Happy Christmas

I want to wish all my lovely followers a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS.  It has been great to have your company over the past year and reading your lovely comments has given me much pleasure.

Have a wonderful time whatever you might be doing over the holidays.

Much love.

Pauline
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Red and White Christmas

I've made this card for the new Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog and the first challenge them is 'Christmas Wishes'.  This card is my youngest son's Christmas card, he loves cute animals so I thought this would be perfect for him.

I always find boy's cards difficult, especially choosing colours and embellishments so I kept it simple with just two colours, a couple of buttons and a charm.  The image and papers are all from Joanna Sheen's Furry Friends CD and the sentiment is computer generated.  Everything is backed with Core'dinations card stock and the image, corners and sentiment attached with Collall 3D glue to add some dimension.

For the inside of the card I re-sized one of the inserts from the CD and backed it on the same Core'dinations card stock.

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

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Christmas Wishes

Moving Along with the Times - Cats and Dogs

My Time to Craft Challenge 169 - Winter Pals
Cute Card Thursday Challenge 195 - Stripes
2 Sisters Challenge 70 - Kids Christmas
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 65 - Anything Christmas (Tip - Don't buy lots of different coloured ribbons, string, raffia, flowers etc., buy white  or natural ones and colour them to match your project with ProMarkers or other Alcohol Pens you will then have a perfect match and save yourself a fortune.)

Thank you for looking.

Pauline
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Rock Star

Hi all, well another day closer to Christmas.  I think I'm about ready now - or is that wish full thinking.

This is a card that I made for my son's 16th Birthday, he is really into his music and is lead singer and plays guitar in a band called 'Talking to Amy' check them out HERE, they're fantastic, but I'm probably a bit biased.

Anyway back to the card

It had to have a musical theme didn't it.  The papers are Hot off The Press and the sentiment and letters are from Double Sprinkles of Kraft, a collaboration between Nikky Hall and Sharon Armstrong, I re-coloured the letters with ProMarkers.  The Guitar image is from Delicious Doodles.  I added Crystal Lacquer to the Guitar and letters, full details of everything I have used are listed below.

This is the inside of the card:

 

Card Recipe

Image:  Delicious Doodles - Electric Guitar

Tools:  Spellbinders - Large Pinking Circles, Classic Ric Rac Edgeabilities,

Darice Embossing Folder

Embellishments:  charm and raffia from stash

Sentiment:  Double Sprinkles of Craft

 

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

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Sketch
Here Come the Boys Challenge 17 - Rock 'N' Roll
The Ribbon Girl Colour Challenge 14 - Red, Black and Cream
The Crafty Pad Challenge 152 - Anything but Christmas
Just Tracys Crafts Challenge - Celebration (my son's 16th Birthday)

Thank you so much for looking today, I hope to see you again soon.

Pauline
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A Gift

This is my entry for this weeks Top Tip Tuesday, I nearly missed it this week, I've been so busy with my son's 16th Birthday.

This is a gift that I am going to give my Mother-in-Law for Christmas:

It's a picture made using one of the decoupage images from Joanna Sheen's Faye Whittaker CD.  You can't really see the decoupage, it's really difficult to photograph something with glass in front.  I chose a Faye Whittaker image because I've previously made MIL cards using this CD and she always loves them.

This was my second attempt at making this picture, I cut out all the pieces and layered them up using Collall 3D decoupage glue (on the first attempt I made the picture so high that the glass wouldn't fit on top, so I had to print everything out again).

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

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 64 - A Gift (Tip - if you are putting a decoupage picture in a picture frame make sure you don't make the decoupage so high that the glass will not fit properly)
Mami Doodles Challenge 40 - Altered Art/Home Decor
Anything Goes Challenge 56 - Anything but a card
Ooh La La Challenge 95 - Anything but a card
Totally Gorjuss Challenge 111 - For Someone Special (Mother-in-Law)

Thank you for looking.

Pauline
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Birthday Wishes

We all say that men's cards are the hardest to make, but teenage boy's have to be the most difficult ever.  I struggled to make this card for days, it's for my 13 year old son to give his 16 year old brother.  In the end I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out, I just hope he likes it.

The papers and the sentiment are from Polka Doodles Pretty Tuff CD and the letters and numbers are from Double Sprinkles of Kraft a collaboration between Polka Doodles and Willow Designs.  Everything is matted onto Kraft card stock.

This is the inside of the card, I've decorated it to match the front:

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

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 78 - for someone special

The Corrosive Challenge 139 - Anything EXCEPT Christmas

Allsorts Week 134 - Blue and brown

Glitter Geeks Week 28 - Anything Goes

Card Crafters Circle - Celebration

That's me finished for today, I need to get organised for the birthday celebrations tomorrow.  Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Pauline

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Walter in Green

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

Hazel would also like to see some red and green in your design.

I've been playing with the Walter and Winnie does Christmas CD again and this is my card:

The image and the papers are from the CD, I just inked around the edges and layered everything onto some green card stock.  Walter and the trees have been coloured with ProMarkers and then cut out, I used Collal 3D decoupage glue to raise him up a bit along with the trees that have been edged with glitter, I then added a couple of  flowers topped with a button from my stash.  Quite a simple card really.

This is the inside of my card:

I have decorated it to complement the front.

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, this time you have a fortnight to get your entries in as we are having a little break over Christmas.  The prize is a voucher to spend in the Willow Designs Shop,  so come on have a go.

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

Passion for ProMarkers - Celebrations
Scrap- Creations - First Snow
Papertake Weekly - Favourite Colour (Green)
Glitter Geeks Week 27 - Let it Snow
Crafty Purple Frog - It's Cold Outside
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge 18 - Monochrome
Sweet Stampin' - Things with Wings
Crafty Calendar - Cold and Frosty
Allsorts Challenge Week 133 - It takes two (two colours)
By the Cute and Girly - Let it snow

Thank you for looking.

Pauline
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Christmas Elf

This is my second DT card for the Crafting for all Seasons Challenge, the theme this week is Christmas Cards.

We have two great sponsors again, Meljen's Designs and The Stamping Boutique and this card  has been made using the 'Smoochie the Elf' image from The Stamping Boutique:

I coloured the image with ProMarkers and added some glitter to the hat.  I cut the image out with a Spellbinders Labels Eighteen 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 from NitWit Collections and everything has been layered onto Core'dinations card stock.  The embellishments are from the same NitWit Collection and the card candy is from my stash.

This is the inside of my card, I have decorated it to complement the front:

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

Crafty Ann's Challenge 55- Bingo (Presents, Tree, Green)
Prairie Fairy Fridays Challenge 67 - Beat the Winter Blues - use Blue
I did it Creations Challenge 85 - Santa's Getting Ready
Lollipop Crafts Challenge 61 - Happy Holidays
Hooked on Craft Challenge 14 - Christmas + punch or die cut

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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