Sparkle and Shine

Pinspirational challenges have this cue

'Anything goes'

I made a small card

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Roolfes metallic blue pen

Gold Foil

Gold corner peel off

Small glass blue beads

Pattern: Form-a-lines Christmas_baubles 

15 Jan/31 dec

Celebrating Family

Time out challenges have this cue

 

 

I'm celebrating family with another commissioned card for a Granny to give her grandson

 

 

I have stitched this pattern many times before but this is the first time I've done it to look like a traditional Christmas Tree.

 

I made three cards for this Grandmother to give her grand children. See the other two here and here.

All the lettering is mine as are the gifts.

 

I will also be entering this over at Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge were it's

'Anything goes'

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Gold paper 80gsm

Pattern: Form-a-lines Christmas_tree

Thread: Green: DMC 407

              Red: DMC 047

              Gold: DMC E3821

2 jan

 

Christmas Crackers

Moving along with the times have this cue
'Anything but a card'
So I thought I'd share my Christmas crackers with you.

 

I usually make a little something to put inside, you can see previous ones here 2017 and 2016 but this year my inners didn't really work so I just used some store bought chocolates.

The coloured paper is actually a wrapper from a discontinue line of soaps so it had printing on it. To cover that I up added the oval with the letter on it. I distressed the edges of the oval.

 

Supplies:

Cuttlebug

Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities small oval

        Letters: Lifestyle Crafts Manhattan

Ribbon in green and gold

Ink: Cats eye in lime



 



This year's gifts

Dragonfly journeys is

'Hand made Holiday Magic'

These are the tags I made for my gifts this year.

 

and a close up

I always try to stick to a theme for my gifts. You can see past ones here 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.

My inspiration

 



Source: Emily Leiphart

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in cream

Liquid pearls in gold

Flat backed gems, stars and pearls

Sequins

Cuttlebug

Die: Tree; Sizzixx Triplets 659926

        Oval: Spellbinders Nestabilities Class oval small

Pentel fine liner in black

30 Dec

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas all.

Hope it's a day filled with good memories and lots of laughter

 

Source: Oh Happy Days



Holly

CASology has this cue

 

 

I made a small card

 

Another entry for the Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge were it's

'Use the word Christmas' 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white and red

Rolfes metallic pen in green

Small red beads

Pattern: Holly: 1001 ideas for embroidery on paper by Joke de Vette

             Sentiment: Stitching cards free-words-for-card-stitching

31 dec

 

Rows and Rows of trees

Clean and simple on Sunday is

'Make A Christmas Card'

 

 

I will also be entering this at Stamplorations CAS challenge were it's

 

 

and at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge were it's

'Use the word Christmas'

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Iridescent glitter glitzin' Glam

Pattern: Sentiment: Stitching cards free-words-for-card-stitching

             Trees: Stitching cards santa-and-stars

9 Jan/31 Dec

No Embellishment

ABC Christmas Challenge have these cues

Y for Your favourite thing

and Z for zero embellishments.

Embroidery is my favourite thing and this card has no embellishments

 

I will also be entering this at Use your stuff were it's

Christmas/Holidays'

 

Supplies:

Thread: Silver: DMC E168

             Green: DMC 911

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Sentiment: Source Unknown

           Green: Pearlier 80gsm 

Pattern: Stitching cards dove-of-peace

31/21 dec

Christmas stocking, a really old one!

Just add ink has a colour challenge

 

 

My card is one I made around about 1994 and rediscovered last year when I was tidying my craft room just prior to moving

 

 

It's a raised panel from a piece of gift wrap. The individual pieces are adhered with waterproof adhesive.

 

I will also be entering this at Cards in envy were it's

"Hang your stocking"

 

Supplies:

Unknown

19 dec

 

Ho Ho Holidays

Simon says stamp blog Work it Wednesday November is

'Ho Ho Holidays'

I made a Christmas Stocking for the newest member of the family. It is made of felt and ribbon.

 

I was inspired by something similar on Pintrest 

 

25 dec

 

 

 

North Star

CAsology is

 

 

I did the North Star

 

 

as well as at Moving along with the times were it;s

'Christmas'

 

and at AAA cards were it's

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Rolfes metallic pen in silver

Liquid Pearls in platinum

Pattern: Stitching cards santa-and-stars



17/19c

 

A tall tree and a long story

Paru's card making challenges is

 

 

I made two cards to send out myself this year, purely because I had an idea for a card but when I looked more cardefully at the pattern which I had purchased I decided that it was too complicated to produce a large number of. So I scrapped the idea and made these cards instead.

 

I was very happy with how they turned out.

 



 

However curiosity got the better of me and I did decide to give the original pattern a go. Once I had worked the holes out they weren't as complicated as I expected so I did make a couple of those too. You can see it here.          .

 

I will also be sharing this at Sugarpea blog Mix-it-up-challenge-50 were it's

 

 

as well as at Color throw down were it's

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white and red

Coloured papers: discontinued wrappers from bars from a toiletry range

Red nylon ribbon

Flat backed gems

Pattern: Stitching cards three-trees

25/27/17c

 

Candy Cane colours

These inspired challenges have this cue

 

 

I concentrated on the colours of red, white and silver and made these tags

 



 

They are hand cut.

I will also be entering this at and Stamplorations Tagplorations were it's

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in red and white

Christmas  charms

White ribbon

White cotton

15 dec

 

A new challenge

Today I'm playing somewhere that I don't often enter, it's Muse card club were it's

'Any card goes'

I will also be entering this at Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge were it's
'Christmas'

as well as at Cup cake inspirations were it's

 

 Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Liquid pearls in platinum

Small glass beads

Pattern: Sentiment: Stitching cards free-words-for-card-stitching

17 dec

Spirit of Christmas

Cards in envy. have this cue

'Spirit of Christmas'

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in silver and white

Silver peel offs

Liquid Pearls in platinum

Pattern: Form-a-lines angel

Thread: DMC E168

16 dec

 

Wrap it up

Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge

'Wrap it up'

 

I made tags

 

 

With some faux stitching around the end.

I will also be entering this at and Stamplorations Tagplorations were it's

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock; 160gsm in kraft

                   Cream: recycled birthday card

Cuttlebug

Die: Tag: Wplus 9 Timeless tags 2
        Stag: Simply Creative

12 dec

Skating Snowman

CAS on Sunday has a seasonal cue

'Make a Christmas Card'

Here is mine

 

I will also be entering it at Stinkin' inkers were it's

'Winter Wonderland'

 

At Just add ink were it's

 

 

Mine is ice,

 

at Freshly made sketches were it's

 

 

and at The library craft challenge where it's

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in green mirror

                    160gsm in white

Wobbly eyes

Pattern: Bergkaarten. Sorry I couldn't find the pattern

12/10 dec

Poinsettia

CAS colours and sketches have this challenge
 

 

I choose these colours

 

 

and made this card

 

 

When I first pricked this pattern I was a little confused by the large number of holes there where and so hesitated to stitch it, but once I got it worked out I loved how it turned out and stitched a few.

 

I will also be entering this at TGIF challenges were it's

 

 

My inspiration

Source: Valentyna Komisarenko

 

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

                    200gsm in blue

Paper: 80gsm in red

Flat backed gem in blue

Bugle beads in red and green

Gold and red round beads

Pattern: Stitching cards bead-poinsettia

10 dec

 

B is for.....

Simon says stamp blog Monday challenge

'B is for...'

..... Baubles

 

I will also be entering this over at Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge were it's

'Anything Goes'

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Glitzing Glam irredescent glitter

Rolfes metallic pen in pink

Pattern: Form-a-lines Christmas_baubles

Thread: Green: DMC 3348

              Variegated: Gutterman CA 02776

10/12 dec

Mostly White

AAA cards have a Mostly White challenge

 

 

Here is my Snowman/men/lady couple

 

 

I will also be entering this over at The holly and ivy Christmas challenge were it's

'Anything goes'

and at Cup cake inspirations where it's

 

 

 Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Paper: Source unknown

Rolfes metallic pen in gold

Glitzin' Glam in iridescent

Thread; Black: DMC 310

             Green: DMC 0245

             White: DMC Blanche

Pattern: Bergkaarten twelve-days-of-christmas-de-twintig.html

8 dec

 

Stars

TGIF challenges have this

 

 

I made another tag

 

 

which is also perfect for this challenge CAS christmas card challenge

 

 

as well as at Crafty hazelnut's Christmas challenge were it's

'Anything goes'

 

and Stamplorations Tagplorations were it's

 

 

Supplies:

card stock: Blank business card with the corners cut off

Kraft tag: Received as a gift when I ordered some Christmas dies earlier this year,

Pentel metallic gel pens in gold

Single hole plier punch

6/15 dec

 

Father Christmas Inspired

These inspired challenges have this photo

 

 

I concentrated on the colours and made a small card.

 

 

 

This is a portion of the pattern used on this card.

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 180gsm in white

paper: Scrap of gold and sentiment

Pattern: Form-a-lines_christmas_candle

5 dec