Monochrome Snowman

Good morning. Hope this finds you all Hunky-dory.  Speaking of Hunkydory, I attended the Great British Craft Show at Kenilworth and luckily Ang (Mrs Duck) was well enough to attend. We had a very long gossip session over brunch as you can imagine.  Hope it wasn't too much for you Ang and that you didn't overdo it! Today is a day for you take things easy or Mr D will not let you loose again! Hope his cold is well and truly on the mend.

Please scroll down if you are looking for my Christmas Card Club card.

Well it's time for the next OSAAT challenge  which is "Anything Goes .... With Monochrome".

My Card

Recipe

6" square base card

blue card stock - ancient stash

snowflake paper - LOTV Frosty Christmas (discontinued)

digi image - Snow Dad  Stitchy Stamps

snowflakes - Memory Box

sentiment - computer generated

classic oval scalloped die - Spellbinders

bakers twine

promarkers to colour

I love snowmen and this one appealed to me.  I love his expression.

Why not pop over to the blog and check out the offerings from the rest of the DT and maybe you will be inspired to join in our challenge this week. You could win $10 to spend in the store.

Well that's all from me today.  Hope you enjoy what remains of the weekend.

Take care.

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12 Months of Christmas

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.

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The 12 Months of Christmas Challenge

A Sketch For MAWTT

Good moring to all my friends and fellow bloggers. Today at MAWTT it is Carole's turn to choose the theme and we have a sketch to work from.

My Card

Recipe
6" square card base - Hobbycraft card stock

lilac card - Hobbycraft

DSP - Nitwits

Classic Circle dies - Spellbinders

Classic Scalloped circle dies - Spellbinders

Topper - Sympathy Bug from Hobby House

Ribbon - Poundshop

I just added some pearls, a peel off greeting and lots of glitter to the wings and I was done. I used different coloured glitters to match the colours in the wings and it worked out well. So this is a card to go into the box for when needed.

Just a very quick post today because I have a busy day ahead.  Hope things are well with you all.

Christmas Goose

Good morning to all my friends and fellow bloggers. It's time for another challenge at Winter Wonderland  and this time I am hosting the challenge for the Snowflakes team. I sometimes find that I get stuck in a rut so I decided to shake myself up - and every body else too- and my choice of theme is a sketch.

My Card

There is alos an alternate challenge which is Tic Tac Toe so pop over to the blog where you will find the grid.

My Card

Recipe
7" square card - Anna Marie Designs
green card stock- Rymans
patterned card stock -
ribbon - from stash
digi image - Christmas Goose from Beccy's Place
sentiment - computer generated
Lacy Circle dies - Spellbinders
Snowflake e/f - Creative Expressions
Promarkers to colour

As you can see I went with the sketch. I just love this goose - it has such attitude! The card just kind of made itself. The Christmas tree bulbs were something I picked up off the internet and printed them onto photo paper to give them a shine.

We have two sponsors this week.  The first is Beccy's Place , offering the winner three single digi images or one digi set.  Our second sponsor is Crafty Ribbons offering $10 to spend instore.  We would love you to join in with our challenge but do remember Christmas projects only!  Why not pop over to the blog and check out what the rest of the Snowflake Team have made and it may inspire you to join in.

Hope all is well with you.

Take care.

OSAAT - Something Special

Good morning to you all.  Challenge 271 at OSAAT is to make something special which could be for birthday, anniversary, new baby, new home .... You get the picture I'm sure and the remit is so wide that I'm sure you can find something if you care to join us in our challenge.

Please scroll down to the previous post if you are looking for my Christmas Card Club card.

My Card

Recipe

6 " white square base card

purple card - Rymans

image and backing papers - Stitchy Bear

Promarkers to colour

pearls from stash

I used the Iris Digital Stamp and Paper Pack  from the designer Coosty Creations.  There are four papers included in the pack and I really wanted to use them all but in the end I settled on three.

We would love you to join us this time and you could win $10 to spend instore.

Well that's all from me today.  Hope you have been enjoying your weekend so far.

Take care.

Hats and Gloves for Christmas Card Club

Good morning. Well we are back to the more normal weather for this time of the year. I saw on the weather report last night that it was 30 degrees somewhere yesterday and today it will be 13.  Wow that's some difference!  They might well need their hats and gloves today!

Today the lovely Kate has asked us to use hats and gloves on our cards and this is what I have come up with.  Mr Mojo has still not returned from his extended holiday so my cards are all fairly simple at the moment. I hope he decides to come back soon!

My Card

Recipe

6" square cream pearlescent base card -  from Crafters Companion card stock

backing papers - Dovecraft "Glad Tidings"

Image - Pink Gem "Snow Hugs"

Frosted Spruce and Frosted Pine trees - Memory Box

Noble Double Pierced Squares - Sue Wilson

Wooden bell - ancient stash

I decided to use cream as my background rather than white then had to search through my papers to make sure there was cream on them as opposed tothe usual white.  I have three Dovecraft  8 x 8" pads (courtesy of Every Crafts a Pound at the NEC) and two of them were suitable with cream so basically that was about it; a couple of embellishments and job done.

My card is a day early because I have another  DT card to post tomorrow.

Hope you are all well.

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C.R.A.F.T challenge - Christmas

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends -Anything Goes

Borrowed Dies

Good morning to all my friends and fellow bloggers, and many thanks for dropping by today. Well we are having some glorious weather again, what we used to call an Indian Summer, but I think it is only due to last a few days.

 A couple of days ago I admired the die that my friend Jenny - Cardsarus - had used on her card that day. She very kindly loaned me the dies and wow!  I have really fallen in love with this Tonic Twisting Veranda Layering die set and I have used it on my card today.  This is definitely at the top of my "must have" list!

My Card

Recipe

White card stock - Hobbycraft

Lilac card stock - Core'dinations

Twisting Veranda dies - Tonic
Maidenhair fern - Sue Wilson

Sentiment stamp - JustRite Birthday Vintage Labels 4

 Purple/White Tone Bloom Set flowers - Wild Orchid Craft

Ribbon - stash

Pearls - The Hobby House

I used the largest die to make an easel card and then just took it fom there.  As you can see I used quite a lot of the eleven dies from the set ... lol!I can't wait to make another card - possibly using fewer dies, but I got carried away!Thank you so much Jenny!!!

Well that's all from me today.  Hope everybody is well and if not I hope you feel better soon.

Take care!