SYLVIE'S CHALLENGE.....SNOWFLAKES.

Well here is my latest parchment card...Hope it is to your liking.

Can I keep it up I wonder...I certainly will be trying.

Embossing, and cutting is all I had to do on this card...Oh and a bit of dorsing on the reverse.

Adding a final touch with peel off's.

Pinky's Challenge...A CRITTER.

Hi Ladies, sorry about the underlines if anyone knows how to get rid of it please tell me.

This is a card that I first did for a friend of mine a couple of Christmases ago.

It is made from parchment with dorso colouring on the background.

I had a little bit of colouring to do on the polar bear but most of it is embossed.

I embossed the snowflakes then added glitter to highlight them.

I cut out an aperture with my X cut oval cutter applying glitter around the edge, then mounted my polar bear in the oval aperture.

I then finished off with a sentiment.

I will hopefully be doing parchment for my future cards as it is easier for me to do.

Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoy making them.

KERYNS CHALLENGE ....THIN...

Well here we are another year starts and plenty more challenges ahead...

Sorry I missed the last two cards...hand was still giving me jip...

Will probably try to get them done and put them on my blog in the near future..

My card for Keryns challenge is a template that I cut out with my craft robo....

The red parts are coloured parchment cut out with the craft robo,

then embossed through my big shot.

I then finished with a green star centre and a gem...

CHRISTMAS CARD CLUB. Snow or Snowman/Women.

For this challenge thought I would use an image from My Papercraft Library Cd's .

I then coloured in the image with my Spectrum Noir Pens.

Over the top of the image I attached a sheet of snowy acetate.

My Spellbinders are the main shaping and I used a corner punch to insert the corners of the gold mirror card.

The finishing touches where a verse topper, glitter on the edges of the inner shape circled with peel off's and ribbon made into a bow.

Not a bad effort with someone with only one hand to use, good job I am ambidextrous.

Sorry I forgot to tell you all about my operation.

CHRISTMAS CARD CLUB.Four or More of a Kind.

This is Clare's Challenge of Four or More of a Kind.....

This I thought was a very taxing challenge but I thoroughly enjoyed it....

These are Triangle Tri-Fold Cards....

The Card Toppers are pictures on cloth which I bought from the Doncaster Show this year which I mounted onto mount board, then matt and layered...

The outer is a Spellbinders eyelet square on colour core card.

I took the edges off using a file then used distress ink to darken them....

The centre pieces on the fronts are Creative Expressions Zipper Roses which I bought from MB Crafts, of which I had no idea what to do with them for ages!!!!!! Till Now....

Then I finished off with some C&C Ribbon and a couple of stick on rhinestones.

I am entering this into the Christmas Card Club Challenge....

CHRISTMAS CARD CLUB. FREEBIE OR RECYCLED.

Here is my card, which is a freebie stamp that I got in the Papercraft Essentials Mag....which I now subscribe to regulary....

I spent a great afternoon with a friend making this card.. .

Even though we both made the same card they were quite different.....

I am entering this card in the Christmas Card Club Challenge.

Afternoon Crafting At A Friends.

Spent an afternoon at my friends Janet crafting and these are the two cards that I managed to make.....

Christmas of course.....

My Prize Win.

Well getting home from my friends today after some wonderful crafting. Cards above . I was met by a parcel on my mat????

Thinking!!! I'm sure iv'e not ordered anything lately...old age and all...I opened it in anticipation and WOW!!!!

I had only won the full set of My Craft Studio Papercraft Library CD's just by sending my details on a postcard...so all it cost me was the price of a stamp...

So to all you crafters out there do enter these competitions if it just means buying a stamp.

CHRISTMAS CARD CLUB.LIZZIE'S SKETCH

Thought I would try a bit of sophistication for this challenge. The tree is actually 3D but is quite difficult to see. It was an idea from a young lady called Susannah who has her own company called 'SUSANNAH STYLE'.

The back ground paper is stamped and distressed which is another idea she was showing us at the craft fair at Lincoln the other Sunday.

My starting point for this sketch was actually the ribbon, which I thought was a good a place as any to start, as it was the only place I could think of to start at.

Smart but Simple.

This is my card for Claire's Challenge....Silver & Blue with Embossing...

This is a similar card to one that I saw in a demo this last Saturday at MB Craft's...