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Friday, 29 November 2019

Softly Falling Snowflakes


The prompt for Day 29 at Beccy's Place month long holiday challenge is the letter Z. 
I chose a Z fold card, it has to be pretty much the only choice for Z I think.

The starting point was the snowman which was recycled from a Christmas card. The back section of the card has been covered with a clear vellum with silver snowflakes printed on it.

The front is a DCWV paper with glittery snowballs. The sentiment has been recycled from a Christmas card and matted onto a scrap of silver holographic card.

The snowflake on the from was assembled from a folder that cuts the shape and embosses at the same time. The white glitter one on top was recycled. The teal snowflake is a large one that I trimmed down.

Finally I added some gems, glitter glue and buttons to embellish.

I can't believe are nearly at the end of November!

Card Details -

Size - 6" x 6"
Image - Recycled from A Christmas Card
Dies - Sizzlits Cut & Emboss Folder Snowflake 2
Embellishments - Gems, stickles glitter glue, buttons


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Stanley's Bauble


The prompt for Day 17 at Beccy's Place month long holiday challenge is the letter O. 
I chose O for ornament.

The digital image is Stanley's Bauble which is a great freebie image from Beccy's Place. I have coloured it with Promarkers, Flexmarkers and highlighted with a white gel pen.

I have created a Z fold card. The back section is covered with a small design paper, the front section is folded in half and covered with a co-ordinating paper.

The image is matted onto gold and red card cut with the Nestabilities Reverse Wonky Rectangle dies from Spellbinders. I have added gold gel pen around the outside and some red gems.

The sentiment is a cardstock sticker that is matted into gold card. Finally a red bauble sticker was added to gold card and fussy cut the bauble section only. 


Card Details -

Size - 6" x 6"
Digital Image - Stanley's Bauble from Beccy's Place
Colouring Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers, White & gold Gel pens
Dies - Nestabilities Reverse Wonky Rectangles from Spellbinders
Embellishments - Gems, peel off stickers


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Flying Penguin


The prompt for Day 18 at Beccy's Place month long holiday cards challenge is the letter P.
I have chosen P for Penguin.

The digital image is Flying Penguin from Birdie Brown. She used to do a monthly challenge and give away loads of free images and this is one that I had printed ages ago but not yet coloured. He has been coloured using Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

I again used sketch 1 from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. All the papers and cardstock are scraps. The spotty paper and stars have all been recycled from old Christmas cards. Quite often you get some decent size pieces of patterned paper and card that are foiled and sometimes glittered. This sketch is perfect for using some of those.


The image has been cut with Nestabilities Labels 22 from Spellbinders. I then cut the stripy paper by hand and this gave me a corner to decorate with a bit of bling.

I added star gems in gold to match the paper and added a sentiment.

We are having 2 bedroom windows replaced today. It has gone proper cold in the UK and we again woke up to -1C and a frost. I will be spending a lot of the day holed up in my craftroom with my door closed, huddling the radiator, watching Netflix and making the last of the Christmas cards I need to make to complete the month of challenges Beccy has hosted.

Card Details -

Size - 6" x 6"
Digital Image - Flying Penguin (Retired) from Birdie Brown
Colouring Medium - Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Dies - Nestabilities Labels 22 from Spelbinders
Embellishments - Gems


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Thursday, 28 November 2019

Holiday Baking Fun


The prompt for Day 28 at Beccy's Place month long holiday challenge is the letter Y.
I have chosen Y for yellow.

Y is something I struggled with as I have nothing with Yule and the embellishments I have that are yellow are not really Christmassy.

I as going through some stickers and found this Penny Black Stickeroo with the green background and decided to do a green and yellow colour scheme. I found a yellow check paper and added the green stripes with a Promarker to make it blend with the project better.

The way I organise my stash is by theme so all my gingerbread stuff are together. The chipboard sentiment being yellow is perfect so I distressed the edges with the same green marker.

The gingerbread border is part of a paper that was a magazine freebie and I cut the strips out from this. 

The gingerbread men are shrink plastic that have been cut using a Sizzix die and coloured with Promarkers and a gold paint marker.

I am quite pleased with how this turned out and actually used one of the stickers that I have had for at least 10 years.

Card Details :-

Size - 6" x 6"
Sticker - Penny Black Stickeroo Snowy Christmas 10-166
Die - Gingerbread Man from Sizzix
Embellishments - Shrink Plastic


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Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Patchwork Snowman


The prompt for Day 21 at Beccy's Place month long holiday challenge is to use scraps. I have been using scraps on many occasions so that really is not much of a challenge for me. 

I decided to make a patchwork background from several different patterns to do something different to anything I have done before.

I selected several scraps in blues, silver and white. Some are strips are recycled from Christmas cards, some are foiled, some are glittered. Lots of patterns and textures. The squares are 1.7cm in size and I placed several together to make a quilted frame.


This frame was then cut to size and attached to the card base. The gold background is a mesh frame added to a black base to make the colour pop. The frame has been covered with glittery washi tape. The snowman has been pieced together from recycled scraps. To this I added a glittery pom pom and an oval gem nose. The frame is mounted onto some holographic card and then 3d foam squares.

To break up the background I added some fabric snowflakes that are in a hologram foiled finish and then some gems to the the centres.

Card Details :-

Size - 6" x 6"
Embellishments - Pom pom, gems, washi tape, fabric snowflakes


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Snowman & Robin


The prompt for Day 27 at Beccy's Place month long holiday challenge is X.
I chose X for X Stitch.

I have had this little cross stitch on my stash for a long time. It was in a card that I received from a friend many years ago and had intended that I would re-use it at some point.  Roll on at least 10 years and here we are.

I used a red cardstock base and added a border of gold self adhesive tape. The snowman is held behind a thick chipboard frame and then matted onto some gold foil paper. The polka dot panel from Craftwork Cards has been inked with a small red ink pad to bring out the dots.

I added a sentiment matted onto gold mirri card and finally added some bling in the corners for a bit of sparkle.

We are very lucky that we have robins that are frequent visitors to our garden and even had a nest this year with a baby. I was in the garden and it popped out to see me for about 20 minutes. It was really close to me and didn't seem scared. At times it looked right at me. It was very special as you don't usually see baby ones. I popped in the house and grabbed my phone to get a few snaps.


I am in the process of decorating our spare bedroom at the moment and in between tasks I am making Christmas cards. I only have a few more to make and I will have completed the whole month of Beccy's challenges. Not bad considering I started late and had to some catching up to do.  

Card Details :-

Size - 6" x 6"
Embellishments - Chipboard Frame, self adhesive gems


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Rodney Reindeer


The prompt for Day 24 at Beccy's Place month long holiday challenge is the letter U.
I have chosen U for Umber

The digital image is Rodney Reindeer from Digital Delights by Louby Loo. This has been coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers. I have fussy cut around the image and mounted onto 3d foam squares for dimension. This has been mounted onto mats cut using the Nestabilities Labels 22 dies from Spellbinders.

I have used Stella Says Sketch 720 for the layout of this card. The base is a dark brown cardstock to pick out the colours from the deer. The patterned card at the bottom is from Docrafts with a metallic silver design. This dictated the use of silver mirri card for matting and layering. The other papers are from the Christmas Cheer pad by K & Co.

The bauble trim is a self adhesive ribbon. Finally I have added a sentiment recycled from a card received and some self adhesive gems as embellishments.

Card Details :-

Size - A5
Digital Stamp - Rodney Reindeer by Digital Delights by Louby Loo
Paper - Docrafts & K & Co
Dies - Nestabilties Labels 22 from Spellbinders
Colouring Tools - Promarkers, Flexmarkers
Embellishments - Self adhesive ribbon, self adhesive gems


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Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Tealight House



For Day 26 at Beccy's Place Month long holiday challenge the prompt is the letter W. 
I chose W for window.

I have had a card in my stash since 2013 that was 4 houses that clipped together to make a 3d card. This inspired me to do something similar but I wanted to light up the windows.

I started by cutting the windows out with a craft knife to make several apertures. I added plain vellum on the back of the house to create a soft glow rather than a harsh light.


To make the card stand up I have added panels that were die cut using the Gemini Large Box Die. The decorative panel was the die cut with a co-ordinating Patchwork panel die to create the trellis effect. I did initially make it as this but the light was too harsh. I then decided to add vellum to the inside of these panels. One panel is attached to each side of the house to make a triangle. This will allow it to be folded down and go flat inside an envelope.

The image below shows the reverse and how it glows with a battery operated tea light inside it.


This image shows what it looks like from the front without the light on. Still very pretty but much nicer with the light on.




Card Details :-

Size - 8cm x 15.5cm
Dies - Gemini Large Ornate Box & Patchwork Panels from Craftwork Cards
Tools - Scalpel
Embellishments - Battery operated Tea Light


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Mistletoe Kisses


The prompt for Day 15 at Beccy's Place Month long holiday challenge is the letter M. 
I have chosen Mistletoe.

This image is Mistletoe Kiss from Delicious Doodles. It is one of my favourite images that Teri has drawn. I used to be on the DT at Stitchy Bear Digital store and it was always a pleasure to use one of her images.  

The image has been coloured with Promarkers & Flexmarkers. Glossy Accents has been added to the eyes, lipstick, mistletoe berries and nail varnish. The fur trim on the coat has been made sparkly with Stickles glitter glue.

The card base has been covered with a mistletoe paper from the Christmas Cheer pad by K & Co.

The holly trim has been embellished with gem berries. The sentiment is a cardstock sticker.

The holly embellishment has been recycled from a Christmas Tag. I have fussy cut, added some gems and stickles glitter glue.

Card Details :-

Size - A5
Image - Mistletoe Kiss by Delicious Doodles/Teri Sherman
Paper - Christmas Cheer from K & Co
Tools - Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Embellishments - gems, Stickles glitter glue

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