Feeling Sketchy?

What an amazing amount of entries there were for last week's Scrapbook Sister's challenge, hopefully this week "A  Sketch" will tempt just as many. Now I don't usually follow sketches and when I realised that it was the theme for this week I panicked a bit, I needn't have worried though as it is a lovely one to follow and to be honest, apart from the card stock,all of the papers were scraps left over from last year's cards.  The stamp is also a last year's forever friends set.

Here's the sketch if you fancy giving it a go we'd all love to see what you come up with.

I'm entering my card for the following challenges:-
ABC Christmas,Yipee,anything goes,
Belli 132,Christmas,
Crafty Creations 147,Card with sentiment,
Divas By Design 16, Anything goes,
FBC 76,Christmas,
MMCS35,Traditional Christmas,
Penny's 68, Merry Christmas,
CMP5,Christmas colours,
Tuesday Throwdown 77, Tis the season.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Sparkle And Snowflakes At LCI.

Boy oh boy,did you check out all of the beautiful "WOW" entries last week at LCI, there were some really beautiful and inspiring creations and with this week's theme we're expecting to see a whole lot more!
It's the Lovely Lisa's turn to host this week's challenge and it's such a perfectly brilliant theme for this time of year, I  for one don't mind if I spill a little glitter on to my clothes and working with small children I've been twinkling for weeks now lol!
 So onto the theme for this week, "Sparkle and Snowflakes"  The Ladybugs are all using the Stamp of the month, "Tom and Snowman" this is available at half price till the end of the month. For my DT card I made a shaker card, just perfect with this cute image, my papers are glittery already so just a drizzle of stickles was added around the diecut.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Bearly Mine 25, Untraditional Christmas colours,
Cards and More 42,Snowflakes,
Crafty Sentiments,Snowflakes,
Creative Card Crew,Tis the season,
Papertake Weekly,Anything goes.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

 

Tiny Green Tree

A quick post today I'm afraid as I've still lots to get done. The LIM challenge this week is the colour prompt "Green" so with a gift to put in the post for the fast approaching day, I thought I'd make a tiny 3" square card to post with it. I inked up a set of stamps that I bought a couple of years ago but lost amongst some papers without ever using. They are by Dovecraft and I think at the time they cost under a pound. I just added a green gel pen doodled frame and a touch of stickles to the star.

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
TT185, Single layer Christmas,
LIM44, Green,
CCC1, One layered Christmas.
Hope you've had a great weekend,
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Ribbon Madness at Southern Girls.

It's  Lou's team challenge this fortnight at Southern Girls and the theme for "Challenge 33 is Ribbon Madness!"
Now,I generally use ribbon on my cards but for some reason I couldn't think of how I was going to incorporate ribbon on this one, I was just so taken with the gorgeous Lil Little Lolita Ivy by Tickled Pink that I didn't want to over do it on the ribbon  front so I decided to punch holes and tie various ribbons between them. Tickled Pink are one of the 3 sponsors for this challenge,be sure and check out the "Southern Girls"  blog for full details of the challenge and sponsors!

I slightly shaped my cut out image and raised it slightly with Pinflair glue. I then wrote "Hoppy Birthday using a white gel pen and added a few hand drawn "stitches".

 I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Creative Craft Challenge, Free for all,
PTT44, Anything goes,
Crafty Boots, Anything goes,
MIM65, Anything goes,
SWF 139, Stitching,
VOC22, Ribbon,
Birthday Sundaes 37, Birthday sentiment,
KCG71,Stitching,
TP47,Hand written sentiments.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Anything Goes Wednesday

The theme for this week's challenge at Scrapbook Sisters is "Anything goes", how brilliant is that as it means that for my DT card I was able to make another Christmas card for the pile using another of Gayle Bond's images,I used a stamp from last year but they are available as Digi's and are available exclusively at Scrapbook Sisters.
 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
Creative Card Crew,Monochromatic,
Going Grey WSC,Christmas,
CYPC 86, Tis the season,
Kaboodle Doodles, Bundle Up for winter,
CCC147,Sentiment/Christmas,
Divas by Design 16,Anything goes.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

WOW!

It's Pami's challenge this week at Ladybug Crafts Ink and her theme is "White On White"  let's face it when you are using  a brilliant image like "Dear Santa" you really don't need anything else to look at,  and that Jack is such a cutie I so love to colour him! I kept my DT card really simple, just some photo corners made using my square nesties and some photo paper off cuts, some layering of die cuts  and some Ikea ribbon with the wire removed.

I added some glossy accents to the baubles on the tree and drizzled some stickles around the image.

I'm using my card for the following challenges:-
Craft Your Passion 86, Tis the season,
PCI, Christmas,
Addicted To Stamps 18,Christmas Card,
GL30, Christmas,
Stamptacular Sunday 140, Anything Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x

Blinging Saturday And News Of A Guest Designer Call!

I was so excited when I saw the theme for this week's LIM challenge as I knew exactly what I wanted to do,the only trouble was I didn't yet have the image, but that really isn't a problem when it's a digi, I just put in a quick order and within a few minutes The card was started! I even attempted a few things I've never done before as the tree,star and baubles are all separate digi's combined to make a one off image, you can find them here at LCI along with the other amazing images in the set. Oh and a quick heads up, you still have a couple of days if you fancy becoming a Guest Designer with the Ladybugs!

The other first for me was printing my Sentiment directly with my image, I couldn't believe how easy it all was! If anyone can help me with how I save a complete image and sentiment so that I can reproduce it, I'd be very grateful if you could share :) I came totally unstuck when I attempted to do this  lol!

Anyway, the LIM challenge theme is "A Bit Of Bling", I just added  three gems a few drizzles of Stickles and a bit of glossy accents. 

I'm using this card for the following challenges:-
LIM 43,Bit of bling,
My Sheri Crafts,Decorate for Christmas,
OCC,O Christmas Tree,
TPFC94, Christmas,
Aud Sentiments 42, Holiday Sentiments.
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie.x