All I Want for Christmas Is!

It is time once again for the

Christmas Card Club girls 

to show their makes for the latest challenge

which was set by Asha.

I have gone with the theme 

All I want for Christmas Is!

I had seen this digi by Mo's Digital Pencil

earlier in the month and knew I wanted to use it here.

The Window aperature was a win I received from

Frosted Designs challenge  which was a pack

of chipboard cut outs by Scrapmatts (Australia).

The window was on one of the sheets and worked

perfectly for this card.

I coloured using Liquid Pearls

in Dark Chocolate and Onyx Pearl to give a

distressed look to it. The corner pieces were left over from

my House mouse cards and given the same treatment.

Card was cut from red card stock and the toning dp

came from a Crafts Beautiful freebie paper collection 2012.

The inside showing the acetate window I sandwiched

between the front and inside front cover

Digi was coloured with pro markers

and you can just see the stickles on the greenery 

on the mantle piece.

gold sentiment by Anita's peel offs .

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafting For All Seasons #91 Tis the season.

Shopping Our Stash #179 Use something you got free ( Design paper and chipboard).

Inspiration Destination #9 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #122 Anything goes.

Simon Says # Anything goes.

Scrappers Delights #37 Anything goes or traditional christmas.

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Sarn Era.

It's the very last ' Sarn' Rudolph Day

as Sarn is handing over the reigns next yr 

to Scrappy Mo.

Couldn't let the occasion go  without a special

selection of cards made and as I set myself the bench mark 

of 6 cards here they are.

I had it in my mind for ages to do a series 

of House Mouse Cards

using a Joy fold card design

and also to be in black and white 

but do you think I could find the ones

 I knew I had already stamped for safe keeping .

Nah! so I grabbed the 

House = Mouse Triple CD collection off 

the shelf (as  by now time  was running out)

and quickly printed out  some pre coloured digi's

and matching papers ,

(The CD does have black/white digi's

but not any  I liked).

Front of card and then the inside shown for each one.

using House Mouse  Cd ' O' Christmas Tree'

using House Mouse Cd 'O' Christmas Tree'

using  House Mouse Cd 'O' Christmas Tree'

using  House Mouse Cd 'O' Christmas Tree'

using House Mouse Cd' O' Chrsitmas Tree'

using House Mouse Cd 'O' Christmas Tree

Entering into the following challenges:

Fairytale Challenges  #105 Christmas with Animals.

Ooh-la-la  Creations  #170 Christmas.

Winter Wonderland  # Dies and punches.(Sizzix Scallops and Fiskars corner punch)

Creative Card World # Beat the rush.

Penny's Paper - Crafty #205 Anything goes.

Then just as I was putting every thing back in the boxes

I found the black and white stamped images!!

So not to be beaten here are another 4 cards

to round of Rudolph day in style.

I used just a hint of red to highlight.

House Mouse 'Joyous Noel'

 House Mouse ' Christmas Tale'

 House Mouse 'Mistletoe Moment'

This one very nearly didn't make it

cos when I coloured one of the lights it bled out!

I used a blender pen and got most of it off

and then I went and had a truly light bulb moment

and thought

why not make the lights look like they are on!!

So I did with my trusty chalks which I tickled 

round the edges of each bulb.

Sorted!!

  House Mouse ' You Can Light the Way'

Entering into the following challenges:

Rudolp Day # make more than 1 card.

Make My Monday #  black & white with a hint of red.

Stampin Sensations # Simply Christmas.

Going, going gone!

The Doc would like to point out 

that when I say flood pond

it should really be flood lake!
Isn't that a ballet?

This is the view standing at the bridge 

one end looking down the length.

Our house is tucked in the green space

where my water mark is showing. 

The waterboard let the sluice gates open 

and this is the water draining through.

and this is normal services resumed!

Rain , rain go away.

This was the view from the upstairs side window this morning.

Overlooking the flood pond that has been built to  stop 

the rest of the village from  flooding.

My water mark shows where it can come up to

on the grass outside our side fence.

Not as bad as the photo  taken below  from

the same window in July 2007 though.

Watermark shows the top of the  same railings oposite

just out of the water line!

Another piecing.

It's week 2 of my Butterfly Challenge #19

the theme is  to piece your butterflies.

Here is a card I have made 

to give you some inspiration.

This time I have used a die cut butterfly.

This one is a Signature Die by Joanna Sheen

called 'Fairy Fly 1'

I chose this die as it is a very open cut filigree design.

I cut 4 layers out in fairly thick card stock

and matted together with pva glue.

I painted using  Imagination Crafts

Silkies in 'Denim Lace' 

which gives a lovely sheen to the butterfly.

I then die cut a further 3 butterflies using up 

some coordinating papers that were in my snippets pile

and adhered them to the back of the butterfly in the 

correct aperture! 

Doing it this way gives a nice 3D effect.

I used a scallop blank card and the die cut circles 

were already in my snippets pile

Sentiment is an Anita's peel off .

Background paper is called 'Up in the Air'

and was a freebie in Making cards July 2013

I adhered the circles using 3D pads for dimension.

Now of course the inevitable happened

Loads more of those pesky snippets!

But do you see what I see? 

 Well how about  a flower

some  Cutlass swords

or maye even more Reindeer antlers

or how about some Hotlips

and designer Shoes.

After all  a  girl can never have enough shoes.

Oh yes be afraid those snippets  are out there as we speak!!

Entering into the following challenges:

Fab 'n 'Funky #239 anything with dies cuts.

Sister Act #84 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar  #121 Use 2 or more colours.

Imagination Crafts # Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop  # Use up your snippets. (I did, I did honest!)

That Craft Place # Anything goes.

Scribble and Scrap #32 Anything goes. 

Another Year, Another Elf.

This Elf had been on order since last January!

Eek  where did the yr disapppear off to.

He needed to be in his new home ready for 

mischief making on Dec 1st so I couldn't put off

making him any longer.

So here is Elf No 4

Definitely the very last one or maybe not !!!!! 

Safely delivered so let the mayhem begin.

Entering into the following challenges:
The Crafting Cafe # Not a card.
Lets Craft and Create #99 Christmas.
Natalie & Amy's challenge #26 Stitch it.
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #152 Use your snippets up (red material, gold thread,beads,bow)

Paper Pieced Butterflies.

The new theme this fortnight

for my Butterfly Challenge

which you can find here

is to

Paper Piece your butterfly/s.

These are my inspirations for you.

Remember those pesky little snippets 

I had left over a few weeks back?

Well this is what I did with them.

I will not be beat!

I used strips of ds tape onto a piece of card

and stuck the shapes down in a sort of half 

Hexagon pattern until I had used them all up.

This is what I made with the result.

I just had enough room to die cut 

3 Butterfly shapes using 

Clearly Besotted 

Butterfly Wishes die collection.

As they are quite bright I used black card

to show  them off which in turn made me think

Oriental (as one does)!

so I cut some orange strips to make a frame around the edge. 

A simple peel off by Anita's 

completed the card.

Entering into the following challenges:

Sweet Stamps #196 Thanks.

The Crafter's Cafe #91 Anything goes.

Penny's Paper - Crafty #204 Anything goes.

A Gem Of A Challenge 132 Paper piecing.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop151 Use your snippets.

On my second card

I have used a Penny Black creative die

Called Delicate Wings

To cut an aperture from a square of white card.

I then turned this over and adhered strips 

of  leftover design paper snippets in stripes

 to fill the open hole up .

Turned back over and matted to a sheet

of plain pink card stock 

which I then attached to a card blank. 

Another Anita's peel off 

And the card was done. 

Hope  you will  have time  to go and play.

Entering into the following challenges:

Clear It Out Challenge # Anything goes use from stash.

Creative Card Crew #75 Stripes.

Through The Craftroom Door. Anything goes.

Dream Valley #95 Anything goes.

Tea Bag Cards.

Time once more for the Christmas Club Card

to show our makes.

The theme is Tea Bag Fold/Origami

and set by my good friend Karen P.

who certainly knows how to challenge us!

I haven't done any tea bagging for ages

so out came my book by Kim Reygate

for some inspiration.

This card uses the triangle fold

and I have closely followed a design in the book by Kim

but adding just a few twists.

Patterned  paper was from Beautiful Crafts

2012 Christmas collection  free in their magazine.

I now have little red leaves to use up grr!

Sentiment uses Britannia  Word die

Other papers odds from stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Sister Act #83 Anything goes.

Cute card Thursday #347 Red and green.

Bearly Mine # Christmas cards.

Live and love Crafts #29 Favourite Christmas colour combination.

Crafty Calander # It's all about Christmas.

Crafty Hazelnuts challenge #203 Go green.



I couldn't  let it go at just one design though

so made another card!

This one uses the square fold .

I had this paper in my mind to use but couldn't cut

8 identical tea bag squares but I rather like

the random effect the white lines produced on the flower.

I used my own design on this card. 

Sentiment and snowflakes are Anita's outline stickers.

Paper from same book as above.

Silver card and ribbon form stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons #106 Christmas creation with ribbon. 

We Do Doobadoo#19 Christmas

Jo's Scrap Shack #66 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #120 anything goes.

Crafty Catz #255 Christmas is coming.

CRAFT #285 Christmas.

Squiggle Fly Challenge #145 Make a Christmas card.

Tear it up.

It's week 2 of my Butterfly Challenge.

The theme is to use 3 design papers

with your butterfly/flies.

 

Here is my inspiration card for you.

Nothing like I was intending to make!

I had a lovely surprise parcel arrive in the post.

These gorgeous  glittered butterflies were sent to me

by my blogging friend Maureen as she was

having a massive de stash and thought I might like them.

There was also some lovely little hessian bags in the parcel too.

Thankyou  Maureen. I will enjoy using the rest of

the butterflies up on future challenges.

As the butterflies were on my desk I decided to see

if I had any papers to match.

I had a pile on the floor waiting to go back  in the paper drawer

so I searched through those first and these 3 caught my eye.

The stripe paper had a tear down one side and I was about

to trim it down when I had a light bulb moment and decided

to leave as it was and to tear the other pieces up to match  .

So I did.!

The lace bits were in the box  with the  oddment of ribbon

 so I used those up  too.

The sentiment is a freebie from here .

 

Entering into the following challenges:

Incy Wincy Designs # Stripes.

Fan-Tastic Tuesday #61 Anything goes/twist add ribbon.

Top Tip Tuesday # 3 or more papers.

Scribble and Scrap #31  Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #150  use up your snippets (ribbon and lace bits).

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Little Miss Muffet# 98 Anything goes. 



Karate Boy.

I enjoyed my day at the NEC on Sunday.
Came back aching though.

Went  to the Osteopath yesterday who has pummelled,

stretched and twisted me back into shape but now I feel like I'm paying twice

for the goodies I bought! Lol.

 

This is a card for our eldest Grandson

 who has his  Birthday on the 24th December.

I'm trying to get everything done ahead of time!

He is very much into Karate

so when I saw this image on Mo's Digital Pencil

by 'Mo Manning 'back in the summer knew I had to buy it.

I used SU cardstock and a craft knife

to cut the centre step base .

Pleased to say I still have all my fingers and toes!!

I coloured the image using Promarkers

and part fussy cut him out.

Background was created using a textured card stock

and 'Imagination Crafts' Wall stencil with their

embossing mat through my Grand Calibur.

The brick wall was looking a bit plain until I got my

'Dovercraft' decorative chalks out and randomly

coloured some of the bricks in.

Now it looks like a proper brick wall.

All ready to be kicked down!!

Number and wording created using Britannia dies.

Son and Grandson don't read my blog so it is safe to show now.

 

Entering into the following challenges:

Love To Create #141 Anything goes.

Little Claire's #51 Shaped card theme.

My Craft Creations # Anything goes.

Ooh - La - La Creations #169 more than 1 fold.

Papertake Weekly # 2 or 4 legs.

Through The Craft Room Door #  Anything goes.

Crafting For All Seasons #90 Birthdays.

Creative Moments #55 Anything goes/celebration.

Imagination Crafts # Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #239 Something beginning with B (boy).



3 Cards, 3 Designs.

Really running late today.

This should have been posted this morning

but we had to go into town  and see about a Contract.

No,no not that kind!!

It's ok you can rest easy you don't need to be looking over your shoulder!

This was to renew our mobile contracts

which every year we have untold hassle with.

The very nice man in the shop assured us it would be

seamless this time.

If not there will be a not so very nice man on the phone

to head office demanding an explanation.

 

Anyway I digress from the matter in hand.

Namely 3 cards to showcase my

Butterfly Challenge #18.

Use 3 different design papers with your butterfly/s.

 

First up is this one made with a vintage style to it.

Blue and cream paper is by Melissa Frances 'Classic Elegance'

The dark blue and the pink lacy one from my stash but as they were

snippets I have no names on the back.

The flower is made using Spellbinders Rose Creations die.

Butterfly charm , broken chain, very old lace and pearls also from my stash.

Card design is based on one in Craft Stamper Feb 2013

by Elizabeth Borer called 'Elegance.

Stamp is by Kanban

The Cavendish ladies 'Day At The Races'

I have stamped directly onto the digi paper

which is by Raspberry Road from their  'Home Sweet Home Set.

Coloured with Promarkers very lightly as I wanted the pattern on the paper

to show through and give a sort of sepia look .

Die cut using Xcut 'Rectangle  Parenthis'.

Entering into the following challenges:

Make My Monday # Vintage.

Clear it Out Challenge # Metal.

Deep Ocean Challenge #90 Handmade flowers.

Fab 'n' Funky #236 Use 3 different embellishments( lace, pearls, handmade rose).

Vintage Utfordring #90 Use Lace. (Cream lace used  behind flower and charm).

My Time to Craft #265 Charmed I'm sure.
One Crazy Stamper # Anything goes.
Love To Create #140 Girly and lacy.

 

Second card

was inspired by a card in a magazine by Carolyne  Knott.

I have being wanting to make one of these envelope style  cards

for ages.

These 3 papers are all by Jennifer Ellory 2013

free in  quick cards magazine.

I have layere4d up using plain pink and green card stock.

envelope was created from a sheet of white card stock

and triangles cut away and folded over each other to create a pocket.

Tab  card pulls right out to add message on the back

and then pushes back inside.

Ribbon from my stash. 

 

Pansy picture , sentiment and butterfly topper
also from my stash and had been freebies at some time
in magazines.

Entering into the following challenges:

Squigglefly Challenge #144 Use patterned paper.

Fantastic Tuesday #60 anything goes/twist add one Butterfly.

Crafting By Designs # Anything goes.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #53 Anything goes with layers.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #149 Use up your snippets. (odds of ribbon).

 

Third Card

 which surprised me as being my favourite.

The colour combinations are really striking.

Burnt Siena card stock as my base.

Blue card stock cut into 3 panels

and matted using 3 different design  papers.

Top and bottom papers

'The Simply British Collection'

free in Homemade magazine.

Middle paper unknown

but another magazine freebie in my stash.

The picture is from the ' Florals and Flutters collection

free in making cards.

(This is why I never have to buy paper packs these freebies in magazines

and digi paper downloads keep me going. )

I fussy cut an extra butterfly and added blue spotty ribbon.

I hope I have inspired you to join in the challenge

which runs for the next 2 weeks.

 

Entering this card into the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Papertake Weekly # Anythin goes.

Sister Act #81 Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #118 Anything goes.