Christmas Concertina Card

The 3 C's!  And all in aid of the other 3 C's!  It's time for another challenge at the Creative Card Crew!

But before I tell you about that I'm gonna make you all jealous by telling you about some good luck I've had lately!  I was at a Ball recently, that I've been to every year for the past 3 years, and they give away prizes each year.  My first year there I won a prize which was a night in a lovely hotel which I really enjoyed.  Well, this year I won another prize!  It was a night in another fancy hotel including dinner and  a spa treatment!  So I got it booked yesterday for myself and my best friend and I'm so looking forward to it as we've both been through tough times recently.
So last night I was at my little sister's school play and as we were going in I noticed people selling tickets for a raffle.  I joked that I wouldn't buy any as "knowing my luck, I'd end up winning and I want to give someone else a chance!"  So my sister said she'd buy some but realised that she'd forgotten her purse, so I gave her the money - and we only went and won!  It was a box of chocolates this time but I couldn't help laughing!

Anyway, onto the new challenge at the Creative Card Crew which is sponsored this fortnight by the fabulous Stamp Fairy

who are offering $10 to spend in their store to the lucky winner!

And to win this fabulous prize this fortnight we want to see your

Fancy Folds!

So come and wow us with your fancy cards or whatever you want to make!

Here's what I did...

I made a concertina card using a tutorial that I saw on Splitcoast Stampers.  It was surprisingly easy to do!
The image is Tommy, Here Comes Santa by The Stamp Fairy.  I added the text on my computer before I printed him out.  I coloured him with my promarkers: Skin;Sunkissed pink, Oatmeal, Blush, Pastel pink. Suit;Forest green, Lime twist, Lime zest. Fur;Umber, Burnt sienna, Caramel. Bauble; Plum, Amethyst, Orchid. Hair; Cinnamon.

The papers are from the Snow Day collection by Crate Paper.  After I had made my base card and covered it with the papers I gave the top edges a coating of snow-tex.  I love the effect this stuff gives but boy is it fiddly to put on! lol!

I then got some elasticated thread and threaded across the centre part of the card with seed beads and some jingle bells.

And lastly I added some little snowflake confetti along the edges of the back of the card.

I hope you'll come and join us at the Creative Card Crew - I know you will when you see how creative the rest of the DT have been!

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Anything Goes Challenge Blog; Make your own embellishments
CRAFT Challenge; Use metal (my jingle bells)
Fashionista Challenge; Anything goes
I love Promarkers; Anything goes
One Stitch At A Time; Use a digi
One Stop Craft Challenge; Anything goes
The Poodles Parlour; Anything goes
Stamp n Doodle; Anything goes
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge; No rules
Totally Papercrafts; Christmas

Thanks for looking!
 

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Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all brought 2012 in with a bang!

On the MAC forum we had a Christmas card swap so I had 8 cards to make.  These are my last Christmas cards as I just didn't have time to make any more.
I decided to do the cards the same, but different!  I thought that stamping and colouring would take too long so I decided to do somthing similar that I did on a card last year and cut 3 different sized circles 8 times and build snowmen out of them!  It still took bliming ages!

I used 2 different snowflake embossing folders on the circles and then coated the middle sized circle with glossy accents and a sprinkling of glamour dust so as you could still see the embossing under the glossy accents.  I cut eight squares and small rectangles (longer than the squares) out of black card, coated them in glossy accents and black glitter.  Once all was dry I assembled into snowmen and added the glitter hat, two black swarovski's for eyes and a carrot nose made out of orange card.  I coloured 8 toothpicks with my burnt sienna promarker and stuck to the back of the snowman with glue and covered it with another die-cut circle to both hide the toothpick and for stability.

I cut 8 doo-hickey fences and attched them with short lengths of card to the front panel of the easel card to hold the front up.  When the card is closed the fence lies flat.

The sentiment is from Waltzing Mouse stamps and cut out with a spellbinders fancy tag.  The snow flurry behind the snowman is a memory box die.

Everything is distressed with various distress inks and my clear stardust pen and glamour dust have been extensively used too.  The papers are from Crate Paper's Snowy Day Collection, Prima's North Country Collection, DCWV's Rose Tinted Christmas multi stack and Kaiser Craft's Christmas Carnival Collection.

I'd like to enter these in the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away; Snowmen
Crafts And Me Challenges; Anything goes
Creative Card Crew; Snow Day
Diva's By Design; Merry Christmas
Dream Valley Challenges; Christmas
I Love Promarkers; Anything goes - I admit that my use of promarkers here was very limited so if you think I haven't used enough then please remove me from the draw. x
My Mum's Craft Shop; Anything goes
One Stop Craft Challenge; Winter Wishes
Paperplay Challenges; Christmas
Papertake Weekly; Anything goes
The Poodles Parlour; Song Titles - "Let it Snow" or "The Snowman"
Saturday Challenge; Anything goes
Simon Says; Anything goes
The Pink Elephant; Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday; Anything goes
ABC Christmas Challenge; Z is for zingy colours
Christmas Cards All Year Round; Non traditional colours

Phew, that's quite a list!
Thanks for stopping by!
 

Woo! A Christmas Card!

Yes, I thought I wouldn't see one coming out of my craft room this year, but I've made a Christmas card!
And it's for the new challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog which is....

V for Very Vibrant!

What a fab challenge and one right up my street, I love bright colours!
So this is what I've done:

Yep, another easel card, but a circle one this time so I got to use my big dies again.  I used a fabby image from Saturated Canary called Maddie which I coloured with my copics and prismacolour pencils.  I did the out of the box thing in a major way as I had to cut most of her out and only die cut around her feet!

The papers are Crate Paper from the Snow Day collection and I heat embossed some vanilla ice embossing powder around the edges of most things.  My craft room even got a bit of it! lol!  Well, maybe it'll get me more into the Christmassy feel we all need to make Christmas cards! lol

I added some cheap christmas decorations - at least I think they were, they've been in my Christmas box for ages so I'm not entirely sure where they came from - possibly off crackers?

I used a Memory Box die for the tag and a CC designs stamp for the sentiment.  I got a bit carried away with the embossing powder and you can really only read the sentiment face on!  Oops! Every time I read that I can't help singing the song!

A few swarovski's here and there to finish it off and it's done!

So why not pop over to the Alphabet Challenge Blog and see all my teamies fabulous cards and have a go yourself - it's an easy one this time!

There are lots of challenges for Christmas around no so I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks; Snowflakes
CES Challenges; Snowflakes
Charisma Cards Challenges; Snowflakes
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog; The letter C - Christmas and Cold!
Papertake Weekly; Christmas Crackers
The Poodles Parlour; Christmas
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays; Embossing
ABC Challenge Blog; D for Dazzle
Totally Gorjuss; Swirly Whirly
Totally Papercrafts; Christmas

Thanks for looking!