Christmas card club challenge 22...Sentiment as the focal point

this week it is Sylvie's choice of theme for the challenge.....and inspired by a card made by Sandy Hendle.....

made in cream and gold.....with Impression obsession stitched holly and a crafters companion sentiment die....I think,I take them out of the packets and put them on magnetic sheets and I am afraid the packaging gets tossed....the embossing folder is Sue Wilsons Swirling Holly rubbed over with enchanted gold gilding wax....
Hope you are enjoying your weekend ...do pop round the other girls blogs and see their lovely cards....the links are on my sidebar.
thanks for popping by my blog today...

I have needed too many of these cards this year....

the dreaded sympathy card.........made using Anna Griffin dies for the first two cards and tonic for the last one....

 and a bit of Hickory smoke distress ink....

this one has dusty concord distress ink as well as the hickory smoke distress ink.....

falling snow....men

I really needed to cheer myself up this week after more sad news,our dear friend of 54 years was diagnosed with cancer two weeks ago, two days before his 40th wedding anniversary....the prognosis was very poor and on Tuesday this week he sadly but mercifully passed away ...so I took myself off to my craft room and made this card....its bound to make you smile......

I finally took the cellophane off the oxides and made one of those messy backgrounds.....sprinkled it with stampendous chunky embossing powder ...heated from behind and was quite pleased with the result...the stamps are snowman trio from stampendous ...colored with sparkle pens..I thought they were great fun when I saw them and despite my pledge not to buy anything in october gave in to these little beauties....
Its a really horrible wet and windy day here in Yorkshire and the heating is on and I am going to craft!
I hope you are all well out there and not affected too much by storm Brian....thanks for popping by today I really appreciate it ....

a quick card.....

I bought these new overlays for the crafters companion kinetic cards so I thought I had better have a play with them....

they are much easier to cut than the old create a card dies....the image is from Katy Sue designs greyscale christmas collection...
having a day getting all the ingredients ready for my 3rd and last christmas cake...which I make for my brother and his wife....the house is going to smell wonderful....
I hope you are having a great day today and like here the sun is shinning for you
thanks for popping by my blog.

Christmas card club challenge #21....non traditional colours

this week it is Carols turn to choose the theme for the challenge.....which is non traditional colours....and this week I have made 2 cards

I have been having fun with my Penny Black snowy stamps.....and sparkle pens...and lots of glitter...
and then.....some decoupage

using up all my old stuff.....this is Dawn Bibby Merry christmas from 2011....love the bright colours....so two card in non traditional colours...
Hope you like them they have been fun to make.
Do pop round the other girls blogs and see there lovely cards...their links are on my side bar...
thanks for popping by today and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

with love...

just a little card to cheer a friend up.
hope you are having a lovely day today and thanks for popping by my blog.....

the last of my Halloween makes...

I found a couple of freebie papers from Bearly mine designs that I Had downloaded and they were just perfect for my card....

its the most amazing image for backing paper...sadly I dont think that the firm exists anymore she had to close because of the new VAT rules...a great shame as she did some fabulous papers...many of which I purchased as digi sets and often use...
the paper only needed a couple of die cut additions ...Tim Holtz Witchcraft...and Fright...the bats and treat boxes are Tonic...
I am finished now ...I think....
hope you are enjoying your day and thankyou for popping by my blog today...

a Sunday Christmas Card

I really have fallen in love with this die...I have previously made it in red and white but had a few bits of printed blue paper from another project so made this up....

the die cut is tattered lace glistening snow from the Wonderful in White collection...the papers are from the cd....the poinsettia are also from the same collection and the sentiment is Marianne designs...I cant claim the design as I saw a similar design on pinterest but this is my take on it....
I hope you are having a great day...and thank you for popping by my blog...

More Halloween Makes...

the second set I have made are not scary....the children these are for are only 4 and 5 so I thought these would be perfect....with chocolate of course

the cards are made using the Tim Holtz Pumpkinhead stamps...spiders web die and the spiders are tonic...
and the treat boxes I cut on my scan and cut

I hope they aren't too scary...anyway they will be more interested in the chocolates...
I hope you are enjoying your day today and thank you for stopping by my blog....

sending love and best wishes...

to a friend who is not so well....

made using the tattered lace Blue Hydrangea die set...
I hope it cheers her up a bit ...and I hope you are having a good day today...thanks for popping by my blog today.

starting my Halloween makes

I dont really do Halloween but I like to make things for my great nieces...the children across the road and this year we will be with friends in Hay for Halloween so a couple more children to do treat boxes for....
this is the first set....

the card is one cut on my scan and cut ...with Tim Holtz Haunted house and the cats from the witchcraft die set....spiders and sentiments are from Tonic
and then the matching treat boxes

these are made using the tonic halloween treat box die set...
Its a beautiful sunny day here but very windy so I started the day off baking muffins to use up some rather ripe bananas...the house smells lovely...hope you are enjoying your day whatever you are doing.....
thanks for popping by my blog today I would love it if you would say hello....

christmas card club challenge 20...make it round...

its Valery's turn to choose the challenge this week......

and I thought I would make a fun.shaker card with Pickle and Podge images from La Pashe the best of 2012..
I do enjoy making shaker cards and I have used the Annamarie snow foam balls for the snow...the sentiment is a tonic die.....
I hope you will pop round the other girls blogs...their links areon my side bar and see their lovely creations....thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you enjoy your Sunday.