Paper- pieced cards for Rudolph Day

Good morning, I made some cards to enter the Rudolph Days Challenge, I was going to ener a different card but when I saw that this month's challenge is in honour of Kath I had to think again. I chose a Woodware stamp as I know she liked these, paper pieced the gnome's hat and made 3 cards- not in Kath's league of batch making...but I tried!

The designs are basically the same with different papers, colours and sentiments.

The first one I paper- pieced the main body of the hat, cutting out the patches and holly leaves 

and adding them to the coloured- with- Copic hat of the second one. I  doodled a border. with white gel pen.

The third one has a paper -pieced hat with patches  and holly leaves from different DP. The background is stencilled.

I really enjoyed making these and like the way they've turned out.

Thanks for visiting

Have a happy weekend

Chris

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Challenges entered:

Rudolph Day October Challenge

colourcrazy #43

allsorts #648

addictedtostamps #417

hollyandivy #104

peaceonearth #2

 

Crafty Catz Challenge #570 - Anything goes

Good morning, another challenge starts today at Crafty Catz, our host this week is Aunty Sue and the theme is Anything Goes (no twist this week.

Our lovely sponsor is

 ALL DRESSED UP

PRIZE 2 IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE

https://www.etsy.com/shop/alldressedupstamps

I made a CAS card featuring the adorable Star, she's coloured with Copics and sparkle pens, the sentiment is stamped. 

Do come and play along with us this week, there's plenty of inspiration from the rest of the team to be enjoyed over at the Challenge Blog

Thanks for visiting

Chris

Challenges entered:

kraftychicks #583

watercoolerchallenges #327

digichoosday #43

dragonflydreams October Challenge

alldressedup #122

worldwideopendesignteam #10

Christmas tree

 Good morning, this week at Fab'n' Funky our challenge theme is

 Embellish it.

I made a Christmas card featuring a gorgeous tree stamp from Mama Elephant, it's a pretty simple design as you can see, and  similar to my previous post , but it does have a ribbon and bow to embellish it. The ribbon looks a bit grubby in the photo but I promise it isn't!  I stamped the tree with Twilight Versafine ink onto white card, blended blue Distress Ink around the edges, flicked some water around and added tiny dots with white gel pen, and placed it inside the die cut aperture.The sentiment on the little round tag is part of the same stamp set. Another quick and simple make.

Thank you for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries

aplacetostart #10

getcreative #106

avenue613 #11

audsentiments #286

CCAYR S-snow, T -tree

sheepski #55 cold colours

Christmas sparkle

Hello, I hope everyone enjoyed a good weekend and is feeling reshreshed and ready to face the week ahead. It was a quiet one here, a lovely visit from both my daughter and my son + small granddaughters but not much else going on so I thought I'd knuckle down and make a few Christmas cards while I had the chance.

It's a fairly simple design, I cut a square from a die cut rectangle of white card then embossed the remainder with a snowfall EF. 

I had previosly made some inky card panels playing with Distress inks, brushos and mica sprays in shades of blue and purple so I cut one up to make the background behind behind the die cut snowflake in the above card. I added the die cut sentiment  and a gem. Nice and quick so I used the same design to make 3 more similar cards. The black and the purple ones have glitter card behind the snowflakes which were rescued from one of the cards I received last Christmas, 4 more for my (sad little) Christmas pile.

 Now that the weather has turned colder I've dug out Marvin's basket which we put away for the summer months as he was too warm in it and preferred his memory foam mattress or the cool kitchen tiled floor depending how hot the weather was. We did buy him a gel- filled cool pad...but he ate a hole in it , it lasted less than a day. As you can see he still fits in the basket....just ...and he appreciates having it back! I'm actually amazed that it survived those early puppy days when he took great delight in ripping everything to shreds. If he grows any more he'll need a bigger one though!

He looks so innocent here...butter wouldn't melt- don't be fooled- the camera does lie!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

peaceonearth #2

audsentiments #286

CRAFT #615

CCAYR S for Snowflake, sparkle.

christmas24 #40

12monthsofchristmas #82

Crafty Catz #569 anything goes- optional twist 'add some layers'

 Good morning- I just can't believe how quickly Fridays come round but come round they do - so once again it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Catz.This week its our lovely Sue's turn to host, she's chosen the theme ADD SOME LAYERS, which is, of course optional.

Our fabulous sponsor for this challenge is 

Hetty Clare Art

I think this artist has some of the sweetest images available in Blogland. I have used This is for you (40% off at the moment!) .

Image coloured with Copics, papers from Polkadoodles, a few pearls and a stamped sentiment.

Treat your eyes to a visit to the challenge blog for some fabulous inspiration from the team, then please do create something beautiful and join the fun, we love it when you play along with us.

Thanks for all your well wishes- they worked, my cold is so much better now. I can even taste things again!

Thanks for visiting 

have a happy weekend.

Chris

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Not so scary Halloween

A quick post from me as I'm not feeling great today- a streaming cold (not Covid- I tested!). I don't need a Halloween costume to scare people- white face, red eyes and nose I make  a great ghoul!

 Fab'n' Funky Challenges are back after an extended summer break. Our theme this week is Halloween.

This is the card I made for younger granddaughters- didn't think it was a good idea to scare them silly with a creepy one! The card base is a twisted easel made from black cardstock, the cute witch is from The Paper Shelter. As you can see I've added lots of punched glittery stars.

Thanks for visiting, have a good day and keep away from germs!

Chris

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Chjallenge entries:

thepapershelter #488

passion for markers#614

Unicorn #70

craftinghappiness #116

dreamvalley #257

Crafty Catz challenge #568 -optional twist 'Trick or Treat'

Good morning, a creepy Halloween make from me today!

Over at  Crafty Catz this week 's challenge is sponsored by 

BECCYS PLACE 

http://beccysplace.com/

http://beccysplace.blogspot.com/

Prize $10 Aud gift certificate 

http://beccysplace.com/

 Our lovely Nick is hosting this week and her optional theme is

 Trick or Treat (pick trick=interactive card or treat=something yummy or trick or treat =Halloween

I had so much fun with this card! I've used the free image and paper that Beccy is generously giving away this month -Available here.

What a fantastic scary witch, so enjoyed colouring her!

 I changed the colour of the free paper to purple 

I drew and coloured a door for her to hide behind cut the doors so they would open and added some little lock shaped brads  (had these for ages- so pleased to use them at last.)

I popped the witch behind the doors and adhered to front of card along with some die cut webs and bats. Stamped the spiders and 'creepy' and 'spooky' words. I added the little sign which is handwritten- in blood of course!

 Thanks for stopping by- hope to see you over at Crafty Catz this week!

Chris

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Challenge entries:

audsentiments #285

CRAFT #614

craftygalscorner #224

paperfunday#34

TIOT Halloween time

twooldbatshalloweenchallenge October

mirtillamente #2

beccysplace October Challenge