having a play with my stash...

I am trying to use stuff that I have already bought for all my posts this year...good luck with that I hear you say.......well if all I do is try!

I just love these Tim Holtz bells and using them with the Holiday knits background dies was great fun...the embellishments are from the holiday greens set and the sentiment is Lias Horton.
its great getting old stash out but only if you can remember where your big shot is to cut out the sizzix dies...the loft!
thank you for popping by my blog today and I hope you are having fun crafting as well.

Rudolph day Challenge January 2018

my pace seems to be picking up slowly this year and so far I have only made one other card that wasn't a christmas card.... I always try to make a card for Maureen's Rudolph day challenge....

made using the Tonic gingerbread man and a creative expressions embossing folder....a fun card to start the year off on the challenge
Do pop over to scrappymo's blog and have a go there are always lovely prizes to win....

Hello out there...

its a beautiful sunny morning here in Yorkshire and I am feeling very happy with myself...I have just successfully installed my new eco tank printer...not without its problems,having to move stuff out of my craft room and hubby building a new shelf for it...and then doing all that installing stuff...but it works and on the wifi too.....my first test print was this lovely LOTV image which I have made into a card using up loads of bits from on my desk top....

backing paper LOTV...digi print...topper LOTV digi print....the circular frilly die is from a tattered lace USB...the poinsettia are heartfelt creations dies and stamps...the sentiment are LOTV and loads of glitter....
I am so worn out with all this success I think I may have to have a lie down....
thanks for popping by my blog today and I hope you are having fun crafting

christmas card club challenge 2...christmas baking

its Maureen's turn to choose the theme for this weeks challenge

I have used the Katy Sue designs greyscale christmas collection for this card...cut out using spellbinders elegant labels 4 and inked with firebrick red distress ink....matted and layer and the sentiment is the Lawn Fawn merry christmas die....lots of frosted lace stickles and glossy accents on the berries ....
Do pop round and see what the other girls in the club have made the links to their blogs are on my side bar.....
I hope you are having a great weekend and thank you for popping by my blog today.

back in the swing ......

just getting back into the card making mode....and determined to make one christmas card each week....

going for the opulent red and gold card I make for my brother and sister in law to match their christmas decorations....
Sue Wilson Snowflake background die...Sue Wilson classic poinsettia and classic poinsettia open petals dies...Sue wilson  merry and bright...embossalicious snowflake embossing folder from crafters companion...some gilding wax and some gold stamens
Hope you are having a good weekend and havn't got this nasty flu...we have both got colds but at least that's not too bad...
thanks for popping by my blog today.

christmas card club challenge 1....gnomes pixies or elves

the first challenge of the year is here....

just a fun little card....made using the free stamps and dies from papercraft essentials magazine...alphabet dies Tonic and the intricate frames die are also tonic....coloured with sparkle pens and glittered to the nth degree...sadly it doesn't show very well....
if you would like to see what the other girls in the club have posted you will find a short cut to their blogs on my side bar....
thanks for popping by today ......hope you are happy crafting...