Christmas cards finally finished

I've been busy this weekend making the last few christmas cards i had to do. I've stuck with square cards for work cards and Penny Black images. Only had about 45 to make which isn't many compared to most but i'm glared there all done now.

Card for challenge on Do Crafts forum

Loretta on the Do Crafts forum gave us this challenge last Monday. I made this although i went for a square card rather than a rectangle one. This is the layout,

And this is my card

Sketch Saturday challenge

Over on the Sketch Saturday challenge blog this week, the challenge is to make a card using this layout.

Here is the card that i've made. I've used papers from Papermania along with Anitas sticky ribbon and finished off with a Penny Black image coloured in with Twinkling H2O's and a stardust Sakura pen for it's wings. And finally i've used a snowflake brad in the top left corner.

Even more stash!!

I ordered 8 Sugar Nellie stamps from http://www.funkykits.co.uk/ on Wednesday and they arrived this morning. I've never used them before so i'm looking forward to having a play once i've brought some EZ mount which i forgot to buy. Doh! Here are the ones i got.

I almost forgot

I didn't show you what i brought at the charity event at my lcs last weekend. The first picture is twisted decoupage sheets. Something i've not tried before but there was a man demonstrated them and i thought it looked effective so i brought some sheets. I also brought 2 new Whippersnapper stamps, monochrome Papermania set, black & white chipboard letters, tweezers, sakura pens, other christmassy stamps and some Dovecraft christmas embellishments oh and the magazines :D

Tilda autumn challenge card

Over on the DoCrafts forum at the moment there is a challenge to make a Tilda card with the theme of Halloween or autumn. You can use 3 colours (not including the skin), 2 buttons, brads or eyelets and 1 ribbon.

Here is my card.

Pink christmas cards for Breast Cancer

Yesterday i went to the Colemans warehouse in Rushden, where they had a special charity day and a competition whereby you had to make a pink christmas card. The prize was £50 worth of craft goodies so i thought i'd give it a go and it was for a good cause too. Any way i made 4 cards but nly entered the first 3 as i wasn't very pleased with the fourth one.

The first card is a Penny Black stamp which i've coloured with H2O's. I've used DCWV papers and just some spare pink glitter paper i had in my stash. To make it stand out i've added pink glitter around the edges.

The stamp on this one is from Crafty Individuals. I've used a dark pink ink on pink paper to give a different effect. The happy Christmas text is a HOTP stamp

This one is an embossed image. I've used shrink plastic to draw the breast cancer ribbon on and then coloured it in pink before shrinking it. I then added them onto the tree to make them look like decorations.

And the last one is quite plain and i didn't like the choice of ribbon so i didn't enter it. The stamp is a HOTP one. I've used a little pink star gem at the top of the tree for some texture.