Merry Christmas Penguins

Hi, hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend. I've just finished work for today, just tomorrow morning to go and then I can relax. Quite a few challenges are asking for Christmas cards at the moment and I have been looking for an excuse to use one of the other LOTV stamps that fell into my basket the other day. I found my card quite hard to photograph today  (too little light in the back garden and too much in the front). This image is quite large so I was struggling with a layout until I remembered some cards that I bought from Hunkydory.

Ingredients:

image - lotv 'merry christmas penguins'

cuttlebug embossing folder - 'polka dots'/'snow dots'

marianne poinsettia die 

spellbinders nestabilities

micro beads

bazzill bling

stickles - 'frosted lace' (+loose glitter)

coloured with promarker/flexmarkers

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Lili's Little Fairies - embellishment bingo (flowers, gems, glitter)

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - WOW

J & C Creations - September Challenge - 'cute christmas'

Cute Card Thursday - challenge #234 'christmas in september'

Papertake Weekly Challenge - 'things that make you go awwww'

LEJ Designs - challenge #20 'winter wishes'

Sparkles Christmas - challenge #20 'sparkle and bling'

CSAYL - challenge #28 'snowy'

Forever Friends - challenge #44 'embossing'
Willow Sketchie Challenge - (sketch or) 'things with wings'
Anything Goes - challenge #75 'early christmas'
Creative Harmony Challenge - 'almost white' (hope this isn't too white Linda)

Carol Singing

Good afternoon everyone, hope your are enjoying your weekend. I had the last two bank holidays off work so I have to work tomorrow. Wish the weather would make up its mind, yesterday we had rain and a humongous thunderstorm, today the sun is shining but it is really muggy. I've made a christmas card today and combined the challenges at ABC Christmas Challenge and Winter Wonderland Challenge. I made my quilted paper on the computer using nitwits paper, I inserted them into a word document, shrunk them to size and joined them together.

Ingredients:

image - lotv 'carol singers'

papers - nitwits

mariane creatable die - 'poinsettia'/'lantern'/'holly' leaves

cheery lynn die - 'holly corner'

flower soft

glitter - stickles 'frosted lace'

coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - 'Q is for quilting'

Winter Wonderland Challenge - 'red and green should be seen'

My Time to Craft -  challenge #185 'christmas in august'

Fab 'n' Funky - challenge #135 'use leaves somewhere...'

Willow Sketchie Challenge - 'christmas in august'

Challenge Up Your Life - challenge #76 'christmas in summer'
Stamping for Pleasure - 'August Rudolf Day'

Mistletoe and Mice

Good afternoon everyone, hope you are all having a lovely weekend. The sun is shining, I've finished work and I am now off until next Saturday, hurrah!!! My card today has been inspired by a few that I have seen on blogs that I follow and a challenge at ABC  Christmas Challenge which is too use paper piercing.  I have done decoupage before and the principle is similar, the hardest part was finding a suitable image and papers with a smallish pattern.

Ingredients:

image - stampavie 'mistletoe and mice'

papers - dovecraft 'back to basics Christmas'

marianne creatable die - 'mistletoe LR0189'

cheery lynn die - 'holly corner'

pearls - mei flower

coloured with promarkers and flexmarkers

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - 'p for paper piercing'

Crafters Companion - challenge #27 'best friends' 

Totally PaperCrafts - challenge #130 'inspired by a song' (It Must Have Been the Mistletoe)

A Gem of A Challenge - challenge #53 'animals or teddies'

Whimsey Stamps Inspirations - challenge #50 'lots of layers'

My Time to Craft - challenge #185 'Christmas in August'

Simon Says Stamp Challenge  'animal antics'

Penny Black & More @Allsorts - August challenge  'whiskers and/or wings
J & C Creations - challenge #3 'anything goes'
Crafty Catz - challenge #146 'animals'