geeks Week 26 - Decoupage
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thank you for looking.

Pauline
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Times Gone By

This is the card that I've made for the CD Sunday Challenge this week which is 'Things with Whiskers'.  I'm back to my first love of decoupage again and this lovely image is from the decoupage section on Joanna Sheen's 'Times Gone By' CD.

After printing and cutting out the image I assembled it with Collall 3D glue, I then layered it onto white card stock and then gold mirror card before finally mounting it onto an 8 inch square card base.  I followed the same process with the sentiment which is also from the CD.  The backing paper has been created from an insert on the same CD and layered onto gold mirror card.  I've added some gold ribbon and some white poinsettias from my stash to complete the card.

For the inside of my card I enlarged an insert and layered it onto gold mirror card.

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

CD Sunday Challenge - Things with Whiskers
Glitter Geeks Challenge Week 26 - Decoupage

Sugar Creek Hollow - Christmas card in non-traditional colours

Delicious Doodles Challenge 7 - Hairy Legs

Totally Papercrafts Challenge 95 - Let It Snow

Please leave me a comment, I love reading them.

Pauline
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ANYTHING GOES

It's time for another Willow Sketchie Challenge  and this week we have no sketch and no recipe it's ANYTHING GOES, so make sure you get your entries in.  You can use anything from your crafty stash and any image but of course we'd love to see something from Willow Designs if you have it.

The DT have all used the Walter and Winnie does Christmas CD and I have chosen the Dear Santa image.

I printed some snowflake paper from the CD and layered it onto silver mirror card and then onto a white base card.  I took some textured card and tore it into two strips to achieve the layered snow look and then embellished it with glitter.  I cut out the layers of the Dear Santa image and assembled them with Collall 3D glue, I then layered it onto red card stock and then silver mirror card.  To complete the card I coloured some white seam binding red to match and added a bow to the bottom of the card.

Full details of everything I have used are listed below.  This is the inside of my card which has been decorated to complement the front:

Image:  Walter and Winnie does Christmas CD - Dear Santa

Papers:  Walter and Winnie does Christmas CD

Tools:  Spellbinders - Classic Scallop Edgeabilities

Embellishments:  ribbon and glitter from stash

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

Creative Card Crew - Monochromatic

Crazy 4 Challenges - some kind of snow

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 62 - A Touch of Colour

Phindy's Place - A Sprinkling Of Snow

Lollipop Craft s Challenge 59 - b is for - Bird

One Stitch at a Time Challenge 90 - Seeing Red

Craft Your Passion Challenge 86 - Tis The Season

Paper Sundaes Challenge 97 - Winter Wonderland

Make sure you pop over to the Willow Sketchie Challenge Blog and have a look at the other DT members cards.  The prize this week is a voucher to use in the Willow Designs Shop and don't forget there is no sketch or recipe this week, its ANYTHING GOES, so come on get your entries in.

Thank you for looking, please leave me a comment I would love to know what you think.

Pauline
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