Christmas Card For Bestest Friend!

Was at a loose end today (so what's new when the boss is away lol) so decided to do the card for my best mate. Cheated a bit and went through all the blog challenges and made the card to suit. Am well chuffed with how it came out - even if I do say so myself!

Recipe : Patterned & Backing Papers -DCWV Holiday Collection and Dovecraft Noel Premium Paper Pad
Edge - My new MS PATP Aspen inked with new Tim Holtz Distress Ink Victorian Velvet
Red Pearls - Free with C&C Carousel  (stash)
Large Snowflake - Cut with Cricut, glittered with Hobbycraft Irridescent Glitter
Small Snowflakes - Cut outs from PATP
Ribbon - Papermania Classic Christmas (stash)
Tree - Spellbinders Foliage edged with white gel pen then glued and Hobbycraft Irridescent Glitter added
Circles - Spellbinders Classic Circles & Classic Scalloped Circles
Sentiment - Free From Internet
Image - First inking of new Lily Of The Valley Stamp Christmas Bears Bird Table Coloured with Promarkers & glittered with Glamour dust.

I'm going to enter this one into

Sketch N Stash Challenge 75
I Love Promarkers Challenge 93 - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Christmas Crackers
Tuesday Throwdown - 75 Lots of Circles
ABC Challenge - D For Dazzle
Truly Scrumptious - Challenge 70 Christmas with Pearls or Vintage
Charisma Cardz - Challenge 46 Snowflakes
Lili Of The Valley - Week 122 Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts - Challenge 94 Christmas

Another Batch Finished!

Morning all, looks like it might be quite a nice day here in Hull today. Had a play yesterday and managed to get another load off the Christmas Card list. These cards are all done the same (to make life a little easier! lol) but have used a different snowman on each card (there are 11 in total).

Recipe :
A6 Cards from stash
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug Winter Village (think now discontinued!).
Sentiment - Done on Open Office using Ariel and Aquarelle fonts.
Snowmen - The Clipart Fairy HERE  and HERE
Tiny Snowflakes - The bits left after using MS PATP Aspen.

Tatty Christmas

Nephew asked me to make a card for his girlfriend yesterday. He picked the image, I recoloured it in Docrafts Digital Designer to match the colour of the papers....his girlfriends favourite colour is purple. Got to use my new MS punch too!

Recipe :
Base Card (for matting and layering) - from stash.
Patterned Papers - Both from DCWV Rose Tinted Christmas.
Image - Me To You CD recoloured.
Flourish - Quickcuts Flourish Die Antique.
Snowflakes - Cut with Cricut then put through Xyron Sticker Maker and glittered with Hobbycrafts Glitter. Sentiment - Freebie from When The Scrap Hits The Fun.
Outer Edge - MS PATP Aspen.