CiJ Final Day! Recipe

Hello again,

Well, today is the final challenge with the lovely ladies at Bugaboo Stamps Catch the Bug 7th Annual Christmas in July, and today the ladies have a Friday Freebie challenge and a recipe to follow which you can see below. I turned the computer on last night and coloured the free image before going to bed, even getting a coat of Diamond Glaze on Rudolph nose and eyes and little birds eyes allowing time to dry before putting the card together this morning.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
White 14cm square card blank
Bugaboo Friday Freebie image-Reindeer 01Digi Stamp
Faber-Castell Pencils
Diamond Glaze
MFT Cross Stitched Rectangles
Wplus9 Hand lettered Holiday Stamp
Primary Ebony Superfine Embossing powder
Versamark ink pad Clear
Heat gun
Express-It Glitter tape
Kindyglitz Crystalina Glitter glue on snow flakes and ground
Memory Box Precious Star Die
Embossed Kraft paper from Daiso
Kaisercraft 'Christmas Collection' paper
AC Black card stock
White Gel ink pen
edit- Fiskars Scalloped border punch


I would like to enter this card in:-
Catch the Bug Christmas in July Day 7 Recipe Challenge
C.R.A.F.T Christmas Challenge
Merry Monday Christmas in July catch up- #245 Use Kraft
12 Months of Christmas Link-up #31 Optional theme Oh Deer!

Thank you for looking in...
Have a wonderful weekend...
Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to all the lovely visitors who leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Christmas wishlist...

Hello again,

Well after a full week of Holiday Chaos with the Design Team over at Catch the Bug would you believe I’m still short on Christmas cards??? Just as well I always colour extra images and have a few leftover. Today brings us to the final day of this years Holiday Chaos challenge and today the challenge is to create a card using a nine square bingo chart. I have used Bugaboo’s latest freebie, Crabby Cat Christmas.

Are you all ready for the big day yet? We’ve packed a box of presents to go to my brother, sister in law and niece my Dad will be driving some of my brothers possessions left in ‘storage’ at home along with most of the Christmas gifts for them, unfortunately a few gifts are still on their way we will have to post them once they arrive. As for the Christmas day lunch plans were made a while ago, before I met a new doctor, who has placed me on an elimination diet for the foreseeable future, thankfully I’m already used to some of the diet having intolerances to a third of the food eliminated… I have already requested Christmas post elimination diet…

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 12.6 x 17.7cm card (5x7”)

Candy stripes embossing folder

Bugaboo Image Crabby Cat Christmas

Derwent Pencils

Printed Merry Christmas sentiment

Doodlebug designs paper

AC Pool and Rouge cardstock

Martha Stewart white glitter

Memory Box Sweet Candy canes die

MFT Pierced Square die

Stamps from magazine

Fiskars scalloped border punch

Aqua sequins

Black fine line pen

Diamond glaze (eyes and bauble)

Adhesives:- Double sided tape, foam tape, PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-

Bugaboo Holiday Chaos day 7 Bingo challenge (Candy Canes, Freebie, Glitter/bling and Candy canes, embossing, three layers)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge extra

12 Months of Christmas Link-up Welcome to the North Pole or Anything goes

Crafting by Designs Here come the holidays

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #47 Anything goes

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge Anything goes

Merry Monday Challenge #225 Candy Canes

Thank you for looking in…

Have a wonderful weekend

Megan

p.s. a huge Thank you to all the kind visitors who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all!

Rudolph Ring

Hello again,

As promised another supposed to have been quick Christmas card for this years stash. I have used my new Crafts-Too embossing folder I won from the playground, one of my first Christmas dies and a new one bought at the post Christmas 2015 sales.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-
5" x 7" card blank
Blue metallic cardstock and snippet
Silver metallic paper (from large snippets folder)
White cardstock and a snippet
1mm red flat backed gem
2mm silver flat backed gem
Memory Box Leaping Deer
Memory Box Snowflake ring 
Memory Box 'Merry' Script
Lawn Fawn trim the tree stamp
Colorbox Queue 'Blue Lagoon' ink pad
Sullivans double sided adhesive sheet
Adhesives:- double sided tape, foam tape and PVA glue

I would like to enter this card in:-
12 Months of Christmas Challenge #20 optional theme Christmas Confectionery
Christmas Card Challenge #38 Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #296 Use a sentiment

Merry Monday Challenge #211 Blue, White and Silver/Gold

Snippets Playground week #244 (must use snippets)
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra August
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #40 Anything goes (3rd entry)

Thank you for looking in...
have a wonderful week...
Megan

P.S. A huge THank you to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

Chester Merry Christmas

Hello again,

I have resurfaced from the depths of pain and am feeling well enough to be back at the computer (back to my tolerance level of pain) 

Okay so this month (yes I know it’s almost over) I have been really slack on making my Christmas cards and now have only two days left to get them done, so this one has been sitting semi assembled on my piles of mess otherwise known as a desk. :-)

My neighbour’s two sons are too old for us to choose presents for and their Mum would rather us not buy a Chocolate filled stocking, so cards with cash are the order of the day.

This is my second double ‘z’ card and I have cut a slit and pocket in the back of the card to poke some cash in closer to Christmas, doing this slit caused no problems at all (not) I have created some very large scraps ;-)

Earlier this year I was a lucky winner over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and I got to choose some digi stamps, I’m partial to cute monkeys and little Chester found over at LMMS really is a little cutie.

Here is my card:-

now that the card is finished I have just realised how hard it is going to be to write inside it... never mind a slip of paper can be slid and glued in place... 

What I used:-

White 14cm square card blank

Rouge AC cardstock

Echo Park Recollections Paper ‘Holiday Ornaments’

LMMS Chester Pudding

Faber-Castell Pencils

White cardstock (printer)

Memory Box die Sweet Candy Canes

Cottage cutz mini holly berry die

MFT Pierced Square dies

Scalloped rectangle die

Red bling from stash

Scrap red striped and green cardstock

Clearly Besotted Sweet little Sentiments stamps

Create with TLC sentiment

Memento Tuxedo Black inkpad

White glitter

Adhesives: PVA glue, double-sided and foam tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

12 months of Christmas Link-Up #20 Christmas Confectionery

Rudolph Day Anything goes

Merry Monday Christmas Challenge Summer Link-up #208 Cards for Kids

Little Miss Muffet Challenge #145 Anything goes

Christmas Card Challenge #38 Anything goes 

Crafting by Design Get ready for Christmas August –Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge #296 Use a sentiment

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge extra August

Thank you for looking in...

Thank you for the get well wishes...

Have a great week...

Megan

P.S. A great big THANK YOU to all the lovely ladies who take the time to leave me a kind message, I truly appreciate them all... 

types of candy

Hello again,

Well today is day three of the week long fun of Christmas Chaos over at Bugaboo's Catch the Bug challenge, and today's challenge is a colour challenge which you can see below, I hope my card meets the colours well enough :-)

and here's my card:

What I used:-

White Card blank

White & red card stock

Digi image Christmas Bear- Bear Candy Cane

Derwent and Faber-Castell Pencils

Typed sentiment from movie Elf

Red Colorbox ink pad

Mpress die Majestic Labels Nesting die

Twine from stash

M-Bossabilities (ES-006) Embossing folder 

Patterned paper from stash

Stanley Knife, Cutting Matt, Steel Ruler

Adhesives:- PVA glue and double-sided tape

I would like to enter this card in:-

Catch the Bug- Christmas Chaos Day 3

Merry Monday #183- Candy Canes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra December

Bizzy Becs Store blog- December Challenge

Eureka Stamps #170- Christmas is Coming

Thank you for looking in...

have a great week...

Megan

P.S. A huge thank you to all the ladies who take the time to leave me a message, I truly appreciate them all.

Cool Penguins

Hello again...

I printed a few images off in preparation for the notified power outage last week and hopefully now they are finished changing the poles/wires in our area, it's too cold here and we need our heater!

I have coloured a Bugaboo image called Snowball Penguins

What I used:-
White 14.9cm x 10.5cm card blank
My Mind's eye paper pad 'Mistletoe Magic'
Red card 
MFT stitched rectangles
MFT pierced fishtails (for sentiment strip)
Impression Obsession snow flakes die
Sentiment made in Word 
Steel ruler, craft mat, stanley knife
White adhesive card from stash
White Wink of Stella pen
Fairy Krystal Glitter paint
Derwent and Faber-Castell Pencils

I would like to enter this card in:-
Sparkles Christmas Challenge #53 June- Animals
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #164- Funky hats
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra June- Anything goes
Natalie and Amy's Challenge #33 June- Christmas

Well thank you for stopping by...
Have a good one
Megan

p.s. Thank you to all the kind and wonderful ladies who take the time to leave a little message, 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 ;-) 

Bird Brain Christmas

Hello again...

This week I have another new Christmas card to share with you.

I have taken my inspiration from the layout of DaenY's wonderful card below 

I have altered the central shape on my card and dry embossed the oval with a snowflake folder which I raised up on foam pads, I stuck to safe Christmas colours of green and red washi tape which I stuck first on my cutting mat and used a Stanley knife to make the curved edges. I have coloured the digi image with pencils and fussy cut it, coloured the three flat backed embellishments with Sharpie's  (the red one looks better than the green ones), I finished off with the sentiment which came with the image.

What I used: White card-stock and card blank, oval dies-Poppy-crafts, Darice snowflake embossing folder, Flat backed 'plastic domes for craft' (according to the packet), Sharpies, washi tape, Cuttlebug, Digi image Birdbrain the Chick-Christmas Spirit From the Heart Stamps

Challenges I am entering this card to:

Case-ing Christmas Challenge 9#

Crimbo Crackers- Make me laugh

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge-218 Cut it Up

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra- All Christmas Cards

Merry Monday- Use Red and Green

Thanks for looking in...

have a good one

Megan