November Rudolph day challenge

its the last challenge of the year at scrappymo's Rudolph day challenge so here is my card......

this is my first attempt at creating a background using brusho's....I have shied away from stuff like this but I had a lovely day playing creating backgrounds and learning how little of the product is needed.....I think I was a bit heavy handed on this one but I decided to use it as I loved the colours...
Have a look over at scrappymo's there are prizes to be won.

Christmas card club challenge 24...The Holly and the Ivy

a quick CAS card .....

I have used a craftwork cards card which is printed with the holly and the ivy music...apt I thought and a very old clarity stamp which I have embossed with WOW midnight sparkle ...its so lovely and blingy...doesn't show up very well on the photo....
The penultimate challenge for 2015......please pop round all the other girls blogs and see their lovely creations

more tags.....

I just had so much fun making my christmas card club challenge tag that I made a few more......

I found that I Really relaxed and enjoyed making these little scenes...
the dies are the Marianne creatables...all sorts of other dies,tattered lace,Sue Wilson...so much fun even if they did take ages.......
hope you are enjoying your day and that you are crafting too....

playing with my scan and cut.....

these are the last of the belly boxes I  have to make for christmas ...so now I move onto the crackers

going to be filling these with chocolate pennies for on the dinner table.....
these are all cutting files from myscrapchick......bought in the dollar sale.....I just think they are such fun to make........

a large christmas card......

this card grew like toppsy....starting out with the Sue Wilson boarder dies....

my inspiration came from a card John Lockwood demonstrated on Hochanda when inspiration was needed!.....where does that crafty mojo go......
All the dies are Sue Wilson and the embossing folder too ,with gold dimensional paste grouted into the embossing......I watched Sue's you tube video.....
Hope you have your mojo and are enjoying crafting today,we had wild and windy night last night at one point I thought the roof tiles were coming off....a nice bright sunny morning ...ironing curtains for me!

Christmas card club challenge...Mrs A choice...feature a post box....

so I did......

this is a tag card made using Marianne Designs dies LR033....the postbox..LR0275...the birds COL1392 the snow is course modelling paste from indigo blu.....and the poinsettias are spellbinders petite set.....glitter ,snow,distress inks and glossy accents.....
We only have 2 more challenges and thats 2015 done...and I have all my christmas cards ready ....and have had such fun over the year.....
Please pop round and see the other girls wonderful creations...the links are on my side bar....

I am entering this into the 12 tags of christmas challenge with LOLL

playing with new cutting files

I popped onto birdscard.com  and found these lovely cutting files so I have been playing with my scan and cut.....

just loved making this.....lots of glitter .....its a big card and just fits nicely into an 8x8 envelop but the bundle does contain an envelop to cut...along with all sorts of lovely shapes...
Hope you are having fun crafting today

a rainy Sunday

yes its pouring down here today all dark and donk as we say in Yorkshire....so definitely a day for crafting while hubby emulsions the kitchen ceiling......why does the rest of the house always end up as a tip?

I Have been playing with some Marianne design dies this week LR0384 and LR0383....the image is LOTV and the poinsettia die are the petite spellbinder dies....walnut stain distress ink and some glitter....I used my new clear spectrum sparkles but sadly it doesn't show up on the photo.....
I hope you are having a lovely weekend and that maybe you have a dry sunny day.......

first foray into edgables.....

I bought this edgeable dies a few months ago and really didn't know what I wanted to do with it but I Caught one of the crafters companion shows over the weekend and thought I can do that!....so here is my fist attempt....

I Used the crafter's companion butterfly dreams edgeable.....I only bought the one to try....the embossalicious butterfly embossing folder...craft card,walnut stain distress ink,tattered lace lattice embossing folder....tattered lace happy birthday banner....and gilding wax.....the sentiment is a tonic die.....think it will make a man card?....
I have been poorly in bed this last week some kind of flu like virus and it was really nice to feel well enough to get up and craft!...hope you are enjoying your crafting today.

Christmas Card Club challenge 22...Mary's choice ...a cardinal or other christmas bird

sadly I have only one cardinal image in my whole crafty stash so I have opted for another christmas bird......

I have used a Sheena Douglas stamp and yes I sat down and had a wonderful time coloring with my copics ...its so long since I did any colouring and I had forgotten how relaxing I always found it....I mounted the image on a piece of card embossed with another of sheena's embossing folder...inked up and then used white embossed the Sheena snowy stamp...I then decided to highlight the ivy with some gold  gilding wax to make it pop a bit....mounted onto soft gold card and white....glossy accents on the holly berries.....
Hope you're having a good weekend ...do pop round and see the other girls creations their links areon my sidebar.....