CHRISTMAS CARDS ALL YEAR ROUND - NOVEMBER - SANTA AND/OR ELF

 Hi everyone, here's my card for the CCAYR mid-month reminder.  Our theme is to use a Santa and/or an elf on your creations!  Don't forget you can make a card or anything paper crafty you like as long as it goes with the theme.

Our prizes this month - are

Prize No1

3 digis from

~ROBYN'S FETISH~

Prize No2

We have two prizes giving you two chances of winning - so come on and let's see your creations.  If you pop over to the Christmas Cards All Year Round site you can check out the creations from Team Gingerbread Gals  and Team Christmas Belles (this is the one I'm on - woo hoo!)

Ingredients

7" x 7" White Linen Finish card blank - Anna Marie Designs

Image - Santa clear stamp from Kanban ages ago!

12" x 12" paper from stash again bought ages ago!

Crafts-Too Presscut Dies - Rectangle nesting die

Sheena Douglass Festive Fancies Dies - Holly and Berry die

Joanna Sheen Signature Dies - 25th Dec die (love this one)

Copics and Flexmarkers

Stickles Stardust Glitter

Very ashamed to say that I've had these Kanban stamps for ages and have never used them - but I was delighted with the way they stamped, really clear and precise!  Will be getting the rest of them out and giving them a go methinks.

Anyway I'm keeping this one short - I've a few 'commissioned' cards to make for my ex-colleague pal and a few 'light-weight' ones for friends living abroad, not to mention my other DT cards and, as you all know, I'm not the quickest card maker in the world plus there's my 'degree' in procrastination - lol.

Please try and enter the challenge - your creations are also inspirational to us on the DT and we love seeing them all.

Big hugs to everyone and please take care.

Love Suexxx

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

Christmas at Sweet Stamping (Nov) - Anything Goes Christmas
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge No 390 - Christmas
Crafter's Cafe Challenge No 161 - Christmas Comes Early
Crafting Musketeers Challenge No 43 - Christmas Wishes
Crafty Purple Frog Challenge No 1 - Magic of Christmas
Cute Card Thursday Challenge No 452 - Christmas/Holidays
Double 'D' Challenge - Traditional Christmas colours
Open Minded Crafting Challenge No 11 - Christmas/Hanukkah
Sparkles Forum Challenge No 86 - Christmas is Coming
Sweet Stampers Challenge No 1 - Christmas

OSAAT CHALLENGE - NO 275 - ANYTHING GOES WITH AUTUMN COLOURS

Hi there everybody out there in blogland, I hope you are all feeling well even though it has been very soggy and cold (well at least here in Nottinghamshire)!  This is a card for the OSAAT challenge and as you can see this one is to do with autumn.  I have enjoyed myself soooo much blending Distress Inks on paper to make the colours for the die cut leaves - naturally I had ink everywhere superbly aided and abetted by the fluffy monster known as Biscuit who jumped onto my desk right in the middle of the blending procedure.  I've mentioned before that he has paws the size of coal shovels!  Needless to say I sent the maestro running after him with a wet wipe!  It was all worth it though, just look at the colours of the autumn leaves below.

Ingredients

7" x 7" Linen Finish White card blank - Anna Marie Designs
Image - 'Pumpkin' by Crafty Girl Creations at Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet
First Edition 8" x 8" paper pad - 'Falling Leaves'
Die-namics Dies - Cross Stitch Circle Stax die  
Spellbinders Dies - Assorted Leaves die
Sheena Douglass Dies - Acorn and Leaves die 
Graph'it Markers and Coloured pencils
Autumn Sentiment - by William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878
Hessian, 'twiddly bits' and red berries - stash

As usual there is a $10 prize for the winner to be used in the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

Why not join in our challenge this fortnight, you can make anything you like as long as you use the colours of Autumn or for my friends across the pond - Fall.

Lots of hugs to you all and take care in this horrible weather!

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Aloha Friday Challenge No 84 - Fall Colours

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge No 3 - Anything Goes (No twist)

Aud Sentiments Challenge No 168 - Anything Goes plus Sentiment

Brown Sugar Challenge No 224- Anything Goes 

Connie Can Crop Challenge No 52 - Pumpkin Spice

Corrosive Challenge No 11 - Autumn/Fall

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Autumnal Colours

Happy Little Stampers Challenge (Nov) - Anything Goes with Dies

Little Miss Muffet Challenge No 150 - Anything Goes

Stamping Boutique Challenge (Nov) - Fall Colours

CRAFTY CALENDAR CHALLENGE - NOVEMBER - AUTUMN COLOURS

Good afternoon friends and fellow bloggers - there's a proper nip in the air as I'm typing this so me cardigan is on!  When it gets any colder me liberty bodice comes out for an airing too!  Anyway as some of you may know autumn really is my favourite time of the year so, next to Christmas cards, I love creating cards using autumnal colours.  This is the theme at Crafty Calendar this month - so I am chuffed to bits!!  I've used a stamp from LOTV which I bought recently (Sue J please note - lol).

Ingredients

LOTV Clear Stamp - 'Hugs'
7" x 7" White 'Linen Finish' card blank - Anna Marie Designs
First Edition - 'Falling Leaves' 8" x 8" paper pad
Memory Box Open Studio - Leafy Foliage dies
Memory Box Open Studio - Stitched Octagon Layers dies
Marianne Creatives - Frame LR0279 dies
Woodware Clear Stamps - 'You Deserve a Hug' sentiment
Graph-it markers
Distress Ink pads
Gold Mist Spritz
Metal studs from stash

The little leaves took ages to do because I inked the card with various colours of Tim Holtz Distress Inks then die cut dozens of the bloomin' tiny things out and ... when they were all ready ... I thought they would look quite nice spritzed with some gold mist spray - shame I didn't think of it before I'd cut them out but hey ho!

I also used an Octagon shaped die to cut out the image and the frame around it - then I covered the whole thing with leaves - duh! - I should have used a plain old round die!  Just goes to show how my ideas/creations change humongously as they go on, no wonder my cards take ages to do!

Before I go I must tell you that we have two wonderful sponsors for November so we are giving prizes to two lucky winners!

Crafty Ribbons

Lawn Fawn

Please join in and enter our challenge, we are really look forward to checking out your amazing projects in autumnal colours.

Bye for now, just off to do some ironing - how wonderful!  Back again soon.

Lots of big hugs to you all and take care.

Love Suexxx

I would like to enter my card into the following 10 challenges -

Alphabet Challenge - R for Recipe (Sentiment, Digi/Stamp, Embossing)

Artistic Stamper Challenge (Nov) - Autumnal

Bastel-Traum Challenge No 46 - Fall/Halloween

Bit More Time to Craft Challenge No 31 - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge No 223 - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Challenge (Wk 25) - Anything Goes

Corrosive Challenge No 11 - Autumn/Fall

Crafty Girls Creations Challenge No 29 - Anything Goes

Little Miss Muffet Challenge No 150 - Anything Goes

Scribbles Designs Challenge No 46 - Fabulous Fall

CRAFTS GALORE ENCORE - NOVEMBER - ANYTHING GOES

Good afternoon fellow bloggers out there - this is my second card for CGE although I have to put my hands up and tell you that I forgot to post my first one!  I'm so sorry teamies I must have had a very senior moment or three!!!  Anyway our theme this month is Anything Goes and that's always a popular choice so we really do want to see your creations.  The amazing Nikki Burnette is offering a prize to the lucky winner, randomly drawn, at the end of the month.

Ingredients

7" x 7" Pearl finish white card - Anna Marie Designs
Digi - Fairy Stamp 'Cadence' by Nikki Burnette
'Blissful Pink' 7" x 7" paper pad - Anna Marie Designs
'Dress Shoppe' 8" x 8" paper pad - LOTV
Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Dies - Double Stitched Oval 43 die
Memory Box Dies - Kaleidoscope Butterfly die
Copic Markers (plus one or two coloured pencils)
WOC flowers and leaves
Pearls - stash
Dazzlers - Brenda's Lace and Ribbon Supplies (FB)
Stardust Stickles

You really ought to pop over to check out the cards made by my new teamies - they are absolutely amazing - I am in awe of their talent!!!  Here's the link back to the Crafts Galore Encore blog so please enter a card or creation of your choice for us all to check out.

I'm off now 'cos I have to do a bit of exercise on my Wii!  My weight is going down again (after a long plateau of going neither up nor down!) and my 'naughty' cholesterol has lowered - ta da - which means the swimming etc is working.  Can't tell you how pleased I am that something is going right for once.  Oh and my leg is on the mend, despite the fact that the skin is peeling off in strips where it was swollen - yuk!  I'm using gallons of moisturiser and exfoliating gently - coo I really sound as if I know what I'm doing lol!

So it's cheers for now and I'm sending you lots of big hugs - take care and keep warm.  Just you be careful with those wet leaves Mrs J!!



Love Sue xxx

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

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge No 34 - Fairytale/Fantasy

Colour Crazy Challenge (Wk 25) - Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart Challenge No 134 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Design Challenge (Nov) - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge No 119 - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge (Wk 44) - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenge No 143 - One for the Girls

Get Creative Challenge No 51 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge No 27 - Anything Goes

Sunny Day Crafting Challenge No 21 - Anything Goes