A card round-up

Good evening blogland,

Back again now all the festivities are over - I truly hope all those of you who celebrate Christmas had a lovely day and those of you who don't had the best day possible and to those of you who (like me) just get through it I really do truly wish that you got over rough ground as lightly as possible.

Ours was, as always, a very quiet time - we went over friends house Christmas eve evening and then we three spent the day very quietly at home.

Some very happy gift exchanging happened and I've spent the last couple of days transferring data / files / etc from old phone and lap-top to new phone and lap-top.  I think I'm there and all gadgets appear to be working ok.  I also got a new pen case to accommodate my ever growing Copic pen collection and a very professional looking light-box so hopefully I'll no longer have to chase the light around the house when taking pictures of my cards.

Talking of cards, here are the last few that I made - wonder if you can guess which are mine and hubby's to TTT?? Oh, and the card I made for TTT's boyfriend is in the mix as well.

I won't do individual 'this is what I did' as it will make for an extremely long blog post (even longer than I've already made it!) so just listing relevant products used.

Whimsy Stamps - Penguins decorate the tree

Paper - First Edition : Artic Wonder

Various dies

Copic colouring following My Creative Scoop lessons

Random sentiment stamp

Lili of The Valley - Jasmine Christmas Presents

Sweet November Stamps - for the sentiment

Distress Inks and Mica Spray for the background

All Dressed Up - Christmas Couple

Random Christmas sentiment stamp

Snowflake punch

All Dressed Up - Christmas Baubles

Random sentiment

Glitter

Pretty Pink Posh die

I believe, apart from the odd card made with a die, that's all my Christmas cards blogged. Now I will put that behind me and move onto other occasions.

See you soon,

Signing off,

Sarah

A challenge or two:

All Dressed Up: December Challenge #124 (Christmas Couple)

Christmas with The Cuties: Challenge#56 - Challenge before Christmas - Entering the last card and I picked challenge #54 In The Pink at Christmas

AAA Cards: CAS Game #205 - Christmas (+optional twist slimline) - Entering the last card, but not following the twist

Christmas, anyone?

 Hello blogland,

After saying that I can't stand making Christmas cards - I've now made a shed-load! That's the joy of having a TTT who thinks you do nothing while she is at school and have loads of time to sit around making intricate cards for all of her friends! And, deep breath!!! 

I'm all done now, and, in all honesty it's nice that she wants me to make her cards, for many years before she only wanted shop brought ones. It does mean a lot of colouring though!

I think there are too many to share, unless I do one a day right up to Christmas, and I don't know if any of you want to be bombarded with all those cards. If I get enough requests, I'll do it but otherwise I'll not overwhelm you.

Here's one from the selection I made for her:

More colouring from Mindy Baxter (My Creative Scoop) lessons - the bear and penguin is a digi image - everything else is hand-drawn and coloured with Copics while following along with the lessons.  The image is exclusive to the lessons so I can't even point you to it!

The only extra thing I used was a very old sentiment stamp, an un-branded rectangle stitched die to die-cut out the image and a piece of card to matt it onto (well other than the card blanks - obviously!).

I hope everyone is having a stress-free and safe run up to Christmas.  We were supposed to be in London for a Dickensian Christmas themed evening, but cancelled due to the huge Covid numbers. So a quiet week at home is now the plan!

And that's about it from me,
See you soon,
Signing off,
Sarah

Challenge/s:

Gem of a Craft Challenge: Challenge 26 - Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog: Challenge #166 - Cute and Cuddly Christmas - I think both the little characters are super cuddly, tho I don't know that I would necessarily try and cuddle a Polar Bear in real life!! ;-)

As You Like it Challenge: Favourite Christmas Sentiment (and why) - well now as I'm not a massive fan of Christmas I have the grand total of 10 Christmas sentiments! I do like a 'Merry Christmas' personally and have used that stamp - and I've used a 'Seasons Greetings' or 'Winter Wishes' for my non-religious cards.  Personally though, I go for longer sayings, whether sentimental or jokey, as my absolute favourites. This one is rather nice and does have 'Christmas' in there, which generally I do prefer to have on cards somewhere.  

Birthday kisses!

 Good morning blogland

I'm here today with my first official post as Guest Design Team member for Colour Crazy Craft Challenges! In case it's not obvious from the name of the challenge it's a challenge for people who like to colour when crafting - it doesn't matter what you colour in or what you colour with but there must be a hand-coloured element to your project. So I'm a happy bunny - colouring and stamping is my main crafting pastime!

The theme of the challenges are always Anything Goes, but there has to be something that's been coloured in.  The sponsor this week is Polkadoodles and the DT were very kindly given some images to use.

So without further ado here's my card for this week's challenge:

Supplies Used:

Digital Stamp:

Polkadoodles -  Snowmen Frosty Hugs Too Cute 

coloured with Copics.

The sentiment is from an etsy seller who was selling 'digital word art'

Dies:

Un-branded rectangular stitched dies

Anything else:

Red card

bakers twine

white gel pen

What I did?

To make my card I printed the image and sentiment onto Copic friendly paper, coloured with my Copics and then added snow with the white gel pen.

I then die-cut it out with the stitched rectangle die.

I added a turn of bakers of twine, mounted the image onto a red card matt (also die cut with a stitched rectangle from the same set) and mounted it all onto my card blank with 3d foam.

It's 'Winter birthday' card as I thought it might nice to show what's thought of as Christmas associated images don't just have to be for Christmas, so I made a winter birthday card. It might be Hubby's card (his birthday is in between Christmas and the New Year) but I'm not sure as he also has a turn of the decade birthday and this card might be to cute for that occasion!

So, in other news, the blog has been quiet again - this is because I'm working away on (gulp!) Christmas cards! Not my first choice for relaxing crafting but, like I said in a previous post, TTT asked so she's getting.  Nearly done now and then there will be a rash of Christmas cards to share.  I will be glad when it's all done and I can get back to my normal images!

Hope everyone is having a stress-free and relatively peaceful run up to Christmas.  Fingers crossed the new Covid-19 variant isn't affecting anyone too adversely. 

Signing off and hoping to see you again soon,

Sarah

Challenge / s:

Watercooler Wednesday: WWC331 - Anything Goes

Digi Chooseday Crafting Challenge: Wk 50 - Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks Challenge: #590 - CAS

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #420 - Die-cuts and/or stencils - die-cuts for me