Merry Christmas!

 Wishing all my Blogland buddies and their 

loved ones a very merry Christmas!

Gnome for Christmas.

 

I'm sure that with Christmas so near there are many things I should have been doing, but today my craftroom was calling and I felt the need for a play!

I didn't sleep well lastnight and the idea for this little card 'popped' into my head in the wee, small hours. Isn't it fun? I loved stamping the Line Of Trees stamps by TH for Stampers Anonymous in different shades of green chalk ink and then colouring these irresistible little characters from Jane's Doodles Merry Gnomes. I wonder what they are saying to each other? 

I decided this card looked a little 'flat' so I added some snow...

I'm linking-up at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity as their current challenge is Anything Goes with Gnomes. What a fun challenge for this time of year. I'm also playing along at Daring Cardmakers as their current challenge is Trim the Tree and I've got me a whole forest on this card!

Happy crafting!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #200 - S is for Snarky!

 

It's a proud, proud moment for us girls over at The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers as we reach Challenge #200! As always, we're doing it in fine style with an awesome graphic from our Graphics Goddess Sister Lee. 

I can't tell you what an amazing crew these gals are - witty, supportive and full of love, the sisterhood are just a fabulous bunch and I'm so grateful to be one of their number.

As you can imagine we've had heaps of fun with this theme AND we have a brilliant Queen of Snark on board to help us celebrate.

Here's my card for the challenge. For some reason a sarcastic rabbit just hit the spot for me!

I used sets from Picket Fence (Driving the Karma Bus and Peach and Piper) and a gorgeous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil called Scribbles to make my card. 

We're delighted to have a sponsor on board for this challenge, and it's a great company for those of you who love great images and snarky sentiments! It's Lost Coast Designs.

Lost Coast Designs is a rubber stamp company based in Spokane Valley, WA.  Along with its sister company, Carmen’s Veranda, it offers a sophisticated line of unique red rubber and clear polymer stamps in an extensive range of styles, including vintage, collage, gothic, shrine, angel, and many others, to excite your creative impulses.  

Please come on over to the Sisterhood and help us celebrate in style!

Let's Squash It! Challenge #15

 

It's the final challenge of 2021 over at Let's Squash It! and it's YOUR CALL! Yes, we'd like you to look back across the year and pick a technique that you enjoyed to use for your card OR why not show us an embossing folder technique that you love and we haven't featured?

One of my favourite techniques is to use watercolours or inks and lots of water with my EF. I really like this Sophie Guilar EF called Texture Impressions by Sizzix which the lovely Gail gifted to me recently. I paired this with a MFT sentiment die and a unnamed sentiment and it was job done!

We've got a lovely guest with us and I know you'll love what she and Gail have each created for this challenge, so please come over and join the fun!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #57 - If It's Christmassy, Link it Up!

It's a little quiet over at Kickstart Central as all our elves are home with their loved ones, and it's just Rudolph and me waiting for Santa!

Yes, it's the final challenge for 2021 and what a year it's been. The challenge theme for December is:

Challenge #57 - If It's Christmassy, Link It Up!

This is pretty much a Anything Goes Challenge, but if you need a little inspiration then why not look back at the work of the wonderfully inspirational elves who've guested at Christmas Kickstart during the past year.

Here's what I've made for this final challenge of 2021.

This dancing Santa by Birdie Brown for MFT has to be one of my all time favourite stamps. I originally bought the digital image version from Yoshi's shop, but finally took the plunge and bought the stamp a couple of months ago and am so glad I did.

 And I LOVE this cute tree-shaped tangle of kitties and pups, also from MFT.

Wooo hooo for an inky background and red stamping - so quick and easy for last minute makes.

Rudolph is here with his final Random Raffle of 2021, and he's done us proud again with this lovely prize from Sizzix! 

I really like all the little Christmas bits and pieces you get with this adorable Thinlets set. 

Please head on over and play along at the final Christmas Kickstart Challenge of 2021.

Card Chain Challenge - November 2021 Reveal

Hi there, it's time for the November 2021 Card Chain Challenge Reveal! 

We had 26 fabulous participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month, bringing our total number of cards exchanged by Card Chain Challenge participants to a rather impressive 3,487!

 

We had these fab options to play with for this challenge:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options: Snowflakes/Polar Animals/Friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options: Book Paper/Pop Up

I sent Ellie in Illinois this little number:

And was thrilled receive this fabulous card from Gundi in Germany - bet you wish she'd been YOUR sender this month! Isn't it a beaut?

There's still a few days in which to join our CCC chain for December, where we're playing Tic-Tac-Tic-Tac-Toe. Hope to see you there!