Santa is Coming to Town!

Happy Friday to you all!

I made this card a few days ago for the challenges at Fusion and 52 Christmas Card throwdown and I am finally getting to post it! The photo at Fusion inspired me-red and white it had to be!

The sentiment is heat embossed.

I still have one Christmas card to make and I feel like I have been saying that for days, yet still it is not made!! Will today be the day! Luckily it is for my neighbour so does not need posting.

Have a fun day!

                   

Addicted To Stamps and More #75

Its time for another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week we have this gorgeous photo to inspire you:

This photo, to me, is full of warmth and a family Christmas. It inspired me to create this card:

The stamp is from Stamplorations and I have coloured it using my copics. I simply mounted it on some wood grain embossed cream card and added some red twine.

So what are you inspired to create? Take a peek here to see what our DT have made to inspire you. And this week we Sami Stamps are sponsoring us and our winner will receive a $12 gift voucher. Time to get inky!!

I am also going to enter this into the following challenges:
C...is for Challenge-traditional Xmas
CAS on Sunday-Christmas
Creative Corner-traditional Christmas

Lets Dance!

Happy Sunday my crafting chums,

I took a break from making Christmas cards yesterday and made this card using a silhouette stamp from Stamplorations and the sentiment is from PTI

The silhouette has been heat embossed and gives a lovely texture IRL. I have had this ribbon for ages and have only used it once but the colours matched so well with my card it seemed the perfect finishing touch. And I actually found enamel dots the same colour, so it all came together.

I do love black embossing on kraft!

I am going to enter this into the following challenges;

Stamplorations-stamps and silhouette

Allsorts-anything but Christmas

Casology-ribbons

In the Pink-embossing

Fan-Tastic Tuesday-CAS

Now I am off to decorate our Christmas tree. Have you done your Christmas decorating yet??

Addicted to CAS

Its time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS, our last this year! This week the super talented Karen is our hostess and she has chosen the following code word:

A perfect word for this time of year. 

And this is what I came up with using CAS-ual Friday Stamps:

It is hard to see in the photo but the card is linen embossed. I had a go at taking the photo outside and I am happier with the exposure but the texture seemed hard to capture.

Our team have made some really inspirational projects this week so please take a peek here. 

For this challenge we are being sponsored by Whimsy Stamps-5 digis to be won!

I will also enter this into the following challenges

52 Christmas Card Throwdown-Snowflakes

KIS-snow

Stampin' Royalty-snowflakes

Inky Impressions-snow

Mid Week Magnolias-snow

Happy Stamping and look out for our new challenges in January x

Addicted to Stamps and More #74

Its time for another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week we want to see Clean and Simple projects. I needed to make a Wedding card so decided to use this challenge as my inspiration. I have heat embossed my image to give texture.I used Stamplorations Stamps-a great new set perfect for Weddings.

Our DT have some great CAS projects for you-check them out here. This week we are sponsored by Digi Darla Designs and we have 5 images for our winner!

So what CAS project are you inspired to make??? Have a happy stamping time x

I will also enter this into the 'sparkle' challenge at Less is More

More Gifts

Today I am popping in to share a gift bag I made after I saw the challenge at Make it Monday-to decorate a Kraft bag. I had a little gift that needed to be posted to a dear friend and this challenge inspired me to have a go at making my own gift bag. I decorated my bag with a couple of PTI snowflake dies and a vintage brad. The design is very CAS, just how I like it, and perfect for sending in the mail. I added some silk ribbon to finish the bag and a plain sentiment that I thought matched the style of my bag. I hope my friend likes the packaging of her gift!

Before I go today I wanted to let you know about a fun event that my fellow teamie Christine on Addicted to CAS to running every day in December. It is an Advent Calendar event where each day she will post a crafting video with different techniques. I watched yesterday and learnt some valuable tips. Not only is Christine sharing her skills but also there are some great prizes up for grabs. So pop over to her blog here and join in the fun.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:
Make it Monday-decorate a gift bag
KIS-Snow
52 Christmas Card Throwdown-gifts of the season
Inky Impressions-gifts and presents 

More Shopping to be done!

24 sleeps until Christmas day! Time to hit the shops.

My card today was inspired by the 'shop' challenge at Casology. I had the idea for this card in my head but I really struggled actually turning that idea into a card. And although I am sharing this with you today, I am not really very happy with the end result. However I decided to blog it as it took me so long to make! It was one of those cards that you know what you want to do but everything you try doesn't work! I couldn't even get a straight photo!! It is a fun card though so here goes:

I am also going to enter this into the the following challenges:

Inky Impressions-presents and gifts

Casology-shop

Enjoy the first day of December x