Christmas Kickstart Challenge #87 - It's a Gift!

I'm so happy to welcome Denise from The Crafty Den as our Christmas Kickstart Elf for June! 

Our theme this month is:

It's a Gift!

Nice and simple: we'd like to see a gift or gifts on your card/s, please.

Denise has created a little piece of joy for our challenge together, so please head over to the blog and take a look. Her colouring style is the stuff of legends!

I broke out some Purple Onion Design stamps for my card, which was a total nightmare to photograph and looks so much better IRL.

Rudolph's Random Raffle Prize for this challenge is a gorgeous little stamp from Lili of the Valley: 

 

Denise and I very much hope you'll come and play along in our challenge... There's only 204 days to go until Christmas!

All I want for Christmas...

 

Isn't Tofu and The Snowman from Purple Onion Designs just adorable! I thought this image would pair perfectly with a sentiment from Mama Elephant. 

You have to be quick to play at Rudolph Days Challenge as there's such a brief window of opportunity during which to enter. I was ready and waiting to create my card for Challenge #3. Congratulations to Helen (who is currently my guest/elf at Christmas Kickstart) for relaunching this fun challenge. 

I'm delighted to join the fun at ABC Christmas Challenge playing H is for Hats.

 

Finally, I'm also playing at Christmas Craft Creations where the theme for this month is non-traditional colours... I'm hoping Red and Teal are non-traditional enough for the team. 

I hope you're all having a good weekend!

Reminder - Christmas Kickstart Challenge #84

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly we reach the middle of a Challenge. Can you believe we are already half-way through?

For the whole of March we're playing: 

Get Your Grinch On!

with the lovely Meghan from Made by Meghan K. 

Here's what Meghan made for our challenge:

I was completely blown away by Meghan's card, but wasn't sure in which direction to go for my 'Inspired by...' creation. Some of this was to do with my lack of St Patrick's Day stash. Eventually, the lightbulb moment happened and I decided to borrow 'the sketch' and some of the design elements from Meghan's card. Not everything went to plan, but I think it worked out ok in the end!

I used this adorable stamp: Doggo and Mousy Winter walk POD for my focal point, and Corner Sentiments Holiday Avery Elle for the sentiment. The papers are from MFT Holly Jolly 6 x 6 paper pad.

I love the fact that we have some toads/frogs in the gallery for this challenge. I'd already thought about inking-up this adorable little guy, but couldn't work out how to use him until I remembered this big Noel die. I thought it would be fun to have him jumping across the 'O' and leaving his Santa hat behind. I coloured with my pencils for a change as I wanted him to look bright and bold. 

I doubt that the All Night Media Flying Frog is still available anywhere. I do love this versatile die: Penny Black Creative Dies Noel and how well it works for a slimline format.

I'm going to link-up the little frog over at Christmas Craft Creations where their current theme is DP. 

Finally, don't forget that Rudolph has a gorgeous stamp prize for his Random Raffle, so please come and join Meghan and me and Get Your Grinch On! 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #82 - The Midas Touch

Happy New Year!

Welcome, welcome, welcome! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and that you're ready for another year of crafting and creating. Did Santa bring you new crafting goodies? He was VERY kind to me this year!

I'm so happy to be kicking off a brand new year of Christmas card making over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge with my dear blogging friend, the very talented Linda W.

Our theme is:

Challenge #82 - The Midas Touch

We'd like to see some gold on your cards for this challenge. Not necessarily a whole card dripping with gold, but more like an accent, a 'pop', a touch of gold. You will LOVE what Linda has created for our challenge together, so please head on over and take a look!

This is my card for the challenge. I used this sweet stamp from Crafters Companion called True Friends, which was a gift from my crafting bud, Gail. It isn't a Christmas set, but I gave the girl long sleeves, warm tights and added a Wintery night sky to give things a festive feel.

This is a rather minimal interpretation of our theme, so please feel free to go for a bigger pop, touch or splash of gold on your cards if you wish.

My second card is a total, 100% CASE of a card I received a few years back from my VERY talented Sistah Toni. I had so much fun making this homage to Toni's original creation using a Christmas Darkroom Door image and super cute POD pup. Thanks for giving me the thumbs-up to share it here, Toni, and for wanting to pass along the inspiration. 

As always, our favourite deer, Rudolph, is on hand with a great Random Raffle Prize to Kickstart the prize giving for 2024. He believes you can never have enough beautiful sentiment stamps and I have to say I agree!

      

Please come and join Linda and me as we play The Midas Touch! 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #39 - Festive Sweet Treat

Welcome to another Christmas Kickstart Challenge and just look who is on board as our elf: It's Chrissie Stokes, AKA The Queen of CAS!

Our theme is:

Challenge #39 - Festive Sweet Treats

We'd like to see something sweet and yummy on your card, please! Candy canes, sweets, cookies, Christmas cocktails and any form of sweet confectionery that gives us that festive sugar-rush - all are welcome!

My card is all about one of my most favourite Winter treats: hot chocolate! 

I also made a cute tag:

The stamped images are both from Purple Onion Designs. They are real oldies and don't appear to be on sale on the site and more. I've had them for ages and always enjoy inking them up every now and then. 

Rudolph is over at Christmas Kickstart again with a lovely Random Raffle prize:

 

He's gone for something a little different this time, and I'm sure the lucky winner will love these gorgeous pearls and Lucy's gorgeous sprinkles and sequins. 

If you'd like to see Chrissie's gorgeous creation AND play along, then please head on over here to join the fun!