Festive Friday #49 - Sketch Challenge

Good morning! Well we start off with some bad news first - Nicole has decided to finish the Festive Friday's, as we weren't getting too many entries. It such a shame as I was so organised this year at Christmas with my cards as I'd made them right through the year. Anyway, on to my final installment for Festive Fridays.

Nicole has another sketch for us to play along with at Festive Friday this week and boy is it a good one!
Here it is:

As soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I hadn't had a chance to play much with the triple time stamping technique yet and this sketch just lent itself to it.

I've used "snow swirled" for the snowflakes and the colours are real red, old olive and crumb cake. I have also used my new favourite stamp set "jolly jingles" for my sentiment and a few rhinestones for the bling and I was done! I'm quite pleased with the result and this card has already made it's way to some special friends (have you sent out your Christmas cards yet?)

So go past Nicole's blog see what the other design team members have created and help us finish with a bang! Remember to link your creation up to the froggie - it's great seeing what you come up with!

Thanks for looking :)

Sweet Sunday Sketch #173 & The Paper Players #124

Hi! Just wanted to share a card which uses a few challenges. Over at The Paper Players Ann has set us a challenge of 'snow men' - which for me is something I never really do on Christmas cards as we are warm and sunny in Australia for Christmas. I also used the sketch Karen has done over at Sweet Sunday Sketch.

I was quite happy with the end result, but I know that the photo doesn't do it justice :) Any questions just ask.

Thanks for looking :)

Here's the challenges I'm entering:

Gift Card Holder

Hi all! As you know, Christmas is not that far away, so today I have a cute way of packaging all of your gift cards. I found the tutorial from Heather Summers and fell in love with it. It is such an easy and effective way to package all your gift cards.

This holder isn't just for Christmas either, the possibilities are endless for birthdays, weddings, engagements or any occasion you are giving a gift card.

Any questions about the materials just ask!
Thanks for looking.

Festive Friday #41 - Sketch

Good morning! It's time agin for a Festive Friday. This week Nicole has a great sketch for us to use:

 Here's my take on it:

I'm loving marina mist and bashful blue together for Christmas. I pulled out a new set 'Polar Party' which I fell in love with as soon as I saw it, and coloured the cute polar bear. Now here in Australia we're not really known for our 'white' Christmases, but I love how this card has turned out! The snow flakes are from 'Snow Swirled', stamped in white craft ink and white heat embossed. I then used my chevron embossing folder to add texture to the marina mist strip. I used my scallop edge punch border for the bottom of the strip and glimmer paper for a thin border around the image.

My sentiment is from 'Jolly Jingles' wheel. I bought this knowing I wanted to cut it up and use the sentiments separately. I mounted them onto cling mount foam and I was able to cut out every sentiment, with no waste.

This is a great sketch - dress it up or keep it simple - either way we love to see what you create :) So link up your creation to Nicole's blog and get a start on you Christmas cards!

Thanks for looking

Festive Friday #37 - Colour Challenge

Hi all! It's time again for another Festive Friday and Nicole has a colour challenge for us.

Now when I saw these colours I was stumped on how to put river rock into my creation, as I NEVER use it. So this is what I came up with:

I used the dsp from the paper stack for both cherry cobbler and always artichoke. I had run out of always artichoke card, so to border the dsp, I used some seam binding and I think it works a treat :) The snowflake and sentiment are from 'snow swirled' and stamped in cherry cobbler. I did a small border of always artichoke around my main image and matted it all onto the dreaded colour - river rock. I added some pearls along the sides for balance and I was done.

Come and join us this week and link your creation up to the little frog on Nicole's blog, we love to see what you come up with!

Thanks for looking :)

Festive Friday #13 Colour Challenge

Good morning!

Well it's time again for another Festive Friday and we're switching it up a bit. We are moving to a more 'traditional' style of blog challenge, so there will be colour challenges, inspiration photos, sketches for you to join in with us. Nicole has done a great job at sorting out the new format and I cant wait to see what the other design members come up with.

So for our first week we have a colour challenge for you and here it is:

I really love these colours together. I found that this card came together quite easily, as I had the colours picked out for me and I had told myself that I wanted to used the 'snow swirled' for my next card I made... so here it is :) I also used 'final press' embossing folder and 'short and sweet' for the sentiment and a few rhinestones add a bit bling! I love the clean lines on this card and could see myself easily mass producing this one.

So now it's over to you... visit Nicole's blog and check out what the other design team members have created and join in on the fun!

Clean & Simple Christmas in Red & Green- PP68

Hi all! This week I decided to enter in The Paper Players challenge which is to make a clean and simple Christmas card using green and red. Here's what I came up with:

I'm going to keep this short, as I'm busy, busy!
Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Christmas Cards #2

 Hi again! Here's a few more of my Christmas cards from my pile.

This card was a complete case from Teneale Williams. I think all of Teneale's cards are amazing and why mess with perfection. I did however change the base colour to old olive and the greeting.

 This card started as a entry for a challenge, but I missed out a required element, and when I tried to add it, it didn't look right. So I stuck with what I had.

I was flicking through the 2010-2011 Stampin Up idea book and used the card on page 28, as my inspiration. I kept it a little bit cleaner, and made it square, but still like the overall effect.

Mojo Monday 204

I loved this weeks sketch at Mojo Monday. So here is my entry for this week:

The photo doesn't do this card justice and once again I've done another Christmas card. When it comes to Christmas cards, I can tend to be pretty traditional. I used the motif stamp from "Bliss" for the background and then used the "French script" for the background for my centre square. All the red card has been sponged on the edge to give it some depth. I love the end result, hope you do.

Heres the sketch:

Hope you have a great day!

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 128

I loved the sketch at Sweet Sunday this week. 

Here's what I created. Not the most traditional of colors for Christmas, but I think it still works.

Here's the sketch:

If you have time, go and check out Sweet Sunday  blog - trust me you'll be inspired!

Thanks for looking.