Merry Christmas One and All

 Hi Crafters,

To wish all my friends in blogland a

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a

HAPPY & HEALTHY NEW YEAR

Lorraine

xXx

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Lorraine

xXx

ABC Christmas Challenge 'V' for Vertical

Hi Crafters,

It's been a lovely couple of days here in my part of Norfolk, bright, dry, a little chilly but beautiful. The Autumn leaves are turning and the squirrels in my back garden are gathering and burying nuts for the winter, it's a lovely sight.

So with that I'm here to share a Christmas card! Ha, ha!

Well you know we have to keep ahead of the game if we are to have enough made before the big day :)

Our challenge this week is 'V' for Vertical

So we'd like to see your vertical projects and cards for Christmas, take a peek at the creations from the rest of the Design Team HERE for some inspiration if you are stuck.

I have created a DL card, a very clean and simple DL card for my usual style. I had a bit of trouble leaving all that white space but managed to walk away eventually.

Recipe

Crafters Companion Nordic Christmas Embossing Folder

Clearly Besotted Sentiment Stamp

Cottage Cutz Bells Die

Britannia Holly Die

Stampin' Up Ribbon

Twine

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #386 Christmas

Crafty Catz - #343 ATG /Embossing

Rudolph Day Challenge - ATG - Christmas

CHNC Every Saturday - #304 Use a Sentiment

Crafting From The Heart - #133 ATG

Come along and join in with us, our sponsor this week is 

Drawn with Character

who are offering 3 images of the winners choice.

Well that's it from me today.

Happy Hump Day!

It's a downward ride to the weekend!

Lorraine 

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Christmas Card Club Challenge - #9 Poinsettias or Christmas Angels

Hi Crafters,

The theme for our Christmas challenge this fortnight was chosen my Mary this time and she has given us a nice and easy one of 'Poinsettias or Christmas Angels'

As you can see I went with the Poinsettia option.

My card is a day early as usual so please pop back tomorrow for links to the other teamies cards.

Recipe

Creative Expressions Embossing Folder and Ivy Die

Memory Box 'Merry Christmas' Die

Paper Poinsettias and Stamens

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Fab & Funky - #302 Bright Christmas
Cute Card Thursday - #423 No Patterned Papers
Creative Fingers - #108 ATG

Well that's all from me for now, see you tomorrow.

Lorraine
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Christmas Card Club Challenge #4 - Icicles

Hi Crafters,

I'm posting my CCC card a day early as I have another DT card due tomorrow. 

Kate is our hostess this time and has chosen the theme of 'icicles'.

Recipe

Memory Box Die - Cute Cottage & Frosted Roof and Ledges

Sizzix Striplet Die - Stacked Words - Christmas

Paper Smooches Stitched Dies 

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean

Perfect Pearls Shimmer Mist

Crafts Too Embossing Folder

Black Brad

Glitter Card

I made my own sky background for this card. I used water colour paper and my distress inks and swooshed the wet paper through the inks on my craft mat, dried it a little with my heat gun and then sprayed the Perfect Pearls Shimmer spray, which is very shimmery in real life but a little shy here.

Dried the paper again, embossed the snow using the embossing folder, then ran a white ink pad carefully over the raised bumps and used clear embossing powder to further highlight them.

The cottage and words were cut from textured core'dinations cardstock and I sanded the cottage after running that though a wood-grain embossing folder. This card has lots of texture and lots of  shimmer too, hope you like it.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

That Craft Place - ATG
Creative Moments - #87 ATG / Wet / Dry Embossing
Crafty Catz - #312 CAS, No DP
Brown Sugar - #186 ATG
Creative Fingers - #103 ATG
Country View Challenge - Make your own background
Crafty Girlz - #12 ATG
The 12 MoC Link Up - #14 ATG / Winter Wonderland
CHNC Christmas Challenge - February Challenge

I have quite a few Christmas cards made already this year and am feeling rather pleased about that, looking forward to a 'no rush' approach to Christmas this year.

Enjoy your weekend and see you tomorrow,

Lorraine

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Letterpress Snowflakes

Hi Crafters,

A Happy Valentine's Day!

I haven't got a Valentine card to share with you but another Christmas card, thought I would try and keep ahead of the game with them.

This time I have letter pressed a Sheena Douglas embossing folder with Summer Sky Memento ink for my background and used this lovely, large sentiment die from Ultimate Crafts cut from Glitter card.

This is a 5" x 7" card so you can see what a lovely size that die is. It also has a few snowflakes of it's own but I wanted to concentrate on the ones in the background.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Snowflakes

CHNC Every Saturday - #268 Colour Blue

CHNC Christmas - February Challenge

Enjoy your Sunday!

Lorraine 

xXx

ABC Christmas Challenge - C for Cute Critters

Hi Crafters,

Thank you to all our crafters who entered our last challenge. It's lovely to know so many of you will have started your Christmas makes for this year.

This week our challenge at ABC Christmas is C for Cute Critters.

We would love to see your Christmas makes with your Cute Critters on them.

Recipe
LOTV Topper
Papers - Bought from Create & Craft a long time ago and there's no name.
Kraft card
MME Brads
Frame - Spellbinders Leafy Squares Die
Trees - From Comet & Cupid Die Set - Ultimate Crafts.
Sentiments from the paper collection.
Glitter Embossing Powder

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Winter Wonderland - Pastel Colours
Crafty Friends - #24 Animals/Birds
The 12 MoC Link Up - #14 ATG/Winter Wonderland
Crafting From The Heart - #97 ATG
Deep Ocean Challenge - #121 Winter Wonderland
Fab 'n' Funky - #290 All Creatures Great and Small

Come and join in the Christmas fun, our sponsor is giving away a £10 gift voucher to the lucky winner.
Wild Orchid Crafts

Lorraine 

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ABC Christmas Challenge - B for Baubles

Hi Crafters,

I have my ABC Christmas challenge card to share with you today.

Our theme this time is 'B' for Baubles and I'm using an image from our Sponsor called 'Merry Christmas Tree'...

Recipe

Image - Merry Christmas Tree - Bugaboo Stamps

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - 'The Night Before Christmas' Pad - Trimcraft

Kraft Card

Sakura Glitter Pen

Gems

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Friends - #23 ATG

CHNC Christmas - January

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #26 - ATG

Crafting From the Heart - #95 ATG

TTCRD - ATG
I Love Promarkers - #300 Use Something New ( New Image)

I have coloured my image as always with Promarkers and added  touches of a Sakura glitter pen which I can assure you looks fabulously shimmery in real life but the camera gremlins have visited again today and there was no way I could  get it to show up.

My papers are all from the same pad which I have layered on to kraft card for some contrast.

Now back to the challenge, we would like to see your creations depicting the theme of Baubles. So you can make cards, scrapbook pages, 3D projects, decorate baubles or make your own baubles, whatever you like so long as you follow the theme.

The lucky random winner will receive 7 digi's of their choice from our sponsor..

Bugaboo Stamps

Bye for now

Lorraine

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WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS !

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #9 - Stars

Hi Crafters,

Hope you are all having a great weekend.

Thank you to all my visitors here recently for the lovely comments left, I really do appreciate you popping in and saying Hi!

 

So on to why I am here today...  ...two weeks have whizzed by again and it is time for another Christmas card challenge with my bunch of crafty friends. This time it was Valerie's turn to choose a theme and here is my card for the 'Stars' theme.

 

Recipe

Embossed Cardstock - Limetree Crafts

Merry Christmas Die - Joycrafts

Mirri card

X-Cut Star Die

Silver Christmas paper - Anita's Classic Christmas Papers

Bows - Scribble & Scrap Store (now closed)

 

Gosh, white and silver cards are very difficult to photograph, the glare from the mirri card was a tricky one to overcome but this is the best I could do.

It was quite a simple card really, just matting and layering the beautiful star embossed card on to the mirri and cutting out the stars and sentiment die in mirri also. Then I cut the same size stars from the silver Christmas papers and scored them at each point so I could fold and make them dimensional. Then I adhered them to the mirri stars. A piece of silver cord and a bow to finish.

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

ABC Christmas Challenge - H is for Happy Holiday

Brown Sugar - #143 ATG

Sister Act - #103 ATG

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Christmas Ornaments
CHNC Challenge Extra - April

 

Well that's another one for the box, it's filling up quickly and I'm confident that I will have enough Christmas cards made now to alleviate the frantic making session I had a couple of years ago when December crept up and bit me before I knew it. If you want to join in with our friendly challenge each fortnight just get in touch with Margaret who will tell you the ropes.

I hope you enjoy your Sunday, I am going to a Christening today so I will be round to comment later in the day.

Bye for now,

 

Lorraine

 

Merry Christmas!!!

Hi Crafters,
I'm back a little later than I expected today - lots of visitors today and lots of preparations to get done for tomorrow's family dinner - all done now though so I just have enough time to wish you all ...

A Merry Christmas

and a

Happy and Healthy New Year

 

... and share my last Christmas card of the year with you.

 



Snow Pals - Mo Manning

Promarkers

Silhouette Cameo - Snowflake frame, 'Winter' and 'Joy' words

Joy Dies - Snowflakes

Papers - Country Companions - Winter Wishes

MME pad

Glitter embossing powder

Gems
 

It is quite glittery in real life, hope you can see it here -



 

 

...and a close up of the cute Snow Pals...

 



 

Challenges:

Creative Moments - #58 ATG / Non Traditional Christmas Colours
Winter Wonderland - Fussy and Fancy
Brown Sugar - #125 Christmas
One Crazy Stamper - December ATG
Noor Design Challenge - Merry Christmas
Addicted To Stamps - #94 ATG at Christmas
Scribble & Scrap - #34 ATG
Come and Get It - Merry Christmas
Eureka Stamps - #120 Use some glitter
Crafty Card Makers and More - #129 Christmas
TTCRD - ATG
Papertake Weekly - Pick a Fave Theme (Last Christmas Card of the Year)
Passion For Promarkers - #277 Bingo Board (Die-cut - Free - Glitter)
Deep Ocean Challenge - #93 Christmas is All Around
I Love Promarkers - #250 ATG
Bronte & Bella's Challenge - Your Fave Mo 'Make' of 2014

 

Right, I'm off to bed now before I catch Santa leaving my presents under the tree :)

 

I hope you all have a lovely day tomorrow.

 

Lorraine