Festive Birds

Good morning to you all and hope it finds you well. It's time for my Christmas Card Club offering again - well it's not until tomorrow actually but I always post a day early since I have a DT card to post on Sunday.  I am off to Kenilworth this morning to the Great British Craft Show.  Hopefully Mrs Duck is well enough to join me.  She has been having a very rough time this year but hopefully we can have a bit of fun today.

 ValeryAnne, aka Mrs A, choose our theme which is Festive Birds.

 Card #1

I made a topper from an image in my Christmas Card Factory Deluxe programme.  I only used to use it for sentiments etc but after exploring I decided some of the images actually make great toppers. I love the different birds on this particular. I'm sure Mary will like the image!  I used Memory Box Snowflake Corner, a Crafts Too embossing folder and a Papermania stamp.

Card # 2

I was actually being a little mischievous with this card. I'm sure this was the farthest thought from Mrs A's mind when she asked for festive birds - but a turkey is a festive bird too, isn't it?  Well it tickled me, but I have a strange sense of humour ... lol!  The image and background paper were from the Paper Shelter which I got a couple of years ago. The image is from the set and I printed it onto cream card and diecut with SB Classic Scalloped Ovals.  I added some spruce and pine twig die cuts and some fussy cut pine cones

Well that's it from me today.  If you want to check back tomorrow to find out what my CCC friends came up with you can find a link to their blogs in my side bar.  If you like the idea of making Christmas cards all year round, for no other reason than to keep ahead, then why not think about joining our little club?

Take care and have a great weekend.

Entered into:

The 12 Months of Christmas Challenge

"For The Boys" - Get Creative Challenge # 17

Good morning everybody.   Challenge 17 is from The Pink Team and our remit is to produce a card "For The Boys". So that's two male cards in a row for me.  Our sponsor this month is Eureka Stamps and   I have chosen Mountain Border for my card and you can find it here.  We would love it if you would join us this time. The prize is three digi images of your choice.

My Card

This quite a busy image and initially I was going to leave it black and white. My second thought was just to add colour to some parts of the image which I think works really well. My third thought was to try something I have been saying I will try but never ever getting round to it. I coloured it digitally using "Microsoft Picture It!" which is the software programme I use.  I had a few false starts before I produced something I was happy with, but it was great because you just discard it and start again.  I will certainly try it again at some stage.

Ingredients

5" x 7" Kraft cardstock base card

Embossing folder - Tartan Trellis from Sue Wilson

The spruce die - Impression Obsessions (no name on it)

Green pearlescent card from stash.

Sentiment - computer generated.

This card is for somebody special who is going through a difficult time - an encouragment card!  I trawled the internet until I found this perfect sentiment.

I hope you are all well.  We had a couple of great summer days - and then back to the cold and wind and rain!  What a start to summer!

Well I must go .  Take care.

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Crafty Boots Challenge

Crafting For All Seasons
Creative Corner Challenges
Suzy Bees Bloomin' Challenge