Christmas Belle

Hi Crafters,

I am honoured to be a Guest Designer this month at Cute as a Button challenge blog.

It's an Anything Goes theme so come along and join in.

Here's my card using 'Christmas Belle'

Recipe

Image - Christmas Belle - Cute as a Button Designs

Medium - Pro/flexmarkers

Papers - MME Snowed In Paper Pad

Dreamees Sentiment Stamp (heat embossed)

Impression Obsession Snowflake Die

Glamour Dust

As usual the glamour dust isn't showing up on her hat and pom-poms but I can assure you there's plenty on there.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Winter Wonderland - Frosty / Well Wrapped Up

Aud Sentiments - #167 Cute + Sentiment
Crafty Catz - #344 ATG + Die Cuts / Punches
Art By Myran - #70 ATG
Allsorts - #387 Let's Make a Start on Christmas
Crafty Cardmakers - #176 Explosion of Colour
Sketch Saturday - #436 Pick a Sketch
#316

Thanks for visiting today,

See you soon,

Lorraine 

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Christmas Card Club Challenge #22 - Anything Goes

Hi Crafters,

Now I hope you're ready for this post coz it's really photo heavy.

Sylvie gave us the theme of Anything Goes this week for our friendly Christmas Card Club and so I decided to share with you some of the Christmas Gift Tags I have been making.

Here goes....

So there you have it a 'small' selection of the many tags I have made this year.

I hope you like them and please take a look at the other ladies blogs on the team for their gorgeous Anything Goes projects.

Challenges I'd like to enter:
Allsorts Challenge - #387 Lets make a start on Christmas
CHNC Every Saturday - #305 - ATG Christmas
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #387 Add Ribbon, Sparkle and Shine

Moving Along With The Times - #32 Cute Animals
Crafty Catz - #344 ATG + Die Cuts / Punches

Thanks for joining me today, see you again soon,

Lorraine 

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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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Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #369 Photo Inspiration

Hi Crafters,

We have a new challenge at Passion For Promarkers using an Inspiration Photo this time.

Here's my card using the colours in the photo shown beneath.

Inspiration Photo

For this challenge we would like you to use at least 2 of the colours in the photo or you could use all of them if you like.

I really enjoyed creating this double z-fold card that I've seen in Blogland quite a lot recently. The image is one kindly sent to us by our sponsor A Day For Daisies and is coloured with my Promarkers of course and die cut using a Spellbinders Labels Five die then mounted onto SB Floral Oval die. The papers are from various MME paper pads and the die cut sentiment is from Tattered Lace. I then decided to add the waves along the top of the band which were cut using a La, La Land die.

Please join us this week using your Letraset/Winsor Newton Markers and show us your beautiful creations.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Catz - #343 ATG

Brown Sugar - #221 ATG

The Ribbon Girl - Any Image Challenge

Crafting When We Can - #130 No Square Cards

Bye for Now,

Lorraine

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Look in to the Mirror - What do you see?

Hi Crafters,

I had so many Birthday wishes for Sunday I hope I thanked you all, if I missed anyone then a big thank you again as I really appreciated your kind thoughts. 

I joined in a Halloween/Autumn card swap recently and now that my swap partner has received her Halloween card I can share it here with you all.

Recipe

Digital Papers

Silhouette Cameo Files - Spider Web Mirror, Ghosts, Poison Bottle, Trick or Treat words.

Witch Image - Internet, printed on acetate

Muslin

Googly Eyes

Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder

I had great fun making this and here's the inside.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Cardmakers - #175 Things that go Bump in the Night

Deep Ocean - #140 Halloween

Try It On Tuesday - Scary, Spooky

Creative Moments - #104 ATG/Pumpkins

Creative Inspirations - #260 Halloween/Fall

Crafty Friends - #43 ATG

Unicorn Challenge - #14 Pretty Pinks/Halloween

Country View Crafts - All Things Spooky

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

Noor Designs - #23 CAS/Fully Loaded

Delicious Doodles - #17 Halloween

OSAAT - #273 ATG + Halloween

Thanks for joining me today, I'd better hop to it and get some dinner ready now before the family start shouting :/

Lorraine

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Cherished Friend

Hi Crafters,

Isn't she so cute and gorgeous!

This image came from a Jane Netley Mayhew CD- Rom that I've had for ages, I'm on a mission to use some older stash right now.

Recipe

Image - Jane Netley Mayhew Collection Part 2 CD- Rom

Papers - LOTV

Stamped Sentiment - Kaisercraft Stamp

Cheery Lynn Corner Dies

Flowers from stash

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends - #44 ATG

CD Sunday - Paws

Crafting From The Heart - #132 ATG

That's all from me today, I have a craft fair tomorrow so today will be taken up with preparing any last minute makes for that.

Lorraine

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As You Like It Challenge #91 - Old or New Stash

Hi Crafters,

There's a new challenge starting over at As You Like It and we would like you to tell us your 

Favourite Old or New Stash and WHY.

I love new crafty stuff don't you? But I also have plenty of old stuff too. After crafting for ten years you tend to accumulate lots of things. Today  my card is using an image from our sponsor DigiStamp Boutique called Sketchy Flower Frames and these come in a set of four. I loved colouring these new images but I really loved hunting through my room to find some crafty items I hadn't used for a while too so I'm sorry but I'm sitting on the fence for this challenge Girls.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Creative Fingers - #118 ATG

DigiStamp Boutique - OCT ATG DSB

Crafty Girlz - #20 ATG

Our sponsor is giving a £10 voucher to the lucky winner.

Thanks for joining me today and I look forward to seeing what you create using your favourite old or new stash.

Lorraine

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