Challenge 26. Something with Whiskers

HAPPY NEW YEAR


Well 1stly I have to appologise to my team mates for messing up the challenge LOL.

Secondly I have to admit that my challenge examples are not all that I hoped they would be. Due to the fact that since just after Christmas i have my 23 year old daughter and 1 year oldf grandson back home camped out in my craftroom. With half of their belongings.


So just getting anything to work with was a challenge in itself. Although its lovely to have my grandson at home.

Our sponsor Joanna Sheen sent is some amazingly cute and useful stamps to play with, and the prize stamps are really really cute as well.

Anyway less of the addo

So here are my examples



Here is my old bag card. Does anyone know how to photograph mirriboard as It just looks really bad on all of my cards. Anyway You may wonder where the whiskers are on this card, But all old bags have whiskers.
I stamped the cup onto mirri board and it looks great in real life . I distressed the edge of the card as all boys love to get grubby

A really girly card made with the footballer set. I just love the adaptability of the stamps they don't just have to be for the boys.

Well its now 2am Thursday morning and I am shattered, we have been running around looking at houses for the last 4 days and I have also been looking after my grandson. I must admit to be absolutly shocked at how tiring it is. Im feeling like a very old bag tonight .

Night all

This Thursday Naughty or Nice

The This Thursday challenge this week is sponsored by Cosmo Cricket.

Yippiee. We were sent the most stunning Christmas papers. I adore them. Every die cut embellishment, Every journalling card , and sentiment border. In fact there isn.t a single pice of paper that I don't love

Anyway the challenge was Naughty or Nice and I choose nice . So here are my examples for this week

Entitled Jakes 1st Christmas is almost here . I used the most georgeous paper for the background its trully stunning . everything except the trees The snowflakes and the deer embellie bottom right came from the pack. They are so easy to put together and create a lovely layout.

This card uses a journaling block and a diecut star from the pack . Plus both the papers as well > I added Zoomz to the tips of the star and a brad Thats all

This Simple snowman card takes a couple of minutes. I poped out the diecuts for thr snowman Cut a strip of the striped paper and cut A happy Christmas from one of the border strips . Everything is from the pack

Here are my 2 Babys 1st christmas cards. I used a bookatrix board and mirriboard for the backs. The one on the left is for a little boy The one on the right for a little girl . I used die cuts on the card on the left. Then used the apetures as templates to create the ones on the right . I added some gems and ribbons.

We have decided that this is the last challenge before Christmas. this will give the design team time to catch up on Chritmas preparations and allow me to make sure that This Thursda starts with a bang in the new year.

So Happy Christmas everyone

This Thursday challenge 24

The challenge at This Thursday , this week is Mistletoe and Wine. Which I must admit I found slightly challenging at 1st as I own no wine images or embellies.




As most of my recent Christmas projects have been contemporary I decided to go with a traditional feel So I raided my Joanna Sheen CD for some Mistletoe images. So here are my three very traditional Christmas cards.

This card has textured wallpaper from a wallpaper sample book that I got from a wallpaper shop. Great for unusual backgrounds . I cut all the edges deckle. always reminds me of christmas . The central oval is decoupaged on the 1st which I edged with white glitter

This Is my Mistletoe and champagne card . I decoupaged this great image from Joanna sheen created a dl card black with white glitter paper. the ribbons were from a Ideal world kit

I love this image it was a free download not Joanne sheen If you type in mistletoe and vintage into google and look for images . A great freebee download site comes up. If I get a chance later today I will put ite details in,

Anyway thats it for me for today , am looking after my grandson who is teething so I am fitting the blogs in around him. Oh but hes so cute.

This Thursday Challenge 23

Hello

Well I am feeling a lot better than I was , so I hope I will soon be back to my usuall self and managing to get comments on all your entries.



Anyway this week our sponsor is Funky Fairies Papercrafts and we got to play with the lovely Chocolate Covered Christmas download and the Cristmas rounds Download. I really could nt believe just how much there was in the Chocolate Covered Christmas download. Word albums, A brag Book all sorts of boxes. A brilliant set of papers and loads and loads more as well. So I really had to stop myself as I still have so many ideas to work on .
Anyway here are my examples for this week.



I used 2 of the brilliant shaped mats from the download for this card . I also used my graphcs package to copy and paste the Merry Christmas from one of the other trees onto this one

I was really amazed to find word albums in the download , and they are so easy to use. I thought that the Joy album would be a great Gift for a little girls Christening . I used Prima flowers and jems and the sticker at the end says Bloom

I printed of lots of trees and made this tree border card

I loved all the boxes that were on the CD> I used my graphics package to place one of the mats on the center of the box before printing out > Iadded Prma flowers and some jems to finish.#

These were from the Christmas rounds. I used my graphics package to remove all the white. Then used fill to fill the different areas with the papers from the download. I used different sized fills of the same papers.I thought that these would be a great way to decorate your christmas table . I printed the large one as big as I could get it onto an A4 sheet. Just print off how many you need. Cheap quick and cheerful I added glitter pen in the wording and on the swirls . I am going to make matching paper napkin rings , with the same rounds on the front. I am also going to make some Christmas card hangers with these as the tops for my dining room .

Hope you like these.

catch you laters