Tag time…

Hello again,

Well this fortnight over at Christmas stampin’ all year long they have challenged us to make a set of Christmas Gift tags; I'm happily obliging with this challenge. I have also recently rediscovered Pixie's Crafty Workshop and her Challenge Snippet's Playground, this one sounds right up my alley, I have been slowly working my way through my scrap bags to create my cards etc. Di is celebrating her 200th Challenge!!! Many Congratulation's Di.

Earlier this year I decided to clean out my many tiny Christmas scraps and use them up, I decided to use my Owl builder die set called Festive Owls from Cottage Cutz. I cut a huge number of owls out of my scrap bags, and the extra elements with all the little bits using a variety of traditional and modern Christmas papers and then sat peacefully watching the tellie gluing them together complete making them into Santa, Elf and Reindeer owls, this parliament of owls have been hanging around the table for months. 

I still have about 20 left so it’s quite possible you will be seeing some more of them later on.

I also made a second set of tags using up my extra reindeer stamps, which I stamped out a few weeks back, making their little jumpers this morning. I stamped a number of reindeer in black and then changed my mind and decided to stamp them in brown leaving me with a surplus as I’m not overly great at stamping, I always do way more than necessary but clear and cushioned backed stamps have made my terrible stamping a whole lot better.

I made an even dozen gift tags, six of each Reindeer and Owls.

Here are my tags:-

What I used:-

Kraft precut tags with plain and curved ends

Twine & Hemp cord

Sizzix and Hero Arts Reindeer Stamp and Die set

Cottage Cutz Festive Owls

Kraft & White card

Various coloured ink pads

Various scrap paper/card

Black fine line pen

Greetings stamps from magazine set

I would like to enter these tags in:-

Christmas Stampin’ All year long #58 Create a Set of Tags

Crafting by Design- Get Ready for Christmas October Edition Anything goes 

Snowflakes Promise Challenge  #8- Anything goes Christmas

Rudolph Day October Anything goes

Hiding In My Craft Room- Any holiday

Pixie’s Snippets Playground must use snippets 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra- Anything goes

Thank you for looking in today

Have a great week…

Megan

P.S. Many thanks to all the lovely ladies who visit me and leave me a message, I really appreciate each and every one! 

Blue Christmas

Hello again…

Case-ing Christmas has gone monthly and this month it was Steph’s turn to create a card to inspire us, you can find Steph’s Card here. There is a lot to be inspired by, I love all the papers together; I took my inspiration from the ribbon, lace and twine down the side of the card. I have used a digi stamp from bugaboo and coloured it completely non-traditional. 

On one of my recent trips down to the physio in the city I stopped in at Lincraft to see what extras bits and pieces I could get to add to my cards and came away with a variety of sheer ribbons and lace. I have used pale blue ribbon and added some die cut stars and avoided the snow all bar the image on the paper

Here’s my card:-

I had been saving this paper, although a generic bought from Kmart many years ago it was still a favourite, due to the positioning of my image I have covered up the tree the paper has on it which was also a blue and green combo. I now have an excuse to buy more supplies :-) I simply have to have some non traditional coloured papers! Maybe I will be well enough in November for the more local Christmas craft fair, I haven't been for several years. 

The stopper on the easel card was created using a round digi from Scrap-a-licious Times (bottom one) and one I created in word placed on top.

What I used:-

14.9cm x 10.5cm white card blank

White card

Generic blue card and generic Christmas patterned paper

White glittered card stock

Faber-castell and Derwent Pencils

Baby blue Liquid Pearls

Digital Stamp BUGABOO

Mpress circle dies

Top sentiment circle Word 

Lower sentiment from Scrap-a-licious Times

MFT Stitched Rectangle dies

Memory box Die Cosmic Star set

Adhesives- P.V.A. Glue, Double-sided tape, glue dots, foam tape

Scoring board

I would like to enter this card in:-

Case-ing Christmas #28

12 Months of Christmas Link-up #8- Anything goes or Snowfriends

Sparkle Creation's Christmas Card Challenge Week 38- Anything goes

Christmas Stampin' all year long #54 Folding  I hope an easel card is okay ladies

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge extra August

ABC Christmas Challenge- Q for Quantum Leap C is for Colourful, D is for Die Cuts, L is for Lyrics (Blue Christmas)

Winter Wonderland- Christmas Carols or Songs Blue Christmas

Thank you for looking in…

Have a great week

Megan

Seven months to go...

Hello again....

Well I have been busy over the last week colouring some lovely digi stamps while watching some t.v., I was lucky enough to win some digi stamps from the lovely ladies over at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' in last months competition. Thank you to the ladies and sponsor for being so very generous.

Today I have used cute little set of Christmas Mice from Di's Digi Stamps who you can find here. 

The papers are from 'Home for Christmas' by Pebbles and a basic page from Echo Park Paper Co. aptly named 6x6" paper pad "Dots" Essential Collection.

Here's my card:

What I used:-
White 14cm Square Card blank
Echo Park- 'Dots' Design paper
Pebbles-'Home for Christmas' Design paper
Di Digi Stamp- Merry Mice
MFT- Pierced Circle Die
MFT- Pierced Fishtail Die
Memory box Beloved Snowflake die
Red Glitzee- Glitter glue
Fairy Krystal- Glitter paint on snowflakes and as snow
Faber-Castell and Derwent Pencils
Fiskars corner rounder
Adhesives- PVA glue and double sided tape
Printed sentiment


I would like to enter this card in:-
Christmas at Sweet Stampin'- Cute Christmas
Crimbo Crackers- #81 Anything Christmas goes
Sparkle Creation Christmas- #25 Anything Christmas goes
Hiding in my craftroom- #200 Any holiday
Completely Christmas- #64 Candle or Lantern- Lantern has candles inside!!
12 Months of Christmas Link-up- #5 Christmas Critters
Di's Digi Stamps- use two or more designer papers
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas 230- use something die cut or punched
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra-May Anything Christmas Goes
Christmas Stampin' all year long- #46-Sketch- I have mirrored the sketch

Thank you for looking in...
Have a good one...
Megan

p.s. Thank you to all the lovely ladies who take time to leave comments on my cards. I appreciate them all ;-)

Christmas Penny

Hello again...

Well, today I'm back with every little girls delight, a pink Christmas. 

I coloured the digi from Di’s Digital Delights named Penny’s Christmas with a combo of Derwent and Faber-Castell pencils, Di has some of the cutest characters I love her little hedgehogs! 

Anyhow back to my card, I had for once considered the papers in my stash and took my colour inspiration from the pink snowflake paper.

What I have used:

Di's DigiStamps-Christmas Penny Digi

14cm square card blank

Pink card

Pink glitter paper

Spot Paper (pink)-Jennifer Ellory ‘Bake a Cake’

Snowflake paper- Christmas Collection paper pad-Papercraft Inspirations

Lime green polka dot- BoBunny Soft shades ‘Double Dot Designs’

Fiskars Apron Lace Border Punch

Derwent & Faber-Castell Pencils

Sentiment from TLC 

Memory Box Die Precious Stars

Mpress Nesting rectangles Die

Ruler and Stanley knife

Adhesives- x-press it-double sided tape & Helmars craft glue 

Bella! Droplets

I would like to enter this card in:-

Christmas Stamping All year long- Dots and Spots #45

Come and Get it- Female Projects

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge-Feature a girl/for a female

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Extra May- Anything Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper May- Use a lot or a little but use your patterned papers May

Eureka Stamps- Feminine Cards

Pile it on Challenge- For a lady

Well thank you so very much for stopping by

have a good one...

Megan

p.s. Thank you to all the lovely ladies who have taken the time to leave me a comment, I appreciate them all.

Reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose

Hello again,

Today I am sharing my latest Christmas card design which I have challenged myself to make suitable for multiple challenge blogs so here goes. 

Thank you to all the challenge blogs for their Design teams inspiration and being able to participate with so many like-minded people.

This week at Case-ing Christmas Donna made this fabulous card to inspire us all (you can see Donna’s card here) I took my inspiration from the colours of Donna’s card.

I have used the sketch from Completely Christmas which you can see here

Here’s my card:

What I used

White card blank 10.5cmx15cm

Fiskars Border Punch (Scallop)

Textured cardstock in black, red, white

Kraft paper packing from online order (recycle)

Bugaboo image

Stitched ribbon from stash

Red button & thread

MFT Pierced oval die

Happy Birthday die from Elizabeth Crafts

Christmas die from Marianne Creatables

Red illusions glitzee glitter glue

Fairy Krystal glitter paint

Double sided tape, foam tape and tacky craft glue

Sorry about the photo, it is a bit over lit. as it is raining cats and dogs here today.

I would like to enter this card in:

Case-ing Christmas #16

Merry Monday- Cat or Dog

ABC Christmas- Happy Christmas Sentiment

Completely Christmas- Use the sketch

Christmas Stamping all year long- #44 any shaped card

Jingle Belles- Earth Day, recycle, reuse, upcycle (kraft paper from packaging)

Bugaboo Bingo Challenge- April –Scallop, Texture, Bling (Scalloped border, ribbon and scrunched paper add texture & I hope glitter glue counts as bling!)

Eureka Stamps- Buttons and Bows

CRAFT challenge- Anything goes Christmas

Glory of Christmas- use a Digi

Winter Wonderland- Real or Faux Stitching (stitched ribbon & I sewed button on)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas- Something beginning with “F” Fairy Krystal paint & festive card

Sparkles Christmas Card Challenge- use Kraft

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Extra- It is always Christmas anything goes

Christmas at Sweet Stamping- Candles or bells- bells on collar

Thank you for looking in…

Have a good one

Megan

PS I appreciate all the comments you have been leaving me ;-) 

Joy to the world...

Hello again...

Today I have created a card for the current challenge over at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge, "Christmas Singing" over the last few nights I have been colouring some Tiddly Inks digi stamps while watching TV. I just happened to have the perfect image, ready to go.

I have used Wryn goes Carolling which I coloured with Derwent pencils. I have used a layout I had saved from somewhere on the web, origin unknown. Flowers and leaves die cut from scrap papers.

What I used:

White 5x7" card blank

Wryn goes Carolling Digi

La Carta paper and craft- Bubble texture Kraft

Bo Bunny Silver and Gold Collection (magazine cover gift)

Gold Glitter Card

Musical note punch

Wplus9 tag die

MFT Pierced Oval dies

Memory Box Fancy Blossoms

MFT Royal Leaves

Gold glitter

adhesives- PVA glue & Double sided tape

I am entering this card into:

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas- Christmas Singing

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra- Always Christmas

Sparkle Creation Christmas- Anything goes

Christmas Stampin' All year long- Dies to Die 4

Rudolph Day- March Any thing goes

ABC Challenge- F is for Festive

Thanks for looking in...

have a good one

Megan

Second gift box...

Hello again...

Well I decided to play along with the lovely ladies over at Christmas Stampin' all year long and this week the challenge was 'Anything but a card' and I have combined this challenge with Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge 'Make it Green'.

I love these little boxes and a few years ago created a set which were gifts for my colleagues and contained a few chocolates and a hand beaded Christmas Spider. I printed and rolled up the legend of the Christmas Spider to go with it. 



I downloaded a box template from fun stuff to do and printed it out directly on to A4 card. The digital stamp was a part of a Papercraft Inspirations set. The stamps were from Shirley Toogood who has since passed away. She was my favourite contributor to the magazine. If anyone is interested there are still some of the penguin digi's available on her blog found here but not the one I have used here. 

For the photo I have closed the box with a mini bull-dog clip but will use a coordinating ribbon when the time comes to package a present up.






What I used:
A4 Green cardboard
Doodlebug Design paper
Large scalloped oval punch
Scalloped circle die (for sides)
Embossing folder-Spellbinders m-bossabilities Trendy Folder 
Gold scrap paper from stash
Green Checked Washi
Mini Star punch
Scoring board
Green Ink
Pencils
Black fine-line pen
Marrianne Creatable 'Merry Christmas'



I am entering this in

Christmas Stampin' All year long- Anything but a Card
Sparkles Christmas Challenges- Make it Green
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra- Always Christmas
Melonheadz Friends- Green 
Craftin Desert Divas- Use lots of Green
Ruby's Rainbow- Anything but a Card
Crafting by Design- Get ready for Christmas
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 302 March 12th- Christmas

Thanks for looking in
have a good one...
Megan

Angel Card

Hello again...

Today I created another Christmas Card- I have been slowly working my way through some digi stamps I coloured during January- I printed 6 digi stamps from a variety of  Digi companies onto an A4 sheet and coloured them while watching TV. 

I covered a 5x7 inch card blank with some lovely Metallic Silver paper which has been hiding away in storage for many years, I used two DCWV designer papers one as the background which has some glitter spots the other is the narrow strip with ornaments on it- this paper has also been in storage for ages, I used a doily which came free with a magazine although I used the plain white back. I dies used MFT small flourish die, MFT pierced fish-tails and Marianne designs snowflake, the sentiment is from Pink Petticoat, Ribbon, lace and rhinestone from my stash.


I found this lovely Angel digital stamp quite by accident, I was looking for downloads for an Australian Magazine of the same name and came across one from the UK. Paper Craft Essentials I frequently return now to have a poke around and have discovered some more lovely digi stamps and templates.

I am entering this card in three Challenges
1- Holly Jolly Christmas- Angels and Fairies
2- Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge -215 Decorate a corner 
3- Christmas Stamping All Year Long- Any thing goes

After a lovely suggestion from Hazel I am now entering this card into 
4- craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge 2 

Thank you for looking in...
   Have a good one 
          Megan