Round and Round...

 

I'm sneaking in again at the last minute over at Lost Coast Design! The challenge ends this evening, but I couldn't share this card until today!

I do love these old Silent Movie images from Viva Las Vegas Stamps. Rather than colour her, I decided to stamp and mask, and have her 'pop' against a circle of Distress Inks to match the painty, stenciled background layer. 

The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is such a fab challenge blog AND they offer prizes from their AMAZING online store. This really is a great little site and deserves more support, so why not head over and take a look!

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #80 - Reminder

 

It's Reminder time over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge, where I'm delighted to be hosting my pals The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

This month we're having heaps of fun playing...

And I'm thrilled to see just how many of you are enjoying this crazy, play-it-how-you-want-to theme! There are some great cards in the gallery.

For my Reminder cards I've got these to share:

I had enormous fun creating this card using a stamp set from an older Clearly Besotted set (apparently, no longer available) and a VLVS Flying Saucer. The speech bubble was printed out on my PC. It's not often that my cards entertain or amuse my hubby, but this one did raise a chuckle!

Card #2 is a very different style of card for me.

I had some Gelli prints from a while ago in my stash and decided it was time they saw the light of day. The big snowflake is from Colorado Craft Company Big and Bold - Warm wishes Snowflake. The lovely edging is from Poppystamps and is called Frozen Border. This is an older die and doesn't appear to be currently available, however, this one is similar. 

I was amazed to see this beautiful card over on Michele's blog. Great minds think alike!

I hope you'll come and join the fun!

Last Minute dot Com

 

I'm just coming in under the wire for the current challenge at The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.

I've had plenty of time to come up with something for this fun challenge, but after trying a few different ideas this was the only thing I liked! 

Doesn't this good boy from Jane's Doodles look fabulous in his Christmas jumper? 

I used a tiny piece of leftover paper for the jumper, so am linking up for Challenge #467 in The Snippets Playground.

I'm also linking to another new-to-me challenge called Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge. They are currently on Challenge #51... So I'm obviously a little slow on the uptake!

Hope you all have a happy and creative day! 

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #80 - It's Christmas Jim, but not as we know it!

Challenge #80, is kicking-off today and I'm delighted to be joined by the adorable Edna and some of my very best crafting buddies... The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

This month we're playing

It's Christmas, Jim, but not as we know it!

Now, this is one of those challenges where you can play the theme in a few different ways. I'm not sure where I found this phrase, but I thought it would make for a fun theme for our challenge. Rumour has it that it's a festive corruption of a Star Trek quote...

and there are quite a few different ways in which you can play this challenge - as demonstrated by The Sisterhood over on the Challenge post.

My first card for the challenge is this one!

I decided that the Reveal for this little Santa was quite unexpected and fun. He's a little Clipart character I found while looking for something completely different!

My second card is a very different colour combo for a Christmas card. Its copper and black, and I'm not 100% sure if I'd go with these colours again, but it was fun to do something very different and I'm grateful to Gail for suggesting this dramatic colour palette. 

I'm entering this card at the current Double D Challenge, which is Oh Deer! This is a new challenge to me and I'm delighted to see some familiar names playing there. I like their mood board, and so does Rudolph!

Meanwhile, back at Christmas Kickstart, there's a lovely prize for one lucky RANDOM WINNER curtesy of the lovely Rudolph and his RANDOM RAFFLE.

For this month's prize he's chosen this cute set from Woodware. 

I hope you'll all come and join the fun!

The Card Chain Challenge Reveal - October 2023

Hello and welcome it's time for the October 2023 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

We had 34 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month. Our total number of cards exchanged thus far by Card Chain Challenge participants is 4,168.

And a new player joined our chain this month, so it's 'Hello' to Barbara in Switzerland.  

 

All the cards exchanged this month used at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

 

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Bears / Balloons / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Something Fluffy / Spotlight Stamping

Here's what I sent to  Viv in UK.

I've had this little bear for ages, but have never inked him up before. He's from a Tracey Hey set called 'No Words'. Cute, isn't he! 

My sender for this month is the lovely Jeanne in Minnesota. 

Isn't her card just a masterclass in CAS perfection!

If you want to join in the fun you can sign up for the Card Chain Challenge.  All sign ups run in advance, from the 7th of the preceding month to the 6th of the exchange month.  All reveals happen on the 2nd of the month after the exchange is complete.

Playing at Color Hues

 

I was feeling at a bit of a loose end this morning, but all that changed when I found that Light Blue and Purple were the colours over at Color Hues - The Color Challenge. 

I was in the mood for a little bit of SNARK. 

The gel print was already in my fodder stash, the VLVS ladies were already stamped and so this card came together very quickly.  

There are some lovely cards for this challenge that have been created by their very talented DT, so why not head over and take a look!

Pinch, punch and first of the month to you all!