First Post Of The Year For Crafty Time - "Make It Sparkle"

Happy New Year to you all!  I hope everybody had a lovely Christmas and New Year - if you celebrate it.  I'm getting old I'm afraid and was in my bed.  Best place to be.

This is my DT card for Crafty Time .  As you can see from the title our challenge is to make it sparkle.  What could be easier than that? Please pop over to the blog and check out the cards from my teamies.

My Card

Ingredients

6 inch square base card

aqua pearlescent card - from stash

backing papers - LOTV "Pastel Dreams"

aqua glitter card - from stash

silver leaves and beaded flowers - from stash (had for many years)

crocheted flower - from Wendy, Spanish Crafter

pierced squares - Creative Expressions

Promarkers to colour

I sprayed the beautiful crochet flower, (which was the perfect colour!)  with glue and then drenched it with glitter before adding a jewelled brad to the centre.  It looks much nicer in real life.  Thank you Wendy!!

Our sponsor for this challenge is Morgan's Art World and the winner will get three digi images so we would love you to join us for this challenge.

 Hope you are all well and keeping dry and warm.  My heart goes out to you if you have been affected by this dreadful weather.  When I was up north with my sister I drove to my nephew who lives in a little hamlet near Whitby.  The roads were very badly flooded and my heart was in my mouth driving through the floods.  Fortunately there was another route home, albeit further in distance, because I would not have wanted to attempt that in the dark, especially since it had continued to rain all that afternoon.

Take care.

Wine Bottle Sleeves

Good morning and I hope this finds you all well. Today I'm showing these wine bottle sleeves that I found on YouTube.  They look so much nicer than the usual bag that you can buy.They are very easy to make, can be customised by changing the labels etc. and I think they make a simple gift look pretty special.  I made them for both the standard wine bottle and the miniature bottle.  I will put the miniature one in with my sister's gifts.

My Project

Well that's all my Christmas cards out of the way and posted so now I have time to make a few gift bags and boxes and this is the start.

A very short post but there is still a lot to do.  Putting up my Christmas tree for starters!!!   I really must get on with that today or Christmas will be here before the tree is!  I have placed my ceramic snowy village and my ceramic nativity scene, so I have actually made a start but I'll have to get my skates on.

Take care!

Anything Goes ... With The Colour Red for OSAAT Challenge 252

Good morning to everybody.  My goodness we have had some rain over the last day or two.  Makes you wonder where it all comes from!  Still, it does mean that in a couple of months my well will be great. It takes a few months before it permeates through the ground and the water tables - or something like that anyway!  John has explained umpteen times but ........

If you are looking for my Christmas Card Club entry please scroll down to the next post because I had to post it yesterday.

Anyway today it is time to post my card for One Stitch At A Time   and the theme is Anything Goes with The Colour Red.  My Image is Wish Upon A Star from Kaz Kraftz and you can find it here in the store.

My Card

Ingredients

6 " square card base

Red cardstock - Rymans

DP - Papermania "Home For Christmas"

Star embossing folder - Docrafts Little Tatty Ted

Opulent Ovals  die - Spellbinders

Christmas Star -  Joanna Sheen's Signature dies

Coloured with Promarkers

Sentiment - Computer generated

Gems - from stash

The embossed stars on the red card are not showing up too well in the photo but trust me, they are there!

Please pop over to the blog to see what the rest of the DT have made and perhaps think about joining us in the challenge.  Some lucky person could be the winner of this great prize.

December Prize Pack

I hope everybody is feeling well and not too many suffering from the dreaded viruses doing the rounds. Keep warm and take care.

The Final Christmas Card Club Challenge For 2015 ... Anything Goes

Good morning.  I am back to my usual one day early for the CCC challenge because I have another project to post tomorrow. For our last challenge this year Zoe has made it very easy for us by allowing us "Anything Goes."

My Project

Ingredients

Large white gift bag - Hobbycraft

Backing papers -  First Edition " Silent Night"

Snowflakes - Spellbinders Create A Flake 4 and 5

Tiny snowflakes - XCut punch

Very large snowflake - ancient stash, 

(possibly Craftwork Cards from about 10 years ago.)

Ribbon and pearls from stash

This really is a dreadful picture but I have tried quite a few pics and none of them are any better. Dark dreary days,  pearlescent cardsock and glittery paper certainly aren't helping the situation.  I have made a gift bag with a flurry of glittery, sparkly snowflakes and in real life it really looks super - honestly!!!  I have added a label to the back of the hanging snowflake and made it into a gift tag. The very large snowflake at the top was white.  I coloured it with Promarkers, sprayed it with glue then drenched it in glitter. I think my sister will pleased  this bag anyway.  I'm not saying she is easily pleased, but she is so appreciative of everything I give her, or do for her, that it really is a pleasure to give her things.

Well that's it from me for today.  Take care all.

MAWTT - To A Special Person At Christmas

Good morning and hope this finds you all well.The challenge at  MAWTT this week has been set by Carole and she asked us to make a card for a special person at Christmas.  I have made this card for my sister to give her next door neighbours ( I don't actually have any neighbours so no use to me ... lol!),  They are a super couple and have been experiencing some difficulties over the last few months so Jeanie asked me to make a card to let them know how special they are.

My Card

Recipe

5" x 7" base card - made from Rymans cardsock

Red cardstock - Rymans

Frosty swirls e/f - Creative Expressions

Provence dies - Creative Expressions

Poinsettias - Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearls - from stash

Sentiment - computer generated

Well not long now till the fat old guy dressed in red makes his annual visit. I hope you are all getting prepared.  Personally I have never been so unprepared - never!!!  Still, it will all fall into place in the end I'm sure.

Another short and sweet post again.

Take care.

Christmas Card Club - The Holly And The Ivy

Good morning and I hope this finds you all well.  Well better late than never I guess.  This card should have been posted Sunday but I knew it would be late and I had already apologised to my fellow club members in advance.  However, I expected to be able to post it a couple of days ago but Blogger had other ideas.  If you saw my post yesterday you will know that Blogger and I have not been the best of friends this week. Hopefully things are okay again - fingers crossed!

My Card

Recipe

5 x 7" card base - made from Hobbycraft cardstock

Green pearlescent card - Jellybean Crafts

Embossing folder - from a magazine

Image - found on internet a long time ago

Pearls from stash

Red and gold stickles.

I like the fresh clean look to this card and once again practically flat so good for posting.

Well this is a short and sweet, so take care everybody.

"Anything Goes " at Crafty Time Challenges

Apologies to everybody!  This post was due on December 1st but I have had mega problems with Blogger.  It would  not allow me add pictures from my folders.  It kept pointing me to "online storage" and saying the facility was unavailable.  I don't store anything online so couldn't work it out.  Have tried for a couple of days but no luck.  Anyway, opened Blogger today and everything was back to normal.  Go figure!!  Flipping Blogger!  So here is my post - albeit two days late!!

Good morning to you all. Well it's a nice bright morning after all the rain - and no wind!  Thank goodness.  Well for my "3-in-a-row" card it's my DT card for Crafty Time.  Our last challenge of 2015 is very easy - Anything Goes so we hope you will join in the fun with us.

My Card

The image I have used is Minako, Oriental Maiden and I think this is a gorgeous image.

Recipe

Easel card base - made from Hobbycraft cardstock

DP - "Lucy Cromwell" from Papermania

Labels 8 - Spellbinders

Decorative Labels 8 - Spellbinders

Dancing Lanterns - Spellbinders

Fabulous Phlox - Memory Box
Promarkers tocolour

Pearls from stash

Our sponsor is Moon Flower and she has some very pretty image sand she is offering 3 images to the winner. The image I have used is Minako, The Oriental Maiden which I think is gorgeous

Well I must be off.  Hope everybody is well.  Take care.