The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #112 - Reminder

 

Over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge I'm so happy to welcome back our July elfin: Lynn AKA Linby from Crafty Linby.

Challenge #112 - Grace Us with Your Presents!

Lynn picked a fab theme and so we'd like to see gifts and presents galore this month on your cards. 

In the previous post I mentioned that Lynn had kindly made a second card to inspire us, and I'd love it if you headed over to take a look.

Here's a reminder of Lynn's first card...

For my 'Inspired by...' card I really wanted to 'steal' Lynn's use of DP to frame the image, but just couldn't find the right mix of papers to even come close to achieving a similar look.

The gifts on the sledge immediately reminded me of LOTV stamp Sledging Party. This stamp doesn't seem to be available any longer, but there are some gorgeous digi stamps to be found here on the LOTV Etsy shop.

I've not added a sentiment, but may do later when I decide who I'm sending this to. This is such a sweet image, but believe me it takes ages to figure out which leg belongs to which child! 😆😆😆

Rudolph has chosen a gorgeous prize for his July Randon Raffle. 

You can see Lynn's cards and enter the challenge by heading here. 

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #99 - Christmas Critters

 

There's a brand new challenge over at The Christmas Kickstart where I'm delighted to welcome a our new elf Dani from Dani Doodles. 

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Dani has chosen a fun theme for us to play this month

Challenge #99 - Christmas Critters

Here's what Dani made to get the party started...

You can find all the details about Dani's cute card over on her Instagram Account. I love the little mouse in a tangle of fairy lights. I'm sure this would be me if I didn't always leave the tree trimming to my husband!

I broke out some LOTV loveliness for my first card. 

For my second card I decided to create a festive trio of dancing cats from a favourite Jane's Doodles set. 

I volunteer at a Cat Rescue and often colour the cat images to look like our residents. Big boy Bruce has the starring role on this card, although in real life he's a shy guy who likes his basket.

Rudolph has a a sweet prize for his Random Raffle prize this month and he's offering some adorable critters to one lucky random winner.

Dani and I can't wait to see what you create for our new theme and very much hope you'll come and join the fun!

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge

So, November it is! Not long now until it's Fa La La La La all the way!

We've got a FUN challenge over at Christmas Kickstart this month where I'm joined by one of my favourite people: the lovely Gail from CraftyNomad.

Our Theme for this month is:

Wise Men Three

I thought I'd struggle with this challenge, but actually it's proved to be great fun and I was surprised just how many stamps I found in my stash that matched the theme.

My first card features a trio of gorgeous images from LOTV. Sadly, this set is as old as the hills and no longer available, but you can still find beautiful LOTV digis here. 

My second card is a fun one using a very cute stamp from Little Claire Designs. Once again, it's an oldie and one I love to colour as the cats are so beautifully drawn. 

Rudolph's Random Raffle Prize for this challenge is this sweet little penguin set: 

 

Gail and I both hope you'll come and play along with our challenge!

LOTV Loveliness

 Hi guys, it's so hot here in the UK that I decided to hide indoors and spend the day in my craft room. I've had quite a few commissions to work on recently, and forgot to take pictures of most of them! However, here's one I made earlier, and remembered to photograph.

My friend's friend is now a Great Grandma, and so she asked me to make her a card.

I haven't inked-up this cute LOTV image in years, and I really enjoyed using this sweet stamp once again. You can still purchase LOTV stamps and images here. 

It's Make Your Mark time over at Addicted To Stamps and More, so I thought I'd play along!

Happy crafting, guys. 

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #76 - Reminder

We're in delightful company this month over at Christmas Kickstart Challenge as we play Gingerbread Treats along with Carol from Just Me:c. 

Carol has very kindly made not one, but two beautiful cards for our reminder post and I know you're going to love her witty, and rather yummy, creations!

Here's a little reminder of the card, and the gorgeous tag, Carol made for the Challenge launch post.

I always like to base my reminder card on our elf's card by way of a little thank you gesture, and also because it helps me create something I wouldn't usually make. I was so blown away by Carol's beautiful work that I had no idea how to make my 'Inspired by...' piece. I had a sudden light bulb moment when I focused on the list of delicious Christmas treats on the Bakery board. After much rummaging in my stash I came up with this!

Completely different to Carol's card, yet very much inspired by it! I had so much fun putting this together and obviously, she's mixing gingerbread in her bowl! The main image is Agnes from Kraftin' Kimmie, and I've paired her with a LOTV friendship recipe stamp. The other stamps are from Jane's Doodles. Somehow I've created a card using stamps from a group of companies that no longer exist in their original form!

I also made this little card, again using that adorable Jane's Doodles Gingerbread Man stamp. 

Rudolph has a gingerbread-themed prize for his Random Raffle for this challenge...

  

At time of writing we only have 4 participants in this fun challenge. Carol and I very much hope that a few more of you will join us, especially as it's only 163 days until Christmas! 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #61 - From My Gnome to Yours

 

It's Challenge #61 over at Christmas Kickstart! I'm delighted to be joined by my buddy Gail AKA Crafty Nomad who has once again agreed to wear the elf hat and inspire us with a fabulous card!

Our theme is:

Challenge #61 - From My Gnome to Yours!

We'd like to see a gnome or multiple gnomes on your cards for this month, please!

Gail has created a fabulous CAS card to inspire us, so please head on over and take a look. 

Here's what I made. Just for a change I went with a circular card.

I really like this little gnome from LOTV. Sadly, I think he's sold out now, which is such a pity. However, Rudolph has only gone and bagged that sweet little gnome guy as our Random Raffle prize for this month so if you play along you'll go into the draw to possibly win this cutie!

Please come and join Gail and me as we play with the gnomies for April!