Christmas Card Club Challenge #6 Santa

 Hi Crafters,

I'm sharing another Christmas card make with you today for the new challenge at our friendly Christmas Card Club.

This week our theme was

SANTA

Above is a lovely image from Hunkydory and sentiment die is from Poppy Crafts. (I'm still trying to use up my Peel-offs too)

Below is an adorable image which I couldn't resist buying from CraftsUprint, I just love his jolly face.

I have layered the image with foam tape and added some glitter to his beard and to the snowflakes for a simple card design.

Lorraine

xXx

Ho, Ho, Ho at Crafts Galore Encore

 Hi Crafters,

Well December has arrived, far too quickly for my liking, but here we are none-the-less. I can always remember some of my older relatives saying how time goes quicker as you advance in years but at 57 I was hoping it wouldn't have started just yet!

Anyway I'm here today to share my DT inspiration for the new challenge at Crafts Galore Encore. As always we are an ANYTHING GOES challenge so nice and easy and a whole month to get your entries in too. We are sponsored this month by Gecko Galz who are offering a fabulous $25 voucher to spend in their store!

I have used an image from this wonderful festive set called Retro Christmas Colour Digital Collage Sheet

Recipe

Image - Retro Christmas Colour - Gecko Galz

Papers - Digital Scrapbook.com (Pixel Scrapper)

Carnation Crafts Poinsettia, Fir Cones and Bells dies and Vingettes

La, La Land Corner Die

Poppy Crafts 'Ho, Ho, Ho' Die

Gems and Ribbon from stash

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Dec. Waiting For Santa

Country View Challenge - Christmas

Incy Wincy Designs - Christmas

Sparkles Christmas Challenge  #143 - Non Traditional Christmas Colours

Moving Along with the Times #149 - Christmas

Creatalicious Challenge #248 - ATG opt. Christmas in Non Traditional Colours

Come and join in the fun HERE, you can enter up to 3 times - provided each one is a new project, make sure that you link back to our challenge blog in your post too.

Thank you for visiting today, it is greatly appreciated and I hope to get round to see you all soon.

Bye for now,

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #21 - Santa

 Hi Crafters,

This week our theme for the Christmas Card Club is...

SANTA

All made from Craft Creations decoupage sheets or Hunkydory images and my favourite Nesting Frame Die by Yvonne Creations.

A few more cards for my Christmas box.

How are your cards coming along?

Please take a look at the rest of our ladies creations, their links are in my sidebar.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

That's all from me for today, a short post but thanks for visiting.

Lorraine

xXx

Passion For Promarker Mega Christmas Challenge #523 - Anything Goes

Hi Crafters,

It's time to introduce our Mega Christmas Challenge here at Passion For Promarkers.

Both Design Teams will be inspiring you with their Christmas makes with an ANYTHING GOES theme over the next few weeks.

This week it is the turn of Team 2 to share their creations and here's mine...

Recipe

Image - Whipper Snapper Designs Stamp - Good/Bad Santa

Coloured with Promarkers

Foiled Paper - Vintage Christmas -  Craft Sensations

Christmas Stocking Ribbon from my stash

Winterfun Corner Die by Precious Marieke

Challenges I'd like to enter:

I Love Promarkers - #399 ATG
C.R.A.F.T.Challenge - #538 Christmas Present
Moving Along with the Times - #112 Santa +/or His Elves
Krafty Chicks Challenge - #484 Your Favourite Stamp
Creative Moments # 182 ATG/Christmas
Stamping Sensations - December ATG
Tales From The Craft Room - #11 It's Christmas

Now for the prizes!.....

We have a plethora of sponsors for you, offering fabulous prizes for a multitude of winners. Here is a list but for a full line up please head over to the challenge blog HERE.

LeAnns World 101

2 Digis

Dr Digi's House of Stamps

2 Digi's

Crafty Sentiments designs

3 Digi's

Di's Digi Stamps

$12 Voucher

Dies To Die For

£15 Voucher

Colour of Love Digi's

3 Digi's

All Dressed Up Stamps

2 Digi's

Uniko Stamps

1 Stamp Set (must be in stock)

You must follow these simple set of rules to be in with a chance of winning these awesome goodies. Please use your Winsor Newton Markers (formerly Letraset) ie. Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Brushmarkers, Tria, Aqua and Metallic markers on your project, state in your post where you have used them, link back to the challenge blog and there is a maximum of 3 entries per person this time.

Well that's it from me, the ladies from Team 1 will be showcasing their projects on December 24th so you have plenty of time to enter this extended challenge which does't finish until January 7th 2020! Have fun!

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge # 16 - Non Traditional Colours

Hi Crafters,

I'm popping in a day late for the Christmas Card Club challenge, but I'm sure Sylvie won't mind. I was at a craft fair yesterday and this post wasn't scheduled so here it is now.

This card has both Non-Traditional colours and image with Santa on a beach and was a request from an Australian relative.

I hope you can visit the other ladies that are taking part, their cards are so inspirational. Links to their blogs can be found in the tab on my sidebar.

Hope you all have a fabulous week. I'll be back tomorrow with my Passion for Promarker design team card, see you then.

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #6 Festive Food & #7 Santa

Hi Crafters,

Happy Mother's Day! in the UK.

Today my post is covering two Christmas Card Club themes in an attempt to catch up.
I missed the last challenge theme of Festive Food so here is my card using an LOTV recipe stamp and my background is made using a fun little Christmas Pudding stamp.

Recipe
Image - LOTV Set 34 - Christmas Recipe Stamp
Paper - Dovecraft 'Twelve Days of Christmas'
Pudding Stamp - Magazine Freebie coloured with Promarkers
Magnolia Cutlery Die Cuts
Sentiments Stamp - Dovecraft Christmas Wishes

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Crafty Creations - #387 ATG
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - ATG
Aud Sentiments - #223 Any Sentiment Except Happy Birthday
As You Like It - Favourite Colouring Medium + Why
I always use Promarkers for colouring  my images, I like how they blend and have many colour combos that I like to use.
Sweet Stampin' Christmas - ATG Christmas / Include some stamping


Now for this weeks theme of...

SANTA

Recipe

Image - LOTV Art Sheet
Paper - LOTV Frozen Snowflakes
Various Snowflake Dies

Glitter and Gems
Sentiment and Banner Stamp - Magazine Freebie

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crimbo Crackers - #181 ATG
CHNC Every Saturday - #431 Christmas ATG
Creative Moments - #165 ATG
Ally's Angels - #20 ATG
Rudolph Days Challenge - ATG Christmas

Thanks for popping by today, if you get time please take a look at the other ladies blogs on the team who have some fabulous Christmas inspiration to share. Their links are in the side bar to the right.

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #25 - Cute

Hi Crafters,

Well we've reached the end of this years Christmas Card Club Challenges, what a fabulous year we've had and plenty of Christmas inspiration for you all.

Thankfully I have now finished all my Christmas cards and orders so I can sit back and relax a little but if you still have some more to make why not pop round to the ladies blogs and see what they have made, links are HERE.

Now on to today's challenge theme which was set by Sylvie.

She'd like to see all your CUTE Christmas creations.

I thought both of these images were adorable.

Lots of fussy cutting and layers with minimal embellishments to allow the image to stand out.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

to be added

Well that's all from me, we will be taking a break from our Christmas crafting until January 6th 2019. Then we will be back in full force to start all over again for another fun year of Christmas cards!

Lorraine

xXx

Knock, Knock, Who's There?.....Santa!

Hi Crafters,

Thank you for the lovely comments on my mixed media card that I shared with you a couple of days ago. While I had the paints and messy playtime stuff out on my desk I thought I would finally have a go at decorating one of the wooden fairy doors from The Works that had been sitting waiting patiently on my shelf for months!

I decided to make it in to a Christmas project.

After removing the hinges and latch I set about painting the frame with two tones of  green Pebeo paint and the door with a red DecoArt paint that came free with a magazine recently. The base was painted with white acrylic and then I added snowballs from Anna Marie Designs using 3D Schnee glue, once this was dry I gave the whole thing a spray coat of  Spray & Sparkle - Pearl Diamond from Crafters Companion. It now has a durable top coat and beautiful shimmer all over, I hope you can see this in the photo's. The wooden 'Christmas' word, which I picked up from my trip to the N.E.C. this year, was given a coat of gold paint and also a coating of sparkle spray. Both the wooden snowflakes have been in my stash for some time and these were heat embossed with white and then a silver sparkle embossing powder.

After re-assembling the hinges and latch I set about creating a wreath from a Martha Stewart frond punch, some tiny red pearls, a teeny tiny bell and a new Tonic word die.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #444 Christmas Present

Winter Wonderland - Traditional Christmas Colours - Red & Green

Crafty Catz - #395 ATG / Let It Snow

Glitter n Sparkle - #267 Add Metal

Crafting From The Heart - #185 ATG

Deep Ocean - #169 Santa Is Coming To Town

Fab n Funky - #373 Christmas

Country View Challenges - Christmas

Brown Sugar - #273 Anything But A Card

Crafty Calendar Challenge - It's Christmas

Thanks for visiting today, I hope you are having a fabulous Saturday.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #18 - Magical, Mystical

Hi Crafters,

Thanks for sticking with me over this rather barren period of blog posting. I am still creating cards and projects at a rate of knots but finding time to share them is another matter.

However, I am here today for our fortnightly Christmas challenge, Rachel has chosen the theme and given us...

Magical / Mystical

I think Santa falls into this category quite nicely, after all we know he isn't real, don't we?

Recipe

 Vintage Card Download by Wendy Carr
Sentiment Stamp - Creative Expressions, 12 Days of Christmas Sentiments

Gold Ruffle Ribbon - Stash

Glitter 

Cosmic Shimmer - Iced Snow
My Minds Eye Large Brad

Challenges I'd like to enter:

CHNC Every Saturday - #349 ATG Christmas - Add Some Sparkle
CHNC Extra - Sept. ATG Christmas
Noor Design - #34 Layers
613 Avenue Create  - #201 ATG / Distress It
Addicted To Stamps - #152 Christmas
Creative Moments - #125 ATG
Crafty Creations - #349 ATG

I hope you liked my vintage Christmas card, I really love this style of Santa image.

I have made a number of Christmas cards up to now but not nearly enough for what I will need, how is your Christmas card stash coming along?

Please visit the rest of the group for their selection of inspirational Christmas cards this time by following the links here. 

Bye for now

Lorraine

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #2 Sleigh

Hi Crafters,

It's time for our friendly Christmas Card Club to meet again and our theme which was chosen by Maureen is 'Sleigh'.

I have used this fabulous image from Bugaboo Stamps featuring jolly old Santa and his sleigh in a snow globe.

 Recipe

Image - Snow Globe - Santa's Sled - Bugaboo Stamps

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - Me To You - Happy, Jolly Christmas

Kraft Card

Sizzix Word Die

Marianne Designs & Impression Obsession Snowflake Dies

MFT Stitched Square Dies

Crafters Companion Christmas Embossing Folder

Gems

Glamour Dust

I've seen lots of crafty folk recently making these types of backgrounds with patches of coordinating papers so I thought I would give that a go. I like how it turned out, especially using the MFT stitched square dies, which took all the work out of cutting and measuring. I embossed the panel behind Santa with a CC Christmas Words embossing folder but then covered most of it up with the snow globe, never mind. Lastly, I cut out the word 'believe' from my new set of Sizzix dies, loving these as there are so many combinations using the words included in it, and adhered it and the snowflakes to balance out the card.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Time - #9 Make It Sparkle

CHNC Christmas Challenge - January

The Ribbon Girl - January Any Image Challenge

Incy Wincy Designs - Tic Tac Toe (Embossing, Red, Die Cut)

I Love Promarkers - #300 Use Something New  

( New Image & New Word Die)

Creative Moments - #85 ATG/Let It Snow

Aud Sentiments - #147 ATG

Creative Fingers - #101 ATG

I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend, I think it's meant to be dry here for the next few days thank goodness.

I'll be back tomorrow with my Design Team inspiration for 613 Avenue Create, see you then.

Lorraine 

xXx

613 Avenue Create Challenge #154 - Anything Goes / Create Your Own Challenge using the Bingo Board

Hi Crafters,

A new challenge at 613 Avenue Create has started today and our theme as always is an Anything Goes challenge or using the twist which is creating your project using items from the Bingo Board shown below.

Here is my card using the Anything Goes Theme...

Recipe
Image - Santa Head - Eureka Stamps
Medium - Pro/flexmarkers
Papers - The Night Before Christmas Paper Pad
Sleigh - Marianne Designs Die
Flying Santa Die - Britannia Dies
Corner Die - La La Land Crafts
SB Oval Die
White Glitter
Glitter Embossing Powder
Sentiment - Computer Generated


Challenges I'd like to enter:
Addicted To Stamps - #115 Christmas
That Craft Place - Christmas
Eureka Stamps - #170 Christmas is Coming
Incy Wincy Designs - Christmas + Red and Silver
Crafty Cardmakers & More - #153 'Twas The Night Before Christmas'
Depicting the poem lines -

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.


Deep Ocean Challenge - #118 Santa is Coming To Town
I Love Promarkers - #298 ATG
Cute Card Thursday - #403 Add Some Glitter
Sweet Stampin Christmas - Father Christmas
The 12 MoC Link Up - #12 ATG / Santa Claus is Coming to Town



Here's a photo of the board if you would like to follow along with that theme and our two sponsors this week.

Bingo Board

Flat Friends Boutique

Eureka Stamps

Well that's all form me today, I'm still beavering away in my craft room completing some last minute orders before Christmas.

Lorraine
xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #17 - Santa Claus is coming to Town

Hi Crafters,

 

Again I'm posting my CCC card a day early as I have another DT card for tomorrow, hope that's ok ladies?

 

Carol is our hostess this time and she has chosen 'Santa Claus is coming to Town'.

 

Recipe

Topper - Hobby House - Jolly Christmas

Papers - Dovecraft - 'Back To Basics Christmas'

Kraft Card

Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Circle and Classic Scalloped Ovals

Sentiment - Tonic Studios 'Tis The Season' Die Set

Velvet Ribbon

Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

Glamour Dust

 

 

As you can see I went for an easel card, it was rather a large topper measuring 12 cm across so putting it on an easel card gave me the extra space I needed on the bottom layer for the beautiful sentiment die. I inked through the die with DI and Versamark clear ink and heat embossed it with a glitter EP.

Here's a quick view of the inside and space to write your message.

 

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Papertake Weekly - To Die For

ABC Christmas - Q is for Quantum Leap ( D is for Die Cuts)

Creative Moments - #75 ATG - Fancy Folds

Winter Wonderland - Christmas Carols/Songs (Santa Claus is coming to Town)

Sister Act - #120 ATG

Creative Fingers - #90 ATG

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #94 ATG + Add a Border

Crafty Time - #4 Movie, Book or Song ( Song- Santa Claus is coming to Town)

Little Claire's Designs - #60 Christmas in August

CHNC Challenge Extra - August

 

Thanks for popping by today, the rest of the CCC will be showcasing their cards tomorrow, you can take a peek at them by following the links in the tab above.

It's going to be a scorcher here today according to the weather man - it's already 24 degrees. We've been out this morning before it got too hot and so now I'm keeping cool in my craft room.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine

 

 

 

 

 

 



Yay !!! Great News !!!

Hi Crafters,

 

I have been dying to reveal some exciting news that I have been sitting on for some weeks now... I was asked to join the 'As You Like It' Design Team! I am so honoured to be part of this fantastic team of crafty ladies and so here is my first official DT card for the challenge.

'Favourite Colour and Why'

Recipe
Image - Whipper Snapper Designs Stamp - Good/Bad Santa
Medium - Pro/flexmarkers
Kanban Christmas Paper
Jus-Cutz Die - Decorative Shapes #6
Marianne Designs Bauble Die
Britannia Word Dies - Merry Christmas
Joy die - Snowflake
Ribbon and bows from Stash

Well, did you guess my favourite colour?

Red has always been my favourite colour, even when I was a little girl I always liked red things. I love the warmth and vibrancy of this colour and maybe I'm a little bit fiery by nature too, you'd have to ask my family about that :/

So back to the challenge, our sponsor is...

Sweet Pea Stamps



We would love to see what your favourite colours are but don't forget to tell us WHY it's your favourite too.
Please check out the fantastic projects from the DT ladies on the blog and then come and join us!

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Crafty Friends Challenge - #9 ATG
One Crazy Stamper - ATG
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Christmas in July (3rd entry)
CHNC Patterned Paper - July
CHNC Christmas Extra - July
The Ribbon Girl - ATG with an Image
Come & Get It - Christmas in July
Quirky Crafts - #14 Christmas in July
Papertake Weekly - Don't Be a Square
Deep Ocean - #108 Christmas in July

See you soon,


Lorraine
 



Christmas Card Club Challenge - #3 Jolly Santa, Ho, Ho, Ho

**For my 613 Avenue Create DT post please scroll down**

 

Hi Crafters,

It's time for our friendly Christmas Card Club challenge and this week it was my turn to choose the theme. I went with the big man himself 'Santa' and here's what I came up with...

 

Recipe

DL card blank (this is unusual for me)

Vintage Santa Digi  - Sherri Baldy

Pro/flexmarkers

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Go Kreate large oval die

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Glitter embossing powder

Sentiment - Magazine Freebie

 

 I inked and glitter embossed around the edges of the card and the oval aperture and it looks fine IRL but here in the photo it looks grubby :( 

 

 Challenges

Cute Card Thursday - #358 Stamping Mad

Completely Christmas - #48 Square or Rectangle Card

Sister Act - #91 ATG

Creative Fingers - #65 ATG

Sketch Saturday - #346 Pick Any Sketch

Come and Get It - Texture
Scribble & Scrap - #37 ATG
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #3 ATG
CHNC Christmas Challenge Extra - February Challenge
Christmas Cards All Year Round - Red & White
 

 

Please take a look at the other ladies blogs in the team (list in page tab at the top) they have some inspirational cards for you to help get YOU started on those Christmas cards early this year. It makes all the difference to have a stack of cards ready come the festive season and helps to take a bit of the pressure off that is so acute at that time of year.

Hope you enjoyed my little Santa creation, I will be round to visit you all later today.

 

Hugs,

Lorraine

Santa Christmas Tags

Hi folks,
Hope you all had a great weekend.
Yesterday I posted my first Christmas tags creations of this year and I've been busy this morning making some different ones.....

 

 

I bought this lovely Santa stamp from Creative Expressions and I couldn't wait to use it and I think it turned out ok. The construction of the tags is the same as before but this time I added punched holly leaves and tinkling bells to the ribbon bow. I'm really pleased how these look. There is a space on the back for writing your message and a red twine loop for attaching to your gift. These will also be in my Etsy shop.
Here is a close up view...

My creative juices are flowing now I can think of lots more ideas, it's just having the time to fit it in, lol.
Well I hope you enjoyed my little blog post for today, I would love to have a few more followers stopping by but I have only been blogging a month so it's early days.
Happy crafting everyone.

Lorraine

My First Christmas Card This Year.....

.....only 49 more to go :/
Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.
Thought I would start the new month with my first Christmas card as I have quite a few to make each year. It's quite hard though, creating Christmasy things when the sun is shining outside and it's in the very high twenties, but still it has to be done.
This little 'fella' is a Santa topper from The Range, the papers and ribbons are from my stash. I've managed to collect rather a lot of festive goodies over the years so I haven't had to buy any this time, hubbie will be pleased.

The cute little flair button in the corner is part of a set from 36 Shades of Flair . The owner, Kimberly had a giveaway on her Facebook page and I was the lucky winner! Take a look at all the other great buttons she has there and in her Etsy store, there's one for every occasion.
Well this won't do, I must get on, lots more cards to make and housework to do somewhere in between.
See you all later,

Happy Crafting

Lorraine