Sweet Stampin' Challenge No. 6

Hello & Happy Boxing Day! Hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday, we had a quiet but really lovely & relaxing Christmas, doesn't it go quick though - all that build up, work & stress and over so soon.

So onto this week's challenge at Sweet Stampin, maybe a chance to use some new crafting goodies Santa brought? A fab sketch by Jo, this is my kinda sketch, simple, straight, clean lines but of course you can make your entry as elaborate as you like!

This is your last chance to get into the month's draw for the Punch & Stamp set, so hope you can join us.

Here's my card:

I'm not sure why the picture's so wishy washy, but hopefully you can see it clearly enough. Do you like the lace trim? This was salvaged from a net bag that a pair of pyjamas I bought for my daughter came in, too nice to throw out and I've still got the rest of the bag too, which may come in useful!

Here's the rest of the details - all Stampin' Up!

Stamps - Queue Up (Level 3 Hostess); In The Stars

SU Markers - Pretty in Pink

Ink: Basic Black; Pretty In Pink

DSPs - Sweet Always (retired)

Cardstock - Pretty in Pink; Whisper White

I'm also entering my card into the following two challenges:

PaperPlay - New Beginnings

Cupcake Craft - A Time for Celebration

Have a great day!

My final Christmas Card!

I think! No I'm certain, all are now done and this last one is for my daughter, I've done it in her favourite colour - purple and there's a matching money wallet, which I'll show you tomorrow as it was too dark to take a decent photo by the time I'd finished.

I'm entering my card into 4 challenges:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp - Sketch

Simon Says - Merry Christmas

Anyone for Anya - Last Christmas Card of the year

Susie's Sassy Designs - A touch of Gold (the ribbon is gold IRL)

I've used Stampin; Up! Lovely Lilac cardstock and my papers are digi from Shabby Princess, the rest is from my stash.

I also did the last of my Christmas shopping today plus my grocery shopping, so apart from a bit of wrapping, I'm actually ready for Christmas - hooray!

Doodle Palace - new images & a freebie!

It's new release day over at Doodle Palace, there are two lovely new Teddy Bear images & this snail, which is a freebie, so pop over for a look!

I thought this would make a great belated card and I've made the sentiments on the computer, you can't really tell from the picture but I dug out my old shimmery paints for the snail's shell, so IRL his shell has a nice sparkle!

I followed the sketch over at Design Dollies, so I'm entering my card into their sketch challenge and the rest of my card is Stampin' Up! as follows:

Cardstock - So Saffon; Pumpkin Pie

DSPs - Washington Apple (retired)

Button - Earth Elements

I made the card on the weekend and went outside to take the picture and can you see the shadows on the card, yes we had some sunshine, it didn't last though, and once again it's wet & miserable, quite misty here at the moment!

Have a good day

Sophisticats Week 13

It's my turn to set the challenge over at Sophisticats this week and I've gone for "Snowflakes & Sparkle" as I've still got loads of Chrissy cards to do. Lisa our boss, is giving away a parcel of stamped images as a prize, so well worth entering!

Bit of tearing, and lots of glitter on my card, I've done a close up so you can see how sparkly the snowflakes are - even though it's a bit blurry, you get the idea!

Hope you can join us this week, I'm looking forward to seeing all the lovely entries, and don't forget to check out the rest of the DT's fab creations too.

Here's the info:

Stamps - Stampin' Up! Sparkling Jumbo Wheel, Little Paper Shop Tree & Sentiment

Ink - SU! White Craft; Old Olive; Night of Navy

Cardstock - Night of Navy; Old Olive; Whisper White

Other - SU! Heat & Stick powder; Dazzling Diamonds

TFL x

4 challenges and 2 awards

Here's a card I did yesterday but didn't manage to photograph until today, what dismal weather we're having here!

I'm entering this into 4 challenges:

Penny Black: Song Lyric - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

I love ProMarkers - Sketch

Allsorts - Bling

Susie's Sassy Designs - Christmas

The image & sentiment are both Penny Black, coloured with PM's and I've added SU! Dazzling Diamonds to the snow and around the edge of the puddle, I've also glittered up the snowflake (from a punch) by using SU! Heat & Stick powder (this stuff is great for preventing the glitter coming back off the card everytime you look at it LOL) and more Dazzling Diamonds, so I think I've got the bling factor covered! The papers are from my stash and the cardstock is SU! Elegant Eggplant, which is fast becoming one of my new favourites - and I don't even like purple, but am loving this!

I've been very lucky to have received two awards, both from my Sophisticat DT buddies Cheryl & Avril, thanks so much to both of you for thinking of me, it's lovely to have these awards and I'd like to pass them on to any of my followers that would like them as a big thank you for your continued support.

From Avril

From Cheryl

Piece of Cake (Box)

I came across this fab template for a cake slice box and decided to make one for this week's Stamp With Us Challenge, which is anything but a card and also Carly has set the Charisma DT a challenge to make a favour box so I'm going to enter it in that as well.

Really easy to make following the template and all Stampin' Up! products used (except the ribbon which came from my stash). The flower is made following another template with a brad in the middle

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip

Papers - Sweet Always (retired)

And that's it! Simple to do - you could say it was a piece of cake! ha, ha!